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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (179030)	1/10/2012 11:35:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) of 541778

By the rules, Senate was in session; Constitutional scholar Obama forgot to adjourn them. Rules are rules; how come I know them better than he does? In 1892, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Ballin that both houses of Congress are parliamentary bodies, implying that they may make procedural rules by majority vote. In 1917, Senator Thomas J. Walsh [9] contended the majority of the Senate could revise a procedural rule at any time, despite the requirement of the Senate rules that a two-thirds majority is necessary to approve a rule change. "When the Constitution says, 'Each House may determine its rules of proceedings,' it means that each House may, by a majority vote, a quorum present, determine its rules," en.wikipedia.org

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