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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (7705)	2/13/2003 7:01:29 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Well, Bill, your key fact-mistake was to use the word "elected". Funny thing, some US senators and representants ar very fond of old greek-roman ideas on democracy, and the idea with rotating chairmen for committees, meetings is at least as old, who knows, it was maybe invented in Babylonia or China?? Same thing, always picking the oldest person as traditionally in US comgressional committees, althoug the term limits might become longer than by just rotating. (or using lottery). However, besides the task of wishing the participants welcomed, distributing time to the speakers, making sure everything is archived and follows some rules, it is also a question on how much power the chairman has in restricting or manipulating votes, speeches,etc.. Ilmarinen