In a drastic response to the Democratic ploy, Representative Randy Weber (R TX) moved that the markup be adjourned, a motion that passed by a party line vote of 6 to 4. At 12 33 p.m. Lummis called it a day.
On the other hand, if the proper procedures were not followed -- for example, the meeting was adjourned without a motion to continue voting at a future date -- the flip tax could be challenged in court by shareholders.
"Do I hear a motion to adjourn?" Meeting over.
Then, according to a clerk's notes, "Jimmy made a motion to adjourn and Claude seconded the motion.
A half-dozen senators left before the final vote on a motion to adjourn.
"Nothing ever passes in those years," one longtime aide said, "except a motion to adjourn".
They then adopted, also by voice vote, a motion to adjourn until 2 p.m. on Nov. 13.
One of the 900 private investors at the Wembley Conference Centre brought a halt to the proceedings by winning support for a motion to adjourn the meeting.
The support of at least 10percentt of all P&O Princess shareholders, and at least half of those represented at the meeting, would be needed to pass a motion to adjourn.
"The Senate is declining to a new low of chicanery," Schumer said before moving a motion to adjourn until Monday, so that senators could have more time to consider the final bill.
Even looking further back, there was a debate on a substantive motion in the case of Korean war; a debate on a motion to adjourn in the case of the Falklands war, and during the Gulf war of 1991 there were seven statements and one debate, which was on a substantive motion.
