6. Department of State · Minor
Update letters of transmittal for stale treaties still worth ratifying
Printed page 175 6. Department of State
“Under circumstances in which ratification of a stale treaty before the Senate still serves national interests, the treaty letter of transmittal and submission should be updated for current circumstances.”
What has happened
- Not started
Searched; no letter of transmittal has been updated and no treaty has been re-submitted. Congress's treaty record shows no treaty document transmitted in the 119th Congress since 2025-01-14 and no treaty record updated since 2025-01-15, which is what an updated letter of transmittal would produce. Nothing in the Federal Register, in whitehouse.gov presidential actions, or in the Department's 2025-2026 press index announces a re-transmittal.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Treaty negative search, run against the record Congress keeps of treaties: congress.gov’s treaty data, sorted by most recent update, holds 785 treaty records, and not one has been updated since 2025-01-15. The only Treaty Document of the 119th Congress is 119-1 (Mutual Legal Assistance), transmitted 2025-01-14 by the previous administration. So inside the window no treaty was transmitted, re-transmitted, withdrawn from the Senate, returned to the President, or acted on. A search for “treaty”, “treaties” and “international agreement” across the Federal Register, White House presidential actions, public laws and bills in Congress returns only the January 2026 withdrawal memorandum, Delegation of Authority No. 620, and unrelated fisheries and tax matters.
- Related: #474; both turn on the same congress.gov treaty negative.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- Treaty letters of transmittal and submission
- ID
- 475