Robert's Rules Of Order by Henry Robert ~ 68

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proper course is to refer the subject to the committee of the whole [§ 32], or to consider it informally [§ 33]. [For limiting or closing the debate, see § 37.] No member can speak the second time to a question, until every member choosing to speak has spoken. But an amendment, or any other motion being offered, makes the real question before the assembly a different one, and, in regard to the right to debate, is treated as a new question. Merely asking a question, or making a suggestion, is not considered as speaking.

35. Undebatable Questions. The following questions shall be decided without debate, all others being debatable [see note at end of this section]:

To Fix the Time to which the Assembly shall Adjourn (when a privileged question, § 10). To Adjourn [§ 11], (or in committee, to rise, which is used instead of to adjourn). For the Orders of the Day [§ 13], and questions relating to the priority of business. An Appeal [§ 14] when made while the Previous Question is pending, or when simply relating to indecorum or transgressions of the rules of speaking, or to the priority of business. Objection to the Consideration of a Question [§ 15].

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