ringwiss
@ringwiss.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 He/him.
Armchair parliamentarian.
I type at 140 wpm.
Armchair parliamentarian.
I type at 140 wpm.
Fun fact: The US Senate no longer adjourns sine die at the end of the first session of a Congress; instead, it ‘treats its previous session as remaining in being until the point at which the chair declares the new session to have convened’.
www.congress.gov/crs_external...
www.congress.gov/crs_external...
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Fun fact: The US Senate no longer adjourns sine die at the end of the first session of a Congress; instead, it ‘treats its previous session as remaining in being until the point at which the chair declares the new session to have convened’.
www.congress.gov/crs_external...
www.congress.gov/crs_external...
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Dear fellow parliament nerds, I am pleased to report that my book "Unparliamentary" can now be pre-ordered :-)
I'm so excited I might have used some unparliamentary language when they told me :-P utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
I'm so excited I might have used some unparliamentary language when they told me :-P utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Unparliamentary - University of Toronto Press
Tales from Canada’s Colourful Parliamentary Past
utppublishing.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dear fellow parliament nerds, I am pleased to report that my book "Unparliamentary" can now be pre-ordered :-)
I'm so excited I might have used some unparliamentary language when they told me :-P utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
I'm so excited I might have used some unparliamentary language when they told me :-P utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Twas the night before Christmas and all through the House of Commons... one of my favourite Hansard editor's insertions:
![[Editor's note: Whereupon a stout gentleman, dressed in red, with white firm trim, entered the chamber, exclaiming "Ho, ho, ho!"]
Some hon. Members: Hear, hear!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ql25ngsdix3owgntaui7khex/bafkreigefxepurwwcl4cesknuos7iyewnnkxg3vohhjhfnx6dfilm63kvy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the House of Commons... one of my favourite Hansard editor's insertions:
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TIL: The 🐄 does casual Thursdays.
December 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
TIL: The 🐄 does casual Thursdays.
Interesting. Typically they only use two-minute votes for amendments and motions to suspend the rules, not bigger stuff like this.
December 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Interesting. Typically they only use two-minute votes for amendments and motions to suspend the rules, not bigger stuff like this.
‘Closure having been invoked...’ 🇬🇧💪
The senators in the chair have been doing this a lot lately.
The senators in the chair have been doing this a lot lately.
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
‘Closure having been invoked...’ 🇬🇧💪
The senators in the chair have been doing this a lot lately.
The senators in the chair have been doing this a lot lately.
‘“But this is not a parliamentary system, so you can’t call a special election,” the member said. “We have to deal with whatever we’ve got until the first Monday in January in 2027.”’
Well...
www.notus.org/house/aca-su...
Well...
www.notus.org/house/aca-su...
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
‘“But this is not a parliamentary system, so you can’t call a special election,” the member said. “We have to deal with whatever we’ve got until the first Monday in January in 2027.”’
Well...
www.notus.org/house/aca-su...
Well...
www.notus.org/house/aca-su...
He could, and he knows this because earlier this year he did it to Luna’s discharge petition on proxy voting.
“I wouldn’t and couldn’t block it,” Johnson said of the discharge petition. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Speaker Will Allow January Vote on Democrats’ Health Care Bill
A Democrat-led measure that would extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years is set for a House vote in early January, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Bloomberg Government Wednesd...
news.bgov.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
He could, and he knows this because earlier this year he did it to Luna’s discharge petition on proxy voting.
Maybe giving the speaker unilateral adjournment/recess authority wasn’t such a great idea.
NEW: Rep. Mike Lawler tells me Speaker Johnson should bring the 3 year ACA extension for a vote BEFORE they leave for the holiday break.
“I think it should. I think we should have an up or down vote before we leave.”
“I think it should. I think we should have an up or down vote before we leave.”
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Maybe giving the speaker unilateral adjournment/recess authority wasn’t such a great idea.
I don’t know what exactly happened, but ‘the Chair will not close a vote while a Member is in the well attempting to vote’.
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I don’t know what exactly happened, but ‘the Chair will not close a vote while a Member is in the well attempting to vote’.
On the abuse of points of order:
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
On the abuse of points of order:
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From the archives - a UK parliamentary Christmas carol (?) published in 1894.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
From the archives - a UK parliamentary Christmas carol (?) published in 1894.
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For fellow devolution anoraks and legislature lovers, this is an interesting topic but one which arguably applies to legislatures in many jurisdictions (including elsewhere in the UK) rather than being a uniquely Holyrood problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is Holyrood bad at making laws?
Recent emergency measures to fix legislative issues may point to a wider problem in how Holyrood operates.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
For fellow devolution anoraks and legislature lovers, this is an interesting topic but one which arguably applies to legislatures in many jurisdictions (including elsewhere in the UK) rather than being a uniquely Holyrood problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The rule did not provide for the amendments to be decided en gros; upon objection, the question should have been put on each one individually.
The rule did not provide for the amendments to be decided en gros; upon objection, the question should have been put on each one individually.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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The rule did not provide for the amendments to be decided en gros; upon objection, the question should have been put on each one individually.
The rule did not provide for the amendments to be decided en gros; upon objection, the question should have been put on each one individually.
If you unexpectedly win a voice vote, maybe it’s not the best idea to demand a record vote.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If you unexpectedly win a voice vote, maybe it’s not the best idea to demand a record vote.
It’s great to see that the House is finally dealing with the speaker’s practice of refusing to send bills to the Senate.
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
It’s great to see that the House is finally dealing with the speaker’s practice of refusing to send bills to the Senate.
“Editor’s note: This article is totally wrong.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Editor’s note: This article is totally wrong.”
It’s so cool to see the House consider a measure under the terms of the discharge rule.
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It’s so cool to see the House consider a measure under the terms of the discharge rule.
I was wondering when the House would take these up; the committee reported them in April.
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I was wondering when the House would take these up; the committee reported them in April.
It seems Deschler’s is a higher authority on Senate rules than Riddick’s. Understandable.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It seems Deschler’s is a higher authority on Senate rules than Riddick’s. Understandable.
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A precedent* that the House may not do what it’s proposing to do here ⬇️
* – It’s a pretty soft one, but that’s to be expected with things like this since the chair may not rule on constitutional questions.
* – It’s a pretty soft one, but that’s to be expected with things like this since the chair may not rule on constitutional questions.
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A precedent* that the House may not do what it’s proposing to do here ⬇️
* – It’s a pretty soft one, but that’s to be expected with things like this since the chair may not rule on constitutional questions.
* – It’s a pretty soft one, but that’s to be expected with things like this since the chair may not rule on constitutional questions.