do not blame me. i didn't write my memoir!

Which Luke Skywalker?
Oh, the Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, got it.

The filibuster encourages bipartisan compromise, which is why we see such a high level of legislative productivity in the Senate.

HOOHAA

Do guillotine motions count as motions of horror?

'Motions of Horror'

Such a unifying figure!

Chad Pergram tomorrow:
“Deftly using byzantine rules known only to a handful of experts, Democrats used the arcane “motion for the recommitment” to deal a devastating blow to Speaker Johnson’s agenda - a procedural earthquake that has literally never happened ever.”

Chad Pergram tomorrow:
“Deftly using byzantine rules known only to a handful of experts, Democrats used the arcane “motion for the recommitment” to deal a devastating blow to Speaker Johnson’s agenda - a procedural earthquake that has literally never happened ever.”

Raising the threshold for the motion to vacate wouldn’t stop things like this. Either you have a procedural majority or you don’t.

'Whoever's banging the furniture, you'll have to pay for it if you damage it. Can we have less of it? We are not at the sixth form now. Come on.'

-- Sir Lindsay Hoyle Sir Lindsay Hoyle, 158th Speaker of the UK UK House of Commons #PMQs

“I’m not here to offer solutions for the problems I create. I’m just here to create the problems.”

Very easy for her opponents to simply deny her request for a recorded vote/yeas and nays on the question, so there could very well be no list of names at all.

It won't get to that point. Her motion will be tabled.
In fact, Ds don't even need to vote for the motion to table - Rs alone should be enough to form a quorum, and the motion adopted on, say, a 212-5 vote.

Weaponization of the nice (if somewhat odd) custom of having the minority's candidate for Speaker introduce, and present the gavel to, a newly-elected Speaker.

Just trying to be 'the craziest son of a bitch in the race' I guess

reason.com/2017/03/15/tho…

**This absolutely did not happen!!**

Republican insurgents , having succeeded in stripping Cannon of some of his formal powers (with the help of Democrats) quickly came back to the fold when presented with the opportunity to get rid of Cannon entirely.