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[Scott Knitter]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Roger Stokes
<roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> "calling the question" is not a phrase with which I am familiar and I have
> never come across it in Standing Orders for British committees.

I believe it's from Robert's Rules of Order (used to varying degrees
of strictness in many U.S. deliberative bodies):

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/roberts-rules-and-the-previous-question-motion.html

It's meant to be a shortcut to a vote on the question under debate.


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA