 Senate, and one hour after the Senate meets, on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the Senate and direct that the Secretary call the roll, and, upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall,...  Hearings - Page 75by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1947Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1916 - 1606 pages
...thereon, put the question to the Senate — " Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate should be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative, then it shall be in order to the exclusion of all other questions and business for any Senator to move... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 814 pages
...quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea and nay vote the question : 'Is it the sense of the Senate...question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting, then said measure shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 816 pages
...quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea and nay vote the question: 'Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?1 "And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1925 - 764 pages
...rule provides that, upon motion signed by sixteen Senators, a vote shall be taken, without debate, on the question, "Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" If the motion prevails by a two-thirds vote the measure under debate shall be the unfinished business... | |
 | Lindsay Rogers - United States - 1926 - 328 pages
...ascertainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by an aye-and-nay vote the question : " 'Is...question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting, then said measure shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1927 - 740 pages
...234, 64-2, Mar. 8, 1917. quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by an aye-and-nay vote the question: "Is it...question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting, then said measure shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion... | |
 | John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - Local government - 1928 - 974 pages
...ascertainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by an aye-and-nay vote the question : "Is it...question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting, then said measure shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion... | |
 | John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - Local government - 1928 - 1004 pages
...MOTIONS tainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by an aye-and-nay vote the question : "Is it...Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close t ' ' And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting,... | |
 | United States - 1949 - 1970 pages
...quorum is present, the Presiding Officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question: " 'Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a closef "And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote of those voting,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1951 - 724 pages
...present, the Presiding Officer shall, without further debate, submit to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question : " 'Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?' "During the period intervening between the statement of the motion to bring debate to a close and the... | |
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