He said speaking up during the address was the best way “get across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility.”
He said speaking up during the address was the best way “get across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility.”
Not saying I disagree with your premise.
However, there are some strange brew rules that come into play depending on the #of reps in attendance in the house. You dwindle the dem #s enough and you end up allowing the reps the ability to run amok with the kinds of legislation they’re salivating to pass.
I’m sure this was at top of mind for some of the folks in attendance.
Congressional rules are meaningless. They are not the constitution. If the Democrats are going to just sit idle because of “congressional rules” then they might as well start using the constitution as toilet paper
That’s why there’s also quorum rules. There has to be a minimum of X% of the congresspeople present for anything to count and I’m 99.9% certain that all of the Dems leaving would bring the number present under that even if every single Republican was present.
Quorum is largely meaningless in Congress, both houses assume they have quorum at all times. This allows for the pro forma sessions.
First you have to call a meeting to order, you can’t do that without quorum