Passage of h r 8337 continuing resolution.
Floor time debate.
Arrangements can be made on the floor during the debate and at other times they are made prior to floor consideration.
The committee leaders from both sides of the aisle manage the consideration of a bill on the floor under what is known as controlled time by allocating the debate time among several members.
The former history professor also betrays a poor grasp of the senate s history when he suggests that empowering committees will lead to greater floor deliberation.
But because a cloture process is often required to end debate on a bill then the bill first must garner the support of a three fifths supermajority.
In a typical 45 day general session each chamber of the utah legislature schedules roughly 100 120 hours of floor debate time.
While the 30 hours of debate on a major issue may not be a big concern to the senate the ability to force multiple 30 hours of debate on several issues even on otherwise non controversial issues can effectively prevent the senate from passing more than two or three.
Accordingly even before a measure can itself reach the senate floor there may be a filibuster on the question of whether the senate should consider it at all.
All told this process of reaching a final vote on a bill can require about a week of senate floor time to complete.
Republican senators who attended the meeting said they discussed reducing the amount of floor time that must elapse after the senate votes to end debate before a nominee can receive a floor vote.
Without sitting down that is.
The senate only has a limited amount of floor time to consider matters.
Without sitting down that is.
The tactic ate up precious and limited floor time for debate.
The longest single senator filibuster occurred in 1957 when south carolina segregationist.
For much of the institution s history committee leaders tried to limit their colleagues ability to debate and amend their legislation on the senate floor.
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