This is the second time a Jefferson County quorum court meeting was called by a Justice of the Peace instead of the county ...

the clerk reads the official number of certificates of election received and that is used to determine a majority and members record their presence during a quorum call. The simple majority can ...

Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) was missing from the quorum call but he is now on the chamber floor. He will be able to vote for speaker despite missing the quorum vote.

In his State of the State address, Governor Kevin Stitt pushed for cuts in the individual and corporate income tax rates. Now ...

Ballin (1892), the Supreme Court was asked to determine the constitutionality of a House rule that allowed the Speaker of the House to count for purposes of a quorum ... a quorum call in an ...

They will take a quorum call vote, and then proceed to vote for speaker. Until they pick a speaker, members can’t be sworn in and the House can’t conduct any further business. Each member will ...

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Republicans cried foul, took roll call again, declared a quorum and elected Rep. Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, as House speaker. Now Democrats are asking the Supreme Court to issue a writ of quo ...

After multiple attempts to take a vote, the judge lost control of the meeting and declared a roll call for the quorum court. The justices failed to come to an agreement on the budget presented to ...