Word: motions
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...majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture on any Senate measure-but not on a motion to consider the measure. That meant a motion to consider any bill or resolution could be endlessly filibustered. In 1949 Senate liberals put up a hard fight to get a workable cloture rule. The result was today's Rule XXII...
...Inserted into Rule XXII almost unnoticed during the 1949 battle was a gimmick written by Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell. It provides that Rule XXII's cloture provisions "shall not apply to any motion to proceed to the consideration of any motion, resolution, or proposal to change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate." Translation: there can be no cloture on any debate about changing Senate rules, including Rule XXII. It is the Russell Amendment that shapes the strategy of the attack against Rule XXII...
Immediately after historic inauguration ceremonies, De Gaulle set the new republic in motion. He named as premier Michel Debre, Gaullist lawyer and an unbending nationalist...
Illusion of Truth. Classical statues impart a keen delight in the body, in health and in motion. They create-as in the lean hunting hound and the happy teenager below-uncanny illusions of physical truth. This concern for truth to nature and esthetic illusion was to become the wellspring of the Renaissance and of practically all great European...
...Calf. Today's fast-draw fanatic makes his move in a single, sweeping motion. He cocks his single-action pistol as he draws it from the holster, fires as soon as it gets into position, sometimes, alas, even sooner. In a recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard...