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- A member assigned the floor may yield all or a portion
of his/her time to another member. The member yielded to shall
not make any motion except for requests and inquiries, points
of order, and questions of privilege, and shall not yield to
any other individual.
- A member may interrupt a person who has the floor and
request him/her to yield the floor for a specific purpose. The
person who has the floor may refuse to yield. A request to yield
the floor shall be in order only for the purposes of making a
comment on or of asking the yielder a question relating to his/her
contribution to debate.
- A member assigned the floor may yield all or a portion
of his/her time to any individual, provided that the intent of
the yielding is to solicit relevant factual information that
may best be presented in this manner.