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The executive agreement is like setting the rules for the treaty.
The difference between a treaty and an executive agreement is the paper they are printed on. The treaty is a signed document printed on paper. An executive agreement is an agreement that is verbal and probably agreed to by a handshake.
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executive agreement or executive orders
An Executive Order comes from the President. Laws are passed by Congress.
An executive agreement is defined as being an agreement which is made between the president and a foreign country. One example of an executive agreement was NAFTA.
An executive agreement does not require Senate approval.
An executive agreement does not require Senate approval.
The current President Obama made an agreement with the Iraq which the Senate would be very unlikely to confirm. Treaties must confirmed by the Senate, so he opted for an executive order.
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Congress can pass a joint resolution revoking an executive agreement.
The Iran Nuclear Agreement was an executive agreement because Obama chose to name it an executive agreement. There is nothing in the Agreement that makes it an executive agreement as opposed to a treaty, but Obama was well aware that a treaty requires two-thirds approval by the Senate and he could not count on two-thirds of Senators approving the agreement. As a result, he chose to make it an executive agreement, which only needs an up or down vote from half of the senators.