In the U.S. Senate, only one-third of the members stand for election every two years; the rest carry over from one congressional term to the next. In this regard the Senate differs from the House of Representatives, where all members stand for election every two-year cycle. That much is familiar, but what legal consequences flow from this structural difference? According to some legislators, courts, and commentators, this difference is very important in that it makes the Senate, but not the House, a “continuing body.” The continuing-body idea is invoked to defend highly controversial aspects of Senate practice. By far the most familiar context in which the idea arises—and the one with the most potential for generating serious conflict—is the debate over the legal...
... brought the Senate to the brink of parliamentary war, complete with threats of a “nuclear option... or our Senate, for they are not always sitting. 108 So that could not be the sense of continuity... session, but rather by appealing to the calendar of the legislative assembly. And when they make su...DOC. NO. 110-162, §§ 59–60, at 25–27 (2009) [hereinafter HOUSE MANUAL] (explaining that the H...
... prohibits national party officers from sitting down with state and local party committees or cand... funds or spend more than $10,000 in a calendar year on electioneering communications. Under Buck...'s current term does not expire until 2009, and that, therefore, the earliest day he could be... ¶ ;10) (noting Democratic "parliamentary procedural device" used to block one of Senator Mc...
... of slavery from the individual Democrats sitting in front of them; indeed, they had to do this when... States today operate under the Gregorian calendar, unlike their Protestant ancestors in England who ...13, 2009). . (15) See AYLMER, supra note 12, at 208-31. . (... led to him being "listed" (by the parliamentary authorities in the State Senate?) "as an Independe...
... that were necessitated by the October 4, 2009 sunset date -- they've created additional uncertai...LUNGREN: Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman, just so that we're clear on... issues, it's been experience, especially sitting on the Armed Services Committee, for example, a co..., clause two, I ask that members have two calendar days to file with the clerk or the committee, supp...
... ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS (2009). . Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environ... of litigation and develop a "fast-track calendar" for the entire case, including the trial date. (5... issues among themselves while sitting in the jury box, jokingly "likened to a hottub wit...(64) In Hungary, the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations investigates c...
... a QDR that provided the force structure of 2009 instead of a projected force structure to defeat t... in this Congress than the gentleman sitting to my left, Mr. Miller. In fact, truth be known, ...SKELTON: The parliamentary inquiry by the gentleman from California. MCKEON: ... wait for, you know, the passage of a calendar to say well, now their recommendations don't make ...
Before a budget is brought to the full Senate for a vote, it would have to pass through a floor debate called Committee of the Whole. Lawmakers and Capitol observers simply call it by the acronym COW.
... depends on the lawmaker with the gavel sitting in the dais, calling the shots. That person is cal... And then there is the filibuster, a parliamentary maneuver meant to derail passage of legislation. D... between retaining a bill on the calendar and retaining it in place. They talked about makin...
[David Dewhurst] pushed something he calls his "Texas Children First" program. If you think that means investing in worthwhile initiatives like the Children's Health Insurance Program, you're mistaken. Dewhurst spent most of the session resisting a proposal that would allow kids to stay on CHIP for a year instead of having to renew every six months. He focused on steroid testing for high school athletes, better access to defibrillators in schools, criminal background checks for school workers, and the death penalty for violent child predators. Those all passed, though it wasn't always pretty. The sentence enhancement for child predators, known as Jessica's law, was rushed through the House with "emergency" status from the governor. Then it sat for months while Dewhurst petulantly refuse...
... survived the first floor challenge to a sitting speaker in 40 years. Few in Texas are as adept as ... couldn't get their local bills onto the calendar. Local bills matter most to constituents. For this...Dunnam posed a parliamentary inquiry on whether he or someone would be recogniz...
...-take-all allocation of delegates) and calendar (especially Florida's and Michigan's decisions to ... the executive from the legislature [Rehfeld 2009; Wood 2009] or chambers within the legislature [Le...2006. "Public Preferences for Parliamentary Representation in the UK: An Overlooked Link?" Pol... typical American citizen spends any time sitting around thinking about what style of representation...
..., before I do that, I -- I have a parliamentary inquiry. WAXMAN: The (inaudible) will make his pa.... In 2009, we know that 2.5 million more children, who were ...And it is now sitting in -- I hope in a position where maybe we could ge.... SEBELIUS: ..go to my calendar and give you information. BURGESS: That gets then...
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