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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
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ments when referred, and the committee recommends further amendments, what is the procedure?

(4) Assume that a committee considers a subject and reports recommendations: Give a proper introduction, and a proper closing for the report. Who should sign it? Who should move the adoption of it?

(5) Suppose a case with no recommendations: What is the procedure?

(6) What is done with the written report after it is read? What prohibition is put upon the assembly while a matter is in the committee's hands?

(7) Why is a two-thirds vote required to discharge a committee? [See p. 79.]

(8) How does a standing committee differ from a special committee?