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The Legislature

Rule 1 : In Favor

The bills should be presented to the House in chronological based on the date the committee reported them out . This is to give way

to non-partisan legislative proceedings as well as to eliminate political bias and prejudice . By setting aside personal preferences over which bills should be presented first to the House , the legislative process is assured of eliminating mere politicking and other political tactics set to advance the interests of certain groups in the House while keeping in line with the spirit of the legislature

Moreover , the presentation of bills in chronological assures that no bill reported by any committee is left to `age ' in the waitlist of the House . Since bills are presented on the basis of the time they are reported , the sequence of the bills remains intact regardless of whether or not the bill appeals to the preference of the other members of the House . While a chronological sequencing gives way to an equal chance for bills to be heeded by the House , it also guarantees the instance that the bills will all be treated similarly with respect to their legislative merits . That is , even with the fact that bills do vary in many different ways , a chronological sequence will not place the `unpopular ' bill at the last line assuming that the bill has been earlier reported and noted for the legislative body to enact into a law

Finally , a chronological arrangement of the bills will give the House more control of the time in dealing with the multitude of legislative tasks at hand . Time management for the members of the House will be less hindered by the queue of bills to be discussed and voted on precisely because a predetermined arrangement of the tasks of the legislative body can be obtained weeks beforehand any bill reported by the committees can be discussed

Rule 1 : Against

The presentation of bills in the House should not be based in terms of chronology but on the decision of the Speaker . That is , bills should be presented in accordance to the personal judgment of the Speaker for several reasons . For the most part , it is highly expected that the Speaker is a legislator elected to abide by the spirit of the legislative process . Bias over certain bills should be discarded and preference should not be based on the bill 's appeal to the personal political opinion of the Speaker

Granting the Speaker the authority to decide on what bills are to be discussed and on what day gives the Speaker to personally assess the merit of every bill considered for presentation before the House . Since...