Eventually, the House adopted a special rule restricting members’ ability to offer questions of privilege.
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After years of searching…
You’d think that being able to consider nominations en bloc would allow the Senate to devote more of that precious, precious floor time to legislation. 🤷♂️
Context: Between 29 October and 5 November 1997, Democrats offered (or gave notice of their intent to offer) *50* resolutions like this one. ⬇️
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It sounds like they don’t really have anything planned for tomorrow, other than maybe war powers resolutions and such.
Looking forward to the next edition 🙃
If you’re presiding over the House and get tired of reading your lines, you can just have your script entered into the Record instead.
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This kind of legislative schedule ⬇️ is just unthinkable today. Multiple bills each day! Amendments! Conference reports! Working six days a week, convening at 8:15 am!!!
But also, the House is not a continuing body, so it definitely can’t say that a particular Tuesday two Congresses ago didn’t happen.
34 years.
They ordered a new edition 20 years ago, and they still haven’t published it.
