When HuffPost asked the Ohio Republican what had changed between Boehner and Ryan, he stared for a moment, then said, "I'll talk about the WRDA bill," referring to the Water Resources and Development Act, to which Republican leaders added a Flint amendment that Ryan described as non-germane a day before.
"Senators come over here and say they are not going to allow a vote on an amendment unless they are guaranteed votes on non-germane, non-relevant amendments.
The current concept of "non-germane" amendments should be rethought; a legislative body should be able to debate transportation legislation without suddenly veering off to discuss contraception.
But, potentially throwing in a higher bar, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R AK), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, suggested that "non-germane" amendments would need 60 votes instead of 51 to win adoption.
As US Congress continues to quack its way through the Super Committee quagmire, a seemingly non-germane offshore issue has surfaced vis-a-vis Iraq.
If successful, the vote would make it impossible to attach non-germane amendments like Mr. Inhofe's to the bill.
When we are confronted with such a so-called "Christmas tree", a law to which many non-germane ornaments have been attached, we think the proper rule must be that when the tree no longer exists, the ornaments are superfluous.
He says that he lost because "18-wheelers were deemed to be non-germane to highways" and also because of the filibuster.
And when it comes to offering amendments to the health care bill, the New Hampshire Republican argues that it is the personification of "full, complete, and informed debate," to "offer an unlimited number of amendments -- germane or non-germane -- on any subject".
In the past, implementing legislation for such pacts contained non-germane provisions, allowing prior presidents to buy support and enact other legislation they could not get enacted by Regular Order.
A PubMed search for "gastropod microarray" on 16 July 2010 yielded only 14 results, one of which was non-germane.
