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In parliamentary law, a mass meeting is a type of deliberative assembly or popular assembly, which in a publicized or selectively distributed notice known as the call of the meeting - has been announced: [1] as called to take appropriate action on a particular problem or toward a particular purpose stated by the meeting's sponsors, and
The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives . The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin .
Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure, referred to as Mason's Manual, is the official parliamentary authority of most state legislatures in the United States. [1] The Manual covers motions, procedures, vote requirements, the rules of order, principles, precedents, and legal basis behind parliamentary law used by legislatures.
Texas House members elected Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows as the chamber's newest speaker Tuesday in a vote that capped a monthslong, bitter GOP battle for the gavel. Burrows' ascension to ...
In parliamentary procedure, a request for information is a request directed to the chair, or through the chair to another person, for information relevant to the business at hand. Prior to the 11th edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, this device was known as "point of information." The change was made to avoid the common ...
On July 23, 1836, interim President David G. Burnet, pursuant to the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, ordered that an election for Congress take place in Columbia on the first Monday in September 1836. As part of the same proclamation, Burnet mandated that the 1st Congress of the Republic of Texas convene on October 3, 1836, also at ...
The order directs the Texas Department of Public Safety to target and arrest anyone implementing CCP influence operations like “Operation Fox Hunt,” an initiative of the PRC to forcibly return ...
While vice president has regained narrow lead among likely voters, the race is close enough for it to be unclear who’s likely to win Electoral College