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Molly Reynolds

@mollyereynolds

Senior Fellow, @BrookingsGov. @smithcollege and @umich grad. Not the Senate parliamentarian, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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"Calls a time out to attempt to draw up a new play" is the more apt analogy here but I get that that's a lot of characters for a headline.

"Calls a time out to attempt to draw up a new play" is the more apt analogy here but I get that that's a lot of characters for a headline.
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It appears that how long Jim McGovern is capable of talking was not, in fact, the binding constraint on the length of the Rules meeting.

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If the Senate is going to go into second degree point of order mode, the absolute LEAST it could have done was do it during business hours so Sarah Binder and I could watch together on the big screen in our conference room.

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In the last month, I've entertained numerous Byrd Rule hypos and written ~1900 words on the Congressional Review Act and I still think counting to 45 days under this definition might be the hardest question anyone's asked me recently.

In the last month, I've entertained numerous Byrd Rule hypos and written ~1900 words on the Congressional Review Act and I still think counting to 45 days under this definition might be the hardest question anyone's asked me recently.
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Last time I checked, deciding whether the Appropriations Committee marks something up is a thing you can do when you are...the Chair of the Appropriations Committee.

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The rules aren't magic and the parliamentarian is not a wizard. What the office *is* is an institution to which senators defer for a large number of good institutional and political reasons as a mostly heretofore stable equilibrium.