Non-meme answer: it’s a position appointed by the majority party for a chamber of congress that determines the rules of procedure. So if someone were to just walk up to the front and interrupt another person proposing a bill, the parliamentarian would decide if the rules were broken and what the consequences should be.
The position has been used to stifle bills, like what happened recently with immigration reform. Supposedly, the democrats didn’t properly submit their changes to a bill on immigration, so the parliamentarian said they’d have to submit a different bill if they wanted the changes to happen. At the time, the parliamentarian was a democrat “”“acting against”“” her own party. Really, it was a way for democrats to pretend like they were doing something without actually doing anything, since they could just appoint a different person or ignore the parliamentarian altogether since it’s not an official position.
Non-meme answer: it’s a position appointed by the majority party for a chamber of congress that determines the rules of procedure. So if someone were to just walk up to the front and interrupt another person proposing a bill, the parliamentarian would decide if the rules were broken and what the consequences should be.
The position has been used to stifle bills, like what happened recently with immigration reform. Supposedly, the democrats didn’t properly submit their changes to a bill on immigration, so the parliamentarian said they’d have to submit a different bill if they wanted the changes to happen. At the time, the parliamentarian was a democrat “”“acting against”“” her own party. Really, it was a way for democrats to pretend like they were doing something without actually doing anything, since they could just appoint a different person or ignore the parliamentarian altogether since it’s not an official position.