Number of times and how long to speak to a motion

[Guest Amelia Friedman]

We have a member who will speak to a motion several times during the debate, and keeps speaking until she feels she has blustered everyone into voting her way.

 

Is she limited on the number of times she can speak, and how long may she speak each time?

 

 

[Edgar Guest]

Two times; ten minutes each time. Though the assembly (the members present) can modify these limits.

[George Mervosh]

Is she limited on the number of times she can speak,

 

"As noted under the rules for assigning the floor (42), however, a member cannot make a second speech on the same question the same day until every member who desires to speak on it has had an opportunity to do so once."  RONR (11th ed.), p. 389

[Gary Novosielski]

We have a member who will speak to a motion several times during the debate, and keeps speaking until she feels she has blustered everyone into voting her way.

 

Is she limited on the number of times she can speak, and how long may she speak each time?

 

Yes, and it's up to the chair to enforce those limits.  But if the chair doesn't do his job, any member can raise a point of order that the chatty member has exhausted her right to debate on that question, or that other members are seeking recognition and she has already spoken once.

 

Some chairmen have to be "encouraged"  to do their job.