Quorum and Voting Majorities

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1. What additional measure may a smaller number of Members take under Article VI, Section 16(2) to address absences?
2. Twenty Senators are present on a question. Four request that the yeas and nays be entered in the Journal. Assuming no o…
3. A hypothetical House has 300 sitting Members with no vacancies or exclusions. Only 140 attend. They direct absent Membe…
4. A full twenty-four-member Senate has thirteen present. On an ordinary question, three of those present request entry of…
5. A hypothetical House has 300 sitting Members, no vacancies and no exclusions. At a sitting attended by 150, the presidi…
6. Explain why a request to record the yeas and nays under Article VI, Section 16(4) does not itself show that the underly…
7. A minority of a House says that because it may compel attendance without a quorum, it may also enact a revenue bill whi…
8. A sitting with a stipulated full membership of 300 Representatives has 240 present. Forty-eight request entry of the ye…