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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Markup Marathon: What Does "Strike the Last Word" Mean?
Markup Marathon: What Does "Strike the Last Word" Mean?
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If you've been following the marathon markup sessions in the House committees working on the Obamacare replacement, you might have heard representatives saying, "I move to strike the last word." Usually, that’s followed up by the chair of a committee mumbling “without objection, the gentleman/woman has five minutes,” and the representative speaking.
So, what the heck just happened, there?
Let’s start at the beginning. When you hear this, it is very likely in a committee, during debate and markup of a bill. A markup is simply a hearing where amendments to a bill are debated and voted on, before the committee decides whether to send the bill to the floor for a final vote on passage.
Here’s the rub. House rules say that each amendment can only be debated for 10 minutes – five minutes for those in support, and five minutes for those opposed. But, members of Congress love to hear themselves speak sometimes.
That’s why they use a little trick. That trick is called offering a pro forma amendment. Pro Forma, in Latin, means "for the sake of form," or, a formality.
That’s exactly what a pro forma amendment is. As a formality, a member can simply say they’re offering an amendment to the amendment under debate, and get their own five minutes to speak. They never even have to submit a real amendment. Just verbally saying they’re offering one, as a formality, gives them five minutes.
When a member says they "move to strike the last word" it, too, is part of that formality. They’re asking to strike, or delete, the very last word of the amendment under debate, indicating that they’re offering a pro forma amendment to replace that last word.
Then, when their speaking time is done, their short speech is inserted into the record, without a vote on their formality of an amendment ever being taken.
Members can do this for every amendment offered to any bill under debate in the committee. But, they can only do it once, per amendment. A lawmaker cannot, for example, move to strike the last word five times for one amendment, to try to get 25 minutes of speaking time.
Because Senate rules on speaking time are looser than the House, you’ll almost always hear this procedure used in the House, not the Senate. It can be used in the Senate, too, but there’s rarely a need.
So, next time you hear a representative say they "move to strike the last word," the easiest way to translate that is, “I want permission to speak for five minutes about this amendment under debate.”
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- Caroline···Ditto, Dave. I had to look up slow mode for Youtube chat just now, too. There are some similarities in the way they limit the flow of contributions.LikeFollowShare
- Dave···Well written. Now I don't have to wonder why they keep saying that in House Judiciary Committee.LikeFollowShare
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Monday, November 25, 2019
KDTN Radio One Country
APACHE JUNCTION AZ (IFS) -- This little radio station has been broadcasting along since 1977 as a cassette tape radio subscription service with the name of KDRC Cassette Radio. Started by Kenneth Howard Smith in Hollywood California. The letters were noted as KENNY'S D-TOWN RADIO CASSETTE for your automobile.
With the early days of internet radio, and Rocky Mountain Internet provided the first full-time access, one of their clients was Broadcasting.com, and if you had a soundcard and a microphone, you too could have started your very own radio station for free in 1994. The format was WAV and you were limited to thirty (30) minutes per day, the minimum was 8kHz to 32kHz.
So we fast forward some thirty plus years and the stations name was changed to KDTN Radio One (aka - Kenny's D-Town), and has established a hot country following. Monthly licenses are well over $200 per month per station, and the inclusion of daily news services, with international news from REUTERS, World News from Voice Of America (VOA), and local/domestic news from National Public Radio (NPR) to keep our listeners up-to-date.
It was over one year ago that SDC Streaming Services added their Top 40 Weekly Sampler on Country Music in the Interview line-up. We never charged a fee for anything, and we never had commercials before.
With notices from IBM, Boeing Airlines, Best Western Hotels, and other small operations, KDTN Radio One has become its own monolith in internet radio broadcasting.
Radio media buying and airtime costs on major networks
Typical primetime spots on national US networks can be expected to cost something in the range of $200,000 to $800,000, while on a larger national cable network you are expected to pay $40,000 to $80,000. On smaller US networks costs are between $2,000 to $40,000, and on smaller local stations you can buy some spots for as little as $50 for 60 seconds.
Satellite radio
We have seen something similar to DRM today happening for satellite radio in Europe. Back in the late 1990s, some government stations in Europe were fooled into believing that they could save a huge amount of money by switching off their Shortwave operation, and move them to satellite radio. Unfortunately, whoever owned a satellite receiver at home, they used to watch TV, not to listen to satellite radio. Satellite radio is not popular even today. It is not portable and mainly used only as a distribution media for radio relay stations. The advent of internet streaming – de facto – meant that satellite radio is now obsolete technology.
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