quorum

A quorum is the minimum number of members who must be present for the commission to engage in rulemaking, issue final decisions in adjudications, initiate enforcement actions, and otherwise conduct business.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

The EAC has been without a quorum before.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

A lack of quorum in some weeks was a factor in the commission canceling roughly a third of its meetings last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

The president has appointed a quorum of new board members, who are poised to deliver reform and results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

As more join in, they seem to reach a critical mass, a quorum, and the thinking begins.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Both boards lost their quorums and could no longer act.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The Western Wall’s plaza has been subdivided into smaller prayer areas to discourage large groups, and synagogues held services with smaller quorums and told the high-risk to stay home.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2020

Experts agree that while other independent agencies have gone without board quorums, none has faced the impending scenario of the merit board.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019

Such occasions featuring legislative quorums outside the Capitol are rare but not unprecedented.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2014

The leaders, thereafter, according to their own "manifesto," could not enter politics without the consent of their quorums; and, therefore, by any American doctrine, they could not enter politics at all.

From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins