"After hearing all this, the Supreme Court has passed its order that the court is optimistic and the Speaker will
hold the floor test later in the day today and then kept the matter for tomorrow.
Tasks that had once been accomplished by putting brief remarks on the record became an opportunity to
hold the floor in an otherwise empty room, ranting for the cameras -- and generating footage for campaign ads.
As a young, female engineer in optics, in some groups I have found it difficult to
hold the floor at meetings, or to get my teammates headed in the same direction.
First, the Senate should get rid of the two-track system that allows it to bypass a filibustered bill and reinstitute the pre-1970 requirement that filibusterers
hold the floor. The fact that the number of filibusters exploded after the two-track system was introduced speaks for itself.
Outside Congress, several hundred gun-control advocates gathered to voice support for the Democrats, shouting "
hold the floor" and "do your job".
A legislative filibuster would end when objecting senators could no longer
hold the floor, at which point the majority could proceed with the business under consideration.
I can remember when it would hardly have been conceiveable that Derek would
hold the floor there again.?
The bolts that
hold the floor platform in place are inserted at each corner, with one bolt going through each side and then through the stake.
Under current Senate Rules any member who is recognized to speak may
hold the floor for as long as he or she wishes.
This option is highly democratic: either person can
hold the floor. Holding the floor allows each person to control the document sharing and allows each to speak without waiting to be granted the floor.
As I took a turn around the perimeter of the basketball court to head into the home stretch, my cheap sneakers couldn't
hold the floor and I went crashing into the cinder-block wall, right knee first.
CA practitioners then tried to identify the underlying principles that direct conversation participants when and how to
hold the floor, claim the floor and hand over the floor.