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
Starts to pump and for once in my life, i go, if i had a damn cell phone. I could call someone. So after that event i broke down and joined the cell phone generation. Patient spaceshipone, that was pressure. I had not found the vehicle loan the vehicle and 10 months. My flight the second x2 flight would be on a monday morning. The night before sunday night was the first airing of the Discovery Channel plus program called the black sky and there was two parts to that. The first part was the race to space which was focused mainly on all the effort it took to get the first fight back in june. That was being played out on national tv and when it broke between segments instead of going to commercial, the reporter he would interview birds and say the first question was who is the pilot tomorrow . And he would answer that question so miles pushed further and said how do you think it is going to go . I do not know if you know bert but if you have an audience, a crowd, he knows how to work it a
Important and thorough contemporaneous record of a presidency thats ever existed. Among other things, it does give the lie to the notion reagan was either lazy or undisciplined because he clearly , was the opposite of both. He was the most disciplined person i ever knew, he really was. He would show up every morning at 9 00 on the button in the oval office. When i was chief of staff, i used to be with him at 9 00. We would have a meeting that lasted no more than 30 minutes. He would start each meeting with a funny little story. And it was a meeting or two before i realized when he finished, he expected me to have a funny little story. That was his stock and trade. I treasured that. Dole also had that same talent. He can put things in perspective, with humor, more effectively than most philosophers can do it with a serious dissertation and i admire that. Do you think thats a real weapon in making the senate work. A tool, not a weapon, but a tool. Its extraordinarily valuable. And someti
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