[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1087]
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                               ``WOULD''

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                        HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR.

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 13, 1996

  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, let's get rid of the dead WOULD.
  A strange practice has crept in to discourse on the floor of the U.S. 
House. Members are beginning to use the subjunctive where it simply 
does not apply. One hears, ``I WOULD yield 5 minutes to--.''
  ``I WOULD''? I WOULD if what?
  And of course, parliamentary rules require that a Member address the 
Chair, not ``Ladies and Gentlemen.''
  While we are at it, I believe that recorded votes are requested in 
the Committee of the Whole and the yeas and nays are requested in the 
formal sessions of the House.

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