®

                      Be a Mullings Subscriber! Click here.

D (for Department) Day

Friday, June 7, 2002

• TITLE: "D (for Department) Day" You know this, but I'll repeat it. It has been standard military jargon to use phrases like H-Hour and D-Day to denote a time and date certain. The D-Day which occurred 58 years ago yesterday changed the meaning of that idiom forever.

• "... jurisdiction ..." In the House the Parliamentarian has sometimes been called upon to settle disputes among committees as to which has jurisdiction - or which has principal jurisdiction. In practice, the Speaker often makes this decision.
  
                                D-Day Then
  
  
                                D-Day Now. ____________________________________________________________________________________