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We have examined the Rules of the State Senate, We have
examined the Rules of the House of Delegates, and they
provide no guarantee at all that a Minority Report
will be printed, and certainly not the guarantee that Rule
28 provides, namely, that the Minority Report will receive
equal treatment with the Majority Report. Even in the
United States Congress, while the Minority has the guaran-
tee that their report will be printed, there is no guaran-
tee of any particular layover, except in the case of
appropriation bills, before the Committee of the Whole
can take it up; so the Rules as they stand now, the
Rules of the Convention as they are now drafted in our
opinion are very liberal and reasonably flexible in their
protection of the Minority rights. Indeed, if we imposed
a five day requirement that was applicable to both
Majority and Minority, it could be argued that if the
Minority didn't get its report up in five days, they were
out of court, so to speak.
Finally, in the event that for reasons
which we cannot anticipate now, a Minority Report was not
printed in time to be considered when the Committee of |
