PP Dunbar #75 - Previous Question

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The Previous Question can be used to close debate immediately and the making of all subsidiary motions except to

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Lay on the Table.

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Which motion would you use at a meeting to stop debate immediately and vote on a pending question? Options: Question of Privilege, Division of the Question, Previous Question, Reconsider the Question

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Previous Question

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If adopted, the Previous Question is a motion that stops

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debate and the making of amendments on the pending question.

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The Previous Question is not allowed in

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committees.

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Which statement below is true regarding the subsidiary motion to Move the Previous Question? Options: A second is not needed. The chairman must call on members for and against this motion when it is debated. It does not prevent the making of privileged or incidental motions. It is in order when another member has the floor.

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It does not prevent the making of privileged or incidental motions.

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The unqualified form of the Previous Question can apply only to

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the immediately pending question.

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When the subsidiary motion for the Previous Question is made in its unqualified form such as "I move the previous question," this means that it

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requires a majority vote for adoption, grants permission for members to ask questions of members, applies to all pending questions.

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If a motion for the Previous Question fails to gain the necessary votes, what happens?

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debate continues on the pending motion as if this motion had not been made.

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If a member obtained the floor and “called for the question” on a motion to Refer, what would you do as chairman?

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Ask for a second.

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When the Previous Question is ordered on a series of pending motions, they are voted on in the

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reverse order in which they were made.