Thank you very much for the very thorough explanation and bit of history! If either House ever has a job opening for a Parliamentarian, you should sign up and apply! Feel free to use me as a reference. :p
Our FR resident Parliamentarian, old republic, is a member of the class of ‘05 of which I am a proud member. He is approaching his seventh anniversary on FR!
I ditto your ‘feel free to use me as a reference’!