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RULES OF DEBATE -SEATTLE <br />A.Rules of Debate. When any CM wishes to speak, the CM shall address the Chair. <br />1. When recognized, the CM shall, in a courteous manner, confine comments to the question under debate. <br />2. The CM who sponsors a Bill, Resolution, Clerk File, Appointment, or motion has the privilege of speaking first and last upon it. <br />3. No CM shall impugn the motives of any other CM or speak more than twice except for explanation during the consideration of <br />any one question. <br />4. No CM, having obtained the floor while a debatable motion is immediately pending at a meeting of the Council, shall speak for <br />longer than ten minutes unless all CMs present agree by unanimous consent to extend the limits of debate or two-thirds of CMs <br />present, and voting pass a motion to extend the limits of debate. <br />1/25/2023 17