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Representatives of the United States Congress where in
the Congress, the leader, the Chairman of the Substantive
Committee, and the leader of the minority would go to the
Rules Committee, and they would get a rule as to the amount
of time permitted for debate. Our procedure here would be
that generally the Chairman of the Committee on Calendar --
I assume after listening to the Chairman of the Substantive
Committee, and after listening to those that are going
to take a different point of view, would move, for in-
stance, take an obvious example, the question of whether
or not it should be a unicameral or bicameral Legislature,
that three hours, whatever it may be, three or four hours
be allotted in the substantive proposal and the opponents
and proponents would have equal time. However, the Com-
mittee at any time could amend it to extend the time. That
happens frequently in the Congress, I am told. It is one
device at least to preclude the possibility that the
Committee of the Whole could be utilized in a way that
would prevent filibuster.
Our proposed amendment to Rule 48, I believe,
was suggested by Delegate Chabot in July. The way the |
