Not enough MPs turned up to form a quorum.
The six-member panel is powerless to form a quorum and write the regulations needed to shed sunlight on bundling.
If you can keep the bacteria from communicating, they can't form a quorum — they won't act.
The legislature was unable to form a quorum to debate the issue after Democratic state senators absconded to Illinois.
Not enough to form a quorum, admittedly, but more than enough to explode the myth of an opposition party united for Zimbabwe and against continued Zanu-PF rule.
Politicians from a heavily Shiite political alliance boycotted the session, leaving a bare majority of Parliament's 325 members there to form a quorum.
They formed a quorum of misery, bearing the scars of horrors whose place names are etched indelibly into the tormented American soul: Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora, Oak Creek.
Blunt and his allies on the CAEC created a furore at a lengthy private meeting last week when they prevented the committee reaching a consensus by walking out and ensuring there were not enough MPs to form a quorum.
It is already clear that voting has not been possible in enough constituencies to fill the 475 (out of 500) seats needed to form a quorum in the national assembly to name a new prime minister and government.
Some of its members blocked the door to the chamber, but enough members of the ruling coalition managed to get in to form a quorum, some by sneaking along another passageway into the building.
Lacking the two-thirds of parliamentary seats needed to form a quorum for a presidential vote, Mr Erdogan will have to turn for support to the far-right National Action Party (MHP), which took 71 seats (after winning none the last time round).
