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In reply to the discussion: The ERA was Re-introduced in the Senate for Ratification Yesterday [View all]BumRushDaShow
(167,657 posts)37. You didn't read the link
To put the scale of the project in perspective, the namesake of the 1992 volume, Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, said in a 1978 interview that at that point, he had already researched more than a million precedents.
Several of them amount to legislative magic tricks, which skilled politicians can use to bend the rules. And others are just plain weird.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_40/Riddicks-Tome-Unlocks-Quirky-Senate-Powers-209360-1.html?pg=2&dczone=news
Several of them amount to legislative magic tricks, which skilled politicians can use to bend the rules. And others are just plain weird.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_40/Riddicks-Tome-Unlocks-Quirky-Senate-Powers-209360-1.html?pg=2&dczone=news
Even from the preface per here - (PDF)
It should also be noted that certain language in some precedents has been modified in various instances to make the rulings of the Chair jibe with the rules as presently written. To illustrate: the use of "1 o'clock" and "2 o'clock" as stated in previous years by the Chair will now read "one hour after the Senate convenes" or "two hours after the Senate convenes." These changes in the standing rules of the Senate have been necessary in order to make the daily procedure of the Senate literally accurate in the definition of morning business and Morning Hour. Likewise, the language of the precedents cited in Senate Procedure have been so corrected.
So for example, the Senate can come into session at 2 pm and begin with "Morning Business".
They can do what they want and you have no choice in the matter.
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yes, it is. in this 'greatest, bestest, most wonderful country in the world", women still
niyad
May 2015
#3
I remember the bathroom argument. It's as if they didn't know we had unisex toilets
CTyankee
May 2015
#26
well, that was exactly what was meant, "all white, property-owning males are created equal"
niyad
May 2015
#6
I am surprised this current congress hasn't tried to repeal the 19th amendment
etherealtruth
May 2015
#5
Yes, they have. The GOP and Constitutionalist parties have both pushed this for decades.
freshwest
May 2015
#19
TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE. It's why I ignore more online. The real game is in the statehouses.
freshwest
May 2015
#31
That woman has been a thorn in our side for decades. Maybe she's one of the undead?
calimary
May 2015
#14
Exactly. Why do these people want to take all the advantages for themselves and then
calimary
May 2015
#22
It passed Congress in 1972. They can't do it alone. The states defeated the ERA:
freshwest
May 2015
#25
Somebody should ask Jeb Bush why he opposed ratifying the ERA as FL governor in 2003.
seafan
May 2015
#18
The linked article is confusing on that score. There are two different approaches.
Jim Lane
May 2015
#23