And just before that, he offered a motion to recommit, which is a very rare motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington] Reference

House, there's something called a motion to recommit, which is the minority's chance to tack stuff onto the bill at the last minute to try to pry votes away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

It has been used by both parties to offer motions to "recommit" or send back bills on the floor to the relevant committees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelosi Turns Back the Clock on House Reform] Reference

I don't believe we had a legal authority to recommit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007] Reference

What instruments will see which ones will recommit or not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference

We have to recommit ourselves to being the party of reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turnout Wasn’t Enough] Reference

MCMASTER: ... evidence to show that he would like to recommit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006] Reference

Upon the House being asked to recommit the Representation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference

I made the decision to love him and to recommit to our marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007] Reference

It's a motion to recommit and not take action on the floor that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006] Reference

I was only offered that as a procedural motion, a motion to recommit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2001] Reference

Failure to recommit turned defeat into confusion, and confusion into disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

RIVERVIEW PSYCHIATRIC CENTER: I wish we would have petitioned the court to recommit him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007] Reference

And what we're calling on world leaders is to recommit themselves to human rights once again.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2008] Reference

The Clinton administration's challenge is not to rediscover idealism, but to recommit to ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Wrong With Idealism?] Reference

The international community must recommit itself to the agreements that were reached in Beijing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raising Women's Voices] Reference

After a debate extending to June 27, a motion to recommit was rejected and the bill passed the House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

But perhaps, through this crisis, they can recommit to their relationship and change their behaviors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007] Reference

And let us recommit ourselves to their cause and to our mission, the triumph of freedom over tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2003] Reference

We're not as sensitive, we don't have that sense of urgency, and it's time to recommit ourselves to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009] Reference

There are many things in this carefully crafted cute motion to recommit that may be enticing to members.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003] Reference

He then made a motion to recommit the bill, pending which, he made a speech on the merits of the measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

Such technology may not be quite ready for prime time, which is why the industry needs to recommit to R&D.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Fix The Grid] Reference

And on Dr. King's birthday, we remind ourselves of that, that we have to recommit to fulfilling the dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2007] Reference

They wish to recommit -- to try again, in Samuel Johnson's words, "" the triumph of hope over experience. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relatively Speaking] Reference

And I think that is a crying shame, and especially when over half of them recommit in five years, it's disgusting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2002] Reference

And we must recommit ourselves to the larger effort of securing the necessity of these reforms over the long term.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2003] Reference

"While we pray for the driver, let us also recommit ourselves to eliminating this absolutely unacceptable behavior.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Driver in fatal Va. crash had previous DUI violations] Reference

A lot of these leaders have not come through on that promise, and they want them to recommit this time around -- Rob.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2007] Reference

It will seem perfectly natural to try harder at work, focus on your relationship or recommit to going to the gym, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Eckhardt: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Zen Strategies for Getting 'Unstuck'] Reference

The midterm election will not be one last chance for the Obama presidency to recommit itself to a genuinely progressive agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Mitchell: Après L'Election] Reference

At the start of the century, we recommit ourselves to the notion that, the more free people are, the better your economy will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference

How specifically would you like -- how many specific troops would you like to see France, Germany, Britain recommit to that effort?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference

Having failed cloture once, the campaign bill only requires a less strict 'motion to recommit' from Reid to call another cloture vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: GOP's 'Pledge'; no vote on tax cuts; DISCLOSE gets another chance] Reference

ROBERTS: You know, and in that press conference yesterday, Sean, his wife said that she made a decision to recommit to their marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2007] Reference

LANDRIEU: ... magnified it and made it more evident and we're asking the nation to recommit themselves to the rebuilding of New Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008] Reference

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Let us recommit ourselves to their cause and to our mission, the triumph of freedom over tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2003] Reference

And today, I would like to recommit the efforts of this government to do everything we can to get this process started and up and running.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2003] Reference