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require approval as we are suggesting it here.
The United States Conaress has operated for
decades and decades without anyproblem whatsoever about a
minority of its inembers passing major legislation.
I think that that is something that the present
members of the General Assembly seem to overlook at times;
that there are many pieces of legislation that generally in{
considering the whole context of legislative matters that
come before a session that are classified as kind of trivial
in nature. These matters it should be possible to get by
so as to leave more time to deliberative judgment within
the forums with respect to major pieces of legislation and
let me nail if I can one thing right to the wall. They talk
about 11 members passing a piece of lecfislation. If you
will read the majority report, you have to have a quorum
present, so at any time any member of the House, either in
the House of Delegates or the Senate investigate a piece of
legislation about to go through, which he feels that there
should be more members present, all he has to do is stand
on his feet and say, I suggest the absence of a quorum,
and that will take care of it.