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The six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — head of government — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 7 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.
Third run of this dive. The first counted how many treaties a president sends; the second measured how long one waits. Both look only at treaties that eventually cleared — and this record is the one with enough that never did for the third question to have an answer.
The six base dives and the other 6 overlay dives are listed on the full record.
Transmittals per year: 22.63 under Clinton, 11.63 under George W. Bush, 4.75 here, then 1.25 and 1.50 in the two four-year terms that follow. This record sits at the last step before the fall to single figures — already a fifth of the rate two presidencies earlier, and still roughly four times the rate of the two that came after.
International commitments did not stop when treaty transmittals fell. They moved to executive agreements, which are made without the Senate and outnumber treaties by orders of magnitude. No consistent public series of those could be sourced. What follows is a change in the instrument, and it is not evidence that the United States commits to less.
In progress — no per-year rate is offered for an unfinished term.
Bars are treaties transmitted per year; the raw total and length of service are printed beside each. 327 treaty documents across the 103rd to 119th Congresses, attributed by transmittal date.
A treaty needs sixty-seven Senate votes, so no president produces this line alone. What the series shows is a steady halving through three presidencies and then a floor. This record is the last one on which the instrument was used often enough for the next question — what happens to them after they are sent — to have a meaningful answer.
The third of seven overlay dives on the full record, and the third run of this dive across the tier — after Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Each run added a measure the one before it did not have: how many are sent, how long they wait, and now how many are never taken up at all.