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.

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.

* 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.

There was a question-and-answer gag that went around at that time: Q. `` Who'll carry the Forty-second and Forty-third wards ''??

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

Another recurring gag was for other characters to mispronounce his name, often, particularly in the case of rivals, deliberately.

On some occasions, new gag cartoons have been created for book publication, as was the case with Think Small, a 1967 promotional book distributed as a giveaway by Volkswagen dealers.

While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

The following week it was reported a gag order had been placed on the band regarding further public statements on the matter.

The gag order was supposedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

His friends all assumed he was completing intelligence assignments, interpreting his denials as part of a legal gag.

The most famous Lampoon cover gag, this was also selected as the seventh-greatest magazine cover of the last 40 years .< ref >

A gag order was imposed during the trial, prohibiting attorneys on either side from commenting to the press on the evidence, proceedings, or opinions regarding the trial proceedings.

This was done by Joe as a gag in 1998, mostly as a personal exercise to see if he could remember how to still use the level editor.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series, but was scrapped early on due to inconsistencies, and also to the fact that rabbit ears would be too fictitious even for The Simpsons.

Although most fans assume ( and the lyrics of " I Bought Myself a Liarbird " from The Big Express imply ) that there was some financial impropriety involved, the terms of the settlement imposed a " gag " on the band and have prevented them from speaking publicly about the matter.

As portrayed by Sellers, Clouseau ’ s French accent became steadily more exaggerated in successive films ( for example, pronouncing " room " as " reum "; " Pope " as " Peup "; " bomb " as " beumb "; and " bumps " as " beumps "), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters would have difficulty understanding what he was saying.

The brothers drove around in a comical bubble car, a precursor to the famous Trotters ' van ; and there was even the gag where, just as he was trying to impress the girl ( played by Cheryl Hall ) Jason casually leaned back against the bar, without his knowing that barman had just lifted it behind his back, and fell through.

" As with waterings, the sliming gag was used in almost every episode, especially from 1982 onward ( a number of 1979 and 1981 episodes featured no slime at all, and slime is known to have been used on only one episode of Whatever Turns You On ).

" ( In subsequent rewrites of these skits for an episode of Whatever Turns You On, the question was changed to " Name one of the Great Lakes "; that rewrite of the gag was also reused in at least one 1981 episode.