Did our esteemed NC ask for a second? I again call the question and ask for a second myself. Jim Tim Stowell wrote: > At 11:03 AM 4/9/00 -0400, you wrote: > >I call the question... > >Jim > > > >Holly Timm wrote: > > > >> At 06:40 AM 4/9/00 -0500, Ginger wrote: > >> >Tim, > >> >May I ask why there has been no call to vote for a > >> >vote on Motion 00-8? The customary 48 hr discussion > >> >period ended some time ago. > >> > >> I don't know how others feel but the volume of email being received and > >> needing to be read and digested and some replied to is to me part of the > >> discussion. I am no where near ready to vote and frankly, I am less > >> concerned about the opinions of my fellow board members at this point than > >> I am about determining (and at times deciphering) the thoughts, feelings > >> and questions of my constituency, all of them, not just those who are > >> bombarding the lists and the board members. > >> > >> Holly > > > > Jim your call dies for lack of a second. > > Section 16, Page 199 > EQUAL APPLICATION OF RULES TO COLLOQUIAL FORMS SUCH AS "CALL FOR THE > QUESTION." A motion such as "I call for (or"call") the question" or "I > move we vote now" is simply a motion for the Previous Question made in > nonstandard form and it is subject to all of the rules in this > section. Care should be taken that failure to understand this fact does > not lead to violation of members' rights of debate. > > Sometimes the mere making of a motion for the Previous Question or "call > for the question" may motivate unanimous consent to ending debate. Before > or after such a motion has been seconded, the chair may ask if there is any > objection to closing debate. If member(s) object or try to get the floor, > he should ask if there is a second to the motion or call; or, if it has > already been seconded, he must immediately take a vote on whether to order > the Previous Question. But regardless of the wording of a motion or "call" > seeking to close debate, it always requires a second and a two-thirds vote, > taken separately from and before the vote(s) on the motions(s) to which it > is applied, to shut off debate against the will of even one member who > wishes to speak and has not exhausted his right to debate (see pp. 42; > 382-384). > > Page 42 states "A member who has spoken twice on a particular question on > the same day has exhausted his right to debate that question for that day". > > Tim