The Senate's presiding officer usually follows advice from the parliamentarian.
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But historically, the presiding officer has deferred to the parliamentarian's judgment.
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He had a robust view of his role as presiding officer.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," Roberts announced.
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Rand Paul: The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," Roberts told senators.
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Kathy Hochul, the presiding officer of the State Senate, exercised that power Wednesday.
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Upon convening, the presiding officer forces a quorum call to see who's present.
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The chief justice is the presiding officer, but are his duties purely ceremonial?
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By law, each constituency must have just one presiding officer to monitor the vote.
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ADAM LIPTAK, Supreme Court correspondent: The vice president is ordinarily the Senate's presiding officer.
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The voting power of the presiding officer has not been tested in modern times.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," Roberts said after a pause.
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But he showed no inclination to explore the limits of his role as presiding officer.
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Hyde-Smith was still elected, and she was the presiding officer over the vote this week.
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Under the Byrd Rule, all determinations are technically made by the presiding officer in the Senate.
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"They're clearly a Republican presiding officer ruling out of order something a Democrat said about Trump."
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Police struggled to save presiding officer Diana Odhiambo, 44, from a stick-wielding crowd of men.
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The chief justice's role as presiding officer is limited mainly to keeping the process on track.
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But under the rules of reconciliation, overturning a ruling of the presiding officer requires 60 votes.
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The secretary of the Senate, in consultation with the Senate's presiding officer, then schedules a trial.
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But like it or not, the presiding officer will likely wield immense power in the trial.
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Former presiding officer of the Assembly Dame Rosemary Butler spoke briefly to the Queen as she left.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," Roberts said after receiving the question card.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," Roberts said, moving onto the next question.
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Roberts will also don his black robe and serve as the presiding officer for an impeachment trial.
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The rules specify that it would be the Senate and not the presiding officer who calls witnesses.
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Objections are made directly to the presiding officer -- Roberts -- and may have to be put in writing.
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" Presiding officer: "There is nothing in the rules to prohibit the Senator from requesting a glass of milk.
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As such, the chief justice, as presiding officer, has the "power to make and issue, by himself," subpoenas.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," said Roberts, after Paul offered the written question.
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In his role as presiding officer, Roberts strove to avoid being drawn the partisan fights that marked the trial.
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Mr. Rannoane, who also serves as the presiding officer for elections, did not provide additional details about the results.
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The only other members listening are often the presiding officer and the member waiting to give the next speech.
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With the answer ready at their fingertips, the Republican presiding officer in the chamber -- this time it was Sen.
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Those found cheating can be ordered through the presiding officer to surrender their devices to the Sergeant-at-Arms.
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He might be reluctant to rule on challenging a decision he made as the presiding officer in the Senate.
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Doing so would invite an immediate appeal of the ruling of the presiding officer from opponents of the bill.
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In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania.
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That judgment came from Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota, who had taken over as the presiding officer.
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Chief Justice John Roberts took over as the presiding officer one more time and then the moment of truth.
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"There's a lot of uncertainty in terms of what happens with the presiding officer," Braun said, referring to Roberts.
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Ron Johnson, a Republican of Wisconsin, who was the first presiding officer of the day, led the Pledge of Allegiance.
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But Pence does not have a role in the Senate's trial, as Chief Justice John Roberts is the presiding officer.
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"It's the determination of the chair that it's a breach of the decorum of the House," the presiding officer replied.
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The action was announced even as Roberts sat as the presiding officer in Trump's impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
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If a senator objects to any of these provisions, the presiding officer could sustain the objection, following the parliamentarian's advice.
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Roberts's opening act as presiding officer was uncontroversial and largely scripted, starting with the swearing in of the Senate's lawmakers.
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By custom, the presiding officer follows the advice of the parliamentarian — but there's nothing forcing him or her to do so.
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But the House presiding officer instructed Waters to use a different poster, which was an otherwise identical photo without any caption.
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" Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in as the presiding officer of the trial, taking an oath to administer "impartial justice.
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" The Constitution doesn't provide any details about what the chief justice should do as presiding officer over a trial of the president, but the Senate rules governing impeachment provide, among other things, that the "Presiding Officer possesses authority to rule on all evidentiary questions," or he can "put any such issue to a vote before the Senate.
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But it appeared to create discomfort for Roberts, whose role as the trial's presiding officer required him to read senators' queries aloud.
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But Pence does not have a role in the Senate's trial, as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is the presiding officer.
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"As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, and the presiding officer is female," Murkowski told her fellow senators Tuesday.
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The presiding officer informed Moulton that his time expired, but he kept reading, so the Chair gaveled him down and recessed the House.
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Presiding officer Carmel McBride looks on as a woman casts her vote in the referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution
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Another option: Allowing the House to vote by voice, which would allow the presiding officer to determine which side has the most votes.
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The presiding officer, Representative Carrie Meek, a fellow Democrat, threatened to call the sergeant-at-arms to formally warn Ms. Waters to desist.
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Likewise, Chief Justice John Roberts, as the trial's presiding officer, should insist that the trial procedures allow for a full and fair trial.
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Regardless of her personal feelings, she had a responsibility to conduct herself with civility as the presiding officer representing the House of Representatives.
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Before proceeding to the articles of impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts, the presiding officer, will administer the oath of office to all senators.
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On the floor, she's the one who provides guidance to the presiding officer whenever there's a question or debate about precedent or procedure.
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The normally reserved and mild-mannered Roberts, 64, will have the largely symbolic role of presiding officer, with senators casting the crucial votes.
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When Rochester women organized a follow-up gathering, many of the Seneca leaders were taken aback that there was a female presiding officer.
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But here's the thing: The way the budget reconciliation rules are enforced is that senators raise points of order against bills, the Senate parliamentarian makes a judgment on whether the point of order is correct, they give that judgment to the presiding officer of the Senate (in this case, the vice president), and the presiding officer makes the actual ruling.
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If the trial is entirely political, as advocates of the broad view insist, then a political official would be the most appropriate presiding officer.
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The presiding officer in the House at those times ruled that the measure didn't qualify as "privileged" by affecting the chamber's dignity and integrity.
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"The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted," the chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., said after silently reading the question card.
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Partisans on both sides might want Roberts to sway the trial their way, even if he sees his job as a simple presiding officer.
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In the Senate trial set to take place in January, Roberts' role as presiding officer is limited mainly to keeping the process on track.
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Most importantly, the rules also leave some room for the chamber and the presiding officer to decide among themselves the shape of the trial.
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Some analysts have also floated the nuclear option, in which the presiding officer of the Senate — Vice President Mike Pence — just overrules the Senate parliamentarian.
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Court watchers say Roberts assumed his role as presiding officer with reluctance, and is likely relieved to have carried out his duty with little fanfare.
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Most scholars agree that the Constitution gives the Senate ultimate say over all critical matters at trial and the ability to overrule the presiding officer.
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Word of the Day : a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge _________ The word gavel has appeared in 41 articles on nytimes.
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The presiding officer also has the option to sidestep an evidentiary question and send it directly to the Senate for an up-or-down vote.
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There are historical precedents dating back to 1879 for and against allowing the presiding officer of the Senate to count nonvoting members toward a quorum.
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He's not going to change the rules so much as command his vice president, who will be the presiding officer of the Senate, to ignore them.
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McConnell's resolution also provides 16 hours for senators to ask questions of the two sides by submitting queries to the presiding officer, Chief Justice John Roberts.
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During the trial, the President's Room, one of the Senate's most ornate, will become an office for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the presiding officer.
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To depart from the traditional means of choosing a presiding officer could jeopardize the orderly proceedings that lend credence and confidence in the convention's final choices.
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The 64-year-old George W. Bush appointee will serve as the presiding officer in what will be only the third impeachment trial in U.S. history.
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Green, who did not have a written speech prepared for the occasion, spoke for five minutes and 26 seconds before being cut off by the presiding officer.
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Paul uttered the name in a question that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had earlier declined to read as the presiding officer of the trial.
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"On the other hand, just by hewing to the traditionally minimalist role of presiding officer, Roberts did help bring a swift end to the trial," Binder said.
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The Constitution endows the Senate with the "sole" power to try impeachments, and Senate rules say a majority of senators can overrule the presiding officer on evidentiary rulings.
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Second, either party could bring the issue to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who sits as the trial's presiding officer pursuant to the Constitution, for a ruling.
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Chief Justice Roberts made the (extremely short) trip from the Supreme Court to the Capitol this afternoon to be sworn in as the presiding officer of the trial.
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Meanwhile, in the coming weeks, Roberts is also likely to be called upon to serve as the presiding officer in a potential impeachment trial in the Senate chamber.
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The GOP presiding officer moved to consider Green's resolution less than an hour later, but Green didn't show up, allowing the window for consideration to pass for now.
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Since there have been no live witnesses, there has been very little for the presiding officer to do, but it is interesting to see the Senate at work.
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But when "tellers" - officials appointed to verify the count - assemble before the presiding officer, or Speaker, it is possible to know the outcome of the vote before the announcement.
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The new rule would have transfered the power out of the hands of the convention's presiding officer, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and put into the hands of the delegates.
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As the trial's presiding officer, Roberts had hoped to follow the largely neutral example set by his late mentor Chief Justice William Rehnquist at former President Clinton's 2628 impeachment.
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Perhaps such gritty arcana as committee assignments and setting the legislative calendar would be turned over to a committee, with the speaker no more than a ceremonial presiding officer.
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Inside the assembly building, known as the Senedd, members led by the presiding officer clapped as they wished the Queen happy birthday wishes for the official celebrations this weekend.
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The latter are shaped through interpretations by the presiding officer, battles between the parties and the charged political emotions during a moment in history when an officeholder is threatened.
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" The presiding officer, Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado, repeatedly banged his gavel and said the Democrats were out of order because "debate is not allowed during a vote.
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In a somber ceremony that has happened only twice before in the nation's history, Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in as the presiding officer over the impeachment trial.
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But there are still many unanswered questions about the trial and its rules and how Roberts chooses to carry out his constitutionally prescribed duties as the trial's presiding officer.
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The default trial rules guide the somewhat complicated and technical power-sharing arrangement between the Senate, which in essence serves as both judge and jury, and the presiding officer.
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It was the first time an American vice-president has had to use his tiebreaking vote as the Senate's presiding officer to ensure the confirmation of a president's cabinet appointment.
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Most scholars agree that the Constitution gives the Senate ultimate say over all critical matters at trial and the ability to overrule the presiding officer with a simple majority vote.
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With assistance from the Budget Committee, and after hearing arguments from both sides of every contested question, the Senate Parliamentarian will advise the Presiding Officer on possible Byrd Rule violations.
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For starters, Roberts faced questions about whether he'd need to recuse himself from matters involving the president because of his unique role as presiding officer during the Senate impeachment trial.
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In the 1905 Swain trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word pettifogging, and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used.
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Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts will come on over from the Supreme Court and be sworn in as the presiding officer for the length of the trial.
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The standing rules say the presiding officer "may rule" on all questions of evidence, such as instances where the relevance and significance of a document or witness testimony is unclear.
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However, the Senate's presiding officer—and its tie-breaker—is a Democratic lieutenant-governor, giving Mr Northam a cushion on the scant number of issues on which the parties might agree.
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"I think it's fitting to dedicate this bill's critical cancer initiatives in honor of someone who would be proud of the presiding officer today -- and that's his son, Beau," McConnell said.
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Dina Titus (D-Nev.) received a scolding from the presiding officer after she taunted Trump over the size of his hands, which remains a touchy topic for the real estate mogul.
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This involved having the presiding officer declare by fiat that a simple majority, rather than a two-thirds vote, was necessary to end debate on any amendment to the Senate's rules.
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The criticism became so intense that the usually restrained Mr. Grassley took the highly unusual step of taking over as the presiding officer of the Senate to cut off the Democrats.
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Behind a phalanx of soldiers and scowling intelligence officials, about 50 yards from the stall where chits for food baskets were being handed out, a presiding officer reported a healthy turnout.
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Probably.) The Senate has allowed its members to drink milk in the chamber since January 24, 1966, when then Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) asked the presiding officer, Sen.
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The Constitution gives the Senate "the sole Power to try all Impeachments" and tasks the Supreme Court chief justice with the role of presiding officer when the president is on trial.
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But during the first presidential impeachment trial — the unsuccessful effort to remove Andrew Johnson in 1868 — Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase twice cast tiebreaking votes on motions as the presiding officer.
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The presiding officer role lacks much authority so there was little Roberts could have done even if he had wanted to, said Sarah Binder, a scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank.
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Sanders would bypass this roadblock by simply instructing the vice president—the Senate's presiding officer—to disregard the parliamentarian's judgment and allow the bills to come up for a majority vote anyways.
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"Nobody is going to vote here today," said Olympic deputy presiding officer Jaqueline Onuko, blithely tucking into a sandwich as rocks clanged against the metal roof of the classroom-cum-polling station.
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MC: As presiding officer, the chief justice has spent most of his days keeping the process on track — gaveling sessions in and out and preventing partisan spats from getting out of hand.
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Under US Constitution and Senate rules, Roberts is not deciding substantive issues or the fate of Trump; rather he is a "presiding officer," enforcing procedures and maintaining the dignity of the session.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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Senate rules governing impeachment give much of the power to decide evidentiary and procedural questions to the presiding officer — in the case of a presidential impeachment trial, to Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Any senator, once recognized by the presiding officer during debate, can speak for as long as he or she wishes and can offer any amendment or motion to the matter under consideration.
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On the fly the delegates assigned two duties to the office: serve as the Senate's presiding officer and stand by as successor to the presidency (or at least its powers and duties).
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Under the proposed rules change, if the presiding officer — the chief justice — decides the request is "material and relevant to the impeachment trial and not redundant" the subpoena would then be issued.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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It made for a dramatic finish on the Senate floor, as each Democratic senator voiced his or her reason for opposing ACA repeal often before being cut off by presiding officer Republican Sen.
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House managers or the president's team, according to the same rules, can also direct "all motions, objections, requests, or applications" to the presiding officer, who would be Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
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As members of both parties shouted insults at each other during the abruptly called vote, the presiding officer threatened to remove one Democratic lawmaker from the floor for refusing to take his seat.
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"I'm not recommending it, but it's possible for the Senate, through the presiding officer, the chief justice, to appoint a committee to hear additional evidence, if the Senate thinks it's necessary," he said.
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Earlier this week, Fairfax momentarily handed off his duties as presiding officer of the Virginia Senate so as not to participate when a state senator stood to speak in honor of Confederate Gen.
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House conservatives, though, are frustrated with the Senate rules and say that if need be, the presiding officer of the Senate should simply overrule the Senate parliamentarian, who rules on what can be included.
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"In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Chief Justice Roberts said.
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The Constitution makes clear that senators themselves have ultimate authority over all critical aspects of the proceeding, but the 1986 Senate rules gives the presiding officer an opening to help define the trial's contours.
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Roberts, the trial's presiding officer, said he believes he lacks the authority to cast a deciding vote, despite Chief Justice Salmon Chase having done so twice in the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
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ALBANY — For the last week, Kathy Hochul has been waiting to take her place as presiding officer of the State Senate, a position she rightfully holds as the state's lieutenant governor and the chamber's president.
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The Senate impeachment rules give the presiding officer — in this case, Chief Justice Roberts — power to rule on "all questions of evidence," specific questions from senators to be put to witnesses or counsel, and motions.
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The thing to remember is that Chief Justice Roberts is the presiding officer in the same way that a vice president is, and a vice president can't tell the Senate what a senator should do.
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Since 1832, 23 House members have been censured, which requires them to stand before their fellow legislators while the House speaker or presiding officer reads aloud the censure resolution as a form of public rebuke.
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Ryan also stressed that members should not take photos or record video on the House floor, address remarks to the presiding officer and refrain from walking in the well of the chamber when someone is speaking.
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They argued that Chief Justice Roberts, as the presiding officer, has unilateral power to subpoena witnesses because a clause in the 1986-era rules for impeachment trials says presiding officers may issue orders on their own.
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Paul last week put the name, reported by conservative media as the whistleblower, in a written question to be asked during the trial, but U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts as the presiding officer declined to read it.
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The presiding officer would be Vice President John Breckinridge of Kentucky, an opposing candidate to Lincoln in the 1860 election who would later serve as a Confederate general leading an attack on the nation's capital in 1864.
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"The principle here is that the presiding officer in a deliberative assembly isn't supposed to make procedural rulings according to the views of whoever sits in the chair," says political scientist Sarah Binder of George Washington University.
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That doesn't fully explain, however, the magnitude of the opposition that resulted in this cabinet nomination becoming the first ever to require the tie-breaking vote cast by the vice president sitting as presiding officer of the Senate.
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"I want to make it perfectly clear, Mr. President: Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor," Mr. McConnell said, addressing the Senate's presiding officer and leaving no room to pressure the nominee to withdraw.
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As the Republican National Convention's presiding officer, it was Womack's job to decide whether more delegates supported or opposed the party's rules package in a voice vote, where delegates shout either "aye" or "nay" to signify their position.
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" Under the current Senate rules, "if a Senator wishes a question to be put to a witness, or a manager, to counsel of the person impeached ... it shall be reduced to writing, and put by the Presiding Officer.
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LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment trial of President Trump "In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word 'pettifogging' and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used," Roberts said.
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The House's presiding officer, Republican Representative Ted Poe, entered the chamber around noon (1600 GMT) on Wednesday to find a number of Democratic lawmakers in the front of the chamber, with some of them sitting on the floor and chanting.
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A voice vote in the convention's rules committee that could have opened the door to candidates who wanted to challenge him was so overwhelmingly in his favor that the presiding officer did not need to call for an official count.
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At least one question was incendiary enough to be rejected outright from the presiding officer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, and reporters watching from the Senate gallery noted an increased number of senators away from their seats.
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" In the "SNL" trial, Chief Justice Roberts is kicked out as the presiding officer by TV's "Judge Mathis" (Keenan Thompson) who declares that, "This court needs a real judge who got some big brass ones under his skirt," adding, "Watch out.
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RELATED: Chief Justice John Roberts says Americans may 'take democracy for granted' The Senate rules give the chief justice specific duties as a presiding officer, adhering to the Constitution's dictate that the "sole power" to try a president rests with the Senate.
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Warren had been criticizing Sessions in her remarks, including reading from a 1986 letter critical of Sessions written by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., and Warren was then instructed by the presiding officer to take her seat.
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"I've voted since I was 18 and now I am in my 30s, and I have never seen this," a woman called Mary Nduru told the polling station presiding officer in Kabalagala, a neighborhood which predominantly supports opposition candidates standing against President Yoweri Museveni.
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"I've voted since I was 19803 and now I am in my 30s, and I have never seen this," a woman called Mary Nduru told the polling station presiding officer in Kabalagala, a neighborhood which predominantly supports opposition candidates standing against President Yoweri Museveni.
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More than twice as many respondents — 57 percent to 25 percent — expressed support rather than opposition to Roberts using his authority as the Senate trial's presiding officer to admit new testimony, according to the YouGov Blue poll conducted on behalf of the group Demand Justice.
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But the debate over whether Texas should pass restrictions on which bathrooms transgender men, women and children can use in schools and government-owned buildings has become a pivotal political moment for Mr. Straus, the presiding officer of the 150-member State House of Representatives.
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In 2014, a deputy from the centre-right, Julien Aubert, sided with the academy against the chamber's rules, and repeatedly referred to the presiding officer, Sandrine Mazetier from the opposing Socialist Party, as madame le président, mixing the feminine personal title and the masculine job title.
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If Bayh and No Labels truly want to take partisanship out of the speakership, they could legitimately go the way of the British House of Commons and provide by rule that the elected speaker step down as a party member to become a truly neutral presiding officer.
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" McConnell demanded that the presiding officer rule that Warren had violated Senate Rule XIX, which states, "No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.
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Meanwhile on Long Island in New York's 2nd congressional district, first-time candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley, who made headlines after she successfully requested that the Federal Election Commission allow her to use campaign funds for childcare, beat out Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory for the Democratic nomination.
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The Supreme Court chief justice presides over the Senate removal trial of a sitting president, and adding that key judicial element would seem to demonstrate a desire by the Framers to have a presiding officer whose very job description is to do justice without regard to party or person.
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Debate over the family separation policy turned into a tense standoff in the House on Friday, when Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, played a recording of the detained children wailing and crying, as the presiding officer, Representative Karen Handel, Republican of Georgia, tried to shut him down.
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But before it can get underway Chief Justice Roberts will be sworn in as the presiding officer and, in his first official act, administer an oath to senators in which they swear to do 'impartial justice' in the trial, with the real work not expected to begin until Tuesday.
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But before it can get underway Chief Justice Roberts will be sworn in as the presiding officer and, in his first official act, administer an oath to senators in which they swear to do "impartial justice" in the trial, with the real work not expected to begin until Tuesday.
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Illustrating the importance of the moment, Vice President Mike Pence served as the Senate's presiding officer during the vote to confirm Gorsuch, who also worked in Republican former President George W. Bush's Justice Department and is the son of the first woman to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
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In a brief but scathing speech from the House floor, Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, spoke directly to the president, uttering his name and earning a gentle reprimand from the presiding officer, who reminded her that lawmakers are barred from personally impugning the president or other elected officials.
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The question appeared to create discomfort for Chief Justice John Roberts, whose role as the trial's presiding officer requires him to read senators' queries aloud — even those raising questions about potential damage to his own legitimacy, or that of the judicial institution he has assiduously sought to shield from the political fray.
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"To speak so disrespectfully — and, to me, in a demeaning tone — to the lieutenant governor, who happened to be the presiding officer, who happens to be a woman, really took my breath away," said Senator Shelley Mayer, one of two newly elected Democrats who have left that party just shy of the majority.
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She was very much averse to returning to the stage in Metzerott Hall, contending that it would appear unfeeling for her to do so, but as a number of the more distinguished members of the council were absent, she agreed to take her accustomed place to the right of the presiding officer.
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Jerry Nadler that led both men to be admonished by the trial&aposs presiding officer, Chief Justice John Roberts, Cipollone said Democrats "owe an apology to the president of the United States and his family, you owe an apology to the Senate, but most of all, you owe an apology to the American people."
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Inspired by Cesar Chavez, the migrant farmworkers' leader, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, Ms. Katz was in her mid-22001s when she embarked on a political career, graduating from licking envelopes during Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign to become the first woman elected speaker, or presiding officer, of Oregon's House of Representatives.
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McConnell has said he is only willing to agree to a resolution that would set up how much time the House impeachment managers and the president's defense team have to present their cases on the Senate floor, and how much time senators have to submit written questions to the presiding officer, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
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For all the theater, Mr. Murphy's main achievement beyond delivering the Democrats' message on C-Span — and creating a sensation on social media — was to force at least one Republican to remain in the chair as presiding officer, as well as to keep all of the essential Senate clerks and other floor staff members at work for a long night.
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The last vice president to intervene in the Senate this way was Nelson Rockefeller, and the messiness of what ensued is captured in the Senate's official biography of him: On [one] occasion as presiding officer, Rockefeller tried to break a filibuster by declining to recognize Senators James Allen of Alabama and William Brock of Tennessee and instead ordering the roll call to proceed.
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Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday thanked the Senate for helping him carry out his duties as the presiding officer in President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE's impeachment trial.
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This month, there was a ceremony for Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE, who served in the Senate for 37 years and then, as vice president, served as its presiding officer for another eight years.
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Senators and aides say it will take several days for opening arguments to begin because the presiding officer, Chief Justice John Roberts, needs to be summoned, senators need to be sworn in as jurors and President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE's defense team needs to be notified and given a chance to respond.
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