1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
1

verification would serve no useful purpose because the
vote by which the motion to reconsider the earlier vote wouild
accomplish everything that could possibly be- accomplished
by any verification under the procedures laid down by the
Rules of this Assembly.
As the matter under consideration is somewhat
confused, I think the Chair should state again, so that
there will be no misconceptions at all as to the status of
the matter, regardless of the outcome on the vote, you
have a Committee Report, not a committee recommendation.
There is a difference under the Rules. The Report is a
report as to what shall not be in the Constitution, as
distinguished from a report as to what shall be in the
Constitution.
If the Report makes a recommendation that some-
thing not be in the Constitution, and it is approved so
that the Committee of the Whole has affirmatively decided
that a certain matter shall not be in the Constitution, I
think it would not be in order at a subsequent sitting of
the Committee of the Whole on consideration of the Committed
Recommendation for the Executive Branch to consider an