In 2005, there was internal conflict about whether or not a gag rule should be imposed on ACLU employees to prevent publication of internal disputes.

He also led the fight against the gag rule, which prevented congress from hearing anti-slavery petitions.

He refused to honor the House ’ s gag rule banning discussion or debate of the slavery issue.

Since the gag rule prevented him from bringing slavery petitions to the floor, he used a petition from a Georgia citizen over another matter to bring a separate petition to the floor.

The gag rule was ultimately retained.

In 1836 Southern Congressmen voted in a rule, called the “ gag rule ,” that called for the immediate tabling of any petitions about slavery.

Later he led a committee that sought to reform congress ' rules, and he used this opportunity to try to repeal the gag rule outright.

Besides his opposition to slavery and the gag rule ( discussed below ), his congressional career is remembered for several other key accomplishments.

In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.

Polk also issued the gag rule on petitions from abolitionists.

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

In 1837, at age 17, Susan collected petitions opposing slavery as part of an organized response to the gag rule prohibiting anti-slavery petitions in the House of Representatives.

A gag rule is a rule that limits or forbids the raising, consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body.

The term “ gag rule ” originated in the mid-1830s when the U. S. House of Representatives barred discussion or referral to committee of antislavery petitions.

A gag rule may be formally neutral, that is, forbidding discussions or arguments either for or against a particular policy.

The House passed the Pinckney Resolutions on May 26, 1836, the third of which was known from the beginning as the " gag rule " and passed with a vote of 117 to 68 ( The first stated that Congress had no constitutional authority to interfere with slavery in the states and the second that it " ought not " do so in the District of Columbia.

The growing offense to the gag rule, as well as the Panic of 1837, may have contributed to the first Whig majority, in the 27th Congress.

Throughout the gag period, Adams ' " superior talent in using and abusing parliamentary rules " and skill in baiting his enemies into making mistakes, enabled him to evade the rule.

In the Senate in 1836, John C. Calhoun attempted to introduce a gag rule.

* Global gag rule

# GAG RULE: Whether physicians are subject to a gag rule, preventing criticism of the plan.

Critics of the Mexico City Policy refer to it as the " global gag rule ", arguing that, in addition to reducing the overall funding provided to particular NGOs, it closes off their access to USAID-supplied condoms and other forms of contraception.

A horizontal strip can also be used for a single panel with a single gag, as seen occasionally in Mike Peters ' Mother Goose and Grimm.

Pneumonia can occur from the person ’ s inability to swallow leading to aspiration, lack of gag reflex or from feeding tube, ( aspiration pneumonia ).

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

One running gag is his visiting restaurants that promise " all you can eat " specials.

This is the subject of numerous running gags in I ’ m Alan Partridge, in particular his numerous efforts to deny his interest in Bangkok " lady-boys " ( whom he describes as ‘ fascinating creatures ’ whilst insisting that he is merely confused by them and not attracted to them ) and a recurrent gag in which he will daydream about performing an erotic dance in a peephole Pringle jumper and a vulcanised rubber thong for a selection of men ( usually those who can help further his career in some way, such as BBC Chief of Programming Tony Hayers ).

In the first gag, the camera zooms in on Springfield Elementary School, where Bart can be seen writing a message on the chalkboard.

* Purging type bulimics self-induce vomiting ( usually by triggering the gag reflex or ingesting emetics such as syrup of ipecac ) to rapidly remove food from the body before it can be digested, or use laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.

Hanks and Ryan are the right actors to inhabit it, because you can never catch them going for a gag that isn't there: They inhabit the logic of this bizarre world and play by its rules.

In Brazil, it was named as Austin Powers-O Agente Bond Cama, roughly translated as The Spy Good in Bed ( a gag with the pronunciation of James Bond's last name, which can be interpreted as " bom de ", meaning " good at something ").

The gag reflex can also be used to evaluate the glossphyaryngeal nerve, but also tests the vagus nerve, as only the afferent fibres involved in the reflex are carried by the glossopharyngeal nerve.

Running gags can begin with an instance of unintentional humor that is repeated in variations as the joke grows familiar and audiences anticipate reappearances of the gag.

A running gag can be verbal or visual and may " convey social values by echoing belligerent speakers with a barrage of caricatured threats.

* Young Master Carlson – The theme from Patton was originally used as a running gag during the episode ; it is replaced by a generic trumpet fanfare ( although a faint echo of the Patton theme can still be heard afterwards ).

This is common in BDSM, but in practice these sorts of gag can usually be got rid of by working the jaws about and / or pushing with the tongue, and they often do not stop the victim from making a loud inarticulate noise to call for help.

A decreased gag reflex, upper esophageal sphincter and lower esophageal sphincter tone, gastroesophageal reflux, full stomach, as well as obesity and pregnancy can all increase the risk of aspiration in the semiconscious.

Written by Jack Miller, this cartoon's running gag was a two-headed fish that kept swimming onto the screen to ask, " Pardon me, but can you tell me where I can find Mister Ripley?

Here, if the mask floods, the diver can breathe again before clearing the mask, and many Royal Navy and frogman's rebreathers have this mask arrangement ; but the full-face mask plus mouthpiece combination acts like a strapped-in gag making clear talking difficult but not impossible.

Absence of the gag reflex and pharyngeal sensation can be a symptom of a number of severe medical conditions, such as damage to the glossopharyngeal nerve, the vagus nerve, or brain death.

In a running gag, Jaime can often be seen rejecting the Scarab's ( also voiced by Lopez ) more violent and bloodthirsty suggestions (" No, it would not have been easier to just vaporize him back in the diner!

This is part of the running gag of a series of mostly failed attempts to find some sort of alternate means of protection against grues in the event one's light source fails, most famously in Zork II where a can of Frobozz Magic Grue Repellent was included as a red herring — mostly useless, since it would only last for one game turn after one's light source expired, during which the player could not see his location anyway.

* Parodic crossovers can take the form of " gag " cameos by characters of one property appearing on another.

This can be very disconcerting to visitors to the Addams ' mansion ; in a running gag in some episodes, a visitor to the Addams home, profusely grateful for some kindness of the Addamses ', enthusiastically shakes hands with everyone present ---" Thank you, Mr. Addams!

Generics can be considered to be similar to gag characters, but might stay longer.