Original Commentary
It's been a while since we've seen Dan. I miss the wonderful, or not so wonderful, chemistry him and Miz Taylor have... is there a bubbling pit of forbidden passions boiling underneath all that hate (and tar)...? probably not. She's not his type anyway.

I believe the "previous agreement" is mentioned somewhere in this arc...somewhere.-Isabel

Modern Commentary
They aren't operating by Robert's Rules of Order or any other strict parliamentary procedures. It's a mostly-informal system since Ms. Taylor has been able to do mostly just what she want for years.

Also, I don't really know parliamentary procedure and, if I did, it probably wouldn't be interesting nor funny. - Terrence