Even more fun in Norman French:

My favourite time of year 🙂

To save senators the trouble of turning up and voting.

Indeed, the House message re the SAVE America Act is no longer listed as pending business on the calendar.

Kean will miss votes once again this week - New Jersey Globe Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) will miss votes once again this week due to a medical issue, his office has informed the New Jersey Globe, but the nature

Good thing the House brought back pairing last year… 🙃

Usual caveat that the rules may have changed since the Senate last published its precedents… but there’s no logical reason agreeing to a MTP to a budget resolution should displace a privileged measure but agreeing to a MTP to a CRA resolution should not.

It has already been displaced, I think when they took up the House message on H.R. 7147, but if not, then definitely when they agreed to a motion to proceed to H.J.Res. 140.

This has happened several times, and until now they had always returned to it by UC.

punchbowl.news/article/wash...

If you ever find yourself underappreciating Congress-dot-gov, just spend a few minutes trying to use Parliament-dot-uk.

@kdbyproxy.bsky.social Now that you’ve learnt something new about Congress, let me tell you about Knee Defender.

* – ‘Without objection, the bill is passed’ is technically an abbreviated form of a voice vote, not UC.

Just three weeks ago members were complaining about the Senate’s passing a bill by voice vote* at 2 am!

Ftr, I have some doubts as to whether the amendment offered to the rule was germane.

Of course they have no trouble ordering the previous question 😢.

That two-thirds threshold for cutting off debate caught my eye…

Poland now has public consultations for all private members’ bills so that they can’t be used as a shortcut.
sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/a...

😂

Recesses “for a short time” longer than eight hours were deemed worthy of inclusion in Deschler’s.

“for a short time”

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The deputy speaker was right; it was unnecessary to put the question on motion D, as amended.
When an amendment to a motion on consideration of a Commons message is agreed to, ‘there are no further proceedings on the original motion’ (Companion 8.177).

The proceedings there are actually pretty similar to the 1987 case.
www.congress.gov/63/crecb/191...

As for the House of Representatives, apparently you have to go all the way back to 1991 to find an example of efficient voting.

(Not sure about some of the earlier parts of that paragraph... 😉 but fine.)

An older copy:

One of many reasons members of Congress should take an interest in procedure:

I don’t think the chair would have questioned the waiver of points of order in the CRA.

Yes!