But before any vote takes place, the commissioners have to decide their definition of a quorum.
Just look at Quorum, which is a top player in the disaster recovery market.
Last year Democratic senators fled the state in an effort to deny a legislative quorum.
The EEOC currently lacks a quorum and cannot fulfill its mandate to protect American workers from discrimination.
That would leave the bare minimum three commissioners out of five usually needed for a quorum at the SEC.
However, bacteria fix the gas only when their population is high enough to trigger the quorum-sensing machinery.
The coming year will also be spent deciding what a quorum means in the world of the IWC.
So, too, thought three Constitutional Court judges, but Mr Fujimori had them sacked, denying the court a quorum.
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But the FEC has four vacancies -- and no quorum -- to vote on whether to allow McCain's withdrawal.
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Part of the problem is that the Assembly often fails to get the two-thirds quorum necessary to pass laws.
Now, the senate GOP has separated the collective bargaining elements from the fiscal bill and that requires no quorum.
Ms. VIDINLI: But it's important to know that up until today, this year, there was never a quorum demanded.
Humiliation apart, that would have denied him the quorum required by the constitution.
Had one of them shown up in the senate, a quorum would have existed and the bill would have been passed.
Some of this story is told in a patchy but useful book by Herbert Inhaber, Why Energy Conservation Fails (Quorum, 1997).
Some say that if the quorum of 50% of eligible voters is not reached, the referendum could actually boost the prime minister.
Because of this customer-centric approach, Quorum had lots of standout customer references.
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The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the FEC, but the lack of a quorum has stalled assessment of the complaint.
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Without a quorum of three, the NLRB can't issue case rulings or undertake rule-making and can do little more than oversee union elections.
Moore praises the Democratic state senators who refuse to return, pointing out that only one needs to return to give Scott Walker his quorum.
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The Supreme Court in 2010 made clear that the five-seat labor board requires a quorum of at least three members to issue case rulings.
The company contended that those members were invalid, so the board, which has five slots, lacked the necessary quorum needed to issue the ruling.
Mr Djindjic said early elections were possible if the expulsions did not work and parliament could not function due to the lack of a quorum.
First, they ran to Oklahoma and then to New Mexico in order to deny the Republicans the quorum they needed to pass those congressional lines.
Between speeches, there are quorum calls, time killers in which a Senate clerk calls the roll at the rate of one name every few minutes.
The company contended those members were invalid, so the board, which has five slots, lacked the necessary quorum of three needed to issue the ruling.
One good thing about Thursday night hockey: it guarantees a quorum of ten observant men known in Hebrew as a minyan for evening prayers, the rabbinical candidate adds.
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It is generous of her to give up the wealth that awaits her after the White House for the chance to answer Trent Lott's quorum calls.
Yet by focusing on the practical needs of such customers, attentive to their budget and time constraints, Quorum is tapping into a hidden market worth billions of dollars.
During July and August the reinstated parliament twice tried to reconvene, but on each occasion failed to achieve a quorum as the majority of MPs boycotted the sessions.
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