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Speaker of the House of Commons

behalf. The principal duties of the Speaker are the following:-To preside, as Chairman of the House, at its debates when not in committee; to give a casting vote, when the votes are equal, which according to practice

Statutum sessionum

statute-sessions), a meeting in every hundred of constables and householders, by custom, for the ordering of servants, and debating of differences between masters and servants, rating of wages, etc, 5 Eliz. c. 4.

Vice-President

the Rajya Sabha. He presides over the sittings of that House. He enjoys all powers to regulate the debate and proceeding of Rajya Sabha and is also the Head of the Secretariat of that Hose, A Comment-ary

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Bar of the House

Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501. In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes

Briga

Briga [fr. brique, Fr.], debate, contention

Congressional

Of or pertaining to a congress especially to the Congress of the United States as congressional debates

Articles, Lords of the

influence of the Crown, and to confer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate. This system appeared inconsistent with the freedom of Parliament, and at the Revolution, the convention of Estates declared

rules committee

for expediting the business of the house and has the power to control the date and extent of debate of a proposed bill and the degree to which it may be amended

canvass

detail ;specif : to examine (votes) officially for authenticity b : to make the subject of discussion or debate 2 : to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political

cloture

cloture [French clture, literally, closure] : the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body esp. by calling for a vote cloture vt

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