Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential speechwriter. He refused to name one name. And his story was also weakened by the fact that he had been using all kinds of differing figures for weeks: first he had said there were 205 disloyal employees in State, then 57, before settling on 80. By demanding a quorum to listen to him, he forced a dragooning of members back to their seats for a night session for the first time in almost five years...
Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
...Nominations for House representative to the Council should be improved by providing nominations from the floor at a meeting with an adequate quorum, nomination of up to three men by the House Committee, and nomination by petitions of not less than forty House residents, to be circulated only after the first two modes of nomination have been completed and the nominees publicized...