The proceedings unique to opening day begin with a quorum call to determine how many members are present. The Constitution requires a quorum, or a majority of the chamber, to be present for conducting legislative business.
Opening day, however, is one of the few instances in which an actual quorum call is initiated to establish a majority of members are present; at most other times throughout the two-year session it’s presumed.
Members will head to the House floor in seven staggered groups, each limited to no more than 72 members so that there’s no mass congregating. Members will use their newly acquired voting cards, which they will pick up from Statutory Hall on Sunday morning before the session starts, to register their “present” votes for the quorum call.
This session’s quorum call will be telling because it will establish how many lawmakers were able to travel to Washington during the pandemic and remain COVID-19 free in the process.
There won’t be 435 members, due to Letlow’s death and a close House race in New York that is still being contested. The New York State Supreme Court is not set to declare a winner in the 22nd District, where former GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney leads Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi, before Sunday.
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