Arcane! *drink*

Delegates Can Vote in the Committee of the Whole but Their Votes Can't Be Decisive Twitter remains one of my favorite Twitters.

Fun fact: The bill has not yet been passed.

(The vote on tabling the motion to reconsider was postponed.)

Ira 'Greybeard Homer' Goldman 🦆🦆🦆 ringwiss Count me in. This is a rule that made several measures in order. Adding another measure as an amendment should be allowed. That's a precedent I am ready to set.*

*I would also just like to see the chair overruled in the House in my lifetime.

Eric Michael Garcia Mucking with the rules roster is just rearranging the deck chairs. It's not as if any rule that roy or norman block has a prayer on the floor anyway. Preoccupation with committee is odd to me at this point when 7 rules they reported favorably have gone down.

Aaron Fritschner It has happened before: Cole voted against H. Res. 712 last year. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023403
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Kind of hilarious Senate theater going on now.

Senate Republicans voting not to recess for the weekend out of preemptive protest to Democrats not holding Mayorkas trial — and then quickly running out of the Capitol to catch their flight

Alrighty, let's dwell a bit.

First, let's remind ourselves how the Rules Committee operates and what special orders do. 1/

This parliamentary 'on this day' is for the 🇬🇧 crowd. What happened in Westminster on April 11, 1923? According to the Canadian papers, a 'fistic melee' or a 'version of scuffle' in which a Member of Parliament is punched in the face...

And sometimes reader emails are important

Long-story-short, with a h/t to ringwiss in between, I stumbled upon this today: One of the 9 times in 1973 the House defeated a rule... but not before defeating the previous question on the rule, if for naught. Indeed, by the vote on the PQ (193-209)...

#HRules

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