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Votes at a glance: joint session adopts rules, resolves into committee and adjourns
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Summary
The joint session adopted joint session resolution 24-1 to adopt its rules, resolved into a committee of the whole to receive the governor's State of the Commonwealth address, later returned to plenary and adjourned; each motion was approved by voice vote.
The 24th Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature adopted its joint session rules and approved procedural motions by voice vote during the ceremony that received Governor Arnold I. Palacios's State of the Commonwealth address.
House Floor Leader Marissa R. Flores introduced Joint Session Resolution 24-1 to adopt the rules of the joint session; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The house then approved a motion, made and seconded by Floor Leader Marissa R. Flores, to resolve into a Committee of the Whole to receive the governor’s address. After the governor spoke, the legislature voted to rise back to plenary session and then voted to adjourn the joint session "subject to the call of the speaker of the house and the president of the senate." All recorded procedural motions carried on affirmative voice votes; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript.
