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2018年4月3日 星期二

As Trump Attacks Amazon-Postal Service Ties, He Fails To Fill Postal Governing Board


President Trump has gone after Amazon's deal with the U.S. Postal Service largely over the rates the retail giant pays for delivery. But the service's top oversight board lacks the quorum it needs to consider such matters.

The Postal Service, criticized by Trump for charging Amazon "so little," has lacked a quorum on its governing board since 2014. The board needs at…
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法定人數是議事程序裡面規定議會要進行議事的時候需要出席議員的最低數量。羅伯特議事規則說:這樣要求是防止由過小數目的議員進行完全不具代表性的行動。

定足数(ていそくすう、:Quorum)は、合議制の機関が議事を開き、また、議事を行うために必要な最小限度の出席者数をいう。なお、この意味の定足数を議事定足数というのに対して、表決数は議決定足数とも呼ばれる[1]



quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group. According to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, the "requirement for a quorum is protection against totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons."[2]




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