Sentences with phrase «many points of order»

Spending and revenue targets set in the annual budget resolution are enforced by points of order, which any member of Congress may raise against legislation that is inconsistent with those targets.

Sixty votes are needed to overcome a point of order.

Eventually, the member pushing the initiative may settle for a less egregious violation in return for withdrawing the threatened point of order.

In the House, the Rules Committee often reports a so - called special rule that sets aside one or more points of order.

If a point of order is sustained, the bill or amendment is ineligible for consideration

An exclusion from the Senate PAYGO rule and statutory PAYGO would be subject to a 60 - vote point of order.

Even though this point of order only exists in the Senate, it de facto governs the House too, given that it can be applied to any conference report.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

This means that any net tax cut over the ten - year period not explicitly called for by the budget resolution would be subject to a budget point of order that would require 60 votes to override.

Finally, provisions in a reconciliation bill that increase the deficit beyond the period covered by the budget resolution are subject to a 60 - vote point of order under the «Byrd rule» unless the costs are offset by savings from other provisions in the bill.

The Byrd rule provides a «surgical «point of order that strikes any provisions in violation without blocking the entire bill.

Well, point of order here.

The point of this order is to move the worshipper ritually from praise to encounter with God.

point of order, stop telling porkies Hafiz, fans have no third - party «right» to terminate a contract of a company employee.

Point of order: The Rockies still employ Dinger, a foam gargoyle who gets to distract pitchers for whatever reason, even though his own players hate him.

If this point of order is sustained, a new precedent is established, and it controls Senate procedure thenceforth.

A point of order is a parliamentary motion used to remind the body of its written rules and established precedents, usually when a particular rule or precedent is not being followed.

When a senator raises a point of order, the presiding officer of the Senate immediately rules on the validity of the point of order, but this ruling may be appealed and reversed by the whole Senate.

Therefore, I raise a point of order that the vote on cloture, under the precedent set on November 21, 2013, is a majority vote for all nominations.

Ordinarily, a point of order compels the Senate to follow its rules and precedents; however, the Senate may choose to vote down the point of order.

Baron calls a point of order, having been misquoted.

Similarly, it is possible to raise a point of order and state that the standard procedure of the Senate is actually different from what the current rules and precedents suggest.

14:07 - And there it is - a point of order from the Tory chief whip, Sir George Young, that the closure motion now takes place.

The judge cited points of order raised in the Commons chamber yesterday afternoon by shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman.

Labour MP Toby Perkins later told the justice secretary he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record.

Jacob Rees - Mogg calls a point of order saying it is «customary» for MPs to give way in speeches longer than 20 minutes.

As a point of order with regard to the recent unfounded accusations leveled at Mrs. Charlotte Osei in her capacity as Chairperson of the EC Ghana, Mr. Maxwell Opoku - Agyemang is not a staff member of the Commission.

The decision to write the CJN arose from a point of order which was raised by the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who called the attention of the chamber to newspaper reports indicating the decision of the Abuja to stop the process of amendments.

17:35 - Clarifying Bryant's point about the Lords reform bill being in limbo, which was originally raised in a point of order by Peter Bone, Speaker John Bercow says under parliamentary rules it won't be in limbo - not technically, anyway.

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that following a point of order raised by the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), I undertook to place in the Library of the House, by the end of April, full details — they are held in our Government offices — of the projects being funded.»

«On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Another altercation with Ed Balls ensued at the conclusion of PMQs when the shadow chancellor tabled in a cheeky point of order to ask Cameron a question on the 50p tax rate.

I hope that that response to his point of order satisfies the hon. Gentleman's curiosity.»

The move was based on a point of order raised by Ndume, who also called on the upper chamber of the National Assembly to investigate the certificate scandal involving Senator Dino Melaye.

«I raised a point of order.

Senator Sani in his point of order drew the attention of lawmakers to remarks allegedly made by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that the Senate has no powers to confirm nominees apart from ministerial and ambassadorial nominees.

On wrapping up, several points of order are made indicating dissent.

Bob Spink MP: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

This was sequel to a point of order raised by Hon. Gbenga Oyekola (Atiba State Constituency) who drew the attention of the house to the impending danger on the inauguration of two rejected nominees and substitution of the screened nominee for Lagelu West LCDA.

It is certainly not a point of order for the Chair.

It was the Chairman, Committee on Ethics / Privileges, Mr. Nicholas Ossai, who raised a point of order to observe that by the procedure of the House, the request was belated because Buhari had already spent the money.

Raising a Point of Order on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the lawmaker disclosed that about $ 5.5 bn was borrowed from euro bond, wondering how the loan has been of benefit to the Nigerian youth.

Brooks Newmark, a Conservative, intervenes on a point of order.

2.40 pm: Michael Howard rises to make a point of order - calling the arrest of Damian Green an «attack» on parliament - and calls for freedom in next Monday's debate to question Government Ministers and House authorities.

-- A point of order Point of Order is raised regarding county committee vacancy filling by Samuel Chiera --

Upon announcing his decision, the opposition lawmakers raised several points of order.

On a point of order, Mr. Fitch.

He or she calls Members to speak, proposes and puts questions and declares the decision, enforces the rules of debate, rules on points of order and ensures that the provisions of the standing orders in their application to the Main Committee are applied.

Bercow says Galloway's point of order is «exquisite» and complains he didn't have any notice of the point.

But Gbajabiamila shouted «point of order» and requested the presiding Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun, to ask Ado - Doguwa to desist from calling Buhari a sick President.