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The US House and Senate have parliamentarians, who have some power about what bills can be voted on. This was in the news some years ago, when they (if memory s
by puzzledobserver 2y ago
The US House and Senate have parliamentarians, who have some power about what bills can be voted on. This was in the news some years ago, when they (if memory serves) blocked some bills from being voted on.
I am unsure of the limits of this power, and how easy it is to change parliamentary rules in the first place.
- didntcheck 2y agoSimilarly in 2019 John Bercow (then speaker of the British House of Commons) notably rebuffed the government when they attempted a third vote on what he considered to be basically the same motion https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47614074 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47614074 > Mr Bercow cited a convention dating back to 1604 that a defeated motion could not be brought back in the same form during the course of a parliamentary session.