Their backroom dealings often turn the chamber debates and recorded votes into an irrelevant sideshow.
The House leadership, however, might still allow an amendment on fuel economy to be inserted into the bill when the full chamber debates it.
Senator Vincent D. Fort, a black Atlanta Democrat who opposes the measure because he believes it is discriminatory, said he asked her to sit in the Senate while that chamber debated the same amendment three weeks earlier.
While we were here in this council chamber debating Resolution 1441 last fall, we know, we know from sources that a missile brigade outside Baghdad was disbursing rocket launchers and warheads containing biological warfare agents to various locations, distributing them to various locations in western Iraq.
Partly due to the need for translation, and the politics of consensus in the chamber, debates tend to be calmer and more polite than, say, the Westminster system.
The Presiding Officer (or Deputy Presiding Officer) decides who speaks in chamber debates and the amount of time for which they are allowed to speak.
Lawmakers in both chambers debated whether defanging EPA amounted to an attack on climate science.
Interspersed with video clips that brought the sound and horror of battle into the chamber, the debate revived unanswered questions about snipers, arsonists, killings at a Buddhist temple and mysterious assassins dressed in black.
Inside the tempestuous Senate chamber, where debate has degenerated into daily name-calling — the Tea Party as a band of nihilists and extortionists, and Democrats as socialists who want to force their will on the American people — Mr.
Shortly before 6.30am, the EU's 27 leaders filed into the council chamber to debate Van Rompuy's proposal to cut the "payment ceiling", likened to a credit card limit, for the next seven-year budget from €942.8bn to €908.4bn.
