HR 29.25 Correcting Mistakes Resolution (Passed)

[Dr. MB]

Fixing Stupidity Resolution

Substance

Section 2 clause 3b of the House of the Representatives Rules and Procedures for Operation is amended to read as follows:

b) The first fourteen slots shall be open to all legislation regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. The Speaker shall advance bills proposed by members who have filled the slots provided to them by section subsection b in the order in which they were introduced. The Speaker shall be the presiding officer for these open threads.

Sponsor: MB

[Dr. MB]

Thanks to Yankee for pointing this mistake out.

You are going to need another amendment to fix clause b.

b) The first fourteen slots shall be open to all legislation regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. The Speaker shall advance bills proposed by members who have filled the slots provided to them by section subsection b in the order in which they were introduced. The Speaker shall be the presiding officer for these open threads.


The bold also needed to be rewritten to reflect the absence of assigned slots as this text originates in clause c of the previous text, with b being the assigned slots one. Right now it is a self-referencing error, referencing a clause b that no longer exists and if you want to be really technical about it, locks all the house members out of slots 1-14.

I motion for unanimous consent to waive the 72-hour debate period. Any objections must be made in the next 24 hours.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

inb4 Oakvale v. MB over like every bill passed in the next couple days.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

[Dr. MB]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

Increase in slots from 10 to 14 compared to the last time we had open slots.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

Increase in slots from 10 to 14 compared to the last time we had open slots.

Was it really only ten before? For some reason I thought they reduced the slots when the assigned slots crap was started.

[Dr. MB]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

Increase in slots from 10 to 14 compared to the last time we had open slots.

Was it really only ten before? For some reason I thought they reduced the slots when the assigned slots crap was started.

Yep.

The first 10 open threads shall be open to all legislations initially regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. If the sponsor already has two or more pieces legislation on the House floor, legislation from Representatives who do not shall take priority until all such other legislation is completed. The Speaker shall be the president officer for these open threads.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

Increase in slots from 10 to 14 compared to the last time we had open slots.

Was it really only ten before? For some reason I thought they reduced the slots when the assigned slots crap was started.

Yep.

The first 10 open threads shall be open to all legislations initially regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. If the sponsor already has two or more pieces legislation on the House floor, legislation from Representatives who do not shall take priority until all such other legislation is completed. The Speaker shall be the president officer for these open threads.

I remember my proposal at the time was 18 slots, 2 clogging rule, no slot assignments and modifications to cloture.

[Joseph Cao]

I honestly cannot recall ever having 18 slots at any point.

Anyway, no objections from me. We may as well get this fixed quick.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Just out of curiosity, why did you up the clogging rule? Historically that has been set at 2 if memory serves me.

Increase in slots from 10 to 14 compared to the last time we had open slots.

Was it really only ten before? For some reason I thought they reduced the slots when the assigned slots crap was started.

Yep.

The first 10 open threads shall be open to all legislations initially regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. If the sponsor already has two or more pieces legislation on the House floor, legislation from Representatives who do not shall take priority until all such other legislation is completed. The Speaker shall be the president officer for these open threads.

I remember my proposal at the time was 18 slots, 2 clogging rule, no slot assignments and modifications to cloture.

As someone who was part of discussions in 2019 - the idea of increasing slots was brought up, but YE was against it. We did not anticipate any Federalist votes for any rule change, so we needed something that united all five members of the then-Labor/Peace caucus.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I honestly cannot recall ever having 18 slots at any point.

Anyway, no objections from me. We may as well get this fixed quick.

That's because my idea was not considered. For some reason I thought it was 14 and went down to 10.

[Dr. MB]

A final vote has started on this resolution. 72 hours. (But please vote quickly)

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[lfromnj]

Aye

[Continential]

Aye

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Aye

[Saint Milei]

Aye

[Dr. MB]

With a majority voting to pass this vote will close in 24 hours

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

AYE

[Joseph Cao]

Aye.

[Talleyrand]

Aye

[Dr. MB]

This bill passes 9-0.

[Dr. MB]

Fixing Stupidity Resolution/Correcting Mistakes Resolution

Substance

Section 2 clause 3b of the House of the Representatives Rules and Procedures for Operation is amended to read as follows:

b) The first fourteen slots shall be open to all legislation regarding bills, resolutions or constitutional amendments. The Speaker shall advance bills proposed by members who have filled the slots provided to them by section subsection b in the order in which they were introduced. The Speaker shall be the presiding officer for these open threads.

Passed 9-0-0-0 in the Atlasian House assembled