Call for the Orders of the Day - PPTQ Sec 18

The privileged motion to Call for the Orders of the Day is used primarily to

• Order the chairman to take an immediate recess.

• Require that a meeting conform to its agenda.

• Indicate to members when a point of order may be called.

• Write orders for all committees to complete their tasks by a specific time.

The orders of the day can be called by

• One member proposing the motion and a second.

• A two-thirds vote without notice.

• Any member.

• The officers after they confer in executive session and adopt it by a two-thirds vote.

The privileged motion to Call for the Orders of the Day may not be

• Seconded.

• Debated.

• Amended.

• All of the above

The orders of the day can be set aside by

• A two-thirds vote.

• Any member who objects.

• The chairman if there is an important item being debated.

• A motion to Reconsider.

Assume you are chairman at a meeting. The orders of the day are called for, and you sense that the assembly would prefer to consider the pending question. What would be the proper procedure?

• Proceed with fulfilling the request for the orders of the day.

• The chair could call for a vote on whether the assembly wishes to consider the orders of the day.

• Ignore the request and proceed with the pending question.

• Call the member who called for the orders of the day out of order.

Once an assembly has refused to proceed to the orders of the day, the orders of the day cannot be called for again until the pending business

• Has been debated by at least one member in favor and one member opposed to it.

• Has been amended.

• Is adopted.

• Is disposed of.

Assume that there is a meeting in progress and the assembly has digressed from the agenda to such an extent that the important items on the agenda may not be considered because of a lack of time. What would you do?

• Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, 'Madam President, I order you to consider the agenda.'

• Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, 'Madam President, I move we reconsider the agenda.'

• Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, 'Madam President, I call for the orders of the day.'

• Obtain the floor and say, 'I move that we order the consideration of our agenda.'