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reconsidered on motion at any time before the Convention
adjourns. We are talking now only in the Convention,
not talking about the Committee of the Whole, for
reconsideration in the Committee of the Whole is governed
by Rule 35 and in effect it means if you reconsider it, you do
it at that session of the Committee of the Whole. We talk
about the Convention specifically, we talk about the
Convention, I guess, on second reading, after everything
has come back or things are coming back from the Committee
on Style.
Your committee proposes that no questions may
be reconsidered more than once in the Convention with
three exceptions. One, if the Committee on Style requests
it. Two, if the committee, substantive committee that
originally reported the matter, suggests it. Finally,
this is the more liberalizing provision, upon a petition
signed by 15 delegates. These are the three instances
where something could be reconsidered more than once.
We also permit, even if a motion to reconsider
has been once defeated, a delegate makes a motion to
reconsider, it is defeated or tabled, that would not |
