The petition became necessary when Dennis Hastert, the House speaker, removed Shays-Meehan from consideration after a bitter fight in July over the rules governing debate.
Another thing Mr. Boehner seeks to do is loosen the rules that govern the debate of bills, and would allow more substantive amendments to be offered by members, which would Mr. Boehner argued would make for higher quality legislation and a more fair process.
Or will that hand of friendship be bitten or the posterior kicked by one side or the other?" Mr. Daschle, who controls the Senate until Jan . 20because Al Gore is still vice president, also won concessions on the rules that govern Senate debate.
We have fundamental change to make, and a very short window to make it in -- Obama's typical (and often quite savvy) little-bit-at-a-time approach doesn't square with the physics and chemistry that govern this debate.
► Subject to the comparator, different frames govern a debate and influence the outcome.
Perhaps as a result, Hayes has been vehemently outspoken in his ongoing battle with Syngenta, and hasn't always fit in among the polite protocols that often govern such debates.
It is being alleged that Boulton, Sky's political editor, breached the strict rules governing the debate by raising with Clegg the front page of yesterday's DailyTelegraph.
It shifts the onus from Labour – "what would you cut then?" – to the Tories: "How will you stimulate the economy?" It changes the dominant metaphor governing the debate about the economy.
In fact there is a rule governing internet debate known as Godwin's law that states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one".
New value systems begin to dominate, governing public debate and planning.
