1. There is no "if". The Senate has the authority.
2. Since when did the action of any legislative body become a "request"?
3. How is the power to define the word "treaty" ceded to the Excutive? Does not the co-equal Legislative have the same power?
#3 sums up my interest in the matter as a way for Congress to assert it Constitutional role.
Bob Corker and Mitch McConnell are the guys you need to talk to.