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To: brothers4thID

Thanks. So the "ayes" are just stating that they are in attendance?


115 posted on 04/19/2005 11:43:59 AM PDT by CAluvdubya ("Deep in everybody's soul is the great desire to live in freedom"...George W. Bush 3-11-05)
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To: CAluvdubya
Precisely. There is a procedural rule in the Senate that the Sergeant of Arms can "compel" Senators to attend in order to make quorum. It almost never happens.
128 posted on 04/19/2005 11:46:23 AM PDT by brothers4thID (I have knocked on door of this man's soul- and found someone home.)
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