Can someone explain the "quorum" calls and their significance?
This keeps occurring. Someone suggests the absence of a quorum, and they usually start the roll call; after a couple names someone else says 'without objection dah dah dah quorum' and business proceeds.
This time they called the whole roll.
What's going on with this? Thanks in Advance.
It's a non-event.
quorum call - A call of the roll to establish whether a quorum is present. If any Senator "suggests the absence of a quorum," the Presiding Officer must direct the roll to be called. Often, a quorum call is terminated by unanimous consent before completion, which permits the Senate to use the quorum call to obtain a brief delay to work out some difficulty or await a Senator's arrival.http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/quorum_call.htm