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.

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.

* A gag rule can be a part of court proceedings and congressional proceedings.

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.

Another stock vaudeville gag ran: `` Mother is home sick in bed with the doctor ''.

Responses such as disgust show that sensory detection is linked in instinctual ways to facial expressions, and even behaviors like the gag reflex.

A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".

( The blow-off is the comedic ending of a show segment, bit, gag, stunt or routine.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

It is difficult for most people to perform deep-throating, due to the need to suppress the natural gag reflex.

He believes that he is on the cutting edge of journalism, but is oblivious to most of Frontline's content, as the executive producers go to some length to keep him out of production meetings, and a running gag within the show sees Mike ignore most of the stories that Frontline airs despite his position as host.

Her increasingly bizarre hairstyles become a running gag, culminating in Give ' em Enough Rope, when she is completely bald and festooned with ribbons.

He is the focus of a running gag where he will laugh hysterically along with Mike at any anecdote Mike tells him, before admitting that he does not understand it.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

* In the Garfield comic strip and television series, there is a running gag about a " splut ," which is usually the sound of a pie hitting someone in the face.

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

The bit is frequently a gag bit or Pelham bit.

If a gag bit is used, there will be a drop noseband in addition to the cavesson, supporting the tie-down.

For example, the gag gene is translated into molecules of the capsid protein, the pol gene is translated into molecules of reverse transcriptase, and the env gene is translated into molecules of the envelope protein.

A long running gag to end skits in Monty Python's Flying Circus is a policeman in a tan raincoat and a fedora bursting in, and announcing himself as so-and-so " of the Yard ".

He is a chicken superhero based on the Astro Chicken running gag in the Space Quest series.

There is also loss of gag reflex.

A lazzo is a joke or gag.