The only other pro-independence party at Holyrood is the Greens - and they only have two MSPs - meaning the majority needed to pass a referendum bill is not there, at present anyway.
Before the debate began MSPs voted 78-39 to allow the bill to start its emergency passage through the parliament.
Ms Godman told MSPs that Hewlett-Packard had made significant profits last year.
Seventy-one MSPs backed the amendment, with one MSP against it and there were 46 abstentions.
MSPs on the cross-party committee called for a zero-tolerance government campaign to tackle the problem.
She also highlighted the many thousands of e-mails MSPs received over the issue of college cuts.
Mr Houston denied any wrongdoing - telling MSPs he had access to knowledge, but made no use whatsoever of the privilege.
If MSPs are discussing ferret-taming, one cannot have a stray parliamentarian intervening with a comment about the rings of Saturn.
MPs and MSPs will visit fuel-poor housholds across the UK as part of Warm Homes Week, organised by National Energy Action.
MSPs on the cross-party committee also called on individual tribunal cases trying to decide on compensation levels to be settled immediately.
The vote came after first minister's questions when Alex Salmond told MSPs the new anti-sectarian legislation would be delayed by six months.
MSPs scrutinised which long-lease properties fell under 'common good' status today.
Mr Smith is responsible for the nine South of Scotland constituencies and regional list which are returning nine first-past-the-post MSPs and seven from the regional list.
Gay equality charity Stonewall Scotland is sending postcards to MSPs urging them to support same-sex marriage.
International Development Minister Humza Yousaf told MSPs at Holyrood that he would invite Scottish-based organisations to bid for the money.
Professor Anthony Seaton, who has cared for patients with asbestos-related conditions, previously told MSPs the legislation would allow the "worried well" to claim for damages.
Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups.
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MSPs are due to debate the future make-up of the parliament on Wednesday but they will be mindful that only a change in the Scotland Act at Westminster will prevent a reduction in their numbers.
To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant service providers (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
Following the announcement by Westminster last year to close the factory, Dundee City Council established a cross-party group of MPs, MSPs, councillors and trade unions to look at the feasibility of bidding for the business and creating a sustainable enterprise.
In all, 113 MSPs voted for the amended motion, with no-one against and with two abstentions.
The former auditor general welcomes the asking of the question, noting that MSPs could not know how much more expensive free-for-all provision would become as demand and the demographic bulge both grow relentlessly.
Green MSP Robin Harper's amendment, which urged the government to phase out the rearing of smolt or juvenile fish in freshwater open net-pens, fell, with two MSPs voting for it and 114 voting against it.
He also claimed that regional list MSPs were able to "come into constituencies to cherry-pick and cause mayhem".
Advocates say it would give much more fiscal - and thus political - responsibility to the Scottish Parliament, with MSPs obliged to set an annual tax rate.
MSPs, all bar two of whom are new to full-time parliamentary politics, were intent on seeing their manifesto abolition pledge honoured.
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MSPs were disappointed that a dispute over who should have day-to-day control over human resources and finance had still to be sorted out.
The Green-Independent group in the Scottish Parliament called for all MSPs to participate in the debate.
And so MSPs have decided that they will debate the legacy of Margaret Thatcher - but not tomorrow.
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