Charles Rangel: “First of all, when I asked for a vote, you asked for the votes for the ayes. It was my intention, in case we had lost…”

“First of all, when I asked for a vote, you asked for the votes for the ayes. It was my intention, in case we had lost, to ask for a vote on this because a quorum is not present. What is happening here, and my parliamentary inquiry is, once you took the ayes, we never got an opportunity to find out the nays. So I am in the position now that I cannot challenge the Chair. After you asked for the aye votes, you never asked for the nay votes. How can we determine what the ruling of the Chair is? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is not stating a parliamentary inquiry.”