The floors were revolting.
As a member of the Rules Committee and Democratic floor leader, he revolted against Speaker Joseph G. Cannon's dictatorial control over the House in 1910.
Jack Jones was one of the architects of that policy, but Evans succeeded Jones at the very moment when employers and shop floor workers were in revolt against wage restraint.
To bring a state Senate bill to the floor, state House Republicans revolted against their leadership with a parliamentary procedure led by state House Democrats to override reluctant leaders.
A little after seven on Monday evening, there was talk that moderate Republicans were going to stage some sort of revolt on the floor of the House and make their colleagues vote on a "clean" continuing resolution.
In 2007, following the brand-new senior vice president's announcement that times were simply too hard for the wildly profitable company to offer us our meager annual raises, I challenged him in an open meeting and subsequently attempted to start a revolt on the floor.
Senator Eric Schneiderman, a Manhattan Democrat, led a revolt on the Senate floor last year against the Republican rules, which make it virtually impossible for a Democrat to get a bill to the floor.
For the second consecutive day, House Republicans on Wednesday lost a floor vote due to a mini-revolt, this time over a plan to demand a repayment from the United Nations.
