(urth) 5HC

Jeff Wilson jwilson at clueland.com
Thu Sep 4 11:43:56 PDT 2014


On Thu, September 4, 2014 09:46, Lee wrote:
> Here in America, such a principle is actually a part of our
> governance. If a Congressman can continually speak for a couple
> days in a "filibuster" he can outlast his opponents and stymie
> an opposed bill being passed simply by using up all the allotted
> time. Sigh, such is the god-forsaken land that I love so dearly.

That is out-dated; the parliamentary procedure has been modified so that
continuous speaking is no longer necessary.

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Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >




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