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And oftentimes argue on the floor. There is not much of they can do in changing the legislation. The house works by numbers more so than the senate. Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber and even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things for you my distinguished colleague, for example instead of you rotten s. O. B. That is part of parliamentary procedure and style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don Thomas Jefferson wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues pre members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives and not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of the koran. I remember senator robert byrd who epi
They do not like the way they perform on the house floor . Ray a lot of things they can do and oftentimes argue on the floor. There is not much they can do in terms of changing the legislation. The house works by numbers more so than the senate. Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by thomas jefferson, who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question thei
Whereas if the Majority Party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. So theres only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. Of course, you have the chamber quorum, but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. My distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s. O. B. But, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. Brian what do they do in the senate . Don well, we are still influenced by Thomas Jefferson who wrote the manual of parliamentary procedure to really cool down the tempers that would be there for any legislative issues. Members are not to address each other by name. They are not to criticize another persons state or question their motives, and they are not to read a newspaper while another person is speaking. The senate has a high sense of decorum. I remember senator robert byrd who epitomized the sense of decorah, decorum, and when he was mad at somebody, he would pour
A what happens then . Who is listening to them . I have an acronym for a name. The island nations, there are quite a few of them. Lobby every year and have gotten upset of people to listen to them at the United Nations anymore. Theyre going to pose not only basic justice problems but also a huge immigration problem. Whos going to take them . Where are they going to go . Do we care . Should we . That too many politicians i dont think theyre going to raise this issue. Its not local. Its not really national and its not something people really want to hear, but among those were out there that this man is by going to raise while he is here. Thats a long laundry list but they are correct. In covering his visit, theres so much to do for reporters and publications. This pope seems becoming the entire waterfront of issues, dovetails of whats going on capitol hill and whats going on on the president ial campaign trail. Like all good politicians, popes are polled, and this pope comes to the Unite