The perversion of rules strikes the most dispassionate observer as unfair and invoking the nuclear option to require 51 votes instead of 60 is exactly that, a perversion of democratic procedure and protocol.
Nunes had viewed that intelligence after a late-night invitation from White House aides and broke protocol by not informing his Democratic counterpart on the committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, also from California.
Protocol problems loomed large for democratic Taiwan and autocratic China and the two addressed each other as "mister" to avoid using the word "president," as neither officially recognizes the other as head of state.
By signalling that voting no would push Greece out of the euro, they broke all the usual protocols by weighing into someone else's democratic contest.
And while Obama's narrow 14,000-vote victory served to signal a possible electoral transformation in the traditionally conservative state, it also illuminated for conservatives how a Democratic takeover could be vulnerable to a stiffening in voting protocol.
Democratic senators also requested an intelligence community investigation into security clearance protocol on Thursday, Politico reported. .
Joining the World Trade Organization, as we have, or the Kyoto Protocol, as we ultimately have not, does detract from the democratic legitimacy of the laws that govern us.
She is the director of protocol and special events for Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, and works in Washington.
[C14.] Online Speech Rules Are Proposed Racist speech and hateful content would be barred from the Internet under a protocol proposed by the Council of Europe, a group that represents 43 democratic countries and aims to safeguard human rights.
Early on, he enraged the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, by poaching a Republican senator, Michael A. L. Balboni, for his cabinet, and then campaigning for the Democratic candidate in a special election to replace him — a breach of Albany protocol.
