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Next item on the agenda is consideration of the
committee report of the Committee on Rules, Credentials
and Convention Budget, Rule R&C 12 filed several days
ago. The Chair recognizes Delegate Scanlan, Chairman of
the Committee and requests that he come forward to the
Clerk's desk.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. President, fellow
delegates, I have the honor to present the 12th Report
of the Committee on Rules, Credentials and Convention
Budget, hopefully this should be about our last report,
at least on any matter of great substance.
Actually the report, I hope you have read it,
it is rather long, deals with a number of technical amend-
ments to the rules. However, at least two of the proposed
amendments to the rules, I think, merit your fairly
careful consideration. I won't today repeat everything
stated in the report, but I would like briefly to summarize
what your committee has proposed.
The first amendment we propose is an amendment
to present Rule 33. The purpose of the amendment is
very simple, to make sure that whatever the rule regarding |