
	Where results make sense

Topic: Party whip

Related Topics

United States Democratic Party

United States Republican Party

Liberal Party of Canada

The Labour Party UK

United States Whig Party

political parties

Labour Party

United States Federalist Party

Jacksonian Party

Conservative Party

Democratic Party

Conservative Party of Canada

In the News (Mon 13 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Bin's On-Line Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whip crane, or Whip purchase, a simple form of crane having a small drum from which the load is suspended, turned by pulling on a rope wound around larger drum on the same axle.
		Whip hand, the hand with which the whip is used; hence, advantage; mastery; as, to have or get the whip hand of a person.
		To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
	language.bin.org /ref/dict/?t=whip (851 words)

	Whip - Politics.ie Wiki
		Whips are used at a number of different levels in Irish politics, most notably at the Oireachtas level, but also on urban and county councils as well.
		The duties and responsibilities of the Whip are that the members of the party turn up to the chamber to vote when a division is called by the Ceann Comhairle and that the TDs vote on the particular bill or motion as the party has decided.
		If a TD is expelled or suspended from a party it is said that they have lost the party whip in that they are no longer a member of the said party and the Whip does not have the responsibility to ensure they vote or not in a particular way.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Whip (276 words)

	Whip (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires.
		The Opposition Whips are elected by the Australian Labor Party Caucus.
		In the Senate, the Majority Whip is the third or fourth highest-ranking individual in the majority party (the party with the greater number of legislators in a legislative body).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whip_(politics) (795 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Democracy Workings - What are party whips?
		The whip is the member of a parties caucus responsible for sufficient attendance of party MPs in the House of Commons should a vote be held.
		The government whip is responsible for making sure the government does not lose important votes, or that the governing parties proportion of the vote is not overtaken by opposition parties.
		Whips are furthermore responsible for the order of speakers in the House to facilitate the job of the Speaker in recognizing members.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /features/democracy/partywhip.htm (148 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People > Party Leadership > Party Whips
		The term "whip" comes from a fox-hunting expression -- "whipper-in" -- referring to the member of the hunting team responsible for keeping the dogs from straying from the team during a chase.
		Established early in the 20th century, the development of party whips coincided with the evolution of party leaders in the Senate.
		These assistant leaders are mainly responsible for counting heads and rounding up party members for votes and quorum calls, and they occasionally stand in for the majority or minority leaders in their absence.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Party_Whips.htm (294 words)

	Democracy without dissent?
		The term 'party whip', by some accounts, dates back to fox-hunting; and was used to refer to the minders who managed the hunting party's pack of hounds, keeping them focused on the pursuit.
		Acting at the behest of the leadership, the party whip's primary role is to similarly mind representatives, keeping them informed of House business and requesting their presence during voting on important issues.
		British parties still use the three-line whip in their internal correspondence, underlining thrice the issues on which the party expects its members to be present and vote.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jul/29ash.htm (1651 words)

	Party System
		Party preference is to be based entirely on personal choice; all participants are free to express their own political opinions.
		Party leaders preside over the caucuses, which are open to the press and public, (a difference from the real world of Montana politics, where they are closed) and decide on party strategies, bills to support, drum up support for candidates and other tasks.
		Party platforms are printed in the billbook and are due on March 1.
	www.mtymcayouthandgovernment.org /party_system.htm (2011 words)

	Office of the Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The name for the position of Whip is derived from the term "whipper in", which is a British term for the person responsible for keeping the foxhounds from leaving the pack.
		The Whip is assisted in his or her duties by a large whip organization made up of Members and staff.
		In addition to the Weekly Whip and the Daily Whip, the Whip also distributes the House calendar, which lists the days of the year that the House of Representatives is expected to be in session.
	democraticwhip.house.gov /about_the_whip/the_whip_s_role (433 words)

	UGDP to condone Matanhy for violating whip \| oHERALDo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Deliberating at length the violation of the party mandate by its MLA and after a prolonged discussion, the party noted that Congressmen in the past had wantonly destroyed their own party and after a stint with the BJP returned to the party-fold without inviting any adverse effects on their political careers.
		“The party is opposed to rampant industrialisation without control over the employment potential and is determined to stop the lopsided development within the state, which would violate the serenity and the beauty of the countryside”, he said.
		He said the party concerns to protect the environment and the growth of forests and agriculture and its obsession to keep the state for its own people by control of immigration and illegal settlers is paramount in its agenda for participating in the Legislative process.
	oheraldo.in /node/516 (472 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala News : `I' group rally: CLP issues whip to party MLAs
		The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) today issued a whip to all party MLAs directing them to be present in the Assembly on March 9 and vote in favour of the Government resolutions that are expected to come up during the debate on the demands for grants for Home Department.
		The three-line whip, issued by the Congress Whip, V.D. Satheesan, has virtually opened a new flank in the ongoing factional tussle in the party, with the official leadership, led by the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, making it clear that it was raring for an offensive against Mr.
		Even though the whip notice is not explicit, it is obvious that violating the whip either by abstaining from the proceedings or voting against the Government will attract the provisions of the anti-defection law.
	www.hindu.com /2005/03/07/stories/2005030703230700.htm (470 words)

	Congress In the Grip of Political Parties
		On the other hand, if the Majority Whip finds that the opposition to a bill is too well-organized to get it passed, the Majority Leader can pull the bill off the calendar at the last moment in order to give his party troops time to marshal the necessary votes to overcome the opposition.
		The party leadership has at its disposal important appointments, party funds, the giving or withholding of support for a Congressman's legislative needs in his own particular district, etc. All of these can become weapons in the hands of party managers to force party members into line during a caucus meeting.
		However, party managers have manipulated the authority of this committee into a powerful choke-hold on the legislative process which can be devastating to the legitimate requirements of the law-making responsibilities of the House.
	www.xmission.com /~nccs/newsletter/jul01nl.html (2053 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 11/17/2006 \| Speaker of the House
		He is the second fl lawmaker in history to serve as a party whip.
		He succeeded Reid as minority party whip in 2005 when Reid became the minority leader.
		The whip is assisted by a network assigned to count votes and ``whip'' or persuade colleagues to support their party's legislative position.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/nation/16035753.htm (486 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Ulster Unionist Party ('''UUP''', sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political Party in Northern Ireland representing the Unionist community, and was the Party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under Leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		Throughout this period the Party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
	ulster-unionist-party.iqnaut.net (1301 words)

	Electoral reform goals 15 - 17
		Violation of party whip on matters other than finance bill and confidence or no confidence motion shall not invite disqualification, through it may entail disciplinary action by the party.
		A party shall be eligible for allotment of seats on PR basis only if it obtains at least 10% of the valid votes in States with 10 or more seats.
		The law relating to registration of parties (Sec 29 A of RP Act, 1951) should be amended to give the Election Commission the authority to deregister parties which do not adhere to essential requirements prescribed in the proposals relating to political parties.
	members.rediff.com /corruption_eradication/ertwentysixtotwentynine.htm (1711 words)

	The Hindu : Cong. observers to report on anti-party activities
		Talking to presspersons after holding a discussion with the party leaders and workers here on Sunday, the KPCC Secretary, P.M.Ashok, who is in-charge of party affairs in Bijapur and Bagalkot districts, indicated that disciplinary action would be taken against members who had violated the party whip in the TP election.
		He said there was prima-facie evidence of the party whip having been violated by five members, who were, however, denying that the party whip had not been issued to them.
		Ustad's ''complicity,'' he said party members, who were said to have violated the party whip, had said they were responsible for their actions, and they were not guided by the MLA.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2002/05/13/stories/2002051302030300.htm (545 words)

	Whip Descriptions
		The Whip is quite similar to the national dance known as the West Coast Swing.
		After the war, the Whip was spawned in the dives, bars, western joints, and honky-tonks that surrounded the Texas oil fields and refineries back in the late 40's and early 50's.
		Whip, spelled as it is with the word "hip" in it, has always emphasized hip motion as part of its Basic.
	www.ssqq.com /information/descwhip.htm (1666 words)

	SAVE THE RHINOCEROS PARTY OF CANADA!!!!!!!
		The party, which is spiritual descendant of a Brazilian rhinoceros who had been elected member of São Paulo's city council in the 1950s, listed Cornelius the First, a rhinoceros from the Granby zoo east of Montreal, as its leader.
		A British Columbia splinter group proposed running a professional dominatrix for the position of party whip, breaking with the province's colonial heritage by renaming "British Columbia" to "La La Land", moving the provincial capital and merging with the Progressive Conservative Party so as not to split the silly vote.
		Political successors The party disbanded in 1993, when it chose to boycott that year's federal election due to new rules that deregistered any political party that did not run candidates in at least 50 ridings at a cost of $1,000 per candidature.
	www.angelfire.com /crazy/rhino (1194 words)

	Resources: Fact Sheet Series: 26 Party Whip
		The Whip is a member of parliament or a senator who is also a party official and works for the members of the same political party.
		Whips supervise the minute by minute operations of the Parliament to make sure that party decisions are implemented through correct voting, orderly speech-making and by using the Standing Orders or rules of the chamber.
		Whips are quite visible as they move around the chamber speaking to colleagues, organising the business of the party and making last minute decisions with the Clerks, the Speaker or the President.
	www.peo.gov.au /resources/Fact_Sheets/fs_26_partywhip.html (505 words)

	Party-hopping difficult, but not impossible-Delhi-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The old anti-defection law, as embodied in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, had two exceptions: defecting MPs would not be disqualified in the event of either a split in their mother party or the merger of their party with another.
		Further, the entire law is predicated on an MP voting against his party's whip.
		Another aspect of the anti-defection law is that a party-hopping MP gets disqualified only at the time he votes in the House against the diktat of his party's whip.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/670472.cms (697 words)

	Help — Frequently Asked Questions — The Public Whip
		Public Whip is a project to watch Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, so that the public (people like us) can better understand and influence their voting patterns.
		They could either be officially told the whip by each party's whips' office, or they could deduce it from the presence of offical whips.
		Each whips' office could publish their official whip on their website after each vote.
	www.publicwhip.org.uk /faq.php (3661 words)

	Appeal for unity ahead of Trimble showdown - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums
		He said his party had warned the governments of the potential flaws in the IMB, and strongly suggested that they ''would be better to back up and do the job properly in the first place'' rather than trying to patch it up.
		Mr Trimble said the belief of some media commentators that the meeting of the party's 900-strong ruling council represented 'D-Day' for the UUP and that the outcome, whatever the vote, had the potential to force a split within the party was not necessarily correct.
		Instead, he said the party officers should be called to resign from their posts for the poor handling of the situation.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=724 (3353 words)

	RTE News - Fianna Fáil votes to remove party whip from Cooper-Flynn
		The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party has, after a four hour meeting, voted to remove the party whip from the TD, Beverley Cooper-Flynn.
		He said that he was not making any judgement on guilt or innocence but he was putting forward the view that the party and the Government should be allowed to get on with their work without the focus being on the Cooper-Flynn issue.
		Ms Cooper-Flynn said that she had set out her case to the best of her ability and that she felt that many in the party were supportive of her, but that it came down to pragmatism.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0411/libel.html (483 words)

	Party whip - Resources: Fact Sheet Series: 26 Party Whip
		He is the second fl in history to serve as a party whip after former Rep. William Gray of Pennsylvania (1989-91).
		party whip n : a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline [syn: whip].
		The position of party whip within the British House of Commons emerged in the By the latter part of the 19th century, the position of party whip was an
	gaius.surferfind.com /?q=gaius-party-whip (299 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Tory MP loses party whip
		Former home office minister Charles Wardle, who is retiring at the general election, had the whip withdrawn after a report said he had declared his support for an independent Conservative to succeed him as MP for Bexhill and Battle.
		Mr Wardle is the second MP to lose the whip under the leadership of William Hague.
		In October 1997, the whip was withdrawn from Peter Temple-Morris, who was preparing to switch sides and join Labour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1273346.stm (409 words)

	News Headings
		Mrs Gandhi greeted Prof Soz on the telephone for defying the party whip, remaining unconcerned about the consequences, by voting against the confidence motion.
		The 60-year-old history of the National Conference reveals that those who have disagreed with the party leadership or have manoeuvred against the party boss have lost their moorings.
		If Professor Soz is thrown out of the party, the loss would be of the National Conference because the dissidents in the ruling party have been eagerly waiting for a leader to emerge under whom they can oppose Dr Abdullah.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99apr19/head6.htm (884 words)

	whip- WordWeb dictionary definition
		An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
		A legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
		Whip with or as if with a wire whisk
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/WHIP (126 words)

	When to crack the party whip - On Line Opinion - 9/3/2006
		A vote known as a one line whip is effectively a conscience vote, where the party takes an in principal decision on a matter, but members are free to vote however they wish.
		In a three line whip, full party discipline is imposed and all party members must vote with the leadership, on pain of expulsion.
		One line whips would be reserved for matters of conscience, and three line whips for matters of high principal, for matters which formed an important part of an election policy, or for important financial matters such as tax cuts.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4240 (735 words)

	Pelosi steps into history as new Democratic whip
		Officially charged with counting votes and keeping party members in line, the whip's job will instantly bring Pelosi exposure on Sunday talk shows and invitations to top-level strategy meetings that are invaluable for promoting policy and politics.
		For Pelosi, the No. 1 topic is the economy, which she says will be the "central organizing issue" for her whip operation, meaning that all proposals should be judged by how they affect the economy.
		Historically, the party that is out of power in the White House picks up seats in nonpresidential years.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/15/MN187108.DTL (758 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)