Steny Hoyer: “The Speaker's recollection is different than mine. The Speaker propounds and the Parliamentarian advises that apparently…”

“The Speaker's recollection is different than mine. The Speaker propounds and the Parliamentarian advises that apparently you began. Frankly, we were in the process. You had called for the ayes, the ayes had been made, and you were then about to call for the nays. So I would suggest it was not a question that you had begun and then saw that the gentleman from California had risen and then sought to recognize him. What you did was, after asking for the ayes, which were enunciated, you then stopped the vote and then recognized the gentleman from California. My question to you, therefore, you did not respond to. Once the vote is in progress, and I suggest to the Speaker and those who might advise him that the Record will reflect that the vote had been called, it is in that context that I again ask you, Mr. Speaker, not if you had started, but, in fact, we were in the progress of a vote. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair made a ruling. An appeal was taken. The Chair first stated the question. The Chair next began to put the question but then realized that the gentleman from California was seeking recognition. The gentleman from California was recognized on the motion to table. The business before the House is the motion to table. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.”