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