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113th Congress, 2d Session-  -  -  -  -  -  - House Document No. 113-181
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                              CONSTITUTION

                           JEFFERSON'S MANUAL

                                   AND

                          RULES OF THE HOUSE OF

                             REPRESENTATIVES

                          OF THE UNITED STATES

                     ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS

                            THOMAS J. WICKHAM

                             PARLIAMENTARIAN

 
                  GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT


                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

            93-400          WASHINGTON : 2015

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For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing 
                                 Office

                        Washington, DC 20402




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                          HOUSE RESOLUTION 753

                  In the House of Representatives, U.S.,      

                                               November 14, 2014.  

Resolved, That a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of 
Representatives for the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress be printed as a 
House document, and that three thousand additional copies shall be printed 
and bound for the use of the House of Representatives, of which nine 
hundred sixty copies shall be bound in leather with thumb index and 
delivered as may be directed by the Parliamentarian of the House.

Attest:

                                                     Karen L. Haas,      

                                                               Clerk.  

                                (III)



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                                 PREFACE

    The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material 
for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the 
Constitution of the United States; applicable provisions of Jefferson's 
Manual; Rules of the House (as of the date of this preface); provisions 
of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and 
pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the 
House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other 
procedural authority used in the House of Representatives.
    The rules for the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress were adopted on 
January 6, 2015, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In 
addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House 
Resolution 5 included separate free-standing orders constituting 
procedures to be followed in the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress. 
Explanations of the changes to the standing rules appear in the 
annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual.
    In the One Hundred Sixth Congress, the House adopted a 
recodification of the Rules of the House. For an explanation of the 
recodified format, see the Preface and other introductory matter for the 
House Rules and Manual for the One Hundred Sixth Congress (H. Doc. 105-
358).
    The substantive changes in the standing rules made by House 
Resolution 5 of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress included:
    (1) authority for the Speaker to modify, within the three-day 
constitutional limit, any order for the time of the convening of the 
House during short adjournments when warranted by the public interest 
and authority for the Speaker to name a designee to exercise this and 
related convening authorities (clause 12 of rule I);
    (2) affirmative establishment of, and conferral of the imprimatur of 
the House in all litigation to, the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group 
(clause 8 of rule II);
    (3) reinstatement of the requirement that that the Committee on 
House Administration provide policy direction to the Chief 
Administrative Officer (clause 4(a) of rule II; clause 4(d) of rule X);


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    (4) expansion of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations 
to include specified loan obligations and loan guarantees (clause 1(b) 
of rule X);
    (5) expansion of the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary 
to include criminalization (clause 1(l) of rule X);
    (6) adjustment of the size and ratio of the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence (clause 11(a) of rule X);
    (7) reduction in frequency of committee activity reports from 
annually to biennially (clause 1(d) of rule XI);
    (8) transfer of the requirement for committees to adopt written 
rules regarding audio and visual coverage from clause 4 of rule XI to 
clause 2 of rule XI to merge with the general requirement for written 
committee rules (clause 2(a) of rule XI; clause 4(f) of rule XI);
    (9) expansion of committee hearing witness disclosure requirements 
to include certain foreign government information and contraction to 
matter relating to the hearing in question (clause 2(g)(5) of rule XI);
    (10) requirement for new Members, Delegates, and Resident 
Commissioners to receive ethics training from the Committee on Ethics 
(clause 3(a) of rule XI);
    (11) restriction on the Committee on Ethics taking an action denying 
a constitutional right (clause 3(s) of rule XI);
    (12) restriction on use of committee broadcast material conformed to 
the restriction on floor broadcast material (clause 4(b) of rule XI);
    (13) expansion of the Ramseyer rule to include the entire text of a 
section of a statute proposed to be repealed or amended (clause 3(e) of 
rule XIII);
    (14) expansion of various cost estimates to include macroeconomic 
data and repeal of requirement that reports on tax bills contain a 
macroeconomic analysis (clause 3(h) of rule XIII; clause 8 of rule XIII)
    (15) elimination of the point of order against consideration of a 
general appropriation bill if printed hearings thereon are not available 
(clause 4(c) of rule XIII); and
    (16) extension of time before further motions to instruct conferees 
may be offered from 20 to 45 calendar days and from 10 to 25 legislative 
days (clause 7 of rule XXII).
    Citations in this edition refer to:
    (1) Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United 
States (volumes I through V) and Cannon's Precedents of the House of 
Representatives of the United States (volumes VI through VIII), by 
volume and section (e.g., V, 5763; VIII, 2852);

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    (2) Deschler's Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives 
(volumes 1 through 9), Deschler-Brown Precedents of the U.S. House of 
Representatives (volumes 10 through 16), Deschler-Brown-Johnson 
Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives (volume 17), and 
Deschler-Brown-Johnson-Sullivan Precedents of the U.S. House of 
Representatives (volume 18), by chapter and section (e.g., Deschler, ch. 
26, Sec. 79.7; Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 4.26);
    (3) the Congressional Record, by date and page (e.g., Jan. 29, 1986, 
p. 684);
    (4) House Practice (2011), by chapter and section (e.g., House 
Practice, ch. 1, Sec. 2);
    (5) Deschler-Brown Procedure in the U.S. House of Representatives 
(4th edition and 1987 supplement), by chapter and section (e.g., 
Procedure, ch. 5, Sec. 8.1);
    (6) the United States Code, by title and section (e.g., 2 U.S.C. 
287); and
    (7) the United States Reports, by volume and page (e.g., 395 U.S. 
486).
    Readers are invited to refer to the prefaces of Hinds', Cannon's, 
and Deschler's Precedents (Volumes I, VI, and 1, respectively) for 
comprehensive overviews by those editors of the procedural history of 
the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1976. Volume 18 of Deschler-
Brown-Johnson-Sullivan Precedents also features a commentary by former 
Parliamentarian Charles W. Johnson, III, noting procedural highlights 
during his affiliation with the House.
    All of the members of the Office of the Parliamentarian - Ethan 
Lauer, Jay Smith, Anne Gooch, Kyle Jones, Severin Randall, Brian Cooper, 
Lloyd Jenkins, Monica Rodriguez, and Kristen Donahue, as well as Charles 
Johnson, Max Spitzer, Andrew Neal, Catherine Moran, and Bryan Feldblum - 
worked diligently to annotate the decisions of the Chair and other 
parliamentary precedents of the 113th Congress and of the 114th Congress 
to the date of publication of this edition. Their contributions, and 
their devotion to the pursuit of excellence in the procedural practices 
of the House, are gratefully acknowledged. Particular appreciation goes 
to Ethan Lauer for his initiative and steady hand in managing the 
project. Finally, we recognize Carrie Wolf for her dedication and 
professionalism in service to the office.

                                                Thomas J. Wickham, Jr.  
  May 21, 2015


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                                CONTENTS

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                            THE CONSTITUTION
                                                                    Page
Preamble..........................................................     3
            Article I.--The legislative power.....................     4
                   II.--The executive power.......................    66
                  III.--The judicial power........................    78
                   IV.--Obligations, duties, etc., of the States..    80
                    V.--Amendments to.............................    82
                   VI.--Law of the land, etc......................    84
                  VII.--Ratification of...........................    89
                        Amendments ratified.......................    91
                           JEFFERSON'S MANUAL
            Section I.--Importance of adhering to rules...........   127
                  III.--Privilege.................................   130
                   VI.--Quorum....................................   150
                  VII.--Call of the House.........................   151
                   IX.--Speaker...................................   151
                    X.--Address...................................   154
                   XI.--Committees................................   154
                  XII.--Committee of the Whole....................   158
                 XIII.--Examination of witnesses..................   166
                  XIV.--Arrangement of business...................   171
                   XV.--Order.....................................   173
                  XVI.--Order respecting papers...................   174
                 XVII.--Order in debate...........................   174
                XVIII.--Orders of the House.......................   196
                  XIX.--Petition..................................   200
                   XX.--Motion....................................   201
                  XXI.--Resolutions...............................   203
                XXIII.--Bills, leave to bring in..................   204
                 XXIV.--Bills, first reading......................   205
                  XXV.--Bills, second reading.....................   206
                 XXVI.--Bills, commitment.........................   206
                XXVII.--Report of committee.......................   217

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                                                                    Page
       Section XXVIII.--Bill, recommitment........................   218
                 XXIX.--Bills, reports taken up...................   219
                  XXX.--Quasi-committee...........................   221
                 XXXI.--Bill, second reading in the House.........   224
                XXXII.--Reading papers............................   227
               XXXIII.--Privileged questions......................   229
                XXXIV.--The previous question.....................   242
                 XXXV.--Amendments................................   244
                XXXVI.--Division of the question..................   253
               XXXVII.--Coexisting questions......................   256
              XXXVIII.--Equivalent questions......................   257
                XXXIX.--The question..............................   259
                   XL.--Bills, third reading......................   260
                  XLI.--Division of the House.....................   264
                 XLII.--Titles....................................   269
                XLIII.--Reconsideration...........................   270
                 XLIV.--Bills sent to the other House.............   273
                  XLV.--Amendments between the Houses.............   274
                 XLVI.--Conferences...............................   284
                XLVII.--Messages..................................   297
               XLVIII.--Assent....................................   302
                 XLIX.--Journals..................................   304
                    L.--Adjournment...............................   306
                   LI.--A session.................................   308
                  LII.--Treaties..................................   311
                 LIII.--Impeachment...............................   315
                           RULES OF THE HOUSE
               Rule I.--The Speaker...............................   335
                   II.--Other Officers and Officials..............   358
                  III.--The Members, Delegates, and Resident 
                        Commissioner of Puerto Rico...............   378
                   IV.--The Hall of the House.....................   383
                    V.--Broadcasting the House....................   391
                   VI.--Official Reporters and News Media 
                        Galleries.................................   393
                  VII.--Records of the House......................   405
                 VIII.--Response to Subpoenas.....................   409
                   IX.--Questions of Privilege....................   413
                    X.--Organization of Committees................   434
                   XI.--Procedures of Committees and Unfinished 
                        Business..................................   546
                  XII.--Receipt and Referral of Measures and 
                        Matters...................................   615
                 XIII.--Calendars and Committee Reports...........   630
                  XIV.--Order and Priority of Business............   665
                   XV.--Business in Order on Special Days.........   676

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             Rule XVI.--Motions and Amendments....................   695
                 XVII.--Decorum and Debate........................   750
                XVIII.--The Committee of the Whole House on the 
                        state of the Union........................   780
                  XIX.--Motions Following the Amendment Stage.....   810
                   XX.--Voting and Quorum Calls...................   825
                  XXI.--Restrictions on Certain Bills.............   855
                 XXII.--House and Senate Relations................   913
                XXIII.--Code of Official Conduct..................   940
                 XXIV.--Limitations on Use of Official Funds......   952
                  XXV.--Limitations on Outside Earned Income and 
                        Acceptance of Gifts.......................   957
                 XXVI.--Financial Disclosure......................   986
                XXVII.--Disclosure by Members and Staff of 
                        Employment Negotiations...................  1012
               XXVIII.--[Reserved]................................  1014
                 XXIX.--General Provisions........................  1014

Provisions of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as Amended by the 
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, Applicable to Both Houses
Congressional adjournment.........................................  1019
Preservation of committee hearings................................  1020

                       Joint and Select Committees

Economic Committee, Joint.........................................  1021
Taxation, Joint Committee on......................................  1021
Library, Joint Committee of Congress on the.......................  1022
Printing, Joint Committee on......................................  1022
Inaugural Ceremonies, Joint Congressional Committee on............  1022
Select committees.................................................  1022

                     House and Congressional Offices

House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards...............  1025
House Office Building Commission..................................  1025
Government Accountability Office..................................  1025
Office of Compliance..............................................  1025
Congressional Research Service....................................  1026
Legislative Counsel...............................................  1026
Congressional Budget Office.......................................  1026
Law Revision Counsel..............................................  1026
Technology Assessment.............................................  1026
Office of the Parliamentarian.....................................  1026
Office of Floor Assistants........................................  1027

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Office of Interparliamentary Affairs..............................  1027
House Recording Studio............................................  1027
United States Capitol Preservation Commission.....................  1027
Office of General Counsel.........................................  1027
Former Office of Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations.  1028
Office of Attending Physician.....................................  1028
Office of Architect of the Capitol................................  1028
House Democracy Partnership.......................................  1028
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission................................  1028
Office of Congressional Ethics....................................  1028
Early organization of the House...................................  1031
          Miscellaneous Provisions of Congressional Budget Laws
Congressional Budget Act of 1974..................................  1037
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990....................................  1119
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010...............................  1123
                  Legislative Procedures Enacted in Law
Measures privileged for consideration in House....................  1127
                                  Index
Index.............................................................  1307


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                        GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS
                                Rule XIV

              First. Prayer by Chaplain.
              Second. Approval of Journal.
              Third. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
              Fourth. Correction of reference of public bills.
              Fifth. Disposal of business on Speaker's table.
              Sixth. Unfinished business.
              Seventh. The morning hour for the consideration of bills.
              Eighth. Motions to go into Committee of the Whole.
              Ninth. Orders of the day.

                        SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS
                                 Mondays

Second and fourth Mondays:

              Motions to discharge committees. Rule XV, clause 2.

              District of Columbia Business. Rule XV, clause 4.

Every Monday:

              Motions to suspend rules. Rule XV, clause 1.

                                Tuesdays

First and third Tuesdays:

  Private Calendar. Rule XV, clause 5. Individual private bills 
        considered on first Tuesday of each month, omnibus private bills 
        may be considered on third Tuesday of each month.

Every Tuesday:

              Motions to suspend rules. Rule XV, clause 1.

                               Wednesdays

Call of Committees under Calendar Wednesday. Rule XV, clause 7.

Every Wednesday:

              Motions to suspend rules. Rule XV, clause 1. end 


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                              CONSTITUTION

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  We the People <> of the United States, in 
Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic 
Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general 
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our 
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United 
States of America.

  The First Continental <> Congress met in Philadelphia in September, 1774 and 
adopted the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 
embodying rights and principles later to be incorporated into the 
Constitution of the United States. The Second Continental Congress 
adopted in November, 1777 the Articles of Confederation, which the 
States approved in July, 1778. Upon recommendation of the Continental 
Congress, a convention of State representatives met in May, 1787 to 
revise the Articles of Confederation and reported to the Continental 
Congress in September a new Constitution, which the Congress submitted 
to the States for ratification. Nine States, as required by the 
Constitution for its establishment, had ratified by June 21, 1788, and 
eleven States had ratified by July 26, 1788. The Continental Congress 
adopted a resolution on September 13, 1788, putting the new Constitution 
into effect; the First Congress of the United States convened on March 
4, 1789, and George Washington was inaugurated as the first President on 
April 30, 1789.

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                               ARTICLE I.

  Section 1. All <> legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a 
Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House 
of Representatives.

  The power to legislate includes the power to conduct inquiries and 
investigations. See Kilbourn v.  <> Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1880); McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 
U.S. 135 (1927); Watkins v. United States, 354 U.S. 178 (1957); 
Barenblatt v. United States, 360 U.S. 109 (1959). For the power of the 
House to punish for contempt in the course of investigations, see 
Sec. 293, infra.

<>   Section 2. \1\The House of Representatives shall be composed 
of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, 
* * *.

  This clause requires election by the people and State authority may 
not determine a tie by lot (I, 775).
  The phrase ``by the people of the several States'' means that as 
nearly as practicable one person's vote in a congressional election is 
to be worth as much as another's. Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 
(1964); Kirkpatrick v. Preisler, 394 U.S. 526 (1969). 2 U.S.C. 2a 
mandates apportionment of Representatives based upon population, and 2 
U.S.C. 2c requires the establishment by the States of single-Member 
congressional districts. For elections generally, see Deschler, ch. 8.
  The term of a <> Congress, before 
ratification of the 20th amendment to the Constitution, began on the 4th 
of March of odd-numbered years and extended through two years. This 
resulted from the action of the Continental Congress on September 13, 
1788, in declaring, on authority conferred by the Federal Convention, 
``the first Wednesday in March next'' to be ``the time for commencing 
proceedings under the said Constitution.'' This date was March 4, 1789. 
Soon after the first Congress assembled a joint committee determined 
that the terms of Representatives and Senators of the first class 
commenced on that day, and must necessarily terminate with the 3d of 
March, 1791 (I, 3). Under the 20th amendment to the Constitution the 
terms of Representatives and Senators begin on the 3d of January of the 
odd-numbered years, regardless of when Congress actually convenes. By a 
practice having the force of common law, the House meets at noon when no 
other hour is fixed (I, 4, 210). In the later practice a resolution 
fixing the daily hour of meeting is agreed to at the beginning of each 
session.

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  Before adoption of the 20th amendment, the legislative day of March 3 
extended to noon on March 4 (V, 6694-6697) and, unless earlier 
adjourned, the Speaker could at that time declare the House adjourned 
sine die, without motion or vote, even to the point of suspending a roll 
call then in progress (V, 6715-6718).
  The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) provides 
that unless Congress otherwise specifies the two Houses shall adjourn 
sine die not later than the last day in July. This requirement is not 
applicable, under the terms of that Act, if a state of war exists 
pursuant to a congressional declaration or if, in an odd-numbered 
(nonelection) year, the Congress has agreed to adjourn for the month 
preceding Labor Day. For more on this provision, see Sec. 1106, infra.

<> * * * and 
the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for 
Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

  The House, in the decision of an election case, has rejected votes 
cast by persons not naturalized citizens of the United States, although 
they were entitled to vote under the statutes of a State (I, 811); but 
where an act of Congress had provided that a certain class of persons 
should be deprived of citizenship, a question arose over the proposed 
rejection of their votes in a State wherein citizenship in the United 
States was not a qualification of the elector (I, 451). In an 
exceptional case the House rejected votes cast by persons lately in 
armed resistance to the Government, although by the law of the State 
they were qualified voters (I, 448); but later, the House declined to 
find persons disqualified as voters because they had formerly borne arms 
against the Government (II, 879).
  The power <> of the States to 
set qualifications for electors is not unlimited, being subject to the 
15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments, and to the equal protection 
clause of the United States Constitution. Carrington v. Rash, 380 U.S. 
89 (1965); Kramer v. Union Free School District, 395 U.S. 621 (1969).
  Congress has some power in setting qualifications for electors, as in 
protecting the right to vote and lowering the minimum age for electors 
in congressional elections. Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (1966); 
Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970).

<>   \2\No 
Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained
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  A Member-elect not being of the required age, was not enrolled by the 
Clerk and he did not take the oath until he had reached the required age 
(I, 418).

<> * * * 
and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, * * *.

  Henry Ellenbogen, Pa., had not been a citizen for seven years when 
elected to the 73d Congress, nor when the term commenced on March 4, 
1933. He was sworn at the beginning of the second session on January 3, 
1934, when a citizen for seven and one-half years (see H. Rept. 1431 and 
H. Res. 370, 73d Cong.). A native of South Carolina who had been abroad 
during the Revolution and on his return had not resided in the country 
seven years, was held to be qualified as a citizen (I, 420). A woman who 
forfeited her citizenship through marriage to a foreign subject and 
later resumed it through naturalization less than seven years before her 
election, was held to fulfill the constitutional requirement as to 
citizenship and entitled to a seat in the House (VI, 184). A Member who 
had long been a resident of the country, but who could not produce 
either the record of the court nor his final naturalization papers, was 
nevertheless retained in his seat by the House (I, 424).

<> * * * 
and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which 
he shall be chosen.

  The meaning of the word ``inhabitant'' and its relation to citizenship 
has been discussed (I, 366, 434; VI, 174), and the House has held that a 
mere sojourner in a State was not qualified as an inhabitant (I, 369), 
but a contestant was found to be an actual inhabitant of the State 
although for sufficient reason his family resided in another State (II, 
1091). Residence abroad in the service of the Government does not 
destroy inhabitancy as understood under the Constitution (I, 433). One 
holding an office and residing with his family for a series of years in 
the District of Columbia exclusively was held disqualified to sit as a 
Member from the State of his citizenship (I, 434); and one who had his 
business and a residence in the District of Columbia and had no business 
or residence in Virginia was held ineligible to a seat from that State 
(I, 436). One who had a home in the District of Columbia, and had 
inhabited another home in Maryland a brief period before his election, 
but had never been a citizen of any other State, was held to be 
qualified (I, 432). Also a Member who had resided a portion of a year in 
the District of Columbia, but who had a home in the State of his 
citizenship and was actually living there at the time of the election, 
was held to be qualified (I, 435). In the Updike v. Ludlow case, 71st 
Congress, it was decided that residence in the District of Colum

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bia for years as a newspaper correspondent and maintenance there of 
church membership were not considered to outweigh payment of poll and 
income taxes, ownership of real estate, and a record for consistent 
voting in the district from which elected (VI, 55), and in the same case 
excuse from jury duty in the District of Columbia on a plea of 
citizenship in the State from which elected and exercise of incidental 
rights of such citizenship, were accepted as evidence of inhabitancy 
(VI, 55).
  Whether Congress <> may by law establish qualifications 
other than those prescribed by the Constitution has been the subject of 
much discussion (I, 449, 451, 457, 458, 478); but in a case wherein a 
statute declared a Senator convicted of a certain offense ``forever 
thereafter incapable of holding any office of honor, trust, or profit 
under the Government of the United States,'' the Supreme Court expressed 
the opinion that the final judgment of conviction did not operate, ipso 
facto, to vacate the seat or compel the Senate to expel or regard the 
Senator as expelled by force alone of the judgment (II, 1282). Whether 
the House or Senate alone may set up qualifications other than those of 
the Constitution has also been a subject often discussed (I, 414, 415, 
443, 457, 458, 469, 481, 484). The Senate has always declined to act on 
the supposition that it had such a power (I, 443, 483), and during the 
stress of civil war the House of Representatives declined to exercise 
the power, even under circumstances of great provocation (I, 449, 465). 
But later, in one instance, the House excluded a Member-elect on the 
principal argument that it might itself prescribe a qualification not 
specified in the Constitution (I, 477). The matter was extensively 
debated in the 90th Congress in connection with the consideration of 
resolutions relating to the seating of Representative-elect Adam C. 
Powell of New York (H. Res. 1, Jan. 10, 1967, p. 14; H. Res. 278, Mar. 
1, 1967, p. 4997). In Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969), the 
Supreme Court found that the power of Congress to judge the 
qualifications of its Members was limited to an examination of the 
express qualifications stated in the Constitution.
  It has been decided by the House and Senate that no State may add to 
the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution (I, 414-416, 632); and 
the Supreme Court so ruled in U.S. Term Limits, Inc., v. Thornton, 514 
U.S. 779 (1995). There, the Court held that States may not ``change, add 
to, or diminish'' constitutional qualifications of Members, striking 
down a State statute prohibiting three-term incumbents from appearing on 
the general election ballot. For qualifications generally, see Deschler, 
ch. 7, Sec. Sec. 9-14.
  For expulsion of seated Members, which requires a two-thirds vote 
rather than a majority vote, see article I, section 5, clause 2 
(Sec. 62, infra).

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  Both Houses of <> Congress have decided, when a Member-
elect is found to be disqualified, that the person receiving the next 
highest number of votes is not entitled to the seat (I, 323, 326, 450, 
463, 469; VI, 58, 59), even in a case wherein reasonable notice of the 
disqualification was given to the electors (I, 460). In the event of the 
death of a Member-elect, the candidate receiving the next highest number 
of votes is not entitled to the seat (VI, 152).

  \3\[Representatives and direct <> Taxes shall be 
apportioned among the several States which may be included within this 
Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined 
by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to 
Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three 
fifths of all other Persons.] * * *

  The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of 
Representatives was changed after the Civil War by section 2 of the 14th 
amendment and, as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the 16th 
amendment.

* * * The actual <> Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the 
first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every 
subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law 
direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every 
thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; 
and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire 
shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode- Island and 
Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey 
four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland

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six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia 
three.

  The census has been taken decennially since 1790, and, with the 
exception of 1920, was followed each time by reapportionment. In the 
First Congress the House had 65 Members; increased after each census, 
except that of 1840, until 435 was reached in 1913 (VI, 39, 40). The Act 
of June 18, 1929 (46 Stat. 26), as amended by the Act of November 15, 
1941 (55 Stat. 761), provides for reapportionment of the existing number 
(435) among the States following each new census (VI, 41-43; see 2 
U.S.C. 2a). Membership was temporarily increased to 436, then to 437, 
upon admission of Alaska (72 Stat. 345) and Hawaii (73 Stat. 8), but 
returned to 435 on January 3, 1963, the effective date of the 
reapportionment under the 18th Decennial census.
  Under the later but not the earlier practice, bills relating to the 
census and apportionment are not privileged for consideration (I, 305-
308; VI, 48, VII, 889; Apr. 8, 1926, p. 7147).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 
393 (1857); Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533 (1869); Scholey 
v. Rew, 90 U.S. (23 Wall.) 331 (1874); De Treville v. Smalls, 98 U.S. 
517 (1878); Gibbons v. District of Columbia, 116 U.S. 404 (1886); 
Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. (Income Tax case), 157 U.S. 429 
(1895); Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (Rehearing), 158 U.S. 601 
(1895); Thomas v. United States, 192 U.S. 363 (1904); Flint v. Stone 
Tracy Co. (Corporation Tax cases), 220 U.S. 107 (1911); Eisner v. 
Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920); New York Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256 U.S. 
345 (1921); Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788 (1992); Utah v. 
Evans, 536 U.S. 452 (2002).

  \4\When vacancies <> happen in the Representation from any State, the 
Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such 
Vacancies.

  Vacancies are caused by death, resignation, declination, withdrawal, 
or by action of the House in declaring a vacancy as existing or causing 
one by expulsion. When a vacancy occurs, or when a new Member is sworn, 
the Speaker announces the resulting adjustment in the whole number of 
the House pursuant to clause 5(d) of rule XX (see Sec. 1024b, infra). 
Clause 5(c) of rule XX permits the House to operate with a provisional 
number of the House if the House is without a quorum due to catastrophic 
circumstances (see Sec. 1024a, infra). In extraordinary circumstances, 
section 8 of title 2, United States Code, prescribes special election 
rules to expedite the filling of vacancies in representation of the 
House.

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  It was long the <> practice to 
notify the executive of the State when a vacancy was caused by the death 
of a Member during a session (II, 1198-1202); but it is now the practice 
for State authorities to take cognizance of the vacancies without 
notice. When a Member dies while not in attendance in the House or 
during a recess, the House is sufficiently informed of the vacancy by 
the credentials of the successor, when they set forth the fact of the 
death (I, 568). The death of a Member-elect creates a vacancy, although 
no certificate may have been awarded (I, 323), and in such a case the 
candidate having the next highest number of votes may not receive the 
credentials (I, 323; VI 152). A Member whose seat was contested having 
died, the House did not admit a claimant with credentials until 
contestant's claim was settled (I, 326); where a contestant died after a 
report in his favor, the House unseated the returned Member and declared 
the seat vacant (II, 965), and in a later case the contestant having 
died, the committee did not recommend to the House a resolution it had 
agreed to declaring he had not been elected (VI, 112). In the 93d 
Congress, when two Members-elect were passengers on a missing aircraft 
and were presumed dead, the Speaker laid before the House documentary 
evidence of the presumptive death of one Member-elect and the 
declaration of a vacancy by the Governor, as well as evidence that the 
status of the other Member-elect had not been officially determined by 
State authority. The House then adopted a privileged resolution 
declaring vacant the seat of the latter Member-elect to enable the 
Governor of that State to call a special election (Jan. 3, 1973, p. 15). 
For further discussion, see Sec. 23, infra.
  In recent practice <> the 
Member informs the House by letter that a resignation has been sent to 
the State executive (II, 1167-1176) and this is satisfactory evidence of 
the resignation (I, 567). Both a letter to the Speaker and a copy of the 
letter to the State executive are laid before the House. However, 
Members have resigned by letter to the House alone, it being presumed 
that the Member would also notify the Governor (VI, 226). Where a Member 
resigned by letter to the House the Speaker was authorized to notify the 
Governor (Nov. 27, 1944, p. 8450; July 12, 1957, p. 11536; Sept. 1, 
1976, p. 28887). If a Member does not inform the House, the State 
executive may do so (II, 1193, 1194; VI, 232). The House has learned of 
a Member's resignation by means of the credentials of the successor (II, 
1195, 1356). Where the fact of a Member's resignation has not appeared 
either from the credentials of the successor or otherwise, the Clerk has 
been ordered to make inquiry (II, 1209) or the House has ascertained the 
vacancy from information given by other Members (II, 1208).
  It has been established that a Member or Senator may select a future 
date for a resignation to take effect and, until the arrival of that 
date, participate in the proceedings (II, 1220-1225, 1228, 1229; VI, 
227, 228; Dec. 15, 1997, p. 26709; June 5, 2001, p. 9882; Nov. 27, 2001, 
p. 23006; Jan. 27, 2003, pp. 1750, 1751). It has been possible even for 
a Member

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to resign a seat in the House to be effective on a date following the 
anticipated date of a special election that might fill the vacancy 
thereby created (Deschler, ch. 8, Sec. 9.3). However, the State 
concerned must be willing to treat the prospective resignation as a 
constitutional predicate for the issuance of a writ of election to fill 
a vacancy. For examples of resignation letters indicating that the State 
executive took cognizance of a prospective resignation, see January 8, 
1952, (p. 14) (New York); July 9, 1991, (p. 17301) (Virginia); June 5, 
2001, (p. 9882) (Florida), and January 27, 2003, (p. 1751) (Texas). When 
the Governor of Oklahoma received a prospective resignation from one of 
its Members, the State provided by statute (enrolled Senate Bill Number 
7X) for the holding of a special election before the effective date of 
the resignation (Feb. 28, 2002, p. 2245).
  For the State to take cognizance of a prospective resignation, it must 
have assurances that there is no possibility of withdrawal (or 
modification). In one case a Member who had resigned was not permitted 
by the House to withdraw the resignation (II, 1213). However, the House 
has allowed withdrawal in the case of defective resignation; that is, in 
which the Member had not actually transmitted the letter of resignation 
(VI, 229), or had transmitted it to an improper state official (Oct. 9, 
1997, p. 22020). A Member may include in a letter of prospective 
resignation a statement of intention that the resignation be 
``irrevocable'' in order to allay any concern about the prospect of 
withdrawal (June 5, 2001, p. 9882).
  Acceptance of the resignation of a Member from the House is 
unnecessary (VI, 65, 226), and the refusal of a Governor to accept a 
resignation cannot operate to continue membership in the House (VI, 65). 
Only in a single exceptional case has the House taken action in the 
direction of accepting a resignation (II, 1214). Sometimes Members who 
have resigned have been reelected to the same House and taken seats (II, 
1210, 1212, 1256; Jan. 28, 1965 and June 16, 1965, pp. 1452, 13774; Jan. 
6, 1983 and Feb. 22, 1983, pp. 114, 2575). A Member-elect may resign 
before taking the oath (II, 1230-1232).
  A letter of resignation is presented as privileged (II, 1167-1176); 
but a resolution to permit a Member to withdraw a resignation was not so 
treated (II, 1213). The Speaker, having been elected Vice President and 
a Representative of the succeeding Congress at the same election, 
transmitted to the Governor of his State his resignation as a Member-
elect (VI, 230, 453). A Member of the House, having been nominated and 
confirmed as Vice President pursuant to the 25th amendment, submitted a 
letter of resignation as a Representative to the Governor of his State, 
and a copy of his letter of resignation was laid before the House by the 
Speaker following the completion of a joint meeting for his swearing as 
Vice President (Dec. 6, 1973, p. 39927). A Member of the House having 
been confirmed as Secretary of Defense, a copy of his letter of 
resignation was laid before the House before his taking the oath of that 
office (Mar. 20, 1989, p. 4976).

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  A Member who <> has been 
elected to a seat may decline to accept it, and in such a case the House 
informed the executive of the State of the vacancy (II, 1234). The House 
has decided an election contest against a returned Member who had not 
appeared to claim the seat (I, 638). In one instance a Member-elect who 
had been convicted in the courts did not appear during the term (IV, 
4484, footnote). On November 7, 1998, less than a week after his re-
election as Representative from Georgia, Speaker Gingrich announced that 
he would not be a candidate for Speaker in the 106th Congress and that 
he would resign his seat as a Member of the 106th Congress. Although the 
letter of ``withdrawal'' was tendered on November 22, the Governor did 
not attempt to call a special election until after the term began on 
January 3, 1999 (Jan. 6, 1999, p. 42). A Member has notified the Speaker 
and the Governor in one Congress of an intention not to take a seat in 
the next Congress (Jan. 6, 2009, pp. 2, 3; Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; Jan. 3, 
2013, p. _; Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  At the time <> of the secession 
of several States, Members of the House from those States withdrew (II, 
1218). In the Senate, in cases of such withdrawals, the Secretary was 
directed to omit the names of the Senators from the roll (II, 1219), and 
the act of withdrawal was held to create a vacancy that the legislature 
might recognize (I, 383).
  If the House, <> by 
its action in a question of election or otherwise, creates a vacancy, 
the Speaker is directed to notify the Executive of the State (I, 502, 
709, 824; II, 1203-1205; Mar. 1, 1967, p. 5038; Jan. 3, 1973, p. 15; 
Feb. 24, 1981, pp. 2916-18). A resolution as to such notification is 
presented as a question of privilege (III, 2589), as is a resolution 
declaring a vacancy in which a Member-elect was unable to take the oath 
of office or to decline the office because of an incapacitating illness 
(Feb. 24, 1981, pp. 2916-18).
  The House declines <> to give prima facie effect to credentials, even though they 
be regular in form, until it has ascertained whether or not the seat is 
vacant (I, 322, 518, 565, 569), and a person returned as elected at a 
second election was unseated on ascertainment that another person had 
actually been chosen at the first election (I, 646). Where a Member was 
reelected to the House, although at the time of the election he had been 
unaccounted for for several weeks following the disappearance of the 
plane on which he was a passenger, the Governor of the State from which 
he was elected transmitted his certificate to the House in the regular 
fashion. When the Member-elect was still missing at the time the new 
Congress convened, and circumstances were such that other passengers on 
the missing plane had been presumed dead following judicial inquiries in 
the State where the plane was lost, the House declared the seat vacant 
(H. Res. 1, 93d Cong., Jan. 3, 1973, p. 15). In the 108th Congress the 
House codified

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in clause 5 of rule XX its practice of accounting for vacancies (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).
  The term ``vacancy'' <> as occurring in this paragraph of the 
Constitution has been examined in relation to the functions of the State 
executive (I, 312, 518). A Federal law empowers the States and 
Territories to provide by law the times of elections to fill vacancies 
(I, 516; 2 U.S.C. 8); but an election called by a governor in pursuance 
of constitutional authority was held valid although no State law 
prescribed the time, place, or manner of such election (I, 517). Where 
two candidates had an equal number of votes, the governor did not issue 
credentials to either, but ordered a new election after they had waived 
their respective claims (I, 555). A candidate elected for the 104th 
Congress was appointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy for the 
remainder of the 103d Congress pursuant to a State law requiring the 
Governor to appoint the candidate who won the election to the 104th 
Congress. In that case the House authorized the Speaker to administer 
the oath to the Member-elect and referred the question of his final 
right to the seat in the 103d Congress to the Committee on House 
Administration (Nov. 29, 1994, pp. 29585, 29586). For a discussion of a 
State election to fill a prospective vacancy of the House, see Sec. 19, 
supra.
<>   A 
Member elected to fill a vacancy serves no longer time than the 
remainder of the term of the Member whose place he fills (I, 3). For the 
compensation and allowances of such Members, see Sec. 87, infra.

<>   
\5\The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other 
Officers; * * *

  The officers of the House are the Speaker, who has always been one of 
its Members and whose term as Speaker must expire with the term as a 
Member; and the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, 
and Chaplain (I, 187), no one of whom has ever been chosen from the 
sitting membership of the House and who continue in office until their 
successors are chosen and qualified (I, 187). In one case the officers 
continued through the entire Congress succeeding that in which they were 
elected (I, 244, 263). Former officers include Doorkeeper (abolished by 
the 104th Congress, see Sec. 663a, infra) and Postmaster (abolished 
during the 102d Congress, see Sec. 668, infra). The House formerly 
provided by special rule that the Clerk should continue in office until 
another should be chosen (I, 187, 188, 235, 244). Currently, certain 
statutes impose on the officers duties that contemplate their 
continuance (I, 14, 15; 2 U.S.C. 5602).
  The Speaker, who <> was at 
first elected by ballot, has been chosen viva voce by surname in 
response to a call of the roll since 1839 (I, 187). The Speaker is 
elected by a majority of Members-elect voting by surname, a quorum being

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present (I, 216; VI, 24; Jan. 7, 1997, p. 117). The Clerk appoints 
tellers for this election (I, 217). Ultimately, the House, and not the 
Clerk, decides by what method it shall elect the Speaker (I, 210). On 
two occasions, by special rules, Speakers were chosen by a plurality of 
votes; but in each case the House by majority vote adopted a resolution 
declaring the result (I, 221, 222). The House has declined to choose a 
Speaker by lot (I, 221).
  The motion to proceed to the election of a Speaker is privileged (I, 
212, 214; VIII, 3383), and debatable unless the previous question is 
ordered (I, 213). Relying on the Act of June 1, 1789 (2 U.S.C. 25), the 
Clerk recognized for nominations for Speaker as being of higher 
constitutional privilege than a resolution to postpone the election of a 
Speaker and instead provide for the election of a Speaker pro tempore 
pending the disposition of certain ethics charges against the nominee of 
the majority party (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 115). On several occasions the 
choice of a Speaker has been delayed for several weeks by contests (I, 
222; V, 5356, 6647, 6649; VI, 24). The contest over the election of a 
Speaker in 1923 was resolved after a procedure for the adoption of rules 
for the 68th Congress had been presented (VI, 24). In 1860 the voting 
for Speaker proceeded slowly, being interspersed with debate (I, 223), 
and in one instance the House asked candidates for Speaker to state 
their views before proceeding to election (I, 218).
  A proposition <> to elect a Speaker is in order at any time a vacancy exists 
and presents a question of the highest privilege (VIII, 3383). Upon a 
vacancy in the Office of Speaker, the House elects a new Speaker either 
viva voce following nominations (in the case in which a Speaker has died 
between sessions of Congress or resigned) or by resolution (in the case 
in which a Speaker has died during a session of Congress). For example, 
in the case in which the Speaker had died between sessions of Congress, 
the Clerk at the next session called the House to order, ascertained the 
presence of a quorum, and then the House proceeded to elect a successor 
viva voce following nominations (I, 234; Jan. 10, 1962, p. 5). In a case 
in which the Speaker died during a session of Congress, but not while 
the House was sitting, the Clerk on the following day called the House 
to order and the Speaker's successor was elected by resolution (June 4, 
1936, p. 9016; Sept. 16, 1940, p. 12231). In a case in which the Speaker 
resigned ``on the election of my successor'' (May 31, 1989, p. 10440), 
he entertained nominations for Speaker and, following the roll call, 
declared the winner of the election ``duly elected Speaker'' (June 6, 
1989, p. 10801). In one instance a Speaker resigned on the last day of 
the Congress, and the House unanimously adopted a motion to elect a 
successor for the day (I, 225).
  Form of resolution offered on death of a Speaker (Sept. 16, 1940, p. 
12232; Jan. 10, 1962, p. 9) and of a former Speaker (VIII, 3564; Mar. 7, 
1968, p. 5742; H. Res. 328, Jan. 25, 1994, p. 89; H. Res. 418, Feb. 8, 
2000, p. 834; H. Res. 383, Oct. 22, 2013, p. _). A resolution declaring 
vacant the Office of Speaker is presented as a matter of high 
constitutional privilege

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(VI, 35). Speakers have resigned by rising in their place and addressing 
the House (I, 231, 233), by calling a Member to the Chair and tendering 
the resignation verbally from the floor (I, 225), by tendering the 
resignation during recognition under a question of personal privilege 
(May 31, 1989, p. 10440), or by sending a letter that the Clerk reads to 
the House at the beginning of a new session (I, 232). When the Speaker 
resigns no action of the House excusing him from service is taken (I, 
232). Instance wherein the Speaker, following a vote upon an essential 
question indicating a change in the party control of the House, 
announced that under the circumstances it was incumbent upon the Speaker 
to resign or to recognize for a motion declaring vacant the Office of 
Speaker (VI, 35). In the 108th Congress the House adopted clause 8(b)(3) 
of rule I, under which the Speaker is required to deliver to the Clerk a 
list of Members in the order in which each shall act as Speaker pro 
tempore in the case of a vacancy in the Office of Speaker (sec. 2(a), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). The Speaker delivered to the Clerk the 
first such letter on February 10, 2003 (Mar. 13, 2003, p. 6118).
<>   The effect of a law to regulate the action of the House in 
choosing its own officers has been discussed (IV, 3819), and such a law 
has been considered of doubtful validity (V, 6765, 6766) in theory and 
practice (I, 241, 242). The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 5501) authorizes the Speaker to fill temporary vacancies in the 
offices of Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, and 
Chaplain. For a history of the Speaker's exercise of such authority, see 
Sec. 640, infra;  and, for further information on the elections of 
officers, see Deschler, ch. 6.
   <> It has 
been held that the Act of June 1, 1789 (2 U.S.C. 25) binds the House to 
elect a Clerk before proceeding to business (I, 237, 241; contrast, I, 
242, 244). When a vacancy arises in the Office of Clerk during a 
session, business has intervened before the election of a new Clerk (I, 
239).

* * * <> and 
[the House of Representatives] shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

  In 1868 the Senate ceased in its rules to describe the House, acting 
in an impeachment, as the ``grand inquest of the nation'' (III, 2126). 
See also art. II, sec. 4 (Sec. 173, infra); Deschler, ch. 14.
  A Federal court having subpoenaed certain evidence gathered by a 
committee of the House in an impeachment inquiry, the House adopted a 
resolution granting such limited access to the evidence as would not 
infringe upon its sole power of impeachment (Aug. 22, 1974, p. 30047).
  Until the law expired on June 30, 1999, an independent counsel was 
required to advise the House of any substantial and credible information

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that may constitute grounds for impeachment of an officer under 
investigation (28 U.S.C. 595(c)). For a description of impeachment 
proceedings prompted by a communication from an independent counsel, see 
Sec. 176, infra.

  Section 3. \1\[The Senate <> of the United States shall be composed of two Senators 
from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and 
each Senator shall have one Vote.]

  This provision was changed by the 17th amendment.

  \2\Immediately <> after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first 
Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. 
The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the 
Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of 
the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of 
the <> sixth Year, 
so that one-third may be chosen every second Year; [and if Vacancies 
happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the 
Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary 
Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then 
fill such Vacancies.]

  That part of the above paragraph in brackets was changed by the 17th 
amendment.

  \3\No Person <> shall be a 
Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been 
nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not,

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when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be 
chosen.

  In 1794 the Senate decided that Albert Gallatin was disqualified, not 
having been a citizen nine years although he had served in the war of 
Independence and was a resident of the country when the Constitution was 
formed (I, 428); and in 1849 that James Shields was disqualified, not 
having been a citizen for the required time (I, 429). But in 1870 the 
Senate declined to examine as to H. R. Revels, a citizen under the 
recently adopted 14th amendment (I, 430). As to inhabitancy the Senate 
seated one who, being a citizen of the United States, had been an 
inhabitant of the State from which he was appointed for less than a year 
(I, 437). Also one who, while stationed in a State as an army officer 
had declared his intention of making his home in the State, was admitted 
by the Senate (I, 438). A Senator who at the time of his election was 
actually residing in the District of Columbia as an officeholder, but 
who voted in his old home and had no intent of making the District his 
domicile, was held to be qualified (I, 439).

  \4\The Vice <> President 
of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no 
Vote, unless they be equally divided.

  The right of the Vice President to vote has been construed to extend 
to questions relating to the organization of the Senate (V, 5975), as 
the election of officers of the Senate (V, 5972-5974), or a decision on 
the title of a claimant to a seat (V, 5976, 5977). The Senate has 
declined to make a rule relating to the vote of the Vice President (V, 
5974).

<>   \5\The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also 
a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when 
he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

  In the 107th Congress the Senate elected two Presidents of the Senate 
pro tempore for different periods when the majority of the Senate 
shifted after inauguration of the Vice President (S. Res. 3, Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 7).

-  \6\The Senate <> shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. 
When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. 
When the President

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of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no 
Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the 
Members present.

  For the exclusive power of the Senate to try impeachments under the 
United States Constitution, see Ritter v. United States, 84 Ct. Cl. 293 
(1936), cert. denied, 300 U.S. 668 (1937). See also Mississippi v. 
Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475 (1867) (dictum). For the 
nonjusticiability of a claim that a Senate impeachment rule (XI) 
violates the impeachment trial clause by delegating to a committee of 12 
Senators the responsibility to receive evidence, hear testimony, and 
report to the Senate thereon, see Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 
(1993). For a discussion of Senate impeachment procedures, see 
Sec. Sec. 608-20, infra.

  \7\Judgment in <> Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to 
removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office 
of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party 
convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, 
Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

  There has been discussion as to whether or not the Constitution 
requires both removal and disqualification on conviction (III, 2397); 
but in the case of Pickering, the Senate decreed only removal (III, 
2341). In the case of Humphreys, judgment of both removal and 
disqualification was pronounced (III, 2397). In the Ritter case, it was 
first held that upon conviction of the respondent, judgment of removal 
required no vote, following automatically from conviction under article 
II, section 4 (Apr. 17, 1936, p. 5607). In the 99th Congress, having 
tried to conviction the first impeachment case against a Federal 
district judge since 1936, the Senate ordered his removal from office 
(Oct. 9, 1986, p. 29870). In the 101st Congress, two other Federal 
district judges were removed from office following their convictions in 
the Senate (Oct. 20, 1989, p. 25335; Nov. 3, 1989, p. 27101). In the 
111th Congress, a Federal district judge was removed from office 
following his conviction in the Senate (Dec. 8, 2010, p. 19349). For a 
further discussion of judgments in cases of impeachment, see Sec. 619, 
infra.


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  Section 4. \1\The Times, <> Places and Manner of 
holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed 
in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any 
time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of 
chusing Senators.

  The relative powers of the Congress and the States under this 
paragraph have been the subject of much discussion (I, 311, 313, 507, 
footnote); but Congress has in fact fixed by law the time of elections 
(I, 508; VI, 66; 2 U.S.C. 7), and has controlled the manner to the 
extent of prescribing a ballot or voting machine (II, 961; VI, 150; 2 
U.S.C. 9). When a State delegated to a municipality the power to 
regulate the manner of holding an election, a question arose (II, 975). 
A question has arisen as to whether or not a State, in the absence of 
action by Congress, might make the time of election of Members of 
Congress contingent on the time of the State election (I, 522). This 
paragraph gives Congress the power to protect the right to vote in 
primaries in which they are an integral part of the election process. 
United States v. Wurzbach, 280 U.S. 396 (1930); United States v. 
Classic, 313 U.S. 299 (1941). Congress may legislate under this 
paragraph to protect the exercise of the franchise in congressional 
elections. Ex parte Siebolt, 100 U.S. 371 (1880); Ex parte Yarbrough, 
110 U.S. 651 (1884).
  The meaning of <> the word ``legislature'' in this 
clause of the Constitution has been the subject of discussion (II, 856), 
as to whether or not it means a constitutional convention as well as a 
legislature in the commonly accepted meaning of the word (I, 524). The 
House has sworn in Members chosen at an election the time, etc., of 
which was fixed by the schedule of a constitution adopted on that 
election day (I, 519, 520, 522). But the House held that where a 
legislature has been in existence a constitutional convention might not 
exercise the power (I, 363, 367). It has been argued generally that the 
legislature derives the power herein discussed from the Federal and not 
the State Constitution (II, 856, 947), and therefore that the State 
constitution might not in this respect control the State legislature 
(II, 1133). The House has sustained this view by its action (I, 525). 
But where the State constitution fixed a date for an election and the 
legislature had not acted, although it had the opportunity, the House 
held the election valid (II, 846). Title III of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2006, amended Federal election law to require States 
to hold special elections for the House within 49 days after a vacancy 
is announced by the Speaker in the extraordinary circumstance that vacan

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cies in representation from the States exceed 100 (P.L. 109-55; 2 U.S.C. 
8).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Ex parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371 (1880); Ex 
parte Clark, 100 U.S. 399 (1880); Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651 
(1884); In re Coy, 127 U.S. 731 (1888); Ohio v. Hildebrant, 241 U.S. 565 
(1916); United States v. Mosley, 238 U.S. 383 (1915); United States  v. 
Gradwell, 243 U.S. 476 (1917); Newberry v. United States, 256 U.S. 232 
(1921); Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355 (1932); United States v. Classic, 
313 U.S. 299 (1941); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944); Roudebush 
v. Hartke, 405 U.S. 15 (1972); Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724 (1974); 
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976); U.S. Term Limits, Inc., v. Thorton, 
514 U.S. 779 (1995); and Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67 (1997). In Public 
Law 91-285, Congress lowered the minimum age of voters in all Federal, 
State, and local elections from 21 to 18 years. In Oregon v. Mitchell, 
400 U.S. 112 (1970), the Supreme Court upheld the power of Congress 
under article I, section 4 and under section 5 of the 14th amendment to 
the Constitution to fix the age of voters in Federal elections, but held 
that the 10th amendment to the Constitution reserved to the States the 
power to establish voter age qualifications in State and local 
elections. The 26th amendment to the Constitution extended the right of 
persons 18 years of age or older to vote in elections held under State 
authority.

  \2\[The Congress <> shall 
assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the 
first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different 
Day.]

  This provision has been superseded by the 20th amendment.
  In the later but not the earlier practice (I, 5), before the 20th 
amendment, the fact that Congress had met once within the year did not 
make uncertain the constitutional mandate to meet on the first Monday of 
December (I, 6, 9-11). Early Congresses, convened either by proclamation 
or law on a day earlier than the constitutional day, remained in 
continuous session to a time beyond that day (I, 6, 9-11). But in the 
later view an existing session ends with the day appointed by the 
Constitution for the regular annual session (II, 1160); see Sec. 84, 
infra. Congress has frequently appointed by law a day for the meeting 
(I, 4, 5, 10-12, footnote; see also Sec. 243, infra).

  Section 5. \1\Each <> House shall be the Judge of the 
Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, * * *.


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  In judging the qualifications of its Members, the House may not add 
qualifications to those expressly stated in the United States 
Constitution. Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969). This phrase 
allows the House or Senate to deny the right to a seat without 
unlawfully depriving a State of its right to equal representation. Barry 
v. United States ex rel. Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929). But a State 
may conduct a recount of votes without interfering with the authority of 
the House under this phrase. Roudebush v. Hartke, 405 U.S. 15 (1972). 
For discussion of the power of the House to judge elections, see 
Deschler, ch. 8 (elections) and ch. 9 (election contests); for 
discussion of the power of the House to judge qualifications, see 
Deschler, ch. 7.
  The House has the same authority to determine the right of a Delegate 
to a seat that it has in the case of a Member (I, 423). The House may 
not delegate the duty of judging its elections to another tribunal (I, 
608), and the courts of a State have no role in such matters (II, 959). 
The House has once examined the relations of this power to the power to 
expel (I, 469).
  As nearly all <> the laws governing the elections of 
Representatives in Congress are State laws, questions have often arisen 
as to the relation of this power of judging to those laws (I, 637). The 
House decided very early that the certificate of a State executive 
issued in strict accordance with State law does not prevent examination 
of the votes by the House and a reversal of the return (I, 637). The 
House has also held that it is not confined to the conclusions of 
returns made up in strict conformity to State law, but may examine the 
votes and correct the returns (I, 774); and the fact that a State law 
gives canvassers the right to reject votes for fraud and irregularities 
does not preclude the House from going behind the returns (II, 887). The 
highest court in one State (Colorado) has ruled that it lacked 
jurisdiction to pass upon a candidate's allegations of irregularities in 
a primary election and that the House had exclusive jurisdiction to 
decide such questions and to declare the rightful nominee (Sept. 23, 
1970, p. 33320).
  When the question <> concerns not the acts of returning 
officers, but the act of the voter in voting, the House has found more 
difficulty in determining the proper exercise of its constitutional 
power. Although the House has always acted on the principle of giving 
expression to the intent of the voter (I, 575, 639, 641; II, 1090), it 
has held that a mandatory State law, even though arbitrary, may cause 
the rejection of a ballot on which the intent of the voter is plain (II, 
1009, 1056, 1077, 1078, 1091). See Deschler, ch. 8, Sec. 8.11, for 
discussion of distinction between directory State laws governing the 
conduct of election officials as to ballots, and mandatory laws 
regulating the conduct of voters.

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  Where the State <> courts have upheld a State election 
law as constitutional the House does not ordinarily question the law 
(II, 856, 1071). But if there has been no such decision the House, in 
determining its election cases, has passed on the validity of State laws 
under State constitutions (II, 1011, 1134), and has acted on its 
decision that they were unconstitutional (II, 1075, 1126), but it is not 
the policy of the House to pass upon the validity of State election laws 
alleged to be in conflict with the State constitution (VI, 151).
  The courts of <> a State do not have a direct role in 
judging the elections, qualifications, and returns of Representatives in 
Congress (II, 959), but where the highest State court has interpreted 
the State law the House has concluded that it should generally be 
governed by this interpretation (I, 645, 731; II, 1041, 1048), but does 
not consider itself bound by such interpretations (VI, 58), especially 
by a decision on an analogous but not the identical question in issue 
(II, 909); and where the alleged fraud of election judges was in issue, 
the acquittal of those judges in the courts was held not to be an 
adjudication binding on the House (II, 1019). For a recent illustration 
of a protracted election dispute lasting four months see House Report 
99-58, culminating in House Resolution 146 of the 99th Congress (May 1, 
1985, p. 9998).
  The statutes of <> the United States 
provide specific methods for institution of a contest as to the title to 
a seat in the House (I, 678, 697-706) (2 U.S.C. 381-396), which the 
House regards as not of absolute binding force, but rather a prudent 
rule not to be departed from except for cause (I, 597, 719, 825, 833). 
It sometimes by resolution modifies the procedure prescribed by the law 
(I, 449, 600).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: In re Loney, 134 U.S. 317 (1890); Reed v. 
County Commissioners, 277 U.S. 376 (1928); Barry v. United States ex 
rel. Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929); Roudebush v. Hartke, 405 U.S. 15 
(1972).

  * * * and a <> Majority of each [House] 
shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may 
adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance 
of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each 
House may provide.


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  Out of conditions <> arising between 1861 and 1891 the 
rule was established that a majority of the Members chosen and living 
constituted the quorum required by the Constitution (IV, 2885-2888); but 
later examination has resulted in a decision confirming in the House of 
Representatives the construction established in the Senate that a quorum 
consists of a majority of Senators duly chosen and sworn (I, 630; IV, 
2891-2894). So the decision of the House now is that after the House is 
once organized the quorum consists of a majority of those Members 
chosen, sworn, and living whose membership has not been terminated by 
resignation or by the action of the House (IV, 2889, 2890; VI, 638). 
Under clause 5(d) of rule XX, when a vacancy occurs or when a new Member 
is sworn, the Speaker announces the resulting adjustment in the whole 
number of the House (see Sec. 1024b, infra). Under clause 5(c) of rule 
XX, the House may establish a provisional number of the House where, due 
to catastrophic circumstances, a quorum fails to appear (sec. 2(h), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43; see Sec. 1024a, infra).
  For many years <> a quorum was determined only by noting the 
number of Members voting (IV, 2896, 2897), with the result that Members 
by refusing to vote could often break a quorum and obstruct the public 
business (II, 1034; IV, 2895, footnote; V, 5744). However, in 1890 
Speaker Reed directed the Clerk to enter on the Journal as part of the 
record of a yea-and-nay vote names of Members present but not voting, 
thereby establishing a quorum of record (IV, 2895). This decision, which 
was upheld by the Supreme Court (IV, 2904; United States v. Ballin, 144 
U.S. 1 (1892)), established the principle that a quorum present made 
valid any action by the House, although an actual quorum might not vote 
(I, 216, footnote; IV, 2932). Thenceforth the point of order as to a 
quorum was required to be that no quorum was present and not that no 
quorum had voted (IV, 2917). At the time of the establishment of this 
principle the Speaker revived the count by the Chair as a method of 
determining the presence of a quorum at a time when no record vote was 
ordered (IV, 2909). The Speaker has permitted his count of a quorum to 
be verified by tellers (IV, 2888), but has not conceded it as a right of 
the House to have tellers under the circumstances (IV, 2916; VI, 647-
651; VIII, 2369, 2436), claiming that the Chair might determine the 
presence of a quorum in such manner as he should deem accurate and 
suitable (IV, 2932). The Chair counts all Members in sight, whether in 
the cloak rooms, or within the bar (IV, 2970; VIII, 3120). Later, as the 
complement to the new view of the quorum, the early theory that the 
presence of a quorum was as necessary during debate or other business as 
on a vote was revived (IV, 2935-2949). Also, a line of rulings made 
under the old theory was overruled; and it was established that the 
point of no quorum might be made after the House had declined to verify 
a division by tellers or the yeas

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and nays (IV, 2918-2926). For a discussion of the Ballin decision and 
the Chair's count to determine a quorum, see House Practice, ch. 43, 
Sec. 5.
  The absence of <> a quorum having been disclosed, there must be a quorum of 
record before the House may proceed to business (IV, 2952, 2953; VI, 
624, 660, 662), and the point of no quorum may not be withdrawn even by 
unanimous consent after the absence of a quorum has been ascertained and 
announced by the Chair (IV, 2928-2931; VI, 657; Apr. 13, 1978, p. 10119; 
Sept. 25, 1984, p. 26778). But when an action has been completed, it is 
too late to make the point of order that a quorum was not present when 
it was done (IV, 2927; VI, 655). But where action requiring a quorum was 
taken in the ascertained absence of a quorum by ruling of a Speaker pro 
tempore, the Speaker on the next day ruled that the action was null and 
void (IV, 2964; see also VIII, 3161). But such absence of a quorum 
should appear from the Journal if a legislative act is to be vacated for 
such reason (IV, 2962), and where the assumption that a quorum was 
present when the House acted was uncontradicted by the Journal, it was 
held that this assumption might not be overthrown by expressions of 
opinion by Members individually (IV, 2961).
  Major revisions in the House rules concerning the necessity and 
establishment of a quorum occurred in the 94th, 95th, and 96th 
Congresses. Under the practice in the 93d Congress, for example, a point 
of no quorum would prevent the report of the chair of a Committee of the 
Whole (VI, 666); but in the 93d Congress clause 7 of rule XX (formerly 
clause 6 of rule XV) was adopted to provide that after the presence of a 
quorum is once ascertained on any day, a point of no quorum could not be 
entertained after the Committee had risen and pending the report of the 
chair to the House. Clause 7 of rule XX now specifically precludes a 
point of no quorum unless a question has been put to a vote. However, 
the Speaker retains the right to recognize a Member to move a call of 
the House at any time (but may, under clause 7(c) of rule XX, recognize 
for a call of the House after the previous question has been ordered 
only when the Speaker determines by actual count that a quorum is not 
present). A point of order of no quorum during debate only in the House 
does not lie independently under this clause of the Constitution because 
clause 7 of rule XX (formerly clause 6 of rule XV) is a proper exercise 
of the House's constitutional rulemaking authority that can be 
interpreted consistently with the requirement that a quorum be present 
to conduct business (as opposed to mere debate) (Sept. 8, 1977, p. 
28114; Sept. 12, 1977, p. 28800).
  Before these changes to rule XX (formerly rule XV), a quorum was 
required at all times during the reading of the Journal (IV, 2732, 2733; 
VI, 625, 629) or messages from the President or the Senate (IV, 3522); 
but the modern practice would require the presence of a quorum only when 
the question is put on a pending motion or proposition in the House such 
as on a motion incident to the reading, amendment, or approval of the 
Journal or on the referral or other disposition of other papers read to 
the

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House. The practice in the Committee of the Whole is now governed by 
clause 6 of rule XVIII. No motion is in order on the failure of a quorum 
but the motions to adjourn and for a call of the House (IV, 2950; VI, 
680) and the motion to adjourn has precedence over the motion for a call 
of the House (VIII, 2642). A call of the House is in order under the 
Constitution before the adoption of the rules (IV, 2981). Those present 
on a call of the House may prescribe a fine as a condition on which an 
arrested Member may be discharged (IV, 3013, 3014), but this is rarely 
done. A quorum is not required on motions incidental to a call of the 
House (IV, 2994; VI, 681; Oct. 8, 1940, p. 13403; Oct. 8, 1968, p. 
30090). Adjournment sine die is in order notwithstanding the absence of 
a quorum if both Houses have already adopted a concurrent resolution 
providing for an adjournment sine die on that day (Oct. 18, 1972, p. 
37200).
  At the time <> of organization the two Houses inform one another of the 
appearance of the quorum in each, and the two Houses jointly inform the 
President (I, 198-203). A message from one House that its quorum has 
appeared is not delivered in the other until a quorum has appeared there 
also (I, 126). But at the beginning of a second session of a Congress 
the House proceeded to business, although a quorum had not appeared in 
the Senate (I, 126). At the beginning of a second session of a Congress 
unsworn Members-elect were taken into account in ascertaining the 
presence of a quorum (I, 175); however, at the beginning of the second 
session of the 87th Congress, the Clerk called the House to order, 
announced the death of Speaker Rayburn during the adjournment sine die, 
and did not call unsworn Members-elect or Members who had resigned 
during the hiatus to establish a quorum or elect a new Speaker (Jan. 10, 
1962, p. 5). In both Houses the oath has been administered to Members-
elect in the absence of a quorum (I, 174, 181, 182; VI, 22), although in 
one case the Speaker objected to such proceedings (II, 875). Prayer by 
the Chaplain is not business requiring the presence of a quorum and the 
Speaker declines to entertain a point of no quorum before prayer is 
offered (VI, 663; clause 7 of rule XX).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 190 (1880); 
United States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892); Burton v. United States, 202 
U.S. 344 (1906).

<>   \2\Each House may 
determine the Rules of its Proceedings, * * *

  The power of <> each House of Representatives to make its own rules may 
not be impaired or controlled by the rules of a preceding House (I, 187, 
210; V, 6002, 6743-6747), or by a law passed by a prior Congress (I, 82, 
245; IV, 3298, 3579; V, 6765, 6766). The House in adopting its rules 
may, however, incorporate by reference as a part thereof all applicable 
provisions

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of law that constituted the Rules of the House at the end of the 
preceding Congress (e.g., H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-
70) and has also incorporated provisions of concurrent resolutions that 
were intended to remain applicable under the Budget Act (e.g., H. Res. 
5, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). The House twice reaffirmed free-
standing directives to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics) contained in a simple House resolution (H. Res. 168, 105th 
Cong., p. 19317, reaffirmed for the 106th Congress by sec. 2(c), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47, and reaffirmed for the 107th Congress with an 
exception by sec. 3(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24; see Sec. 806, 
infra). In the 108th Congress those free-standing directives were 
codified in clause 3 of rule XI (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 
7). Ordinary rights and functions of the House under the Constitution 
are exercised in accordance with the rules (III, 2567), and under later 
decisions questions of so-called constitutional privilege should also be 
considered in accordance with the rules (VI, 48; VII, 889; Apr. 8, 1926, 
p. 7147). But a law passed by an existing Congress with the concurrence 
of the House has been recognized by that House as of binding force in 
matters of procedure (V, 6767, 6768). In exercising its constitutional 
power to change its rules the House may confine itself within certain 
limitations (V, 6756; VIII, 3376); but the attempt of the House to 
deprive the Speaker of a vote as a Member by a rule was successfully 
resisted (V, 5966, 5967). Although the Act of June 1, 1789 (see 2 U.S.C. 
25) requires the election of a Clerk before the House proceeds to 
business, the House has held that it may adopt rules before electing a 
Clerk (I, 245). Although the Speaker ceases to be an officer of the 
House with the expiration of a Congress, the Clerk, by old usage, 
continues in a new Congress (I, 187, 188, 235, 244; see 2 U.S.C. 26). 
The House has adopted a rule before election of a Speaker (I, 94, 95); 
but in 1839 was deterred by the Act of June 1, 1789 and the Constitution 
from adopting rules before the administration of the oath to Members-
elect (I, 140). The earlier theory that an officer might be empowered to 
administer oaths by a rule of either House has been abandoned in later 
practice and the authority has been conferred by law (III, 1823, 1824, 
2079, 2303, 2479; 2 U.S.C. 191).
  Before the adoption <> of rules the House is governed by general 
parliamentary law, but Speakers have been inclined to give weight to the 
rules and precedents of the House in modifying the usual constructions 
of that law (V, 5604, 6758-6760; VIII, 3384; Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24; Jan. 
10, 1967, p. 14). The general parliamentary law as understood in the 
House is founded on Jefferson's Manual as modified by the practice of 
American legislative assemblies, especially of the House of 
Representatives (V, 6761-6763; Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24), but the provisions 
of the House's accustomed rules are not necessarily followed (V, 5509). 
Before the adoption of rules, the statutory enactments incorporated into 
the rules of the prior Congress as an exercise of the rulemaking power 
do not control the proceedings

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of the new House until it adopts rules incorporating those provisions 
(Jan. 22, 1971, p. 132).
  Before the adoption of rules, it is in order for any Member who is 
recognized by the Chair to offer a proposition relating to the order of 
business without asking consent of the House (IV, 3060). Relying on the 
Act of June 1, 1789 (2 U.S.C. 25), the Clerk recognized for nominations 
for Speaker as being of higher constitutional privilege than a 
resolution to postpone the election of a Speaker and instead provide for 
the election of a Speaker pro tempore pending the disposition of certain 
ethics charges against the nominee of the majority party (Jan. 7, 1997, 
p. 115). The Speaker may recognize the Majority Leader to offer an 
initial resolution providing for the adoption of the rules as a question 
of privilege in its own right (IV, 3060; Deschler, ch. 1, Sec. 8), even 
before recognizing another Member to offer as a question of privilege 
another resolution calling into question the constitutionality of that 
resolution (Speaker Foley, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). The Speaker also may 
recognize a Member to offer for immediate consideration a special order 
providing for the consideration of a resolution adopting the rules 
(Speaker Gingrich, H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 447; H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
2007, p. 7). The resolution adopting rules for a Congress has included a 
special order of business for consideration of specified legislation 
(sec. 108, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463; sec. 3, H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 76; secs. 506-510, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 30; sec. 5, H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 10). The Speaker held as not cognizable a point 
of order that a resolution adopting the Rules of the House contained a 
provision that the House had no constitutional authority to adopt, 
stating that the House decides such issues by way of the question of 
consideration or disposition of the resolution (Speaker Hastert, Jan. 4, 
2005, pp. 44-46).
  During debate on the resolution adopting rules, any Member may make a 
point of order that a quorum is not present based upon general 
parliamentary precedents, because the provisions of clause 7 of rule XX 
(formerly clause 6(e) of rule XV) prohibiting the Chair from 
entertaining such a point of order unless the question has been put on 
the pending proposition are not yet applicable (Jan. 15, 1979, p. 10). 
Before adoption of rules, under general parliamentary law as modified by 
usage and practice of the House, an amendment may be subject to the 
point of order that it is not germane to the proposition to which 
offered (Jan. 3, 1969, p. 23). Before adoption of rules, the Speaker may 
maintain decorum by directing a Member who has not been recognized in 
debate beyond an allotted time to be removed from the well and by 
directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to present the mace as the traditional 
symbol of order (Jan. 3, 1991, p. 58).
  The motion to commit is permitted after the previous question has been 
ordered on the resolution adopting the rules (V, 5604; Jan. 3, 1989, p. 
81; Jan. 3, 1991, p. 61) but is not debatable (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 139). It 
is the prerogative of the minority to offer a motion to commit even 
before the adoption of the rules, but at that point the proponent need 
not qualify as opposed to the resolution (Jan. 3, 1991, p. 61; Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 457).

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Such a motion to commit is not divisible, but if it is agreed to and 
more than one amendment is reported back pursuant thereto, then separate 
votes may be had on the reported amendments (Jan. 5, 1993, p. 98). The 
motion to refer has also been permitted upon the offering of a 
resolution adopting the rules, and before debate thereon, subject to the 
motion to lay on the table (Jan. 5, 1993, p. 52; Jan. 5, 2011, p. 83; 
Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  The two Houses <> of Congress adopted in 
the early years of the Government joint rules to govern their procedure 
in matters requiring concurrent action; but in 1876 these joint rules 
were abrogated (IV, 3430; V, 6782-6787). The most useful of their 
provision continued to be observed in practice, however (IV, 3430; V, 
6592).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: United States v. Smith, 286 U.S. 6 (1932); 
Christoffel v. United States, 338 U.S. 84 (1949); United States v. 
Bryan, 339 U.S. 323 (1950); Yellin v. United States, 374 U.S. 109 
(1963); Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969).

  * * * [Each House may] <> punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the 
Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

  Among the <> punishments that the House may impose under this provision, 
the rules of the Committee on Ethics outline the following: (1) 
expulsion from the House; (2) censure; (3) reprimand; (4) fine; (5) 
denial or limitation of any right, power, privilege, or immunity of the 
Member if not in violation of the Constitution; or (6) any other 
sanction determined by the Committee to be appropriate (rule 24, 
Committee on Ethics, 114th Cong.). Under rule 10 of the rules of that 
committee, a statement of alleged violation must be proven by clear and 
convincing evidence.
  In action for censure or expulsion, the House has discussed whether or 
not the principles of the procedure of the courts should be followed 
(II, 1255, 1264). The House, in a proceeding for expulsion, declined to 
give the Member a trial at the bar (II, 1275); but the Senate has 
permitted a counsel to appear at its bar (II, 1263), although it 
declined to grant a request for a specific statement of charges or 
compulsory process for witnesses (II, 1264). In one instance, pending 
consideration of a resolution to censure a Member, the Speaker informed 
him that he should retire (II, 1366), but this is not usual. Members or 
Senators, against whom resolutions have been pending, have participated 
in debate either by consent to make a personal explanation (II, 1656) or 
without question as to consent (II, 1246, 1253, 1269, 1286). A Member 
against whom a resolution of censure was pending was asked by the 
Speaker if he desired to be heard (VI, 236). However, after the House 
had voted to censure and the Member

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had been brought to the bar by the Sergeant-at-Arms to be censured, it 
was held that he might not then be heard (II, 1259). In the modern 
practice, the manager of the resolution proposing the punishment (who 
controls the entire hour) yields a portion of the time to the accused 
(Oct. 2, 1980, p. 28966; July 24, 2002, p. 14309; Dec. 2, 2010, p. 
18721). On one occasion, the House extended debate on the resolution for 
a specified period and yielded that entire time to the Member who was 
the subject of the resolution (July 24, 2002, p. 14310). The manager of 
the resolution has the right to close debate, not the Member who is the 
subject of the resolution (July 24, 2002, p. 14313). Where the manager 
of a resolution has divided the hour three ways, the Chair announced 
that the order of closing speeches would be as follows: the minority 
manager of the resolution, the subject of the resolution, and the 
manager of the resolution (July 24, 2002, p. 14314). Debate on a 
resolution recommending a disciplinary sanction against a Member may not 
exceed the scope of the conduct of the accused Member (Dec. 18, 1987, p. 
36271).
  A resolution recommending reprimand, censure, or expulsion of a Member 
presents a question of privilege (II, 1254; III, 2648-2651; VI, 236; 
Dec. 9, 1913, pp. 584-86; July 26, 1990, p. 19717; May 22, 2007, p. 
13525; Oct. 23, 2007, p. 27966; July 31, 2008, pp. 17463, 17464), as 
does one disapproving of the behavior of a Member inside (Sept. 15, 
2009, p. 21662; Mar. 18, 2010, pp. 3847, 3848) or outside (Dec. 20, 
2011, p. _) the Chamber. If reported by the Committee on Ethics (or a 
derivation thereof), the resolution may be called up at any time after 
the committee has filed its report (Jan. 21, 1997, p. 393; Dec. 2, 2010, 
p. 18721). Before debate, an expulsion resolution is subject to the 
motion to lay on the table (Oct. 1, 1976, p. 35111), to postpone to a 
date certain (Oct. 2, 1980, p. 28953; July 24, 2002, p. 14300), or to 
refer to committee (Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3753). A proposition to censure is 
not germane to a proposition to expel (VI, 236).
  The Senate once expelled several Senators by a single resolution (II, 
1266); however, the House has refused to censure more than one Member by 
a single resolution (II, 1240, 1621).
  In <> the 94th Congress the 
House by adopting a report from the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct (now Ethics) reprimanded a Member for failing to report certain 
financial holdings in violation of rule XXVI (formerly rule XLIV) and 
for investing in stock in a Navy bank the establishment of which he was 
promoting, in violation of the Code of Ethics for Government Service (H. 
Res. 1421, July 29, 1976, pp. 24379-82). (For the Code of Ethics for 
Government Service, see H. Con. Res. 175, 85th Cong., 72 Stat. B12.) In 
the 95th Congress following an investigation by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) into whether Members or 
employees had improperly accepted things of value from the Republic of 
Korea or representatives thereof, the House reprimanded three Members, 
one for falsely answering an unsworn questionnaire relative to such 
gifts and violating the Code of Official Conduct, one for failing to 
report as required

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by law the receipt of a campaign contribution and violating the Code of 
Official Conduct, and one for failing to report a campaign contribution, 
converting a campaign contribution to personal use, testifying falsely 
to the committee under oath, and violating the Code of Official Conduct 
(Oct. 13, 1978, pp. 36984, 37009, 37017). In the 100th Congress the 
House adopted a resolution reprimanding a Member for ``ghost voting,'' 
improperly diverting government resources, and maintaining a ``ghost 
employee'' on his staff (Dec. 18, 1987, p. 36266). In the 101st Congress 
another was reprimanded for seeking dismissal of parking tickets 
received by a person with whom he had a personal relationship and not 
related to official business and for misstatements of fact in a 
memorandum relating to the criminal probation record of that person 
(July 26, 1990, p. 19717). In the 105th Congress the House reprimanded 
the Speaker and ordered him to reimburse a portion of the costs of the 
investigation by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) (Jan. 21, 1997, p. 393). In the 112th Congress the House by 
adopting a report from the Committee on Ethics reprimanded a Member for 
using official resources of the House for unofficial purposes and 
compelling staff to perform campaign work, and imposed a fine (Aug. 2, 
2012, p. _).
  Censure <> is inflicted by the 
Speaker (II, 1259) and the words are entered in the Journal (II, 1251, 
1656; VI 236), but the Speaker may not pronounce censure except by order 
of the House (VI, 237). When Members have resigned pending proceedings 
for censure, the House has nevertheless adopted the resolutions of 
censure (II, 1239, 1273, 1275, 1656). Members have been censured for 
personalities and other disorder in debate (II, 1251, 1253, 1254, 1259), 
assaults on the floor (II, 1665), for presenting a resolution alleged to 
be insulting to the House (II, 1246), and for corrupt acts (II, 1274, 
1286). For abuse of the leave to print, the House censured a Member 
after a motion to expel him had failed (VI, 236). In one instance 
Members were censured for acts before the election of the then existing 
House (II, 1286). In the 96th Congress two Members were censured by the 
House as follows: (1) A Member who during a prior Congress both 
knowingly increased an office employee's salary for repayment of that 
Member's personal expenses and who was unjustly enriched by clerk-hire 
employees' payments of personal expenses later compensated by salary 
increases, was censured and ordered to repay the amount of the unjust 
enrichment with interest (July 31, 1979, p. 21592); (2) a Member was 
censured for receiving over a period of time sums of money from a person 
with a direct interest in legislation in violation of clause 3 of rule 
XXIII (formerly clause 4 of rule XLIII), and for transferring campaign 
funds into office and personal accounts (June 10, 1980, pp. 13801-20)). 
In the 98th Congress the House adopted two resolutions (as amended in 
the House), each censuring a Member for an improper relationship with a 
House Page in a prior Congress (July 20, 1983, p. 20020 and p. 20030). 
In the 111th Congress, after the House defeated an amendment to instead 
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sured for using official resources to solicit funds for an educational 
center, failing to file complete financial disclosure forms, accepting 
the benefits of a rent-stabilized residence in a manner creating an 
appearance of impropriety, and failing to pay taxes on certain property, 
and was ordered to pay restitution for such unpaid taxes (Dec. 2, 2010, 
pp. 18729-30).
  Five <> Members have been 
expelled in the history of the House. Among those, three were expelled 
for various offenses related to their service for the Confederacy in the 
Civil War: John B. Clark of Missouri (a Member-elect) (II, 1262, July 
13, 1861); Henry C. Burnett of Kentucky (II, 1261, Dec. 3, 1861); and 
John W. Reid of Missouri (II, 1261, Dec. 6, 1861). Michael J. Myers of 
Pennsylvania was expelled after being convicted in a Federal court of 
bribery and conspiracy for accepting funds to perform official duties 
(Oct. 2, 1980, p. 28978). James A. Traficant of Ohio was expelled after 
being convicted in a Federal court for crimes including (1) trading 
official acts and influence for things of value; (2) demanding and 
accepting salary kickbacks from his congressional employees; (3) 
influencing a congressional employee to destroy evidence and to provide 
false testimony to a Federal grand jury; (4) receiving personal labor 
and the services of his congressional employees while they were being 
paid by the taxpayers to perform public service; and (5) filing false 
income tax returns (July 24, 2002, p. 14319). Three Senators were 
expelled for their association with the Confederates during the Civil 
War (II, 1268-1270).
  The power of expulsion has been the subject of much discussion (I, 
469, 476, 481; II, 1264, 1265, 1269; VI, 56, 398; see Powell v. 
McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)). In one case a Member-elect who had not 
taken the oath was expelled (II, 1262), and in another case the power to 
do this was discussed (I, 476). In one instance the Senate assumed to 
annul its action of expulsion (II, 1243). The Supreme Court has decided 
that a judgment of conviction under a disqualifying statute does not 
compel the Senate to expel (II, 1282; Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 
344 (1906)). The power of expulsion in its relation to offenses 
committed before the Members' election has been discussed (II, 1264, 
1284, 1285, 1286, 1288, 1289; VI, 56, 238). In one case the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the House concluded that a Member might not be punished 
for an offense alleged to have been committed against a preceding 
Congress (II, 1283); but the House itself declined to express doubt as 
to its power to expel and proceeded to inflict censure (II, 1286). In 
addition, the 96th Congress punished Members on two occasions for 
offenses committed during a prior Congress (H. Res. 378, July 31, 1979, 
p. 21592; H. Res. 660, June 10, 1980, pp. 13801-20). It has been held 
that the power of the House to expel one of its Members is unlimited; a 
matter purely of discretion to be exercised by a two-thirds vote, from 
which there is no appeal (VI, 78). The resignation of the accused Member 
has always caused a suspension of proceedings for expulsion (II, 1275, 
1276, 1279; VI, 238). Following the expulsion of a Member, the Clerk

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notifies the Governor of the relevant state of the action of the House 
(July 24, 2002, p. 14319).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 204 
(1821); Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1881); United States v. 
Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892); In re Chapman, 166 U.S. 661 (1897); Burton v. 
United States, 202 U.S. 344 (1906); Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 
(1969).

  \3\Each House <> shall 
keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the 
same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; * * 
*

  The Journal and <> not the Congressional Record is the official record of the 
proceedings of the House (IV, 2727). Its nature and functions have been 
the subject of extended discussions (IV, 2730, footnote). The House has 
fixed its title (IV, 2728). Although it ought to be a correct transcript 
of proceedings, the House has not insisted on a strict chronological 
order of entries (IV, 2815). The Journal is dated as of the legislative 
and not the calendar day (IV, 2746).
  The Journal records <> proceedings but not the reasons therefor (IV, 
2811) or the circumstances attending (IV, 2812), or the statements or 
opinions of Members (IV, 2817-2820). Exceptions to this rule are rare 
(IV, 2808, 2825). Protests have on rare occasions been admitted by the 
action of the House (IV, 2806, 2807), but the entry of a protest on the 
Journal may not be demanded by a Member as a matter of right (IV, 2798) 
and such demand does not present a question of privilege (IV, 2799). A 
motion not entertained is not entered on the Journal (IV, 2813, 2844-
2846).
  The House <> controls the Journal and may decide what are proceedings, 
even to the extent of omitting things actually done or recording things 
not done (IV, 2784; VI, 634). Although the Speaker has entertained 
motions to amend the Journal so as to cause it to state what was not the 
fact, leaving it for the House to decide on the propriety of such act 
(IV, 2785), and holding that he could not prevent a majority of the 
House from so amending the Journal as to undo an actual transaction (IV, 
3091-3093), in none of those rulings was an amendment permitted to 
correct the Journal that had the effect of collaterally changing the 
tabling of a motion to reconsider. In fact, under the precedents cited 
in Sec. 902, infra, under clause 1 of rule XVI it has been held not in 
order to amend or strike a Journal entry setting forth a motion exactly 
as made (IV, 2783, 2789), and thus it was held not in order to amend the 
Journal by striking a resolution actually offered (IV, 2789), but on one 
occasion the House va

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cated the Speaker's referral of an executive communication by amending 
the Journal of the preceding day (Mar. 19, 1990, p. 4488). Only on rare 
occasions has the House nullified proceedings by rescinding the records 
of them in the Journal (IV, 2787), the House and Senate usually 
insisting on the accuracy of its Journal (IV, 2783, 2786). In rare 
instances the House and Senate have rescinded or expunged entries in 
Journals of preceding Congresses (IV, 2730, footnote, 2792, 2793).
  The Journal should <> record the result of every vote and state in general terms 
the subject of it (IV, 2804); but the result of a vote is recorded in 
figures only when the yeas and nays are taken (IV, 2827), when the vote 
is recorded by electronic device or by clerks, or when a vote is taken 
by ballot, it having been determined in latest practice that the Journal 
should show not only the result but the state of the ballot or ballots 
(IV, 2832).
  It is the <> uniform practice 
of the House to approve its Journal for each legislative day (IV, 2731). 
If Journals of more than one session remain unapproved, they are taken 
up for approval in chronological order (IV, 2771-2773; Nov. 3, 1987, p. 
30592).
  The former rule required the reading of the Journal on each 
legislative day. The reading could be dispensed with only by unanimous 
consent (VI, 625) or suspension of the rules (IV, 2747-2750) and had to 
be in full when demanded by any Member (IV, 2739-2741; VI, 627-628; Feb. 
22, 1950, p. 2152).
  The present form of the rule (clause 1 of rule I; see Sec. 621, infra) 
was drafted from section 127 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1970 (84 Stat. 1140), incorporated into the standing rules in the 92d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144), and was further amended in 
the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). Under the 
current practice, the Speaker is authorized to announce approval of the 
Journal, which is deemed agreed to by the House, subject to the right of 
any Member to demand a vote on agreeing to the Speaker's approval 
(which, if decided in the affirmative, is not subject to the motion to 
reconsider). In the 98th Congress, the Speaker was given the authority 
to postpone a record vote on agreeing to the approval of the Journal to 
a later time on that legislative day (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). 
Although the transaction of any business is not in order before approval 
of the Journal (IV, 2751; VI, 629, 637; Oct. 8, 1968, p. 30096), 
approval of the Journal yields to the simple motion to adjourn (IV, 
2757), administration of the oath (I, 171, 172), an arraignment of 
impeachment (VI, 469), and questions of the privileges of the House (II, 
1630), and the Speaker has discretion to recognize for a parliamentary 
inquiry before approval of the Journal (VI, 624). Under clause 1 of rule 
I, as amended in the 96th Congress, a point of order of no quorum is not 
in order before the Speaker announces approval of the Journal. Clause 7 
of rule XX generally prohibits the making of points of order of no 
quorum unless the Speaker has put the question on the pending matter.

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  Under the practice <> before clause 1 of rule I was adopted in its present form, 
the motion to amend the Journal took precedence over the motion to 
approve it (IV, 2760; VI, 633); but the motion to amend may not be 
admitted after the previous question is demanded on a motion to approve 
(IV, 2770; VI, 633; VIII, 2684). An expression of opinion as to a 
decision of the Chair was held not in order as an amendment to the 
Journal (IV, 2848). A proposed amendment to the Journal being tabled 
does not carry the Journal with it (V, 5435, 5436). Although a proposed 
correction of the Journal may be recorded in the Journal, it is not in 
order to insert in full in this indirect way what has been denied 
insertion in the first instance (IV, 2782, 2804, 2805). The earlier 
practice was otherwise, however (IV, 2801-2803). The Journal of the last 
day of a session is not approved on the assembling of the next session, 
and is not ordinarily amended (IV, 2743, 2744). For further discussion 
of the composition and approval of the Journal, see Deschler, ch. 5.
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892); United 
States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892).

  * * * and the <> Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question 
shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the 
Journal.

  The yeas and <> nays may be ordered before the organization of the House (I, 91; 
V, 6012, 6013), but are not taken in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4722, 
4723). They are not necessarily taken on the passage of a resolution 
proposing an amendment to the Constitution (V, 7038, 7039; VIII, 3506), 
but are required to pass a bill over a veto (Sec. 104; VII, 1110). In 
the earlier practice of the House it was held that less than a quorum 
might not order the yeas and nays, but for many years the decisions have 
been uniformly the other way (V, 6016-6028). Neither is a quorum 
necessary on a motion to reconsider the vote whereby the yeas and nays 
are ordered (V, 5693). When a quorum fails on a yea and nay vote it is 
the duty of the Speaker and the House to take notice of that fact (IV, 
2953, 2963, 2988). If the House adjourns, the order for the yeas and 
nays remains effective whenever the bill again comes before the House 
(V, 6014, 6015; VI, 740; VIII, 3108), and it has been held that the 
question of consideration might not intervene on a succeeding day before 
the second calling of the yeas and nays (V, 4949). However, when the 
call of the House is automatic, the Speaker directs the roll to be 
called or the vote to be taken by electronic device without motion from 
the floor (VI, 678, 679, 694, 695); and should

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a quorum fail to vote and the House adjourn, proceedings under the 
automatic call are vacated and the question recurs de novo when the bill 
again comes before the House (Oct. 10, 1940, pp. 13534, 13535; Oct. 13, 
1962, p. 23474; Oct. 19, 1966, p. 27641). Although the Constitution and 
the Rules of the House guarantee that votes taken by the yeas and nays 
be spread upon the Journal, neither requires that a Member's vote be 
announced to the public immediately during the vote (Sept. 19, 1985, p. 
24245).
  The yeas and nays may not be demanded until the Speaker has put the 
question in the form prescribed by clause 6 of rule I (formerly clause 
5) (Oct. 2, 1974, p. 33623).
  The yeas and <> nays may 
be demanded while the Speaker is announcing the result of a division (V, 
6039), while a vote by tellers is being taken (V, 6038), and even after 
the announcement of the vote if the House has not passed to other 
business (V, 6040, 6041; VIII, 3110) and if the Member seeking the yeas 
and nays is on his feet and seeking recognition for that purpose when 
the Chair announces the result of the voice vote (Nov. 22, 1991, p. 
34075; Sept. 21, 2005, p. 20856). But after the Speaker has announced 
the result of a division on a motion and is in the act of putting the 
question on another motion it is too late to demand the yeas and nays on 
the first motion (V, 6042). And it is not in order during the various 
processes of a division to repeat a demand for the yeas and nays that 
has once been refused by the House (V, 6029, 6030, 6031). The 
constitutional right of a Member to demand the yeas and nays may not be 
overruled as dilatory (V, 5737; VIII, 3107); but this constitutional 
right does not exist as to a vote to second a motion when such second is 
required by the rules (V, 6032-6036; VIII, 3109). The right to demand 
yeas and nays is not waived by the fact that the Member demanding them 
has just made the point of no quorum and caused the Chair to count the 
House (V, 6044).-
  In passing on <> a 
demand for the yeas and nays the Speaker need determine only whether 
one-fifth of those present sustain the demand (V, 6043; VIII, 3112, 
3115). In ascertaining whether one-fifth of those present support a 
demand for the yeas and nays the Speaker counts the entire number 
present and not merely those who rise to be counted (VIII, 3111, 3120). 
Such count is not subject to verification by appeal (Sept. 12, 1978, p. 
28984; Mar. 8, 2006, p. 2954; Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22745; Mar. 18, 2010, p. 
3842), a request for a rising vote of those opposed to the demand is not 
in order (VIII, 3112-3114), and the Speaker may refuse to entertain a 
parliamentary inquiry regarding the number of Members counted by the 
Chair (Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22745). If the Chair prolongs the count of the 
House in determining whether one-fifth have supported the demand for 
yeas and nays, the Speaker counts latecomers in support of the demand as 
well as for the number present (Sept. 24, 1990, p. 25521). After the 
House, on a vote by tellers, has refused to order the yeas and nays it 
is too late to demand the count of the negative on an original vote (V, 
6045).

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  A motion to <> reconsider the vote ordering the yeas and nays is in 
order (V, 6029; VIII, 2790), and the vote may be reconsidered by a 
majority. If the House votes to reconsider the yeas and nays may again 
be ordered by one-fifth (V, 5689-5691). But when the House, having 
reconsidered, again orders the yeas and nays, a second motion to 
reconsider may not be made (V, 6037). In one instance it was held that 
the yeas and nays might be demanded on a motion to reconsider the vote 
whereby the yeas and nays were ordered (V, 5689), but evidently there 
must be a limit to this process. The vote whereby the yeas and nays are 
refused may be reconsidered (V, 5692).
  A motion <> to adjourn may be admitted after the yeas and nays are ordered 
and before the roll call has begun (V, 5366); and a motion to suspend 
the rules has been entertained after the yeas and nays have been 
demanded on another matter (V, 6835). Consideration of a conference 
report (V, 6457), and a motion to reconsider the vote by which the yeas 
and nays were ordered (V, 6029; VIII, 2790) may be admitted. A demand 
for tellers or for a division is not precluded or set aside by the fact 
that the yeas and nays are demanded and refused (V, 5998; VIII, 3103).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892); United 
States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892); Twin City Bank v. Nebeker, 167 U.S. 
196 (1897); Wilkes County v. Coler, 180 U.S. 506 (1901); Marshall v. 
Gordon, 243 U.S. 521 (1917).

  \4\Neither House, <> during the Session of Congress shall, 
without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor 
to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

  The word ``Place'' in <> the above paragraph was construed to mean the seat of 
Government, and consent of the Senate is not required if the House 
orders its meetings to be held in another structure at the seat of 
Government (Speaker Rayburn, Aug. 17, 1949, pp. 11651, 11683). Under 
clause 12(d) of rule I, the Speaker may convene the House in a place 
within the District of Columbia, other than the Hall of the House, 
whenever, in the opinion of the Speaker, the public interest shall 
warrant it (Sec. 639, infra). The two Houses once granted joint 
leadership (or their designees) authority for an entire Congress to 
assemble the Congress at a place outside the District of Columbia 
whenever the public interest warranted it (H. Con. Res. 1, Feb. 13, 
2003, p. 4080). The Speaker executed by letter his designation

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under that authority (Mar. 13, 2003, p. 6123). The House, but not the 
Senate, re-adopted similar concurrent resolutions in succeeding 
Congresses (H. Con. Res. 1, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 68; H. Con. Res. 1, Jan. 4, 
2007, p. 42; H. Con. Res. 1, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 22; H. Con. Res. 1, Jan. 
5, 2011, p. 103; H. Con. Res. 1, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; H. Con. Res. 1, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). After September 11, 2001, recall authority carried 
in adjournment resolutions has allowed reassembly at such place as may 
be designated (see Sec. 84, infra). The President may convene Congress 
at places outside the seat of Government during hazardous circumstances 
(2 U.S.C. 27; Deschler, ch. 1, Sec. 4).
  On November 22, 1940 (p. 13715), the House adopted a resolution 
providing that thereafter until otherwise ordered its meetings be held 
in the Caucus room of the new House Office Building. Likewise the Senate 
on the same day (p. 13709) provided that its meetings be held in the 
Chamber formerly occupied by the Supreme Court in the Capitol. The two 
Houses continued to hold their sessions in these rooms until the opening 
of the 77th Congress. These actions were necessitated by the precarious 
condition of the roofs in the two Chambers. On June 28, 1949 (p. 8571), 
and on September 1, 1950 (p. 14140), the House provided that until 
otherwise ordered its meetings be held in the Caucus room of the new 
House Office Building, pending the remodeling of its Chamber. On June 
29, 1949 (p. 8584), and on Aug. 9, 1950 (p. 12106), the Senate provided 
that its meetings be held in the Chamber formerly occupied by the 
Supreme Court in the Capitol, pending remodeling of its Chamber. The 
House returned to its Chamber on January 3, 1950, and again on January 
1, 1951. The Senate returned to its Chamber on January 3, 1950, and 
again on January 3, 1951.
  There has been no occasion for the convening of a session of Congress 
outside the seat of Government. However, the Congress has engaged in 
commemorative or ceremonial functions outside the seat of Government, 
which were authorized by concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 131, May 
28, 1987, p. 14031; H. Con. Res. 96, Apr. 18, 1989, p. 6834; H. Con. 
Res. 448, July 25, 2002, p. 14645).-
  The House of <> Representatives in adjourning for not more than three 
days must take into the count either the day of adjourning or the day of 
the meeting, but not Sundays (V, 6673, 6674). The House may provide for 
a session of the House on a Sunday, traditionally a ``dies non'' under 
the precedents of the House (e.g., Dec. 17, 1982, p. 31946; Nov. 17, 
1989, p. 30029; Aug. 20, 1994, p. 23367). The House has by standing 
order provided that it should meet on two days only of each week instead 
of daily (V, 6675). Before the election of Speaker, the House has 
adjourned for more than one day (I, 89, 221). The House has by unanimous 
consent agreed to an adjournment for not more than three days but 
specified that it would continue in adjournment pursuant to a concurrent 
resolution adopted by the House if it received a message of the Senate's 
adoption

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of the concurrent resolution before the time of the House's reconvening 
(e.g., Nov. 20, 1987, p. 33054). The Committee on Rules has reported a 
rule authorizing the Speaker to declare the House in recesses subject to 
calls of the Chair during five discrete periods, each consistent with 
the constitutional constraint that neither House adjourn (or recess) for 
more than three days without consent of the other House (Dec. 21, 1995, 
p. 38141; Jan. 5, 1996, p. 357).
  Clause 12(e) of <> rule I provides certain authorities for 
reconvening or postponing the time for reconvening during any recess or 
adjournment of not more than three days when warranted by the public 
interest (see Sec. 639, infra). The House had previously provided such 
authority by standing order (H. Res. 479, 112th Cong., Dec. 6, 2011, p. 
_; H. Res. 66, Feb. 14, 2013, p. _) and on one occasion convened earlier 
than previously ordered (Dec. 30, 2012, p. _). The Senate has adopted 
similar authority, applicable also to the place of convening, which may 
be exercised by the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders when warranted 
by intervening circumstances (S. Res. 296, 108th Cong., Feb. 3, 2004, p. 
731). Pursuant to such authority, during an adjournment of the Senate 
for not more than three days, the Senate convened earlier than 
previously ordered to adopt a House concurrent resolution providing for 
an adjournment of the two Houses (H. Con. Res. 103, Mar. 17, 2005, p. 
5143), section 2 of which enabled a recall of the House (Mar. 20, 2005, 
p. 5446).
  Congress enables an <> adjournment for more than three days by a concurrent 
resolution (IV, 4031, footnote). When it adjourns in this way, but not 
to or beyond the day fixed by Constitution or law for the next regular 
session to begin, the session is not thereby necessarily terminated (V, 
6676, 6677). At the close of the first session of the 66th Congress, the 
two Houses adjourned sine die under authority granted each House by 
simple resolutions consenting to such adjournment sine die at any time 
before a specified date (Nov. 19, 1919, p. 8810).
  Until the 67th Congress neither House had adjourned for more than 
three days by itself with the consent of the other, but resolutions had 
been offered for the accomplishment of that end (V, 6702, 6703). In the 
modern practice it is common for a concurrent resolution to provide for 
a one-House adjournment or to provide for each House to adjourn for 
different time periods. For example: (1) the House adjourned until 
August 15, 1922, with the consent of the Senate (June 29, 1922, p. 
10439); (2) the two Houses provided for an adjournment sine die of the 
House on August 20, 1954, and of the Senate at any time before December 
25, 1954 (H. Con. Res. 266; Aug. 20, 1954, p. 15554); (3) the two Houses 
provided for an adjournment sine die of the House on December 20 or 
December 21, 1982, pursuant to a motion made by the Majority Leader or a 
designee, and of the Senate at any time before January 3, 1983, as 
determined by the Senate, and for adjournments or recesses of the Senate 
for periods of more than three

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days as determined by the Senate during such period (H. Con. Res. 438, 
Dec. 20, 1982, p. 32951); (4) the two Houses provided for an adjournment 
of the Senate to a day certain and of the House for more than three days 
to a day certain, or to any day before that day as determined by the 
House (S. Con. Res. 102, May 27, 1982, pp. 12504, 12505); (5) the two 
Houses provided for an adjournment to a day certain, with a provision 
that if there should be no quorum present on that day the session should 
terminate (V, 6686).
  A concurrent resolution adjourning both Houses for more than three 
days, or sine die, normally includes authority to reassemble the Members 
whenever the public interest shall warrant it, either jointly (see, 
e.g., July 8, 1943, p. 7516; July 26, 1947, p. 10521; Dec. 20, 1974, p. 
41815; Nov. 21, 1989, p. 31156; Oct. 3, 1996, p. 12275; Dec. 15, 2000, 
p. 27019) or separately (see, e.g., Dec. 26, 2013, p. _). Similarly, a 
concurrent resolution adjourning one House typically provides for recall 
of that House (see, e.g., July 20, 1970, p. 24978).
  Pursuant to such recall authority: (1) the Speaker and the Majority 
Leader of the Senate notified Members of the House to reassemble, the 
Senate already being in session (Mar. 20, 2005, p. 5446, pursuant to H. 
Con. Res. 103, Mar. 17, 2005, p. 5143; Nov. 19, 2008, p. 24146 and Dec. 
9, 2008, p. 24496, pursuant to H. Con. Res. 440, Oct. 2, 2008, p. 
23766); (2) the Speaker and the Majority Leader of the Senate notified 
Members of both Houses to reassemble (Sept. 2, 2005, p. 19424, pursuant 
to H. Con. Res. 225, July 28, 2005, p. 18356; Sept. 6, 2013, p. _, 
pursuant to S. Con. Res. 22, Aug. 2, 2013, p. _).
  Joint leadership and House-only recall provisions were included in the 
sine die adjournment resolution for the second session of the 105th 
Congress (H. Con. Res. 353, Oct. 20, 1998, p. 27348), and the Speaker 
exercised recall authority under that resolution to reassemble the House 
(Dec. 17, 1998, p. 27802). One-House recall authority, with provision to 
again adjourn for more than three days, was included in two 
complementary one-House adjournment resolutions of the 111th Congress 
(H. Con. Res. 307, H. Con. Res. 308, July 29, 2010, p. 14604) and the 
Speaker (Aug. 9, 2010, p. 15413) and Majority Leader of the Senate (Aug. 
12, 2010, p. 15504) each exercised recall authority under the respective 
adjournment resolution.
  After September 11, 2001, such recall authority has allowed reassembly 
at such place as may be designated (see, e.g., S. Con. Res. 160, Nov. 
22, 2002, p. 23512; H. Con. Res. 531, Dec. 7, 2004, p. 25708). More 
recently, such recall authority permitted recall by designees of the 
Speaker and the Majority Leader of the Senate (see, e.g., S. Con. Res. 
132, July 26, 2002, p. 15138). The Speaker executes by letter the 
designation under a concurrent resolution of adjournment (e.g., Mar. 13, 
2003, p. 6123). Such letter was expanded in the 114th Congress to 
account for the increased use of separate recall authority and for new 
designation authority in clause 12(f) of rule I (Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). 
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the designation of another Member to utilize reassembly authority under 
a joint resolution changing the convening date of the next session (H. 
J. Res. 80, Dec. 15, 2003, p. 32411).
  A resolution adopted in the first session of the 106th Congress 
provided for an adjournment to a date certain, unless the House sooner 
received a specified message from the Senate, in which case it would 
stand adjourned sine die (H. Con. Res. 235, Nov. 18, 1999, p. 30734). A 
simple resolution adopted in the first session of the 111th Congress 
provided for a series of adjournments of not more than three days, 
unless the House sooner received: (1) a specified message from the 
Senate, (2) confirmation that the President had approved a certain bill, 
and (3) a message that the Senate had concurred in an adjournment 
resolution, in which case it would stand adjourned pursuant to such 
adjournment resolution (H. Res. 976, Dec. 16, 2009, p. 32039). It has 
become the common practice for the House, by unanimous consent adopted 
after originating an adjournment resolution, to fix a time to which it 
would adjourn within three days unless the House were sooner to receive 
a message from the Senate transmitting its adoption of the adjournment 
resolution, in which case the House would stand adjourned pursuant to 
that resolution (see, e.g., Nov. 3, 2000, p. 25993; Mar. 20, 2002, p. 
3726).
  A concurrent resolution providing for adjournment sine die of the 
first session may contain a proviso that when the second session 
convenes the Senate or House may not conduct organizational or 
legislative business but shall adjourn on that day until a date certain, 
unless sooner recalled (H. Con. Res. 232, Dec. 20, 1979, p. 37317; H. 
Con. Res. 260, Nov. 26, 1991, p. 35840; H. Con. Res. 235, Nov. 18, 1999, 
p. 30734). The prohibition on the conduct of such business may be 
applied to the House by simple resolution and may vest the Speaker with 
the authority to dispense with such business over a period of time (H. 
Res. 619, as amended by H. Res. 640, Dec. 16, 2005, p. 29054, Dec. 18, 
2005, p. 30378). Such a prohibition does not preclude recognition for 
one-minute speeches and special-order speeches by unanimous consent 
(Jan. 3, 1992, pp. 2, 9) or the introduction and numbering of bills and 
resolutions (which would not be noted in the Congressional Record or 
referred by the Speaker until the next legislative day, when executive 
communications, petitions, and memorials also would be numbered and 
referred) (Jan. 24, 2000, p. 48). The House has passed a joint 
resolution appointing a day for the convening of a second session of a 
Congress and provided for possible earlier assembly by joint-leadership 
recall (see, e.g., H. J. Res. 80, Dec. 20, 2001, p. 27597; H. J. Res. 
80, Nov. 21, 2003, pp. 30856, 30857).
  A concurrent resolution to provide for adjournment for more than three 
days or an adjournment sine die is offered in the House as a matter of 
privilege (V, 6701-6706), and is not debatable (VIII, 3372-3374), though 
a Member may be recognized under a reservation of objection to a 
unanimous-consent request that the resolution be agreed to (Oct. 27, 
1990, p. 36850). The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 provides for 
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ment sine die, or (in an odd-numbered year) an adjournment of slightly 
over a month (from that Friday in August which is at least 30 days 
before Labor Day to the Wednesday following Labor Day) unless the nation 
is in a state of war, declared by Congress (sec. 461(b); 84 Stat. 1140). 
Congress may, of course, waive this requirement and make other 
determinations regarding its adjournment (see Sec. 1106, infra).
  The requirement that resolutions providing for an adjournment sine die 
of either House may not be considered until Congress has completed 
action on the second concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal 
year in question, and on any reconciliation legislation required by such 
a resolution, contained in section 310(f) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344), was repealed by the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177). That law amended 
sections 309 and 310 of the Congressional Budget Act to prohibit the 
consideration of concurrent resolutions providing adjournments for more 
than three calendar days during the month of July until the House has 
approved annual appropriation bills within the jurisdictions of all the 
subcommittees on Appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year, and until 
the House has completed action on all reconciliation legislation for the 
ensuing fiscal year required to be reported by the concurrent resolution 
on the budget for that year (see Sec. 1127, infra).

  Section 6. \1\The Senators <> and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their 
Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the 
United States.

  The 27th amendment to the Constitution addresses laws varying the 
compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives (see 
Sec. 258, infra). The present rate of compensation of Representatives, 
the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, Delegates, the Speaker, the 
Majority and Minority Leaders of the House, and the Vice President is 
established by law (2 U.S.C. 4501; 3 U.S.C. 104) with an additional 
amount per annum to assist in defraying expenses for the Speaker and 
Vice President (2 U.S.C. 5121; 3 U.S.C. 111). These rates of 
compensation are all (except for the expense allowances) subject to 
annual cost of living adjustments (2 U.S.C. 4501(2)). The present rate 
of compensation of Senators is that fixed by section 1101 of Public Law 
101-194, as adjusted pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 4501(2).
  Under <> the Federal Salary Act 
of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 351-362), the Citizens' Commission on Public Service 
and Compensation (formerly the Commission on Executive, Legislative and 
Judicial Salaries) is authorized and directed to conduct quadrennial 
reviews of the rates of pay of specified government officials, including 
Members of Congress, and to report to the President the results

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of each review and its recommendations for adjustments in such rates. 
The enactment of those recommendations is governed by the Federal Salary 
Act (see Sec. 1130(12), infra).
  The statute also provides for deductions from the pay of Members and 
Delegates who are absent from the sessions of the House for reasons 
other than illness of themselves and families, or who retire before the 
end of the Congress (2 U.S.C. 5306; IV, 3011, footnote). The law as to 
deductions has been held to apply only to Members who have taken the 
oath (II, 1154). Members and Delegates are paid monthly on certificate 
of the Speaker (2 U.S.C. 5301, 5302, 5304). The residence of a Member of 
Congress for purpose of imposing State income tax laws shall be the 
State from which elected and not the State, or subdivision thereof, in 
which the Member maintains an abode for the purpose of attending 
sessions of Congress (4 U.S.C. 113). The pension of a Member may be 
forfeited upon conviction involving abuse of the public trust (5 U.S.C. 
8312, 8411).
  Questions have arisen <> frequently as to compensation of Members especially in 
cases of Members elected to fill vacancies (I, 500; II, 1155) and in 
which there have been questions as to incompatible offices (I, 500) or 
claims to a seat (II, 1206). The Supreme Court has held that a Member 
chosen to fill a vacancy is entitled to salary only from the time that 
the compensation of the predecessor has ceased. Page v. United States, 
127 U.S. 67 (1888); see also 2 U.S.C. 5304.
  In the 92d <> Congress, the provisions of H. Res. 457 of that Congress, 
authorizing the Committee on House Administration to adjust allowances 
of Members and committees without further action by the House, were 
enacted into permanent law (2 U.S.C. 4313), but the 94th Congress 
enacted into permanent law H. Res. 1372 of that Congress, stripping the 
committee of that authority and requiring House approval of the 
committee's recommendations, except in cases made necessary by price 
changes in materials and supplies, technological advances in office 
equipment, and cost of living increases (2 U.S.C. 4314). The Committee 
on House Administration retains authority under 2 U.S.C. 4313 to 
independently adjust amounts under certain conditions outlined in 2 
U.S.C. 4314 (Mar. 21, 1977, p. 8227; Apr. 21, 1983, p. 9339). The text 
of those statutes follow:

   ``Sec. 4313. Adjustment of House of Representatives allowances by 
                    Committee on House Administration

  ``(a) In general.--Subject to the provision of law specified in 
subsection (b) of this section, the Committee on House Administration of 
the House of Representatives may, by order of the Committee, fix and 
adjust the amounts, terms, and conditions of, and other matters relating 
to, allowances of the House of Representatives within the following 
categories:

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          ``(1) For Members of the House of Representatives, the 
        Members' Representational Allowance, including all aspects of 
        the Official Mail Allowance within the jurisdiction of the 
        Committee under section 59(e) of this title.
          ``(2) For committees, the Speaker, the Majority and Minority 
        Leaders, the Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Chief 
        Administrative Officer, allowances for official mail (including 
        all aspects of the Official Mail Allowance within the 
        jurisdiction of the Committee under section 59e of this title), 
        stationery, and telephone and telegraph and other 
        communications.
  ``(b) Provision specified.--The provision of law referred to in 
subsection (a) of this section is section 57a of this title.
  ``(c) Member of the House of Representatives defined.--As used in this 
section, the term `Member of the House of Representatives' means a 
Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
Congress.''

  ``Sec. 4314. Limitation on allowance authority of Committee on House 
                             Administration.

  ``(a) In general.--An order under the provision of law specified in 
subsection (c) of this section may fix or adjust the allowances of the 
House of Representatives only by reason of--
          ``(1) a change in the price of materials, services, or office 
        space;
          ``(2) a technological change or other improvement in office 
        equipment; or
          ``(3) an increase under section 5303 of title 5 in rates of 
        pay under the General Schedule.
  ``(b) Resolution requirement.--In the case of reasons other than the 
reasons specified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) of 
this section, the fixing and adjustment of the allowances of the House 
of Representatives in the categories described in the provision of law 
specified in subsection (c) of this section may be carried out only by 
resolution of the House of Representatives.
  ``(c) Provision specified.--The provision of law referred to in 
subsections (a) and (b) of this section is section 57 of this title.''

  In the 104th Congress the Committee on House Administration 
promulgated an order abolishing separate allowances for Clerk Hire, 
Official Expenses, and Official Mail, in favor of a single ``Members' 
Representational Allowance'' (MRA), which was ultimately enacted into 
law (2 U.S.C. 5341). The MRA is provided for the employment of staff in 
the Member's Washington and district offices, official expenses incurred 
by the Member, and the postage expenses of first, third, and fourth 
class frankable mail.
  Until January 1, 1988, the maximum salary for staff members was the 
rate of basic pay authorized for Level V of the Executive Schedule (by 
order of the Committee on House Administration, Mar. 21, 1977, p. 8227). 
Under section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988, as

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contained in section 101(i) of Public Law 100-202 (2 U.S.C. 4532), the 
maximum salary for staff members is set by pay order of the Speaker. A 
Member may not employ a relative on an MRA (5 U.S.C. 3110). The Code of 
Official Conduct also precludes certain hiring practices of Members (see 
Sec. 1095, infra).
  Until the 103d Congress, a Member could employ a ``Lyndon Baines 
Johnson Congressional Intern'' for a maximum of two months at not to 
exceed $1,160 per month. Such internships were available for college 
students and secondary or postsecondary school teachers (H. Res. 420, 
Sept. 18, 1973, p. 30186; 2 U.S.C. 5322). Any paid internship is now 
funded through the MRA.
  The statutes provide for continuation of the pay of clerical 
assistants to a Member upon death or resignation, until a successor is 
elected to fill the vacancy, and such clerical assistants perform their 
duties under the direction of the Clerk of the House (2 U.S.C. 5323-
5329). Upon the expulsion of a Member in the 96th Congress, the House by 
resolution extended those provisions to any termination of service by a 
Member during the term of office (H. Res. 804, Oct. 2, 1980, p. 28978).
  For current information on the MRA and the method of its accounting 
and disbursement, see current U.S. House of Representatives 
Congressional Handbook, Committee on House Administration.
  At its <> organization the 104th Congress prohibited the 
establishment or continuation of any legislative service organization 
(as that term had been understood in the 103d Congress) and directed the 
Committee on House Administration to take such steps as were necessary 
to ensure an orderly termination and accounting for funds of any 
legislative service organization in existence on January 3, 1995 (sec. 
222, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 477). The 114th Congress authorized the 
payment of salaries and expenses by certain Congressional Member 
Organizations that had registered with the Committee on House 
Administration during the previous Congress (sec. 3(p), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 2015, p. _).
  Separate from the <> MRA 
specified above, the leaders of the House (the Speaker, Majority Leader, 
Minority Leader, Majority Whip, and Minority Whip) are entitled to 
office staffing allowances consisting of certain statutory positions as 
well as lump-sum appropriations authorized by section 473 of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140). The portion of 
these allowances for leadership office personnel may be adjusted by the 
Clerk of the House in certain situations when the President effects a 
pay adjustment for certain classes of Federal employees under the 
Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-656; 84 Stat. 1946).
  Under <> section 311(d) of 
the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (2 U.S.C. 4532), the 
Speaker may issue ``pay orders'' that adjust pay levels for officers and 
employees of the House to maintain certain relationships with com

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parable levels in the Senate and in the other branches of government. 
For the text of section 311(d), see Sec. 1130(12), infra.

  * * * They [the <> Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except 
Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest 
during their attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and 
in going to and returning from the same; * * *

  The word ``felony'' <> in this provision has been interpreted not to 
refer to a delinquency in a matter of debt (III, 2676), and ``treason, 
felony, and breach of the peace'' have been construed to mean all 
indictable crimes (III, 2673). The Supreme Court has held that the 
privilege does not apply to arrest in any criminal case. Williamson v. 
United States, 207 U.S. 425 (1908). The courts have discussed and 
sustained the privilege of the Member in going to and returning from the 
session (III, 2674); and where a person assaulted a Member on his way to 
the House, although at a place distant therefrom, the House arrested him 
on warrant of the Speaker, arraigned him at the bar and had him 
imprisoned (II, 1626, 1628). Other assaults under these circumstances 
have been treated as breaches of privilege (II, 1645). Where a Member 
had been arrested and detained under mesne process in a civil suit 
during a recess of Congress, the House decided that he was entitled to 
discharge on the assembling of Congress, and liberated him and restored 
him to his seat by the hands of its own officer (III, 2676). Service of 
process is distinguished from arrest in civil cases and related 
historical data are collected in Long v. Ansell, 293 U.S. 76 (1934), in 
which the Supreme Court held that the clause was applicable only to 
arrests in civil suits, now largely obsolete but common at the time of 
the adoption of the United States Constitution. Rule VIII (formerly rule 
L) was added in the 97th Congress to provide a standing procedure 
governing subpoenas to Members, officers, and employees directing their 
appearance as witnesses relating to the official functions of the House, 
or for the production of House documents.

<>   * * * and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they 
[the Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other 
place.


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  This privilege as <> to ``any 
speech or debate'' applies generally to ``things done in a session of 
the House by one of its Members in relation to the business before it.'' 
Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1880), cited at III, 2675. See also 
II, 1655 and Sec. Sec. 301, 302, infra, for provisions in Jefferson's 
Manual on the privilege; and Deschler, ch. 7. Moreover, it applies to 
all acts within the ``legislative sphere,'' which includes matters that 
are ``an integral part of the deliberative and communicative processes 
by which Members participate in committee and House proceedings with 
respect to the consideration or passage or rejection of proposed 
legislation or with respect to other matters which the Constitution 
places within the jurisdiction of either House.'' Gravel v. United 
States, 408 U.S. 606, 624, 625 (1972). The clause precludes judicial 
inquiry into the motivation, preparation, or content of a Member's 
speech on the floor and prevents such a speech from being made the basis 
for a criminal conspiracy charge against the Member. United States v. 
Johnson, 383 U.S. 169 (1966). The Supreme Court held in United States v. 
Helstoski, 442 U.S. 447 (1979), that under the Speech or Debate Clause, 
neither evidence of nor references to legislative acts of a Member of 
Congress may be introduced by the Government in a prosecution under the 
official bribery statute. But the Supreme Court has limited the scope of 
legislative activity that is protected under the clause by upholding 
grand jury inquiry into the possession and nonlegislative use of 
classified documents by a Member. Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606 
(1972). The Court has also sustained the validity of an indictment of a 
Member for accepting an illegal bribe to perform legislative acts in 
which the prosecution established a prima facie case without relying on 
the Member's constitutionally-protected legislative speech. United 
States v. Brewster, 408 U.S. 501 (1972). Nor does the clause protect 
transmittal of allegedly defamatory material issued in press releases 
and newsletters by a Senator, because neither was essential to the 
deliberative process of the Senate. Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111 
(1979). For a discussion of waivers of the Speech or Debate clause, see 
Sec. 301, infra.
  Legislative employees acting under orders of the House are not 
necessarily protected under the clause from judicial inquiry into the 
constitutionality of their actions. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 165 
(1880); Dombrowski v. Eastland, 387 U.S. 82 (1967); Powell v. McCormack, 
395 U.S. 486 (1969). But see Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606 
(1972), in which the Supreme Court held that the aide of a Senator was 
protected under the clause when performing legislative acts that would 
have been protected under the clause if performed by the Senator 
himself. There is no distinction between the members of a Senate 
subcommittee and its chief counsel insofar as complete immunity under 
the Speech or Debate Clause is provided for the issuance of a subpoena 
pursuant to legitimate legislative inquiry. Eastland v. U.S. 
Servicemen's Fund, 421 U.S. 491 (1975). See also Doe v. McMillan, 412 
U.S. 306 (1973) (relating to the dissemination of a congressional 
report) for the immunity under this clause of Members

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of the House and their staffs, and for the common-law immunity of the 
Public Printer (now the Director of the Government Publishing Office) 
and Superintendent of Documents.
  For Federal court decisions on the applicability of the clause to 
unofficial circulation of reprints from the Congressional Record, see 
McGovern v. Martz, 182 F. Supp. 343 (1960); Long v. Ansell, 69 F.2d 386 
(1934), aff'd, 293 U.S. 76 (1934); Methodist Federation for Social 
Action v. Eastland, 141 F. Supp. 729 (1956). For inquiry into a Member's 
use of the franking privilege, see Hoellen v. Annunzio, 468 F.2d 522 
(1972), cert. denied, 412 U.S. 953 (1973); Schiaffo v. Helstoski, 350 F. 
Supp. 1076 (1972), rev'd 492 F.2d 413 (1974). For inquiry into the 
printing of committee reports, see Doe v. McMillan, 412 U.S. 306 (1973); 
Hentoff v. Ichord, 318 F. Supp. 1175 (1970).
  For assaulting a <> Member for 
words spoken in debate, Samuel Houston, not a Member, was arrested, 
tried, and censured by the House (II, 1616-1619). Where Members have 
assaulted other Members for words spoken in debate (II, 1656), or 
proceeded by duel (II, 1644), or demanded explanation in a hostile 
manner (II, 1644), the House has considered the cases as of privilege. A 
communication addressed to the House by an official in an Executive 
Department calling in question words uttered by a Member in debate was 
criticized as a breach of privilege and withdrawn (III, 2684). An 
explanation having been demanded of a Member by a person not a Member 
for a question asked of the latter when a witness before the House, the 
matter was considered but not pressed as a breach of privilege (III, 
2681). A letter from a person supposed to have been assailed by a Member 
in debate, asking properly and without menace if the speech was 
correctly reported, was held to involve no question of privilege (III, 
2682). Unless it is clear that a Member has been questioned for words 
spoken in debate, the House declines to act (II, 1620; III, 2680).
  For assaulting a Member, Charles C. Glover was arrested, arraigned at 
the bar of the House, and censured by the Speaker by direction of the 
House, although the provocation of the assault was words spoken in 
debate in the previous Congress (VI, 333).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1880); 
Tenney v. Brandhove, 341 U.S. 367 (1951); United States v. Johnson, 383 
U.S. 169 (1966); Dombrowski v. Eastland, 387 U.S. 82 (1967); Powell v. 
McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969); Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606 
(1972); United States v. Brewster, 408 U.S. 501 (1972); Doe v. McMillan, 
412 U.S. 306 (1973); Eastland v. United States Serviceman's Fund, 421 
U.S. 491 (1975); United States v. Helstoski, 442 U.S. 477 (1979); 
Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111 (1979); Helstoski v. Meanor, 442 
U.S. 500 (1979).


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  \2\No Senator or <> Representative shall, during the Time for which he 
was elected, be appointed to any Civil Office under the Authority of the 
United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof 
shall have been encreased during such time; *  *  *.

  In a few cases questions have arisen under this paragraph (I, 506, 
footnote; and see 42 Op. Att'y Gen. 36 (1969); see also Deschler, ch. 7; 
P.L. 110-455 (emoluments of Secretary of State); P.L. 111-1 (emoluments 
of Secretary of the Interior).

<>   
*  *  * and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall 
be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

  The meaning of the word ``office'' as used in this paragraph has been 
discussed (I, 185, 417, 478, 493; II, 993; VI, 60, 64), as has also the 
general subject of incompatible offices (I, 563).
  The Committee on the Judiciary <> has concluded that members of commissions 
created by law to investigate and report, but having no legislative, 
executive, or judicial powers, and visitors to academies, regents, 
directors, and trustees of public institutions, appointed under the law 
by the Speaker, are not officers within the meaning of the Constitution 
(I, 493). Membership on joint committees created by statute is not an 
office in the contemplation of the constitutional provision prohibiting 
Members of Congress from holding simultaneously other offices under the 
United States (VII, 2164). A Member of either House is eligible to 
appointment to any office not forbidden him by law, the duties of which 
are not incompatible with those of a Member (VI, 63) and the question as 
to whether a Member may be appointed to the Board of Managers of the 
Soldiers' Home and become local manager of one of the homes, is a matter 
for the decision of Congress itself (VI, 63). The House has also 
distinguished between the performance of paid services for the Executive 
(I, 495), like temporary service as assistant United States attorney 
(II, 993), and the acceptance of an incompatible office. The House has 
declined to hold that a contractor under the Government is 
constitutionally disqualified to serve as a Member (I, 496). But the 
House, or its committees, have found disqualified a Member who was 
appointed a militia officer in the District of Columbia (I, 486) and in 
various States (VI, 60), and Members who have accepted commissions in 
the Army (I, 491, 492, 494). But the Committee on the Judiciary has 
expressed the

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opinion that persons on the retired list of the Army do not hold office 
under the United States in the constitutional sense (I, 494). A Member-
elect has continued to act as governor of a State after the assembling 
of the Congress to which he was elected (I, 503), but the duties of a 
Member of the House and the Governor of a State are absolutely 
inconsistent and may not be simultaneously discharged by the same Member 
(VI, 65).-
  The House decided <> that the status of a Member-elect was 
not affected by the constitutional requirement (I, 499), the theory 
being advanced that the status of the Member-elect is distinguished from 
the status of the Member who has qualified (I, 184). A Member-elect, who 
continued in an office after his election but resigned before taking his 
seat, was held entitled to the seat (I, 497, 498). However, when a 
Member-elect held an incompatible office after the meeting of Congress 
and his taking of the oath, he was held to have disqualified himself (I, 
492). In other words, the Member-elect may defer until the meeting of 
Congress and his taking of the oath, his choice between the seat and an 
incompatible office (I, 492). As early as 1874 the Attorney General 
opined that a Member-elect is not officially a Member of the House, and 
thus may hold any office until sworn (14 Op. Att'y Gen. 408 (1874)).
  The House has <> manifestly subscribed to the idea that a 
contestant holding an incompatible office need not make an election 
until the House has declared the contestant entitled to the seat (I, 
505). Although a contestant had accepted and held a State office in 
violation of the State constitution, if he were really elected a Member, 
the House did not treat his contest as abated (II, 1003). Where a Member 
had been appointed to an incompatible office a contestant not found to 
be elected was not admitted to fill the vacancy (I, 807).
  Where a Member <> has accepted an incompatible 
office, the House has assumed or declared the seat vacant (I, 501, 502; 
VI, 65). In the cases of Baker and Yell, the Elections Committee 
concluded that the acceptance of a commission as an officer of 
volunteers in the national army vacated the seat of a Member (I, 488), 
and in another similar case the Member was held to have forfeited his 
right to a seat (I, 490). The House has seated a person bearing regular 
credentials on ascertaining that his predecessor in the same Congress 
had accepted a military office (I, 572). But usually the House by 
resolution formally declares the seat vacant (I, 488, 492). A Member-
elect may defer until the meeting of Congress and the taking of the oath 
of office the choice between the seat and an incompatible office (I, 
492). But when he retains the incompatible office and does not qualify, 
a vacancy has been held to exist (I, 500). A resolution excluding a 
Member who has accepted an incompatible office may be agreed to by a 
majority vote (I, 490). A Member charged with acceptance of an 
incompatible office was heard in his own behalf during the debate (I, 
486).

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  Where it was held in Federal court that a Member of Congress may not 
hold a commission in the Armed Forces Reserve under this clause, the 
U.S. Supreme Court reversed on other grounds, the plaintiff's lack of 
standing to maintain the suit. Reservists Committee to Stop the War v. 
Laird, 323 F. Supp. 833 (1971), aff'd, 595 F.2d 1075 (1972), rev'd on 
other grounds, 418 U.S. 208 (1974).

  Section 7. \1\All Bills <> for raising Revenue shall originate in the 
House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with 
Amendments as on other Bills.

  This provision has been the subject of much discussion (II, 1488, 
1494). In the earlier days the practice was not always correct (II, 
1484); but in later years the House has insisted on its prerogative and 
the Senate has often shown reluctance to infringe thereon (II, 1482, 
1483, 1493). In several instances, however, the subject has been a 
matter of contention, conference (II, 1487, 1488), and final 
disagreement (II, 1485, 1487, 1488). Sometimes, however, when the House 
has questioned an invasion of prerogative, the Senate has receded (II, 
1486, 1493). The disagreements have been especially vigorous over the 
right of the Senate to concur with amendments (II, 1489), and although 
the Senate has acquiesced in the sole right of the House to originate 
revenue bills, it has at the same time held to a broad power of 
amendment (II, 1497-1499). The House has frequently challenged the 
Senate on this point (II, 1481, 1491, 1496; Sept. 14, 1965, p. 23632). 
When the House has perceived an invasion of its prerogative, it has 
ordered the bill or Senate amendment to be returned to the Senate (II, 
1480-1499; VI, 315, 317; Mar. 30, 1937, p. 2930; July 2, 1960, p. 15818; 
Oct. 10, 1962, p. 23014; May 20, 1965, p. 11149; June 20, 1968, p. 
22127; Nov. 8, 1979, p. 31518; May 17, 1983, p. 12486; Oct. 1, 1985, p. 
25418; Sept. 25, 1986, p. 26202; July 30, 1987, p. 21582; June 16, 1988, 
p. 14780; June 21, 1988, p. 15425; Sept. 23, 1988, p. 25094; Sept. 28, 
1988, p. 26415; Oct. 21, 1988, pp. 33110-11; June 15, 1989, p. 12167; 
Nov. 9, 1989, p. 28271; Oct. 22, 1991, p. 27087; Oct. 31, 1991, p. 
29284; Feb. 25, 1992, p. 3377; July 14, 1994, p. 16593; July 21, 1994, 
p. 17280; July 21, 1994, p. 17281; Aug. 12, 1994, pp. 7642, 7643; Oct. 
7, 1994, p. 29136, 29137; Mar. 21, 1996, p. 5950; Apr. 16, 1996, pp. 
7642, 7643; Sept. 27, 1996, p. 25542; Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25931; Mar. 5, 
1998, p. 2618; Oct. 15, 1998, p. 26483; July 15, 1999, p. 16317; Nov. 
18, 1999, p. 30732; Oct. 24, 2000, p. 24149; Sept. 20, 2001, p. 17454; 
Sept. 23, 2010, pp. 16379, 16380; Dec. 12, 2012, p. _), or declined to 
proceed further with it (II, 1485). Among the measures the House has 
returned to the Senate: a Senate-passed bill providing for the sale of 
Conrail and containing provisions relating to the tax treatment of the 
sale, notwithstanding inclusion in that bill of a disclaimer section 
requiring all revenue provisions therein to be contained

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in separate legislation originating in the House (Sept. 25, 1986, p. 
26202); a Senate-passed bill prohibiting the importation of commodities 
subject to tariff (July 30, 1987, p. 21582); a Senate-passed bill 
banning all imports from Iran, a tariff measure as affecting revenue 
from dutiable imports (June 16, 1988, p. 14780); a Senate-passed bill 
dealing with the tax treatment of income derived from the exercise of 
Indian treaty fishing rights (June 21, 1988, p. 15425); a Senate-passed 
bill creating a tax-exempt government corporation (June 15, 1989, p. 
12167); a Senate-passed bill addressing the tax treatment of police-
corps scholarships and the regulation of firearms under the Internal 
Revenue Code (Oct. 22, 1991, p. 27087); a Senate-passed bill including 
certain import sanctions in an export administration statute (Oct. 31, 
1991, p. 29284); a Senate-passed bill requiring the President to impose 
sanctions including import restrictions against countries that fail to 
eliminate large-scale driftnet fishing (Feb. 25, 1992, p. 3377); a 
Senate amendment to a general appropriation bill prohibiting funds for 
the Internal Revenue Service to enforce a requirement to use undyed 
diesel fuel for use in recreational boats (July 14, 1994, p. 16593); a 
Senate amendment to a general appropriation bill proposing a user fee 
raising revenue to finance broader activities of the agency imposing the 
levy, thereby raising general revenue (Aug. 12, 1994, p. 21656); a 
Senate amendment to a general appropriation bill proposing to increase 
two fees to finance general government operations (Sept. 23, 2010, pp. 
16379, 16380); a Senate-passed bill proposing to regulate toxic 
substances by prohibiting the import of products containing more than 
specified level of lead (July 21, 1994, p. 17280); a Senate-passed bill 
proposing to repeal a fee on electricity generated by nuclear energy 
that otherwise would raise revenue (Mar. 5, 1998, p. 2618); a Senate-
passed bill proposing new import restrictions on products containing any 
substance derived from rhinoceroses or tigers (Oct. 15, 1998, p. 26483); 
Senate-passed bills proposing an amendment to the criminal code that 
would make it unlawful to import certain assault weapons (Oct. 22, 1991, 
p. 27087) or to import large capacity ammunition feeding devices (July 
15, 1999, p. 16317); Senate-passed bills prescribing the tax treatment 
of certain benefits to members of the Armed Forces (Nov. 18, 1999, p. 
30732) or of public-sector retirement plans (Nov. 18, 1999, p. 30734); a 
Senate-passed bill proposing to create a new basis for applying import 
restrictions on bear viscera or products derived therefrom (Oct. 24, 
2000, p. 24149); a Senate amendment proposing to enact by reference a 
Senate bill providing for a ban on (dutiable) imports of diamonds from 
certain countries (Sept. 20, 2001, p. 17454). The House laid on the 
table a resolution asserting that a conference report (on which the 
House was acting first) accompanying a House bill originated provisions 
in derogation of the constitutional prerogative of the House and 
resolving that such bill be recommitted to conference (July 27, 2000, p. 
16565). The House, by adopting one resolution, has returned multiple 
measures to the Senate (Sept. 23, 2010, pp. 16379, 16380; Dec. 12, 2012, 
p. _).

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  A bill raising revenue incidentally was held not to infringe upon the 
constitutional prerogative of the House to originate revenue legislation 
(VI, 315). A question relating to the invasion of the constitutional 
prerogatives of the House by a Senate amendment may be raised at any 
time when the House is in possession of the papers, but not otherwise; 
thus, the question has been presented pending the motion to call up a 
conference report on the bill (June 20, 1968, Deschler, ch. 13, 
Sec. 14.2; Aug. 19, 1982, p. 22127), but has been held nonprivileged 
with respect to a bill already presented to the President (Apr. 6, 1995, 
p. 10700). The Senate decided that a bill proposing a gasoline tax in 
the District of Columbia should not originate in the Senate (VI, 316).
  Clause 5(a) of rule XXI prohibits consideration of any amendment, 
including any Senate amendment, proposing a tax or tariff during 
consideration of a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not 
having that jurisdiction (Sec. 1066, infra).
  For a discussion of the prerogatives of the House under this clause, 
and discussion of the prerogatives of the House to originate 
appropriation bills, see Deschler, ch. 13. For a discussion of the 
prerogatives of the House with respect to treaties affecting revenue, 
see Sec. 597, infra. For examples of Senate messages requesting the 
return of Senate revenue measures, see Sec. 565, infra.
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892); Twin 
City Bank v. Nebeker, 167 U.S. 196 (1897); Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 
U.S. 107 (1911); Millard v. Roberts, 202 U.S. 429 (1906); Rainey v. 
United States, 232 U.S. 310 (1914); United States v. Munoz-Flores, 495 
U.S. 385 (1990).

  \2\Every Bill <> which shall have passed the House of Representatives 
and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the 
President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if 
not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it 
shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their 
Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two 
thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, 
together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall 
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ered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a 
Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined 
by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against 
the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. * * 
*.

  Under the usual <> practice, 
bills are considered to have been presented to the President at the time 
they are delivered to the White House. In 1959, bills delivered to the 
White House while the President was abroad were held for presentation to 
the President upon his return to the United States by the White House. 
The United States Court of Claims held, in Eber Bros. Wine and Liquor 
Corp. v. United States, 337 F.2d 624 (1964), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 950 
(1965), that where the President had determined, with the informal 
acquiescence of leaders of Congress, that bills from the Congress were 
to be received at the White House only for presentation to him upon his 
return to the United States and the bill delivered to the White House 
was so stamped, the Presidential veto of the bill more than 10 days 
after delivery to the White House but less than 10 days after his return 
to the country was timely. The second session of the 89th Congress 
adjourned sine die while President Johnson was on an Asian tour and 
receipts for bills delivered to the White House during that time were 
marked in like manner. The approval of a bill by the President of the 
United States is valid only with his signature (IV, 3490). Before the 
adoption of the 20th amendment to the Constitution (which changed the 
date of meeting of Congress to January 3), at the close of a Congress, 
when the two Houses prolonged their sessions into the forenoon of March 
4, the approvals were dated on the prior legislative day, because the 
legislative portion of March 4 belonged to the term of the new Congress. 
In one instance, however, bills signed on the forenoon of March 4 were 
dated as of that day with the hour and minute of approval given with the 
date (IV, 3489). The act of President Tyler in filing with a bill an 
exposition of his reasons for signing it was examined and severely 
criticized by a committee of the House (IV, 3492); and in 1842 a 
committee of the House discussed the act of President Jackson in writing 
above his signature of approval a memorandum of his construction of the 
bill (IV, 3492). But if the President has accompanied his message 
announcing the approval with a statement of his reasons there has been 
no question in the House (IV, 3491). The statutes require that bills 
signed by the President shall be received by the Archivist of the United 
States and deposited in his office (1 U.S.C. 106a). Formerly these bills 
were received by the Secretary of State (IV, 3485) and deposited in his 
office (IV, 3429).

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  Notice of the <> signature of a bill by the President is sent by message to 
the House in which it originated (VII, 1089) and that House informs the 
other (IV, 3429). But this notice is not necessary to the validity of 
the act (IV, 3495). Sometimes, at the close of a Congress the President 
informs the House of such bills as have been approved and of such as 
have been allowed to fail (IV, 3499-3502). In one instance he 
communicated his omission to sign a bill through the committee appointed 
to notify him that Congress was about to adjourn (IV, 3504). A bill that 
had not actually passed having been signed by the President, he 
disregarded it and a new bill was passed (IV, 3498). Messages of the 
President giving notice of bills approved are entered in the Journal and 
published in the Congressional Record (V, 6593).
  A message withholding <> approval of a bill, called a veto message, is sent to the House 
in which the bill originated; but it has been held that such a message 
may not be returned to the President on his request after it has been 
laid before the Senate (IV, 3521). In one instance a veto message that 
had not been laid before the House was returned to the President on his 
request (Aug. 1, 1946, p. 10651). A vetoed bill received in the House by 
way of the Senate is considered as if received directly from the 
President and supersedes the regular order of business (IV, 3537; VII, 
1109). A veto message may not be read after the absence of a quorum has 
been ascertained, even though the House be about to adjourn sine die 
(IV, 3522; VII, 1094); but the message may be read and acted on at the 
next session of the same Congress (IV, 3522). When the President has 
been prevented by adjournment from returning a bill with his objections 
he has sometimes at the next session communicated his reasons for not 
approving (V, 6618-6620).
  For enrollments returned with ``memoranda of disapproval,'' see 
Sec. 113, infra.
  It is possible, <> although not invariable, that a bill returned with the 
objections of the President shall be voted on at once (IV, 3534-3536) 
and when laid before the House the question on the passage is considered 
as pending and no motion from the floor is required (VII, 1097-1099), 
but it has been held that the constitutional mandate that the House 
shall ``proceed to reconsider'' means that the House shall immediately 
proceed to consider it under the Rules of the House, such that the 
ordinary motions under the Rules of the House (e.g., to refer or to 
postpone to a day certain) are in order (IV, 3542-3550; VII, 1100, 1105, 
1113; Speaker Wright, Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20280) and (for the stated 
examples) debatable under the hour rule (VIII, 2740). When consideration 
of a veto message is postponed to a date certain it has the status of 
unfinished business on that day, such that the House may proceed to its 
consideration without motion from the floor (e.g., May 9, 1996, p. 
10807; Nov. 6, 2007, pp. 29822, 29823). Although under clause 4 of rule 
XVI, and under the precedents the motion for the

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previous question takes precedence over motions to postpone or to refer 
when a question is under debate, if the Speaker has laid before the 
House a veto message from the President but has not yet stated the 
question to be on overriding the veto, that question is not ``under 
debate'' and the motion for the previous question does not take 
precedence (Speaker Wright, Aug. 3, 1988; Procedure, ch. 24, Sec. 15.8). 
A resolution asserting that to recognize for a motion to refer a veto 
message before stating the question on overriding the veto would 
interfere with the constitutional prerogative of the House to proceed to 
that question, and directing the Speaker to state the question on 
overriding the veto as pending before recognizing for a motion to refer, 
did not give rise to a question of the privileges of the House (Speaker 
Wright, Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20281). A motion to refer a vetoed bill, either 
with or without the message, has been held allowable within the 
constitutional mandate that the House shall ``proceed to reconsider'' 
(IV, 3550; VII, 1104, 1105, 1108, 1114), and in the 101st Congress, a 
veto pending as unfinished business was referred with instructions to 
consider and report promptly (Jan. 24, 1990, p. 421). But although the 
ordinary motion to refer may be applied to a vetoed bill, it is not in 
order to move to recommit it pending the demand for the previous 
question or after it is ordered (IV, 3551; VII, 1102). When a veto 
message is before the House for consideration de novo or as unfinished 
business, a motion to refer the message to committee takes precedence 
over the question of passing the bill, the objections of the President 
to the contrary notwithstanding (Procedure, ch. 24, Sec. 15.8; Oct. 25, 
1983, p. 29188), but the motion to refer may be laid on the table (Oct. 
25, 1983, p. 29188). A vetoed bill having been rejected by the House, 
the message was referred (IV, 3552; VII, 1103). Committees to which 
vetoed bills have been referred have sometimes neglected to report (IV, 
3523, 3550, footnotes; VII, 1108, 1114).
  A vetoed bill may be laid on the table (IV, 3549; VII, 1105), but it 
is still highly privileged and a motion to take it from the table is in 
order (IV, 3550; V, 5439). Also a motion to discharge a committee from 
the consideration of such a bill is privileged (IV, 3532; Aug. 4, 1988, 
p. 20365; Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23815) and (in the modern practice) is 
debatable (Mar. 7, 1990, p. 3620) but is subject to the motion to lay on 
the table (Sept. 7, 1965, p. 22958; Aug. 4, 1988, p. 20365). When the 
motion to discharge is agreed to, the veto message is pending as 
unfinished business (Mar. 7, 1990, p. 3621). Although a vetoed bill is 
always privileged, the same is not true of a bill reported in lieu of it 
(IV, 3531; VII, 1103).
  If two-thirds of <> the 
House to which a bill is returned with the President's objections agree 
to pass it, and then two-thirds of the other House also agree, it 
becomes a law (IV, 3520). The yeas and nays are required to pass a bill 
over the President's veto (art. I, sec. 7; IV, 2726, 3520; VII, 1110). 
The two-thirds vote required to pass the bill is two-thirds of the 
Members present and voting and not two-thirds of the total membership of 
the House (IV, 3537, 3538; Missouri Pac. Ry. Co. v. Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 
(1919)). Only Members

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voting should be considered in determining whether two-thirds voted in 
the affirmative (VII, 1111). The motion to reconsider may not be applied 
to the vote on reconsideration of a bill returned with the objections of 
the President (V, 5644; VIII, 2778).
  It is the practice for one House to inform the other by message of its 
decision that a bill returned with the objections of the President shall 
not pass (IV, 3539-3541). A bill passed notwithstanding the objections 
of the President is sent by the presiding officer of the House that last 
acts on it to the Archivist, who receives it and deposits it in his 
office (1 U.S.C. 106a). Formerly these bills were sent to the Secretary 
of State (IV, 3524) and deposited in his office (IV, 3485).
  A bill incorrectly <> enrolled has been recalled from the President, who erased 
his signature (IV, 3506). Bills sent to the President but not yet signed 
by him are sometimes recalled by concurrent resolution of the two Houses 
(IV, 3507-3509; VII, 1091; Sept. 4, 1962, p. 18405; May 6, 1974, p. 
13076), and amended; but this proceeding is regarded as irregular (IV, 
3510-3518). When the two Houses of Congress request the President by 
concurrent resolution to return an enrolled bill and the President 
honors the request, the ten-day period under this clause runs anew from 
the time the bill is re-enrolled and is again presented to the 
President. Thus, in the 93d Congress the President returned on May 7, 
1974 a bill pursuant to the request of Congress (H. Con. Res. 485, May 
6, 1974, p. 13076). The bill was again enrolled, presented to the 
President on May 7, and marked ``received May 7'' at the White House. An 
error in an enrolled bill that has gone to the President may also be 
corrected by a joint resolution (IV, 3519; VII, 1092). In the 99th 
Congress, two enrollments of a continuing appropriation bill for FY 1987 
were presented to and signed by the President, the second correcting an 
omission in the first (see P.L. 99-500 and 99-591). In Clinton v.  City 
of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998), the Supreme Court held that the 
cancellation procedures of the Line Item Veto Act violated the 
presentment clause of article I, section 7 of the Constitution. For a 
discussion of the operation of the Act during the period of its 
effectiveness, see Sec. 1130(6b), infra.
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Matthews v. Zane, 20 U.S. (7 Wheat.) 164 
(1822); Gardner v. Collector, 73 U.S. (6 Wall.) 499 (1868); Lapeyre v. 
United States, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) 191 (1873); La Abra Silver Mining Co. 
v. United States, 175 U.S. 423 (1899); Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. 
Kansas, 248 U.S. 276 (1919); Edwards v. United States, 286 U.S. 482 
(1932); Wright v. United States, 302 U.S. 583 (1938); Clinton v. City of 
New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998).


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  * * * If any <> Bill shall not be returned by the President 
within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to 
him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, 
unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which 
Case it shall not be a Law.

  A bill signed by the President within 10 days (Sunday excepted) after 
it has been presented becomes a law even though such signing takes place 
when Congress is not in session, whether during the period of an 
adjournment to a day certain or after the final adjournment of a session 
(IV, 3486). A President may sign a bill after adjournment sine die but 
within 10 days after its receipt. For example, President Truman, after 
the convening of the 82d Congress, approved bills passed and presented 
in the 81st Congress (e.g., P.L. 81-910); President Reagan, after the 
convening of the 98th Congress, approved bills passed and presented in 
the 97th Congress (e.g., P.L. 97-414); and President Obama, after the 
convening of the 113th Congress, approved bills passed and presented in 
the 112th Congress (e.g., P.L. 112-241). It was formerly contended that 
the President might not approve bills during a recess (IV, 3493, 3494), 
and in one instance, in 1864, when the President signed a bill after 
final adjournment of Congress but within 10 days grave doubts were 
raised and an adverse report was made by a House committee (IV, 3497). 
Later opinions of the Attorney General have been to the effect that the 
President has the power to approve bills within 10 days after they have 
been presented during the period of an adjournment to a day certain (IV, 
3496) and after an adjournment sine die (VII, 1088). The Supreme Court 
has held valid as laws bills signed by the President within 10 days 
during a recess for a specified time (La Abra Silver Mining Co. v. 
United States, 175 U.S. 451 (1899); IV, 3495) and also those signed 
after an adjournment sine die (Edwards v. United States, 286 U.S. 482 
(1932)).
  A bill that <> is passed by both 
Houses of Congress during the first regular session of a Congress and 
presented to the President less than 10 days (Sundays excepted) before 
the adjournment sine die of that session, but is neither signed by the 
President, nor returned to the House in which it originated, does not 
become a law (``The Pocket Veto Case,'' 279 U.S. 655 (1929); VII, 1115). 
The Supreme Court has held that the adjournment of the House of origin 
for not exceeding three days while the other branch of the Congress 
remained in session did not prevent a return of the vetoed bill to the 
House of origin. Wright v. United States, 302 U.S. 583 (1938). President 
Truman during an adjournment to a day certain pocket vetoed several 
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Congress and also, after the convening of the 82d Congress, pocket 
vetoed one bill passed in the 81st Congress.
  Doubt has existed <> as to whether a bill that remains with the President 10 days 
without his signature, Congress meanwhile before the tenth day having 
adjourned to a day certain, becomes a law (IV, 3483, 3496; VII, 1115); 
an opinion of the Attorney General in 1943 stated that under such 
circumstances a bill not signed by the President did not become a law 
(40 Op. Att'y Gen. 274 (1943)). However, more recently, where a Member 
of the Senate challenged in Federal court the effectiveness of such a 
pocket veto, a United States Court of Appeals held that a Senate bill 
could not be pocket-vetoed by the President during an ``intrasession'' 
adjournment of Congress to a day certain for more than three days, where 
the Secretary of the Senate had been authorized to receive Presidential 
messages during such adjournment. Kennedy v. Sampson, 511 F.2d 430 (D.C. 
Cir., 1974). See also Kennedy v. Jones, 412 F. Supp. 353 (D.D.C. 1976). 
Following a consent decree in this case, it was announced that President 
Ford would utilize a ``return'' veto, subject to override, in 
intersession and intrasession adjournments where authority exists for 
the appropriate House to receive such messages notwithstanding the 
adjournment.
  In the 101st, 110th, and 111th Congresses, when the President returned 
an enrolled bill during an intersession adjournment, not by way of 
message under seal but with a ``memorandum of disapproval'' setting 
forth his objections, the House treated it as a return veto subject to 
override under article I, section 7 (Jan. 23, 1990, p. 4; Jan. 15, 2008, 
pp. 11, 12; Jan. 12, 2010, p. 7). Similarly, in the 102d, 106th, and 
111th Congresses, an enrolled House bill returned to the Clerk during an 
intrasession recess, not by way of message under seal but with a 
``memorandum of disapproval'' setting forth the objections of the 
President, was considered as a return veto (Sept. 11, 1991, p. 22643; 
Sept. 6, 2000, p. 17156; Nov. 13, 2000, p. 26022; Nov. 15, 2010, p. 
17521). Also in the 102d Congress, President Bush purported on December 
20, 1991, to pocket veto a bill (S. 1176) that was presented to him on 
December 9, 1991, notwithstanding that the Congress was in an 
intrasession adjournment (from Nov. 27, 1991, until 11:55 a.m., Jan. 3, 
1992) rather than an adjournment sine die (see Jan. 23, 1992 [Daily 
Digest]); and during debate on a subsequent bill (S. 2184) purporting to 
repeal the provisions of S. 1176 and to enact instead provisions 
acceding to the objections of the President, the Speaker inserted 
remarks on the pocket veto in light of modern congressional practice 
concerning the receipt of messages and communications during recesses 
and adjournments (Mar. 3, 1992, p. 4081).
  In the 93d Congress, the President returned a House bill without his 
signature to the Clerk of the House, who had been authorized to receive 
messages from the President during an adjournment to a day certain, and 
the President asserted in his veto message that he had ``pocket vetoed'' 
the bill during the adjournment of the House to a day certain. The House

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regarded the President's return of the bill without his signature as a 
veto within the meaning of article I, section 7 of the Constitution and 
proceeded to reconsider and to pass the bill over the President's veto, 
after postponing consideration to a subsequent day (motion to postpone, 
Nov. 18, 1974, p. 36246; veto override, Nov. 20, 1974, p. 36621). 
Subsequently, on November 21, 1974, the Senate also voted to override 
the veto (p. 36882) and pursuant to 1 U.S.C. 106a the Enrolling Clerk of 
the Senate forwarded the bill to the Archives for publication as a 
public law. The Administrator of General Services at the Archives (now 
Archivist), upon instructions from the Department of Justice, declined 
to promulgate the bill as public law on the day received. The question 
as to the efficacy of the congressional action in passing the bill over 
the President's veto was mooted when the House and Senate passed on 
November 26, 1974 (pp. 37406, 37603), an identical bill that was signed 
into law on December 7, 1974 (P.L. 93-516).
  As part of the concurrent resolution providing for the adjournments 
sine die of the first sessions of the 101st Congress and 105th Congress, 
the Congress reaffirmed its position that an intersession adjournment 
did not prevent the return of a bill where the Clerk and the Secretary 
of the Senate were authorized to receive messages during the adjournment 
(H. Con. Res. 239, Nov. 21, 1989, p. 31156; S. Con. Res. 68, Nov. 13, 
1997, p. 26538). For the views of the Speaker, the Minority Leader, and 
the Attorney General concerning pocket veto authority during an 
intrasession adjournment, see correspondence inserted in the 
Congressional Record (Jan. 23, 1990, p. 3; Sept. 19, 2000, p. 18594; 
Nov. 13, 2000, p. 26022; Oct. 2, 2008, pp. 23874, 23875; May 26, 2010, 
pp. 9473, 9474); and for discussions of the constitutionality of 
intersession or intrasession pocket vetoes see Kennedy, ``Congress, The 
President, and The Pocket Veto,'' 63 Va. L. Rev. 355 (1977), and 
Hearing, Subcommittee on Legislative Process, Committee on Rules, on 
H.R. 849, 101st Congress.
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: La Abra Silver Mining Co. v. United States, 
175 U.S. 423 (1899); Wilkes County v. Coler, 180 U.S. 506 (1901); the 
Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655 (1929); Edwards v. United States, 286 
U.S. 482 (1932); Wright v. United States, 302 U.S. 583 (1938); Burke v. 
Barnes, 479 U.S. 361 (1987) (vacating and remanding as moot the decision 
sub nom. Barnes v. Kline, 759 F.2d 21 (D.C. Cir. 1984)).

  \3\Every Order, <> Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence 
of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a 
question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the 
United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved 
by him, or

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being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate 
and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations 
prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

  It has been settled conclusively that a joint resolution proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution should not be presented to the President 
for his approval (V, 7040; Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 
378 (1798)). Such joint resolutions, after passage by both Houses, are 
presented to the Archivist (1 U.S.C. 106b). Although the requirement of 
the Constitution seems specific, the practice of early Congresses was to 
present to the President for approval only such concurrent resolutions 
as were legislative in effect (IV, 3483, 3484).
  For discussion of Presidential approval of a joint resolution 
extending the period for State ratification of a constitutional 
amendment already submitted to the States, see Sec. 192, infra.
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892); United 
States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892); Fourteen Diamond Rings v. United 
States, 183 U.S. 176 (1901); INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983); Process 
Gas Consumer's Group v. Consumer Energy Council of America 463 U.S. 1216 
(1983).

  Section 8. The Congress <> shall 
have Power\1\ To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to 
pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of 
the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform 
throughout the United States;
<>   \2\To borrow Money on the 
credit of the United States:
  \3\To regulate <> Commerce with 
foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian 
Tribes;
  \4\To establish <> an 
uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of 
Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

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<>   \5\To coin Money, 
regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of 
Weights and Measures;
  \6\To provide <> for the Punishment 
of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;-
-
<>   \7\To establish Post 
Offices and Post Roads;
  \8\To promote <> the Progress 
of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and 
Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and 
Discoveries;
<>   \9\To constitute Tribunals 
inferior to the supreme Court;
<>   
\10\To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high 
Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
<>   
\11\To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules 
concerning Captures on Land and Water;

  The 93d <> Congress passed over the President's veto Public Law 93-
148, relating to the power of Congress to declare war under this clause 
and the power of the President as Commander in Chief under article II, 
section 2, clause 1. The law requires that the President report to 
Congress on the introduction of United States Armed Forces in the 
absence of a declaration of war. The President must terminate use of the 
Armed Forces unless Congress, within 60 calendar days after a report is 
submitted or is required to be submitted, (1) declares war or authorizes 
use of the Armed Forces; (2) extends by law the 60-day period; or (3) is 
physically unable to meet as result of armed attack. The Act also 
provided that Congress could adopt a concurrent resolution requiring the 
removal of Armed Forces engaged in foreign hostilities, a provision that 
should be read in light of INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983). Sections 
6 and 7 of the Act provide

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congressional procedures for joint resolutions, bills, and concurrent 
resolutions introduced pursuant to the provisions of the Act (see 
Sec. 1130(2), infra). For further discussion of that Act, and war powers 
generally, see Deschler, ch. 13.

  \12\To raise <> and 
support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a 
longer Term than two Years;
<>   \13\To provide and maintain 
a Navy;
<>   \14\To make Rules for the 
Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
  \15\To provide <> for 
calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress 
Insurrections and repel Invasions;
  \16\To provide <> for organizing, 
arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of 
them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving 
to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the 
Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed 
by Congress;
  \17\To exercise <> exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such 
District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of 
particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of 
the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over 
all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in 
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be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and 
other needful Buildings;--And

  Congress has provided <> by law that ``all that part of the territory 
of the United States included within the present limits of the District 
of Columbia shall be the permanent seat of government of the United 
States'' (4 U.S.C. 71). Pursuant to its authority under this clause, 
Congress provided in 1970 for the people of the District of Columbia to 
be represented in the House of Representatives by a Delegate and for a 
Commission to report to the Congress on the organization of the 
government of the District of Columbia (P.L. 91-405; 84 Stat. 845). For 
the powers and duties of the Delegate from the District of Columbia, see 
rule III (Sec. 675, infra) and Deschler, ch. 7, Sec. 3. In 1973, 
Congress passed the District of Columbia Self-Government and 
Governmental Reorganization Act, which reorganized the governmental 
structure of the District, provided a charter for local government 
subject to acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified voters 
of the District, delegated certain legislative powers to the District, 
and implemented certain recommendations of the Commission on the 
Organization of the Government of the District of Columbia (P.L. 93-198; 
87 Stat. 774). Section 604 of that Act provides for congressional action 
on certain district matters by providing a procedure for approval and 
disapproval of certain actions by the District of Columbia Council. The 
section, as amended by Public Law 98-473, permits a highly privileged 
motion to discharge a joint resolution of approval or disapproval that 
has not been reported by the committee to which referred within 20 
calendar days after its introduction (see Sec. 1130(5), infra).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: Hepburn v. Ellzey, 6 U.S. 445 (1805); 
National Mutual Insurance Co. of D.C. v. Tidewater Transfer Co, 337 U.S. 
582 (1945).

-  \18\To make <> all Laws 
which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the 
foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in 
the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer 
thereof.

  Section 9. \1\The <> Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States 
now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by

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the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but 
a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten 
dollars for each Person.
  \2\The Privilege of <> the 
Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of 
Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
<>   \3\No 
Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
  \4\[No Capitation, <> or 
other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or 
Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.]

  This provision was changed in 1913 by the 16th amendment.
<>   \5\No Tax or Duty shall be laid on 
Articles exported from any State.
  \6\No Preference <> shall be 
given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State 
over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, 
be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
  \7\No Money <> shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of 
Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the 
Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from 
time to time.

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  \8\No Title of <> Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no 
Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without 
the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, 
or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

  Consent has been <> granted to officers and employees of the government, 
under enumerated conditions, to accept certain gifts and decorations 
from foreign governments (see 5 U.S.C. 7342). The adoption of this act 
largely has obviated the practice of passing private bills to permit the 
officer or employee to retain the award. However, where the Speaker (who 
was one of the officers empowered by an earlier law to approve retention 
of decorations by Members of the House) was himself tendered an award 
from a foreign government, a private law (Private Law 91-244) was 
enacted to permit him to accept and wear the award so that he would not 
be in the position of reviewing his own application under the provisions 
of the law.
  Public Law 95-105 amended the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act (now 5 
U.S.C. 7342) to designate the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics) of the House of Representatives as the employing agency for 
the House with respect to foreign gifts and decorations received by 
Members and employees; under that statute the Committee may approve the 
acceptance of foreign decorations and has promulgated regulations to 
carry out the Act with respect to Members and employees (Jan. 23, 1978, 
p. 452), and disposes of foreign gifts that may not be retained by the 
donee.
  Opinions of Attorneys General: Gifts from Foreign Prince, 24 Op. Att'y 
Gen. 117 (1902); Foreign Diplomatic Commission, 13 Op. Att'y Gen. 538 
(1871); Marshal of Florida, 6 Op. Att'y Gen. 409 (1854).

  Section 10. \1\No <> State shall 
enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of 
Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing 
but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of 
Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of 
Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

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  \2\No State <> shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or 
Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary 
for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties 
and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the 
Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be 
subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
  \3\No State <> shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay 
any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, 
enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a 
foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such 
imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. end segment .001 
deg. segment .002 -- Constitution, from article II  deg.




                               ARTICLE II.

  Section 1. \1\The <> executive Power shall be vested in a President of the 
United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of 
four years, and together with the Vice President, chosen for the same 
Term, be elected, as follows:

  George <> Washington took the oath of office as the first President on 
April 30, 1789 (III, 1986). The two Houses of the First Congress found, 
after examination by a joint committee, that by provisions made in the 
Federal Constitution and by the Continental Congress, the term of the 
President had, notwithstanding, begun on March 4, 1789 (I, 3). The 20th 
amendment, declared to have been ratified on February 6, 1933, provides 
that Presidential terms shall end and successor terms shall begin at 
noon on January 20. Thus, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term began on 
March 4, 1933, but ended at noon on January 20, 1937. Formerly, when 
March 4

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fell on Sunday, the public inauguration of the President occurred at 
noon on March 5 (III, 1996; VI, 449). Following ratification of the 20th 
amendment, the first time inauguration day fell on Sunday was January 
20, 1957, and President Eisenhower took the oath for his second term in 
a private ceremony at the White House on that day followed by a public 
inauguration ceremony on the steps of the East Front of the Capitol on 
Monday, January 21, 1957. A similar scenario was followed at the 
beginning of the second terms of President Reagan and President Obama, 
with the oath being given at the White House on Sunday (1985 and 2013), 
followed by a public ceremony on Monday in the Rotunda (1985) or the 
East Front of the Capitol (2013). The 22d amendment provides that no 
person shall be elected President more than twice.

  \2\Each <> State shall appoint, in such Manner as the 
Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole 
Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be 
entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or Person 
holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be 
appointed an Elector.

  Questions <> of the qualifications of electors have arisen, and in one 
instance certain ones were found disqualified, but because their number 
was not sufficient to affect the result and there was doubt as to what 
tribunal should pass on the question the votes were counted (III, 1941). 
In other cases there were objections, but the votes were counted (III, 
1972-1974, 1979). In one instance an elector found to be disqualified 
resigned both offices, whereupon he was made eligible to fill the 
vacancy thus caused among electors (III, 1975).

  \3\[The <> Electors shall meet in their respective States and 
vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an 
Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List 
of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which 
List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat

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of Government of the United States, directed to the President of the 
Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate 
and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes 
shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes 
shall be the President, if such Number be a majority of the whole Number 
of Electors appointed: and if there be more than one who have such 
Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of 
Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for 
President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest 
on the List the said House shall in like manner chuse the President. But 
in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the 
Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this 
purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the 
States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. 
In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the 
greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. 
But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate 
shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.]

  This third clause of article II, section 1 was superseded by the 12th 
amendment (see Sec. Sec. 219-223, infra).

<>   \4\The Congress may determine the Time of chusing 
the Electors, and the Day on which they shall

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give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United 
States.

  The time for choosing electors has been fixed on ``the Tuesday next 
after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year''; and the 
electors in each State ``meet and give in their votes on the first 
Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their 
appointment, at such place in each State as the legislature of such 
State shall direct'' (III, 1914; VI, 438; 3 U.S.C. 1, 7). The statute 
also provides for transmitting to the President of the Senate 
certificates of the appointment of the electors and of their votes (III, 
1915-1917; VI, 439; 3 U.S.C. 11).

  \5\No <> Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the 
United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall 
be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be 
eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty 
five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
  \6\In <> Case of 
the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, 
or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the 
Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law 
provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both 
of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then 
act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the 
Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

  The <> 25th amendment 
provides for filling a vacancy in the Office of the Vice President and, 
when the President is unable to perform the duties of his office, for 
the Vice President to assume those powers and duties as Acting 
President. During the 93d Congress, President Richard M. Nixon resigned 
from office

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on August 9, 1974, by delivering a signed resignation to the Office of 
the Secretary of State, pursuant to 3 U.S.C. 20. Pursuant to the 25th 
amendment, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became President and the House 
and Senate confirmed his nominee, Nelson A. Rockefeller, to become Vice 
President (December 19, 1974, p. 41516).
  Congress also has provided for the performance of the duties of the 
President in case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of 
the President and Vice President (3 U.S.C. 19).

  \7\The <> President shall, 
at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall 
neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall 
have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other 
Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

  The compensation of the President is established by law (3 U.S.C. 
102). In addition, the law provides an expense allowance (3 U.S.C. 102) 
and a travel allowance (3 U.S.C. 103).

  \8\Before <> he enter on the 
Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or 
Affirmation:--``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully 
execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the 
best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the 
United States.''

  The <> taking of this 
oath, which is termed the inauguration, is made the occasion of certain 
ceremonies that are arranged for by a joint committee of the two Houses 
(III, 1998, 1999; VI, 451). For many years the oath was normally taken 
at the east portico of the Capitol, although in earlier years it was 
taken in the Senate Chamber or Hall of the House (III, 1986-1995). On 
March 4, 1909, owing to inclement weather, the President-elect took the 
oath and delivered his inaugural address in the Senate Chamber (VI, 
447). And when Vice President Fillmore succeeded to the vacancy in the 
Office of President, Congress being in session, he took the oath in the 
Hall of the House in the presence of the Senate and House (III, 1997). 
In 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had been elected for his fourth term 
as President, took the oath of office on the south portico at the White 
House. On August

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9, 1974, Gerald R. Ford, who as Vice President succeeded to the 
Presidency following the resignation of President Nixon on that day, was 
sworn in in the East Room of the White House. The West Front of the 
Capitol was first used for the inaugural ceremony for Ronald W. Reagan, 
Jan. 20, 1981. Because of extreme cold, the public administration of the 
oath was for the first time held in the Rotunda of the Capitol, rather 
than on the West Front, as scheduled, on January 21, 1985. Permission 
for such use is authorized by concurrent resolution (see, e.g., Oct. 9, 
1984, p. 30926).

  Section 2. \1\The <> President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of 
the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called 
into the actual Service of the United States; he may require 
the <> Opinion, 
in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive 
Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their 
respective <> Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and 
Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of 
Impeachment.

  The <>  93d 
Congress passed over the President's veto Public Law 93-148, relating to 
the power of Congress to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 
11 (Sec. 127, supra) and the power of the President as Commander in 
Chief under this clause. For further discussion of the reports to 
Congress required and the procedure for congressional action provided 
under Public Law 93-148, see Sec. 128, supra.
  In <> 1974, President 
Ford exercised his power under the last phrase of this clause by 
pardoning former President Nixon for any crimes he might have committed 
during a certain period in office (Proclamation 4311, September 8, 
1974). The former President had resigned on August 9, 1974, following 
the decision of the Committee on the Judiciary to report to the House a 
recommendation of impeachment (H. Rept. 93-1305, Aug. 20, 1974, p. 
29219).

  \2\He <> shall have Power, 
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, 
provided two thirds of the

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Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the 
Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint 
Ambassadors, <> other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme 
Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments 
are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by 
Law; but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior 
Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of 
Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

  The power of the President to appoint diplomatic representatives to 
foreign governments and to determine their rank is derived from the 
Constitution and may not be circumscribed by statutory enactments (VII, 
1248). In Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), the Supreme Court held 
that any appointee exercising significant authority (not merely internal 
delegable authorities within the legislative branch) pursuant to the 
laws of the United States is an Officer of the United States and must 
therefore be appointed pursuant to this clause, and that Congress cannot 
by law vest such appointment authority in its own officers or require 
that Presidential appointments be subject to confirmation by both 
Houses. For a discussion of the role of the House with respect to 
treaties affecting revenue, see Sec. 597, infra.

  \3\The <> President shall have Power to fill up all 
Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting 
Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

  Decision <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: National Labor Relations Bd. v. Noel 
Canning, 573 U.S. _ (2014).

  Section 3. <> He shall 
from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the 
Union, and recommend

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to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and 
expedient; * * *

  In the early years of the Government the President made a speech to 
Congress on its assembling (V, 6629), but in 1801 President Jefferson 
discontinued this practice and transmitted a message in writing. This 
protocol was followed until April 8, 1913, when the custom of addressing 
Congress in person was resumed by President Wilson and, with the 
exception of President Hoover (VIII, 3333) has been followed generally 
by subsequent Presidents. A message in writing is usually communicated 
to both Houses on the same day, but an accompanying document can be sent 
to but one House (V, 6616, 6617). The President's State of the Union 
message delivered in person to the 95th Congress, second Session, 
together with separate hand-delivered written messages, were referred on 
motion to the Union Calendar and ordered printed (Jan. 19, 1978, p. 
152). In early years confidential messages were often sent and 
considered in secret session of the House (V, 7251, 7252).
  By <> law (31 U.S.C. 1105), 
the President is required to transmit the budget to Congress on or after 
the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in 
February each year. In addition, the President is required to submit a 
supplemental budget summary by July 16 each year (31 U.S.C. 1106). 
Submission of the Economic Report of the President is required within 10 
days after the submission of the budget (15 U.S.C. 1022). The 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601) 
requires the transmittal to Congress by the President of amendments and 
revisions related to the budget on or before April 10 and July 15 of 
each year. In addition, the Act provides for the transmittal of messages 
proposing rescissions and deferrals of budget authority (2 U.S.C. 682).
  When the President has expressed desire to address Congress in person 
a concurrent resolution is adopted by both Houses arranging for a joint 
session to receive the message. The Speaker presides and the President 
of the Senate (the Vice President) sits to the right of the Speaker, but 
in the absence of the Vice President, the President pro tempore sits to 
the left of the Speaker (Nov. 27, 1963, p. 22838).
  The <> ceremony of receiving a message in writing is simple (V, 
6591), and may occur during consideration of a question of privilege (V, 
6640-6642) or before the organization of the House (V, 6647-6649) and in 
the absence of a quorum (V, 6650; VIII, 3339; clause 7 of rule XX).
  But, with the exception of vetoes, messages are regularly laid before 
the House only at the time prescribed by the rule for the order of 
business (V, 6635-6638) within the discretion of the Speaker (VIII, 
3341). Although a message of the President is always read, the latest 
rulings have not permitted the reading of the accompanying documents to 
be demanded as a matter of right (V, 5267-5271; VII, 1108). A concurrent 
resolution

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providing for a joint session to receive the President's message was 
held to be of the highest privilege (VIII, 3335).

* * * <> he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both 
Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, 
with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such 
Time as he shall think proper; * * *

  In certain exigencies the President may convene Congress at a place 
other than the seat of government (I, 2; 2 U.S.C. 27). Congress has on 
occasion been convened by the President (I, 10, 11; Nov. 17, 1947, p. 
10578; July 26, 1948, p. 9362), and in one instance, when Congress had 
provided by law for meeting, the President called it together on an 
earlier day (I, 12). The Congress having adjourned on July 27, 1947, p. 
10521, and on June 20, 1948, p. 9350, to a day certain, the President 
called it together on an earlier date than that to which it adjourned 
(Nov. 17, 1947, p. 10577; July 26, 1948, p. 9362). There has been some 
discussion as to whether or not there is a distinction between a session 
called by the President and other sessions of Congress (I, 12, 
footnote).

* * * <> he shall receive Ambassadors and other 
public Ministers; he shall take Care That the Laws be faithfully 
executed, and shall Commission all the officers of the United States.

  Section 4. <> The 
President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States, 
shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, 
Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

  In <> the 
Blount trial the managers contended that all citizens of the United 
States were liable to impeachment, but this contention was not admitted 
(III, 2315), and in the Belknap trial both managers and counsel for 
respondent agreed that a private citizen, apart from offense in an 
office, might not be impeached (III, 2007). But resignation of the 
office does not prevent impeachment for crime or misdemeanor therein 
(III, 2007, 2317, 2444,

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2445, 2459, 2509). In Blount's case it was decided that a Senator was 
not a civil officer within the meaning of the impeachment provisions of 
the Constitution (III, 2310, 2316). Questions have also arisen as to 
whether or not the Congressional Printer (III, 1785), or a vice consul-
general (III, 2515), might be impeached. Proceedings for the impeachment 
of territorial judges have been taken in several instances (III, 2486, 
2487, 2488), although various opinions have been given that such an 
officer is not impeachable (III, 2022, 2486, 2493). A committee of the 
House by majority vote held a Commissioner of the District of Columbia 
not to be a civil officer subject to impeachment under the Constitution 
(VI, 548). An independent counsel appointed under 28 U.S.C. 593 (a 
statute currently ineffective under 28 U.S.C. 599) may be impeached 
under 28 U.S.C. 596(a), and a resolution impeaching such an independent 
counsel constitutes a question of the privileges of the House under rule 
IX (Sept. 23, 1998, p. 21560).
  As <> to what are 
impeachable offenses there has been much discussion (III, 2008, 2019, 
2020, 2356, 2362, 2379-2381, 2405, 2406, 2410, 2498, 2510; VI, 455; 
Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, 
Committee on the Judiciary, H. Rept. 93-1305, Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29219; 
Associate Justice William O. Douglas, Final Report by the Special 
Subcommittee on H. Res. 920, Committee on the Judiciary, Sept. 17, 1970; 
Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United 
States, H. Rept. 105-830, Dec. 16, 1998). For a time the theory that 
indictable offenses only were impeachable was stoutly maintained and as 
stoutly denied (III, 2356, 2360-2362, 2379-2381, 2405, 2406, 2410, 
2416); but on the 10th and 11th articles of the impeachment of President 
Andrew Johnson the House concluded to impeach for other than indictable 
offenses (III, 2418), and in the Swayne trial the theory was definitely 
abandoned (III, 2019). Although there has not been definite concurrence 
in the claim of the managers in the trial of the President that an 
impeachable offense is any misbehavior that shows disqualification to 
hold and exercise the office, whether moral, intellectual, or physical 
(III, 2015), the House has impeached judges for improper personal habits 
(III, 2328, 2505), and in the impeachment of President Johnson one of 
the articles charged him with ``intemperate, inflammatory, and 
scandalous harangues'' in public addresses, tending to harm the 
Government (III, 2420). There was no conviction under these charges 
except in the single case of Judge Pickering, who was charged with 
intoxication on the bench (III, 2328-2341). As to the impeachment of 
judges for other delinquencies, there has been much contention as to 
whether they may be impeached for any breach of good behavior (III, 
2011, 2016, 2497), or only for judicial misconduct occurring in the 
actual administration of justice in connection with the court (III, 
2010, 2013, 2017). The intent of the judge (III, 2014, 2382) as related 
to mistakes of the law, and the relations of intent to conviction have 
been discussed at length (III, 2014, 2381, 2382, 2518, 2519). The 
statutes make nonresidence of a judge an impeachable offense, and the 
House has taken steps

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to impeach for this cause (III, 2476, 2512). There has, however, been 
some question as to the power of Congress to make an impeachable offense 
(III, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2512). Usurpation of power has been examined 
several times as a cause for impeachment (III, 2404, 2508, 2509, 2516, 
2517). There also has been discussion as to whether or not there is 
distinction between a misdemeanor and a high misdemeanor (III, 2270, 
2367, 2492). Review of impeachments in Congress showing the nature of 
charges upon which impeachments have been brought and judgments of the 
Senate thereon (VI, 466). The report accompanying a resolution to 
impeach President Clinton, and the debate in the House thereon, included 
discussion of the nature of an impeachable offense (H. Rept. 105-830; 
Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27828). Of the four articles of impeachment of 
President Clinton reported by the Committee on the Judiciary ((1) 
perjury in grand jury, (2) perjury in a civil deposition, (3) 
obstruction of justice, and (4) improper responses to written questions 
from the Committee on the Judiciary), only the first and third were 
adopted by the House (Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28110). The President was 
acquitted by the Senate on each article (Feb. 12, 1999, p. 2376).
  The <> articles of 
impeachment adopted by the House in 1936 against Judge Ritter charged a 
variety of judicial misconduct, including violations of criminal law. 
The seventh and general article, upon which Judge Ritter was convicted 
by the Senate, charged general misconduct to bring his court into 
scandal and disrepute and to destroy public confidence in his court and 
in the judicial system (Impeachment by the House, Mar. 2, 1936, p. 3091; 
Conviction by the Senate, Apr. 17, 1936, p. 5606). Following his 
conviction by the Senate, former Judge Ritter brought an action for back 
salary, contending that the Senate had tried and convicted him for 
nonimpeachable offenses. The U.S. Court of Claims held that the Senate's 
power to try impeachments was exclusive and not subject to judicial 
review. Ritter v. United States, 84 Ct. Cls. 293 (1936), cert. denied, 
300 U.S. 668 (1937).
  In 1970 a special subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary 
considered charges of impeachment against Associate Justice Douglas of 
the Supreme Court. The subcommittee recommended against his impeachment 
but concluded that a Federal judge could be impeached (1) for judicial 
conduct that is a serious dereliction from public duty and (2) for 
nonjudicial conduct that is criminal in nature (Associate Justice 
William O. Douglas, Final Report by the Special Subcommittee on H. Res. 
920, Committee on the Judiciary, September 17, 1970).
  In 1974 the Committee on the Judiciary investigated charges of 
impeachment against President Nixon (Feb. 6, 1974, p. 2349), and 
determined to recommend his impeachment to the House. The President 
having resigned, the committee reported to the House without submitting 
a resolution of impeachment, and the House accepted the report by 
resolution (Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29361). The report of the committee 
included the text of the three articles of impeachment adopted by the 
committee. The committee had

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concluded that impeachable offenses need not be indictable offenses and 
recommended impeachment of the President (1) for violating his oath of 
office and his duty under the Constitution by preventing, obstructing, 
and impeding the administration of justice; (2) for engaging in a course 
of conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing 
the administration of justice, and contravening the laws governing 
executive agencies; and (3) for failing to honor subpoenas issued by the 
Committee on the Judiciary in the course of its impeachment inquiry 
(Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, 
Committee on the Judiciary, H. Rept. 93-1305, Aug. 20, 1974, printed in 
full in the Cong. Record, Aug. 22, 1974, p. 29219).
  In 1986, for the first time since 1936, the House agreed to a 
resolution impeaching a Federal district judge. Judge Harry Claiborne 
had been convicted of falsifying Federal income tax returns. His final 
appeal was denied by the Supreme Court in April, and he began serving 
his prison sentence in May. Because he declined to resign, however, 
Judge Claiborne was still receiving his judicial salary and, absent 
impeachment, would resume the bench on his release from prison. 
Consequently, a resolution of impeachment was introduced on June 3, and 
on July 16, the Committee on the Judiciary reported to the House four 
articles of impeachment against Judge Claiborne. On July 22, the 
resolution was called up as a question of privilege and agreed to by a 
recorded vote of 406 yeas, 0 nays. After trial in the Senate, Judge 
Claiborne was convicted on three of the four articles of impeachment and 
removed from office on October 9, 1986.
  In 1988, the House agreed to a resolution reported from the Committee 
on the Judiciary and called up as a question of the privileges of the 
House impeaching Federal district judge Alcee L. Hastings for high 
crimes and misdemeanors specified in 17 articles of impeachment, some of 
them addressing allegations on which the judge had been acquitted in a 
Federal criminal trial (Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20206). No trial in the Senate 
was had before the adjournment of the 100th Congress. In the 101st 
Congress, the House reappointed managers to conduct this impeachment in 
the Senate (Jan. 3, 1989, p. 84); the Senate began its deliberations on 
March 15, 1989 (p. 4219); conviction and removal from office occurred on 
October 20, 1989 (p. 25335). Also in the 101st Congress, the Senate 
convicted Federal district judge Walter L. Nixon on two of the three 
impeachment charges brought against him (Nov. 3, 1989, p. 27101). For 
further discussion of the continuance of impeachment proceedings in a 
succeeding Congress, see Sec. 620, infra.
  In 1998 the House agreed to a privileged resolution reported from the 
Committee on Rules, referring to the Committee on the Judiciary a 
communication from an independent counsel transmitting under 28 U.S.C. 
595(c) evidence of possible impeachable offenses by President Clinton, 
and restricting access to the communication and to meetings and hearings 
thereon (Sept. 11, 1998, p. 20020). Later, the House adopted a 
privileged resolution reported from the Committee on the Judiciary 
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ment inquiry by that committee and investing it with special 
investigative authorities to facilitate the inquiry (Oct. 8, 1998, p. 
24679). The Committee on the Judiciary filed with the House a privileged 
report accompanying a resolution containing four articles of impeachment 
against President Clinton that alleged: (1) the President gave 
perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to a grand jury; (2) the 
President gave perjurious, false, and misleading testimony in a Federal 
civil action; (3) the President prevented, obstructed, and impeded the 
administration of justice relating to a Federal civil action; and (4) 
the President abused his office, impaired the administration of justice, 
and contravened the authority of the legislative branch by his response 
to 81 written questions submitted by the Committee on the Judiciary 
(Dec. 17, 1998, p. 27819). The chair of the Committee on the Judiciary 
called up the resolution on December 18, 1998 (p. 27828).
  In 2008, the House agreed to an unreported resolution authorizing an 
impeachment inquiry of Federal district judge G. Thomas Porteous by the 
Committee on the Judiciary and investing it with special investigative 
authorities to facilitate the inquiry (Sept. 17, 2008, p. 19517), which 
was continued in the next Congress (Jan. 13, 2009, p. 568). In 2010, the 
House adopted a resolution reported from the committee and called up as 
a question of the privileges of the House impeaching the judge for high 
crimes and misdemeanors specified in 4 articles of impeachment (Mar. 11, 
2010, p. 3147).
  In 2009, the House agreed to a resolution reported from the Committee 
on the Judiciary and called up as a question of the privileges of the 
House impeaching Federal district judge Samuel B. Kent for high crimes 
and misdemeanors specified in 4 articles of impeachment, some of them 
addressing allegations on which the judge had been convicted in a 
Federal criminal trial (June 19, 2009, p. 15747).
  A resolution offered from the floor to permit the Delegate of the 
District of Columbia to vote on the articles of impeachment was held not 
to constitute a question of the privileges of the House under rule IX 
(Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27825). To a privileged resolution of impeachment, an 
amendment proposing instead censure, which is not privileged, was held 
not germane (Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28100).
  For further discussion of impeachment proceedings, see Sec. Sec. 601-
620, infra; Sec. 31, supra, and Deschler, ch. 14.




                              ARTICLE III.

  Section 1. <> The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested 
in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may 
from

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time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and 
inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and 
shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, 
which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

  Section 2. \1\The <> judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, 
arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and 
Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all 
Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all 
Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which 
the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or 
more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State;--between 
Citizens of different States;--between Citizens of the same State 
claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or 
the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

  Decisions <> of the Supreme Court involving legislative standing to bring 
cases in Federal court include Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939); 
Goldwater v. Carter, 444 U.S. 996 (1979); Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737 
(1984); Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990); and, most recently, 
Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811 (1997), holding that Member plaintiffs must 
have alleged a ``personal stake'' in having an actual injury redressed, 
rather than an ``institutional injury'' that is ``abstract and widely 
dispersed.'' See also the 11th amendment (Sec. 218, infra).
  \2\In <> all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers 
and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme 
Court shall

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have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the 
supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and 
Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress 
shall make.
  \3\The <> Trial of 
all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such 
Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been 
committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be 
at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

  Section 3. \1\Treason <> against the United States, shall consist only in levying War 
against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and 
Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony 
of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
  \2\The <> Congress shall have 
Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason 
shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of 
the Person Attainted.




                               ARTICLE IV.

  Section 1. <> Full Faith and Credit shall be given 
in each State to the Public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of 
every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the

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Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and 
the Effect thereof.
<>   Section 2. 
\1\The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and 
Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
  \2\A <> Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other 
Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall 
on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be 
delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the 
Crime.
  \3\No <> Person 
held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping 
into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be 
discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on 
Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

  Section 3. \1\New <> States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no 
new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any 
other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more 
States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of 
the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
  \2\The <> Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make 
all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other 
Property belonging to

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the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so 
construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any 
particular State.

  The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has held 
that the property clause does not prohibit the transfer of United States 
property to foreign nations through self-executing treaties. Edwards v. 
Carter, 580 F.2d 1055 (1978), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 907 (1978).

  Section 4. The <> United 
States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of 
Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on 
Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the 
Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.




                               ARTICLE V.

  The <> Congress, 
whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall 
propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the 
Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a 
Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be 
valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when 
ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or 
by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of 
Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment 
which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight 
shall in any Manner af

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fect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first 
Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of 
its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

  Amendments <> to the Constitution are proposed in the form of joint 
resolutions, which have their several readings and are enrolled and 
signed by the presiding officers of the two Houses (V, 7029, footnote), 
but are not presented to the President for his approval (V, 7040; see 
discussion under Sec. 115, supra; Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. (3 
Dall.) 378 (1798)). They are filed with the Archivist who, under the law 
(1 U.S.C. 106b; 1 U.S.C. 112), has the responsibility for the 
certification and publication of such amendments, once they are ratified 
by the States. Under the earlier procedure, the two Houses sometimes 
requested the President to transmit to the States certain proposed 
amendments (V, 7041, 7043), but a concurrent resolution to that end was 
without privilege (VIII, 3508). The President notified Congress by 
message of the promulgation of the ratification of a constitutional 
amendment (V, 7044). The House in the 114th Congress required that 
petitions from state legislatures purporting to call for constitutional 
conventions or to rescind such calls be made publicly available (sec. 
3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).-
  The <> vote required on a joint resolution proposing an amendment 
to the Constitution is two-thirds of those voting, a quorum being 
present, and not two-thirds of the entire membership (V, 7027, 7028; 
VIII, 3503). The majority required to pass a constitutional amendment, 
like the majority required to pass a bill over the President's veto 
(VII, 1111) and the majority required to adopt a motion to suspend the 
rules (Dec. 16, 1981, pp. 31850, 31851, 31855, 31856), is two-thirds of 
those Members voting either in the affirmative or negative, a quorum 
being present, and Members who only indicate that they are ``present'' 
are not counted in this computation (Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32685). The 
requirement of the two-thirds vote applies to the vote on final passage 
and not to amendments (V, 7031, 7032; VIII, 3504), or prior stages (V, 
7029, 7030), but is required if the House votes on agreeing to Senate 
amendments (V, 7033, 7034; VIII, 3505), or on agreeing to a conference 
report (V, 7036). One House having, by a two-thirds vote, passed in 
amended form a proposed constitutional amendment from the other House, 
and then having by a majority vote receded from its amendment, the 
constitutional amendment was held not to be passed (V, 7035).
  In the 95th Congress, both the House and Senate agreed by a majority 
vote to House Joint Resolution 638, extending the time period for 
ratification by the States of the Equal Rights Amendment, where House 
Joint Resolution 208 of the 92d Congress, proposing the amendment, had 
provided for a seven-year ratification period. The House determined, by 
laying

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on the table by a record vote a privileged resolution asserting that a 
vote of two-thirds of the Members present and voting was required to 
pass a joint resolution extending the ratification period for a 
constitutional amendment already submitted to the States, that only a 
majority vote was required on such a measure (H.J. Res. 638; Speaker 
O'Neill, Aug. 15, 1978, p. 26203).
  The joint resolution extending the ratification period for the Equal 
Rights Amendment was delivered to the President, who signed it although 
expressing doubt as to the necessity for his doing so (Presidential 
Documents, Oct. 19, 1978). When sent to the Archivist, the joint 
resolution was not assigned a public law number, but the Archivist 
notified the States of the action of the Congress in extending the 
ratification period. For a judicial decision voiding this extension, see 
Idaho v. Freeman, 529 F.Supp. 1107 (D.C.D. Idaho, 1981), judgment stayed 
sub nom. National Organization of Women v. Idaho, 455 U.S. 918 (1982), 
vacated and remanded to dismiss, 459 U.S. 809 (1982).
  The yeas and nays are not required to pass a joint resolution 
proposing to amend the Constitution (V, 7038-7039; VIII, 3506).
  Question has arisen as to the power of a State to recall, or rescind, 
its assent to a constitutional amendment (V, 7042; footnotes to 
Sec. Sec. 225, 234, infra) but has not been the subject of a final 
judicial determination (see Idaho v. Freeman, 529 F.Supp. 1107 (D. 
Idaho, 1981), judgment stayed sub nom. National Organization of Women v. 
Idaho, 455 U.S. 918 (1982), vacated and remanded to dismiss, 459 U.S. 
809 (1982)).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: National Prohibition Cases, 253 U.S. 350 
(1920); Hawke v. Smith, 253 U.S. 221 (1920); Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 
368 (1921); Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130 (1922); Coleman v. Miller, 
307 U.S. 433 (1939); Chandler v. Wise, 307 U.S. 474 (1939).




                               ARTICLE VI.

  \1\All <> Debts 
contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this 
Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this 
Constitution, as under the Confederation.
  \2\This <> Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which 
shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which 
shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall

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be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be 
bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the 
Contrary notwithstanding.
  \3\The <> Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and 
the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and 
judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, 
shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but 
no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any 
Office or public Trust under the United States.

  The <> form of the oath is prescribed 
by statute (5 U.S.C. 3331; I, 128): ``I, AB, do solemnly swear (or 
affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United 
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true 
faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, 
without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will 
well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am 
about to enter. So help me God.''
  The <> Act of 
June 1, 1789 (2 U.S.C. 25), provides that on the organization of the 
House and previous to entering on any other business the oath shall be 
administered by any Member (generally the Member with longest continuous 
service) (I, 131; VI, 6) to the Speaker and by the Speaker to the other 
Members and Clerk (I, 130). The Act has at times been considered in the 
House as directory merely (I, 118, 242, 243, 245; VI, 6); but at other 
times has been observed carefully (I, 118, 140). The Act was cited by 
the Clerk in recognizing for nominations for Speaker as being of higher 
constitutional privilege than a resolution to postpone the election of a 
Speaker and instead provide for the election of a Speaker pro tempore 
pending the disposition of certain ethics charges against the nominee of 
the majority party (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 115).
  Previously it was the custom to administer the oath by State 
delegations, but beginning with the 71st Congress Members-elect have 
been sworn in en masse (VI, 8). The Clerk supplies printed copies of the 
oath to Members and Delegates who have taken the oath in accordance with 
law, which shall be subscribed by the Members and Delegates and 
delivered to the Clerk to be recorded in the Journal and Congressional 
Record as conclusive proof of the fact that the signer duly took the 
oath in accordance with

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law (2 U.S.C. 25). See Deschler, ch. 2. Where two Members-elect 
participated in various House and committee business before taking the 
oath of office, the House adopted a resolution (1) correcting the 
results of record votes to remove mention of them, and (2) ratifying the 
following activities involving one or both of them: election to and 
participation in standing committee; introduction and numbering of 
measures; submission of items to the Congressional Record; co-
sponsorship of measures; and non-voting participation in floor 
proceedings (Jan. 7, 2011, p. 227).
  The <> Speaker possesses no arbitrary power in the administration of 
the oath (I, 134), and when objection is made the question must be 
decided by the House and not by the Chair (I, 519, 520). An objection 
prevents the Speaker from administering the oath of his own authority, 
even though the credentials be regular in form (I, 135-138). The Speaker 
has frequently declined to administer the oath in cases wherein the 
House has, by its action, indicated that the Speaker should not do so 
(I, 139, 140). And in case of doubt the Speaker has waited the 
instruction of the House (I, 396; VI, 11). There has been discussion as 
to the competency of a Speaker pro tempore to administer the oath (I, 
170), and in the absence of the Speaker a Member-elect waited until the 
Speaker could be present (I, 179), but in 1920 a Speaker pro tempore 
whose designation by the Speaker had been approved by the House, 
administered the oath (VI, 20). The House may authorize the Speaker to 
administer the oath away from the House (I, 169), or may, in such a 
case, authorize another than the Speaker to administer the oath (I, 170; 
VI, 14). For forms used in this procedure, see VI, 14. The Speaker has 
requested that guests in the gallery rise with the Members during the 
administration of the oath of office to a Member-elect (Nov. 12, 1991, 
p. 31255).
  Members-elect <> have been sworn at the beginning of a second session 
before the ascertainment of a quorum (I, 176-178), but when the Clerk 
called the second session of the 87th Congress to order, Members-elect 
were not sworn before ascertainment of a quorum and election of Speaker 
McCormack to succeed Speaker Rayburn, who had died during the 
adjournment sine die (Jan. 10, 1962, p. 5). Members-elect have also been 
sworn where a roll call or other ascertainment has shown the absence of 
a quorum (I, 178, 181, 182; VI, 21) but in one instance, however, the 
Speaker declined to administer the oath under such circumstances (II, 
875).
  A <> proposition to administer the oath is a matter of high privilege 
(VI, 14). It has been administered during a call of the roll and during 
an electronic vote on a motion to agree to rules at the time of 
organization (I, 173; VI, 22; Jan. 4, 2005, p. 46) and during an 
electronic vote taken during House deliberations interlocutory to an 
ongoing joint session to count the electoral votes (Jan. 6, 2005, p. 
242). It also has been administered before the reading of the Journal 
(I, 172), in the absence of a quorum

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(VI, 22), on Calendar Wednesday (VI, 22), before a pending motion to 
amend the Journal (I, 171), and after the previous question has been 
ordered on a bill reported back to the House from the Committee of the 
Whole (Oct. 3, 1969, p. 28487) or pending engrossment and third reading 
(June 19, 2008, pp. 13047-49). A division being demanded on a resolution 
seating several claimants, the oath may be administered to each as soon 
as his case is decided (I, 623). If a Member-elect whose right to a seat 
has been determined by the House is present to take the oath, the right 
to be sworn is complete and cannot be deferred even by a motion to 
adjourn (I, 622), but the Speaker has entertained the motion to adjourn 
after adoption of a seating resolution but before the Member-elect was 
present in the Chamber to take the oath (May 1, 1985, p. 10019).
  The <> right 
of a Member-elect to take the oath is sometimes challenged, usually at 
the time of organization of the House. The challenge may be made by a 
Member-elect who has not yet taken the oath (I, 141). The Member 
challenging does so on his responsibility as a Member or on the strength 
of documents (I, 448) or on both (I, 443, 474). And where an objection 
was sustained neither by affidavit nor on the responsibility of the 
Member objecting, the House declined to entertain it (I, 455).
  It <> has been held, although not uniformly, that in cases in 
which the right of a Member-elect to take the oath is challenged, the 
Speaker may direct the Member to stand aside temporarily (I, 143-146, 
474; VI, 9, 174; VIII, 3386). The Member so challenged is not thereby 
deprived of any right (I, 155). Similarly, the seating of a Member-elect 
does not prejudice a pending contest, brought under the Federal 
Contested Elections Act (2 U.S.C. 381-396), over final right to the seat 
(Jan. 7, 1997, p. 120; Jan. 4, 2007, p. 5). When several are challenged 
and stand aside the question is first taken on the Member-elect first 
required to stand aside (I, 147, 148). In 1861 it was held that the 
House might direct contested names to be passed over until the other 
Members-elect had been sworn in (I, 154). Motions and debate are in 
order on the questions involved in a challenge, and in a few cases other 
business has intervened by unanimous consent (I, 149, 150). By unanimous 
consent the consideration of a challenge is sometimes deferred until 
after the completion of the organization (I, 474), and by unanimous 
consent also the House has sometimes proceeded to legislative business 
pending consideration of the right of a Member to be sworn (I, 151, 
152).
  Although <> the House has emphasized the impropriety of swearing a 
Member without credentials (I, 162-168), yet it has been done in cases 
in which the credentials are delayed or lost and there is no doubt of 
the election (I, 85, 176-178; VI, 12, 13), or in which the governor of a 
State has declined to give credentials to a person whose election was 
undoubted and uncontested (I, 553). A certificate of election in due 
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filed, the Clerk placed the name of the Member-elect on the roll, 
although he was subsequently advised that a State Supreme Court had 
issued a writ restraining the Secretary of State from issuing such 
certificate (Jan. 3, 1949, p. 8). If the prima facie right is contested 
the Speaker declines to administer the oath (I, 550), but the House 
admits on a prima facie showing, and without regard to final right, a 
Member-elect from a recognized constituency whose credentials are in due 
form and whose qualifications are unquestioned (I, 528-534). If the 
status of the constituency is in doubt, the House usually defers the 
oath (I, 361, 386, 448, 461). In the 99th Congress, the House declined 
to give prima facie effect to a certificate of election, the results of 
the election being in doubt, and referred the issue of initial as well 
as final right to the Committee on House Administration (H. Res. 1, Jan. 
3, 1985, pp. 380-87). After a recount of the votes was conducted by that 
committee, the House on its recommendation declared the candidate 
without the certificate entitled to the seat (H. Res. 146, May 1, 1985, 
p. 9998). The House also may defer the oath when a question of 
qualifications arises (I, 474), but it may investigate qualifications 
after the oath is taken (I, 156-159, 420, 462, 481), and after 
investigation unseat the Member by majority vote (I, 428).
  Questions <> of sanity (I, 441) and loyalty (I, 448) seem to pertain 
to competency to take the oath as a question of qualifications, although 
there has been not a little debate on this subject (I, 479). In one case 
a Member-elect who had not taken the oath was excluded from the House 
because of disloyalty, in which the resolution of exclusion and the 
committee report thereon concluded that he was ineligible to take a seat 
as a Representative under the express provisions of section 3 of the 
14th amendment (VI, 56-59). This action by the House was cited in the 
Supreme Court decision of Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, 545 fn. 83 
(1969), which denied the power of the House to exclude Members-elect by 
a majority vote for other than failure to meet the express 
qualifications stated in the Constitution. In Bond v. Floyd, 385 U.S. 
116 (1966), the Supreme Court held that the exclusion by a State 
legislature of a member-elect of that body was unconstitutional, where 
the legislature had asserted the power to judge the sincerity with which 
the Member-elect could take the oath to support the Constitution of the 
United States. In the 97th Congress, the House declared vacant by 
majority vote the seat of a Member-elect unable to take the oath because 
of illness, in which the medical prognosis showed no likelihood of 
improvement to permit the Member-elect to take the oath or assume the 
duties of a Representative (H. Res. 80, Feb. 24, 1981, pp. 2916-18).
  Decisions <> of the Supreme 
Court of the United States: McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 
316 (1819); Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867); Davis v. 
Beason, 133 U.S. 333 (1890); Mormon Church  v. United States, 136 U.S. 1 
(1890).


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                              ARTICLE VII.

  The <> Ratification 
of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the 
Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the 
Same.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the 
    Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand 
    seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United 
    States of America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto 
    subscribed our Names,

                         Go WASHINGTON--Presidt.  

                                               and Deputy from Virginia.

    [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

                             New Hampshire.

John Langdon,                        Nicholas Gilman.

                             Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Gorham,                    Rufus King.

                              Connecticut.

Wm. Saml. Johnson,                   Roger Sherman.

                                New York.

Alexander Hamilton.

                               New Jersey.

Wil: Livingston,                     Wm. Paterson,

David Brearley,                      Jona: Dayton.

                              Pennsylvania.

B Franklin,                          Thomas Mifflin,

RobT. Morris,             Geo. Clymer,

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Thos. FitzSimons,                    Jared Ingersoll,

James Wilson,                        Gouv Morris.

                                Delaware.

Geo. Read,                           Gunning Bedford jun,

John Dickinson,                      Richard Bassett.

Jaco Broom,

                                Maryland.

James McHenry,                       Dan of ST Thos. Jenifer.

Danl Carroll,

                                Virginia.

John Blair,                          James Madison Jr.

                             North Carolina.

Wm. Blount,                          Rich'D. Dobbs Spaight.

Hu Williamson,

                             South Carolina.

J. Rutledge,                         Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,

Charles Pinckney,                    Pierce Butler.

                                Georgia.

William Few,                         Abr Baldwin.

  Attest:                            William Jackson, Secretary.

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   articles in addition to, and amendment of, the constitution of the 
  united states of america, proposed by congress, and ratified by the 
      several states pursuant to the fifth article of the original 
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  \1\The first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the 
United States were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by 
the First Congress on September 25, 1789 (this date and the date 
succeeding amendments were proposed is the date of final congressional 
action--signature by the presiding officer of the Senate--as is shown in 
the Senate Journals). They were ratified by the following States, on the 
dates shown, and the notifications by the governors thereof of 
ratification were communicated by the President to Congress: New Jersey, 
November 20, 1789; Maryland, December 19, 1789; North Carolina, December 
22, 1789; South Carolina, January 19, 1790; New Hampshire, January 25, 
1790; Delaware, January 28, 1790; New York, February 27, 1790; 
Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790; Rhode Island, June 7, 1790; Vermont, 
November 3, 1791; Virginia, December 15, 1791. Ratification was 
completed on December 15, 1791. The amendments were subsequently 
ratified by Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; 
Connecticut, April 19, 1939.




                              AMENDMENT I.

  Congress <> shall make no law respecting an establishment of 
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the 
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably 
to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.




                              AMENDMENT II.

  A <> well regulated Militia 
being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people 
to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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                             AMENDMENT III.

  No <> soldier 
shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent 
of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by 
law.




                              AMENDMENT IV.

  The <> right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, 
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall 
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, 
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place 
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.




                              AMENDMENT V.

  No <> person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise 
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, 
except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, 
when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any 
person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of 
life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a 
witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, 
without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for 
public use, without just compensation.

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                              AMENDMENT VI.

  In <> all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall 
enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of 
the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, 
which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be 
informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted 
with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining 
witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his 
defence.




                             AMENDMENT VII.

  In <> suits at 
common law, where the value in Controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, 
the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a 
jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, 
than according to the rules of the common law.




                             AMENDMENT VIII.

<>   Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive 
fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

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                              AMENDMENT IX.

<>   The enumeration in 
the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.




                              AMENDMENT X.

  The <> powers not 
delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it 
to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the 
people.




                       AMENDMENT XI.\2\

  The <> Judicial power 
of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law 
or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by 
Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign 
State.
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  \2\The 11th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
Third Congress on March 11, 1794; and was declared in a message from the 
President to Congress dated the 8th of January, 1798, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States. The dates 
of ratification were: New York, March 27, 1794; Rhode Island, March 31, 
1794; Connecticut, May 8, 1794; New Hampshire, June 16, 1794; 
Massachusetts, June 26, 1794; Vermont, October 28, 1794; Virginia, 
November 18, 1794; Georgia, November 29, 1794; Kentucky, December 7, 
1794; Maryland, December 26, 1794; Delaware, January 23, 1795; North 
Carolina, February 7, 1795. Ratification was completed on February 7, 
1795. The amendment was subsequently ratified by South Carolina, 
December 4, 1797. New Jersey and Pennsylvania did not take action on the 
amendment.

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                      AMENDMENT XII.\3\

  The <> Electors shall meet in their respective states, 
and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at 
least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; 
they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and 
in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they 
shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of 
all persons voted for as Vice-President, and the number of votes for 
each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to 
the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the 
President of the Senate;--The President of the Senate shall, in presence 
of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates 
and the votes shall then be counted;-- * * *
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  \3\See article II, section 1 of the Constitution. The 12th 
amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the legislatures of the 
several States by the Eighth Congress on December 12, 1803, in lieu of 
the original third paragraph of the first section of the second article, 
and was declared in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 
25th of September, 1804, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 
three-fourths of the States. The dates of ratification were: North 
Carolina, December 21, 1803; Maryland, December 24, 1803; Kentucky, 
December 27, 1803; Ohio, December 30, 1803; Virginia, December 31, 1803; 
Pennsylvania, January 5, 1804; Vermont, January 30, 1804; New York, 
February 10, 1804; New Jersey, February 22, 1804; Rhode Island, March 
12, 1804; South Carolina, May 15, 1804; Georgia, May 19, 1804; New 
Hampshire, June 15, 1804. Ratification was completed on June 15, 1804. 
The amendment was subsequently ratified by Tennessee, July 27, 1804. The 
amendment was rejected by Delaware, January 18, 1804; Massachusetts, 
February 3, 1804; and by Connecticut at its session begun May 10, 1804.


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  The <> electoral count occurs in 
a joint session of the two Houses in the Hall of the House (III, 1819) 
at 1 p.m. on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of 
electors (3 U.S.C. 15). The Vice President, as President of the Senate 
(or the President pro tempore in the Vice President's absence), presides 
over the joint session (3 U.S.C. 15). The date of the count has been 
changed by law as follows: Monday, January 7, 1957 (P.L. 84-436); 
Monday, January 7, 1985 (P.L. 98-456); Wednesday, January 4, 1989 (P.L. 
100-646); Thursday, January 9, 1997 (P.L. 104-296); Thursday, January 8, 
2009 (P.L. 110-430); Friday, January 4, 2013 (P.L. 112-228).
  Sections 15-18 of title 3, United States Code, prescribe in detail the 
procedure for the count. Nevertheless, the two Houses traditionally 
adopt a concurrent resolution providing for the meeting in joint session 
to count the vote, for the appointment of tellers, and for the 
declaration of the state of the vote (III, 1961; Deschler, ch. 10, 
Sec. 2.1). Under the law governing the proceedings, the two Houses 
divide to consider an objection to the counting of any electoral vote or 
``other question arising in the matter'' (3 U.S.C. 15-18; Jan. 6, 1969, 
pp. 145-47; Jan. 6, 2001, p. 101; Jan. 6, 2005, pp. 198, 199), but only 
when in writing and signed by both a Member and a Senator (Jan. 6, 2001, 
p. 101; Jan. 6, 2005, p. 198). Examples of an ``other question arising 
in the matter'' include: (1) an objection for lack of a quorum (Jan. 6, 
2001, p. 101); (2) a motion that either House withdraw from the joint 
session (Jan. 6, 2001, p. 101); and (3) an appeal from a ruling by the 
presiding officer (Jan. 6, 2001, p. 101). Such questions are not 
debatable in the joint session (3 U.S.C. 18; Jan. 6, 2001, p. 101). When 
the two Houses have divided, a motion in the House to lay the objection 
on the table is not in order (Jan. 6, 1969; pp. 169-72). A Vice 
President-elect, as Speaker of the House or as a sitting Vice President, 
has participated in the ceremonies (e.g., VI, 446; Jan. 6, 2005, p. 
197). See Deschler, ch. 10 for further discussion. When addressing a 
controversy over the election of President and Vice President in the 
State of Florida, the Supreme Court indicated its view of a section of 
the statute (3 U.S.C. 5) addressing a determination of controversy as to 
the appointment of electors. Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. 
(531 U.S. 70 (2000)). Ultimately, the Supreme Court found that the 
Florida Supreme Court violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th 
amendment by ordering certain counties to conduct manual recounts of the 
votes for President and Vice President without establishing standards 
for those recounts. Bush v. Gore (531 U.S. 98 (2000)).

  * * * The <> person having the greatest 
number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be 
a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person

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have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not 
exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House 
of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. 
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the 
representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this 
purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the 
states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. 
And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President 
whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth 
day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as 
President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional 
disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of 
votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be 
a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person 
have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the 
Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall 
consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of 
the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person 
constitutionally ineligible to the Office of President shall be eligible 
to that of Vice-President of the United States.


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  The <> 20th amendment to the Constitution has 
clarified some of the provisions of the 12th amendment. In 1801 (III, 
1983), the House of Representatives chose a President under article II, 
section 1, clause 3 (see Sec. 152a, supra), the constitutional provision 
superseded by the 12th amendment.

  In <> 1825 the House elected a President under the 12th amendment 
(III, 1985); and in 1837 the Senate elected a Vice President (III, 
1941).




                      AMENDMENT XIII.\4\

  Section 1. <> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 
shall

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exist within the United States, or any place subject to their 
jurisdiction.
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  \4\The 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
38th Congress, on February 1, 1865, and was declared, in a proclamation 
of the Secretary of State, dated December 18, 1865, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the 36 States. The dates of 
ratification were: Illinois, February 1, 1865; Rhode Island, February 2, 
1865; Michigan, February 2, 1865; Maryland, February 3, 1865; New York, 
February 3, 1865; Pennsylvania, February 3, 1865; West Virginia, 
February 3, 1865; Missouri, February 6, 1865; Maine, February 7, 1865; 
Kansas, February 7, 1865; Massachusetts, February 7, 1865; Virginia, 
February 9, 1865; Ohio, February 16, 1865; Indiana, February 13, 1865; 
Nevada, February 16, 1865; Louisiana, February 17, 1865; Minnesota, 
February 23, 1865; Wisconsin, February 24, 1865; Vermont, March 9, 1865; 
Tennessee, April 7, 1865; Arkansas, April 14, 1865; Connecticut, May 4, 
1865; New Hampshire, July 1, 1865; South Carolina, November 13, 1865; 
Alabama, December 2, 1865; North Carolina, December 4, 1865; Georgia, 
December 6, 1865. Ratification was completed on December 6, 1865. The 
amendment was subsequently ratified by Oregon, December 8, 1865; 
California, December 19, 1865; Florida, December 28, 1865 (Florida again 
ratified on June 9, 1868, upon its adoption of a new constitution); 
Iowa, January 15, 1866; New Jersey, January 23, 1866 (after having 
rejected the amendment on March 16, 1865); Texas, February 18, 1870; 
Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after having rejected the amendment on 
February 8, 1865); Kentucky, March 30, 1976 (after hearing rejected the 
amendment on February 24, 1865). The amendment was rejected by 
Mississippi, December 4, 1865, but subsequently ratified on March 16, 
1995.
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  Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.




                      AMENDMENT XIV.\5\

  Section 1. All < security and 
equal protection of citizens.>> persons born or naturalized in the 
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of 
the United States and of the

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State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which 
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United 
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or 
property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its 
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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  \5\The 14th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
39th Congress, on June 15, 1866. On July 20, 1868, the Secretary of 
State issued a proclamation that the 14th amendment was a part of the 
Constitution if withdrawals of ratification were ineffective. On July 
21, 1868, Congress adopted and transmitted to the Department of State a 
concurrent resolution declaring that ``the legislatures of the States of 
Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New York, Ohio, 
Illinois, West Virginia, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, 
Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, 
Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana, being 
three-fourths and more of the several States of the Union, have ratified 
the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States, duly proposed by two-thirds of each House of the Thirty-ninth 
Congress: Therefore Resolved, That said fourteenth article is hereby 
declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States, and it 
shall be duly promulgated as such by the Secretary of State.'' The 
Secretary of State accordingly issued a proclamation, dated July 28, 
1868, declaring that the proposed 14th amendment had been ratified, in 
the manner hereafter mentioned, by the legislatures of 28 States. The 
dates of ratification were: Connecticut, June 30, 1866; New Hampshire, 
July 6, 1866; Tennessee, July 18, 1866; New Jersey, September 11, 1866 
(subsequently, on February 20, 1868, the legislature rescinded its 
ratification, and on March 24, 1868, readopted its resolution of 
rescission over the Governor's veto, and on April 23, 2003, revoked the 
resolution of rescission); Oregon, September 19, 1866 (subsequently 
rescinded its ratification on October 16, 1868, and ratified on April 
25, 1973); New York, January 10, 1867; Ohio, January 11, 1867 
(subsequently rescinded its ratification on January 13, 1868, and 
ratified on March 12, 2003); Illinois, January 15, 1867; West Virginia, 
January 16, 1867; Michigan, January 16, 1867; Minnesota, January 16, 
1867; Kansas, January 17, 1867; Maine, January 19, 1867; Nevada, January 
22, 1867; Indiana, January 23, 1867; Missouri, January 25, 1867; 
Pennsylvania, February 6, 1867; Rhode Island, February 7, 1867; 
Wisconsin, February 13, 1867; Massachusetts, March 20, 1867; Nebraska, 
June 15, 1867; Iowa, March 16, 1868; Arkansas, April 6, 1868; Florida, 
June 9, 1868; North Carolina, July 4, 1868 (after having rejected the 
amendment December 14, 1866); Louisiana, July 9, 1868 (after having 
rejected the amendment February 6, 1867); South Carolina, July 9, 1868 
(after having rejected the amendment December 20, 1866). Ratification 
was completed on July 9, 1868. The amendment was subsequently ratified 
by Alabama, July 13, 1868; Georgia, July 21, 1868 (after having rejected 
it on November 9, 1866); Virginia, October 8, 1869 (after having 
rejected it on January 9, 1867); Mississippi, January 17, 1870; Texas, 
February 18, 1870 (after having rejected it on October 27, 1866); 
Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after having rejected it on February 8, 
1867); Maryland, April 4, 1959 (after having rejected it on March 23, 
1867); California, May 6, 1959; Kentucky, March 30, 1976 (after having 
rejected it on January 10, 1867).
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  Section 2. <> Representatives shall be apportioned among the several 
States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number 
of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the 
right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President 
and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, 
the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the 
Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such 
State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the

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United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in 
rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be 
reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall 
bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in 
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such State.

  There <> has been a readjustment of House representation each 10 
years except during the period 1911 to 1929 (VI, 41, footnote). From 
March 4, 1913, permanent House membership has remained fixed at 435 (VI, 
40, 41; 37 Stat. 13). Upon admission of Alaska and Hawaii to statehood, 
total membership was temporarily increased to 437 until the next 
reapportionment (72 Stat. 339, 345; 73 Stat. 8). Congress has by law 
provided for automatic apportionment of the 435 Representatives among 
the States according to each census including and after that of 1950 (2 
U.S.C. 2a). The Apportionment Act formerly provided that the districts 
in a State were to be composed of contiguous and compact territory 
containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants (I, 
303; VI, 44); but subsequent apportionment Acts, those of 1929 (46 Stat. 
26) and 1941 (55 Stat. 761), omitted such provisions. See Wood v. Broom, 
287 U.S. 1 (1932).
  Congress has by law provided that for the 91st and subsequent 
Congresses each State entitled to more than one Representative shall 
establish a number of districts equal to the number of such 
Representatives, and that Representatives shall be elected only from the 
single-Member districts so established. (Hawaii and New Mexico were 
excepted from the operation of this statute for the elections to the 
91st Congress by Public Law 90-196; see 2 U.S.C. 2c). After any 
apportionment, until a State is redistricted in a manner provided by its 
own law and in compliance with the congressional mandate, the question 
of whether its Representatives shall be elected by districts, at large, 
or by a combination of both, is determined by the Apportionment Act of 
1941 (2 U.S.C. 2a).
  Under the Apportionment Act, a statistical model known as the ``method 
of equal proportions'' is used to determine the number of 
Representatives to which each State is entitled. Although other methods 
for apportioning House seats may be permitted, the equal proportions 
method chosen by Congress has been upheld under the Constitution and was 
plainly intended to reach as close as practicable the goal of ``one 
person, one vote.'' Massachusetts v. Mosbacher, 785 F. Supp. 230 (D. 
Mass. 1992), rev'd on other grounds Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 
788 (1992). The courts also have recently upheld under Federal law and 
the Constitution a counting methodology used by the Census Bureau in a 
decennial census. This method, known as ``imputation,'' was held to be 
different than ``sampling,'' a

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method prohibited under section 195 of title 13, United States Code. 
Utah v. Evans, 536 U.S. 452 (2002). The method of apportioning the seats 
in the House is vested exclusively in Congress, and neither States nor 
courts may direct greater or lesser representation than that allocated 
by statute (Deschler, ch 8 Sec. 1). See Deschler, ch. 8 for 
apportionment and districting.
  The <> House has always 
seated Members elected at large in the States, although the law required 
election by districts (I, 310, 519). Questions have arisen from time to 
time when a vacancy has occurred soon after a change in districts, with 
the resulting question whether the vacancy should be filled by election 
in the old or new district (I, 311, 312, 327). The House has declined to 
interfere with the act of a State in changing the boundaries of a 
district after the apportionment has been made (I, 313).
  The Supreme <> Court has ruled that congressional districts must be as 
equally populated as practicable. Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 
(1964); Kirkpatrick v. Preisler, 385 U.S. 450 (1967). The Court has made 
clear that variances in population among congressional districts within 
a State may be considered de minimis only if they cannot practicably be 
avoided. If such variances, no matter how mathematically miniscule, 
could have been reduced or eliminated by a good faith effort, then they 
may be justified only on the basis of a consistent, rational State 
policy. Karcher v. Daggett, 462 U.S. 725 (1983). The Court also has made 
evident that it will take judicial review of a claim that apportionment 
schemes lack consistent, rational bases. Davis v. Bandemer, 478 U.S. 109 
(1986) (holding political gerrymandering complaint justiciable under 
equal protection clause).

  Section 3. <> No person shall be a Senator or Representative in 
Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any 
office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, 
who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an 
officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, 
or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the 
Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or 
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies 
thereof. But Congress

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may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

-  Congress <> has by law removed generally the 
disabilities arising from the Civil War (30 Stat. 432). Soon after the 
war various questions arose under this section (I, 386, 393, 455, 456). 
For disloyalty to the United States, for giving aid and comfort to a 
public enemy, for publication of expressions hostile to the Government a 
Member-elect was denied a seat in the House (VI, 56, 58). As to the 
meaning of the words ``aid or comfort'' as used in the 14th amendment 
(VI, 57).

  Section 4. <> The 
validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, 
including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for 
services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be 
questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or 
pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion 
against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of 
any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held 
illegal and void.

<>   Section 5. The 
Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the 
provisions of this article.

  Congress may legislate under this section to protect voting rights by 
preempting discriminatory State qualifications for electors (Katzenbach 
v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (1966)), and may lower the voting age in Federal 
(but not State) elections (Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970)).

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                       AMENDMENT XV.\6\

  Section 1. <> The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall 
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on 
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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  \6\The 15th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
40th Congress on February 26, 1869, and was declared, in a proclamation 
of the Secretary of State, dated March 30, 1870, to have been ratified 
by the legislatures of 29 of the 37 States. The dates of these 
ratifications were: Nevada, March 1, 1869; West Virginia, March 3, 1869; 
North Carolina, March 5, 1869; Illinois, March 5, 1869; Louisiana, March 
5, 1869; Michigan, March 8, 1869; Wisconsin, March 9, 1869; Maine, March 
11, 1869; Massachusetts, March 12, 1869; Arkansas, March 15, 1869; South 
Carolina, March 15, 1869; Pennsylvania, March 25, 1869; New York, April 
14, 1869 (subsequently withdrew its consent to the ratification on 
January 5, 1870 but rescinded this action on March 30, 1970); Indiana, 
May 14, 1869; Connecticut, May 19, 1869; Florida, June 14, 1869; New 
Hampshire, July 1, 1869; Virginia, October 8, 1869; Vermont, October 20, 
1869; Alabama, November 16, 1869; Missouri, January 7, 1870 (Missouri 
had ratified the first section of the 15th amendment on March 1, 1869, 
but had failed to include in its ratification the second section of the 
amendment); Minnesota, January 13, 1870; Mississippi, January 17, 1870; 
Rhode Island, January 18, 1870; Kansas, January 19, 1870; Ohio, January 
27, 1870 (after having rejected the amendment April 30, 1869); Georgia, 
February 2, 1870; Iowa, February 3, 1870. Ratification was completed on 
February 3, 1870, unless the withdrawal of ratification by New York was 
effective; in which event ratification was completed on February 17, 
1870, when ratified by Nebraska. The amendment was subsequently ratified 
by Texas, February 18, 1870; New Jersey, February 15, 1871 (after having 
rejected it on February 7, 1870); Delaware, February 12, 1901 (after 
having rejected it on March 18, 1869); Oregon, February 24, 1959; 
California, April 3, 1962 (after having rejected it on January 28, 
1870); Maryland, May 7, 1973 (after having rejected it on February 4 and 
February 26, 1870); Kentucky, March 30, 1976 (after having rejected it 
on March 11 and March 12, 1869); Tennessee, April 2, 1997, (after having 
rejected it on November 16, 1869).
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  Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
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                      AMENDMENT XVI.\7\

  The <> Congress shall have power to 
lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without 
apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census 
or enumeration.
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  \7\The 16th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
61st Congress on July 16, 1909, and was declared, in a proclamation of 
the Secretary of State dated February 25, 1913, to have been ratified by 
the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: 
Alabama, August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8, 1910; South Carolina, 
February 19, 1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910; Mississippi, March 7, 1910; 
Oklahoma, March 10, 1910; Maryland, April 8, 1910; Georgia, August 3, 
1910; Texas, August 16, 1910; Ohio, January 19, 1911; Idaho, January 20, 
1911; Oregon, January 23, 1911; Washington, January 26, 1911; Montana, 
January 30, 1911; Indiana, January 30, 1911; California, January 31, 
1911; Nevada, January 31, 1911; South Dakota, February 3, 1911; 
Nebraska, February 9, 1911; North Carolina, February 11, 1911; Colorado, 
February 15, 1911; North Dakota, February 17, 1911; Kansas, February 18, 
1911; Michigan, February 23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Missouri, 
March 16, 1911; Maine, March 31, 1911; Tennessee, April 7, 1911; 
Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having rejected it at the session begun 
January 9, 1911); Wisconsin, May 26, 1911; New York, July 12, 1911; 
Arizona, April 6, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912; Louisiana, June 28, 
1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; Delaware, February 3, 1913; 
Wyoming, February 3, 1913; New Mexico, February 3, 1913. Ratification 
was completed on February 3, 1913. The amendment was subsequently 
ratified by New Jersey, February 4, 1913; Vermont, February 19, 1913 
(after having rejected the amendment January 17, 1911); Massachusetts, 
March 4, 1913; New Hampshire, March 7, 1913 (after having rejected the 
amendment March 2, 1911). The amendment was rejected by Rhode Island, 
April 29, 1910; Utah, March 9, 1911; Connecticut, June 28, 1911; and 
Florida, May 31, 1913. Pennsylvania and Virginia did not complete 
action.

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                      AMENDMENT XVII.\8\

  The <> Senate of 
the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, 
elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall 
have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications 
requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State 
legislatures.
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  \8\See article I, section 3 of the Constitution. The 17th 
amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the legislatures of the 
several States by the 62d Congress on May 15, 1912, and was declared, in 
a proclamation by the Secretary of State dated May 31, 1913, to have 
been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of 
ratification were: Massachusetts, May 22, 1912; Arizona, June 3, 1912; 
Minnesota, June 10, 1912; New York, January 15, 1913; Kansas, January 
17, 1913; Oregon, January 23, 1913; North Carolina, January 25, 1913; 
California, January 28, 1913; Michigan, January 28, 1913; Iowa, January 
30, 1913; Montana, January 30, 1913; Idaho, January 31, 1913; West 
Virginia, February 4, 1913; Colorado, February 5, 1913; Nevada, February 
6, 1913; Texas, February 7, 1913; Washington, February 7, 1913; Wyoming, 
February 8, 1913; Arkansas, February 11, 1913; Maine, February 11, 1913; 
Illinois, February 13, 1913; North Dakota, February 14, 1913; Wisconsin, 
February 18, 1913; Indiana, February 19, 1913; New Hampshire, February 
19, 1913; Vermont, February 19, 1913; South Dakota, February 19, 1913; 
Oklahoma, February 24, 1913; Ohio, February 25, 1913; Missouri, March 7, 
1913; New Mexico, March 13, 1913; Nebraska, March 14, 1913; New Jersey, 
March 17, 1913; Tennessee, April 1, 1913; Pennsylvania, April 2, 1913; 
Connecticut, April 8, 1913. Ratification was completed on April 8, 1913. 
The amendment was subsequently ratified by Louisiana, June 11, 1914; 
Alabama, April 16, 2002. The amendment was rejected by Utah, February 
26, 1913; Delaware, March 18, 1913. Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, and 
South Carolina did not complete action.
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  When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the 
Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of 
election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any 
State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments 
until

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the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
  This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or 
term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the 
Constitution.

  Senator <> Rebecca 
L. Felton, appointed during the recess of the Senate on October 3, 1922, 
to fill a vacancy, was the first woman to sit in the Senate (VI, 156). 
Senator Walter F. George was elected to fill the vacancy on Novem-
ber 7, 1922. Mrs. Felton took the oath of office on November 21, 1922, 
and Senator George took the oath November 22, 1922 (VI, 156). Discussion 
as to the term of service of a Senator appointed by a State executive to 
fill a vacancy (VI, 156).
  The <> right of an 
elector to vote for a Senator is fundamentally derived from the United 
States Constitution (United States v. Aczel 219 F.2d 917 (1915)) and may 
not be denied in a discriminatory fashion (Chapman v. King, 154 F.2d 460 
(1946), cert. denied, 327 U.S. 800 (1946); Forssenius v. Harman, 235 F. 
Supp. 66 (1964), aff'd., 380 U.S. 529 (1965)).




                     AMENDMENT XVIII.\9\

  Section 1. <> [After one year from the ratification of this article the 
manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxi

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cating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation 
thereof from the United States and all territories subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
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  \9\See amendment XXI, repealing this amendment. The 18th 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the 
legislatures of the several States by the 65th Congress on December 18, 
1917, and was declared in a proclamation by the Secretary of State dated 
January 29, 1919, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 
48 States. The dates of these ratifications were: Mississippi, January 
8, 1918; Virginia, January 11, 1918; Kentucky, January 14, 1918; North 
Dakota, January 25, 1918; South Carolina, January 29, 1918; Maryland, 
February 13, 1918; Montana, February 19, 1918; Texas, March 4, 1918; 
Delaware, March 18, 1918; South Dakota, March 20, 1918; Massachusetts, 
April 2, 1918; Arizona, May 24, 1918; Georgia, June 26, 1918; Louisiana, 
August 3, 1918; Florida, December 3, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; 
Ohio, January 7, 1919; Oklahoma, January 7, 1919; Idaho, January 8, 
1919; Maine, January 8, 1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; 
California, January 13, 1919; Tennessee, January 13, 1919; Washington, 
January 13, 1919; Arkansas, January 14, 1919; Kansas, January 14, 1919; 
Alabama, January 15, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15, 
1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919; 
Nebraska, January 16, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, 
January 16, 1919; Missouri, January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919. 
Ratification was completed on January 16, 1919. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by Minnesota, January 17, 1919; Wisconsin, January 
17, 1919; New Mexico, January 20, 1919; Nevada, January 21, 1919; New 
York, January 29, 1919; Vermont, January 29, 1919; Pennsylvania, 
February 25, 1919; Connecticut, May 6, 1919; New Jersey, March 9, 1922. 
Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected the amendment.
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  Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent 
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
  Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the 
several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from 
the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.]




                      AMENDMENT XIX.\10\

  The <s suffrage.>> right of citizens 
of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the 
United States or by any State on account of sex.
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  \10\The 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
66th Congress on June 5, 1919, and was declared in a proclamation by the 
Secretary of State dated August 26, 1920, to have been ratified by the 
legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of these ratifications 
were: Illinois, June 10, 1919 (and that State readopted its resolution 
of ratification June 17, 1919); Michigan, June 10, 1919; Wisconsin, June 
10, 1919; Kansas, June 16, 1919; New York, June 16, 1919; Ohio, June 16, 
1919; Pennsylvania, June 24, 1919; Massachusetts, June 25, 1919; Texas, 
June 28, 1919; Iowa, July 2, 1919; Missouri, July 3, 1919; Arkansas, 
July 28, 1919; Montana, August 2, 1919; Nebraska, August 2, 1919; 
Minnesota, September 8, 1919; New Hampshire, September 10, 1919; Utah, 
October 2, 1919; California, November 1, 1919; Maine, November 5, 1919; 
North Dakota, December 1, 1919; South Dakota, December 4, 1919; 
Colorado, December 15, 1919; Kentucky, January 6, 1920; Rhode Island, 
January 6, 1920; Oregon, January 13, 1920; Indiana, January 16, 1920; 
Wyoming, January 27, 1920; Nevada, February 7, 1920; New Jersey, 
February 9, 1920; Idaho, February 11, 1920; Arizona, February 12, 1920; 
New Mexico, February 21, 1920; Oklahoma, February 28, 1920; West 
Virginia, March 10, 1920; Washington, March 22, 1920; Tennessee, August 
28, 1920. Ratification was completed on August 28, 1920. The amendment 
was subsequently ratified by Connecticut, September 14, 1920 (and that 
State reaffirmed on September 21, 1920); Vermont, February 8, 1921; 
Delaware, March 6, 1923 (after having rejected the amendment on June 2, 
1920); Maryland, March 29, 1941 (after having rejected the amendment on 
February 24, 1920; ratification certified February 25, 1958); Virginia, 
February 21, 1952 (after having rejected the amendment February 12, 
1920); Alabama, September 8, 1953 (after having rejected the amendment 
September 22, 1919); Florida, May 13, 1969; South Carolina, July 1, 1969 
(after having rejected the amendment on January 28, 1920); Georgia, 
February 20, 1970 (after having rejected the amendment on July 24, 
1919); Louisiana, June 11, 1970 (after having rejected it on July 1, 
1920); North Carolina, May 6, 1971; Mississippi, March 22, 1984 (after 
having rejected the amendment on March 29, 1920).

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  Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate 
legislation.




                      AMENDMENT XX.\11\

  Section 1. <> The terms of the President and 
Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the 
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tives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms 
would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of 
their successors shall then begin.
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  \11\See article I, section 4 of the Constitution. The 20th 
amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the legislatures of the 
several States by the 72d Congress, on March 3, 1932, and was declared 
in a proclamation by the Secretary of State dated February 6, 1933, to 
have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates 
of these ratifications were: Virginia, March 4, 1932; New York, March 
11, 1932; Mississippi, March 16, 1932; Arkansas, March 17, 1932; 
Kentucky, March 17, 1932; New Jersey, March 21, 1932; South Carolina, 
March 25, 1932; Michigan, March 31, 1932; Maine, April 1, 1932; Rhode 
Island, April 14, 1932; Illinois, April 21, 1932; Louisiana, June 22, 
1932; West Virginia, July 30, 1932; Pennsylvania, August 11, 1932; 
Indiana, August 15, 1932; Texas, September 7, 1932; Alabama, September 
13, 1932; California, January 4, 1933; North Carolina, January 5, 1933; 
North Dakota, January 9, 1933; Minnesota, January 12, 1933; Montana, 
January 13, 1933; Nebraska, January 13, 1933; Oklahoma, January 13, 
1933; Arizona, January 13, 1933; Kansas, January 16, 1933; Oregon, 
January 16, 1933; Wyoming, January 19, 1933; Delaware, January 19, 1933; 
Washington, January 19, 1933; South Dakota, January 20, 1933; Tennessee, 
January 20, 1933; Iowa, January 20, 1933; Idaho, January 21, 1933; New 
Mexico, January 21, 1933; Ohio, January 23, 1933; Utah, January 23, 
1933; Missouri, January 23, 1933; Georgia, January 23, 1933. 
Ratification was completed on January 23, 1933. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by Massachusetts, January 24, 1933; Wisconsin, 
January 24, 1933; Colorado, January 24, 1933; Nevada, January 26, 1933; 
Connecticut, January 27, 1933; New Hampshire, January 31, 1933; Vermont, 
February 2, 1933; Maryland, March 24, 1933; Florida, April 26, 1933.
  The ratification of this amendment to the Constitution shortened the 
first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. 
Garner, and the terms of all Senators and Representatives of the 73d 
Congress.
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  Section 2. <> The Congress shall 
assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at 
noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a 
different day.

  Before the ratification of the 20th amendment Congress met on the 
first Monday in December as provided in article I, section 4, of the 
Constitution. For discussion of the term of Congress before and pursuant 
to the 20th amendment, see Sec. 6, supra (accompanying art. I, sec. 2, 
cl. 1), and Deschler, ch. 1.

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  Pursuant to section 2 of the 20th amendment, a regular session of a 
Congress must begin at noon on January 3 of every year unless Congress 
sets a different date by law, and if the House is in session at that 
time the Speaker declares the House adjourned sine die without a motion 
from the floor, in order that the next regular session of that Congress, 
or the first session of the next Congress (as the case may be) may 
assemble at noon on that day (Jan. 3, 1980, pp. 37773, 37774; Jan. 3, 
1996, pp. 35, 36; Jan. 3, 2012, p. _; Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; Jan. 3, 2014, 
p. _). The House has adjourned the second session of a Congress without 
motion at its expiration and convened the first session of the new 
Congress on a different date as prescribed by law (Jan. 3, 2009, p. 
24812).
  Since <> ratification, the following days for assembling have been 
established: Public Law 74-120, Jan. 5, 1937; Public Law 77-395, Jan. 5, 
1942; Public Law 77-819, Jan. 6, 1943; Public Law 78-210, Jan. 10, 1944; 
Public Law 79-289, Jan. 14, 1946; Public Law 80-358, Jan. 6, 1948; 
Public Law 82-244, Jan. 8, 1952; Public Law 83-199, Jan. 6, 1954; Public 
Law 83-700, Jan. 5, 1955; Public Law 85-290, Jan. 7, 1958; Public Law 
85-819, Jan. 7, 1959; Public Law 86-305, Jan. 6, 1960; Public Law 87-
348, Jan. 10, 1962; Public Law 87-864, Jan. 9, 1963; Public Law 88-247, 
Jan. 7, 1964; Public Law 88-649, Jan. 4, 1965; Public Law 89-340, Jan. 
10, 1966; Public Law 89-704, Jan. 10, 1967; Public Law 90-230, Jan. 15, 
1968; Public Law 91-182, Jan. 19, 1970; Public Law 91-643, Jan. 21, 
1971; Public Law 92-217, Jan. 18, 1972; Public Law 93-196, Jan. 21, 
1974; Public Law 93-553, Jan. 14, 1975; Public Law 94-186, Jan. 19, 
1976; Public Law 94-494, Jan. 4, 1977; Public Law 95-594, Jan. 15, 1979; 
Public Law 96-566, Jan. 5, 1981; Public Law 97-133, Jan. 25, 1982; 
Public Law 98-179, Jan. 23, 1984; Public Law 99-379, Jan. 21, 1986; 
Public Law 99-613, Jan. 6, 1987; Public Law 100-229, Jan. 25, 1988; 
Public Law 101-228, Jan. 23, 1990; Public Law 102-475, Jan. 5, 1993; 
Public Law 103-395, Jan. 4, 1995; Public Law 104-296, Jan. 7, 1997; 
Public Law 105-140, Jan. 27, 1998; Public Law 105-350, Jan. 6, 1999; 
Public Law 106-127, Jan. 24, 2000; Public Law 107-328, Jan. 7, 2003; 
Public Law 108-181, Jan. 20, 2004; Public Law 108-433, Jan. 4, 2005; 
Public Law 109-447, Jan. 4, 2007; Public Law 110-430, Jan. 6, 2009; 
Public Law 111-121, Jan. 5, 2010; Public Law 111-289, Jan. 5, 2011; 
Public Law 113-201, Jan. 6, 2015. Such laws for the convening of a 
second session of a Congress may provide for possible earlier assembly 
by joint-leadership recall (see, e.g., Public Law 107-98, Jan. 23, 
2002).

-  Section 3. <> If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of 
the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President 
elect shall become President. If a President shall not have

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been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if 
the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice 
President elect shall act as President until a President shall have 
qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein 
neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have 
qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in 
which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act 
accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

  Congress <> provided by law in 1947 for the performance of the duties 
of the President in case of removal, death, resignation or inability, 
both of the President and Vice President (3 U.S.C. 19). Earlier 
succession statutes covering the periods 1792-1886 and 1887-1948 can be 
found in 18 Stat. 21, and 24 Stat. 1, respectively. Also see the 25th 
amendment to the Constitution, relating to vacancies in the Office of 
Vice President and Presidential inability.
  Before the 20th amendment there was no provision in the Constitution 
for a case wherein the President-elect was disqualified or had died.
  Section 4. <> The 
Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the 
persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President 
whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the 
case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose 
a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon 
them.

  The above section changes the 12th amendment insofar as it gives 
Congress the power to provide by law the manner in which the House 
should proceed in the event no candidate had a majority and one of the 
three highest on the list of those voted for as President had died.


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  Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of 
October following the ratification of this article.
  Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of 
three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of 
its submission.




                      AMENDMENT XXI.\12\

  Section 1. <> The eighteenth 
article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby 
repealed.
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  \12\The 21st amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to conventions of the several States by the 72d 
Congress on February 20, 1933, and was declared in a proclamation by the 
Acting Secretary of State dated December 5, 1933, to have been ratified 
by conventions in 36 of the 48 States. The dates of these ratifications 
were: Michigan, April 10, 1933; Wisconsin, April 25, 1933; Rhode Island, 
May 8, 1933; Wyoming, May 25, 1933; New Jersey, June 1, 1933; Delaware, 
June 24, 1933; Massachusetts, June 26, 1933; Indiana, June 26, 1933; New 
York, June 27, 1933; Illinois, July 10, 1933; Iowa, July 10, 1933; 
Connecticut, July 11, 1933; New Hampshire, July 11, 1933; California, 
July 24, 1933; West Virginia, July 25, 1933; Arkansas, August 1, 1933; 
Oregon, August 7, 1933; Alabama, August 8, 1933; Tennessee, August 11, 
1933; Missouri, August 29, 1933; Arizona, September 5, 1933; Nevada, 
September 5, 1933; Vermont, September 23, 1933; Colorado, September 26, 
1933; Washington, October 3, 1933; Minnesota, October 10, 1933; Idaho, 
October 17, 1933; Maryland, October 18, 1933; Virginia, October 25, 
1933; New Mexico, November 2, 1933; Florida, November 14, 1933; Texas, 
November 24, 1933; Kentucky, November 27, 1933; Ohio, December 5, 1933; 
Pennsylvania, December 5, 1933; Utah, December 5, 1933. The amendment 
was subsequently ratified by Maine on December 6, 1933; Montana, August 
6, 1934. The convention held in the State of South Carolina on December 
4, 1933, rejected the 21st amendment.
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  Section 2. <> The transportation or importation into any State, 
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ery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws 
thereof, is hereby prohibited.
  Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the 
several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from 
the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.




                     AMENDMENT XXII.\13\

  Section 1. <> No person shall be elected to the office of the President 
more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or 
acted as President, for more than two years of a term to

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which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the 
office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply 
to any person holding the office of President when this Article was 
proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be 
holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term 
within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of 
President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
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  \13\The 22d amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
80th Congress on March 24, 1947, and was declared by the Administrator 
of General Services, in a proclamation dated March 1, 1951, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of these 
ratifications were: Maine, March 31, 1947; Michigan, March 31, 1947; 
Iowa, April 1, 1947; Kansas, April 1, 1947; New Hampshire, April 1, 
1947; Delaware, April 2, 1947; Illinois, April 3, 1947; Oregon, April 3, 
1947; Colorado, April 12, 1947; California, April 15, 1947; New Jersey, 
April, 15, 1947; Vermont, April 15, 1947; Ohio, April 16, 1947; 
Wisconsin, April 16, 1947; Pennsylvania, April 29, 1947; Connecticut, 
May 21, 1947; Missouri, May 22, 1947; Nebraska, May 23, 1947; Virginia, 
January 28, 1948; Mississippi, February 12, 1948; New York, March 9, 
1948; South Dakota, January 21, 1949; North Dakota, February 25, 1949; 
Louisiana, May 17, 1950; Montana, January 25, 1951; Indiana, January 29, 
1951; Idaho, January 30, 1951; New Mexico, February 12, 1951; Wyoming, 
February 12, 1951; Arkansas, February 15, 1951; Georgia, February 17, 
1951; Tennessee, February 20, 1951; Texas, February 22, 1951; Nevada, 
February 26, 1951; Utah, February 26, 1951; Minnesota, February 27, 
1951. Ratification was completed February 27, 1951. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by North Carolina, February 28, 1951; South 
Carolina, March 13, 1951; Maryland, March 14, 1951; Florida, April 16, 
1951; Alabama, May 4, 1951. Massachusetts and Oklahoma rejected the 
amendment.
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  Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of 
three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of 
its submission to the States by the Congress.




                     AMENDMENT XXIII.\14\

  Section 1. <> The District constituting the seat of 
Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the 
Congress may direct:
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  \14\The 23d amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
86th Congress on June 17, 1960, and was declared by the Administrator of 
General Services, in a proclamation dated April 3, 1961, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of 39 of the 50 States. The dates of these 
ratifications were: Hawaii, June 23, 1960; Massachusetts, August 22, 
1960; New Jersey, December 19, 1960; New York, January 17, 1961; 
California, January 19, 1961; Oregon, January 27, 1961; Maryland, 
January 30, 1961; Idaho, January 31, 1961; Maine, January 31, 1961; 
Minnesota, January 31, 1961; New Mexico, February 1, 1961; Nevada, 
February 2, 1961; Montana, February 26, 1961; Colorado, February 8, 
1961; Washington, February 9, 1961; West Virginia, February 9, 1961; 
Alaska, February 10, 1961; Wyoming, February 13, 1961; South Dakota, 
February 14, 1961; Delaware, February 20, 1961; Utah, February 21, 1961; 
Wisconsin, February 21, 1961; Pennsylvania, February 28, 1961; Indiana, 
March 3, 1961; North Dakota, March 3, 1961; Tennessee, March 6, 1961; 
Michigan, March 8, 1961; Connecticut, March 9, 1961; Arizona, March 10, 
1961; Illinois, March 14, 1961; Nebraska, March 15, 1961; Vermont, March 
15, 1961; Iowa, March 16, 1961; Missouri, March 20, 1961; Oklahoma, 
March 21, 1961; Rhode Island, March 22, 1961; Kansas, March 29, 1961; 
and Ohio, March 29, 1961. Ratification was completed March 29, 1961. The 
amendment was subsequently ratified by New Hampshire on March 30, 1961 
(when that State annulled and then repeated its ratification of March 
29, 1961). Arkansas rejected the amendment January 24, 1961.

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  A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the 
whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the 
District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than 
the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed 
by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the 
election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a 
State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as 
provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
  Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.




                     AMENDMENT XXIV.\15\

  Section 1. <> The right of citizens of the United States to vote in 
any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for 
electors for President

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or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall 
not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of 
failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
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  \15\The 24th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
87th Congress on August 28, 1962, and was declared by the Administrator 
of General Services, in a proclamation dated February 4, 1964, to have 
been ratified by the legislatures of 38 of the 50 States. The dates of 
these ratifications were: Illinois, November 14, 1962; New Jersey, 
December 3, 1962; Oregon, January 25, 1963; Montana, January 28, 1963; 
West Virginia, February 1, 1963; New York, February 4, 1963; Maryland, 
February 6, 1963; California, February 7, 1963; Alaska, February 11, 
1963; Rhode Island, February 14, 1963; Indiana, February 19, 1963; Utah, 
February 20, 1963; Michigan, February 20, 1963; Colorado, February 21, 
1963; Ohio, February 27, 1963; Minnesota, February 27, 1963; New Mexico, 
March 5, 1963; Hawaii, March 6, 1963; North Dakota, March 7, 1963; 
Idaho, March 8, 1963; Washington, March 14, 1963; Vermont, March 15, 
1963; Nevada, March 19, 1963; Connecticut, March 20, 1963; Tennessee, 
March 21, 1963; Pennsylvania, March 25, 1963; Wisconsin, March 26, 1963; 
Kansas, March 28, 1963; Massachusetts, March 28, 1963; Nebraska, April 
4, 1963; Florida, April 18, 1963; Iowa, April 24, 1963; Delaware, May 1, 
1963; Missouri, May 13, 1963; New Hampshire, June 12, 1963; Kentucky, 
June 27, 1963; Maine, January 16, 1964; and South Dakota, January 23, 
1964. Ratification was completed on January 23, 1964. Mississippi 
rejected the amendment on December 20, 1962. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by Virginia, February 25, 1977; North Carolina, 
May 3, 1989; Alabama, Sept. 26, 2002; Texas, May 22, 2009.

  Harman v. Forssenius, 380 U.S. 528 (1965); Harper v. Virginia State 
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Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966).

  Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.




                      AMENDMENT XXV.\16\

  Section 1. <> In case of the removal of the President from office or of 
his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
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  \16\The 25th amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 
89th Congress on July 7, 1965, and was declared by the Administrator of 
General Services, in a proclamation dated February 23, 1967, to have 
been ratified by the legislatures of 39 of the 50 States. The dates of 
these ratifications were: Nebraska, July 12, 1965; Wisconsin, July 13, 
1965; Oklahoma, July 16, 1965; Massachusetts, August 9, 1965; 
Pennsylvania, August 18, 1965; Kentucky, September 15, 1965; Arizona, 
September 22, 1965; Michigan, October 5, 1965; Indiana, October 20, 
1965; California, October 21, 1965; Arkansas, November 4, 1965; New 
Jersey, November 29, 1965; Delaware, December 7, 1965; Utah, January 17, 
1966; West Virginia, January 20, 1966; Maine, January 24, 1966; Rhode 
Island, January 28, 1966; Colorado, February 3, 1966; New Mexico, 
February 3, 1966; Kansas, February 8, 1966; Vermont, February 10, 1966; 
Alaska, February 18, 1966; Idaho, March 2, 1966; Hawaii, March 3, 1966; 
Virginia, March 8, 1966; Mississippi, March 10, 1966; New York, March 
14, 1966; Maryland, March 23, 1966; Missouri, March 30, 1966; New 
Hampshire, June 13, 1966; Louisiana, July 5, 1966; Tennessee, January 
12, 1967; Wyoming, January 25, 1967; Iowa, January 26, 1967; Washington, 
January 26, 1967; Oregon, February 2, 1967; Minnesota, February 10, 
1967; Nevada, February 10, 1967. Ratification was completed February 10, 
1967. The amendment was subsequently ratified by Connecticut, February 
14, 1967; Montana, February 15, 1967; South Dakota, March 6, 1967; Ohio, 
March 7, 1967; Alabama, March 14, 1967; North Carolina, March 22, 1967; 
Illinois, March 22, 1967; Texas, April 25, 1967; Florida, May 25, 1967.

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  Section 2. <> Whenever there is a vacancy 
in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice 
President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of 
both Houses of Congress.
  Section 3. <> Whenever the President transmits to the President pro 
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and 
duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written 
declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged 
by the Vice President as Acting President.

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  Section 4. <> Whenever the Vice President 
and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive 
departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, 
transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives their written declaration that the 
President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, 
the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the 
office as Acting President.
  Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore 
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his 
written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers 
and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of 
either the principal officers of the executive department or of such 
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to 
the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable 
to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress 
shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that 
purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after 
receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in 
session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, 
determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is 
unable

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to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President 
shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the 
President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

  Congress <> has twice performed its responsibility under section two of 
the 25th amendment. On October 13, 1973, the Speaker laid before the 
House a message from President Nixon transmitting his nomination of 
Gerald R. Ford, Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, to be 
Vice President of the United States, Vice President Agnew having 
resigned on October 10, 1973. The Speaker referred the nomination to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, which under rule X has jurisdiction over 
matters relating to Presidential succession (Oct. 13, 1973, p. 34032). 
The nomination of Mr. Ford to be Vice President was confirmed by the 
Senate on November 27, 1973 (p. 38225) and by the House on December 6, 
1973 (p. 39900), and Vice President Ford was sworn in in the Chamber of 
the House of Representatives on December 6 (p. 39925). Subsequently, 
President Nixon resigned from office by delivering his written 
resignation to the Office of the Secretary of State, pursuant to 3 
U.S.C. 20, on August 9, 1974. Pursuant to section one of the 25th 
amendment, Vice President Ford became President, and was sworn in in the 
East Room at the White House. He nominated Nelson A. Rockefeller to be 
Vice President, which nomination was received in the House of 
Representatives and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on August 
20, 1974; the nomination was confirmed by the Senate on December 10, 
1974 (p. 38936) and by the House on December 19, 1974 (p. 41516), and 
Vice President Rockefeller was sworn in in the Senate Chamber on 
December 19, 1974 (p. 41181). On both instances, the House received the 
message from the Senate, announcing that body's confirmation of the 
nominee for Vice President, following the vote on confirmation by the 
House.
  The Chair laid before the House communications from the President 
pursuant to section three of this amendment as follows: First, before 
undergoing sedation for a medical procedure, declaring his impending 
inability to discharge the constitutional powers and duties of the 
Office of President and advising that the Vice President would discharge 
those responsibilities as Acting President until the President declared 
his ability to resume that role; and second (after recovering from the 
sedation and the medical procedure) declaring his ability to resume the 
discharge of the constitutional powers and duties of the Office of 
President, and advising that he was doing so immediately (July 15, 1985, 
p. 18955; July 8, 2002, pp. 12089, 12090; July 23, 2007, p. 20036).

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                     AMENDMENT XXVI.\17\

  Section 1. <> The right of citizens of the United States, who 
are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or 
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
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  \17\The 26th amendment to the Constitution was proposed by 
the Congress on March 23, 1971. It was declared, in a certificate of the 
Administrator of General Services, dated July 5, 1971, to have been 
ratified by the legislatures of 39 of the 50 States. The dates of 
ratification were: Connecticut, March 23, 1971; Delaware, March 23, 
1971; Minnesota, March 23, 1971; Tennessee, March 23, 1971; Washington, 
March 23, 1971; Hawaii, March 24, 1971; Massachusetts, March 24, 1971; 
Montana, March 29, 1971; Arkansas, March 30, 1971; Idaho, March 30, 
1971; Iowa, March 30, 1971; Nebraska, April 2, 1971; New Jersey, April 
3, 1971; Kansas, April 7, 1971; Michigan, April 7, 1971; Alaska, April 
8, 1971; Maryland, April 8, 1971; Indiana, April 8, 1971; Maine, April 
9, 1971; Vermont, April 16, 1971; Louisiana, April 17, 1971; California, 
April 19, 1971; Colorado, April 27, 1971; Pennsylvania, April 27, 1971; 
Texas, April 27, 1971; South Carolina, April 28, 1971; West Virginia, 
April 28, 1971; New Hampshire, May 13, 1971; Arizona, May 14, 1971; 
Rhode Island, May 27, 1971; New York, June 2, 1971; Oregon, June 4, 
1971; Missouri, June 14, 1971; Wisconsin, June 22, 1971; Illinois, June 
29, 1971; Alabama, June 30, 1971; Ohio, June 30, 1971; North Carolina, 
July 1, 1971; Oklahoma, July 1, 1971.
  Ratification was completed on July 1, 1971.
  The amendment was subsequently ratified by Virginia, July 8, 1971; 
Wyoming, July 8, 1971; Georgia, October 4, 1971.
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  Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation.

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                     AMENDMENT XXVII.\18\

  No law, varying the <> compensation for the services of the 
Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of 
Representatives shall have intervened.
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  \18\The 27th amendment to the Constitution was proposed on 
September 25, 1789. It was declared to have been ratified by the 
legislatures of 39 of the 50 States in a certificate of the Archivist 
dated May 18, 1992. The dates of ratification were: Maryland, December 
19, 1789; North Carolina, December 22, 1789; South Carolina, January 19, 
1790; Delaware, January 28, 1790; Vermont, November 3, 1791; Virginia, 
December 15, 1791; Ohio, May 6, 1873; Wyoming, March 6, 1978; Maine, 
April 27, 1983; Colorado, April 22, 1984; South Dakota, February 21, 
1985; New Hampshire, March 7, 1985; Arizona, April 3, 1985; Tennessee, 
May 23, 1985; Oklahoma, July 10, 1985; New Mexico, February 14, 1986; 
Indiana, February 24, 1986; Utah, February 25, 1986; Arkansas, March 6, 
1987; Montana, March 17, 1987; Connecticut, May 13, 1987; Wisconsin, 
July 15, 1987; Georgia, February 2, 1988; West Virginia, March 10, 1988; 
Louisiana, July 7, 1988; Iowa, February 9, 1989; Idaho, March 23, 1989; 
Nevada, April 26, 1989; Alaska, May 6, 1989; Oregon, May 19, 1989; 
Minnesota, May 22, 1989; Texas, May 25, 1989; Kansas, April 5, 1990; 
Florida, May 31, 1990; North Dakota, March 25, 1991; Alabama, May 5, 
1992; Missouri, May 5, 1992; Michigan, May 7, 1992; New Jersey, May 7, 
1992.
  Ratification was completed on May 7, 1992. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by Illinois, May 12, 1992; California, June 26, 
1992; Rhode Island, June 10, 1993; Hawaii, April 26, 1994; Washington, 
August 12, 1995; Kentucky, March 21, 1996.

  To quell speculation over the efficacy of a ratification process 
spanning two centuries, the House adopted a concurrent resolution 
declaring the ratification of the amendment (H. Con. Res. 320, May 19, 
1992, p. 11779 (adopted May 20, 1992, p. 12051)). The Senate adopted 
both a separate concurrent resolution and a simple resolution making 
similar declarations (S. Con. Res. 120 and S. Res. 298, May 20, 1992, p. 
11869). Neither House considered the concurrent resolution of the other. 
For a concurrent resolution declaring the ratification of the 14th 
amendment, see July 21, 1868. For opinions of the Supreme Court 
concerning the duration of the ratification process and the 
contemporaneity of State ratifications, see Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 
368 (1921) and Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939). A law enacted in 
the 113th Congress directed the payroll administrators of each House to 
withhold the pay of Members or Senators until either

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(1) a concurrent resolution on the budget was adopted in their 
respective body or (2) in order to ensure compliance with the 27th 
amendment, the final day of the 113th Congress (P.L. 113-3).
  For Federal court opinions upholding congressional cost-of-living 
adjustments for Members under the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 
1716), see Boehner v. Anderson, 809 F. Supp. 138 (D.D.C. 1992), aff'd, 
30 F.3d 156 (D.C. Cir 1994); Schaffer v. Clinton, 54 F. Supp.2d 1014 
(D.Colo. 1999). end segment .002  deg. segment .003 -- 
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       JEFFERSON'S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE\1\

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                 sec. i--importance of adhering to rules

  Mr. <> Onslow, the ablest among the Speakers of the House of 
Commons, used to say, ``It was a maxim he had often heard when he was a 
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and experienced Members, that nothing tended more to throw power into 
the hands of administration, and those who acted with the majority of 
the House of Commons, than a neglect of, or departure from, the rules of 
proceeding; that these forms, as instituted by our ancestors, operated 
as a check and control on the actions of the majority, and that they 
were, in many instances, a shelter and protection to the minority, 
against the attempts of power.'' So far the maxim is certainly true, and 
is founded in good sense, that as it is always in the power of the 
majority, by their numbers, to stop any improper measures proposed on 
the part of their opponents, the only weapons by which the minority can 
defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power are the 
forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found

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necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House, by a 
strict adherence to which the weaker party can only be protected from 
those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to 
check, and which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest 
to large and successful majorities, 2 Hats., 171, 172.
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  \1\Jefferson's Manual was prepared by Thomas Jefferson for 
his own guidance as President of the Senate in the years of his Vice 
Presidency, from 1797 to 1801. In 1837 the House, by rule that still 
exists, provided that the provisions of the Manual should ``govern the 
House in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are 
not inconsistent with the Rules and orders of the House.'' Rule XXIX, 
Sec. 1105, infra. In 1880 the committee that revised the Rules of the 
House declared in their report that the Manual, ``compiled as it was for 
the use of the Senate exclusively and made up almost wholly of 
collations of English parliamentary practice and decisions, it was never 
especially valuable as an authority in the House of Representatives, 
even in its early history, and for many years past has been rarely 
quoted in the House'' (V, 6757). This statement, although sanctioned by 
high authority, is extreme, for in certain parts of the Manual are to be 
found the foundations of some of the most important portions of the 
House's practice.
<>   
The Manual is regarded by English parliamentarians as the best statement 
of what the law of Parliament was at the time Jefferson wrote it. 
Jefferson himself says, in the preface of the work:
  ``I could not doubt the necessity of quoting the sources of my 
information, among which Mr. Hatsel's most valuable book is preeminent; 
but as he has only treated some general heads, I have been obliged to 
recur to other authorities in support of a number of common rules of 
practice, to which his plan did not descend. Sometimes each authority 
cited supports the whole passage. Sometimes it rests on all taken 
together. Sometimes the authority goes only to a part of the text, the 
residue being inferred from known rules and principles. For some of the 
most familiar forms no written authority is or can be quoted, no writer 
having supposed it necessary to repeat what all were presumed to know. 
The statement of these must rest on their notoriety.
  ``I am aware that authorities can often be produced in opposition to 
the rules which I lay down as parliamentary. An attention to dates will 
generally remove their weight. The proceedings of Parliament in ancient 
times, and for a long while, were crude, multiform, and embarrassing. 
They have been, however, constantly advancing toward uniformity and 
accuracy, and have now attained a degree of aptitude to their object 
beyond which little is to be desired or expected.
  ``Yet I am far from the presumption of believing that I may not have 
mistaken the parliamentary practice in some cases, and especially in 
those minor forms, which, being practiced daily, are supposed known to 
everybody, and therefore have not been committed to writing. Our 
resources in this quarter of the globe for obtaining information on that 
part of the subject are not perfect. But I have begun a sketch, which 
those who come after me will successively correct and fill up, till a 
code of rules shall be formed for the use of the Senate, the effects of 
which may be accuracy in business, economy of time, order, uniformity, 
and impartiality.''
  Jefferson also says in his preface, as to the source most desirable at 
that time from which to draw principles of procedure:
<>   ``But to what system of rules is he to recur, 
as supplementary to those of the Senate? To this there can be but one 
answer: To the system of regulations adopted for the government of some 
one of the parliamentary bodies within these States, or of that which 
has served as a prototype to most of them. This last is the model which 
we have all studied, while we are little acquainted with the 
modifications of it in our several States. It is deposited, too, in 
publications possessed by many, and open to all. Its rules are probably 
as wisely constructed for governing the debates of a deliberative body, 
and obtaining its true sense, as any which can become known to us; and 
the acquiescence of the Senate, hitherto, under the references to them, 
has given them the sanction of the approbation.''
  Those portions of the Manual that refer exclusively to Senate 
procedure or that refer to English practice wholly inapplicable to the 
House have been omitted. Paragraphs from the Constitution of the United 
States have also been omitted, because the Constitution is printed in 
full in this volume.
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  And <> whether these 
forms be in all cases the most rational or not is really not of so great 
importance. It is much more material that there should be a rule to go 
by than what that rule is; that there may be a uniformity of proceeding 
in business not subject to the caprice of the Speaker or captiousness of 
the members. It is very material that order, decency, and regularity be 
preserved in a dignified public body. 2 Hats., 149.


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  Whether the House is in order so that a Member may proceed in debate 
is determined by the Chair (Apr. 23, 2008, pp. 6748, 6749). Alleged 
partiality in making such a determination has been renounced (July 31, 
2008, p. 17495). The comportment of a presiding officer has formed the 
basis of a question of privilege (Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22783).

* * * * *




                           sec. iii--privilege

  The <> privileges of members of Parliament, from small and 
obscure beginnings, have been advancing for centuries with a firm and 
never yielding pace. Claims seem to have been brought forward from time 
to time, and repeated, till some example of their admission enabled them 
to build law on that example. We can only, therefore, state the points 
of progression at which they now are. It is now acknowledged, 1st. That 
they are at all times exempted from question elsewhere, for anything 
said in their own House; that during the time of privilege, 2d. Neither 
a member himself, his, order H. of C. 1663, July 16, wife, nor his 
servants (familiares sui), for any matter of their own, may be, Elsynge, 
217; 1 Hats., 21; 1 Grey's Deb., 133, arrested on mesne process, in any 
civil suit: 3d. Nor be detained under execution, though levied before 
time of privilege: 4th. Nor impleaded, cited, or subpoenaed in any 
court: 5th. Nor summoned as a witness or juror: 6th. Nor may their lands 
or goods be distrained: 7th. Nor their persons assaulted, or characters 
traduced. And the period of time covered by privilege, before and after 
the session, with the practice of short prorogations under the conniv

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ance of the Crown, amounts in fact to a perpetual protection against the 
course of justice. In one instance, indeed, it has been relaxed by the 
10 G. 3, c. 50, which permits judiciary proceedings to go on against 
them. That these privileges must be continually progressive, seems to 
result from their rejecting all definition of them; the doctrine being, 
that ``their dignity and independence are preserved by keeping their 
privileges indefinite; and that `the maxims upon which they proceed, 
together with the method of proceeding, rest entirely in their own 
breast, and are not defined and ascertained by any particular stated 
laws.''' 1 Blackst., 163, 164.

  For a modern discussion of privileges of Members of Parliament, see 
Report of Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege of the House of 
Commons (H.C. 214-1, Mar. 30, 1999).

  It <> was probably from this view of the encroaching character 
of privilege that the framers of our Constitution, in their care to 
provide that the laws shall bind equally on all, and especially that 
those who make them shall not exempt themselves from their operation, 
have only privileged ``Senators and Representatives'' themselves from 
the single act of ``arrest in all cases except treason, felony, and 
breach of the peace, during their attendance at the session of their 
respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same, and from 
being questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in either 
House.'' Const. U.S. Art I, Sec. 6. Under the general authority ``to 
make all laws necessary and proper

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for carrying into execution the powers given them,'' Const. U.S., Art. 
II, Sec. 8, they may provide by law the details which may be necessary 
for giving full effect to the enjoyment of this privilege. No such law 
being as yet made, it seems to stand at present on the following ground: 
1. The act of arrest is void, ab initio. 2 Stra., 989. 2. The member 
arrested may be discharged on motion, 1 Bl., 166; 2 Stra., 990; or by 
habeas corpus under the Federal or State authority, as the case may be; 
or by a writ of privilege out of the chancery, 2 Stra., 989, in those 
States which have adopted that part of the laws of England. Orders of 
the House of Commons, 1550, February 20. 3. The arrest being unlawful, 
is a trespass for which the officer and others concerned are liable to 
action or indictment in the ordinary courts of justice, as in other 
cases of unauthorized arrest. 4. The court before which the process is 
returnable is bound to act as in other cases of unauthorized proceeding, 
and liable, also, as in other similar cases, to have their proceedings 
stayed or corrected by the superior courts.
  The <> time 
necessary for going to, and returning from, Congress, not being defined, 
it will, of course, be judged of in every particular case by those who 
will have to decide the case. While privilege was understood in England 
to extend, as it does here, only to exemption from arrest, eundo, 
morando, et redeundo, the House of Commons themselves decided that ``a 
convenient time was to be under

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stood.'' (1580) 1 Hats., 99, 100. Nor is the law so strict in point of 
time as to require the party to set out immediately on his return, but 
allows him time to settle his private affairs, and to prepare for his 
journey; and does not even scan his road very nicely, nor forfeit his 
protection for a little deviation from that which is most direct; some 
necessity perhaps constraining him to it. 2 Stra., 986, 987.
  This <> privilege from arrest, 
privileges, of course, against all process the disobedience to which is 
punishable by an attachment of the person; as a subpoena ad 
respondendum, or testificandum, or a summons on a jury; and with reason, 
because a Member has superior duties to perform in another place. When a 
Representative is withdrawn from his seat by summons, the 40,000 people 
whom he represents lose their voice in debate and vote, as they do on 
his voluntary absence; when a Senator is withdrawn by summons, his State 
loses half its voice in debate and vote, as it does on his voluntary 
absence. The enormous disparity of evil admits no comparison.

  The <> House has decided that the summons of a court to Members to 
attend and testify constituted a breach of privilege, and directed them 
to disregard the mandate (III, 2661); but in other cases wherein Members 
informed the House that they had been summoned before the District Court 
of the United States for the District of Columbia or other courts, the 
House authorized them to respond (III, 2662; Feb. 23, 1948, p. 1557; 
Mar. 5, 1948, p. 2224; Apr. 8, 1948, p. 4264; Apr. 12, 1948, p. 4347; 
Apr. 14, 1948, p. 4461; Apr. 15, 1948, p. 4529; Apr. 28, 1948, p. 5009; 
May 6, 1948, pp. 5433, 5451; Feb. 2, 1950, p. 1399; Apr. 4, 1951, p. 
3320; Apr. 9, 1951, p. 3525; Apr. 12, 1951, pp. 3751, 3752; Apr. 13, 
1951, p. 3915; June 4,

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1951, p. 6084; June 22, 1951, p. 7001; Sept. 18, 1951, p. 11571; Sept. 
27, 1951, p. 12292; Mar. 5, 1953, p. 1658; Mar. 18, 1953, p. 2085; Mar. 
11, 1954, p. 3102; July 19, 1954, p. 10904; Apr. 9, 1956, p. 5970; Apr. 
10, 1956, p. 5991). The House, however, has declined to make a general 
rule permitting Members to waive their privilege, preferring that the 
Member in each case should apply for permission (III, 2660). Also in 
maintenance of its privilege the House has refused to permit the Clerk 
or other officers to produce in court, in obedience to a summons, an 
original paper from the files, but has given the court facilities for 
making copies (III, 2664, 2666; Apr. 15, 1948, p. 4552; Apr. 29, 1948, 
pp. 5161, 5162; May 6, 1948, p. 5432; Jan. 18, 1950, p. 565; Feb. 8, 
1950, p. 1695; Feb. 13, 1950, p. 1765; Sept. 22, 1950, p. 15636; Apr. 6, 
1951, p. 3403; Apr. 12, 1951, p. 3800; Oct. 20, 1951, p. 13777; Jan. 22, 
1953, p. 498; May 25, 1953, p. 5523; Jan. 28, 1954, p. 964; Feb. 25, 
1954, p. 2281; July 1, 1955, p. 9818; Apr. 12, 1956, p. 6258; Apr. 24, 
1958, p. 7262; Apr. 29, 1958, p. 7636; Sept. 16, 1974, p. 31123; Jan. 
19, 1977, p. 1728), but on one occasion, in which the circumstances 
warranted such action, the Clerk was permitted to respond and take with 
him certified copies of certain documents described in the subpoena (H. 
Res. 601, Oct. 29, 1969, p. 32005) and on another occasion, in response 
to a request from the Department of Justice, to provide a copy of the 
audio backup file of a committee deposition made by the Official 
Reporters of Debate to the prosecuting attorney for use in a criminal 
proceeding (Feb. 17, 2012, p. _); and on the rare occasions in which the 
House has permitted the production of an original paper from its files, 
it has made explicit provision for its return (H. Res. 1022, 1023, Jan. 
16, 1968, p. 80; H. Res. 1429, July 27, 1976, p. 24089). No officer or 
employee, except by authority of the House, should produce before any 
court a paper from the files of the House, nor furnish a copy of any 
paper except by authority of the House or a statute (III, 2663; VI, 587; 
Apr. 15, 1948, p. 4552; Apr. 30, 1948, pp. 5161, 5162; May 6, 1948, p. 
5432; Jan. 18, 1950, p. 565; Feb. 8, 1950, p. 1695; Feb. 13, 1950, p. 
1765; Sept. 22, 1950, p. 15636; Apr. 6, 1951, p. 3403; Apr. 12, 1951, p. 
3800; Oct. 20, 1951, p. 13777; Mar. 10, 1954, p. 3046; Feb. 7, 1955, p. 
1215; May 7, 1956, p. 7588; Dec. 18, 1974, p. 40925). In the 98th 
Congress, the House adopted a resolution denying compliance with a 
subpoena issued by a Federal Court for the production of records in the 
possession of the Clerk (documents of a select committee from the prior 
Congress), where the Speaker and joint leadership had instructed the 
Clerk in the previous Congress not to produce such records and where the 
Court refused to stay the subpoena or to allow the select committee to 
intervene to protect its interest; the resolution directed the Counsel 
to the Clerk to assert the rights and privileges of the House and to 
take all steps necessary to protect the rights of the House (Apr. 28, 
1983, p. 10417). On appeal from a subsequent district court judgment 
finding the Clerk in contempt, the Court of Appeals reversed on the 
ground that a subpoena to depose a nonparty witness under the Federal 
Rules of Civil Procedure may only be served

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in the district (of Maryland) where it was issued. In re Guthrie, 733 
F.2d 634 (4th Cir. 1984). If an official of both Houses of Congress is 
subpoenaed in his official capacity, the concurrence of both Houses by 
concurrent resolution is required to permit compliance (H. Con. Res. 
342, July 16, 1975, pp. 23144-46). The House has authorized a former 
committee employee to provide testimony in a criminal proceeding, such 
authorization having been provided by the committee in the previous two 
Congresses (sec. 3(f)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  A resolution routinely adopted up to the 95th Congress provided that 
when the House had recessed or adjourned Members, officers, and 
employees were authorized to appear in response to subpoenas duces 
tecum, but were prohibited from producing official papers in response 
thereto; the resolution also provided that when a court found that 
official papers, other than executive session material, were relevant, 
the court could obtain copies thereof through the Clerk of the House 
(see, e.g., H. Res. 12, Jan. 3, 1973, p. 30). In the 95th Congress, the 
House for the first time by resolution permitted this same type of 
general response whether or not the House is in session or in 
adjournment if a court has found that specific documents in possession 
of the House are material and relevant to judicial proceedings. The 
House reserved to itself the right to revoke this general permission in 
any specific case in which the House desires to make a different 
response (H. Res. 10, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 73; H. Res. 10, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 
19). The permission did not apply to executive session material, such as 
a deposition of a witness in executive session of a committee, which 
could be released only by a separate resolution passed by the House (H. 
Res. 296, June 4, 1979, p. 13180). H. Res. 10 of the 96th Congress was 
clarified and revised later in that Congress by H. Res. 722 (Sept. 17, 
1980, pp. 25777-90) and became the basis for rule VIII, added as rule L 
in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113, see Sec. 697, 
infra).
  Although <> the statutes provide that the Department of Justice may 
represent any officer of the House or Senate in the event of judicial 
proceedings against such officer in relation to the performance of 
official duties (see 2 U.S.C. 5503), and that the Department of Justice 
shall generally represent the interests of the United States in court 
(28 U.S.C. 517), the House has on occasion authorized special 
appearances on its own behalf by special counsel when the prerogatives 
or powers of the House have been questioned in the courts. The House has 
adopted privileged resolutions authorizing the chair of a subcommittee 
to intervene in any judicial proceeding concerning subpoenas duces tecum 
issued by that committee, authorizing the appointment of a special 
counsel to carry out the purposes of such a resolution, and providing 
for the payment from the contingent fund (now referred to as 
``applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule 
X'') of expenses to employ such special counsel (H. Res. 1420, Aug. 26, 
1976, p. 27858; H. Res. 334, May 9, 1977, pp. 13949-52), authorizing the 
Sergeant-at-Arms to employ a special counsel to represent him in a 
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action in Federal court in which he was named as a defendant, and 
providing for the payment from the contingent fund of expenses to employ 
such counsel (H. Res. 1497, Sept. 2, 1976, p. 28937), and authorizing 
the chair of the Committee on House Administration to intervene as a 
party in a pending civil action in the U.S. Court of Claims, to defend 
on behalf of the House the constitutional authority to make laws 
necessary and proper for executing its constitutional powers, 
authorizing the employment of special counsel for such purpose, and 
providing for the payment from the contingent fund of expenses to employ 
such counsel (H. Res. 884, Nov. 2, 1977, p. 36661). The House has 
authorized the Speaker to take any steps considered necessary, including 
intervention as a party or by submission of briefs amicus curiae, in 
order to protect the interests of the House before the court (H. Res. 
49, Jan. 29, 1981, p. 1304). The House has authorized the Speaker to 
initiate or intervene in civil actions regarding the failure of the 
President or any other employee of the executive branch to implement a 
given law and authorized the Office of General Counsel to represent the 
House in such matters and to employ outside counsel (H. Res. 676, July 
30, 2014, p. _), which authority was continued in the next Congress 
(sec. 3(f)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). The House also has on 
occasion adopted privileged resolutions, reported from the Committee on 
Rules, authorizing standing or select committees to make applications to 
courts in connection with their investigations (H. Res. 252, Feb. 9, 
1977, pp. 3966-75; H. Res. 760, Sept. 28, 1977, pp. 31329-36; H. Res. 
67, Mar. 4, 1981, pp. 3529-33), including regarding judicial enforcement 
of committee subpoenas (H. Res. 706, June 28, 2012, p. _, continued in 
the next two Congresses by sec. 4(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _ 
and sec. 3(f)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). The House has also 
adopted (by special rule) an unreported resolution on the same topic (H. 
Res. 980, Feb. 14, 2008, pp. 2190, 2191, continued and expanded in the 
next Congress by sec. 4(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 10). For a 
discussion of the Office of General Counsel, which was established to 
provide legal assistance and representation to the House without regard 
to political affiliation and in consultation with the Bipartisan Legal 
Advisory Group, see clause 8 of rule II, Sec. Sec. 670, 670a, infra.

  When <> either House desires the attendance of 
a Member of the other to give evidence it is the practice to ask the 
other House that the Member have leave to attend, and the use of a 
subpoena is of doubtful propriety (III, 1794). However, in one case the 
Senate did not consider that its privilege forbade the House to summon 
one of its officers as a witness (III, 1798). But when the Secretary of 
the Senate was subpoenaed to appear before a committee of the House with 
certain papers from the files of the Senate, the Senate discussed the 
question of privilege before empowering him to attend (III, 2665). For 
discussion of the means by which one House may prefer a complaint 
against a Member or officer of the other, see Sec. 373, infra.


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  So <> far 
there will probably be no difference of opinion as to the privileges of 
the two Houses of Congress; but in the following cases it is otherwise. 
In December, 1795, the House of Representatives committed two persons of 
the name of Randall and Whitney for attempting to corrupt the integrity 
of certain Members, which they considered as a contempt and breach of 
the privileges of the House; and the facts being proved, Whitney was 
detained in confinement a fortnight and Randall three weeks, and was 
reprimanded by the Speaker. In March, 1796, the House voted a challenge 
given to a Member of their House to be a breach of the privileges of the 
House; but satisfactory apologies and acknowledgments being made, no 
further proceeding was had. * * *

  The <> cases of Randall and Whitney (II, 1599-1603) were followed in 
1818 by the case of John Anderson, a citizen, who for attempted bribery 
of a Member was arrested, tried, and censured by the House (II, 1606). 
Anderson appealed to the courts and this procedure finally resulted in a 
discussion by the Supreme Court of the United States of the right of the 
House to punish for contempts, and a decision that the House by 
implication has the power to punish, because ``public functionaries must 
be left at liberty to exercise the powers which the people have 
intrusted to them,'' and ``the interests and dignity of those who 
created them require the exertion of the powers indispensable to the 
attainment of the ends of their creation. Nor is a casual conflict with 
the rights of particular individuals any reason to be urged against the 
exercise of such powers'' (II, 1607; Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. (6 
Wheat.) 204, 226, 227 (1821)). In 1828 an assault on the President's 
secretary in the Capitol gave rise to a question of privilege that 
involved a discussion of the inherent power of the House to punish for 
contempt (II, 1615). Again in 1832, when the House censured Samuel 
Houston, a citizen, for assault on a Member for words spoken in debate 
(II, 1616), there was a discussion by the House of the doctrine of 
inherent and implied power as opposed to the other doctrine that the 
House might exercise no authority not expressly conferred on it by the 
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tion or the laws of the land (II, 1619). In 1865 the House arrested and 
censured a citizen for attempted intimidation and assault on a member 
(II, 1625); in 1866, a citizen who had assaulted the clerk of a 
committee of the House in the Capitol was arrested by order of the 
House, but because there was not time to punish in the few remaining 
days of the session, the Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to turn the 
prisoner over to the civil authorities of the District of Columbia (II, 
1629); and in 1870 Woods, who had assaulted a Member on his way to the 
House, was arrested on warrant of the Speaker, arraigned at the bar, and 
imprisoned for a term extending beyond the adjournment of the session, 
although not beyond the term of the existing House (II, 1626-1628).
  In <> 1876 the 
arrest and imprisonment by the House of Hallet Kilbourn, a contumacious 
witness, resulted in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United 
States that the House had no general power to punish for contempt, as in 
a case wherein it was proposing to coerce a witness in an inquiry not 
within the constitutional authority of the House. The Court also 
discussed the doctrine of inherent power to punish, saying in 
conclusion, ``We are of opinion that the right of the Houses of 
Representatives to punish the citizen for a contempt of its authority or 
a breach of its privileges can derive no support from the precedents and 
practices of the two Houses of the English Parliament, nor from the 
adjudged cases in which the English courts have upheld these practices. 
Nor, taking what has fallen from the English judges, and especially the 
later cases on which we have just commented, is much aid given to the 
doctrine, that this power exists as one necessary to enable either House 
of Congress to exercise successfully their function of legislation. This 
latter proposition is one that we do not propose to decide in the 
present case, because we are able to decide it without passing upon the 
existence or nonexistence of such a power in aid of the legislative 
function'' (Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 189 (1880); II, 1611). 
In 1894, in the case of Chapman, another contumacious witness, the 
Supreme Court affirmed the undoubted right of either House of Congress 
to punish for contempt in cases to which its power properly extends 
under the expressed terms of the Constitution (II, 1614; In re Chapman, 
1166 U.S. 661 (1897)). The nature of the punishment that the House may 
inflict was discussed by the Court in Anderson's case (II, 1607; 
Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 204 (1821)).
  In the case of Marshall v. Gordon, 243 U.S. 521 (1917), the Court 
addressed the following situation:
<>   
Appellant, while United States Attorney for the Southern District of New 
York, conducted a grand jury investigation that led to the indictment of 
a Member of the House. Acting on charges of misfeasance and nonfeasance 
made by the Member against appellant in part before the indictment and 
renewed with additions afterward, the House by resolution directed its 
Judiciary Committee to make inquiry and report concerning ap

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pellant's liability to impeachment. Such inquiry being in progress 
through a subcommittee, appellant addressed to the subcommittee's chair, 
and gave to the press, a letter, charging the subcommittee with an 
endeavor to probe into and frustrate the action of the grand jury, and 
couched in terms calculated to arouse the indignation of the members of 
that committee and those of the House generally. Thereafter, appellant 
was arrested in New York by the Sergeant-at-Arms pursuant to a 
resolution of the House whereby the letter was characterized as 
defamatory and insulting and as tending to bring that body into public 
contempt and ridicule, and whereby appellant in writing and publishing 
such letter was adjudged to be in contempt of the House in violating its 
privileges, honor, and dignity. He applied for habeas corpus.
  The court held that the proceedings concerning which the alleged 
contempt was committed were not impeachment proceedings; that, whether 
they were impeachment proceedings or not, the House was without power by 
its own action, as distinct from such action as might be taken under 
criminal laws, to arrest or punish for such acts as were committed by 
appellant.
  No express power to punish for contempt was granted to the House save 
the power to deal with contempts committed by its own Members (art. I, 
sec. 5). The possession by Congress of the commingled legislative and 
judicial authority to punish for contempts that was exerted by the House 
of Commons is at variance with the view and tendency existing in this 
country when the Constitution was adopted, as evidenced by the manner in 
which the subject was treated in many State constitutions, beginning at 
or about that time and continuing thereafter. Such commingling of powers 
would be destructive of the basic constitutional distinction between 
legislative, executive, and judicial power, and repugnant to limitations 
that the Constitution fixes expressly; hence there is no warrant 
whatever for implying such a dual power in aid of other powers expressly 
granted to Congress. The House has implied power to deal directly with 
contempt so far as is necessary to preserve and exercise the legislative 
authority expressly granted. Being, however, a power of self-
preservation, a means and not an end, the power does not extend to 
infliction of punishment, as such; it is a power to prevent acts that in 
and of themselves inherently prevent or obstruct the discharge of 
legislative duty and to compel the doing of those things that are 
essential to the performance of the legislative functions. As pointed 
out in Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 204 (1821), this implied 
power in its exercise is limited to imprisonment during the session of 
the body affected by the contempt.
  The authority does not cease when the act complained of has been 
committed, but includes the right to determine in the use of legitimate 
and fair discretion how far from the nature and character of the act 
there is necessity for repression to prevent immediate recurrence, i.e., 
the continued existence of the interference or obstruction to the 
exercise of legislative power. In such case, unless there be manifest an 
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discretion, and a mere exertion of arbitrary power coming within the 
reach of constitutional limitations, the exercise of the authority is 
not subject to judicial interference. The power is the same in quantity 
and quality whether exerted on behalf of the impeachment powers or of 
the others to which it is ancillary. The legislative power to provide by 
criminal laws for the prosecution and punishment of wrongful acts is not 
here involved.
  The Senate may invoke its civil contempt statute (2 U.S.C. 288d) to 
direct the Senate legal counsel to bring an action in Federal court to 
compel a witness to comply with the subpoena of a committee of the 
Senate. The House, in contrast, may either certify such a witness to the 
appropriate United States Attorney for possible indictment under the 
criminal contempt statute (2 U.S.C. 192) or exercise its inherent power 
to commit for contempt by detaining the recalcitrant witness in the 
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
  (See also McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927); Sinclair v. 
United States, 279 U.S. 263 (1929); Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 
(1935); Quinn v. United States, 349 U.S. 155 (1955); Groppi v. Leslie, 
404 U.S. 496 (1972).)

  * * * <> The editor of the Aurora 
having, in his paper of February 19, 1800, inserted some paragraphs 
defamatory of the Senate, and failed in his appearance, he was ordered 
to be committed. In debating the legality of this order, it was 
insisted, in support of it, that every man, by the law of nature, and 
every body of men, possesses the right of self-defense; that all public 
functionaries are essentially invested with the powers of self-
preservation; that they have an inherent right to do all acts necessary 
to keep themselves in a condition to discharge the trusts confided to 
them; that whenever authorities are given, the means of carrying them 
into execution are given by necessary implication; that thus we see the 
British Parliament exercise the right of punishing contempts; all the 
State Legislatures exercise the same power, and every court does the 
same; that, if we have it not, we sit at the

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mercy of every intruder who may enter our doors or gallery, and, by 
noise and tumult, render proceeding in business impracticable; that if 
our tranquillity is to be perpetually disturbed by newspaper defamation, 
it will not be possible to exercise our functions with the requisite 
coolness and deliberation; and that we must therefore have a power to 
punish these disturbers of our peace and proceedings. * * *
  * * * <> To this it was answered, that the 
Parliament and courts of England have cognizance of contempts by the 
express provisions of their law; that the State Legislatures have equal 
authority because their powers are plenary; they represent their 
constituents completely, and possess all their powers, except such as 
their constitutions have expressly denied them; that the courts of the 
several States have the same powers by the laws of their States, and 
those of the Federal Government by the same State laws adopted in each 
State, by a law of Congress; that none of these bodies, therefore, 
derive those powers from natural or necessary right, but from express 
law; that Congress have no such natural or necessary power, nor any 
powers but such as are given them by the Constitution; that that has 
given them, directly, exemption from personal arrest, exemption from 
question elsewhere for what is said in their House, and power over their 
own members and proceedings; for these no further law is necessary, the 
Constitution being the law; that, moreover, by that article of the 
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tion which authorizes them ``to make all laws necessary and proper for 
carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in them,'' 
they may provide by law for an undisturbed exercise of their functions, 
e.g., for the punishment of contempts, of affrays or tumult in their 
presence, &c. but, till the law be made, it does not exist; and does 
not exist, from their own neglect; that, in the meantime, however, they 
are not unprotected, the ordinary magistrates and courts of law being 
open and competent to punish all unjustifiable disturbances or 
defamations, and even their own sergeant, who may appoint deputies ad 
libitum to aid him 3 Grey, 59, 147, 255,  is equal to small 
disturbances; that in requiring a previous law, the Constitution had 
regard to the inviolability of the citizen, as well as of the Member; 
as, should one House, in the regular form of a bill, aim at too broad 
privileges, it may be checked by the other, and both by the President; 
and also as, the law being promulgated, the citizen will know how to 
avoid offense. But if one branch may assume its own privileges without 
control, if it may do it on the spur of the occasion, conceal the law in 
its own breast, and, after the fact committed, make its sentence both 
the law and the judgment on that fact; if the offense is to be kept 
undefined and to be declared only ex re nata, and according to the 
passions of the moment, and there be no limitation either in the manner 
or measure of the punishment, the condition of the citizen will be 
perilous indeed. * * *

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  * * * <> Which of these doctrines is to 
prevail, time will decide. Where there is no fixed law, the judgment on 
any particular case is the law of that single case only, and dies with 
it. When a new and even a similar case arises, the judgment which is to 
make and at the same time apply to the law, is open to question and 
consideration, as are all new laws. Perhaps Congress in the mean time, 
in their care for the safety of the citizen, as well as that for their 
own protection, may declare by law what is necessary and proper to 
enable them to carry into execution the powers vested in them, and 
thereby hang up a rule for the inspection of all, which may direct the 
conduct of the citizen, and at the same time test the judgments they 
shall themselves pronounce in their own case.

  In 1837 the House declined to proceed with a bill ``defining the 
offense of a contempt of this House, and to provide for the punishment 
thereof'' (II, 1598). Congress has, however, prescribed that a witness 
summoned to appear before a committee of either House who does not 
respond or who refuses to answer a question pertinent to the subject of 
the inquiry shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor (2 U.S.C. 192).
  A resolution directing the Speaker to certify to the United States 
Attorney the refusal of a witness to respond to a subpoena issued by a 
House committee involves the privileges of the House and may be offered 
from the floor as privileged if offered by direction of the committee 
reporting the resolution (e.g., Oct. 27, 2000, p. 25200). A committee 
report to accompany such resolution may therefore be presented to the 
House without regard to the three-day availability requirement for other 
reports (see clause 4 of rule XIII; July 13, 1971, p. 24720). A 
resolution with two resolving clauses separately directing the 
certification of the contemptuous conduct of two individuals is subject 
to a demand for a division of the question as to each individual 
(contempt proceedings against Ralph and Joseph Bernstein, Feb. 27, 1986, 
p. 3061); as is a resolution with one resolving clause certifying 
contemptuous conduct of several individuals (Oct. 27, 2000, p. 25200; 
contrast, Deschler-Brown, ch. 30, Sec. 49.1). A contempt resolution may 
be withdrawn as a matter of right before action thereon (Oct.

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27, 2000, p. 25200). The Speaker certifies a contempt case to the United 
States Attorney (2 U.S.C. 194) and informs the House thereof (e.g., 
Deschler, ch. 15, Sec. 22.3; June 29, 2012, p. _; May 8, 2014, p. _).
  In the 97th Congress, the House adopted a resolution directing the 
Speaker to certify to the United States Attorney the failure of an 
official of the executive branch (Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator, 
Environmental Protection Agency) to submit executive branch documents to 
a House subcommittee pursuant to a subcommittee subpoena. This was the 
first occasion on which the House cited an executive official for 
contempt of Congress (Dec. 16, 1982, p. 31754). In the following 
Congress, the House adopted (as a question of privilege) a resolution 
reported from the same committee certifying to the United States 
Attorney the fact that an agreement had been entered into between the 
committee and the executive branch for access by the committee to the 
documents that Anne Gorsuch had failed to submit and that were the 
subject of the contempt citation (where the contempt had not yet been 
prosecuted) (Aug. 3, 1983, p. 22692). In other cases in which compliance 
had subsequently been attained in the same Congress, the House has 
adopted privileged resolutions certifying the facts to the United States 
Attorney to the end that contempt proceedings be discontinued (see 
Deschler, ch. 15, Sec. 21). In the 98th Congress, the House adopted a 
privileged resolution directing the Speaker to certify to the United 
States Attorney the refusal of a former official of the executive branch 
to obey a subpoena to testify before a subcommittee (H. Res. 200, May 
18, 1983, p. 12720). In the 106th Congress the House considered a 
resolution directing the Speaker to certify to the United States 
Attorney the refusal of three individuals to obey a subpoena duces tecum 
and to answer certain questions while appearing under subpoena before a 
subcommittee, which resolution was withdrawn before action thereon (H. 
Res. 657, Oct. 27, 2000, p. 25217). In the 110th Congress, the House 
adopted (by special rule) a resolution directing the Speaker to certify 
to the United States Attorney the refusal of White House Chief of Staff 
to produce documents to a committee, and former White House Counsel to 
appear, testify, and produce documents to a subcommittee, each as 
directed by subpoena (H. Res. 979, Feb. 14, 2008, pp. 2190, 2191). In 
the 112th Congress, the House adopted a resolution directing the Speaker 
to certify to the United States Attorney the refusal of the Attorney 
General to produce documents to a committee as directed by subpoena (H. 
Res. 711, June 28, 2012, p. _). In the 113th Congress, the House adopted 
a resolution directing the Speaker to certify to the United States 
Attorney the refusal of the former Director of Exempt Organizations at 
the Internal Revenue Service to produce documents to a committee as 
directed by subpoena (H. Res.574, May 7, 2014, p. _).
  A resolution laying on the table a message from the President 
containing certain averments inveighing disrespect toward Members of 
Congress was considered as a question of the privileges of the House as 
a breach of privilege in a formal communication to the House (VI, 330).-

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  Privilege <> from arrest takes place by force of the 
election; and before a return be made a Member elected may be named of a 
committee, and is to every extent a Member except that he cannot vote 
until he is sworn, Memor., 107, 108. D'Ewes, 642, col. 2; 643, col. 1. 
Pet. Miscel. Parl., 119. Lex. Parl., c. 23.2 Hats., 22, 62.

  The Constitution of the United States limits the broad Parliamentary 
privilege to the time of attendance on sessions of Congress, and of 
going to and returning therefrom. In a case wherein a Member was 
imprisoned during a recess of Congress, he remained in confinement until 
the House, on assembling, liberated him (III, 2676).
  It is recognized in the practice of the House that a Member may be 
named to a committee before being sworn, and in some cases Members have 
not taken the oath until long afterwards (IV, 4483), although in the 
modern practice Members-elect have been elected to standing committees 
effective only when sworn (e.g., H. Res. 26, 27; Jan. 6, 1983, p. 132). 
In one case, when a Member did not appear to take the oath, the Speaker 
with the consent of the House appointed another Member to the committee 
in his place (IV, 4484). The status of a Member-elect under the 
Constitution undoubtedly differs greatly from the status of a Member-
elect under the law of Parliament. In various inquiries by committees of 
the House this question has been examined, with the conclusions that a 
Member-elect becomes a Member from the very beginning of the term to 
which elected (I, 500), that he is as much an officer of the Government 
before taking the oath as afterwards (I, 185), and that his status is 
distinguished from that of a Member who has qualified (I, 183, 184). 
Members-elect may resign or decline before taking the oath (II, 1230-
1233, 1235; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 42); they have been excluded (I, 449, 464, 
474, 550, 551; VI, 56; Mar. 1, 1967, pp. 4997-5038), and in one case a 
Member-elect was expelled (I, 476; II, 1262). The names of Members who 
have not been sworn are not entered on the roll from which the yeas and 
nays are called for entry on the Journal (V, 6048; VIII, 3122), nor are 
such Members-elect permitted to vote or introduce bills (see Sec. 198, 
supra). The House has granted a Member-elect a leave of absence (e.g., 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 106; Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

  Every <> man must, at his peril, take notice who are members of 
either House returned of record. Lex. Parl., 23; 4 Inst., 24.

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  On Complaint of a breach of privilege, the party may either be 
summoned, or sent for in custody of the sergeant. 1 Grey, 88, 95.
  The privilege of a Member is the privilege of the House. If the Member 
waive it without leave, it is a ground for punishing him, but cannot in 
effect waive the privilege of the House. 3 Grey, 140, 222.

  Although the privilege of Members of the House is limited by the 
Constitution, these provisions of the Parliamentary law are applicable, 
and persons who have attempted to bribe Members (II, 1599, 1606), 
assault them for words spoken in debate (II, 1617, 1625) or interfere 
with them while on the way to attend the sessions of the House (II, 
1626), have been arrested by order of the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms, 
``Wherever to be found.'' The House has declined to make a general rule 
to permit Members to waive their privilege in certain cases, preferring 
to give or refuse permission in each individual case (III, 2660-2662).
  In United States v. Helstoski, 442 U.S. 477 (1979), the Supreme Court 
discussed the ability of either an individual Member or the entire 
Congress to waive the protection of the Speech or Debate Clause. The 
Court found first, that the Member's conduct in testifying before a 
grand jury and voluntarily producing documentary evidence of legislative 
acts protected by the Clause did not waive its protection. Assuming, 
without deciding, that a Member could waive the Clause's protection 
against being prosecuted for a legislative act, the Court said that such 
a waiver could only be found after an explicit and unequivocal 
renunciation of its immunity, which was absent in this case. Second, 
passage of the official bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. 201, did not amount 
to an institutional waiver of the Speech or Debate Clause for individual 
Members. Again assuming without deciding whether Congress could 
constitutionally waive the Clause for individual Members, such a waiver 
could be shown only by an explicit and unequivocal expression of 
legislative intent, and there was no evidence of that in the legislative 
history of the statute. The Speech or Debate clause is not an impediment 
to the enforcement within the House of the rule prohibiting 
personalities in debate (clause 1 of rule XVII, May 25, 1995, p. 14436).

  For <> any speech or debate in either 
House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. Const. U.S., I, 
6; S. P. protest of the Commons to James I, 1621; 2 Rapin, No. 54, pp. 
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this is restrained to things done in the House in a parliamentary 
course. 1 Rush, 663. For he is not to have privilege contra morem 
parliamentarium, to exceed the bounds and limits of his place and duty. 
Com. p.
  If <> an offense be committed by a member in the House, of which 
the House has cognizance, it is an infringement of their right for any 
person or court to take notice of it till the House has punished the 
offender or referred him to a due course. Lex. Parl., 63.
  Privilege is in the power of the House, and is a restraint to the 
proceeding of inferior courts, but not of the House itself. 2 Nalson, 
450; 2 Grey, 399. For whatever is spoken in the House is subject to the 
censure of the House; and offenses of this kind have been severely 
punished by calling the person to the bar to make submission, committing 
him to the tower, expelling the House, &c. Scob., 72; L. Parl., c. 22.
<>   It is a breach of order for the Speaker to refuse to 
put a question which is in order. 1 Hats., 175-6; 5 Grey, 133.

  Where the Clerk, presiding during organization of the House, declined 
to put a question, a Member put the question from the floor (I, 67).

  And <> even in cases of treason, felony, and breach of 
the peace, to which privilege does not extend as to substance, yet in 
Parliament a member is privileged as to the mode of proceeding. The case 
is first to be laid before the House, that it

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may judge of the fact and of the ground of the accusation, and how far 
forth the manner of the trial may concern their privilege; otherwise it 
would be in the power of other branches of the government, and even of 
every private man, under pretenses of treason, &c., to take any man from 
his service in the House, and so, as many, one after another, as would 
make the House what he pleaseth. Dec'l of the Com. on the King's 
declaring Sir John Hotham a traitor. 4 Rushw., 586. So, when a member 
stood indicted for felony, it was adjudged that he ought to remain of 
the House till conviction; for it may be any man's case, who is 
guiltless, to be accused and indicted of felony, or the like crime. 23 
El., 1580; D'Ewes, 283, col. 1; Lex. Parl., 133.

  Where Members of the House have been arrested by the State authorities 
the cases have not been laid first before the House; but when the House 
has learned of the proceedings, it has investigated to ascertain if the 
crime charged was actually within the exceptions of the Constitution 
(III, 2673), and in one case in which it found a Member imprisoned for 
an offense not within the exceptions it released him by the hands of its 
own officer (III, 2676).
  The <> House has not usually taken action in the infrequent 
instances in which Members have been indicted for felony, and in one or 
two instances Members under indictment or pending appeal on conviction 
have been appointed to committees  (IV,  4479).  The  House  has,  
however, adopted a resolution expressing the sense of the House that 
Members convicted of certain felonies should refrain from participation 
in committee business and from voting in the House until the presumption 
of innocence is reinstated or until re-elected to the House (see H. Res. 
128, Nov. 14, 1973, p. 36944), and that principle has been incorporated 
in the Code of Official Conduct (clause 10 of rule XXIII). A Senator 
after indictment was omitted from committees at his own request (IV, 
4479), and a Member who had been convicted in one case did not appear in 
the House during the Congress (IV, 4484, footnote). A Senator in one 
case withdrew from the Senate pending his trial (II, 1278). After 
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ator's resignation, and while an appeal for rehearing was pending, the 
Senate continued its investigation (II, 1282).
  When <> it is found necessary for the public service to put a Member 
under arrest, or when, on any public inquiry, matter comes out which may 
lead to affect the person of a member, it is the practice immediately to 
acquaint the House, that they may know the reasons for such a 
proceeding, and take such steps as they think proper. 2 Hats., 259. Of 
which see many examples. Ib., 256, 257, 258. But the communication is 
subsequent to the arrest. 1 Blackst., 167.
  It <> is highly expedient, says Hatsel, for 
the due preservation of the privileges of the separate branches of the 
legislature, that neither should encroach on the other, or interfere in 
any matter depending before them, so as to preclude, or even influence, 
that freedom of debate which is essential to a free council. They are, 
therefore, not to take notice of any bills or other matters depending, 
or of votes that have been given, or of speeches which have been held, 
by the members of either of the other branches of the legislature, until 
the same have been communicated to them in the usual parliamentary 
manner. 2 Hats., 252; 4 Inst., 15; Seld. Jud., 53.
  Thus <> the King's taking notice of the bill for suppressing 
soldiers, depending before the House; his proposing a provisional clause 
for a bill before it was presented to him by the two Houses; his ex

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pressing displeasure against some persons for matters moved in 
Parliament during the debate and preparation of a bill, were breaches of 
privilege, 2 Nalson, 743; and in 1783, December 17, it was declared a 
breach of fundamental privileges, &c., to report any opinion or 
pretended opinion of the King on any bill or proceeding depending in 
either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the 
members, 2 Hats., 251, 6.
* * * * *




                             sec. vi--quorum

* * * * *
  In <> general the chair is not to be taken till a quorum for 
business is present; unless, after due waiting, such a quorum be 
despaired of, when the chair may be taken and the House adjourned. And 
whenever, during business, it is observed that a quorum is not present, 
any member may call for the House to be counted, and being found 
deficient, business is suspended. 2 Hats., 125, 126.

  In the House the Speaker takes the Chair at the hour to which the 
House stood adjourned and there is no requirement that the House proceed 
immediately to establish a quorum, although the Speaker has the 
authority under clause 7 of rule XX to recognize for a call of the House 
at any time. The question of a quorum is not considered unless properly 
raised (IV, 2733; VI, 624), and it is not in order for the Speaker to 
recognize for a point of no quorum unless the Speaker has put the 
pending question or proposition to a vote. Although it was formerly the 
rule that a quorum was necessary for debate as well as business (IV, 
2935-2949), in the 94th Congress the House restricted the Chair's 
ability to recognize the absence of a quorum (clause 7 of rule XX). 
Clause 5(c) of rule XX permits the House to operate with a ``provisional 
quorum'' where the House is without a

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quorum due to catastrophic circumstances. Title III of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 2006, amended Federal election law to require 
States to hold special elections for the House within 49 days after a 
vacancy is announced by the Speaker in the extraordinary circumstance 
that vacancies in representation from the States exceed 100 (P.L. 109-
55; 2 U.S.C. 8).




                       sec. vii--call of the house

  On <> the 
call of the House, each person rises up as he is called, and answereth; 
the absentees are then only noted, but no excuse to be made till the 
House be fully called over. Then the absentees are called a second time, 
and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. House of Commons, 92.
  They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a 
crowd, being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so 
small a body as the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising 
cannot be necessary.
  Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2 
Hats., 72.

  Rule XX provides for a call of the House. Members do not rise on 
answering, and quorum calls are normally conducted by electronic device 
(clause 2(a) of rule XX). Clause 5(c) of rule XX permits the House to 
operate with a ``provisional quorum'' where the House is without a 
quorum due to catastrophic circumstances.
* * * * *




                            sec. ix--speaker

* * * * *
  When <> but one person is 
proposed, and no objection made, it has not been usual in Parliament to 
put any question to the House; but without a question the members 
proposing him conduct him to the chair.

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But if there be objection, or another proposed, a question is put by the 
Clerk. 2 Hats., 158. As are also questions of adjournment. 6 Gray, 406. 
Where the House debated and exchanged messages and answers with the King 
for a week without a Speaker, till they were prorogued. They have done 
it de die in diem for fourteen days. 1 Chand., 331, 335.

  On October 23, 2000, the House of Commons, pursuant to a Standing 
Order, elected a new Speaker after rejection of twelve other nominees 
offered one at a time as amendments to the question. The amendments were 
offered after refusal of the ``Father of the House of Commons'' to 
entertain a motion to change the Standing Order to require a preliminary 
secret ballot. On March 22, 2001, and on October 29, 2002, the House of 
Commons adopted Standing Order 1B, requiring that the election of a new 
Speaker be by secret ballot (Standing Orders of the House of Commons--
Public Business 2003).
  For a discussion of the election of the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, see Sec. 27, supra.

  In <> the Senate, a President pro tempore, in the absence of the 
Vice-President, is proposed and chosen by ballot. His office is 
understood to be determined on the Vice-President's appearing and taking 
the chair, or at the meeting of the Senate after the first recess.

  In the later practice the President pro tempore has usually been 
chosen by resolution. In 1876 the Senate determined that the tenure of 
the Office of a President pro tempore elected at one session does not 
expire at the meeting of Congress after the first recess, the Vice 
President not having appeared to take the chair; that the death of the 
Vice President does not have the effect of vacating the Office of 
President pro tempore; and that the President pro tempore holds office 
at the pleasure of the Senate (II, 1417). In the 107th Congress the 
Senate elected two Presidents of the Senate pro tempore for different 
periods when the majority of the Senate shifted after inauguration of 
the Vice President (S. Res. 3, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 7).


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  Where <> the Speaker has been ill, other Speakers pro tempore have 
been appointed. Instances of this are 1 H., 4. Sir John Cheyney, and Sir 
William Sturton, and in 15 H., 6. Sir John Tyrrel, in 1656, January 27; 
1658, March 9; 1659, January 13.
  Sir Job Charlton ill, Seymour chosen,         
                      1673, February 18.      Not merely pro tem. 1 
   Seymour being ill, Sir Robert Sawyer     Chand., 169, 276, 277.
                 chosen, 1678, April 15.<3-ln }>

  Sawyer being ill, Seymour chosen.
  Thorpe in execution, a new Speaker chosen, 31 H. VI, 3 Grey, 11; and 
March 14, 1694, Sir John Trevor chosen. There have been no later 
instances. 2 Hats., 161; 4 Inst., 8; L. Parl., 263.

  The House, by clause 8 of rule I, has provided for appointment and 
election of Speakers pro tempore. Relying on the Act of June 1, 1789 (2 
U.S.C. 25), the Clerk recognized for nominations for Speaker, at the 
convening of a new Congress, as being of higher constitutional privilege 
than a resolution to postpone the election of a Speaker and instead 
provide for the election of a Speaker pro tempore pending the 
disposition of certain ethics charges against the nominee of the 
majority party (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 115).

  A <> Speaker may be removed 
at the will of the House, and a Speaker pro tempore appointed, 2 Grey, 
186; 5 Grey, 134.

  A resolution declaring the Office of Speaker vacant presents a 
question of constitutional privilege (VI, 35), though the House has 
never removed a Speaker. It has on several occasions removed or 
suspended other officers, such as Clerk and Doorkeeper (I, 287-290, 292; 
II, 1417). A resolution for the removal of an officer is presented as a 
matter of privilege (I, 284-286; VI, 35). The Speaker may remove the 
Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Chief Administrative Officer under clause 1 
of rule II.

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                             sec. x--address

* * * * *
  A <> joint address of 
both Houses of Parliament is read by the Speaker of the House of Lords. 
It may be attended by both Houses in a body, or by a Committee from each 
House, or by the two Speakers only. An address of the House of Commons 
only may be presented by the Whole House, or by the Speaker, 9 Grey, 
473; 1 Chandler, 298, 301; or by such particular members as are of the 
privy council. 2 Hats., 278.

  In the first years of Congress the President annually delivered an 
address to the two Houses in joint session, and the House then prepared 
an address, which the Speaker, attended by the House, carried to the 
President. A joint rule of 1789 also provided for the presentation of 
joint addresses of the two Houses to the President (V, 6630). In 1876 
the joint rules of the House were abrogated, including the joint rule 
providing for presentation of the joint addresses of the two Houses to 
the President (V, 6782-6787). In 1801 President Jefferson transmitted a 
message in writing and discontinued the practice of making addresses in 
person. From 1801 to 1913 all messages were sent in writing (V, 6629), 
but President Wilson resumed the custom of making addresses in person on 
April 8, 1913, and, with the exception of President Hoover (VIII, 3333), 
the custom has been followed generally by subsequent Presidents.




                           sec. xi--committees

  Standing <> committees, as of Privileges 
and Elections, &c., are usually appointed at the first meeting, to 
continue through the session. The person first named is generally 
permitted to act as chairman. But this is a matter of courtesy; every 
committee having a right to elect their own chairman, who presides over 
them, puts questions, and reports their pro

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ceedings to the House. 4 inst., 11, 12; Scob., 9; 1 Grey, 122.

  Before the 62d Congress, standing as well as select committees and 
their chairs were appointed by the Speaker, but under the present form 
of rule X, adopted in 1911, continued as a part of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946, and revised under the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), 
standing committees and their respective chairs are elected by the House 
(IV, 4448; VIII, 2178). Owing to their number and size, committees are 
not usually elected immediately, but resolutions providing for such 
elections are presented by the majority and minority parties pursuant to 
clause 5 of rule X as soon as they are able to perfect the lists. A 
committee may order its report to be made by the chair, or by some other 
member (IV, 4669), even by a member of the minority party (IV, 4672, 
4673), or by a Delegate (July 1, 1958, p. 12871 (Burns of Hawaii)); and 
the chair sometimes submits a report in which the chair has not 
concurred (IV, 4670). Clause 2 of rule XIII requires that a report that 
has been approved by the committee must be filed with the House within 
seven calendar days after a written request from a majority of the 
committee is submitted to the committee clerk.
  At <> these committees the members are to speak standing, 
and not sitting; though there is reason to conjecture it was formerly 
otherwise. D'Ewes, 630, col. 1; 4 Parl. Hist., 440; 2 Hats., 77.
  Their <> proceedings 
are not to be published, as they are of no force till confirmed by the 
House. Rushw., part 3, vol. 2, 74; 3 Grey, 401; Scob., 39.* * *

  In the House it is entirely within rule and usage for a committee to 
conduct its proceedings in secret (III, 1694, 1732; IV, 4558-4564; see 
also clause 2(g) of rule XI), and the House may not abrogate the secrecy 
of a committee's proceedings except by suspending the rule (IV, 4565). 
The House has no information concerning the proceedings of a committee 
not officially reported by the committee (VII, 1015) and it is not in 
order in debate to refer to executive session proceedings of a committee 
that have not formally been reported to the House (V, 5080-5083; VIII, 
2269, 2485, 2493; June 24, 1958, pp. 12120, 12122; Apr. 5, 1967, p. 
8411). However, a complaint that certain remarks that might be uttered 
in debate would improperly disclose executive-session material of a 
committee is not cognizable as a point of order in the House if the 
Chair is not aware of the executive-session status of the information 
(Nov. 5, 1997, p. 24648). On

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one occasion a Member was permitted to refer to the unreported executive 
session proceedings of a subcommittee to justify his point of order that 
a resolution providing for a select committee to inquire into action of 
the subcommittee was not privileged (June 30, 1958, p. 12690). In one 
case the House authorized the clerk of a committee to disclose by 
deposition its proceedings (III, 2604).
  Under clause 2 of rule XI, all hearings and business meetings 
conducted by standing committees shall be open to the public, except 
when a committee, in open session, by record vote, with a majority 
present, determines to close the meeting or hearing for that day for the 
reasons stated in that clause. In addition, clause 2(k) of rule XI 
establishes a procedure for closing a hearing because of defamatory, 
degrading, or incriminating testimony. Clause 11(d) of rule X 
establishes special rules governing the closing of hearings of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
<>   * * * Nor 
can they receive a petition but through the House. 9 Grey, 412.
  When <> a committee is charged with an inquiry, if 
a Member prove to be involved, they can not proceed against him but must 
make a special report to the House; whereupon the Member is heard in his 
place, or at the bar, or a special authority is given to the committee 
to inquire concerning him. 9 Grey, 523.

  Although <> the authority of this principle has not been 
questioned by the House, there have in special instances been deviations 
from it. Thus, in 1832, when a Member had been slain in a duel, and the 
fact was notorious that all the principals and seconds were Members of 
the House, the committee, charged only with investigating the causes and 
whether or not there had been a breach of privilege, reported with their 
findings recommendations for expulsion and censure of the Members found 
to be implicated. There was criticism of this method of procedure as 
deviating from the rule of Jefferson's Manual, but the House did not 
recommit the report (II, 1644). In 1857, when a committee charged with 
inquiring into accusations against Members not named found certain 
Members implicated, they gave them copies of the testimony and 
opportunities to explain to the committee, under oath or otherwise, as 
they individually might prefer (III, 1845), but reported recommendations 
for expulsion without first seeking the order of the House (II, 1275; 
III, 1844). In 1859 and 1892 a similar procedure occurred (III, 1831, 
2637). But the House, in

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a case wherein an inquiry had incidentally involved a Member, evidently 
considered the parliamentary law as applicable, because it admitted as 
of privilege and agreed to a resolution directing the committee to 
report the charges (III, 1843). And in cases wherein testimony taken 
before a joint committee incidentally impeached the official characters 
of a Member and a Senator, the facts in each case were reported to the 
House interested (III, 1854). A select committee, appointed to report 
upon the right of a Member-elect to be sworn (H. Res. 1, 90th Cong., pp. 
14-27, Jan. 10, 1967), invited him to appear, to testify, and permitted 
him to be accompanied by counsel (see H. Rept. 90-27).
  And <> where one House, by a committee, has found a Member of the 
other implicated, the testimony has been transmitted (II, 1276; III, 
1850, 1852, 1853). Where such testimony was taken in open session of the 
committee, it was not thought necessary that it be under seal when sent 
to the other House (III, 1851).

  So <> soon as the House sits, and a committee is notified of it, the 
chairman is in duty bound to rise instantly, and the members to attend 
the service of the House. 2 Nals., 319.

  For the current practice of the House, see clauses 2(i) and 2(m)(1) of 
rule XI.

  It <> appears that on 
joint committees of the Lords and Commons each committee acted 
integrally in the following instances: 7 Grey, 261, 278, 285, 338; 1 
Chandler, 357, 462. In the following instances it does not appear 
whether they did or not: 6 Grey, 129; 7 Grey, 213, 229, 321.

  It is the practice in Congress that joint committees shall vote per 
capita, and not as representatives of the two Houses (IV, 4425), 
although the membership from the House is usually, but not always (IV 
4410), larger than that from the Senate (III, 1946; IV, 4426-4431). But 
ordinary committees of conference appointed to settle differences 
between the two Houses are not considered joint committees, and the 
managers of the two Houses vote separately (V, 6336), each House having 
one vote. A quorum of a joint committee seems to have been considered to 
be a majority of the whole number rather than a majority of the 
membership of each House (IV, 4424). The first named of the Senate 
members acted as chair in one notable in

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stance (IV, 4424), and in another the joint committee elected its chair 
(IV, 4447).




                    sec. xii--committee of the whole

  The <> speech, messages, and other matters of great concernment are 
usually referred to a Committee of the Whole House (6 Grey, 311), where 
general principles are digested in the form of resolutions, which are 
debated and amended till they get into a shape which meets the 
approbation of a majority. These being reported and confirmed by the 
House are then referred to one or more select committees, according as 
the subject divides itself into one or more bills. Scob., 36, 44. 
Propositions for any charge on the people are especially to be first 
made in a Committee of the Whole. 3 Hats., 127. The sense of the whole 
is better taken in committee, because in all committees everyone speaks 
as often as he pleases. Scob., 49. * * *

  This provision is largely obsolete, the House having by its rules and 
practice provided specifically for procedure in Committee of the Whole, 
and having also by its rules for the order of business left no 
privileged status for motions to go into Committee on matters not 
already referred there. The Committee no longer originates resolutions 
or bills, but receives such as have been formulated by standing or 
select committees and referred to it; and when it reports, the House 
usually acts at once on the report without reference to select or other 
committees (IV, 4705). The practice of referring annual messages of the 
President to the Committee, to be there considered and reported with 
recommendations for the reference of various portions to the proper 
standing or select committees (V, 6621, 6622), was discontinued in the 
64th Congress (VIII, 3350). The current practice is to refer the annual 
message to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union 
and order it printed (Jan. 14, 1969, p. 651). Executive communications 
submitted to implement the proposals contained in the State of the Union 
Message are referred by the Speaker

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to the various committees having jurisdiction over the subject matter 
therein.
  * * * <> They generally acquiesce in the chairman named by the Speaker; 
but, as well as all other committees, have a right to elect one, some 
member, by consent, putting the question, Scob., 36; 3 Grey, 301. * * *

  The House (by clause 1 of rule XVIII) gives the authority to appoint 
the chair of the Committee of the Whole to the Speaker (IV, 4704).

  * * * <> The form of going from the House into committee, is for the 
Speaker, on motion, to put the question that the House do now resolve 
itself into a Committee of the Whole to take into consideration such a 
matter, naming it. If determined in the affirmative, he leaves the chair 
and takes a seat elsewhere, as any other Member; and the person 
appointed chairman seats himself at the Clerk's table. Scob., 36. * * *

  This is the form in the House, except that the chair of the Committee 
of the Whole sits in the Speaker's chair. Clause 1(b) of rule XVIII 
(former rule XXIII) was adopted to authorize the Speaker, and it is the 
modern practice, when no other business is pending, to declare the House 
resolved into the Committee to consider a measure at any time after the 
House has adopted a special order of business providing for 
consideration of such measure (and not require a motion), unless the 
resolution specifies otherwise (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34).

  * * * <> Their 
quorum is the same as that of the House; and if a defect happens, the 
chairman, on a motion and question, rises, the Speaker resumes the chair 
and the chairman can make no other report than to inform the House of 
the cause of their dissolution. * * *


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  Until 1890 a quorum of the Committee of the Whole was the same as the 
quorum of the House; but in 1890 the rule (formerly clause 2 of rule 
XXIII, current clause 6 of rule XVIII) fixed it at one hundred (IV, 
2966). Clause 6 of rule XVIII provides the procedure that is followed in 
the Committee in case of failure of a quorum.

  * * * <> If a message is announced during a committee, the Speaker 
takes the chair and receives it, because the committee can not. 2 Hats., 
125, 126.

  In the House, the Committee rises informally to receive a message, or 
to enable the Speaker to sign and lay before the House an enrolled bill, 
at the direction of the Chair without a formal motion from the floor 
(IV, 4786, footnote; Jan. 28, 1980, p. 888; Feb. 8, 1995, p. 4112); but 
at this rising the House may not have the message read or transact other 
business except by unanimous consent (IV, 4787-4791). However, it is the 
general custom for the Speaker to decline to entertain a unanimous-
consent request during an informal rising of the Committee (IV, 4789, 
Apr. 6, 2000, p. 4778).

  In <> a Committee of the Whole, the tellers 
on a division differing as to numbers, great heats and confusion arose, 
and danger of a decision by the sword. The Speaker took the chair, the 
mace was forcibly laid on the table; whereupon the Members retiring to 
their places, the Speaker told the House ``he has taken the chair 
without an order to bring the House into order.'' Some excepted against 
it; but it was generally approved as the only expedient to suppress the 
disorder. And every Member was required, standing up in his place, to 
engage that he would proceed no further in consequence of what had 
happened in the grand committee, which was done. 3 Grey, 128.


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  In the House the Speaker has on several occasions taken the chair 
``without an order to bring the House into order'' (II, 1648-1653), but 
that being accomplished the Speaker may yield to the chair that the 
committee may rise in due form (II, 1349). In one instance, the Chair, 
having been defied and insulted by a Member, left the chair; and, on the 
chair being taken by the Speaker, he reported the facts to the House 
(II, 1653). In several cases Members who have quarreled have made 
explanation and reconciled their difficulties (II, 1651), or have been 
compelled by the House to apologize ``for violating its privilege and 
offending its dignity'' (II, 1648, 1650).
  A <> Committee of the Whole being broken up in disorder, and the 
chair resumed by the Speaker without an order, the House was adjourned. 
The next day the committee was considered as thereby dissolved, and the 
subject again before the House; and it was decided in the House, without 
returning into committee. 3 Grey, 130.

  This provision is obsolete, because in the practice of the House there 
is but one Committee of the Whole, which is in its nature a standing 
committee with calendars of business. It is never dissolved, and bills 
remain on its calendar until reported in the regular manner after 
consideration (IV, 4705). After restoring order, the Speaker usually 
leaves the chair, thus permitting the committee later to rise in due 
form (II, 1349).

  No <> previous question can be put in a 
committee; nor can this committee adjourn as others may; but if their 
business is unfinished, they rise, on a question, the House is resumed, 
and the chairman reports that the Committee of the Whole have, according 
to order, had under their consideration such a matter, and have made 
progress therein; but not having had time to go through the same, have 
directed him to ask leave to sit again. Whereupon a question is put on 
their having leave, and on the time the House will again resolve itself 
into a committee. Scob., 38. But if they have gone through the

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matter <> referred to them, a member moves that the committee may 
rise, and the chairman report their proceedings to the House; which 
being resolved, the chairman rises, the Speaker resumes the chair, the 
chairman informs him that the committee have gone through the business 
referred to them, and that he is ready to make report when the House 
shall think proper to receive it. If the House have time to receive it, 
there is usually a cry of ``now, now,'' whereupon he makes the report; 
but if it be late, the cry is ``to-morrow, to-morrow,'' or ``Monday,'' 
etc., or a motion is made to that effect, and a question put that it be 
received to-morrow, &c. Scob., 38.

  In the practice of the House the previous question and motion to 
adjourn are not admitted in Committee of the Whole; but the rules 
(clause 8 of rule XVIII) provide for closing five-minute debate by 
motion. When the Committee rises without concluding a matter the Chair 
reports that it ``has come to no resolution thereon''; but leave to sit 
again is not asked in the modern practice. The permission of the House 
is not asked when the Chair reports a matter concluded in Committee. The 
report is made and received as a matter of course, and is thereupon 
before the House for action. When the House has vested control of 
general debate in certain Members, their control may not be abrogated 
during general debate by another Member moving to rise, unless they 
yield for that purpose (May 25, 1967, p. 14121; June 10, 1999, p. 
12471). A Member yielded time in general debate may not yield to another 
for such motion (Feb. 22, 1950, p. 2178; May 17, 2000, p. 8200). The 
motion that the Committee rise is privileged during debate under the 
five-minute rule, and may be offered during debate on a pending 
amendment, except where a Member has the floor (Aug. 13, 1986, p. 21215; 
Mar. 22, 1995, p. 8770). The motion to rise may not include restrictions 
on the amendment process or limitations on future debate on amendments 
(June 6, 1990, p. 13234). The motion that the Committee rise is not 
debatable (May 17, 2000, p. 8203). For a further discussion of the 
motion to rise, see Sec. 983, infra. For a point of order against the 
motion to rise and report an appropriation bill to the House where the 
bill, as proposed to be amended, exceeds an applicable allocation of new 
budget authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget

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Act of 1974, and procedures for the Committee in the event that the 
point of order is sustained, see Sec. 1044b, infra.
  The <> Speaker recognizes only reports 
from the Committee of the Whole made by the chair thereof (V, 6987), and 
a matter alleged to have arisen therein but not reported may not be 
brought to the attention of the House (VIII, 2429, 2430) even on the 
claim that a question of privilege is involved (IV, 4912; V, 6987). In 
one instance, however, the Committee reported with a bill a resolution 
relating to an alleged breach of privilege (V, 6986). When a bill is 
reported the Speaker must assume that it has passed through all the 
stages necessary for the report (IV, 4916). When the Committee reported 
not only what it had done but by whom it had been prevented from doing 
other things, the Speaker held that the House might not amend the 
report, which stood (IV, 4909). When an amendment is reported by the 
Committee it may not be withdrawn, and a question as to its validity is 
not considered by the Speaker (IV, 4900). When a Committee, directed by 
order of the House to consider certain bills, reported also certain 
other bills, the Speaker held that so much of the report as related to 
the latter bills could be received only by unanimous consent (IV, 4911). 
When a report is ruled out as in excess of the Committee's power, the 
accompanying bill stands recommitted (IV, 4784, 4907). A former rule 
prohibited a Committee's report from being received in the absence of a 
quorum (VI, 666; clause 7 of rule XX).
  The Committee of the <> Whole, like any other committee, may amend a proposition either 
by an ordinary amendment or by a substitute amendment (IV, 4899), but 
these amendments must be reported to the House for action. Amendments 
rejected by the Committee are not reported (IV, 4877). Ordinarily all 
amendments must be disposed of before the Committee may report (IV, 
4752-4758); but sometimes a special order of business requires a report 
at a specified time, in which case pending amendments are reported (IV, 
3225-3228) or not (IV, 4910) as the terms of the order may direct. In 
the 98th Congress, clause 2 of rule XXI was amended to give precedence 
to the motion that the Committee rise and report a general appropriation 
bill at the conclusion of its reading for amendment and before or 
between consideration of amendments proposing certain limitations or 
retrenchments (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). The 104th Congress 
further amended clause 2 to permit only the Majority Leader or a 
designee to offer that motion (sec. 215(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
468). The 105th Congress elevated the Majority Leader's preferential 
motion in clause 2 to take precedence of any motion to amend at that 
stage (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The practice of the House, 
based originally on a rule (IV, 4904), requires amendments to be 
reported from the Committee in their perfected forms, and this holds 
good even in the case of an amendment in the nature of a substitute, 
which may have been amended freely (IV, 4900-4903). If the Committee 
amends a paragraph and subse

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quently strikes the paragraph as amended, the first amendment fails, and 
is not reported to the House or voted on (IV, 4898; V, 6169; VIII, 2421, 
2426), and when the Committee adopts two amendments that are 
subsequently deleted by an amendment striking and inserting new text, 
only the latter amendment is reported to the House (June 20, 1967, p. 
16497). Where two amendments proposing inconsistent motions to strike 
and insert a pending section are considered as separate first degree 
amendments (not one as a substitute for the other) before either is 
finally disposed of under a special procedure permitting the Chair to 
postpone requests for a recorded vote, the Chair's order of voting on 
the matter as unfinished business determines which amendment (if both 
were adopted) would be reported to the House (Aug. 6, 1998, pp. 19098-
107). Normally, if the Committee perfects a bill by adopting certain 
amendments and then adopts an amendment striking all after section one 
of the bill and inserting a new text, only the bill, as amended by the 
motion to strike and insert, is reported to the House; but when the bill 
is being considered under a special rule permitting a separate vote in 
the House on any of the amendments adopted in the Committee to the bill 
or to the committee substitute, all amendments adopted in the Committee 
are reported to the House regardless of their consistency (May 26, 1960, 
pp. 11302-04). Where a separate vote is demanded in this type of 
situation in the House only on an amendment striking a section of a 
committee substitute, but not on perfecting amendments that have been 
previously adopted in Committee of the Whole to that section, rejection 
in the House of the motion to strike the section results in a vote on 
the committee substitute in its original form and not as perfected, 
because the perfecting amendments have been displaced in the Committee 
of the Whole and have not been revived on a separate vote in the House 
(Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 13, 1977, pp. 33622-24). But if the Committee of 
the Whole reports a bill to the House with an adopted amendment in the 
nature of a substitute and the special order of business in question 
does not provide for separate House votes on amendments thereto, a 
separate vote may not be demanded on an amendment to such amendment, 
because only one amendment in its perfected form has been reported back 
to the House (Nov. 17, 1983, p. 33463).
  All <> amendments to a bill reported from the Committee of the Whole 
stand on an equal footing and must be voted on by the House (IV, 4871) 
in the order in which they are reported, although they may be 
inconsistent, one with another (IV, 4881, 4882), and are subject to 
amendment in the House unless the previous question is ordered (VIII, 
2419). Two amendments being reported as distinct were considered 
independently, although apparently one was a proviso attaching to the 
other (IV, 4905); and an entire and distinct amendment may not be 
divided, but must be voted on by the House as a whole (IV, 4883-4892; 
VIII, 2426). It is a frequent practice for the House by unanimous 
consent to act at once on all the amendments to a bill reported from the 
Committee, but

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it is the right of any Member to demand a separate vote on any amendment 
(IV, 4893, 4894; VIII, 2419) unless a special rule mandates that sundry 
amendments be put en gros (June 24, 2009, p. 16147). Where a special 
rule permits en bloc consideration of certain amendments in the 
Committee, those amendments if reported back to the House may also be 
considered en bloc for a separate vote in the House on demand of any 
Member (Speaker O'Neill, Sept. 7, 1978, p. 28425). A Member may demand a 
separate vote in the House on an amendment to a committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute adopted in the Committee of the Whole where 
the bill is being considered under a special rule permitting separate 
votes in the House on any of the amendments adopted in the Committee of 
the Whole to the bill or committee amendment (Sept. 30, 1971, p. 34337), 
but where a special rule ``self-executes'' an amendment as a 
modification of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to be 
considered as an original bill, that modification is not separately 
voted on upon demand in the House (Speaker Foley, Feb. 3, 1993, p. 
2043). A Member may withdraw a demand for a separate vote in the House 
on an amendment reported from the Committee before the Speaker's putting 
the question thereon, and unanimous consent is not required (May 28, 
1987, p. 14030). When demand is made for separate votes in the House on 
several amendments adopted in the Committee, the amendments are voted on 
in the House in the order in which they appear in the bill (July 24, 
1968, pp. 23093-95; May 28, 1987, p. 14030; June 11, 1997, p. 10654), 
except when amendments have been considered under a special rule 
prescribing the order for their consideration where the bill is 
considered as read, in which case they are voted on upon demand in the 
order in which considered in the Committee (Mar. 11, 1993, p. 4733; Mar. 
25, 1993, pp. 6358, 6359). For former automatic reconsideration in the 
House of amendments if the votes of Delegates and the Resident 
Commissioner were decisive, see Sec.  985, infra.
  Depending on the will of the House as expressed on the question of 
ordering the previous question (IV, 4895; V, 5794; VIII, 2419), when a 
bill is reported with amendments from the Committee of the Whole, it is 
in order to submit additional amendments after disposition of the 
Committee amendments (IV, 4872-4876). However, in modern practice the 
opportunity to submit amendments is normally foreclosed by the ordering 
of the previous question under a special rule. The fact that a 
proposition has been rejected by the Committee does not prevent it from 
being offered as an amendment when the subject comes up in the House 
(IV, 4878-4880; VIII, 2700). A substitute amendment may be offered to a 
bill reported from the Committee, and then the previous question may be 
ordered on the substitute, on all other amendments, and on the bill to 
final passage (V, 5472). An amendment in the nature of a substitute 
reported from the Committee is treated like any other amendment (V, 
5341), and if the House rejects the substitute the original bill without 
amendment is before the House (VIII, 2426).

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  Where <> a series of bills are reported from Committee of the Whole, the 
House considers them in the order in which they are reported (IV, 4869, 
4870; VIII, 2417). A proposition reported for action has precedence over 
an independent resolution on the same subject offered by a Member from 
the floor (V, 6986), and where a bill and a resolution relating to an 
alleged breach of privilege were reported together the question was put 
first on the bill (V, 6986). A bill read in full and considered in the 
Committee (IV, 3409, 3410), or presumed to have been so read (IV, 4916), 
is not read in full again in the House when reported and acted on. The 
chair of the Committee of the Whole who reports a bill does not become 
entitled to prior recognition for debate in the House (II, 1453); but on 
an adverse report an opponent is recognized to offer a motion for 
disposition of the bill (IV, 4897; VIII, 2430), or for debate (VII, 
2629). The recommendation of the Committee being before the House, the 
motion to carry out the recommendation is usually considered as pending 
without being offered from the floor (IV, 4896), but when a bill was 
reported with a recommendation that it lie on the table, a question was 
raised as to whether or not this motion, which prevents debate, should 
be considered as pending (IV, 4897). The House considers an amendment 
reported from the Committee to the preamble of a Senate joint resolution 
following disposition of amendments to the text and pending third 
reading (May 25, 1993, pp. 11036, 11037).
  A <> motion 
to discharge the Committee of the Whole from the consideration of a 
matter committed to it is not privileged as against a demand for the 
regular order (IV, 4917). When the Committee is discharged from 
consideration of a bill the House, in lieu of the report of the chair, 
accepts the minutes of the Clerk as evidence of amendments agreed to 
(IV, 4922).
<>   In other things the rules or proceedings are to be the same 
as in the House. Scob., 39.

  The House provides by rule (clause 11 of rule XVIII) that the rules of 
proceeding in the House shall apply in Committee of the Whole so far as 
they may be applicable.




                   sec. xiii--examination of witnesses

  Common <> fame is a good ground for the House to proceed by 
inquiry, and even to accusation. Resolution House of Commons, 1 Car., 1, 
1625; Rush, L. Parl., 115; Grey, 16-22, 92; 8 Grey, 21, 23, 27, 45.


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  In the House common fame has been held sufficient to justify procedure 
for inquiry (III, 2701), as in a case wherein it was stated on the 
authority of common rumor that a Member had been menaced (III, 2678). 
The House also has voted to investigate with a view to impeachment on 
the basis of common fame, as in the cases of Judges Chase (III, 2342), 
Humphreys (III, 2385), and Durell (III, 2506).

<>   
Witnesses are not to be produced but where the House has previously 
instituted an inquiry, 2 Hats., 102, nor then are orders for their 
attendance given blank. 3 Grey, 51.

  In the House witnesses are summoned in pursuance and by virtue of the 
authority conferred on a committee by the House to send for persons and 
papers (III, 1750). Even in cases wherein the rules give to certain 
committees the authority to investigate without securing special 
permission, authority must be obtained before the production of 
testimony may be compelled (IV, 4316). Subpoenas issued by order of the 
House are signed by the Speaker (clause 4 of rule I) and attested and 
sealed by the Clerk (clause 2 of rule II). In clause 2(m) of rule XI the 
House has authorized any committee or subcommittee to issue a subpoena 
when authorized by a majority of the members of the committee or 
subcommittee voting, a majority being present. A committee may also 
delegate the authority to issue subpoenas to the chair of a full 
committee. Authorized subpoenas are signed by the chair of the committee 
or by any other member designated by the committee. Sometimes the House 
authorizes issue of subpoenas during a recess of Congress and empowers 
the Speaker to sign them (III, 1806), and in one case the two Houses, by 
concurrent resolution, empowered the Vice President and Speaker to sign 
during a recess (III, 1763). See McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 
(1927); Barry v. U.S. ex rel. Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929); Sinclair 
v. United States, 279 U.S. 263 (1929). Under section 2954 of title 5, 
United States Code, an executive agency, if so requested by the 
Committee on Government Operations (now Oversight and Government 
Reform), or any seven members thereof, shall submit any information 
requested of it relating to any matter within the jurisdiction of the 
committee.

  When <> any person is examined before a committee or at the bar of 
the House, any Member wishing to ask the person a question must address 
it to the Speaker or chairman, who repeats the question to the person, 
or says to him, ``You hear the

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question--answer it.'' But if the propriety of the question be objected 
to, the Speaker directs the witness, counsel, and parties to withdraw; 
for no question can be moved or put or debated while they are there. 2 
Hats., 108. Sometimes the questions are previously settled in writing 
before the witness enters. Ib., 106, 107; 8 Grey, 64. The questions 
asked must be entered in the Journal. 3 Grey, 81. But the testimony 
given in answer before the House is never written down; but before a 
committee, it must be, for the information of the House, who are not 
present to hear it. 7 Grey, 52, 334.

  The Committee of the Whole of the House was charged with an 
investigation in 1792, but the procedure was wholly exceptional (III, 
1804), although a statute still empowers the chair of the Committee of 
the Whole, as well as the Speaker, chairs of select or standing 
committees, and Members to administer oaths to witnesses (2 U.S.C. 191; 
III, 1769). Most inquiries, in the modern practice, are conducted by 
select or standing committees, and these in each case determine how they 
will conduct examinations (III, 1773, 1775). Clause 2(k) of rule XI, 
contains provisions governing certain procedures at hearings by 
committees (Sec. 803, infra). In one case a committee permitted a Member 
of the House not of the committee to examine a witness (III, 2403) and 
the modern practice is to allow non-committee members to participate by 
unanimous consent. Usually these investigations are reported 
stenographically, thus making the questions and answers of record for 
report to the House. To sustain a conviction of perjury, a quorum of a 
committee must be in attendance when the testimony is given. Christoffel 
v. United States, 338 U.S. 84 (1949). Certain criminal statutes make it 
a felony to give perjurious testimony before a congressional committee 
(18 U.S.C. 1621), to intimidate witnesses before committees (18 U.S.C. 
1505), or to make false statements in any matter within the jurisdiction 
of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of 
the United States (18 U.S.C. 1001).
  Another provision of the Federal criminal code (18 U.S.C. 6005) 
provides for ``use'' immunity for certain witnesses before either House 
or committees thereof.

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  The <> House, in its earlier years, arraigned and tried 
at its bar persons, not Members, charged with violation of its 
privileges, as in the cases of Randall, Whitney (II, 1599-1603), 
Anderson (II, 1606), and Houston (II, 1616); but in the case of Woods, 
charged with breach of privilege in 1870 (II, 1626-1628), the respondent 
was arraigned before the House, but was heard in his defense by counsel 
and witnesses before a standing committee. At the conclusion of that 
investigation the respondent was brought to the bar of the House while 
the House voted his punishment (II, 1628). The House also has arraigned 
at its bar contumacious witnesses before taking steps to punish by its 
own action or through the courts (III, 1685). In examinations at its bar 
the House has adopted forms of procedure as to questions (II, 1633; III, 
1768), providing that they be asked through the Speaker (II, 1602, 1606) 
or by a committee (II, 1617; III, 1668). And the questions to be asked 
have been drawn up by a committee, even when put by the Speaker (II, 
1633). In the earlier practice the answer of a witness at the bar was 
not written down (IV, 2874); but in the later practice the answers 
appear in the journal (III, 1668). The person at the bar withdraws while 
the House passes on an incidental question (II, 1633; III, 1768). See 
McGrain v. Dougherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927); Barry v. U.S. ex rel. 
Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929); Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 
(1935).

  If <> either House have occasion for the presence of a 
person in custody of the other, they ask the other their leave that he 
may be brought up to them in custody. 3 Hats., 52.
  A <> Member, in his place, 
gives information to the House of what he knows of any matter under 
hearing at the bar. Jour. H. of C., Jan. 22, 1744-5.

  At an examination at the bar of the House in 1795 both the written 
information given by Members and their verbal testimony were required to 
be under oath (II, 1602). In a case not of actual examination at the 
bar, but wherein the House was deliberating on a proposition to order 
investigation, it demanded by resolution that certain Members produce 
papers and information (III, 1726, 1811). Members often give testimony 
before committees of investigation, and in at least one case the Speaker 
has thus appeared (III, 1776). But in a case wherein a committee 
summoned a Member to testify as to a statement made by him in debate he 
protested that it was an invasion of his constitutional privilege (III, 
1777, 1778; see also H. Rept. 67-1372, and Jan. 25, 1923, pp. 2415-23). 
In one

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instance the chair of an investigating committee administered the oath 
to himself and testified (III, 1821). The House, in an inquiry 
preliminary to an impeachment trial, gave leave to its managers to 
examine Members, and leave to its Members to attend for the purpose 
(III, 2033).

  Either <> House may request, but not command, the attendance of 
a Member of the other. They are to make the request by message of the 
other House, and to express clearly the purpose of attendance, that no 
improper subject of examination may be tendered to him. The House then 
gives leave to the Member to attend, if he choose it; waiting first to 
know from the Member himself whether he chooses to attend, till which 
they do not take the message into consideration. But when the peers are 
sitting as a court of criminal judicature, they may order attendance, 
unless where it be a case of impeachment by the Commons. There it is to 
be a request. 3 Hats., 17; 9 Grey, 306, 406; 10 Grey, 133.

  The House and the Senate have observed this rule; but it does not 
appear that they have always made public ascertainment of the 
willingness of the Member to attend (III, 1790, 1791). In one case the 
Senate laid aside pending business in order to comply with the request 
of the House (III, 1791). In several instances House committees, after 
their invitations to Senators to appear and testify had been 
disregarded, have issued subpoenas. In such cases the Senators have 
either disregarded the subpoenas, refused to obey them, or have appeared 
under protest (III, 1792, 1793). In one case, after a Senator had 
neglected to respond either to an invitation or a subpoena the House 
requested of the Senate his attendance and the Senate disregarded the 
request (III, 1794). Where Senators have responded to invitations of 
House committees, their testimony has been taken without obtaining 
consent of the Senate (III, 1793, 1795, footnote).

  Counsel <> are to be heard only 
on private, not on public, bills and on such points of law only as the 
House shall direct. 10 Grey, 61.


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  In 1804 the House admitted the counsel of certain corporations to 
address the House on pending matters of legislation (V, 7298), and in 
1806 voted that a claimant might be heard at the bar (V, 7299); but in 
1808, after consideration, the House by a large majority declined to 
follow again the precedent of 1804 (V, 7300). In early years counsel in 
election cases were heard at the bar at the discretion of the House (I, 
657, 709, 757, 765); but in 1836, after full discussion, the practice 
was abandoned (I, 660), and, with one exception in 1841 (I, 659), has 
not been revived, even for the case of a contestant who could not speak 
the English language (I, 661). Counsel appear before committees in 
election cases, however. Where witnesses and others have been arraigned 
at the bar of the House for contempt, the House has usually permitted 
counsel (II, 1601, 1616; III, 1667), sometimes under conditions (II, 
1604, 1616); but in a few cases has declined the request (II, 1608; III, 
1666, footnote). In investigations before committees counsel usually 
have been admitted (III, 1741, 1846, 1847), sometimes even to assist a 
witness (III, 1772), and clause 2(k)(3) of rule XI now provides that 
witnesses at hearings may be accompanied by their own counsel for the 
purpose of advising them concerning their constitutional rights 
(Sec. 803, infra). In examinations preliminary to impeachment counsel 
usually have been admitted (III, 1736, 2470, 2516) unless in cases 
wherein such proceedings were ex parte. During impeachment 
investigations against President Nixon and President Clinton, the 
Committee on the Judiciary admitted counsel to the President to be 
present, to make presentations and to examine witnesses during 
investigatory hearings (H. Rept. 93-1305, Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29219; H. 
Rept. 105-830, Dec. 16, 1998, p. 27819).
  At one time the House required all counsel or agents representing 
persons or corporations before committees to be registered with the 
Clerk (III, 1771). The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 requires all 
lobbyists to register with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of 
the Senate (2 U.S.C. 1603).




                    sec. xiv--arrangement of business

  The <> Speaker is 
not precisely bound to any rules as to what bills or other matter shall 
be first taken up; but it is left to his own discretion, unless the 
House on a question decide to take up a particular subject. Hakew., 136.
  A settled order of business is, however, necessary for the government 
of the presiding person, and to restrain individual Members from calling 
up favorite measures, or matters under

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their special patronage, out of their just turn. It is useful also for 
directing the discretion of the House, when they are moved to take up a 
particular matter, to the prejudice of others, having priority of right 
to their attention in the general order of business.
* * * * *
  In this way we do not waste our time in debating what shall be taken 
up. We do one thing at a time; follow up a subject while it is fresh, 
and till it is done with; clear the House of business gradatim as it is 
brought on, and prevent, to a certain degree, its immense accumulation 
toward the close of the session.

  Jefferson gave as a part of his comment on the law of Parliament the 
order of business in the Senate in his time. Both in the House and 
Senate the order of business has been changed to meet the needs of the 
times. The order of business now followed in the House is established by 
rule XIV; and this rule, with the rules supplemental thereto, take away 
to a very large extent the discretion exercised by the Speaker under the 
parliamentary law.
  In the House before committees are appointed it is in order to offer a 
bill or resolution for consideration not previously considered by a 
committee (VII, 2103). In the 73d Congress, the House passed before the 
adoption of rules and election of committees a bill of major importance 
(providing relief in the existing national emergency in banking), 
following a message from the President recommending its immediate 
passage (Mar. 9, 1933, pp. 75-84).

  Arrangement, <> however, can only take hold of matters in 
possession of the House. New matter may be moved at any time when no 
question is before the House. Such are original motions and reports on 
bills. Such are bills from the other House, which are received at all 
times, and receive their first reading as soon as the question then 
before the

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House is disposed of; and bills brought in on leave, which are read 
first whenever presented. So messages from the other House respecting 
amendments to bills are taken up as soon as the House is clear of a 
question, unless they require to be printed, for better consideration. 
Orders of the day may be called for, even when another question is 
before the House.

  In Jefferson's time the principles of this comment would have applied 
to both House and Senate; but in the House the order of business may be 
interrupted at the will of the majority only by certain specified 
matters (see annotations following rule XIV). For matters not thus 
specified, interruption of the order takes place only by unanimous 
consent. For a discussion of the Speaker's policy of conferring 
recognition for such unanimous-consent requests, see Sec. 956, infra.




                             sec. xv--order

* * * * *
  In <> Parliament, ``instances make order,'' per Speaker Onslow. 2 
Hats., 141. But what is done only by one Parliament, cannot be called 
custom of Parliament, by Prynne. 1 Grey, 52.

  In the House the Clerk is required to note all questions of order and 
the decisions thereon and print the record thereof as an appendix to the 
Journal (clause 2 of rule II). The Parliamentarian has the 
responsibility for compiling and updating the precedents (2 U.S.C. 28). 
The Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 gave the Speaker the 
responsibility to prepare an updated compilation of such precedents 
every two years (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The 
Speaker feels constrained in rulings to give precedent its proper 
influence (II, 1317), because the advantage of such a course is 
undeniable (IV, 4045). But decisions of the Speakers on questions of 
order are not like judgments of courts that conclude the rights of 
parties, but may be reexamined and reversed (IV, 4637), except on 
discretionary matters of recognition (II, 1425). It is rare, however, 
that such a reversal occurs.

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                    sec. xvi--order respecting papers

  The <> Clerk is to let no journals, records, accounts, or papers be 
taken from the table or out of his custody. 2 Hats., 193, 194.
  Mr. Prynne, having at a Committee of the Whole amended a mistake in a 
bill without order or knowledge of the committee, was reprimanded. 1 
Chand., 77.
  A bill being missing, the House resolved that a protestation should be 
made and subscribed by the members ``before Almighty God, and this 
honorable House, that neither myself, nor any other to my knowledge, 
have taken away, or do at this present conceal a bill entitled,'' &c. 5 
Grey, 202.
  After a bill is engrossed, it is put into the Speaker's hands, and he 
is not to let any one have it to look into. Town, col. 209.

  In the House an alleged improper alteration of a bill was presented as 
a question of privilege and examined by a select committee. It being 
ascertained that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error, 
the committee reported that it was ``highly censurable in any Member or 
officer of the House to make any change, even the most unimportant, in 
any bill or resolution which has received the sanction of this body'' 
(III, 2598). Alleged abuse of power in the processing and enrollment of 
bills has formed the basis of questions of privilege (Feb. 16, 2006, p. 
1948; May 22, 2008, p. 10522). Although engrossing papers must be at the 
desk, additional copies of a pending measure are not required (June 26, 
2009, pp. 16698-700). The Clerk signs engrossments; the Speaker signs 
enrollments (1 U.S.C. 106).




                       sec. xvii--order in debate

<>   
When the Speaker is seated in his chair, every member is to sit in his 
place. Scob., 6; Grey, 403.


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  In the House the decorum of Members is regulated by rule XVII; and 
this provision of the parliamentary law is practically obsolete.

  When <> any Member means to speak, he is to stand up in his 
place, uncovered, and to address himself, not to the House, or any 
particular Member, but to the Speaker, who calls him by his name, that 
the House may take notice who it is that speaks. Scob., 6; D'Ewes, 487, 
col. 1; 2 Hats., 77; 4 Grey, 66; 8 Grey, 108. But Members who are 
indisposed may be indulged to speak sitting. 2 Hats., 75, 77; 1 Grey, 
143.

  This provision has been superseded by clause 1 of rule XVII. The 
Speaker, moreover, calls the Member, not by name, but as ``the gentleman 
or gentlewoman from __,'' (naming the State). As long ago as 1832, at 
least, a Member was not required to rise from his own particular seat 
because seats are no longer assigned (V, 4979, footnote).

<>   When a Member stands up to 
speak, no question is to be put, but he is to be heard unless the House 
overrule him. 4 Grey, 390; 5 Grey, 6, 143.

  Except as provided in clause 4 of rule XVII, no question is put as to 
the right of a Member to the floor.

  If <> two or more rise to speak nearly together, the Speaker 
determines who was first up, and calls him by name, whereupon he 
proceeds, unless he voluntarily sits down and gives way to the other. 
But sometimes the House does not acquiesce in the Speaker's decision, in 
which case the question is put, ``which Member was first up?'' 2 Hats., 
76; Scob., 7; D'Ewes, 434, col. 1, 2.

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  In the Senate of the United States the President's decision is without 
appeal.

  In the House recognition by the Chair is governed by clause 2 of rule 
XVII and the practice thereunder. There has been no appeal from a 
decision by the Speaker on a question of recognition since 1881, on 
which occasion Speaker Randall stated that the power of recognition is 
``just as absolute in the Chair as the judgment of the Supreme Court of 
the United States is absolute as to the interpretation of the law'' (II, 
1425-1428), and in the later practice no appeal is permitted (VIII, 
2429, 2646, 2762).

  No <> man may speak more than once on the same bill on the same day; 
or even on another day, if the debate be adjourned. But if it be read 
more than once in the same day, he may speak once at every reading. Co., 
12, 115; Hakew., 148; Scob., 58; 2 Hats., 75. Even a change of opinion 
does not give a right to be heard a second time. Smyth's Comw. L., 2, c. 
3; Arcan, Parl., 17.
  But he may be permitted to speak again to clear a matter of fact, 3 
Grey, 357, 416; or merely to explain himself, 2 Hats., 73, in some 
material part of his speech, Ib., 75; or to the manner or words of the 
question, keeping himself to that only, and not traveling into the 
merits of it, Memorials in Hakew., 29; or to the orders of the House, if 
they be transgressed, keeping within that line, and not falling into the 
matter itself. Mem. Hakew., 30, 31.

  The House has modified the parliamentary law as to a Member's right to 
speak a second time by clause 3 of rule XVII and by permitting a Member 
controlling time in debate to yield to another more than once (Apr. 5, 
2000, p. 4497; Oct. 18, 2007, p. 27575). In ordinary practice rule XVII 
is not rigidly enforced, and Members find little difficulty in making 
such explanations as are contemplated by the parliamentary law.


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  But <> if the 
Speaker rise to speak, the Member standing up ought to sit down, that he 
may be first heard. Town., col. 205; Hale Parl., 133; Mem. in Hakew., 
30, 31. Nevertheless, though the Speaker may of right speak to matters 
of order, and be first heard, he is restrained from speaking on any 
other subject, except where the House have occasion for facts within his 
knowledge; then he may, with their leave, state the matter of fact. 3 
Grey, 38.

  This provision is usually observed in the practice of the House only 
with regard to the conduct of the Speaker when in the chair. In several 
instances the Speaker has been permitted by the House to make a 
statement from the chair, as in a case wherein his past conduct had been 
criticized (II, 1369), in a case wherein there had been unusual 
occurrences in the joint session to count the electoral vote (II, 1372), 
and in a matter relating to a contest for the seat of the Speaker as a 
Member (II, 1360). In rare instances the Speaker has made brief 
explanations from the chair without asking the assent of the House (II, 
1373, 1374). Speakers have called others to the chair and participated 
in debate, usually without asking consent of the House (II, 1360, 1367, 
footnote, 1368, 1371; III, 1950), and in one case a Speaker on the floor 
debated a point of order that the Speaker pro tempore was to decide (V, 
6097). In rare instances Speakers have left the chair to make motions on 
the floor (II, 1367, footnote). Speakers may participate in debate in 
Committee of the Whole, although the privilege was rarely exercised in 
early practice (II, 1367, footnote).

  No <> one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, 
superfluous, or tediously. Scob., 31, 33; 2 Hats., 166, 168; Hale Parl., 
133.

  The House, by clause 1 of rule XVII, provides that remarks must be 
confined to the question under debate, but neither by rule nor practice 
has the House suppressed superfluous or tedious speaking, its hour rule 
(clause 2 of rule XVII) being a sufficient safeguard in this respect.


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  No <> person is to 
use indecent language against the proceedings of the House; no prior 
determination of which is to be reflected on by any Member, unless he 
means to conclude with a motion to rescind it. 2 Hats., 169, 170; 
Rushw., p. 3, v. 1, fol. 42. But while a proposition under consideration 
is still in fieri, though it has even been reported by a committee, 
reflections on it are no reflections on the House. 9 Grey, 508.

  In the practice of the House it has been held out of order in debate 
to cast reflections on either the House or its membership or its 
decisions, whether present or past (V, 5132-5138). A Member who had used 
offensive words against the character of the House, and who declined to 
explain, was censured (II, 1247). Words impeaching the loyalty of a 
portion of the membership have also been ruled out (V, 5139). Where a 
Member reiterated on the floor certain published charges against the 
House, action was taken, although other business had intervened, the 
question being considered one of privilege (III, 2637). It has been held 
inappropriate and not in order in debate to refer to the proceedings of 
a committee except such as have been formally reported to the House (V, 
5080-5083; VIII, 2269, 2485-2493; June 24, 1958, pp. 12120, 12122), but 
this rule does not apply to the proceedings of a committee of a previous 
Congress (Feb. 2, 1914, p. 2782), and the rationale for this limitation 
on debate is in part obsolete under the modern practice of the House 
insofar as the doctrine is applied to open committee meetings and 
hearings.

  No <> person, in 
speaking, is to mention a Member then present by his name, but to 
describe him by his seat in the House, or who spoke last, or on the 
other side of the question, &c., Mem. in Hakew., 3; Smyth's Comw., L. 2, 
c. 3; nor to digress from the matter to fall upon the person, Scob., 31; 
Hale Parl., 133; 2 Hats., 166, by speaking reviling, nipping, or 
unmannerly words against a particular Member. Smyth's Comw., L. 2, c. 3. 
* * *


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  In the practice of the House, a Member is not permitted to refer to 
another Member by name (V, 5144; VIII, 2526, 2529, 2536), or to address 
a Member in the second person (V, 5140-5143; VI, 600; VIII, 2529; 
Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 2012, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 26, 2013, p. 
_; Speaker Boehner, Mar. 25, 2014, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, 
p. _). The proper reference to another Member is ``the gentleman or 
gentlewoman from __,'' (naming the Member's State) (June 14, 1978, p. 
17615; July 21, 1982, p. 17314). A mere reference to a Member's voting 
record does not form a basis for a point of order against those remarks 
(June 13, 2002, p. 10226, p. 10232).
  By rule of the House (clause 1 of rule XVII), as well as by 
parliamentary law, personalities are forbidden (V, 4979, 5145, 5163, 
5169), whether against the Member in the Member's capacity as 
Representative or otherwise (V, 5152, 5153), even if the references may 
be relevant to the pending question (Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25778). The 
House has censured a Member for gross personalities (II, 1251). The 
Chair may intervene to prevent improper references if it is evident that 
a particular Member is being described (Nov. 3, 1989, p. 27077).
  The Chair does not rule on the veracity of a statement made by a 
Member in debate (Apr. 9, 1997, p. 4926; Sept. 26, 2008, p. 22085). 
Although accusing another Member of deceit engages in personality, 
merely accusing another Member of making a mistake does not (V, 5157; 
Oct. 26, 2000, p. 24921).
  Clause 1 of rule XVII has been held to proscribe: (1) referring to an 
identifiable group of sitting Members as having committed a crime (e.g., 
stealing an election or obstructing justice) (Feb. 27, 1985, p. 3898; 
Speaker Wright, Mar. 21, 1989, p. 5016; May 19, 1998, p. 9738; July 15, 
2004, p. 15859); (2) referring in a personally critical manner to the 
political tactics of the Speaker or other Members (June 25, 1981, p. 
14056); (3) referring to a particular Member of the House in a 
derogatory fashion (Nov. 3, 1989, p. 27077); (4) characterizing a Member 
as ``the most impolite Member'' (June 27, 1996, p. 15915) or ``mean-
spirited'' (May 13, 1992, p. 11235); (5) questioning the integrity of a 
Member (July 25, 1996, p. 19170); (6) denunciating the spirit in which a 
Member had spoken (V, 6981); (7) using a Member's surname as though an 
adjective for a word of ridicule (June 13, 2002, p. 10232; May 13, 2008, 
p. 8923); (8) questioning the decency of another Member (Mar. 21, 2007, 
p. 7074); (9) labeling the remarks of a Member ``hypocritical and 
dishonest'' (Mar. 7, 2012, p. _).
  A distinction has been drawn between general language, which 
characterizes a measure or the political motivations behind a measure, 
and personalities (V, 5153, 5163, 5169). Although remarks in debate may 
not include personal attacks against a Member or an identifiable group 
of Members, they may address political motivations for legislative 
positions (Jan. 24, 1995, p. 2214; Mar. 8, 1995, pp. 7307, 7308; Nov. 
17, 1995, p. 33832; June 13, 1996, p. 14043; July 16, 2008, p. 15273). 
For example, references to ``down-in-the-dirt gutter politics'' and 
``you people are going to pay'' were

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held not to be personal references (Nov. 14, 1995, p. 32388). Similarly, 
characterizing a pending measure as a ``patently petty political 
terrorist tactic'' was held in order as a reference to the pending 
measure rather than to the motive or character of the measure's 
proponent (Nov. 9, 1995, p. 31413). The Chair also has held in order a 
general reference that ``big donors'' receive ``access to leadership 
power and decisions'' because the reference did not identify a specific 
Member as engaging in an improper quid pro quo (Apr. 9, 1997, p. 4926). 
A general statement seeming to invoke racial stereotypes but not in a 
context so inflammatory as to constitute a breach of decorum, was held 
not unparliamentary (Apr. 9, 2003, p. 9005 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)). Likewise, a general statement linking politics with armed 
conflict in an impersonal way was held not to breach decorum (Oct. 18, 
2007, p. 27578).
  A Member may not read in debate extraneous material critical of 
another Member that would be improper if spoken in the Member's own 
words (May 25, 1995, pp. 14436, 14437; Sept. 12, 1996, p. 22898). Thus, 
words in a telegram read in debate that repudiated the ``lies and half-
truths'' of a House committee report were ruled out of order as 
reflecting on the integrity of committee members (June 16, 1947, p. 
7065), and unparliamentary references in debate to newspaper accounts 
used in support of a Member's personal criticism of another Member were 
similarly ruled out of order (Feb. 25, 1985, p. 3346).
  A Member should refrain from references in debate to the official 
conduct of a Member if such conduct is not the subject then pending 
before the House by way of either a report of the Committee on Ethics or 
another question of the privileges of the House (see, e.g., July 24, 
1990, p. 18917; Mar. 19, 1992, p. 6078; May 25, 1995, pp. 14434-37; 
Sept. 19, 1995, pp. 25454, 25455; Apr. 27, 2005, p. 8049); and, although 
such references are ordinarily enforced by the Chair in response to a 
point of order, the Chair may take the initiative in order to maintain 
proper decorum (Apr. 1, 1992, p. 7899; June 17, 2004, p. 12748). This 
stricture also precludes a Member from reciting news articles discussing 
a Member's conduct (Sept. 24, 1996, p. 24318), reciting the content of a 
previously tabled resolution raising a question of the privileges of the 
House (Nov. 17, 1995, p. 33853; Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23855), or even 
referring to a Member's conduct by mere insinuation (Sept. 12, 1996, p. 
22899). Notice of an intention to offer a resolution as a question of 
the privileges of the House under rule IX does not render a resolution 
``pending'' and thereby permit references to conduct of a Member 
proposed to be addressed therein (Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23811).
  The stricture against references to a Member's conduct not then 
pending before the House applies to the conduct of all sitting Members 
(Apr. 1, 1992, p. 7899), including conduct that has previously been 
resolved by the Committee on Ethics or the House (Sept. 24, 1996, pp. 
24483, 24485; Apr. 17, 1997, p. 5831). This stricture does not apply to 
the conduct of a former Member, provided the reference is not made in an 
attempt to compare the conduct of a former Member with the conduct of a 
sitting

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Member (Sept. 20, 1995, pp. 25825, 25826; Sept. 12, 1996, pp. 22900, 
22901).
  Debate on a pending privileged resolution recommending disciplinary 
action against a Member may necessarily involve personalities. However, 
clause 1 of rule XVII still prohibits the use of language that is 
personally abusive (see, e.g., July 31, 1979, p. 21584; Jan. 21, 1997, 
p. 393) and the Chair may take the initiative to prevent violations of 
the rule (July 24, 2002, p. 14300). Furthermore, during the actual 
pendency of such a resolution, a Member may discuss a prior case 
reported to the House by the Committee on Ethics for the purpose of 
comparing the severity of the sanction recommended in that case with the 
severity of the sanction recommended in the pending case, provided that 
the Member does not identify, or discuss the details of the past conduct 
of, a sitting Member (Dec. 18, 1987, p. 36271).
  In addition to the prohibition against addressing a Member's conduct 
when it is not actually pending before the House, the Speaker has 
advised that Members should refrain from references in debate (1) to the 
motivations of a Member who filed a complaint before the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) (June 15, 1988, p. 14623; 
July 6, 1988, p. 16630; Mar. 22, 1989, p. 5130; May 2, 1989, p. 7735; 
Nov. 3, 1989, p. 27077); (2) to personal criticism of a member of the 
committee (Apr. 1, 1992, p. 7899; Mar. 3, 1995, p. 6715; Sept. 19, 1996, 
p. 23812; Sept. 24, 1996, p. 24317); (3) to an investigation undertaken 
by the committee, including suggestion of a course of action (Mar. 3, 
1995, p. 6715; Sept. 24, 1996, p. 24317; Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25778) or 
advocacy of an interim status report by the committee (Sept. 12, 1996, 
p. 22900; Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25778).
  For precedents applicable to references in debate to the President, 
see Sec. 370, infra, or Members of the Senate, see Sec. 371, infra.
  Complaint <> of the conduct 
of the Speaker should be presented directly for the action of the House 
and not by way of debate on other matters (V, 5188). In a case wherein a 
Member used words insulting to the Speaker the House on a subsequent 
day, and after other business had intervened, censured the offender (II, 
1248). In such a case the Speaker would ordinarily leave the chair while 
action should be taken by the House (II, 1366; V, 5188; VI, 565). In the 
104th Congress the Chair reaffirmed that it is not in order to speak 
disrespectfully of the Speaker, and that under the precedents the 
sanctions for such violations transcend the ordinary requirements for 
timeliness of challenges (II, 1248; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 552; Jan. 19, 1995, 
p. 1599). It is not in order to arraign the personal conduct of the 
Speaker (Jan. 18, 1995, p. 1441; Jan. 19, 1995, p. 1601). For example, 
it is not in order to charge dishonesty or disregard of the rules (July 
11, 1985, p. 18550), to reflect on his patriotism by accusing him of 
``kowtowing'' to persons who would desecrate the flag (June 20, 1990, p. 
14877), to refer to him as a ``crybaby'' (Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33394), or 
to refer to official conduct

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of the Speaker that has previously been resolved by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) or the House (Apr. 17, 1997, 
p. 5831). The Chair may take the initiative to admonish Members for 
references in debate that disparage the Speaker (June 25, 1981, p. 
14056; Mar. 22, 1996, p. 6077; May 13, 2008, p. 8923). Debate on a 
resolution authorizing the Speaker to entertain motions to suspend the 
rules may not engage in personality by discussing the official conduct 
of the Speaker, even if possibly relevant to the question of empowerment 
of the Speaker (Sept. 24, 1996, p. 24485).

  * * * <> The 
consequences of a measure may be reprobated in strong terms; but to 
arraign the motives of those who propose to advocate it is a 
personality, and against order. Qui digreditur a materia ad personam, 
Mr. Speaker ought to suppress. Ord. Com., 1604, Apr. 19.

  The arraignment of the motives of Members is not permitted (V, 5147-
51; Dec. 13, 1973, p. 41270), and Speakers have intervened to prevent 
it, in the earlier practice preventing even mildest imputations (V, 
5161, 5162). However, remarks in debate may address political, but not 
personal, motivations for legislative positions (Jan. 24, 1995, p. 2214; 
Mar. 8, 1995, pp. 7307, 7308; Nov. 17, 1995, p. 33832; June 13, 1996, p. 
14043) or for committee membership (July 10, 1995, pp. 18257-59). 
Accusing another Member of hypocrisy has been held not in order (July 
24, 1979, p. 20380; Mar. 29, 1995, p. 9675; Mar. 7, 2012, p. _), and 
characterizing the motivation of a Member in offering an amendment as 
deceptive and hypocritical was ruled out of order (June 12, 1979, p. 
14461). A statement in debate that an amendment could only be demagogic 
or racist because only demagoguery or racism impelled such an amendment 
was ruled out of order as impugning the motives of the Member offering 
the amendment (Dec. 13, 1973, pp. 41270, 41271). However, debate 
characterizing a pending measure as a ``patently petty political 
terrorist tactic'' was held in order as directed at the pending measure 
rather than the motive or the character of its proponent (Nov. 9, 1995, 
p. 31913). Although in debate the assertion of one Member may be 
declared untrue by another, in so doing an intentional misrepresentation 
must not be implied (V, 5157-5160), and if stated or implied is 
censurable (II, 1305). A Member in debate having declared the words of 
another ``a base lie,'' censure was inflicted by the House on the 
offender (II, 1249).


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  No <> one 
is to disturb another in his speech by hissing, coughing, spitting, 6 
Grey, 322; Scob., 8; D'Ewes, 332, col. 1, 640, col. 2, speaking or 
whispering to another, Scob., 6; D'Ewes, 487, col. 1; nor stand up to 
interrupt him, Town, col. 205; Mem. in Hakew., 31; nor to pass between 
the Speaker and the speaking Member, nor to go across the House, Scob., 
6, or to walk up and down it, or to take books or papers from the table, 
or write there, 2 Hats., 171, p. 170.

  The House has, by clause 5 of rule XVII, prescribed certain rules of 
decorum differing somewhat from this provision of the parliamentary law, 
but supplemental to it rather than antagonistic. In one respect, 
however, the practice of the House differs from the apparent intent of 
the parliamentary law. In the House a Member may interrupt by addressing 
the Chair for permission of the Member speaking (V, 5006; VIII, 2465); 
but it is entirely within the discretion of the Member occupying the 
floor to determine when and by whom to be interrupted (V, 5007, 5008; 
VIII, 2463, 2465). There is no rule of the House requiring a Member 
having the floor to yield to another Member referred to during debate 
(Aug. 2, 1984, p. 22241). A Member may ask another to yield from any 
microphone in the Chamber, including those in the well, so long as not 
crossing between the Member having the floor and the Chair (June 5, 
1998, p. 11170). The Chair may take the initiative in preserving order 
when a Member declining to yield in debate continues to be interrupted 
by another Member, may order that the interrupting Member's remarks not 
appear in the Record (July 26, 1984, p. 21247), and may admonish Members 
not to converse with a Member attempting to address the House (Feb. 21, 
1984, p. 2758), because it is not in order to engage in disruption while 
another is delivering remarks in debate (June 27, 1996, p. 15915). On 
the opening day of the 103d Congress, during the customary announcement 
of policies with respect to particular aspects of the legislative 
process, the Chair elaborated on the rules of order in debate with a 
general statement concerning decorum in the House (Jan. 5, 1993, p. 
105). Under this provision, the Chair may require a line of Members 
waiting to sign a discharge petition to proceed to the rostrum from the 
far right-hand aisle and require the line not to stand between the Chair 
and Members engaging in debate (Oct. 24, 1997, p. 23293). Hissing and 
jeering is not proper decorum in the House (May 21, 1998, p. 10282). For 
further discussion of interruptions in debate, see Sec. 946, infra.


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  Nevertheless, <> if a Member finds that it is not the inclination of 
the House to hear him, and that by conversation or any other noise they 
endeavor to drown his voice, it is his most prudent way to submit to the 
pleasure of the House, and sit down; for it scarcely ever happens that 
they are guilty of this piece of ill manners without sufficient reason, 
or inattention to a Member who says anything worth their hearing. 2 
Hats., 77, 78.

  In the House, where the previous question and hour rule of debate have 
been used for many years, the parliamentary method of suppressing a 
tedious Member has never been imported into the practice (V, 5445).

  If <> repeated calls do not produce order, the Speaker may call by 
his name any Member obstinately persisting in irregularity; whereupon 
the House may require the Member to withdraw. He is then to be heard in 
exculpation, and to withdraw. Then the Speaker states the offense 
committed; and the House considers the degree of punishment they will 
inflict. 2 Hats., 167, 7, 8, 172.

  This provision of parliamentary law should be in conjunction with 
clause 4 of rule XVII, Sec. Sec. 960-961, infra, particularly as this 
provision relates to the ultimate authority of the House to determine 
whether a Member ignoring repeated calls to order should be permitted to 
proceed in order.

  For <> instances of assaults and affrays in the House of Commons, 
and the proceedings thereon, see 1 Pet. Misc., 82; 3 Grey, 128; 4 Grey, 
328; 5 Grey, 382; 6 Grey, 254; 10 Grey, 8. Whenever warm words or an 
assault have passed between

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Members, the House, for the protection of their Members, requires them 
to declare in their places not to prosecute any quarrel, 3 Grey, 128, 
293; 5 Grey, 280; or orders them to attend the Speaker, who is to 
accommodate their differences, and report to the House, 3 Grey, 419; and 
they are put under restraint if they refuse, or until they do. 9 Grey, 
234, 312.

  In several instances assaults and affrays have occurred on the floor 
of the House. Sometimes the House has allowed these affairs to pass 
without notice, the Members concerned making apologies either personally 
or through other Members (II, 1658-1662). In other cases the House has 
exacted apologies (II, 1646-1651, 1657), or required the offending 
Members to pledge themselves before the House to keep the peace (II, 
1643). In case of an aggravated assault by one Member on another on the 
portico of the Capitol for words spoken in debate, the House censured 
the assailant and three other Members who had been present, armed, to 
prevent interference (II, 1655, 1656). Assaults or affrays in the 
Committee of the Whole are dealt with by the House (II, 1648-1651).

  Disorderly <> words are not to be noticed till the Member has 
finished his speech. 5 Grey, 356; 6 Grey, 60. Then the person objecting 
to them, and desiring them to be taken down by the Clerk at the table, 
must repeat them. The Speaker then may direct the Clerk to take them 
down in his minutes; but if he thinks them not disorderly, he delays the 
direction. If the call becomes pretty general, he orders the Clerk to 
take them down, as stated by the objecting Member. They are then a part 
of his minutes, and when read to the offending Member, he may deny they 
were his words, and the House must then decide by a question whether 
they are his words or not. Then the Member may justify them, or explain 
the sense

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in which he used them, or apologize. If the House is satisfied, no 
further proceeding is necessary. But if two Members still insist to take 
the sense of the House, the Member must withdraw before that question is 
stated, and then the sense of the House is to be taken. 2 Hats., 199; 4 
Grey, 170; 6 Grey, 59. When any Member has spoken, or other business 
intervened, after offensive words spoken, they can not be taken notice 
of for censure. And this is for the common security of all, and to 
prevent mistakes which must happen if words are not taken down 
immediately. Formerly they might be taken down at any time the same day. 
2 Hats., 196; Mem. in Hakew., 71; 3 Grey, 48; 9 Grey, 514.

  The House has, by clause 4 of rule XVII, provided a method of 
procedure in cases of disorderly words. The House permits and requires 
them to be noticed as soon as uttered, and has not insisted that the 
offending Member withdraw while the House is deciding as to its course 
of action.

  Disorderly <> words spoken in a committee must be 
written down as in the House; but the committee can only report them to 
the House for animadversion. 6 Grey, 46.

  This provision of the parliamentary law has been applied to the 
Committee of the Whole, rather than to select or standing committees, 
which are separately empowered to enforce rules of decorum (clause 1(a) 
of rule XI, which incorporates the provisions of rule XVII where 
applicable). The House has censured a Member for disorderly words spoken 
in Committee of the Whole and reported therefrom (II, 1259).

  In <> Parliament, to speak irreverently or seditiously against 
the King is against order. Smyth's Comw., L. 2, c. 3; 2 Hats., 170.


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  This provision of the parliamentary law is manifestly inapplicable to 
the House (V, 5086); and it has been held in order in debate to refer to 
the President of the United States or his opinions, either with approval 
or criticism, provided that such reference be relevant to the subject 
under discussion and otherwise conformable to the Rules of the House (V, 
5087-5091; VIII, 2500). Under this standard the following references are 
in order: (1) a reference to the probable action of the President (V, 
5092); (2) an adjuration to the President to keep his word (although an 
improper form of address) (Dec. 19, 1995, p. 37601); (3) an accusation 
that the President ``frivolously vetoed'' a bill (Nov. 8, 1995, p. 
31785).
  Although wide latitude is permitted in debate on a proposition to 
impeach the President (V, 5093), Members must abstain from language 
personally offensive (V, 5094; Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27829); and Members 
must abstain from comparisons to the personal conduct of sitting Members 
of the House or Senate (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27829). Furthermore, when 
impeachment is not the pending business on the floor, Members may not 
refer to evidence of alleged impeachable offenses by the President 
contained in a communication from an independent counsel pending before 
a House committee (Sept. 14, 1998, p. 20171; Sept. 17, 1998, p. 20758), 
although they may refer to the communication, itself, within the 
confines of proper decorum in debate (Oct. 6, 1998, p. 23841).
  Personal abuse, innuendo, or ridicule of the President is not 
permitted (VIII, 2497; Aug. 12, 1986, p. 21078; Oct. 21, 1987, p. 28857; 
Sept. 21, 1994, p. 25147; Sept. 7, 2006, pp. 17381, 17382). Under this 
standard it is not in order to call the President, or a presumptive 
major-party nominee for President, a ``liar'' or accuse such person of 
``lying'' (June 26, 1985, p. 17394; Sept. 24, 1992, pp. 27345, 27346; 
Nov. 15, 1995, p. 32587; June 6, 1996, pp. 13228, 13229; Mar. 18, 1998, 
p. 3937; Nov. 14, 2002, p. 22370; July 15, 2003, pp. 18172, 18173; Mar. 
24, 2004, pp. 5115, 5116; Oct. 3, 2013, p. _; Oct. 5, 2013, p. _). 
Indeed, any suggestion of mendacity is out of order. For example, the 
following remarks have been held out of order: (1) suggesting that the 
President misrepresented the truth, attempted to obstruct justice, and 
encouraged others to perjure themselves (Feb. 25, 1998, p. 2621); (2) 
accusing him of dishonesty (July 13, 2004, p. 15275; June 29, 2005, p. 
14770; June 3, 2013, p. _) or of failing to be honest (Apr. 14, 2011, p. 
6198), accusing him of making a ``dishonest argument'' (Sept. 12, 2006, 
p. 17851), charging him with intent to be intellectually dishonest (May 
9, 1990, p. 9828), or stating that many were convinced he had ``not been 
honest'' (Mar. 5, 1998, p. 2620); (3) accusing him of ``raping'' the 
truth (Apr. 24, 1996, p. 8807), not telling the truth (Oct. 29, 2003, p. 
26363), or distorting the truth (Sept. 9, 2003, pp. 21570-73); (4) 
stating that he was not being ``straight with us'' (Nov. 19, 2003, p. 
29811; July 10, 2012, p. _) or that he ``spoke out of the other side of 
his mouth'' (Jan. 31, 2012, p. _); (5) accusing him of ``deceit'' (Nov. 
17, 2014, p. _), being deceptive (Mar. 29, 2004, pp. 5523, 5524; Feb. 1, 
2006, p. 647; Nov. 18, 2013, p. _), or using ``deceptive rhetoric'' 
(Oct. 17, 2007,

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pp. 27534, 27538), fabricating an issue (July 6, 2004, pp. 14313, 
14314), or intending to mislead (Oct. 6, 2004, p. 21053; July 12, 2007, 
p. 18827; Mar. 22, 2012, p. _; Nov. 14, 2013, p. _); (6) accusing him of 
intentional mischaracterization, although mischaracterization without 
intent to deceive is not necessarily out of order (July 19, 2005, p. 
16525).
  Furthermore, the following remarks have been held out of order as 
unparliamentary references to the President, or to a presumptive major-
party nominee for President: (1) attributing to him ``hypocrisy'' (Sept. 
25, 1992, p. 27674; Apr. 26, 2006, p. 6129; Oct. 13, 2011, p. _; Mar. 5, 
2013, p. _); (2) accusing him of giving ``aid and comfort to the enemy'' 
(Jan. 25, 1995, p. 2352; May 6, 2004, pp. 8601, 8602); (3) accusing him 
of ``demagoguery'' (Jan. 23, 1996, p. 1144; Jan. 24, 1996, pp. 1220, 
1221; May 30, 1996, pp. 12646, 12647); (4) calling him a ``draft-
dodger'' (Apr. 24, 1996, pp. 8807, 8808; Sept. 30, 1996, p. 26603) or 
alleging unexcused absences from military service (May 5, 2004, pp. 
8417, 8418), including allegations that the President was ``A.W.O.L.'' 
(Sept. 22, 2004, p. 18953); (5) describing his action as ``cowardly'' 
(Oct. 25, 1989, p. 25817); (6) referring to him as ``a little bugger'' 
(Nov. 18, 1995, p. 33974); (7) alluding to alleged sexual misconduct on 
his part (May 10, 1994, p. 9697; Feb. 25, 1998, p. 1828; Mar. 5, 1998, 
p. 2620; May 18, 1998, p. 9418); (8) alluding to unethical behavior or 
corruption (June 20, 1996, p. 14829; July 9, 2002, p. 12286; Oct. 29, 
2003, pp. 26400-402), such as implying a cause-and-effect relationship 
between political contributions and his actions as President (May 22, 
2001, p. 9028; Sept. 29, 2004, pp. 19976, 19977), including an 
accusation that the President had ``lined the pockets'' of his 
``political cronies'' and filled ``campaign coffers'' (Sept. 14, 2005, 
pp. 20238, 20239); (9) discussing ``charges'' leveled at the President 
or under investigation (Mar. 19, 1998, p. 4094; June 11, 1998, p. 
12025), including alluding to ``fund-raising abuses'' (Mar. 14, 2000, p. 
2716) or speculating that the Vice President might someday pardon the 
President for certain charges (Apr. 12, 2000, p. 5419); (10) discussing 
alleged criminal conduct (Sept. 10, 1998, p. 19976) or ``illegal'' 
activity or actions (June 20, 2006, p. 11935; Jan. 31, 2012, p. _; Nov. 
20, 2014, p. _; Dec. 1, 2014, p. _; Jan. 13, 2015, p. _, p. _; Jan. 14, 
2015, p. _; Feb. 11, 2015, p. _; Feb. 27, 2015, p. _; Mar. 24, 2015, p. 
_); (11) accusing the President of acting ``above the law'' (June 18, 
2012, p. _; Jan. 15, 2013, p. _; Jan. 13, 2015, p. _), being ``lawless'' 
(Aug. 1, 2014, p. _; Nov. 20, 2014, p. _; Dec. 4, 2014, p. _; May 14, 
2015, p. _), violating the law (July 29, 2014, p. _), breaking the law 
(Sept. 9, 2014, p. _, p. _), or abusing the law (Feb. 27, 2015, p. _); 
(12) accusing him of having contempt (July 17, 2013, p. _) or disrespect 
(Feb. 3, 2014, p. _) for the Constitution; (13) accusing him of 
violating the oath of office (Dec. 3, 2013, p. _; Feb. 3, 2014, p. _; 
Feb. 10, 2014, p. _; Nov. 20, 2014, p. _; Feb. 11, 2015, p. _); (14) 
discussing personal conduct even as a point of reference or comparison 
(July 16, 1998, p. 15784; Sept. 9, 1998, p. 19735); (15) asserting that 
a major-party nominee had done something ``disgusting'' and 
``despicable'' (Mar. 11, 2004, p. 4033) or that the

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President is ``disgraceful'' (June 20, 2012, p. _) or lacking in 
morality (June 3, 2013, p. _; (16) asserting that a major-party nominee 
is not ``a large enough person'' to apologize (Mar. 11, 2004, p. 4086) 
or that the President does not care about black people (Sept. 8, 2005, 
p. 19797); (17) describing the President's action as ``arrogant'' (Jan. 
11, 2007, p. 998; Mar. 22, 2007, p. 7321; Nov. 17, 2011, p. _; Feb. 16, 
2012, p. _; July 18, 2012, p. _; Oct. 29, 2013, p. _; Nov. 17, 2014, p. 
_), ``mean-spirited'' (July 15, 2008, p. 15061), vengeful (June 3, 2013, 
p. _), a ``hissy fit'' (Oct. 27, 2011, p. _; Dec. 1, 2014, p. _), 
``cruel'' (Nov. 15, 2013, p. _), intenionally hurting the public (Oct. 
3, 2013, p. _), ``bilking'' the taxpayer (Apr. 22, 2015, p. _), or that 
he had engaged in insults (May 13, 2015, p. _); (18) equating his 
decisions with regard to armed conflict to his having ``slaughtered'' 
thousands (Mar. 8, 2007, p. 5815) or that a soldier's death was for his 
``amusement'' (Oct. 18, 2007, pp. 27569, 27570); (19) likening the 
President to a ``ruler'' (July 8, 2013, p. _; July 16, 2013, p. _), 
``king'' (July 17, 2013, p. _; May 22, 2014, p. _; Nov. 20, 2014, p. _), 
``monarch'' (Jan. 15, 2013, p. _), or ``emperor'' (Dec. 2, 2014, p. _); 
(20) an accusation of ``abuse of power'' or ``abuse of the office'' 
(Sept. 9, 2014, p. _; Dec. 4, 2014, p. _). The Chair may admonish 
Members transgressing this stricture even after other debate has 
intervened (Jan. 23, 1996, p. 1144).
  A Member may not read in debate extraneous material personally abusive 
of the President that would be improper if spoken in the Member's own 
words (Mar. 3, 1993, p. 3958; Nov. 15, 1995, p. 32587; May 2, 1996, p. 
10010; Mar. 17, 1998, p. 3799; July 15, 2003, p. 18170; Sept. 16, 2003, 
pp. 22151, 22152; Oct. 17, 2007, p. 27538; Oct. 5, 2013, p. _), such as 
material labeling the President's statement a lie (Sept. 10, 2014, p. 
_). This prohibition includes the recitation of another Member's 
criticism of the President made off the floor (even if recited as a 
rebuttal to such criticism) (Dec. 17, 1998, p. 27775).
  The Chair has advised that the protections afforded by Jefferson's 
Manual and the precedents against unparliamentary references to the 
President, personally, do not necessarily extend to members of his 
family (July 12, 1990, p. 17206).
  References in debate to former Presidents are not governed by these 
standards (Nov. 15, 1945, p. 10735; June 27, 2002, pp. 11844, 11845).
  In the 102d Congress, the Speaker enunciated a minimal standard of 
propriety for all debate concerning nominated candidates for the 
Presidency, based on the traditional proscription against personally 
offensive references to the President even in the capacity as a 
candidate (Speaker Foley, Sept. 24, 1992, p. 27344); and this policy has 
been extended to a presumptive major-party nominee for President (e.g., 
Apr. 22, 2004, pp. 7401, 7402). However, references to the past 
statements or views of such nominee are not unparliamentary (May 6, 
2004, p. 8554).
  For discussion of the stricture against addressing remarks in debate 
to the President, as in the second person, see Sec. 945, infra.

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  On January 27, 1909 (VIII, 2497), the House adopted a report of a 
committee appointed to investigate the question, which report in part 
stated:
  ``The freedom of speech in debate in the House should never be denied 
or abridged, but freedom of speech in debate does not mean license to 
indulge in personal abuses or ridicule. The right of Members of the two 
Houses of Congress to criticize the official acts of the President and 
other executive officers is beyond question, but this right is subject 
to proper rules requiring decorum in debate. Such right of criticism is 
inherent upon legislative authority. The right to legislate involves the 
right to consider conditions as they are and to contrast present 
conditions with those of the past or those desired in the future. The 
right to correct abuses by legislation carries the right to consider and 
discuss abuses which exist or which are feared.
  ``It is, however, the duty of the House to require its Members in 
speech or debate to preserve that proper restraint which will permit the 
House to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without 
unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members or 
antagonism from those other branches of the Government with which the 
House is correlated.''

  It <> is a breach of order in debate to notice what has been said 
on the same subject in the other House, or the particular votes or 
majorities on it there; because the opinion of each House should be left 
to its own independency, not to be influenced by the proceedings of the 
other; and the quoting them might beget reflections leading to a 
misunderstanding between the two Houses. 8 Grey, 22.

  Until former clause 1 of rule XIV (currently clause 1 of rule XVII) 
was amended in the 100th and 101st Congresses (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, 
p. 6; H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72), this principle of comity and 
parliamentary law as described by Jefferson governed debate in the House 
to the full extent of its provisions (see generally, V, 5095-5130; VIII, 
2501-21; July 31, 1984, p. 21670; Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 44). From 
the 101st Congress through the 108th Congress, clause 1 of rule XVII 
permitted some factual references that were a matter of public record, 
references to the pendency or sponsorship in the Senate of certain 
measures, factual descriptions concerning a measure under debate in the 
House, and quotations from Senate proceedings relevant to the making of 
legislative history on a pending measure. In the 109th Congress clause 1 
was amended to permit debate to include references to the Senate or its 
Members but within the general

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stricture that requires Members to avoid personality (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Under the new standard, remarks may urge the 
Senate to take a particular action (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4105). For a 
recitation of precedents under the former rule, see Sec. 371 of the 
House Rules and Manual for the 108th Congress (H. Doc. 107-284).
  Since the adoption of the new rule, the following references to the 
Senate or its Members have been held unparliamentary: (1) accusing 
Senate Republicans of hypocrisy (May 16, 2005, p. 9757); (2) referring 
to Senate Democrats (May 18, 2005, p. 10136) or liberals in the Senate 
(July 30, 2011, p. 12531) as ``cowardly''; (3) accusing a Senator of 
making slanderous statements (June 17, 2005, p. 13009; June 21, 2005, p. 
13408); (4) attributing to a Senator a list of offenses under 
investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Oct. 18, 2005, 
p. 22987); (5) accusing a Senator of giving ``aid and comfort'' to the 
enemy (Dec. 13, 2005, p. 28162); (6) accusing a Senator of corruption 
(Oct. 13, 2009, p. 24720), taking bribes (Jan. 19, 2010, p. 209), or 
being unethical (Aug. 2, 2012, p. _); (7) stating a ``low opinion'' of 
the Senate (Apr. 1, 2011, p. 4966); (8) referring to a Senator as 
``disgraceful'' (Oct. 2, 2013, p. _) or a Senate action as a 
``disgrace'' (Apr. 18, 2013, p. _) or sarcastically as ``courageous'' 
(July 22, 2011, p. 11831-33); (9) stating that the Majority Leader ``has 
a high opinion of himself'' (Dec. 20, 2011, p. _); (11) accusing a 
Senator of ``taunting'' (May 22, 2014, p. _); (11) insinuating that the 
Majority Leader lied (Dec. 20, 2011, p. _).
  It remains the duty of the Chair to call to order a Member who engages 
in personality with respect to a Senator (see Sec. 374, infra), and the 
Chair may admonish a Member for unparliamentary references even after 
intervening recognition (Oct. 12, 1999, p. 24954; Nov. 15, 2001, p. 
22596). Although the Chair is under a duty to caution Members against 
unparliamentary references, the Chair will not advise Members on how to 
construct their remarks to avoid improper references (Feb. 25, 2004, pp. 
2409-15).
  The prohibition against improper references to Senators includes (1) a 
reference not explicitly naming the Senator (VIII, 2512; Feb. 23, 1994, 
p. 2658; June 30, 1995, p. 18153; Feb. 27, 1997, pp. 2768, 2769); (2) 
the reading of a paper making criticisms of a Senator (V, 5127); (3) a 
reference to another person's criticism of a Senator (Aug. 4, 1983, p. 
23145). Similarly, the Chair has consistently held that if references to 
the Senate are appropriate, the Member delivering them is not required 
to use the term ``the other body,'' (Oct. 4, 1984, p. 30047) and, by the 
same token, references to ``the other body'' will not cure 
unparliamentary references directed to the Senate (e.g., Oct. 2, 2002, 
p. 18913; Apr. 2, 2004, pp. 6394, 6395).
  Under the earlier form of the rule, the Chair held that remarks in 
debate during the pendency of an impeachment resolution may not include 
comparisons to the personal conduct of sitting Members of the House or 
Senate (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27829) and remarks in debate may not criticize 
words spoken in the Senate by one not a Member of that body in the 
course of an impeachment trial (V, 5106). After examination by a 
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the earlier form of the rule, a speech reflecting on the character of 
the Senate was ordered to be stricken from the Record on the ground that 
it tended to create ``unfriendly conditions between the two bodies * * * 
obstructive of wise legislation and little short of a public calamity'' 
(V, 5129). Under the earlier form of the rule, where a Member had been 
assailed in the Senate, he was permitted to explain his own conduct and 
motives without bringing the whole controversy into discussion or 
assailing the Senator (V, 5123-5126). Propositions relating to breaches 
of these principles were entertained as a matter of privilege (V, 5129, 
6980).
  The precise standard in former clause 1 of rule XIV for references to 
``individual Members of the Senate'' did not apply to references to 
former Senators (Dec. 14, 1995, p. 36968).
  The official policies, actions, and opinions of a Senator who is a 
candidate for President or Vice President (as, in modern practice, with 
one who is not) may be criticized in terms not personally offensive 
(Speaker Wright, Sept. 29, 1988, p. 26683), but references attacking the 
character or integrity of a Senator in that context are not in order 
(Oct. 30, 1979, p. 30150).
  References in debate to the Vice President (as President of the 
Senate) are governed by the standards of reference permitted toward the 
President, as under the earlier form of the rule. As such, a Member may 
criticize in debate the policies, or candidacy, of the Vice President 
but may not engage in personality (Dec. 14, 1995, p. 36968; July 14, 
1998, p. 15314; Sept. 20, 2000, p. 18639). For example, it is not in 
order to allude to ``wrongdoings [including] fund-raising telephone 
calls by the Vice President'' (Mar. 14, 2000, p. 2716); to attribute to 
him a list of offenses under investigation by a special prosecutor (Oct. 
18, 2005, p. 22987); to suggest that the House should investigate him in 
connection with government contracts awarded to his former employer 
(June 15, 2006, p. 11480); to speculate that he might someday pardon the 
President (Apr. 12, 2000, p. 5419); to accuse him of lying (Sept. 20, 
2000, p. 18639; Sept. 21, 2000, p. 18789; Feb. 16, 2006, p. 1960; Mar. 
6, 2007, p. 5412); to suggest ``he has a problem with the truth'' (Oct. 
5, 2000, p. 21014); to allege ``unethical behavior'' or ``corruption'' 
(see, e.g., Oct. 29, 2003, pp. 26400-402; Nov. 4, 2003, pp. 27070, 
27071), including innuendo suggesting policy choices were made on the 
basis of personal pecuniary gain (July 7, 2004, p. 14582; Sept. 13, 
2005, pp. 20238, 20239) or accusations of abuse of power (July 14, 2004, 
p. 15501); to describe him as ``arrogant'' (June 28, 2007, p. 17926; 
Sept. 25, 2008, p. 21781). The rule also precludes the insertion in the 
Record of a paper making improper references to the Vice President 
(Sept. 19, 2000, p. 18580).
   A Member may not read in debate extraneous material regarding the 
Vice President that would be improper if spoken in the Member's own 
words (Feb. 16, 2006, p. 1960).


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  Neither <> House can exercise any authority over a Member or 
officer of the other, but should complain to the House of which he is, 
and leave the punishment to them.

  In a notable instance, wherein a Member of the House had assaulted a 
Senator in the Senate Chamber for words spoken in debate, the Senate 
examined the breach of privilege and transmitted its report to the 
House, which punished the Member (II, 1622). A Senator having assailed a 
House Member in debate, the House messaged to the Senate a resolution 
declaring the language a breach of privilege and requested the Senate to 
take appropriate action (Sept. 27, 1951, p. 12270). The Senator 
subsequently asked unanimous consent to correct his remarks in the 
permanent Congressional Record, but objection was raised (Sept. 28, 
1951, p. 12383). But where certain Members of the House, in a published 
letter, sought to influence the vote of a Senator in an impeachment 
trial, the House declined to consider the matter as a breach of 
privilege (III, 2657). Although on one occasion it was held that a 
resolution offered in the House requesting the Senate to expunge from 
the Record statements in criticism of a Member of the House did not 
constitute a question of privilege, being in violation of the rule 
prohibiting references to the Senate in debate (VIII, 2519), a properly 
drafted resolution referring to language published in the Record of 
Senate proceedings as constituting a breach of privilege and requesting 
the Senate to take appropriate action concerning the subject has been 
held to present a question of the privileges of the House (VIII, 2516).

  * * * <> Where the complaint is of words 
disrespectfully spoken by a Member of another House, it is difficult to 
obtain punishment, because of the rules supposed necessary to be 
observed (as to the immediate noting down of words) for the security of 
Members. Therefore it is the duty of the House, and more particularly of 
the Speaker, to interfere immediately, and not to permit expressions to 
go unnoticed which may give a ground of complaint to the other House, 
and introduce proceedings and mutual accusations between the two Houses, 
which can hardly be ter

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minated without difficulty and disorder. 3 Hats., 51.

  A rule of comity prohibiting most references in debate to the Senate 
was first enunciated in Jefferson's Manual and was strictly enforced in 
the House through the 108th Congress (albeit with certain exceptions 
adopted in the 100th and 101st Congresses in the former clause 1(b) of 
rule XVII) (Sec. 371, supra and Sec. 945, infra). In the 109th Congress 
clause 1 was amended to permit references to the Senate or its Members, 
even critical references, so long as avoiding personality (sec. 2(g), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Nevertheless, it remains the duty of the 
Chair to call to order a Member who violates the rule in debate or 
through an insertion in the Record.
  The Chair has distinguished between engaging in personality toward 
another Member of the House, as to which the Chair normally awaits a 
point of order from the floor, and improper references to Members of the 
Senate, which violate comity between the Houses, as to which the Chair 
normally takes initiative (Feb. 27, 1997, pp. 2778, 2779). The Chair may 
admonish Members to avoid unparliamentary references to the Senate even 
after intervening recognition (Oct. 12, 1999, p. 24954). Pending 
consideration of a measure relating to the Senate, the Speaker announced 
his intention to strictly enforce this provision of Jefferson's Manual 
prohibiting improper references to the Senate, and to deny recognition 
to Members violating the prohibition, subject to permission of the House 
to proceed in order (Speaker O'Neill, June 16, 1982, p. 13843). Under 
the earlier form of clause 1 of rule XVII, the Chair refused to respond 
to hypothetical questions as to the propriety of possible 
characterizations of Senate actions before their use in debate (Oct. 24, 
1985, p. 28819). For a further discussion of the Speaker's duties 
regarding unparliamentary debate, see Sec. Sec. 960-961, infra.

  No <> Member may be present when a bill or any 
business concerning himself is debating; nor is any Member to speak to 
the merits of it till he withdraws. 2 Hats., 219. The rule is that if a 
charge against a Member arise out of a report of a committee, or 
examination of witnesses in the House, as the Member knows from that to 
what points he is to direct his exculpation, he may be heard to those 
points before any question is moved or stated against him. He is then to 
be

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heard, and withdraw before any question is moved. But if the question 
itself is the charge, as for breach of order or matter arising in the 
debate, then the charge must be stated (that is, the question must be 
moved), himself heard, and then to withdraw. 2 Hats., 121, 122.

  In 1832, during proceedings for the censure of a Member, the Speaker 
informed the Member that he should retire (II, 1366); but this seems to 
be an exceptional instance of the enforcement of the law of Parliament. 
In other cases, after the proposition for censure or expulsion has been 
proposed, Members have been heard in debate, either as a matter of right 
(II, 1286), as a matter of course (II, 1246, 1253), by express provision 
(II, 1273), and in writing (II, 1273), or by unanimous consent (II, 
1275). A Member against whom a resolution of censure was pending was 
asked by the Speaker if he desired to be heard (VI, 236). But a Member 
was not permitted to depute another Member to speak in his behalf (II, 
1273). In modern practice the Member has been permitted to speak in his 
own behalf, both in censure (June 10, 1980, pp. 13802-11) and expulsion 
proceedings (Oct. 2, 1980, pp. 28953-78; July 24, 2002, pp. 14299, 
14309). A Member-elect has been permitted to participate in debate on a 
resolution relating to his right to take the oath (Jan. 10, 1967, p. 
23).

  Where <> the private interests of a Member are concerned in a bill or 
question he is to withdraw. And where such an interest has appeared, his 
voice has been disallowed, even after a division. In a case so contrary, 
not only to the laws of decency, but to the fundamental principle of the 
social compact, which denies to any man to be a judge in his own cause, 
it is for the honor of the House that this rule of immemorial observance 
should be strictly adhered to. 2 Hats., 119, 121; 6 Grey, 368.

  In the House it has not been usual for the Member to withdraw from 
debate when the Member's private interests are concerned in a pending 
measure, although clause 1 of rule III addresses voting in such a 
contingency. In one instance the Senate disallowed a vote given by a 
Senator

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on a question relating to his own right to a seat; but the House has 
never had occasion to proceed so far (V, 5959).

  No <> Member is to come 
into the House with his head covered, nor to remove from one place to 
another with his hat on, nor is to put on his hat in coming in or 
removing, until he be set down in his place. Scob., 6.

  In 1837 the parliamentary practice of wearing hats during the session 
was abolished by adoption of current clause 5 of rule XVII. See 
Sec. 962, infra.
<>   A question of 
order may be adjourned to give time to look into precedents. 2 Hats., 
118.

  As described in Sec. Sec. 628 and 628a, infra, the Speaker has 
declined, on a difficult question of order, to rule until taking time 
for examination (III, 2725; VI, 432; VII, 2106; VIII, 2174, 2396, 3475), 
and may take a parliamentary inquiry under advisement, especially if not 
related to the pending proceedings (VIII, 2174; Apr. 7, 1992, p. 8274). 
However, it is conceivable that a case might arise wherein this 
privilege of the Chair would require approval of the majority of the 
House to prevent arbitrary obstruction of the pending business by the 
Chair. The law of Parliament evidently contemplates that the adjournment 
of a question of order shall be controlled by the House. On occasion, 
the Chair has reversed as erroneous a decision previously made (VI, 639; 
VII, 849; VIII, 2794, 3435).

<>   In 
Parliament, all decisions of the Speaker may be controlled by the House. 
3 Grey, 319.

  The Speaker's decision on a question of order is subject to appeal by 
any Member (clause 5 of rule I).




                     sec. xviii--orders of the house

  Of <> right, the 
door of the House ought not to be shut, but to be kept by porters, or 
Sergeants-at-Arms, assigned for that purpose. Mod ten. Parl., 23.

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  The <> only case where a Member has a right to insist on 
anything, is where he calls for the execution of a subsisting order of 
the House. Here there having been already a resolution, any person has a 
right to insist that the Speaker, or any other whose duty it is, shall 
carry it into execution; and no debate or delay can be had on it.

  As a request for unanimous consent to consider a bill is in effect a 
request to suspend the order of business temporarily, a Member has the 
right at any time to demand the ``regular order'' (IV, 3058). If the 
regular order is demanded pending a request for unanimous consent, 
further reservation of the right to object thereto is precluded (Speaker 
Foley, Nov. 14, 1991, p. 32128; Nov. 7, 2009, pp. 27189, 27190). 
Occasionally a Member may incorrectly demand the ``regular order'' to 
assert that remarks are not confined to the question under debate. On 
such an occasion the Chair may treat the demand as a point of order 
requiring a ruling by the Chair (May 1, 1996, pp. 9888, 9889).

<> Thus 
any Member has a right to have the House or gallery cleared of 
strangers, an order existing for that purpose; or to have the House told 
when there is not a quorum present. 2 Hats., 87, 129. How far an order 
of the House is binding, see Hakew., 392.

  Absent an existing order for that purpose, a Member may not demand 
that the galleries be cleared, because this power resides in the House 
(II, 1353), which has by rule extended the power to the Speaker (clause 
2 of rule I) and the chair of the Committee of the Whole (clause 1 of 
rule XVIII), but not to the individual Member.

  But <> where an order is made that any particular matter be taken 
up on a particular day, there a question is to be put, when it is called 
for, whether the House will now proceed to that matter? Where orders of 
the day are on impor

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tant or interesting matter, they ought not to be proceeded on till an 
hour at which the House is usually full [which in Senate is at noon].

  The rule of the House providing for raising the question of 
consideration (clause 3 of rule XVI) has, in connection with the 
practice as to special orders of business, superseded this provision of 
the parliamentary law. The House always proceeds with business at its 
hour of meeting, unless prevented by a point that no quorum is present 
(IV, 2732).

  Orders <> of the day 
may be discharged at any time, and a new one made for a different day, 3 
Grey, 48, 313.

  The House found the use of ``Orders of the day'' as a method of 
disposing business impracticable as long ago as 1818, and not long after 
abandoned their use (IV, 3057), although an interesting reference to 
them survives in clause 1 of rule XIV. The House proceeds under rule XIV 
unless that order is displaced by the use of special orders of business 
or the intervention of privileged business.

  When <> a session 
is drawing to a close and the important bills are all brought in, the 
House, in order to prevent interruption by further unimportant bills, 
sometimes comes to a resolution that no new bill be brought in, except 
it be sent from the other House. 3 Grey, 156.

  This provision is obsolete so far as the practice of the House is 
concerned, because business goes on uninterruptedly until the Congress 
expires (clause 6 of rule XI).

  All <> orders of the House determine with the 
session; and one taken under such an order may, after the session is 
ended, be discharged on a habeas corpus. Raym., 120; Jacob's L. D. by 
Ruffhead; Parliament, 1 Lev., 165, Pitchara's case.

  The House, by clause 6 of rule XI and the practice thereunder, has 
modified the rule of Parliament as to business pending at the end of a 
session that is not at the same time the end of a Congress. Some 
standing orders,

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however, like those providing for the hour of daily meeting of the House 
(I, 104-109), expire with a session. In 1866 the House discussed its 
power to imprison for a period longer than the duration of the existing 
session (II, 1629), and in 1870, for assaulting a Member returning to 
the House from absence on leave, Patrick Woods was committed for a term 
extending beyond the adjournment of the session, but not beyond the term 
of the existing House (II, 1628).

  Where <> the Constitution authorizes each House to 
determine the rules of its proceedings it must mean in those cases 
(legislative, executive, or judiciary) submitted to them by the 
Constitution, or in something relating to these, and necessary toward 
their execution. But orders and resolutions are sometimes entered in the 
journals having no relation to these, such as acceptances of invitations 
to attend orations, to take part in procession, etc. These must be 
understood to be merely conventional among those who are willing to 
participate in the ceremony, and are therefore, perhaps, improperly 
placed among the records of the House.

  The <> House has frequently examined its constitutional power to make 
rules, and this power also has been discussed by the Supreme Court (V, 
6755). It has been settled that Congress may not by law interfere with 
the constitutional right of a future House to make its own rules (I, 82; 
V, 6765, 6766), or to determine for itself the order of proceedings in 
effecting its organization (I, 242-245; V, 6765, 6766). It also has been 
determined, after long discussion and trial by practice, that one House 
may not continue its rules in force to and over its successor (I, 187, 
210; V, 6002, 6743-6747; Jan. 22, 1971, p. 132). Congress may bind 
itself in matters of procedure (II, 1341; V, 6767, 6768), but its 
ability to so bind a succeeding Congress has been called into doubt (V, 
6766). In one case the Chair denied the authority of such a law that 
conflicted with a rule of the House (IV, 3579). The theories involved in 
this question have been most carefully examined and decisively 
determined in reference to the law of 1851, which directs the method of 
procedure for the House in its constitutional function of judging the 
elections of its Members; and it has been determined that

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this law is not of absolute binding force on the House, but rather a 
wholesome rule not to be departed from except for cause (I, 597, 713, 
726, 833; II, 1122). In modern practice, existing statutory procedures, 
including provisions of concurrent resolutions, are readopted as Rules 
of the House at the beginning of each Congress (see, e.g., H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). This practice was codified in clause 1 of rule 
XXVIII (current rule XXIX) when the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 75, see Sec. 1105, infra). 
Where the House amended a standing rule of general applicability during 
a session and the amended rule did not require prospective application, 
the rule was interpreted to apply retroactively (Sept. 28, 1993, p. 
22719).
  As to the participation on occasions of ceremony, the House has 
entered its orders on its journal; but it rarely attends outside the 
Capitol building as a body (July 25, 2002, p. 14645), usually preferring 
that its Members go individually (V, 7061-7064) or that it be 
represented by a committee (V, 7053-7056) or other delegation (May 28, 
1987, p. 14031). It has discussed, but not settled, its power to compel 
a Member to accompany it outside the Hall on an occasion of combined 
business and ceremony (II, 1139). But the House remains in session for 
the inauguration of the President on the portico of the Capitol (Jan. 
20, 1969, pp. 1288-92) and the mace is carried to the ceremony.




                           sec. xix--petition

<>   A 
petition prays something. A remonstrance has no prayer. 1 Grey, 58.

  The Rules of the House make no mention of remonstrances, but do 
mention petitions and memorials (clause 3 of rule XII). Resolutions of 
State legislatures and of primary assemblies of the people are received 
as memorials (IV, 3326, 3327), but papers general or descriptive in form 
may not be presented as memorials (IV, 3325).

  Petitions <> must be subscribed by the petitioners Scob., 87; L. Parl., 
c. 22; 9 Grey, 362, unless they are attending, 1 Grey, 401 or unable to 
sign, and averred by a member, 3 Grey, 418. But a petition not 
subscribed, but which the member presenting it affirmed to be all in the 
handwriting of the petitioner, and his name written in the beginning, 
was on the question (March 14, 1800)

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received by the Senate. The averment of a member, or of somebody without 
doors, that they know the handwriting of the petitioners, is necessary, 
if it be questioned. 6 Grey, 36. It must be presented by a member, not 
by the petitioners, and must be opened by him holding it in his hand. 10 
Grey, 57.

  In the House petitions have been presented for many years by filing 
with the Clerk (clause 3 of rule XII). Members file them, and 
petitioners do not attend on the House in the sense implied in the 
parliamentary law. In cases in which a petition set forth serious 
changes, the petitioner was required to have his signature attested by a 
notary (III, 2030, footnote).

  Regularly <> a motion for receiving it must be made and seconded, and a 
question put, whether it shall be received, but a cry from the House of 
``received,'' or even silence, dispenses with the formality of this 
question. It is then to be read at the table and disposed of.

  Before the adoption of the provisions of clause 3 of rule XII, 
petitions were presented from the floor by Members, and questions 
frequently arose as to the reception thereof (IV, 3350-3356). But under 
the present practice such procedure does not occur.




                             sec. xx--motion

   <> When a motion has been made, it is not to be put 
to the question or debated until it is seconded. Scob., 21.
  It is then, and not till then, in possession of the House, and can not 
be withdrawn but by leave of the House. It is to be put into writing, if 
the House or Speaker require it, and must be read to the House by the 
Speaker as often as

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any Member desires it for his information. 2 Hats., 82.

  The House has long since dispensed with the requirement of a second 
for ordinary motions (clause 1 of rule XVI; V, 5304); and the 
requirement of a second for a motion to suspend the rules was eliminated 
in the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). Clause 2 of rule 
XVI provides further that a motion may be withdrawn before decision or 
amendment (see Sec. 904, infra); and clause 1 of the same rule provides 
that the motion shall be reduced to writing on the demand of any Member 
(see Sec. 902, infra). In the practice of the House, when a paper on 
which the House is to vote has been read once, the reading may not be 
required again unless the House shall order it read (V, 5260).

  It <> might be asked whether a motion for adjournment or for the 
orders of the day can be made by one Member while another is speaking? 
It can not. When two Members offer to speak, he who rose first is to be 
heard, and it is a breach of order in another to interrupt him, unless 
by calling him to order if he departs from it. And the question of order 
being decided, he is still to be heard through. A call for adjournment, 
or for the order of the day, or for the question, by gentlemen from 
their seats, is <> not a motion. No motion 
can be made without rising and addressing the Chair. Such calls are 
themselves breaches of order, which, though the Member who has risen may 
respect, as an expression of impatience of the House against further 
debate, yet, if he chooses, he has a right to go on.

  The practice of the House has modified the principle that the Member 
who rises first is to be recognized (clause 2 of rule XVII); but in 
other respects the principles of this paragraph are in force.

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                          sec. xxi--resolutions

  When <> the 
House commands, it is by an ``order.'' But fact, principles, and their 
own opinions and purposes, are expressed in the form of resolutions.
  A resolution for an allowance of money to the clerks being moved, it 
was objected to as not in order, and so ruled by the Chair; but on 
appeal to the Senate (i.e., a call for their sense by the President, on 
account of doubt in his mind, according to clause 5 of rule XXII) the 
decision was overruled. Jour., Senate, June 1, 1796. I presume the doubt 
was, whether an allowance of money could be made otherwise than by bill.

  In <>  the 
modern practice concurrent resolutions have been developed as a means of 
expressing fact, principles, opinions, and purposes of the two Houses 
(II, 1566, 1567). Joint committees are authorized by resolutions of this 
form (III, 1998, 1999), and they are used in authorizing correction of 
bills agreed to by both Houses (VII, 1042), amendment of enrolled bills 
(VII, 1041), amendment of conference reports (VIII, 3308), requests for 
return of bills sent to the President (VII, 1090, 1091), authorizing the 
printing of certain enrolled bills by hand in the remaining days of a 
session (Dec. 20, 1982, p. 32875), providing for joint session to 
receive a message from the President (VIII, 3335, 3336), authorizing the 
printing of congressional documents (July 1, 1969, p. 17948); and fixing 
time for final adjournment (VIII, 3365). The Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (P.L. 93-344) provides for the adoption by both Houses of 
concurrent resolutions on the budget that become binding on both Houses 
with respect to congressional budget procedures (see Sec. 1127, infra). 
A concurrent resolution is binding on neither House until agreed to by 
both (IV, 3379), and, because not legislative in nature, is not sent to 
the President for approval (IV, 3483). A concurrent resolution is not a 
bill or joint resolution within the meaning of clause 5 of rule XXI 
(requiring a three-fifths vote for approval of such a measure if 
carrying an increase in a rate of tax on income) (Speaker Gingrich, May 
18, 1995, p. 13499). In the 106th Congress the Senate neglected to adopt 
a House concurrent resolution vacating signatures of the Presiding 
Officers on an enrolled bill and laying that bill on the table as

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overtaken by another enactment (H. Con. Res. 234, adopted by the House 
on Nov. 18, 1999, p. 30719). The Congress subsequently enacted section 
1401 of the Miscellaneous Appropriations Act of 2001, which adopted that 
concurrent resolution (as enacted by P.L. 106-554).
  Another <> development of the 
modern practice is the joint resolution, which is a bill so far as the 
processes of the Congress in relation to it are concerned (IV, 3375; 
VII, 1036). With the exception of joint resolutions proposing amendments 
to the Constitution (V, 7029), all these resolutions are sent to the 
President for approval and have the full force of law. They are used for 
what may be called the incidental, unusual, or inferior purposes of 
legislating (IV, 3372), as extending the national thanks to individuals 
(IV, 3370), the invitation to Lafayette to visit America (V, 7082, 
footnote), notice to a foreign government of the abrogation of a treaty 
(V, 6270), declaration of intervention in Cuba (V, 6321), correction of 
an error in an existing act of legislation (IV, 3519; VII, 1092), 
enlargement of scope of inquiries provided by law (VII, 1040), election 
of managers for National Soldiers' Homes (V, 7336), special 
appropriations for minor and incidental purposes (V, 7319), continuing 
appropriations (H.J. Res. 790, P.L. 91-33), establishing the date for 
convening of Congress (H.J. Res. 1041, P.L. 91-182), extending the 
submission date under law for transmittal of a report to Congress by the 
President (H.J. Res. 635, P.L. 97-469), and extending the termination 
date for a law (H.J. Res. 864, P.L. 91-59). At one time they were used 
for purposes of general legislation; but the two Houses finally 
concluded that a bill was the proper instrumentality for this purpose 
(IV, 3370-3373). A joint resolution has been changed to a bill by 
amendment (IV, 3374), but in the later practice it has become 
impracticable to do so.
  Where a choice between a concurrent resolution and a joint resolution 
is not dictated by law, the House by its vote on consideration of a 
measure decides which is the appropriate vehicle (and a point of order 
does not lie that a concurrent rather than a joint resolution would be 
more appropriate to express the sense of the Congress on an issue) (Mar. 
16, 1983, p. 5669).
* * * * *




                  sec. xxiii--bills, leave to bring in

  When <> a Member desires to bring in a bill on any subject, he states 
to the House in general terms the causes for doing it, and concludes by 
moving for leave to bring in a bill, entitled, &c. Leave being given, on 
the question, a committee is ap

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pointed to prepare and bring in the bill. The mover and seconder are 
always appointed of this committee, and one or more in addition. Hakew., 
132; Scob., 40. It is to be presented fairly written, without any 
erasure or interlineation, or the Speaker may refuse it. Scob., 41; 1 
Grey, 82, 84.

  This provision is obsolete because rule XII provides an entirely 
different method of introducing bills through the hopper. The 
introduction of bills by leave was gradually dropped by the practice of 
the House, and after 1850 the present system of permitting Members to 
introduce at will bills for printing and reference began to develop (IV, 
3365).




                     sec. xxiv--bills, first reading

  When <> a bill is first presented, the Clerk reads it at the table, and 
hands it to the Speaker, who, rising, states to the House the title of 
the bill; that this is the first time of reading it; and the question 
will be, whether it shall be read a second time? then sitting down to 
give an opening for objections. If none be made, he rises again, and 
puts the question, whether it shall be read a second time? Hakew., 137, 
141. A bill cannot be amended on the first reading, 6 Grey, 286; nor is 
it usual for it to be opposed then, but it may be done, and rejected. 
D'Ewes, 335, col. 1; 3 Hats., 198.

  This provision is obsolete, the practice under clause 8 of rule XVI 
now governing the procedure of the House.

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                     sec. xxv--bills, second reading

  The <> second reading must regularly be on another day. Hakew., 143. 
It is done by the Clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker. 
The Speaker, rising, states to the House the title of the bill; that 
this is the second time of reading it; and that the question will be, 
whether it shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But 
if the bill came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he 
states that the question will be, whether it shall be read a third time? 
and before he has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak 
to it. Hakew., 143, 146.
  In the Senate of the United States, the President reports the title of 
the bill; that this is the second time of reading it; that it is now to 
be considered as in a Committee of the Whole; and the question will be, 
whether it shall be read a third time? or that it may be referred to a 
special committee?

  The provisions of this paragraph are to a large extent obsolete, the 
practice under clause 8 of rule XVI now governing.




                      sec. xxvi--bills, commitment

  If <> on motion and question it be decided 
that the bill shall be committed, it may then be moved to be referred to 
Committee of the Whole House, or to a special committee. If the latter, 
the Speaker proceeds to name the committee. Any member also may name a 
single person, and Clerk is to

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write him down as of the committee. But the House have a controlling 
power over the names and number, if a question be moved against any one; 
and may in any case put in and put out whom they please.

  This paragraph is to a large extent obsolete. Bills are referred in 
the first instance by the Speaker to committees as prescribed by the 
rules (rule XII), and references of reported bills to the proper 
calendar of the House are also made under direction of the Speaker 
(clause 2 of rule XIII). Reference of a matter under consideration is 
made by a motion to refer that specifies the committee and may provide 
for a select committee of a specified number of persons (IV, 4402). But 
such committee is appointed only by the Speaker (clause 11 of rule I).
  Clause 2 of rule XIX provides that the Speaker may entertain a motion 
to commit to a standing or select committee with or without instructions 
pending or following the ordering of the previous question.

  Those <> who take exceptions to some particulars in the bill are to 
be of the committee, but none who speak directly against the body of the 
bill; for he that would totally destroy will not amend it, Hakew., 146; 
Town., col., 208; D'Ewes, 634, col. 2; Scob., 47; or as is said, 5 Grey, 
145, the child is not to be put to a nurse that cares not for it, 6 
Grey, 373. It is therefore a constant rule ``that no man is to be 
employed in any matter who has declared himself against it.'' And when 
any member who is against the bill hears himself named of its committee 
he ought to ask to be excused. Thus, March 7, 1806, Mr. Hadley was, on 
the question being put, excused from being of a committee, declaring 
himself to be against the matter itself. Scob., 46.

  This provision is inapplicable in the House because committees have 
majority and minority representation (IV, 4467, 4477, footnote).


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  The <> Clerk may 
deliver the bill to any member of the committee, Town, col. 138; but it 
is usual to deliver it to him who is first named.

  Following introduction, reference, and numbering, bills are sent to 
the Government Publishing Office for printing. Printed copies of all 
bills are distributed in accordance with law (44 U.S.C. 706) and copies 
are made available to the committee to which referred.

  In <> some cases the House has ordered a 
committee to withdraw immediately into the committee chamber and act on 
and bring back the bill, sitting the House. Scob., 48. * * *

  This procedure is rarely followed in the House, because the order of 
business does not provide for such a motion.
  When <> a bill is under consideration, however, the House may on 
motion commit it with instructions to report forthwith with certain 
specified amendment (V, 5548, 5549), in which case the chair of the 
committee reports at once without awaiting action of the committee (V, 
5545-5547; VIII, 2730, 2732) and the bill is in order for immediate 
consideration (V, 5550; VIII, 2735).
  The <> motion to discharge 
a committee from the consideration of an ordinary legislative 
proposition is not privileged under the rules (IV, 3533, 4693; VIII, 
2316), but if a matter involves a question of privilege (III, 2585, 
2709; VIII, 2316), or is privileged under the rule relating to 
resolutions of inquiry (clause 7 of rule XIII; III, 1871; IV, 4695) or 
is provided privilege under statutes enacted under the rulemaking power 
of the House (see Sec. 1130, infra), the motion to discharge is 
admitted. The motion is not debatable (III, 1868; IV, 4695), except as 
follows: (1) under statutory procedures; (2) under clause 2 of rule XV; 
and (3) under modern practice of the House, a motion to discharge a 
vetoed bill (Mar. 7, 1990, p. 3620; Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23815). The 
motion may be laid on the table (V, 5407; VI, 415), but the question of 
consideration may not be demanded against it (V, 4977).

  * * * <> A 
committee meet when and where they please, if the House has not ordered 
time and place for them, 6 Grey, 370; but they can only act when 
together, and

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not by separate consultation and consent--nothing being the report of 
the committee but what has been agreed to in committee actually 
assembled.

  For discussion of committee procedure generally, see Sec. 792, infra. 
In the House the standing committees usually meet in their committee 
rooms, but there is no rule requiring them to meet there, and in the 
absence of direction by the House, committees designate the time and 
place of their meetings (VIII, 2214).
  Standing committees fix regular meeting days for the transaction of 
business (not less frequently than monthly, under clause 2(b) of rule 
XI), and additional meetings may be called by the chair as noticed 
(clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI) or by a majority of the committee in certain 
circumstances (clause 2(c) of rule XI). On a fixed date of meeting, a 
quorum of the committee may convene and transact business regardless of 
the absence of the chair (VIII, 2214), though as of the 113th Congress 
such regular meeting is held only if properly noticed by the chair (sec. 
2(f)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). A committee meeting being 
adjourned for lack of a quorum, a majority of the members of the 
committee may not, without the consent of the chair and notice pursuant 
to clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI, call a meeting of the committee on the 
same day (VIII, 2213). For restrictions on committee action during a 
joint meeting or joint session, see clause 2(i) of rule XI.
  The <> House 
has adhered to the principle that a report must be authorized by a 
committee acting together, and a paper signed by a majority of the 
committee acting separately has been ruled out (IV, 4584; VIII, 2210-
2212, 2220; see also clause 2(h) of rule XI).
   No measure or recommendation shall be reported from any committee 
unless a majority of the committee were actually present (clause 2(h) of 
rule XI). A report is sometimes authorized by less than a majority of 
the whole committee, some members being silent or absent (II, 985, 986). 
In a rare instance a majority of a committee agreed to a report, but 
disagreed on the facts necessary to sustain the report (I, 819). In the 
situation in which a committee finds itself unable to agree to a 
positive recommendation, being equally divided, it may report the fact 
to the House (I, 347; IV, 4665, 4666) and may include evidence, majority 
and minority views (III, 2403), minority views alone (II, 945), or 
propositions representing the opposing contentions (III, 2497; IV, 
4664).
  For each record vote in committee on amending or reporting a public 
measure or matter, the report to the House must disclose the total 
number of votes cast for and against and the names of those voting for 
and against (clause 3 of rule XIII). A resolution alleging that a 
committee report on a bill contained descriptions of recorded votes on 
certain amendments as

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prescribed by clause 3(b) of rule XIII that deliberately 
mischaracterized the amendments, and directing the chair of the 
committee to file a supplemental report to change those descriptions, 
qualified as a question of the privileges of the House (May 3, 2005, p. 
8417).
  It is the duty of the chair of each committee to report or cause to be 
reported promptly any measure approved by the committee and to take or 
cause to be taken necessary steps to bring the matter to a vote (clause 
2 of rule XIII); and a report must be filed within seven days following 
the submission of a written request, signed by a majority of the 
committee members, directing such filing (clause 2 of rule XIII).
  It is not essential that the report of a committee be signed (II, 
1274; VIII, 2229), but the minority or other separate views are signed 
by those concurring in them (IV, 4671; VIII, 2229).
  Objection being made that a report had not been authorized by a 
committee and there being doubt as to the validity of the authorization, 
the question as to the reception of the report is submitted to the House 
(IV, 4588-4591). But the Speaker may decide the question if satisfied of 
the validity or of the invalidity of the authorization (IV, 4584, 4592, 
4593; VIII, 2211, 2212, 2222-2224). And in a case wherein it was shown 
that a majority of a committee had met and authorized a report the 
Speaker did not heed the fact that the meeting was not regularly called 
(IV, 4594). A bill improperly reported is not entitled to its place on 
the calendar (IV, 3117); but the validity of a report may not be 
questioned after the House has voted to consider it (IV, 4598), or after 
actual consideration has begun (IV, 4599; VIII, 2223, 2225).
  Where a question was raised regarding a chair's alteration of a 
committee amendment, the Speaker indicated that the proper time to raise 
a point of order was when the unprivileged report was called up for 
consideration (or when before the Committee on Rules for a special order 
of business) and not when filed in the hopper (May 16, 1989, p. 9356). A 
resolution including an allegation that the chair deliberately and 
improperly refused to recognize a legitimate and timely objection by a 
member of the committee to dispense with the reading of an amendment and 
resolving that the House disapproves of the manner in which the chair 
conducted the markup and finding that the bill considered at that markup 
was not validly ordered reported was held to constitute a question of 
the privileges of the House (July 18, 2003, pp. 18698; July 23, 2003, p. 
19171, 19172).

<>   A 
majority of the committee constitutes a quorum for business. Elsynge's 
Method of Passing Bills, 11.

  A majority quorum is required in certain circumstances, such as 
reporting a measure or recommendation (clause 2(h) of rule XI); 
authorizing a subpoena (clause 2(m) of rule XI); closing a meeting or 
hearing under

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clauses 2(a) and 2(g) of rule XI (except as provided under clause 
2(g)(2)(A) with respect to certain hearing procedures); requesting 
immunity for a witness (18 U.S.C. 6005); releasing executive-session 
material (clause 2(k)(7) of rule XI); and proceeding in open session 
after an assertion under clause 2(k)(5) of rule XI. Each committee may 
fix the number of its members, but not less than two, to constitute a 
quorum for taking testimony and receiving evidence; and except for the 
Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and Ways and Means, a 
committee may fix the number of members to constitute a quorum, which 
shall be not less than one-third of its members, for taking certain 
other actions (clause 2(h) of rule XI).
  A quorum of a committee may transact business and a majority of the 
quorum, even though it be a minority of the whole committee, may 
authorize a report (IV, 4586), but an actual quorum of a committee must 
be present to make action taken valid (VIII, 2212, 2222), unless the 
House authorizes less than a quorum to act (IV, 4553, 4554). A quorum of 
a committee must be present when alleged perjurious testimony is given 
in order to support a charge of perjury. Christoffel v. United States, 
338 U.S. 84 (1949). The absence of a quorum of a committee at the time a 
witness willfully fails to produce subpoenaed documents is not a valid 
defense in a prosecution for contempt if the witness failed to raise 
that objection before the committee. United States v. Bryan, 339 U.S. 
323 (1950); United States v. Fleischman, 339 U.S. 349 (1950).

  Any <> Member of the House may be present at any select committee, 
but cannot vote, and must give place to all of the committee, and sit 
below them. Elsynge, 12; Scob., 49.

  In the 95th Congress, clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI was amended to 
prohibit the exclusion of noncommittee members from nonparticipatory 
attendance in any closed hearing, except in the Committee on Ethics, 
unless the House by majority vote authorizes a committee or subcommittee 
to close its hearings to noncommittee members (H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., 
Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). Formerly, a committee could close its doors in 
executive session meetings to persons not invited or required, including 
Members of the House who were not members of the committee (III, 1694; 
IV, 4558-4565; see discussion at IV, 4540).

  The <> committee have full power over the bill or other paper committed 
to them, except that they cannot change the title or subject. 8 Grey, 
228.


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  In the House committees may recommend amendments to the body of a bill 
or to the title but may not otherwise change the text.

  The <> paper before a committee, whether select 
or of the whole, may be a bill, resolutions, draught of an address, &c., 
and it may either originate with them or be referred to them. In every 
case the whole paper is read first by the Clerk, and then by the 
chairman, by paragraphs, Scob., 49, pausing at the end of each 
paragraph, and putting questions for amending, if proposed. In the case 
of resolutions or distinct subjects, originating with themselves, a 
question is put on each separately, as amended or unamended, and no 
final question on the whole, 3 Hats., 276; but if they relate to the 
same subject, a question is put on the whole. If it be a bill, draught 
of an address, or other paper originating with them, they proceed by 
paragraphs, putting questions for amending, either by insertion or 
striking out, if proposed; but no question on agreeing to the paragraphs 
separately; this is reserved to the close, when a question is put on the 
whole, for agreeing to it as amended or unamended. But if it be a paper 
referred to them, they proceed to put questions of amendment, if 
proposed, but no final question on the whole; because all parts of the 
paper, having been adopted by the House, stand, of course, unless 
altered or struck out by a vote. Even if they are opposed to the whole 
paper, and think it cannot be made good by amendments, they cannot 
reject it, but must re

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port it back to the House without amendments, and there make their 
opposition.

  In the House it has generally been held that a select or standing 
committee may not report a bill unless the subject matter has been 
referred to it (IV, 4355-4360), except that under the modern practice 
reports filed from the floor as privileged pursuant to clause 5 of rule 
XIII have been permitted on bills and resolutions originating in certain 
committees and not formally referred thereto. Pursuant to this paragraph 
some committees have originated drafts of bills for consideration and 
amendment before the introduction and referral of a numbered bill to 
committee(s). In the older practice the Committee of the Whole 
originated resolutions and bills (IV, 4705); but the later development 
of the rules governing the order of business would prevent the offering 
of a motion to go into Committee of the Whole for such a purpose, except 
by unanimous consent.

  The <> natural 
order in considering and amending any paper is, to begin at the 
beginning, and proceed through it by paragraphs; and this order is so 
strictly adhered to in Parliament, that when a latter part has been 
amended, you cannot recur back and make an alteration in a former part. 
2 Hats., 90. In numerous assemblies this restraint is doubtless 
important. But in the Senate of the United States, though in the main we 
consider and amend the paragraphs in their natural order, yet 
recurrences are indulged; and they seem, on the whole, in that small 
body, to produce advantages overweighing their inconveniences.

  In the House, amendments to House bills are made before the previous 
question is ordered, pending the engrossment and third reading (IV, 
3392; V, 5781; VII, 1051), and to Senate bills before the third reading 
(IV, 3393). Amendments may be offered to any part of the bill without 
proceeding consecutively section by section or paragraph by paragraph 
(IV, 3392). In Committee of the Whole, bills are read section by section 
or paragraph by paragraph and after a section or paragraph has been 
passed it is no longer subject to amendment (clause 5 of rule XVIII; 
Sec. 980, infra; July 12, 1961, p. 12405).


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  To <> this natural order of beginning at the 
beginning there is a single exception found in parliamentary usage. When 
a bill is taken up in committee, or on its second reading, they postpone 
the preamble till the other parts of the bill are gone through. The 
reason is, that on consideration of the body of the bill such 
alterations may therein be made as may also occasion the alteration of 
the preamble. Scob., 50; 7 Grey, 431.
  On this head the following case occurred in the Senate, March 6, 1800: 
A resolution which had no preamble having been already amended by the 
House so that a few words only of the original remained in it, a motion 
was made to prefix a preamble, which having an aspect very different 
from the resolution, the mover intimated that he should afterwards 
propose a correspondent amendment in the body of the resolution. It was 
objected that a preamble could not be taken up till the body of the 
resolution is done with; but the preamble was received, because we are 
in fact through the body of the resolution; we have amended that as far 
as amendments have been offered, and, indeed, till little of the 
original is left. It is the proper time, therefore, to consider a 
preamble; and whether the one offered be consistent with the resolution 
is for the House to determine. The mover, indeed, has intimated that he 
shall offer a subsequent proposition for the body of the resolution; but 
the House is not in possession of it; it re

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mains in his breast, and may be withheld. The Rules of the House can 
only operate on what is before them. The practice of the Senate, too, 
allows recurrences backward and forward for the purpose of amendment, 
not permitting amendments in a subsequent to preclude those in a prior 
part, or e converso.

  In the practice of the House the preamble of a joint resolution is 
amended after the engrossment and before the third reading (IV, 3414; V, 
5469, 5470; VII, 1064), but the preamble of the joint resolution is not 
voted on separately in the later practice even if amended, because the 
question on passage covers the preamble as well as the resolving clause 
(V, 6147, 6148; Oct. 29, 1975, p. 34283). After an amendment to the 
preamble has been considered it is too late to propose amendments to the 
text of the bill (VII, 1065). In Committee of the Whole, amendments to 
the preamble of a joint resolution are considered following disposition 
of any amendments to the resolving clause (Mar. 9, 1967, pp. 6032-34; 
Mar. 22, 1967, pp. 7679-83; May 25, 1993, p. 11036). Where a simple 
resolution of the House has a preamble, the preamble may be laid on the 
table without affecting the status of the accompanying resolution (V, 
5430). Amendments to the preamble of a concurrent or simple resolution 
are considered in the House following the adoption of the resolution 
(Dec. 4, 1973, p. 39337; June 8, 1970, pp. 18668-71). The House 
considers an amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole to the 
preamble of a Senate joint resolution following disposition of amendment 
to the text and pending third reading (May 25, 1993, p. 11036).

  When <> the committee is through the whole, a Member moves that the 
committee may rise, and the chairman report the paper to the House, with 
or without amendments, as the case may be. 2 Hats., 289, 292; Scob., 53; 
2 Hats., 290; 8 Scob., 50.

  Clause 2 of rule XIII provides that it shall be the duty of the chair 
of each committee to report or cause to be reported promptly any measure 
approved by the committee and to take or cause to be taken necessary 
steps to bring the matter to a vote; and in any event, the report of a 
committee must be filed within seven calendar days (exclusive of days 
when the House is not in session) after a majority of the committee has 
invoked

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the procedures of clause 2 of rule XIII. In the House a committee may 
order its report to be made by the chair (IV, 4669), or by any other 
member of the committee (IV, 4526), even one from the minority party 
(IV, 4672, 4673; VIII, 2314). A committee report may be filed by a 
Delegate (July 1, 1958, p. 12870). Only the chair makes a report for the 
Committee of the Whole (V, 6987).

  When <> a vote is once passed in a committee it cannot be altered 
but by the House, their votes being binding on themselves. 1607, June 4.

  This provision of the parliamentary law has been held to prevent the 
use of the motion to reconsider in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4716-
4718; VIII, 2324, 2325) but it is in order in the House as in the 
Committee of the Whole (VIII, 2793). The early practice seems to have 
inclined against the use of the motion in a standing or select committee 
(IV, 4570, 4596), but there is a precedent that authorized the use of 
the motion (IV, 4570, 4596), and on June 1, 1922, the Committee on Rules 
rescinded previous action taken by the committee authorizing a report. 
In the later practice the motion to reconsider is in order in committee 
so long as the measure remains in possession of the committee and the 
motion is not prevented by subsequent actions of the committee on the 
measure, and may be entered on the same day as action to be reconsidered 
or on the next day on which the committee convenes with a quorum present 
to consider the same class of business (VIII, 2213), but a session 
adjourned without having secured a quorum is a dies non and not to be 
counted in determining the admissibility of a motion to reconsider 
(VIII, 2213). This provision does not prevent a committee from reporting 
a bill similar to one previously reported by such committee (VIII, 
2311).

  The <> committee may not erase, interline, or blot the bill 
itself; but must, in a paper by itself set down the amendments, stating 
the words which are to be inserted or omitted, Scob., 50, and where, by 
references to page, line, and word of the bill. Scob., 50.

  This practice is still in force as to Senate bills of which the 
engrossed copies cannot be in any way interlined or altered by House 
committees. Original copies of House bills are not referred to 
committees but are maintained indefinitely by the Clerk. Both House and 
Senate bills are now printed as referred, and committees may thus report 
either with proposed

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amendments. In the official papers (signed engrossed copies), the 
engrossed House amendments to a Senate bill would still be shown as a 
separate message attached to the Senate engrossed bill when returned to 
the Senate.




                     sec. xxvii--report of committee

  The <> chairman of the committee, standing in his place, informs the 
House that the committee to whom was referred such a bill, have, 
according to order, had the same under consideration, and have directed 
him to report the same without any amendment, or with sundry amendments 
(as the case may be), which he is ready to do when the House pleases to 
receive it. And he or any other may move that it be now received; but 
the cry of ``now, now,'' from the House, generally dispenses with the 
formality of a motion and question. He then reads the amendments, with 
the coherence in the bill, and opens the alterations and the reasons of 
the committee for such amendments, until he has gone through the whole. 
He then delivers it at the Clerk's table, where the amendments reported 
are read by the Clerk without the coherence; whereupon the papers lie 
upon the table till the House, at its convenience, shall take up the 
report. Scob., 52; Hakew., 148.

  This provision is to a large extent obsolete so far as the practice of 
the House is concerned. Most of the reports of committees are made by 
filing them with the Clerk without reading (clause 2 of rule XIII), and 
only the reports of committees having leave to report at any time are 
made by the chair or other member of the committee from the floor 
(clause 5 of rule XIII). Except as provided in clause 2(c) of rule XIII, 
committee reports must be submitted while the House is in session; and 
this requirement may be waived by only by order of the House (by rule, 
suspension, or unanimous consent but not by motion) (Dec. 17, 1982, p. 
31951). Subject to avail

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ability requirements under clause 4 and timing considerations under 
clause 6 of rule XIII, all reports privileged under clause 5 of rule 
XIII may be called up for consideration immediately after being filed 
(H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34406). For a discussion of 
the three-day layover rule, see Sec. 850, infra.

  The <> report being made, the committee is dissolved and can act 
no more without a new power. Scob. 51. But it may be revived by a vote, 
and the same matter recommitted to them. 4 Grey, 361.

  This provision does not apply now to the Committees of the Whole or to 
the standing committees. It does apply to select committees, which 
expire when they report finally, but may be revived by the action of the 
House in referring in open House a new matter (IV, 4404, 4405). The 
provision does not preclude a standing committee from reporting a bill 
similar to one previously reported by such committee (VIII, 2311).




                     sec. xxviii--bill, recommitment

  After <> a bill 
has been committed and reported, it ought not, in any ordinary course, 
to be recommitted; but in cases of importance, and for special reasons, 
it is sometimes recommitted, and usually to the same committee. Hakew, 
151. If a report be recommitted before agreed to in the House, what has 
passed in committee is of no validity; the whole question is again 
before the committee, and a new resolution must be again moved, as if 
nothing had passed. 3 Hats., 131--note.
  In Senate, January, 1800, the salvage bill was recommitted three times 
after the commitment.

  Where a matter is recommitted with instructions the committee must 
confine itself within the instructions (IV, 4404), and if the 
instructions relate to a certain portion only of a bill, other portions 
may not be reviewed (V, 5526). When a report has been disposed of 
adversely a motion to recommit it is not in order (V, 5559). Bills are 
sometimes recommitted to the Committee of the Whole as the indirect 
result of the action of the House

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(clause 9 of rule XVIII; IV, 4784) or directly on motion either with or 
without instructions (V, 5552, 5553).

  A <> particular clause of a bill may be committed without the 
whole bill, 3 Hats., 131; or so much of a paper to one and so much to 
another committee.

  In the usage of the House before the rules provided that petitions 
should be filed with the Clerk instead of being referred from the floor, 
it was the practice to refer a portion of a petition to one committee 
and the remainder to another when the subject matter called for such 
division (IV, 3359). Clause 2 of rule XII now permits the Speaker to 
refer bills, and resolutions, with or without time limitations, either 
(1) simultaneously to two or more committees for concurrent 
consideration, while indicating one committee of primary jurisdiction 
(except under extraordinary circumstances), (2) sequentially to 
appropriate committees after the report of the committee or committees 
initially considering the matter, (3) to divide the matter for referral, 
(4) to appoint an ad hoc committee with the approval of the House, or 
(5) to make other appropriate provisions, in order to assure that to the 
maximum extent feasible each committee with subject matter jurisdiction 
over provisions in that measure may consider and report to the House 
with respect thereto. Under former precedents a bill, resolution, or 
communication could not be divided for reference (IV, 4372, 4376).




                    sec. xxix--bill, reports taken up

  When <> the 
report of a paper originating with a committee is taken up by the House, 
they proceed exactly as in committee. Here, as in committee, when the 
paragraphs have, on distinct questions, been agreed to seriatim, 5 Grey, 
366; 6 Grey, 368; 8 Grey, 47, 104, 360; 1 Torbuck's Deb., 125; 3 Hats., 
348, no question needs be put on the whole report. 5 Grey, 381.

  In the House, bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and 
simple resolutions come before the House for action although the written 
reports accompanying them, which are always printed, do not (IV, 4674), 
and even the reading of the reports is in order only in the time of 
debate (V, 5292). The Chair will not recognize a Member during debate on 
a bill in the House or in the Committee of the Whole for unanimous 
consent to amend

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the accompanying committee report in a specified manner, because the 
House should not change the substance of a committee report upon which 
it is not called to vote (Apr. 2, 1985, p. 7209; Nov. 7, 1989, p. 
27762). In rare instances, however, committees submit merely written 
reports without propositions for action. Such reports being before the 
House may be debated before any specific motion has been made (V, 4987, 
4988), and are in such case read to the House (IV, 4663) and after being 
considered the question is taken on agreeing. In such cases the report 
appears in full on the Journal (II, 1364; IV, 4675; V, 7177). When 
reports are acted on in this way it has not been the practice of the 
House to consider them by paragraphs, but the question has been put on 
the whole report (II, 1364).

  On <> taking up a bill reported with amendments the amendments 
only are read by the Clerk. The Speaker then reads the first, and puts 
it to the question, and so on till the whole are adopted or rejected, 
before any other amendment be admitted, except it be an amendment to an 
amendment. Elsynge's Mem., 53. When through the amendments of the 
committee, the Speaker pauses, and gives time for amendments to be 
proposed in the House to the body of the bill; as he does also if it has 
been reported without amendments; putting no questions but on amendments 
proposed; and when through the whole, he puts the question whether the 
bill shall be read a third time?

  The procedure outlined by this provision of the parliamentary law 
applies to bills when reported from the Committee of the Whole; but in 
practice it is usual to vote on the amendments en gros unless a Member 
demands a separate vote (see Sec. 337, supra). The principle that the 
committee amendments should be voted on before amendments proposed by 
individual Members is recognized (IV, 4872-4876; V, 5773; VIII, 2862, 
2863), except when it is proposed to amend a committee amendment. The 
Clerk reads the amendments and the Speaker does not again read them. 
Frequently the House orders the previous question on the committee 
amendments and the bill to final passage, thus preventing further 
amendment. When a bill is of such nature that it does not go to 
Committee of the Whole, it comes

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before the House from the House Calendar, on which it has been placed on 
being reported from the standing or select committee or pursuant to a 
special order of business. On being taken from the House Calendar the 
bill is read through and then the amendments proposed by the committee 
are read. In modern practice the House may adopt a special order ``self-
executing'' the adoption of the reported committee amendments in the 
House, and may permit further amendment to the amended text (e.g., H. 
Res. 245, 106th Cong., July 15, 1999, p. 16216).




                        sec. xxx--quasi-committee

  If <> on motion and question the bill be not committed, or if no 
proposition for commitment be made, then the proceedings in the Senate 
of the United States and in Parliament are totally different. The former 
shall be first stated.
  The proceeding of the Senate as in a Committee of the Whole, or in 
quasi-committee, is precisely as in a real Committee of the Whole, 
taking no question but on amendments. When through the whole, they 
consider the quasi-committee as risen, the House resumed without any 
motion, question, or resolution to that effect, and the President 
reports that ``the House, acting as in a Committee of the Whole, have 
had under their consideration the bill entitled, &c., and have made 
sundry amendments, which he will now report to the House.'' The bill is 
then before them, as it would have been if reported from a committee, 
and the questions are regularly to be put again on every amendment; 
which being gone through, the President pauses to give time to the House 
to propose amendments to the body of the bill, and, when through, puts 
the question whether it shall be read a third time?


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  The House may proceed ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' 
only by unanimous consent (IV, 4923) or special rule (Dec. 18, 1974, p. 
40858). If the House grants unanimous consent for the immediate 
consideration of a bill on the Union Calendar, or which would belong on 
the Union Calendar if reported, the bill is considered in the House as 
in the Committee of the Whole (Apr. 6, 1966, p. 7749; Aug. 3, 1970, p. 
26918; Deschler, ch. 22, Sec. 2.2). In the modern practice of the House 
an order for this procedure means merely that the bill will be 
considered as having been read for amendment and will be open for 
amendment and debate under the five-minute rule (Aug. 10, 1970, p. 
28050; clause 5 of rule XVIII), without general debate (IV, 4924, 4925; 
VI, 639; VIII, 2431, 2432). The Speaker remains in the chair and, when 
the previous question is moved, makes no report but puts the question on 
ordering the previous question and then on engrossment and third reading 
and on passage.
  For further description of the procedures applicable to the House as 
in the Committee of the Whole, and the application of those procedures 
to committees of the House, see Sec. 427, infra.

  After <> progress in amending the bill in quasi-
committee, a motion may be made to refer it to a special committee. If 
the motion prevails, it is equivalent in effect to the several votes, 
that the committee rise, the House resume itself, discharge the 
Committee of the Whole, and refer the bill to a special committee. In 
that case, the amendments already made fall. But if the motion fails, 
the quasi-committee stands in status quo.-
  How <> far does this XXVIIIth rule [of the Senate] subject 
the House, when in quasi-committee, to the laws which regulate the 
proceedings of Committees of the Whole? The particulars in which these 
differ from proceedings in the House are the following: 1. In a 
committee every member may speak as often as he pleases. 2. The votes of 
a committee may be rejected or altered when

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reported to the House. 3. A committee, even of the whole, cannot refer 
any matter to another committee. 4. In a committee no previous question 
can be taken; the only means to avoid an improper discussion is to move 
that the committee rise; and if it be apprehended that the same 
discussion will be attempted on returning into committee, the House can 
discharge them, and proceed itself on the business, keeping down the 
improper discussion by the previous question. 5. A committee cannot 
punish a breach of order in the House or in the gallery. 9 Grey, 113. It 
can only rise and report it to the House, who may proceed to punish. The 
first and second of these peculiarities attach to the quasi-committee of 
the Senate, as every day's practice proves, and it seems to be the only 
ones to which the XXVIIIth rule meant to subject them; for it continues 
to be a House, and, therefore, though it acts in some respects as a 
committee, in others it preserves its character as a House. Thus (3) it 
is in the daily habit of referring its business to a special committee. 
4. It admits of the previous question. If it did not, it would have no 
means of preventing an improper discussion; not being able, as a 
committee is, to avoid it by returning into the House, for the moment it 
would resume the same subject there, the XXVIIIth rule declares it again 
a quasi-committee. 5. It would doubtless exercise its powers as a House 
on any breach of order. 6. It takes a question by yea and nay, as the 
House does. 7. It receives messages from the President and the other 
House. 8.

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In the midst of a debate it receives a motion to adjourn, and adjourns 
as a House, not as a committee.

  In <> the modern practice of the House, the rule 
of Jefferson's Manual is followed to the extent that the House, while 
acting ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' may deal with 
disorder, take the yeas and nays, adjourn, refer to a committee even 
though the reading by sections may not have begun (IV, 4931, 4932), 
admit the motion to reconsider (VIII, 2793), receive messages (IV, 
4923), and use the previous question (VI, 369; Procedure, ch. 23, 
Sec. 6.3) (which differs from the previous question of Jefferson's 
time). The previous question may not be moved on a single section of a 
bill (IV, 4930), but it may be demanded on the bill while Members yet 
desire to offer amendments (IV, 4926-4929; VI, 639). Formerly a motion 
to close debate on the pending section of a bill being read by section 
for amendment in the House as in the Committee of the Whole was in order 
(IV, 4935), but under current practice a bill considered ``in the House 
as in Committee of the Whole'' is considered as read and open for 
amendment at any point (Aug. 10, 1970, p. 28050), and a motion is in 
order ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' to close debate on 
the bill or on an amendment (June 26, 1973, p. 21314). An amendment may 
be withdrawn at any time before action has been had on it (IV, 4935; 
June 26, 1973, p. 21305). An amendment in the nature of a substitute is 
in order after perfecting amendments have been considered (IV, 4933, 
4934; V, 5788). The title also is amended after the bill has been 
considered (IV, 3416). A quorum of the House (and not of the Committee 
of the Whole) is required in the House as in the Committee of the Whole 
(VI, 639).
  The procedures applicable in the House as in the Committee of the 
Whole generally apply to proceedings in committees of the House, except 
that a measure considered in committee must be read (by section) for 
amendment (see Sec. 413, supra). Therefore, in committee a motion to 
limit debate under the five-minute rule must be confined to the portion 
of the measure then pending.




              sec. xxxi--bill, second reading in the house

  In <> Parliament, after the bill has been read a second time, if on 
the motion and question it be not committed, or if no proposition for 
commitment be made, the speaker reads it by paragraphs, pausing between 
each, but putting no question but

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on amendments proposed; but when through the whole, he puts the question 
whether it shall be read a third time, if it came from the other house, 
or, if originating with themselves, whether it shall be engrossed and 
read a third time. The speaker reads sitting, but rises to put 
questions. The clerk stands while he reads.
  But the Senate of the United States is so much in the habit of making 
many and material amendments at the third reading that it has become the 
practice not to engross a bill till it has passed--an irregular and 
dangerous practice, because in this way the paper which passes the 
Senate is not that which goes to the other House, and that which goes to 
the other House as the act of the Senate has never been seen in the 
Senate. In reducing numerous, difficult, and illegible amendments into 
the text the Secretary may, with the most innocent intentions, commit 
errors which can never again be corrected.

  In the House the Clerk and not the Speaker or chair of the Committee 
of the Whole reads bills on second reading. After the second reading, 
which is by paragraph or section in the Committee of the Whole, the bill 
is open to amendment (see Sec. 980, infra). Clause 8 of rule XVI, as 
explained in Sec. 942, infra, governs first and second readings of bills 
in the House and in Committee of the Whole.

  The <> bill being now as perfect as its friends can make it, this 
is the proper stage for those fundamentally opposed to make their first 
attack. All attempts at earlier periods are with disjointed efforts, 
because many who do not expect to be in favor of the bill ultimately, 
are willing to let it go on to its perfect state, to take time to exam

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ine it themselves and to hear what can be said for it, knowing that 
after all they will have sufficient opportunities of giving it their 
veto. Its two last stages, therefore, are reserved for this--that is to 
say, on the question whether it shall be engrossed and read a third 
time, and, lastly, whether it shall pass. The first of these is usually 
the most interesting contest, because then the whole subject is new and 
engaging, and the minds of the Members having not yet been declared by 
any trying vote the issue is the more doubtful. In this stage, 
therefore, is the main trial of strength between its friends and 
opponents, and it behooves everyone to make up his mind decisively for 
this question, or he loses the main battle; and accident and management 
may, and often do, prevent a successful rallying on the next and last 
question, whether it shall pass.

  In <> the 
House there are two other means of testing strength: raising the 
question of consideration when the bill first comes up (clause 3 of rule 
XVI), and moving to strike the enacting words when it is first open to 
amendment (clause 9 of rule XVIII). By these methods an adverse opinion 
may be expressed without permitting the bill to consume the time of the 
House.

<>   
When the bill is engrossed the title is to be indorsed on the back, and 
not within the bill. Hakew, 250.

  In the practice of the House and the Senate the title appears in its 
proper place in the engrossed bill, and also is endorsed, with the 
number, on the back.

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                       sec. xxxii--reading papers

  Where <> papers are laid before the House or referred to a committee 
every Member has a right to have them once read at the table before he 
can be compelled to vote on them; but it is a great though common error 
to suppose that he has a right, toties quoties, to have acts, journals, 
accounts, or papers on the table read independently of the will of the 
House. The delay and interruption which this might be made to produce 
evince the impossibility of the existence of such a right. There is, 
indeed, so manifest a propriety of permitting every Member to have as 
much information as possible on every question on which he is to vote, 
that when he desires the reading, if it be seen that it is really for 
information and not for delay, the Speaker directs it to be read without 
putting a question, if no one objects; but if objected to, a question 
must be put. 2 Hats., 117, 118.

  Until the 103d Congress the House, by former rule XXX, had a provision 
regarding the reading a paper other than that on which the House is 
called to give a final vote (see Sec. Sec. 964, 965, infra).

  It <> is equally an error to suppose that any Member has a right, 
without a question put, to lay a book or paper on the table, and have it 
read, on suggesting that it contains matter infringing on the privileges 
of the House. Ib.

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  For <> the same reason a Member has not a right to read a paper in 
his place, if it be objected to, without leave of the House. But this 
rigor is never exercised but where there is an intentional or gross 
abuse of the time and patience of the House.
  A Member has not a right even to read his own speech, committed to 
writing, without leave. This also is to prevent an abuse of time, and 
therefore is not refused but where that is intended. 2 Grey, 227.
  A <> report of a committee of the Senate on a bill from the 
House of Representatives being under consideration: on motion that the 
report of the committee of the House of Representatives on the same bill 
be read in the Senate, it passed in the negative. Feb. 28, 1793.

  In the House ordinary reports are read only in time of debate (V, 
5292). But in a few cases, in which a report does not accompany a bill 
or other proposition of action, but presents facts and conclusions, it 
is read to the House if acted on (II, 1364; IV, 4663).

  Formerly, <> when 
papers were referred to a committee, they used to be first read; but of 
late only the titles, unless a Member insists they shall be read, and 
then nobody can oppose it. 2 Hats., 117.

  Under the rules, petitions, memorials, and communications are referred 
through the Clerk's desk, so that there is no opportunity for reading 
before reference, though messages from the President are read (clauses 1 
and 3 of rule XII; clause 2 of rule XIV). end segment .003 
deg. segment .004 -- Jefferson from sec. xxxiii  deg.

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                    sec. xxxiii--privileged questions

  It is no <> possession of a bill unless it be delivered to the Clerk to 
read, or the Speaker reads the title. Lex. Parl., 274; Elysynge Mem., 
85; Ord. House of Commons, 64.
  It is a <> general 
rule that the question first moved and seconded shall be first put. 
Scob., 28, 22; 2 Hats., 81. But this rule gives way to what may be 
called privileged questions; and the privileged questions are of 
different grades among themselves.

  In the House, by rule and practice, the system of privileged motions 
and privileged questions has been highly developed (rule IX, clause 5 of 
rule XIII, clause 1 of rule XIV, and clause 4 of rule XVI).

  A motion <> to 
adjourn simply takes place of all others; for otherwise the House might 
be kept sitting against its will, and indefinitely. Yet this motion can 
not be received after another question is actually put and while the 
House is engaged in voting.

  The rules and practice of the House have prescribed comprehensively 
the privilege and status of the motion to adjourn (clause 4 of rule 
XVI). The motion intervenes between the putting of the question and the 
voting, and also between the different methods of voting, as between a 
vote by division and a vote by yeas and nays, as after the yeas and nays 
are ordered and before the roll call begins (V, 5366). But after the 
roll call begins it may not be interrupted (V, 6053). Clause 4 of rule 
XVI was amended in the 93d Congress to provide that a motion that when 
the House adjourns on that day it stand adjourned to meet at a day and 
time certain is of equal privilege with the motion to adjourn, if the 
Speaker recognizes for that purpose (H. Res. 6, p. 26). In the 102d 
Congress the motion to authorize the Speaker to declare a recess was 
given an equal privilege (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39).

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  Orders of <> the day take place of all other questions, except 
for adjournment--that is to say, the question which is the subject of an 
order is made a privileged one, pro hac vice. The order is a repeal of 
the general rule as to this special case. When any Member moves, 
therefore, for the order of the day to be read, no further debate is 
permitted on the question which was before the House; for if the debate 
might proceed it might continue through the day and defeat the order. 
This motion, to entitle it to precedence, must be for the orders 
generally, and not for any particular one; and if it be carried on the 
question, ``Whether the House will now proceed to the orders of the 
day?'' they must be read and proceeded on in the course in which they 
stand, 2 Hats., 83; for priority of order gives priority of right, which 
cannot be taken away but by another special order of business.

  ``Orders of the day'' were part of the regular and daily order of 
business (IV, 3151). Although a mention of them has survived in clause 1 
of rule XIV, they have disappeared from the practice of the House (IV, 
3057) and should not be confused with ``special orders of business,'' 
which are resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules pursuant to 
clause 5 of rule XIII to provide for consideration of matters not 
regularly in order. The term ``special orders'' is also used separately 
to describe permission to address the House at the conclusion of 
legislative business.
  After <> these there are other privileged questions, which will 
require considerable explanation.
  It is proper that every parliamentary assembly should have certain 
forms of questions, so adapted as to enable them fitly to dispose of 
every proposition which can be made to them.

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Such are: 1. The previous question. 2. To postpone indefinitely. 3. To 
adjourn a question to a definite day. 4. To lie on the table. 5. To 
commit. 6. To amend. The proper occasion for each of these questions 
should be understood.

  The House by clause 4 of rule XVI has established the priority and 
other conditions of motions of this kind.

  1. When a <> proposition is moved which it is useless or inexpedient now 
to express or discuss, the previous question has been introduced for 
suppressing for that time the motion and its discussion. 3 Hats., 188, 
189.

  The previous question of the parliamentary law has been changed by the 
House into an instrument of entirely different use (V, 5445; clause 1 of 
rule XIX).

  2. But as <> the 
previous question gets rid of it only for that day, and the same 
proposition may recur the next day, if they wish to suppress it for the 
whole of that session, they postpone it indefinitely. 3 Hats., 183. This 
quashes the proposition for that session, as an indefinite adjournment 
is a dissolution, or the continuance of a suit sine die is a 
discontinuance of it.

  As already explained, in the House the previous question is no longer 
used as a method of postponement (V, 5445) but a means to bring the 
pending matter to an immediate vote. The House does use the motion to 
postpone indefinitely, and in clause 4 of rule XVI and the practice 
thereunder, has defined the nature and use of the motion.

  3. When a <> motion is 
made which it will be proper to act on, but information is wanted, or 
something more pressing claims the present time, the question or de

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bate is adjourned to such a day within the session as will answer the 
views of the House. 2 Hats., 81. And those who have spoken before may 
not speak again when the adjourned debate is resumed. 2 Hats., 73. 
Sometimes, however, this has been abusively used by adjourning it to a 
day beyond the session, to get rid of it altogether as would be done by 
an indefinite postponement.

  The House does not use the motion to adjourn a debate. But it 
accomplishes the purpose of such a procedure by the motion to postpone 
to a day certain, which applies, not to a debate, but to the bill or 
other proposition before the House. Of course, if a bill that is under 
debate is postponed, the effect is to postpone the debate. The 
conditions and use of the motion are treated under clause 4 of rule XVI.

  4. When the <> House has 
something else which claims its present attention, but would be willing 
to reserve in their power to take up a proposition whenever it shall 
suit them, they order it to lie on their table. It may then be called 
for at any time.

  This is the use of the motion to lay on the table that is established 
in the general parliamentary law, and was followed in the early practice 
of the House. But by an interesting evolution in the House the motion 
has now come to serve an entirely new purpose, being used for the final, 
adverse disposition of a matter (clause 4 of rule XVI; V, 5389). And a 
matter once laid on the table may be taken therefrom only by suspension 
of the rules (V, 6288) or similar process, unless it be a matter of 
privilege (V, 5438, 5439) such as bills vetoed by the President (IV, 
3549; V, 5439). A proposition to impeach having been laid on the table, 
a similar or identical proposition may be again brought up (III, 2049; 
VI, 541).

  5. If the <> proposition will want more amendment and digestion than the 
formalities of the House will conveniently admit, they refer it to a 
committee.

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  6. But if the proposition be well digested, and may need but few and 
simple amendments, and especially if these be of leading consequence, 
they then proceed to consider and amend it themselves.

  In the House it is the general rule that business goes to committees 
before receiving consideration in the House itself. Occasionally a 
question of privilege or other matter is presented and considered at 
once by the House.

  The Senate, <> in their practice, vary from this regular graduation of 
forms. Their practice comparatively with that of Parliament stands thus:


                 for the parliamentary: the senate uses:

                                        {   Postponement to a day beyond 
Postponement indefinite,                {   the session.
                                            Postponement to a day within 
Adjournment,                            {   the session.
                                        {   Postponement indefinite. 
Lying on table,                         {   Lying on the table.

  In their eighth rule, therefore, which declares that while a question 
is before the Senate no motion shall be received, unless it be for the 
previous question, or to postpone, commit, or amend the main question, 
the term postponement must be understood according to their broad use of 
it, and not in its parliamentary sense. Their rule, then, establishes as 
privileged questions the pre

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vious question, postponement, commitment, and amendment.

  The House governs these motions by clause 4 of rule XVI.

  But it may <> be asked: Have these questions any privilege among 
themselves? or are they so equal that the common principle of the 
``first moved first put'' takes place among them? This will need 
explanation. Their competitions may be as follows:
1. Previous question and postpone  }           
                    commit         }
                    amend          }    In the first, second, and 
2. Postpone and previous question  }      third classes, and the first 
                    commit         }      member of the fourth class, 
                    amend          }      the rule ``first moved first 
3. Commit and previous question    }      put'' takes place.
                    postpone       }
                    amend          }
4. Amend and previous question     }
                    postpone       }
                    commit         }

  In the first class, where the previous question is first moved, the 
effect is peculiar; for it not only prevents the after motion to 
postpone or commit from being put to question before it, but also from 
being put after it; for if the previous question be decided 
affirmatively, to wit, that the main question shall now be put, it would 
of

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course be against the decision to postpone or commit; and if it be 
decided negatively, to wit, that the main question shall not now be put, 
this puts the House out of possession of the main question, and 
consequently there is nothing before them to postpone or commit. So that 
neither voting for nor against the previous question will enable the 
advocates for postponing or committing to get at their object. Whether 
it may be amended shall be examined hereafter.

  Although clause 4 of rule XVI now governs the priority of motions, 
these provisions of the Manual remain of interest because of the 
parliamentary theory they present.

  Second class. <> If postponement be decided affirmatively, the proposition is 
removed from before the House, and consequently there is no ground for 
the previous question, commitment or amendment; but if decided 
negatively (that it shall not be postponed), the main question may then 
be suppressed by the previous question, or may be committed, or amended.

  The previous question is used now for bringing a vote on the main 
question and not for suppressing it.

  The third class is subject to the same observations as the second.
  The fourth class. Amendment of the main question first moved, and 
afterwards the previous question, the question of amendment shall be 
first put.

  In present practice of the House the question on the previous question 
would be put first, and being decided affirmatively would force a vote 
on the amendment and then on the main question.


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  Amendment and postponement competing, postponement is first put, as 
the equivalent proposition to adjourn the main question would be in 
Parliament. The reason is that the question for amendment is not 
suppressed by postponing or adjourning the main question, but remains 
before the House whenever the main question is resumed; and it might be 
that the occasion for other urgent business might go by, and be lost by 
length of debate on the amendment, if the House had it not in their 
power to postpone the whole subject.
  Amendment and commitment. The question for committing, though last 
moved shall be first put; because, in truth, it facilitates and 
befriends the motion to amend. Scobell is express: ``On motion to amend 
a bill, anyone may notwithstanding move to commit it, and the question 
for commitment shall be first put.'' Scob., 46.

  These principles of priority of privileged motions are recognized in 
the House, and are provided for by clause 4 of rule XVI.

  We have <> hitherto considered the 
case of two or more of the privileged questions contending for privilege 
between themselves, when both are moved on the original or main 
question; but now let us suppose one of them to be moved, not on the 
original primary question, but on the secondary one, e.g.:
  Suppose a motion to postpone, commit, or amend the main question, and 
that it be moved to suppress that motion by putting a previous

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question on it. This is not allowed, because it would embarrass 
questions too much to allow them to be piled on one another several 
stories high; and the same result may be had in a more simple way--by 
deciding against the postponement, commitment, or amendment. 2. Hats., 
81, 2, 3, 4.

  Although the general principle that one secondary or privileged motion 
should not be applied to another is generally recognized in the House, 
the entire change in the nature of the previous question (V, 5445) from 
a means of postponing a matter to a means of compelling an immediate 
vote, makes obsolete the parliamentary rule. Because the motions to 
postpone, commit, and amend are all debatable, the modern previous 
question of course applies to them (clause 1 of rule XIX).

  Suppose a <> motion for the previous question, or commitment or 
amendment of the main question, and that it be then moved to postpone 
the motion for the previous question, or for commitment or amendment of 
the main question. 1. It would be absurd to postpone the previous 
question, commitment, or amendment, alone, and thus separate the 
appendage from its principal; yet it must be postponed separately from 
its original, if at all; because the eighth rule of the Senate says that 
when a main question is before the House no motion shall be received but 
to commit, amend, or pre-question the original question, which is the 
parliamentary doctrine also. Therefore the motion to postpone the 
secondary motion for the previous question, or for committing or 
amending, can not be received. 2. This is a piling of questions one on 
another; which, to avoid embarrassment, is not allowed. 3. The

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same result may be had more simply by voting against the previous 
question, commitment, or amendment.
  Suppose a commitment moved of a motion for the previous question, or 
to postpone or amend. The first, second, and third reasons, before 
stated, all hold against this.

  The principles of this paragraph are in harmony with the practice of 
the House, which provides further that a motion to suspend the rules may 
not be postponed (V, 5322).

  Suppose an <> amendment moved to a motion for the previous 
question. Answer: The previous question can not be amended. 
Parliamentary usage, as well as the ninth rule of the Senate, has fixed 
its form to be, ``Shall the main question be now put?''--i.e., at this 
instant; and as the present instant is but one, it can admit of no 
modification. To change it to to-morrow, or any other moment, is without 
example and without utility. * * *
  Although the nature of the previous question has entirely changed, the 
principle of the parliamentary law applies to the new form.

  * * * But suppose a <> motion to amend a motion for 
postponement, as to one day instead of another, or to a special instead 
of an indefinite time. The useful character of amendment gives it a 
privilege of attaching itself to a secondary and privileged motion; that 
is, we may amend a postponement of a main question. So, we may amend a 
commitment of a main question, as by adding,

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for example, ``with instructions to inquire,'' &c. * * *
  This principle is recognized in the practice of the House (V, 5521).

  * * * In like <> manner, if an amendment be moved to an amendment, it is 
admitted; but it would not be admitted in another degree, to wit, to 
amend an amendment to an amendment of a main question. This would lead 
to too much embarrassment. The line must be drawn somewhere, and usage 
has drawn it after the amendment to the amendment. The same result must 
be sought by deciding against the amendment to the amendment, and then 
moving it again as it was wished to be amended. In this form it becomes 
only an amendment to an amendment.

  This rule of the parliamentary law is considered fundamental in the 
House (clause 6 of rule XVI).

  [In filling <> a blank with a sum, the largest sum shall be first put to the 
question, by the thirteenth rule of the Senate, contrary to the rule of 
Parliament, which privileges the smallest sum and longest time. 5 Grey, 
179; 2 Hats., 8, 83; 3 Hats., 132, 133.] And this is considered to be 
not in the form of an amendment to the question, but as alternative or 
successive originals. In all cases of time or number, we must consider 
whether the larger comprehends the lesser, as in a question to what day 
a postponement shall be, the number of a committee, amount of a fine, 
term of an imprisonment, term of irredeemability of a loan, or the 
terminus in quem in any other case; then

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the question must begin a maximo. Or whether the lesser includes the 
greater, as in questions on the limitation of the rate of interest, on 
what day the session shall be closed by adjournment, on what day the 
next shall commence, when an act shall commence or the terminus a quo in 
any other case where the question must begin a minimo; the object being 
not to begin at that extreme which, and more, being within every man's 
wish, no one could negative it, and yet, if he should vote in the 
affirmative, every question for more would be precluded; but at that 
extreme which would unite few, and then to advance or recede till you 
get to a number which will unite a bare majority. 3 Grey, 376, 384, 385. 
``The fair question in this case is not that to which, and more, all 
will agree, but whether there shall be addition to the question.'' 1 
Grey, 365.

  The thirteenth rule of the Senate has been dropped. The House has no 
rule on the subject other than this provision of the parliamentary law. 
It is very rare for the House to fill blanks for numbers. When a number 
in pending text is to be changed by amendment, the practice of the House 
permits to be pending: the alternative number proposed in the amendment 
to the text; a second alternative number as an amendment to the 
amendment; a third as a substitute; and a fourth as an amendment to the 
substitute. Thus, if the pending text itself states a number, then five 
alternative numbers may be pending simultaneously. With respect to a 
concurrent resolution on the budget (which is considered as read and 
open to amendment at any point and to which amendments must be 
mathematically consistent under clause 10 of rule XVIII), adoption of a 
perfecting amendment changing several figures precludes further 
amendment merely changing those figures, but does not preclude more 
comprehensive amendments changing other portions of the resolution that 
have not been amended as well (Apr. 27, 1977, p. 12485). In recent 
practice an amount in an appropriation bill has been changed by 
inserting a parenthetical ``increased by'' or ``decreased by'' after the 
amount rather than by directly changing the number.


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  Another <> exception to the rule of priority is when a motion 
has been made to strike out, or agree to, a paragraph. Motions to amend 
it are to be put to the question before a vote is taken on striking out 
or agreeing to the whole paragraph.

  In the House the principle that a text should be perfected before a 
question is taken on striking it, and that an amendment should be 
perfected before agreeing to it, is well established. But in considering 
bills, even by paragraphs, the House does not agree to the paragraphs 
severally; but after amending one passes to the next, and the question 
on agreeing is taken only on the whole bill by the several votes on 
engrossment and passage.

  But there <> are 
several questions which, being incidental to every one, will take place 
of every one, privileged or not; to wit, a question of order arising out 
of any other question must be decided before that question. 2 Hats., 88.

  This principle governs the procedure of the House, but a question of 
order arising after a motion for the previous question must be decided 
without debate (clause 1 of rule XIX).
  A matter of <> privilege arising out of any question, or from a quarrel 
between two Members, or any other cause, supersedes the consideration of 
the original question, and must be first disposed of. 2 Hats., 88.

  Rule IX and the practice thereunder, confirm and amplify the 
principles of this provision of the parliamentary law.
<>   Reading papers relative to the question before the House. 
This question must be put before the principal one. 2 Hats., 88.


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  This provision formerly applied in the House to the reading of papers 
other than those on which the House was to vote. That was under an 
earlier form of clause 6 of rule XVII, which now applies only to the use 
of exhibits in debate. For a history of the former rule on reading 
papers and an explanation of the earlier practice, see Sec. Sec. 963-
965, infra.

  Leave asked <> to withdraw a 
motion. The rule of Parliament being that a motion made and seconded is 
in the possession of the House, and can not be withdrawn without leave, 
the very terms of the rule imply that leave may be given, and, 
consequently, may be asked and put to the question.

  The House does not vote on the withdrawal of motions, but provides by 
clause 2 of rule XVI and clause 5 of rule XVIII the conditions under 
which a Member may of right withdraw a motion.




                    sec. xxxiv--the previous question

  When any <> question is before the House, any Member may move a 
previous question, ``Whether that question (called the main question) 
shall now be put?'' If it pass in the affirmative, then the main 
question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak anything further 
to it, either to add or alter. Memor. in Hakew., 28; 4 Grey, 27.
  The previous <> question being moved and seconded, the question from the 
Chair shall be, ``Shall the main question be now put?'' and if the nays 
prevail, the main question shall not then be put.

  This kind of <> question is understood by Mr. Hatsell to have 
been introduced in 1604. 2 Hats., 80. Sir Henry Vane introduced it. 2 
Grey, 113, 114; 3

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Grey, 384. When the question was put in this form, ``Shall the main 
question be put?'' a determination in the negative suppressed the main 
question during the session; but since the words ``now put'' are used, 
they exclude it for the present only; formerly, indeed, only till the 
present debate was over, 4 Grey, 43, but now for that day and no longer. 
2 Grey, 113, 114.
  Before the question ``Whether the main question shall now be put?'' 
any person might formerly have spoken to the main question, because 
otherwise he would be precluded from speaking to it at all. Mem. in 
Hakew., 28.
  The proper occasion for the previous question is when a subject is 
brought forward of a delicate nature as to high personages, &c., or the 
discussion of which may call forth observations which might be of 
injurious consequences. Then the previous question is proposed, and in 
the modern usage the discussion of the main question is suspended and 
the debate confined to the previous question. The use of it has been 
extended abusively to other cases, but in these it has been an 
embarrassing procedure. Its uses would be as well answered by other more 
simple parliamentary forms, and therefore it should not be favored, but 
restricted within as narrow limits as possible.

  As explained in connection with clause 1 of rule XIX, the House has 
changed entirely the old use of the previous question (V, 5445).

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                          sec. xxxv--amendments

<>   On an amendment being moved, a 
Member who had spoken to the main question may speak again to the 
amendment. Scob., 23.

  This parliamentary rule applies in the House, where the hour rule of 
debate (clause 2 of rule XVII) has been in force since 1841. A Member 
who has spoken an hour to the main question, may speak another hour to 
an amendment (V, 4994; VIII, 2449).

  If an <> amendment be proposed 
inconsistent with one already agreed to, it is a fit ground for its 
rejection by the House, but not within the competence of the Speaker to 
suppress as if it were against order. For were he permitted to draw 
questions of consistence within the vortex or order, he might usurp a 
negative on important modifications, and suppress, instead of 
subserving, the legislative will.

  The practice of the House follows and extends the principle set forth 
by Jefferson. Thus it has been held that the fact that a proposed 
amendment is inconsistent with the text or embodies a proposition 
already voted (II, 1328-1336; VIII, 2834), or would in effect change a 
provision of text to which both Houses have agreed (II, 1335; V, 6183-
6185), or is contained in substance in a later portion of the bill (II, 
1327), is a matter to be passed on by the House rather than by the 
Speaker. It is for the House rather than the Speaker to decide on the 
legislative or legal effect of a proposition (II, 1323, 1324; VI, 254; 
VII, 2112; VIII, 2280, 2841), and the change of a single word in the 
text of a proposition may be sufficient to prevent the Speaker from 
ruling it out of order as one already disposed of by the House (II, 
1274). The principle has been the subject of conflicting decisions, from 
which may be deduced the rule that the Chair may not rule out the 
proposition unless it presents a substantially identical proposition 
(VI, 256; VIII, 2834, 2835, 2838, 2840, 2842, 2850, 2856).
  A perfecting amendment offered to an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute may be offered again as an amendment to the original bill if 
the amendment is first rejected or if the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute as perfected is rejected (Sept. 28, 1976, p. 33075). 
Rejection of

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an amendment consisting of two sections does not preclude one of those 
sections being subsequently offered as a separate amendment (July 15, 
1981, p. 15898), and the rejection of several amendments considered en 
bloc does not preclude their being offered separately at a subsequent 
time (Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 35.15; Nov. 4, 1991, p. 29932). A point of 
order against an amendment to a substitute does not lie merely because 
its adoption would have the same effect as the adoption of a pending 
amendment to the original amendment and would render the substitute as 
amended identical to the original amendment as amended (May 4, 1983, p. 
11059).

  Amendments may <> be made so as totally to alter 
the nature of the proposition; and it is a way of getting rid of a 
proposition by making it bear a sense different from what it was 
intended by the movers, so that they vote against it themselves. 2 
Hats., 79; 4, 82, 84. A new bill may be ingrafted, by way of amendment, 
on the words, ``Be it enacted,'' etc. 1 Grey, 190, 192.

  This was the rule of Parliament, which did not require an amendment to 
be germane (V, 5802, 5825). But the House from its first organization, 
has by rule required that an amendment should be germane to the pending 
proposition (clause 7 of rule XVI).

  If it be <> proposed to amend by leaving out certain words, it may be moved, 
as an amendment to this amendment, to leave out a part of the words of 
the amendment, which is equivalent to leaving them in the bill. 2 Hats., 
80, 9. The parliamentary question is, always, whether the words shall 
stand part of the bill.

  In the House the question herein described is never put, but is always 
whether the words shall be stricken; and if there is a desire that 
certain of the words included in the amendment remain part of the bill, 
it is expressed, not by amending the amendment, but by a preferential 
perfecting amendment to strike from the specified words in the text of 
the bill a portion of them. If this is carried that portion of the 
specified words is stricken from the bill and the vote then recurs on 
the original amendment (V, 5770). Where a motion to strike an entire 
title of a bill is pending,

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it is in order to offer, as a perfecting amendment to that title, a 
motion to strike a lesser portion thereof, and the perfecting amendment 
is voted on first (June 11, 1975, p. 18435). And when a motion to strike 
certain words is disagreed to, it is in order to move to strike a 
portion of those words (V, 5769); but when it is proposed to strike 
certain words in a paragraph, it is not in order to amend those words by 
including with them other words of the paragraph (V, 5768; VIII, 2848; 
June 2, 1976, pp. 16208-10). It is in order to insert by way of 
amendment a paragraph similar (but not actually identical) to one 
already stricken by amendment (V, 5760; Sept. 2, 1976, pp. 28939-58).

  When it is <> proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph, or 
part of one, the friends of the paragraph may make it as perfect as they 
can by amendments before the question is put for inserting it. If it be 
received, it cannot be amended afterward in the same stage, because the 
House has, on a vote, agreed to it in that form. In like manner, if it 
is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the 
paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments, 
before the question is put for striking it out. If on the question it be 
retained, it cannot be amended afterward, because a vote against 
striking out is equivalent to a vote agreeing to it in that form.

  These principles are recognized as in force in the House, with the 
exception that clause 5(c) of rule XVI specifically provides that the 
rejection of a motion to strike shall preclude neither amendment nor 
motion to strike and insert. However, after an amendment to insert has 
been agreed to, the matter inserted ordinarily may not then be amended 
(V, 5761-5763; VIII, 2852) in any way that would change its text. Where 
a special order of business provides that an amendment inserting a 
provision in the bill be considered as adopted, an amendment to strike 
that provision is not in order (May 23, 2002, pp. 8920-24). However, an 
amendment may be added at the end (V, 5759, 5764, 5765; Dec. 14, 1973, 
p. 41740; Oct. 1, 1974, p. 33364), even if the perfecting amendment that 
was adopted struck out all after the short title of the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute and inserted a new text (May 16, 1979, p. 11480). 
Although an amendment

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that has been adopted to an amendment (in the nature of a substitute) 
may not be further amended, another amendment adding language at the end 
of the amendment may still be offered (June 10, 1976, pp. 17368-75, 
17381; May 16, 1984, pp. 12566-67), and the Chair will not rule on the 
consistency of that language with the adopted amendment (June 10, 1976, 
p. 17381).
  Although it may be in order to offer an amendment to the pending 
portion of the bill that not only changes a provision already amended 
but also changes an unamended pending portion of the bill, it is not in 
order merely to amend portions of the bill that have been changed by 
amendment (Mar. 11, 1999, p. 4335), or to amend unamended portions that 
have been passed in the reading and are no longer open to amendment 
(July 12, 1983, p. 18771), or to amend a figure already amended 
(Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 33.2; July 17, 1995, p. 19186), even if also 
changing other matter not already amended, where drafted as though the 
earlier amendment had not been adopted (Mar. 15, 1995, p. 8025; Mar. 16, 
1995, p. 8110; Mar. 16, 1995, p. 8112; July 17, 1995, p. 19196). A point 
of order that a pending amendment proposes to change portions of the 
bill that have been changed by earlier amendment may be made after a 
unanimous-consent request to modify the amendment has been disposed of 
but before debate has begun (Mar. 11, 1999, p. 4335). Where the vote on 
an amendment to strike a section and insert new language is postponed by 
the chair of the Committee of the Whole, an amendment to strike the same 
section and insert different language is in order; and if both 
amendments are adopted, the second amendment adopted supersedes the 
first and is the only one reported to the House (Aug. 6, 1998, p. 
19125).
  When it is proposed to perfect a paragraph, a motion to strike it, if 
already pending, must remain in abeyance until the amendments to perfect 
have been moved and voted on (V, 5758; VIII, 2860; May 5, 1992, p. 
10110; Oct. 12, 1995, p. 27816; July 27, 1999, p. 18074). If further 
proceedings are postponed on the perfecting amendment, debate may 
continue on the underlying motion to strike (July 27, 1999). While 
amendments are pending to a section, a motion to strike it may not be 
offered (V, 5771; VIII, 2861; Sept. 23, 1982, p. 24963; July 25, 1995, 
p. 20299). The motion to strike may be voted on (if already pending) or 
subsequently offered after disposition of the perfecting amendment, so 
long as the provision sought to be stricken has not been rewritten 
entirely (Sept. 23, 1982, p. 24963; July 25, 1995, p. 20299). While a 
motion to strike is pending, it is in order to offer an amendment to 
perfect the language proposed to be stricken (Apr. 24, 1996, p. 8777); 
such an amendment, which is in the first degree, may be amended by a 
substitute, and amendments to the substitute are also in order (Oct. 19, 
1983, p. 28283), and such perfecting amendment, if agreed to when voted 
on first, remains part of the bill if the motion to strike is then 
rejected (Sept. 18, 1986, p. 28123). When a motion to strike a paragraph 
is pending and the paragraph is perfected by an amendment, striking and 
inserting an entire new text, the pending motion to

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strike must fall, because it would not be in order to strike exactly 
what has been just voted to insert (V, 5792; VIII, 2854; July 12, 1951, 
p. 8090; Sept. 23, 1975, p. 29835; Aug. 5, 1986, p. 19059; May 18, 1988, 
p. 11404; Apr. 24, 1996, p. 8781). A motion to strike and insert a 
portion of a pending section is not in order as a substitute for a 
motion to strike the section, but may be offered as a perfecting 
amendment to the section and is voted on first, subject to being 
eliminated by subsequent adoption of the motion to strike (July 16, 
1981, p. 16057).

  When it is <> moved to amend by striking 
out certain words and inserting others, the manner of stating the 
question is first to read the whole passage to be amended as it stands 
at present, then the words proposed to be struck out, next those to be 
inserted, and lastly the whole passage as it will be when amended. And 
the question, if desired, is then to be divided, and put first on 
striking out. If carried, it is next on inserting the words proposed. If 
that be lost, it may be moved to insert others. 2 Hats., 80, 7.

  Clause 5(c) of rule XVI provides that the motion to strike and insert 
is not divisible. As to the manner of stating the question, the Clerk 
reads only the words to be stricken and the words to be inserted.

  A motion <> is made to amend by striking out certain words and 
inserting others in their place, which is negatived. Then it is moved to 
strike out the same words, and to insert others of a tenor entirely 
different from those first proposed. It is negatived. Then it is moved 
to strike out the same words and insert nothing, which is agreed to. All 
this is admissible, because to strike out and insert A is one 
proposition. To strike out and insert B is a different proposition. And 
to strike out and insert nothing is still different.

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And the rejection of one proposition does not preclude the offering a 
different one. Nor would it change the case were the first motion 
divided by putting the question first on striking out, and that 
negatived; for, as putting the whole motion to the question at once 
would not have precluded, the putting the half of it cannot do it.

  As to Jefferson's supposition that the principle would hold good in 
case of division of the motion to strike and insert it is not necessary 
to inquire, because clause 5(c) of rule XVI forbids division of that 
motion. In a footnote Jefferson expressed himself as follows: ``In the 
case of a division of the question, and a decision against striking out, 
I advanced doubtingly the opinion here expressed. I find no authority 
either way, and I know it may be viewed under a different aspect. It may 
be thought that, having decided separately not to strike the passage, 
the same question for striking out cannot be put over again, though with 
a view to a different insertion. Still I think it more reasonable and 
convenient to consider the striking out and insertion as forming one 
proposition, but should readily yield to any evidence that the contrary 
is the practice in Parliament.'' Where two amendments proposing 
inconsistent motions to strike and insert a pending section are 
considered as separate first degree amendments (not one as a substitute 
for the other) before either is finally disposed of under a special 
procedure permitting the Chair to postpone requests for a recorded vote, 
the Chair's order of voting on the matter as unfinished business 
determines which amendment (if both were adopted) would be reported to 
the House (Aug. 6, 1998, pp. 19098-107).
  The principle <> set forth by Jefferson as to repetition of the motion to 
strike prevails in the House, where it has been held in order, after the 
failure of a motion to strike certain words, to move to strike a portion 
of those words (V, 5769; VIII, 2858). When a bill is under consideration 
by paragraphs, a motion to strike can apply only to the paragraph under 
consideration (V, 5774).

  But if <> it had been carried affirmatively to strike out the 
words and to insert A, it could not afterward be permitted to strike out 
A and insert B. The mover of B should have notified, while the insertion 
of A was under debate, that he would

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move to insert B; in which case those who preferred it would join in 
rejecting A.

  This principle controls the practice of the House (July 17, 1985, p. 
19444; July 18, 1985, p. 19649; Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 31.14).

  After A <> is inserted, however, it may be moved to strike out a 
portion of the original paragraph, comprehending A, provided the 
coherence to be struck out be so substantial as to make this effectively 
a different proposition; for then it is resolved into the common case of 
striking out a paragraph after amending it. Nor does anything forbid a 
new insertion, instead of A and its coherence.

  Although it is not in order to move to strike a provision inserted by 
amendment (Oct. 9, 1985, p. 26957), a motion to strike more than that 
provision inserted would be in order (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11536). But an 
amendment to strike the pending title of a bill and re-insert all 
sections of that title except one is not in order if that section has 
previously been amended in its entirety (Aug. 1, 1975, p. 26946).

  In Senate, <> January 25, 1798, a motion to postpone until the second Tuesday 
in February some amendments proposed to the Constitution; the words 
``until the second Tuesday in February'' were struck out by way of 
amendment. Then it was moved to add, ``until the first day of June.'' 
Objected that it was not in order, as the question should be first put 
on the longest time; therefore, after a shorter time decided against, a 
longer cannot be put to question. It was answered that this rule takes 
place only in filling blanks for time. But when a specific time stands 
part of a motion, that may be struck out as well

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as any other part of the motion; and when struck out, a motion may be 
received to insert any other. In fact, it is not until they are struck 
out, and a blank for the time thereby produced, that the rule can begin 
to operate, by receiving all the propositions for different times, and 
putting the questions successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be 
in the power of the mover by inserting originally a short time, to 
preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck 
out, you cannot insert a longer; and if, after it is struck out, you 
cannot do it, then it cannot be done at all. Suppose the first motion 
had been made to amend by striking out ``the second Tuesday in 
February,'' and inserting instead thereof ``the first of June,'' it 
would have been regular, then, to divide the question, by proposing 
first the question to strike out, and then that to insert. Now, this is 
precisely the effect of the present proceeding; only, instead of one 
motion and two questions, there are two motions and two questions to 
effect it--the motion being divided as well as the question.

  The principles of this paragraph have been followed in the House (V, 
5763; Aug. 16, 1961, p. 16059), but in one case wherein words embodying 
a distinct substantive proposition had been agreed to as an amendment to 
a paragraph, it was held not in order to strike a part of the words of 
this amendment with other words of the paragraph (V, 5766).
  The motion to strike and insert may not be divided in the House 
(clause 5(c) of rule XVI).

  When the <> matter 
contained in two bills might be better put into one, the manner is to 
reject the one and incorporate its matter into another bill by way of 
amend

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ment. So if the matter of one bill would be better distributed into two, 
any part may be struck out by way of amendment, and put into a new bill. 
* * *

  In the modern practice each bill comes before the House by itself; and 
if it were proposed to join one bill to another it would be done by 
offering the text of the one as an amendment to the other, without 
disturbing the first bill in its place on the calendar. The Committee on 
Rules may report a special order providing for separate consideration of 
two or more bills and, after passage of each, ``linking'' them by adding 
the text of the subsequent bills to the engrossment of the first, 
sometimes tabling the separate versions of the subsequent bills (e.g., 
June 16, 1999, p. 13080).

  * * * If a <> section is to be transposed, a question must be put on striking 
it out where it stands and another for inserting it in the place 
desired.

  This principle is followed in the practice of the House (V, 5775, 
5776).

  A bill <> passed by the one House with blanks. These may be filled up by 
the other by way of amendments, returned to the first as such, and 
passed 3 Hats., 83.
  The number <> prefixed to the section of a bill, be merely a marginal 
indication, and no part of the text of the bill, the Clerk regulates 
that--the House or committee is only to amend the text.

  In the modern practice of the House, section numbers and other 
internal references are considered as part of the text that may be 
altered by amendment. The House sometimes authorizes the Clerk to make 
appropriate changes in section numbers, paragraphs and punctuation, and 
cross references when preparing the engrossment of the bill. Such a 
request is properly made in the House, following passage of the bill 
(Apr. 29, 1969, p. 10753).

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                  sec. xxxvi--division of the question

  If a question <> contain more parts than one, it may be divided into two or 
more questions. Mem. in Hakew., 29. But not as the right of an 
individual member, but with the consent of the House. For who is to 
decide whether a question is complicated or not--where it is 
complicated--into how many propositions it may be divided? The fact is, 
that the only mode of separating a complicated question is by moving 
amendments to it; and these must be decided by the House, on a question, 
unless the House orders it to be divided; as, on the question, December 
2, 1640, making void the election of the knights for Worcester, on a 
motion it was resolved to make two questions of it, to wit, one on each 
knight. 2 Hats., 85, 86. So, wherever there are several names in a 
question, they may be divided and put one by one. 9 Grey, 444. So, 1729, 
April 17, on an objection that a question was complicated, it was 
separated by amendment. 2 Hats., 79.

  The House, by clause 5 of rule XVI and the practice thereunder, has 
entitled a procedure differing materially from that above set forth. 
Although a resolution electing Members to committees is not divisible 
(clause 5 of rule XVI), other types of resolutions containing several 
names may be divided for voting (Mar. 19, 1975, p. 7344).

  The soundness <> of these observations will be evident from the 
embarrassments produced by the XVIIIth rule of the Senate, which says, 
``if the question in debate contains several points, any member may have 
the same divided.''

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  1798, May 30, the alien bill in quasi-committee. To a section and 
proviso in the original, had been added two new provisos by way of 
amendment. On a motion to strike out the section as amended, the 
question was desired to be divided. To do this it must be put first on 
striking out either the former proviso, or some distinct member of the 
section. But when nothing remains but the last member of the section and 
the provisos, they cannot be divided so as to put the last member to 
question by itself, for the provisos might thus be left standing alone 
as exceptions to a rule when the rule is taken away; or the new provisos 
might be left to a second question, after having been decided on once 
before at the same reading, which is contrary to rule. But the question 
must be on striking out the last member of the section as amended. This 
sweeps away the exceptions with the rule, and relieves from 
inconsistence. A question to be divisible must comprehend points so 
distinct and entire that one of them being taken away, the other may 
stand entire. But a proviso or exception, without an enacting clause, 
does not contain an entire point or proposition.
  May 31.--The same bill being before the Senate. There was a proviso 
that the bill should not extend--1. To any foreign minister; nor, 2. To 
any person to whom the President should give a passport; nor, 3. To any 
alien merchant conforming himself to such regulations as the President 
shall prescribe; and a division of the question into its simplest 
elements was called for. It

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was divided into four parts, the 4th taking in the words ``conforming 
himself,'' &c. It was objected that the words ``any alien merchant,'' 
could not be separated from their modifying words, ``conforming,'' &c., 
because these words, if left by themselves, contain no substantive idea, 
will make no sense. But admitting that the divisions of a paragraph into 
separate questions must be so made as that each part may stand by 
itself, yet the House having, on the question, retained the two first 
divisions, the words ``any alien merchant'' may be struck out, and their 
modifying words will then attach themselves to the preceding description 
of persons, and become a modification of that description.
  When a <> question is divided, after the question on the 1st member, 
the 2d is open to debate and amendment; because it is a known rule that 
a person may rise and speak at any time before the question has been 
completely decided, by putting the negative as well as the affirmative 
side. But the question is not completely put when the vote has been 
taken on the first member only. One-half the question, both affirmative 
and negative, remains still to be put. See Execut. Jour., June 25, 1795. 
The same decision by President Adams.

  Where a division of the question is demanded on a portion of an 
amendment, the Chair puts the question first on the remaining portions 
of the amendment, and that portion on which the division is demanded 
remains open for further debate and amendment (Oct. 21, 1981, p. 24785). 
However, where neither portion of a divided question remains open to 
further debate or amendment, the question may be put first on the 
portion identified by the demand for division and then on the remainder 
(June 8, 1995, p. 15302).

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                    sec. xxxvii--coexisting questions

  It may be <> asked whether the House can be in possession of two motions 
or propositions at the same time? so that, one of them being decided, 
the other goes to question without being moved anew? The answer must be 
special. When a question is interrupted by a vote of adjournment, it is 
thereby removed from before the House, and does not stand ipso facto 
before them at their next meeting, but must come forward in the usual 
way. So, when it is interrupted by the order of the day. Such other 
privileged questions also as dispose of the main question (e.g., the 
previous question, postponement, or commitment), remove it from before 
the House. But it is only suspended by a motion to amend, to withdraw, 
to read papers, or by a question of order or privilege, and stands again 
before the House when these are decided. None but the class of 
privileged questions can be brought forward while there is another 
question before the House, the rule being that when a motion has been 
made and seconded, no other can be received except it be a privileged 
one.

  The principles of this provision must, of course, be viewed in the 
light of a more highly perfected order of business than existed in 
Jefferson's time (rule XIV). The motion to withdraw is not known in the 
practice of the House, not being among the motions enumerated in clause 
4 of rule XVI, but a motion before the House may be withdrawn by the 
mover thereof before a decision is reached (clause 2 of rule XVI).

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                   sec. xxxviii--equivalent questions

  If, on a <> question for rejection, a bill be retained, it 
passes, of course, to its next reading. Hakew., 141; Scob., 42. And a 
question for a second reading, determined negatively, is a rejection 
without further question. 4 Grey, 149. And see Elsynge's Memor., 42, in 
what case questions are to be taken for rejection.

  The House has abandoned the question ``Shall the bill be rejected?'' 
(IV, 3391), and the question is now taken in accordance with clause 8 of 
rule XVI. A vote is not taken on the second reading, the first test 
coming in the modern practice of the House on the engrossment and third 
reading.

  Where questions <> are perfectly equivalent, so that the negative of the one 
amounts to the affirmative of the other, and leaves no other 
alternative, the decision of the one concludes necessarily the other. 4 
Grey, 157. Thus the negative of striking out amounts to the affirmative 
of agreeing; and therefore to put a question on agreeing after that on 
striking out, would be to put the same question in effect twice over. 
Not so in questions of amendments between the two Houses. A motion to 
recede being negatived, does not amount to a positive vote to insist, 
because there is another alternative, to wit, to adhere.

  The principles set forth in this paragraph are recognized by the 
practice of the House; but Jefferson's use of the motion to strike as an 
illustration is no longer justified, because the practice of the House 
under clause 5(c) of rule XVI does not permit the negative of the motion 
to strike to be equivalent to the affirmative of agreeing.


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  A bill <> originating in one House is passed by the other with an 
amendment. A motion in the originating House to agree to the amendment 
is negatived. Does there result from this a vote of disagreement, or 
must the question on disagreement be expressly voted? The question 
respecting amendments from another House are--1st, to agree; 2d, 
disagree; 3d, recede; 4th, insist; 5th, adhere.

  In the House and the Senate the order of precedence of motions is as 
given in the parliamentary law, and the motions take precedence in that 
order without regard to the order in which they are moved (V, 6270, 
6324). But a motion to amend an amendment of the other House has 
precedence of the motion to agree or disagree either before the stage of 
disagreement has been reached or after the House has receded from its 
disagreement (V, 6164, 6169-6171; VIII, 3203) even after the previous 
question has been ordered on both motions before the question is divided 
(Feb. 12, 1923, p. 3512). See also the discussion in Sec. 525, infra. 
But it has been held that when the previous question has been demanded 
or ordered on a motion to concur, a motion to amend is not in order (V, 
5488). The motion to refer also takes precedence of the motions to agree 
or disagree (V, 6172-6174), but the demanding or ordering of the 
previous question does not prevent a motion to refer (V, 5575). The 
motion to refer takes precedence of the motions to agree or disagree 
and, under clause 2 of rule XIX is in order pending a demand for or 
after the ordering of the previous question, before the stage of 
disagreement has been reached (V, 5575, 6172-6174), but not after the 
stage of disagreement when the most preferential motion tending to bring 
the two Houses together is already pending (Speaker Albert, Sept. 16, 
1976, p. 30887).

  1st. To <> agree; 2d. To disagree.--Either of these 
concludes the other necessarily, for the positive of either is exactly 
the equivalent to the negative of the other, and no other alternative 
remains. On either motion amendments to the amendment may be proposed; 
e.g., if it be moved to disagree, those who are for the amendment have a 
right

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to propose amendments, and to make it as perfect as they can, before the 
question of disagreeing is put.
  3d. To recede.--You <> may then either insist or 
adhere.                         4th. To insist.--You may then either 
recede or adhere.
  5th. To adhere.--You may then either recede or insist.
  Consequently the negative of these is not equivalent to a positive 
vote the other way. It does not raise so necessary an implication as may 
authorize the Secretary by inference to enter another vote; for two 
alternatives still remain, either of which may be adopted by the House.

  Under the earlier practice in the House it was held that voting down 
the motion to recede and concur was tantamount to insistence but not the 
equivalent of adherence (Speaker Clark, July 2, 1918, p. 8648). But the 
more recent practice is that when the House disagrees to a motion to 
recede and concur in a Senate amendment some further action must be 
taken to dispose of the amendment (Speaker Bankhead, July 9, 1937, p. 
7007; Speaker McCormack, Sept. 19, 1962, p. 19945) and the question may 
recur on a pending motion to insist or such a motion is then entertained 
from the floor (Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7.21; Speaker Albert, June 
25, 1973, p. 21172).




                        sec. xxxix--the question

<>   The question is to be put 
first on the affirmative, and then on the
negative side.

  Clause 6 of rule I provides more fully for putting the question.


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  After the <> Speaker has put the affirmative part of the question, any 
Member who has not spoken before to the question may rise and speak 
before the negative be put; because it is no full question till the 
negative part be put. Scob., 23; 2 Hats., 73.

  After the Chair has put the affirmative part of the question, any 
Member who seeks to debate the matter or offer a motion may be 
recognized (V, 5925; June 22, 2006, pp. 12298, 12299), and such 
recognition is not subject to appeal (June 22, 2006, p. 12299). On one 
occasion, the Chair refused to entertain a motion to lay on the table 
after putting the affirmative part of the pending question where the 
Chair had affirmed the admissibility of that motion before putting the 
main question, and that motion nevertheless was not then offered (Sept. 
20, 1979, p. 25512). Where not pertinent to the pending parliamentary 
situation, a parliamentary inquiry regarding whether the Chair heard the 
ayes on a prematurely-commenced vote by voice was not entertained (June 
22, 2006, p. 12299).

  But in <> small 
matters, and which are of course, such as receiving petitions, reports, 
withdrawing motions, reading papers, &c., the Speaker most commonly 
supposes the consent of the House where no objection is expressed, and 
does not give them the trouble of putting the question formally. Scob., 
22; 2 Hats., 79, 2, 87; 5 Grey, 129; 9 Grey, 301.




                      sec. xl--bills, third reading

  To prevent <> bills from being passed by surprise, the House, by a 
standing order, directs that they shall not be put on their passage 
before a fixed hour, naming one at which the house is commonly full. 
Hakew., 153.
  The usage of the Senate is not to put bills on their passage till 
noon.

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  A bill reported and passed to the third reading, cannot on that day be 
read the third time and passed; because this would be to pass on two 
readings in the same day.
  At the <> third reading the Clerk reads the bill and delivers it to the 
Speaker, who states the title, that it is the third time of reading the 
bill, and that the question will be whether it shall pass. Formerly the 
Speaker, or those who prepared a bill, prepared also a breviate or 
summary statement of its contents, which the Speaker read when he 
declared the state of the bill, at the several readings. Sometimes, 
however, he read the bill itself, especially on its passage. Hakew., 
136, 137, 153; Coke, 22, 115. Latterly, instead of this, he, at the 
third reading, states the whole contents of the bill verbatim, only, 
instead of reading the formal parts, ``Be it enacted,'' &c., he states 
that ``preamble recites so and so--the 1st section enacts that, &c. the 
2d section enacts,'' &c.
  But in the Senate of the United States, both of these formalities are 
dispensed with; the breviate presenting but an imperfect view of the 
bill, and being capable of being made to present a false one; and the 
full statement being a useless waste of time, immediately after a full 
reading by the Clerk, and especially as every member has a printed copy 
in his hand.

  These restrictions are not in effect in the modern practice of the 
House and therefore a bill may be read a third time and passed on the 
same day. Clause 8 of rule XVI provides for the third reading by title 
and not by the presentation of an abbreviated summary.


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  A bill on <> the third reading is not to be committed for the matter or 
body thereof, but to receive some particular clause or proviso, it hath 
been sometimes suffered, but as a thing very unusual. Hakew., 156. Thus, 
27 El., 1584, a bill was committed on the third reading, having been 
formerly committed on the second, but is declared not usual. D'Ewes, 
337, col. 2; 414, col. 2.

  In the House it is in order to commit a bill after the engrossment and 
third reading if the previous question is not ordered (V, 5562); and by 
clause 2 of rule XIX the House has preserved this opportunity to commit 
even after the previous question has been ordered.

  When an <> essential provision has been omitted, rather than erase the 
bill and render it suspicious, they add a clause on a separate paper, 
engrossed and called a rider, which is read and put to the question 
three times. Elsynge's Memo., 59; 6 Grey, 335; 1 Blackst., 183. For 
examples of riders, see 3 Hats., 121, 122, 124, 156. Every one is at 
liberty to bring in a rider without asking leave. 10 Grey, 52.

  This practice is never followed in the House.

  It is <> laid down, as a general rule, that amendments proposed at 
the second reading shall be twice read, and those proposed at the third 
reading thrice read; as also all amendments from the other House. Town., 
col. 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

  In the practice of the House, amendments, whether offered in the House 
or coming from the other House, do not come under the rule requiring 
different readings.


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  It is <> with 
great and almost invincible reluctance that amendments are admitted at 
this reading, which occasion erasures or interlineations. Sometimes a 
proviso has been cut off from a bill; sometimes erased. 9 Grey, 513.
  This is the proper stage for filling up blanks; for if filled up 
before, and now altered by erasure, it would be peculiarly unsafe.

  In the House bills are amended after the second reading (IV, 3392), 
and before the engrossment and third reading (V, 5781; VII, 1051, 1052) 
but not afterwards. Under modern practice of the House, readings are 
governed by clause 8 of rule XVI and clause 5 of rule XVIII.

  At this <> reading the bill is debated afresh, and for the most part is 
more spoken to at this time than on any of the former readings. Hakew., 
153.
  The debate on the question whether it should be read a third time, has 
discovered to its friends and opponents the arguments on which each side 
relies, and which of these appear to have influence with the House; they 
have had time to meet them with new arguments, and to put their old ones 
into new shapes. The former vote has tried the strength of the first 
opinion, and furnished grounds to estimate the issue; and the question 
now offered for its passage is the last occasion which is ever to be 
offered for carrying or rejecting it.

  In the House it is usual to debate a bill before and not after the 
engrossment and third reading, probably because of the frequent use of 
the previous question, which prevents all debate after it is ordered. 
When the previous question is not ordered, debate may occur pending the 
vote on passage.


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  When the <> debate is ended, the Speaker, holding the bill in his hand, puts 
the question for its passage, by saying, ``Gentlemen, all you who are of 
opinion that this bill shall pass, say aye;'' and after the answer of 
the ayes, ``All those of the contrary opinion, say no.'' Hakew., 154.

  In the House the bill is usually in the custody of the Clerk. The 
Speaker states that ``The question is on the passage of the bill,'' and 
puts the question in the form prescribed by clause 6 of rule I.

<>   After the 
bill is passed, there can be no further alteration of it in any
point. Hakew., 159.

  This principle controls the practice of the House. However, a bill may 
be changed if the votes on passage, engrossment, and ordering the 
previous question have been reconsidered. In addition, the Clerk may be 
authorized to make changes in the engrossed copy by unanimous consent or 
by special order of business. Title amendments are transacted following 
passage (Sec. 512, infra).




                     sec. xli--division of the house

  The affirmative and <> negative of the question having been both put 
and answered, the Speaker declares whether the yeas or nays have it by 
the sound, if he be himself satisfied, and it stands as the judgment of 
the House. But if he be not himself satisfied which voice is the 
greater, or if before any other Member comes into the House, or before 
any new motion made (for it is too late after that), any Member shall 
arise and declare himself dissatisfied with the Speaker's decision, then 
the Speaker is to divide the House. Scob., 24; 2 Hats., 140.


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  This practice is provided for in different language by clause 6 of 
rule I.

  When the <> House of Commons is divided, the one 
party goes forth, and the other remains in the House. This has made it 
important which go forth and which remain; because the latter gain all 
the indolent, the indifferent, and inattentive. Their general rule, 
therefore, is that those who give their vote for the preservation of the 
orders of the House shall stay in, and those who are for introducing any 
new matter or alteration, or proceeding contrary to the established 
course, are to go out. But this rule is subject to many exceptions and 
modifications. 2 Hats., 134; 1 Rush., p. 3, fol. 92; Scob., 43, 52; Co., 
12, 116; D'Ewes, 505, col. 1; Mem. in Hakew., 25, 29.
  The one party being gone forth, the Speaker names two tellers from the 
affirmative and two from the negative side, who first count those 
sitting in the House and report the number to the Speaker. Then they 
place themselves within the door, two on each side, and count those who 
went forth as they come in and report the number to the Speaker. Mem. in 
Hakew., 26.

  In modern practice in the House of Commons, once the Chair determines 
a sufficient request for a ``division,'' all Members leave the Chamber 
and are recorded in the yes and no division lobbies. In the House of 
Representatives, the provision in former clause 5 of rule I that 
provided for teller votes was repealed by the 103d Congress. Under the 
former procedure tellers took their place at the rear of the center 
aisle when named by the Chair, and Members passed between them to be 
counted but not recorded by name. Clause 1(b) of rule XX provides for 
taking a recorded vote by means of the electronic voting system when 
supported by one-fifth of a quorum.


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<>   
A mistake in the report of the tellers may be rectified after the report 
made. 2 Hats., 145, note.
* * * * *
  When it <> is proposed to 
take the vote by yeas and nays, the President or Speaker states that 
``the question is whether, e.g., the bill shall pass--that it is 
proposed that the yeas and nays shall be entered on the journal. Those, 
therefore, who desire it will rise.'' If he finds and declares that one-
fifth have risen, he then states that ``those who are of opinion that 
the bill shall pass are to answer in the affirmative; those of the 
contrary opinion in the negative.'' The Clerk then calls over the names 
alphabetically, notes the yea or nay of each, and gives the list to the 
President or Speaker, who declares the result. In the Senate if there be 
an equal division the Secretary calls on the Vice-President and notes 
his affirmative or negative, which becomes the decision of the House.

  In the House tellers were sometimes, though rarely, ordered to 
determine whether one-fifth joined in the demand for the yeas and nays 
(V, 6045) but in the later practice the Speaker's count is not subject 
to verification (VIII, 3114-3118), and it is not in order to demand a 
rising vote of those opposed on a count by the Speaker to ascertain if 
one-fifth concur in demand for yeas and nays (VIII, 3112, 3113). Clause 
1 of rule XX provides the method for taking the yeas and nays in the 
modern practice; but under clause 2 of that rule both the yeas and nays 
and calls of the House are taken by means of the electronic voting 
system unless the Speaker discretionarily orders the utilization of 
other prescribed procedures.

  In the <> House of Commons every member must give his vote the one way or 
the other, Scob., 24, as it is not permitted to anyone to withdraw who

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is in the House when the question is put, nor is anyone to be told in 
the division who was not in when the question was put. 2 Hats., 140.
  This last position is always true when the vote is by yeas and nays; 
where the negative as well as affirmative of the question is stated by 
the President at the same time, and the vote of both sides begins and 
proceeds pari passu. It is true also when the question is put in the 
usual way, if the negative also has been put; but if it has not, the 
member entering, or any other member may speak, and even propose 
amendments, by which the debate may be opened again, and the question be 
greatly deferred. And as some who have answered aye may have been 
changed by the new arguments, the affirmative must be put over gain. If, 
then, the member entering may, by speaking a few words, occasion a 
repetition of a question, it would be useless to deny it on his simple 
call for it.

  Clause 1 of rule III requires Members to vote; but no rule excludes 
from voting those not present at the putting of the question, and this 
requirement of the parliamentary law is not observed in the House. No 
attempt is made to prevent Members from withdrawing after a question is 
put, unless there be a question as to a quorum, when the House proceeds 
under clauses 5 and 6 of rule XX.

  While the <> House is telling, no member may speak or move out of his 
place, for if any mistake be suspected it must be told again. Mem. in 
Hakew., 26; 2 Hats., 143.

  This rule applies in the House on a vote by division, where the 
Speaker counts; but did not apply to the former vote by tellers, where 
Members passed between tellers at the rear of the center aisle to be 
counted.


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  If any <> difficulty arises in point of order during the division, the 
Speaker is to decide peremptorily, subject to the future censure of the 
House if irregular. He sometimes permits old experienced members to 
assist him with their advice, which they do sitting in their seats, 
covered, to avoid the appearance of debate; but this can only be with 
the Speaker's leave, else the division might last several hours. 2 
Hats., 143.

  Members no longer sit with their hats on (clause 5 of rule XVII) and 
rise to speak; respectfully addressing their remarks to the Speaker 
(clause 1 of rule XVII).

  The voice <> of the majority decides; for the lex majoris partis is the law 
of all councils, elections, &c., where not otherwise expressly provided. 
Hakew., 93. But if the House be equally divided, semper presuamtur pro 
negante; that is, the former law is not to be changed but by a majority. 
Towns., col. 134.

  The House provides also by rule (clause 1 of rule XX) that in the case 
of a tie vote the question shall be lost.-
  The House, <> however, requires a 
two-thirds vote on a motion to suspend the rules (clause 1 of rule XV), 
on a motion to dispense with the call of the Private Calendar on the 
first Tuesday of each month (clause 5 of rule XV), and to consider a 
special rule immediately (clause 6 of rule XIII), and the Constitution 
of the United States requires two-thirds votes for the expulsion of a 
Member, passing vetoed bills, removing political disabilities, and 
passing joint resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution.-
  The standing <> rules also 
require a three-fifths vote for passage or adoption of a bill, a joint 
resolution, an amendment thereto, or a conference report thereon, if 
carrying a Federal income tax rate increase (clause 5(b) of rule XXI).


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  When from <> counting the House on a division it appears that there is not 
a quorum, the matter continues exactly in the state in which it was 
before the division, and must be resumed at that point on any future 
day. 2 Hats., 126.

  Although under the rules first adopted in the 95th Congress it is not 
in order to make or entertain a point of no quorum unless the question 
has been put on the pending motion or proposition, if a quorum in fact 
does not respond on a call of the House or on a vote, even the most 
highly privileged business must terminate (IV, 2934; VI, 662) and even 
debate must stop until a quorum is established (see IV, 2935-2949). No 
motion is entertained in the absence of a quorum other than a motion 
relating to the call of the House or to adjourn (IV, 2950; VI, 680). 
Even in the closing hours of a Congress business has been stopped by the 
failure of a quorum (V, 6309; Oct. 18, 1972, p. 37199).

  1606, May 1, <> on a question 
whether a Member having said yea may afterwards sit and change his 
opinion, a precedent was remembered by the Speaker, of Mr. Morris, 
attorney of the wards, in 39 Eliz., who in like case changed his 
opinion. Mem. in Hakew., 27.

  The House is governed in this respect by the practice under clause 2 
of rule XX.




                            sec. xlii--titles

  After the <> bill 
has passed, and not before, the title may be amended, and is to be fixed 
by a question; and the bill is then sent to the other House.

  The House by clause 6 of rule XVI embodies this principle with an 
additional provision as to debate.

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                       sec. xliii--reconsideration

  1798, Jan. <> A bill on its second reading being amended, and on 
the question whether it shall be read a third time negatived, was 
restored by a decision to reconsider that question. Here the votes of 
negative and reconsideration, like positive and negative quantities in 
equation, destroy one another, and are as if they were expunged from the 
journals. Consequently the bill is open for amendment, just so far as it 
was the moment preceding the question for the third reading; that is to 
say, all parts of the bill are open for amendment except those on which 
votes have been already taken in its present stage. So, also, it may be 
recommitted.
  The rule permitting a reconsideration of a question affixing it to no 
limitation of time or circumstance, it may be asked whether there is no 
limitation? If, after the vote, the paper on which it is passed has been 
parted with, there can be no reconsideration, as if a vote has been for 
the passage of a bill and the bill has been sent to the other House. But 
where the paper remains, as on a bill rejected, when or under what 
circumstances does it cease to be susceptible of reconsideration? This 
remains to be settled, unless a sense that the right of reconsideration 
is a right to waste the time of the House in repeated agitations of the 
same question, so that it shall never know when a question is done

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with, should induce them to reform this anomalous proceeding.

  The House provides for reconsideration by clause 3 of rule XIX.

  In Parliament <> a question once carried can not be questioned again 
at the same session, but must stand as the judgment of the House. 
Towns., col. 67; Mem. in Hakew., 33. * * *
  * * * And a <> bill once rejected, another of the same 
substance can not be brought in again the same session. Hakew., 158; 6 
Grey, 392. But this does not extend to prevent putting the same question 
in different stages of a bill, because every stage of a bill submits the 
whole and every part of it to the opinion of the House as open for 
amendment, either by insertion or omission, though the same amendment 
has been accepted or rejected in a former stage. So in reports of 
committees, e.g., report of an address, the same question is before the 
House, and open for free discussion. Towns., col. 26; 2 Hats., 98, 100, 
101. So orders of the House or instructions to committees may be 
discharged. So a bill, begun in one House and sent to the other and 
there rejected, may be renewed again in that other, passed, and sent 
back. Ib., 92; 3 Hats., 161. Or if, instead of being rejected, they read 
it once and lay it aside or amend it and put it off a month, they may 
order in another to the same effect, with the same or a different title. 
Hakew., 97, 98.

  In the House, with its rule for reconsideration, there is rarely an 
attempt to bring forward a bill once rejected at the same session. One 
instance

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is recorded (IV, 3384), but the House has declined to consider a bill 
brought forward after a rejection (IV, 3384; Mar. 9, 1910, p. 2966). The 
Committee on Rules may report as privileged a resolution making in order 
the consideration of a measure of the same substance as one previously 
rejected and to rescind or vacate the action whereby the House had 
rejected a measure (VIII, 3391; Mar. 17, 1976, p. 6776); and a special 
order of business nearly identical to one previously rejected by the 
House, but providing a different scheme for general debate, was held not 
to violate this section (July 27, 1993, p. 17115).

  Divers expedients <> are used to correct the effects of this rule, 
as, by passing an explanatory act, if anything has been omitted or ill 
expressed, 3 Hats., 278, or an act to enforce and make more effectual an 
act, &c., or to rectify mistakes in an act, &c., or a committee on one 
bill may be instructed to receive a clause to rectify the mistakes of 
another. Thus, June 24, 1685, a clause was inserted in a bill for 
rectifying a mistake committed by a clerk in engrossing a bill of 
supply. 2 Hats., 194, 6. Or the session may be closed for one, two, 
three, or more days and a new one commenced. But then all matters 
depending must be finished, or they fall, and are to begin de novo. 2 
Hats., 94, 98. Or a part of the subject may be taken up by another bill 
or taken up in a different way. 6 Grey, 304, 316.
  And in <> cases of the last magnitude this rule has not 
been so strictly and verbally observed as to stop indispensable 
proceedings altogether. 2 Hats., 92, 98. Thus when the address on the 
preliminaries of peace in 1782 had been lost by a majority of one, on 
account of the importance of the question and smallness of the majority, 
the

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same question in substance, though with some words not in the first, and 
which might change the opinion of some Members, was brought on again and 
carried, as the motives for it were thought to outweigh the objection of 
form. 2 Hats, 99, 100.
  A second <> bill may 
be passed to continue an act of the same session or to enlarge the time 
limited for its execution. 2 Hats., 95, 98. This is not in contradiction 
to the first act.

  The House has by a joint resolution corrected an error in a bill that 
had gone to the President (IV, 3519).




                sec. xliv--bills sent to the other house

<>   A 
bill from the other House is sometimes ordered to lie on the table. 2 
Hats., 97.

  This principle is recognized in the practice of the House, both as to 
Senate bills (IV, 3418, 3419; V, 5437), and as to House bills returned 
with Senate amendments (V, 5424, 6201-6203). The motion to lay on the 
table Senate amendments to a House bill does not take precedence over 
the motion to recede and concur, because the motion would table the 
entire bill (Speaker Longworth, Jan. 24, 1927, p. 2165), but the motion 
to lay on the table a motion to recede and concur in a Senate amendment 
does not carry the amendment and bill to the table, and other motions 
are in order to dispose of the Senate amendment (Feb. 22, 1978, p. 
4072).

  When bills <> passed in one House and sent to the other are ground on special 
facts requiring proof, it is usual, either by message or at a 
conference, to ask the grounds and evidence, and this evidence, whether 
arising out of papers or from the examination of witnesses, is 
immediately communicated. 3 Hats., 48.


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  The Houses of Congress transmit with bills accompanying papers, which 
are returned when the bills pass or at final adjournment (V, 7259, 
footnote). Sometimes one House has asked, by resolution, for papers from 
the files of the other (V, 7263, 7264). Testimony is also requested 
(III, 1855).




                 sec. xlv--amendments between the houses

  When either <> House, e.g., the House of 
Commons, send a bill to the other, the other may pass it with 
amendments. The regular progression in this case is, that the Commons 
disagree to the amendment; the Lords insist on it; the Commons insist on 
their disagreement; the Lords adhere to their amendment; the Commons 
adhere to their disagreement. The term of insisting may be repeated as 
often as they choose to keep the question open. But the first adherence 
by either renders it necessary for the other to recede or adhere also; 
when the matter is usually suffered to fall. 10 Grey, 148. Latterly, 
however, there are instances of their having gone to a second adherence. 
There must be an absolute conclusion of the subject somewhere, or 
otherwise transactions between the Houses would become endless. 3 Hats., 
268, 270. The term of insisting, we are told by Sir John Trevor, was 
then (1679) newly introduced into parliamentary usage by the Lords. 7 
Grey, 94. It was certainly a happy innovation, as it multiplies the 
opportunities of trying modifications which may bring the Houses to a 
concurrence. Either House, however, is free to pass over the term of 
insisting, and to adhere in the first instance; 10 Grey, 146; but it is 
not respectful to the other. In the ordinary

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parliamentary course there are two free conferences, at least, before an 
adherence. 10 Grey, 147.

  The House and the Senate follow the principles set forth in this 
paragraph of the parliamentary law, and sometimes dispose of differences 
without resorting to conferences (V, 6165).
  If both <> Houses insist and neither ask a conference nor recede, the 
bill fails (V, 6228). If both Houses adhere, the bill fails (V, 6163, 
6313, 6324, 6325) even though the difference may be over a very slight 
amendment (V, 6233-6240). In rare instances in Congress there have been 
immediate adherences on the first disagreement (V, 6303); but this does 
not preclude the granting of the request of the other House for a 
conference (V, 6241-6244). Sometimes the House recedes from its 
disagreement as to certain amendments and adheres as to others (V, 
6229). A House having adhered may at the next stage vote to further 
adhere (V, 6251). Sometimes the House has receded from adherence (V, 
6252, 6401) or reconsidered its action of adherence (V, 6253), after 
which it has agreed to the amendment with or without amendment (V, 6253, 
6401).

  Either House <> may 
recede from its amendment and agree to the bill; or recede from their 
disagreement to the amendment, and agree to the same absolutely, or with 
an amendment; for here the disagreement and receding destroy one 
another, and the subject stands as before the disagreement. Elysnge, 23, 
27; 9 Grey, 476.

  In the <> practice of the two Houses 
of Congress the motion is to recede from the amendment without at the 
same time agreeing to the bill, for the bill has already been passed 
with the amendment, and receding from the amendment leaves the bill 
passed (V, 6312). But where the House has previously concurred in a 
Senate amendment with an amendment, the House does not by receding from 
its amendment agree to the Senate amendment, because the House may then 
(1) concur in the Senate amendment or (2) concur in the Senate amendment 
with another amendment (VIII, 3199; Oct. 12, 1977, pp. 33448-54). The 
House may not through one motion, however, recede from its amendment 
with an amendment (V, 6212; see Sec. 526, infra). A motion in the House 
to recede from a House amendment to a Senate amendment, and concur in 
the Senate amendment, is divisible (VIII, 3199). One House has receded 
from its own

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amendment after the other House had returned it concurred in with an 
amendment (V, 6226). However, this has been held insufficient to pass 
the bill without further action by the House that concurred with an 
amendment (VIII, 3177; June 26, 1984, p. 18733).
  Where one House has receded from an amendment, it may not at a 
subsequent stage recall its action in order to form a new basis for a 
conference (V, 6251). Sometimes one House has receded from its amendment 
although it previously had insisted and asked a conference, which had 
been agreed to (V, 6319). After the Senate has amended a House amendment 
it is not proper for the House to recede from its amendment directly, 
but the Senate may recede from its amendment and then the House recede 
from its amendment (Speaker Reed, June 12, 1890, p. 5981). The motion to 
recede takes precedence over the motion to insist and ask a conference 
(V, 6270).
  By receding <> from its 
disagreement to an amendment of the Senate the House does not thereby 
agree to it (V, 6215); but the Senate amendment is then open to 
amendment precisely as before the original disagreement (V, 6212-6214). 
The stage of disagreement having been reached, the motion to recede and 
concur takes precedence of the motion to recede and concur with an 
amendment (V, 6219-6223; VIII, 3198, 3200, 3202); but a motion to recede 
and concur is divisible (VIII, 3199) and being divided and the House 
having receded, a motion to amend has precedence of the motion to concur 
(V, 6209-6211; VIII, 3198), even after the previous question is ordered 
on both motions before being divided (Feb. 12, 1923, p. 3512).
  The motion to recede and concur in a Senate amendment with an 
amendment takes precedence of a motion to insist further on the House's 
disagreement to the Senate amendment (V, 6224; VIII, 3204), and a motion 
to lay certain amendments on the table (Speaker Longworth, Jan. 24, 
1927, p. 2165). It has been held that after the previous question has 
been moved on a motion to adhere, a motion to recede may not be made (V, 
6310); and after the previous question is demanded or ordered on a 
motion to concur, a motion to amend is not in order (V, 5488); but where 
the previous question has been demanded on a motion to insist, a motion 
to recede and concur has been admitted (V, 6208, 6321a).

  But the <> House can not recede from or insist on its own amendment, 
with an amendment; for the same reason that it can not send to the other 
House an amendment to its own act after it has passed the act. They may 
modify an amendment from the other House by ingrafting an amendment on 
it, be

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cause they have never assented to it; but they can not amend their own 
amendment, because they have, on the question, passed it in that form. 9 
Grey, 363; 10 Grey, 240. In Senate, March 29, 1798. Nor where one House 
has adhered to their amendment, and the other agrees with an amendment, 
can the first House depart from the form which they have fixed by an 
adherence.
  In the case of a money bill, the Lord's proposed amendments become, by 
delay, confessedly necessary. The Commons, however, refused them as 
infringing on their privilege as to money bills; but they offered 
themselves to add to the bill a proviso to the same effect, which had no 
coherence with the Lords' amendments; and urged that it was an expedient 
warranted by precedent, and not unparliamentary in a case become 
impracticable, and irremediable in any other way. 3 Hats., 256, 266, 
270, 271. But the Lords refused, and the bill was lost. 1 Chand., 288. A 
like case, 1 Chand., 311. * * *

  In the House it is a recognized principle that the House may not 
recede from its own amendments with an amendment (V, 6216-6218). The 
House may not amend its own amendment to a Senate amendment to a House 
bill (Mar. 16, 1934, p. 4685). However, the stage of disagreement having 
been reached on a House amendment to a Senate amendment to a House 
proposition, the House may first recede from its amendment and, having 
receded, may then concur in the Senate amendment with a different 
amendment without violating this paragraph (Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 12, 
1977, pp. 33448-54). The House has by special order of business before 
the stage of disagreement receded from its amendment and concurred in a 
Senate amendment with an amendment (Sept. 30, 2013, p. _; Dec. 12, 2013, 
p. _).


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  * * * So the <> Commons resolved that it is unparliamentary to 
strike out, at a conference, anything in a bill which hath been agreed 
and passed by both Houses, 6 Grey, 274; 1 Chand., 312.

  The practice of the two Houses has confirmed this principle of the 
parliamentary law and established the rule that managers of a conference 
may not change the text to which both Houses have agreed (V, 6417, 6418, 
6420; VIII, 3257; see clause 9 of rule XXII), and neither House, alone, 
may empower the managers by instruction to make such a change (V, 6388). 
In the earlier practice, when it was necessary to change text already 
agreed to, the managers appended a supplementary paragraph to their 
report, and this was agreed to by unanimous consent in the two Houses 
(V, 6433-6436); or the two Houses agreed to a concurrent resolution 
giving the managers the necessary powers (V, 6437-6439; Dec. 17, 1974, 
p. 40472). Under the current practice the House considers a conference 
report that changes text already agreed to by unanimous consent, under 
suspension of the rules, or by report from the Committee on Rules 
waiving clause 9 of rule XXII.
  To change text finally agreed to by both Houses, each House may adopt 
a concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House or the 
Secretary of the Senate to correct the enrollment.
  The further principle has been established in practice of the House 
that it may not, even by unanimous consent (V, 6179), change in the 
slightest particular (V, 6181) the text to which both Houses have agreed 
(V, 6180; VIII, 3257). And this prohibition extends, also, to a case 
wherein it is proposed to add a new section at the end of a bill that 
has passed both Houses (V, 6182).

<>   A motion to amend an amendment from the other 
House takes precedence of a motion to agree or disagree.

  This is the rule of the House if the stage of disagreement has not 
been reached (V, 6164, 6169-71; VIII, 3202), or if the House has receded 
from its disagreement to the amendment in question (VIII, 3196, 3197, 
3203). The following discussion summarizes the precedence and 
consideration of motions to dispose of Senate or House amendments in 
contemporary practice.

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  When Senate <> amendments are before the House for the first time, or 
when the Senate has returned a bill with House amendments to which it 
has disagreed (and on which the House has not insisted), no privileged 
motion is in order in the House except a motion pursuant to clause 1 of 
rule XXII, made by direction of the committee with subject-matter 
jurisdiction, to disagree to the Senate amendments or insist on the 
House amendment and request or agree to a conference with the Senate 
(see Oct. 11, 1984, p. 32308). Other motions to dispose of amendments 
between the Houses are not privileged until the stage of disagreement 
has been reached on a bill with amendments of the other House (clause 4 
of rule XXII; IV, 3149, 3150; VI, 756; VIII, 3185, 3194). The stage of 
disagreement is not reached until the House has either disagreed to 
Senate amendments or has insisted on its own amendments to a Senate 
bill, and has notified the Senate. Further House action can only occur 
when the House has received the papers back from the Senate (Sept. 16, 
1976, p. 30868).
  Before the stage of disagreement, an amendment to a Senate amendment 
to a House-passed measure on the Speaker's table is not in order until 
an order is entered for consideration of the Senate amendment in the 
House (Speaker O'Neill, June 19, 1986, pp. 14638-40).
  If the House does agree to consider a bill with Senate amendment 
before the stage of disagreement has been reached, by unanimous consent 
or special order of business, a motion to amend takes precedence over 
the motion to agree. However, the usual practice in such a situation is 
to consider a request, either by unanimous consent, suspension of the 
rules, or special order of business reported by the Committee on Rules, 
simultaneously providing for consideration and disposition of the Senate 
amendment (thus precluding the consideration of other requests to 
dispose of the amendment (see Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 5)).
  It should be noted that a small category of Senate amendments, those 
not requiring consideration in the Committee of the Whole, may be taken 
from the Speaker's table and disposed of by motion pursuant to clause 2 
of rule XXII before the stage of disagreement has been reached, but the 
vast majority of legislation does affect the Treasury (as described in 
clause 1 of rule XIII) and requires consideration in Committee of the 
Whole.
  Should the <> House consider Senate amendments before the stage of 
disagreement, the precedence of nonprivileged motions is as follows 
(disregarding the privileged motion to disagree and send to conference 
by direction of the committee): (1) to concur with amendment; (2) to 
concur; (3) to disagree and request or agree to a conference; and (4) to 
disagree. With respect to consideration of House amendments before the 
stage of disagreement, the precedence of motions is (1) to recede; (2) 
to insist and request or agree to a conference; and (3) to insist. 
Although the House may adhere, adherence is seldom utilized (because it 
precludes a conference unless receded from) and is extremely rare on 
first disagreement (see Sec. 522,

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supra; see also the discussion of adherence in Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, 
Sec. 12). A motion to adhere is the least privileged motion.
  It was formerly held that a motion to send to conference yielded to 
the simple motion to disagree, or to insist (see Cannon's Procedure in 
the House of Representatives, p. 120). In current practice, however, the 
compound motion to disagree to Senate amendments and request or agree to 
a conference, or to insist on House amendments and request or agree to a 
conference, has replaced the two-step procedure for getting to 
conference and, because it brings the two Houses together, takes 
precedence over simple motions to insist or disagree (or to adhere).
  Notwithstanding the foregoing precedence of motions, the ordinary 
motions applicable to any question that is under debate--to table, to 
postpone to a day certain, and to refer--remain available under clause 4 
of rule XVI. A motion to table Senate amendments brings the bill to the 
table (V, 5424, 6201-6203; Sept. 28, 1978, p. 32334). It has been held 
that before the stage of disagreement, the motion to table a Senate 
amendment (V, 6201-6203) or the motion to refer a Senate amendment (V, 
5301, 6172, 6174) take precedence (in that order) over motions to amend, 
agree, or disagree. And if the previous question has been ordered on 
another motion to dispose of the Senate amendment, a motion to refer is 
in order (V, 5575). In the Senate, the adoption of a motion to table a 
House amendment is messaged to the House as disagreement to said 
amendment (Sept. 30, 2013, p. _, p. _) and the adoption of a motion to 
table a House request for a conference is messaged to the House as 
disagreement to said request (Oct. 1, 2013, p. _; Mar. 3, 2015, p. _).
  A Senate amendment is read in full when taken from the Speaker's desk 
(VIII, 2400). Before consideration of any motions to dispose of Senate 
amendments, the Speaker has the discretionary authority, under clause 2 
of rule XIV, to refer such amendments to the appropriate committee, with 
or without a time limitation.
  The House <> has 
reached the stage of disagreement on a bill when it is again in 
possession of the papers thereon, having previously disagreed to Senate 
amendments or insisted on House amendments (with or without requesting 
or agreeing to a conference) (Sept. 16, 1976, p. 30868), and not merely 
where the other House has returned a bill with an amendment (Dec. 7, 
1977, p. 38728). Only previous insistence or disagreement by the House 
itself places the House in disagreement (and not merely disagreement, 
insistence, or amendment by the Senate). For example, if the House has 
concurred in a Senate amendment to a House bill with an amendment, 
insisted on the House amendment and requested a conference, and the 
Senate has then concurred in the House amendment with a further 
amendment, the matter is privileged for further disposition in the House 
because the House has communicated to the Senate its insistence and 
request for a conference (Speaker Albert, Sept. 16, 1976, p. 30868). Of 
course, if the Senate has agreed to a House request for a conference, 
the bill is committed to con

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ference and motions are not in order for its disposition until after the 
conferees have reported (the House may unilaterally discharge its 
conferees and consider the bill, if in possession of the papers, only by 
unanimous consent, special order, or suspension of the rules, and not by 
motion).
  Once the stage of disagreement has been reached on a bill with 
amendments, the House remains in the stage of disagreement until the 
matter is finally disposed of and motions for its disposition are 
privileged whenever the House is in possession of the papers. This 
principle applies both where the stage of disagreement is reached 
without a conference, and where matters remain in disagreement after 
conferees have reported. It is possible, therefore, for motions to be 
privileged because the House is in disagreement on the bill, but for the 
House to have receded from its disagreement or insistence on a 
particular amendment or to have received a new Senate amendment for the 
first time. In those cases motions remain privileged, but the precedence 
of motions on the amendment in question reverts to the precedence of 
motions before the stage of disagreement, as set forth in Sec. 528b, 
supra (see discussion below of the effect of the House's receding). The 
two Houses having permitted the amendment process to go beyond the 
second degree, a motion to concur in a Senate amendment (in the 4th 
degree), the stage of disagreement having been reached, is privileged 
but is subject to the motion to lay on the table (Mar. 18, 1986, p. 
5217).
  The House has by special order of business limited the availability of 
privileged motions to the Majority Leader or a designee (Sept. 30, 2013, 
p. _; July 31, 2014, p. _) and the Chair declined to recognize another 
Member for such a motion (Oct. 2, 2013, p. _; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _, p. 
_).
  Generally, after <> the stage of disagreement has been reached on a 
Senate amendment, the precedence of motions is as follows: (1) to recede 
and concur; (2) to recede and concur with an amendment or amendments; 
(3) to insist on disagreement and request a (further) conference; (4) to 
insist on disagreement; and (5) to adhere. The Chair may examine the 
substance of a pending motion to determine the precedence thereof in 
relation to another motion, even though in form it may appear 
preferential. Thus, a proper motion to concur with an amendment to a 
Senate amendment reported from conference in disagreement (the House 
having receded) has been offered and voted on before a pending motion 
drafted as one to concur with an amendment but in actual effect a motion 
to insist on disagreement to the Senate amendment, because simply 
reinserting the original House text without change (Deschler-Brown, ch. 
31, Sec. 8.12).
  A Senate amendment is read in full when taken from the Speaker's desk 
(VIII, 3232; Mar. 3, 2015, p. _). The ordinary motion to table under 
clause 4 of rule XVI may be applied to a Senate amendment, is 
preferential to a motion to dispose of the Senate amendment (Deschler-
Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7.22; Mar. 3, 2015, p. _), but carries the bill to 
the table (Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7.22). When applied to a motion 
to dispose of a Senate amendment,

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the motion to table carries to the table only the motion to dispose and 
not the amendment or bill (see Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7.27). With 
respect to the motion to refer (or recommit), a simple motion to refer 
or recommit only takes precedence over a motion to adhere, after the 
stage of disagreement has been reached on the bill. After the previous 
question is ordered on a pending motion to dispose of a Senate 
amendment, a motion to recommit (pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIX) may 
only be offered if it constitutes, in effect, a motion that takes 
precedence over the pending motion to dispose of a Senate amendment. 
Thus, after the stage of disagreement has been reached on a Senate 
amendment, a motion to recommit with instructions to report back 
forthwith with an amendment may not be offered after the previous 
question has been ordered on a motion to recede and concur, a motion of 
higher privilege (see Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7.5). However, after 
the House has receded from disagreement to a Senate amendment, a motion 
to amend is preferential over a motion to agree, and thus after the 
previous question is ordered on a motion to concur, the House having 
already receded, a motion to recommit with instructions to amend would 
be in order (VIII, 2744). Motions to postpone, either to a day certain 
or indefinitely, have the lowest privilege with respect to a Senate 
amendment after the stage of disagreement has been reached. For old 
examples in which the House postponed indefinitely consideration of 
Senate amendments, see V, 6199, 6200 (in the latter case the Senate had 
adhered). Clause 8(b)(3) of rule XXII makes preferential and separately 
debatable a motion to insist on disagreement to a Senate amendment to a 
general appropriation bill, if: (1) the Senate amendment has been 
reported from conference in disagreement; (2) the original motion to 
dispose of the Senate amendment proposes to change existing law; and (3) 
the motion to insist is timely offered by the chair of a committee of 
jurisdiction or a designee.
  Where the matter in question is a House amendment or amendments after 
the stage of disagreement has been reached, the precedence of motions is 
(1) to recede; (2) to further insist on the amendment and request a 
(further) conference; and (3) to adhere. For discussion of possible 
options of the House, having receded from its amendment or amendments, 
see Sec. 524, supra, and Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 7. If the House 
recedes from its amendment to a Senate bill, the bill is passed unless 
otherwise specified. If the House recedes from its amendment to a Senate 
amendment, the bill is not passed unless the House takes another step, 
either to concur in the Senate amendment or amend it. The House having 
receded from its amendment to a Senate amendment, it is no longer in 
disagreement on the amendment (although it is on the bill if the stage 
of disagreement has previously been reached), and the motion to amend 
the Senate amendment takes precedence over the motion to concur therein. 
Until the House recedes, however, a motion to recede from the House 
amendment and concur in the Senate amendment is preferential. A 
conference report held to violate clause 9 of rule XXII was vitiated, 
after which a privileged motion to recede and concur in a Senate 
amendment with an amendment incor

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porating by reference the text of an introduced House bill was offered 
(Nov. 14, 2002, p. 22409).
  The same principle as to the precedence of motions after a division of 
the question applies to a motion to recede and concur in a Senate 
amendment, the stage of disagreement having been reached. Although the 
motion to recede and concur takes precedence over the motion to recede 
and concur with an amendment, the former motion may be divided on the 
demand of any Member and each portion may be separately debatable (Oct. 
5, 1978, 33698-701). If the House agrees to recede, a motion to concur 
with an amendment then takes precedence over the motion to concur, is 
considered as pending if part of the original motion, and is voted on 
first (Sept. 30, 1988, pp. 27265-74; Oct. 11, 1989, p. 24097). As 
indicated in Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 8.2, a Member offering a 
preferential motion does not thereby gain control of the debate, which 
remains in the control of the floor manager recognized to offer the 
original motion to dispose of amendments between the Houses. In the 
modern practice, clause 8(d) of rule XXII has been interpreted to apply 
to any motion to dispose of an amendment between the Houses after the 
stage of disagreement and the Chair will divide the time equally between 
the majority and minority floor managers (see Sec. 1086, infra, ). Where 
both floor managers support such a motion, however, a Member opposed may 
claim one-third of the time, and the Chair will recognize for closing 
debate in the reverse order of opening (Mar. 3, 2015, p. _).
  Recognition to offer a preferential motion goes to the senior 
committee member seeking the floor who is not the offeror of a displaced 
motion of lesser privilege (Nov. 16, 1989, p. 29565). Although the 
manager of a conference report is entitled to prior recognition to offer 
motions to dispose of amendments in disagreement, the manager should not 
be entitled to offer two motions, one preferential to the other, to be 
pending at the same time. However, where the manager's first motion to 
insist on disagreement has been superseded by the House's voting to 
recede from disagreement, then the initial motion is no longer pending; 
and the manager may be recognized to offer another motion to concur with 
an amendment, which would be preferential to the remaining portion of 
another Member's divided motion to concur (Deschler-Brown, ch 32, 
Sec. 8.2). This is to be contrasted with the situation in which the bill 
manager offers a motion to dispose of a Senate amendment that is 
rejected by the House, in which case recognition to offer a subsequent 
motion to dispose of the pending Senate amendment shifts to another 
Member who led the opposition to the rejected motion (see Sec. 954, 
infra).

  A bill <> originating in one House is passed by the other with an 
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amendment. The other may agree to their amendment with an amendment, 
that being only in the 2d and not the 3d degree; for, as to the amending 
House, the first amendment with which they passed the bill is a part of 
its text. It is the only text they have agreed to. The amendment to that 
text by the originating House therefore is only in the 1st degree, and 
the amendment to that again by the amending House is only in the 2d, to 
wit, an amendment to an amendment, and so admissible. Just so, when, on 
a bill from the originating House, the other, at its second reading, 
makes an amendment; on the third reading this amendment is become the 
text of the bill, and if an amendment to it be moved an amendment to 
that amendment may also be moved, as being only in the 2d degree.

  This principle is followed in the practice of the House (V, 6176-
6178). For a discussion of the attitude of the Senate on this topic, see 
October 31, 1991, p. 29494.




                         sec. xlvi--conferences

  It is on the <> occasion of amendments between the Houses that 
conferences are usually asked; but they may be asked in all cases of 
difference of opinion between the two Houses on matters depending 
between them. The request of a conference, however, must always be by 
the House which is possessed of the papers. 3 Hats., 31; 1 Grey, 425.

  The House follows the principles set forth in this paragraph of the 
parliamentary law. A conference may be asked on only a portion of the 
amend

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ments in disagreement, leaving the differences as to the remainder to be 
settled by the action of the two Houses themselves (V, 6401). In very 
rare instances conferences have been asked by one House after the other 
has absolutely rejected a main proposition (IV, 3442; V, 6258). A 
difference over an amendment to a proposed constitutional amendment may 
be committed to a conference (V, 7037).
  Although conferences <> between the two Houses of Congress 
are usually held over differences as to amendments to bills, 
occasionally differences arise as to the respective prerogatives of the 
Houses (II, 1485-1495) or as to matters of procedures (V, 6401), as in 
impeachment proceedings (III, 2304), which are referred to conference. 
In early and exceptional instances conferences have been asked as to 
legislative matters when no propositions relating thereto were pending 
(V, 6255-6257).
  In very <> rare cases, also, the Houses interchange views and come to 
conclusions by means of select committees appointed on the part of each 
House (I, 3). Thus, in 1821, a joint committee was chosen to consider 
and report to the two Houses whether or not it was expedient to provide 
for the admission of Missouri into the Union (IV, 4471), and in 1877 
similar committees were appointed to devise a method for counting the 
electoral vote (III, 1953).
  The <> parliamentary law 
provides that the request for a conference must always be by the House 
that is in possession of the papers (V, 8254). It was formerly the more 
regular practice for the House disagreeing to amendments of the other to 
leave the asking of a conference to that other House if it should decide 
to insist (V, 6278-6285, 6324); but it is so usual in the later practice 
for the House disagreeing to an amendment of the other to ask a 
conference that an omission to do so has even raised a question (V, 
6273). Yet it cannot be said that the practice requires a request for a 
conference to be made by the House disagreeing to the amendments of the 
other (V, 6274-6277). One House having asked a conference at one 
session, the other House may agree to the conference at the next session 
of the same Congress (V, 6286).
  In rare <> instances one House has declined the request of the other 
for a conference (V, 6313-6315; Mar. 20, 1951, p. 2683; Oct. 1, 2013, p. 
_; Mar. 3, 2015, p. _), sometimes accompanying it by adherence (V, 6313, 
6315). In one instance, in which the Senate declined a conference, it 
transmitted, by message, its reasons for so doing (V, 6313). Sometimes, 
also, one House disregards the request of the other for a conference and 
recedes from its disagreement, thereby rendering a conference 
unnecessary (V, 6316-6318). And in one case, in which one House has 
asked a conference to which the other has assented, the asking House 
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ference took place (V, 6319). Also, a bill returned to the House with a 
request for a conference has been postponed indefinitely (V, 6199).
  After the <> stage of 
disagreement has been reached, a motion to ask a conference is 
considered as distinct from motions to agree or disagree to amendments 
of the other House (V, 6268) and the motions to agree, recede, or insist 
are considered as preferential (V, 6269, 6270). Where a motion to 
request a conference at this stage has been rejected, its repetition at 
the same stage of the proceedings, no other motion to dispose of the 
matter in disagreement having been considered, has not been permitted 
(V, 6325). Where a conference results in disagreement, a motion to 
request a new conference is privileged (V, 6586). Sometimes 
disagreements are voted on by the House and conferences asked through 
the medium of special orders of business (IV, 3242-3249).
  Before the stage of disagreement, any motion with respect to 
amendments between the two Houses is without privilege, except for 
motions with respect to the limited number of amendments that qualify 
under clause 2 of rule XXII or motions under clause 1 of rule XXII, to 
disagree to Senate amendments (or insist on House amendments) and to 
request or agree to an initial conference if the motion is authorized by 
the primary committee and all reporting committees of initial referral 
and if the Speaker chooses to recognize for that purpose. Under clause 
2(a)(3) of rule XI, a committee may adopt a rule providing that the 
chair be directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of rule XXII. A 
motion under the latter clause may be repeated, if again authorized by 
the relevant committees, and if the Speaker again agrees to recognize 
for that purpose, even though the House has once rejected a motion to 
send the same matter to conference (Speaker Albert, Oct. 3, 1972, p. 
33502).
  Although usual, <> it is not 
essential that one House, in asking a conference, transmit the names of 
its managers at the same time, and the Senate has moved to agree to a 
conference asked by the House before the appointment of House managers 
(V, 6405; Feb. 27, 2015, p. _). The managers, properly so called (V, 
6335), constitute practically two distinct committees, each of which 
acts by a majority (V, 6334). The Speaker appoints the managers on the 
part of the House (clause 11 of rule I) and has discretion as to the 
number to serve on a given bill (V, 6336; VIII, 2193) but must appoint 
(1) a majority of Members who generally support the House position, as 
determined by the Speaker; (2) Members who are primarily responsible for 
the legislation; and (3) to the fullest extent feasible the principal 
proponents of the major provisions of the bill as it passed the House 
(clause 11 of rule I). Although the practice used to be to appoint three 
managers from each house (V, 6336), in the absence of joint rules each 
House may appoint whatever number it sees fit (V, 6328-6330). The two 
Houses have frequently appointed a disparate number of managers (V, 
6331-6333; VIII, 3221); and where the Senate appointed nine and the 
House but three, a motion to instruct

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the Speaker to appoint a greater number of managers on the part of the 
House was held out of order (VII, 2193). In appointing managers the 
Speaker usually consults the Member in charge of the bill (V, 6336); and 
where an amendment in disagreement falls within the jurisdiction of two 
committees of the House, the Speaker has named Members from both 
committees and specified the respective areas on which they were to 
confer (Speaker Albert, Nov. 30, 1971, p. 43422). In appointing 
conferees on the general appropriation bill for fiscal year 1951, 
Speaker Rayburn appointed a set of managers for each chapter of the bill 
and four Members to sit on all chapters (Aug. 7, 1950, p. 11894). 
Although the appointment of conferees, both as to their number and 
composition, is within the discretion of the Chair (Speaker Garner, June 
24, 1932, p. 13876; Speaker Martin, July 8, 1947, p. 8469), and although 
a point of order will not lie against the exercise of this discretion 
(VIII, 2193, 3221), the Speaker normally takes into consideration the 
attitude of the majority and minority of the House on the disagreements 
in issue (V, 6336-6338; VIII, 3223), the varying views of the Members of 
the House (V, 6339, 6340), and does not necessarily confine the 
appointments to members of the committee in charge of the bill (V, 
6370). In one case, in which the prerogatives of the House were 
involved, all of the managers were appointed to represent the majority 
opinion (V, 6338). See also Sec. 637, infra.
  Where there <> were several conferences on a bill, it was the 
early practice to change the managers at each conference (V, 6288-6291, 
6324), and so fixed was this practice that their reappointment had a 
special significance, indicating an unyielding temper (V, 6352-6368); 
but in the later practice it is the rule to reappoint managers (V, 6341-
6344) unless a change be necessary to enable the sentiment of the House 
to be represented (V, 6369).
  Managers of <> a conference are excused from service either by authority 
of the House (V, 6373-6376; VIII, 3224, 3227) or, since the 103d 
Congress, by removal by the Speaker (clause 11 of rule I). The absence 
of a manager may cause a vacancy, which the Speaker fills by appointment 
(V, 6372; VIII, 3228). If one House makes a change in its managers, it 
informs the other House, by message (V, 6377, 6378). According to the 
later practice the powers of managers who have not reported do not 
expire at the termination of a session, unless it be the last session 
(V, 6260-6262).

  Conferences <> may be either simple or free. At a conference simply, 
written reasons are prepared by the House asking it, and they are read 
and delivered, without debate, to the managers of the other House at the 
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to be answered. 4 Grey, 144. The other House then, if satisfied, vote 
the reasons satisfactory, or say nothing; if not satisfied they resolve 
then not satisfactory and ask a conference on the subject of the last 
conference, where they read and deliver, in like manner, written answer 
to those reasons. 3 Grey, 183. They are meant chiefly to record the 
justification of each House to the nation at large and to posterity and 
in proof that the miscarriage of a necessary measure is not imputable to 
them. 3 Grey, 255. At free conferences the managers discuss, viva voce 
and freely, and interchange propositions for such modifications as may 
be made in a parliamentary way, and may bring the sense of the two 
Houses together. * * *

  This provision <> of the parliamentary law bears little relation to the modern 
practice of the two Houses of Congress, and that practice has evolved a 
new definition: ``A free conference is that which leaves the committee 
of conference entirely free to pass upon any subject where the two 
branches have disagreed in their votes, not, however, including any 
action upon any subject where there has been a concurrent vote of both 
branches. A simple conference--perhaps it should more properly be termed 
a strict or a specific conference, though the parliamentary term is 
`simple'--is that which confines the committee of conference to the 
specific instructions of the body appointing it'' (V, 6403). And where 
the House had asked a free conference it was held not in order to 
instruct the managers (V, 6384). But it is very rare for the House in 
asking a conference to specify whether it shall be free or simple.
  In their practices <> as to the instruction of managers of a conference, the 
House and the Senate do not agree. Only in rare instances has the Senate 
instructed (V, 6398), and these instances are at variance with its 
declaration, made after full consideration, that managers may not be 
instructed (V, 6397). And where the House has instructed its managers, 
the Senate sometimes has declined to participate and asked a free 
conference (V, 6402-6404). In the later practice the House does not 
inform the Senate when it instructs its managers (V, 6399), the Senate 
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the transmittal of instructions by message (V, 6400, 6401). In one 
instance in which the Senate learned indirectly that the House had 
instructed its managers, it declared that the conference should be full 
and free, and instructed its own managers to withdraw if they should 
find the freedom of the conference impaired (V, 6406). But the House 
holds to the opinion that the House may instruct its managers (V, 6379-
6382), although the propriety of doing so at a first conference has been 
questioned (V, 6388, footnote). And in rare instances in which a free 
conference is asked instruction is not in order (V, 6384). At a new 
conference the instructions of a former conference are not in force (V, 
6383; VIII, 3240). And instructions may not direct the managers to do 
that which they might not otherwise do (V, 6386, 6387; VIII, 3235, 
3244), as to effect a change in part of a bill not in disagreement (V, 
6391-6394) or change the text to which both Houses have agreed (V, 
6388). Although managers may disregard instructions, their report may 
not for that reason be ruled out of order (V, 6395; VIII, 3246; June 8, 
1972, p. 20282), and when a conference report is recommitted with 
instructions the managers are not confined to the instructions alone 
(VIII, 3247).
  The motion to instruct managers should be offered after the vote to 
ask for or agree to a conference and before the managers are appointed 
(V, 6379-6382; VIII, 3233, 3240, 3256). The motion to instruct may be 
amended unless the previous question is ordered (V, 6525; VIII, 3231, 
3240); thus a motion to instruct House conferees to agree to a numbered 
Senate amendment with an amendment may be amended, upon rejection of the 
previous question, to instruct the conferees to agree to the Senate 
amendment (June 9, 1982, pp. 13027, 13028, 13039, 13049). A Member may 
not be recognized for a unanimous-consent request to modify a pending 
motion to instruct unless yielded to for that purpose by the proponent 
(Mar. 29, 2006, p. 4377). The motion to instruct may be laid on the 
table without carrying the bill to the table (VIII, 2658). The motion is 
debatable (see clause 7(b) of rule XXII) unless the previous question is 
ordered (VIII, 2675, 3240), which the proponent may not move until those 
allotted time under clause 7(b) have yielded back (Oct. 3, 1989, p. 
22842). After a motion to ask or agree to a conference is agreed to, 
only one valid motion to instruct is in order (VIII, 3236; Speaker 
Wright, Feb. 17, 1988, p. 1583); and the ruling out of such a motion 
does not preclude the offering of a proper motion (VIII, 3235; Dec. 7, 
2005, p. 27706); but one motion having been considered and disposed of, 
further motions are not in order (VIII, 3236). The restriction on 
further motions does not apply to a motion to instruct under clause 7(c) 
of rule XXII (Aug. 22, 1935, pp. 14162-64).
  A member of the minority is first entitled to recognition for a motion 
to instruct conferees (Speaker Bankhead, Oct. 31, 1939, pp. 1103-05; 
Speaker Albert, Oct. 19, 1971, pp. 36832-35), and if two minority 
members of the reporting committee seek recognition to offer a motion to 
instruct conferees before their appointment, the Chair will recognize 
the senior

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minority member of the committee (Oct. 10, 1986, p. 30181; Speaker 
Wright, Feb. 17, 1988, p. 1583).

  * * * And each <> party report in writing to their respective 
Houses the substance of what is said on both sides, and it is entered in 
their journals. 9 Grey, 220; 3 Hats; 280. This report can not be amended 
or altered, as that of a committee may be. Journal Senate, May 24, 1796.

  In the two <> Houses of 
Congress conference reports were originally merely suggestions for 
action and were neither identical in the two Houses nor acted on as a 
whole (V, 6468-6471). In the House clause 7(a) of rule XXII provides 
that conference reports may be received at any time, except when the 
Journal is being read, while the roll is being called, or the House is 
dividing. They are privileged on or after the third calendar day 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays) after they have been 
filed and printed in the Record, together with the accompanying 
statement (clause 8 of rule XXII). The early reports were not signed by 
the managers (IV, 3905); but in the later practice the signatures of the 
majority of the managers of each House is required (V, 6497-6502; VIII, 
3295). Sometimes a manager indorses the report with a conditional 
approval or dissent (V, 6489-6496, 6538). However, signatures with 
conditions are not counted toward a majority (Nov. 18, 1991, p. 32689) 
and in the modern practice are not printed in the report. Supplemental 
reports or minority views may not be filed in connection with conference 
reports (VIII, 3302). The name of an absent manager may not be affixed, 
but the two Houses by concurrent action may authorize the manager to 
sign the report after it has been acted on (V, 6488). The minority 
portion of the managers of a conference have no authority to make either 
a written or verbal report concerning the conference (V, 6406). In the 
later practice reports of managers are identical, and made in duplicate 
for the two Houses, the House managers signing first the report for 
their House and the Senate managers signing the other report first (V, 
6323, 6426, 6499, 6500, 6504). Under certain circumstances managers may 
report an entirely new bill on a subject in disagreement, but this bill 
is acted on as part of the report (V, 6465-6467; see also clause 9 of 
rule XXII). A quorum among the managers on the part of the House at a 
committee of conference is established by their signatures on the 
conference report and joint explanatory statement (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 
27662).
  Managers may <> report an 
agreement as to a portion of the numbered amendments in disagreement, 
leaving the remainder to be disposed of by subsequent action (V, 6460-
6464). Where a Senate amendment to the title of a House bill

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was in conference, but inadvertently omitted from the conference report, 
the House adopted the report, and, by unanimous consent, insisted on its 
disagreement to the putatively reported amendment and agreed to a 
concurrent resolution that deemed the conference report to have 
``resolved all disagreements'' (Oct. 10, 2002, p. 20333).
  Where managers <> of a 
conference are unable to agree, or where a report is disagreed to in 
either House, another conference is usually asked (V, 6288-6291). When 
managers report that they have been unable to agree, the report is not 
acted on by the House (V, 6562; VIII, 3329; Aug. 23, 1957, p. 15816). 
Although under the earlier practice, when conferees reported in complete 
disagreement, the amendments in disagreement were considered available 
for immediate disposition (VIII, 3299, 3332), the current practice (as a 
result of the amendment to clause 8(a) of rule XXII that became 
effective in the 93d Congress) is to require the matter to lay over 
until the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal 
holidays) after the report in disagreement is filed and printed in the 
Record. In the earlier practice reports of inability to agree were made 
verbally or by unsigned written reports (V, 6563-6567); but in later 
practice they are written, in identical form, and signed by the managers 
of the two Houses (V, 6568, 6569).
  The managers <> of a conference must confine 
themselves to the differences committed to them (V, 6417, 6418; VIII, 
3252, 3255, 3282), and may not include subjects not within the 
disagreements (V, 6407, 6408; VIII, 3253-3255, 3260, 3282, 3284), even 
though germane to a question in issue (V, 6419; VIII, 3256; Speaker 
Albert, Dec. 20, 1974, p. 41849). But they may perfect amendments 
committed to them if they do not in so doing go beyond the differences 
(V, 6409, 6413). Thus, where an amendment providing an appropriation to 
construct a road had been disagreed to, it was held in order to report a 
provision to provide for a survey for the road (V, 6425). Managers may 
not change the text to which both Houses have agreed (V, 6417, 6418, 
6420, 6433-6436). But if the amendment in issue strikes all of the bill 
after the enacting clause and substitutes a new text, the managers have 
the whole subject before them and may exercise a broad discretion as to 
details (V, 6424; VIII, 3266), and may even report an entirely new bill 
on the subject (V, 6421, 6423; VIII, 3248, 3263, 3265, 3276; Sec. 1088, 
infra). If the amendment in disagreement proposes a substitute differing 
greatly from the House provision they may eliminate the entire subject 
matter (Speaker Gillett, Sept. 14, 1922, p. 12598).
  In the <> House the Speaker may rule out a conference report if it be 
shown that the managers have exceeded their authority (V, 6409-6416; 
VIII, 3256; Oct. 4, 1962, p. 22332; Nov. 14, 2002, pp. 22408, 22409). In 
the House points of order against reports are made or reserved after the 
report

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is read and before the reading of the statement (V, 6424, 6441; VIII, 
3282, 3284, 3285, 3287), or consideration begins (V, 6903-6905; VIII, 
3286), and comes too late after the report has been agreed to (V, 6442); 
and in case the statement is read in lieu of the report the point of 
order must be made or reserved before the statement is read (VIII, 3256, 
3265, 3285, 3288, 3289). Where clause 8(c) of rule XXII applies, points 
of order must be made before debate begins on the report (Nov. 14, 2002, 
p. 22408).
  A conference report held to violate clause 9 of rule XXII was 
vitiated, after which a privileged motion to recede and concur in a 
Senate amendment with an amendment incorporating by reference the text 
of an introduced House bill was offered (Nov. 14, 2002, p. 22409).
  Under the former practice of the Senate, the Chair did not rule out 
conference reports, but the Senate itself expressed its opinion on the 
vote to agree to the report (V, 6426-6432). However, on March 8, 1918, 
the Senate adopted a ``scope'' rule providing for a point of order 
against conferees inserting matter not committed to them or changing the 
text agreed to by both Houses. This rule of the Senate was strictly 
construed (VIII, 3273, 3275) until the 104th Congress when the Senate 
overturned on appeal a ruling of its presiding officer that the 
inclusion of a special labor-law provision in a conference report 
exceeded the scope of conference (Oct. 3, 1996, pp. 27147-51). The Chair 
interpreted that action as tantamount to a change in the Senate rules 
until the 107th Congress. Public Law 106-553 provided that at the 
beginning of the 107th Congress the Presiding Officer of the Senate 
would apply precedents under Senate rule XXVIII as in effect at the end 
of the 103d Congress. Public Law 110-81 amended it to provide a new 
procedure (see, e.g., Nov. 7, 2007, pp. 30270, 30271, 30282).
  The <> managers of a 
conference may not report before the other House is notified of their 
appointment and a meeting is held (V, 6458). Conferences are generally 
held in the Capitol, and formerly with closed doors, although in rare 
instances Members and others were admitted to make arguments (V, 6254, 
footnote, 6263). Clause 12 of rule XXII now provides for at least one 
open conference meeting except if the House determines by the yeas and 
nays that all or part of the meeting may be closed to the public. The 
same rule now provides for a point of order in the House against the 
report and for an automatic request for a new conference if the House 
managers fail to meet in open session following appointment of the 
Senate conferees (Dec. 20, 1982, p. 32896). For a discussion of open 
conference meetings, see Sec. 1093, infra. Rarely, also, papers in the 
nature of petitions have been referred to managers (V, 6263). The 
managers of the two Houses vote separately (V, 6336). Clause 12(a)(3) of 
rule XXII provides additional statements on the meetings, discussions, 
and signatures of House managers. Clause 13 of rule XXII provides a 
point of order against consideration of a conference report that differs 
in a non-clerical manner from the version placed before the House 
managers for signature.

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  The report of <> the managers of a conference goes first to one House and 
then to the other, neither House acting until it is in possession of the 
papers, which means the original bill and amendments, as well as the 
report (V, 6322, 6518-6522, 6586; VIII, 3301). The report must be acted 
on as a whole, being agreed to or disagreed to as an entirety (V, 6472-
6480, 6530-6533; VIII, 3304, 3305; Speaker Bankhead, Aug. 22, 1940, p. 
10763; Speaker Albert, Nov. 10, 1971, p. 40481); and until the report 
has been acted on no motion to deal with the individual amendments is in 
order (V, 6323, 6389, 6390; Speaker Rayburn, Mar. 16, 1942, pp. 2502-
04). Under a special order of business recommended by the Committee on 
Rules, the House has considered a single, indivisible motion to adopt 
not only a conference report but also sundry motions to dispose of 
amendments reported from conference in disagreement (June 18, 1992, p. 
15453). Although ordinarily reports are agreed to by majority vote, a 
two-thirds vote is required on a report relating to a constitutional 
amendment (V, 7036). Conference reports must be acted on in both Houses 
and, in a case in which the Senate had adopted a report recommending 
that it recede from its amendments to a House bill, the House rejected 
the report and then agreed to the Senate amendments (Mar. 21, 1956, p. 
5278). A conference report being made up but not acted on at the 
expiration of a Congress, the bill is lost (V, 6309). One House has, by 
message, reminded the other of its neglect to act on a conference 
report; but this was an occasion of criticism (V, 6309).
  When a <> conference report is presented, the question on 
agreeing is regarded as pending (V, 6517; VIII, 3300), and as the 
negative of it is equivalent to disagreement, the motion to disagree is 
not admitted (II, 1473; V, 6517; VIII, 3300). The reading of the 
amendments to which the report relates is not in order during its 
consideration (V, 5298). The report may not be amended on motion made in 
either House alone (V, 6534, 6535; VIII, 3306), but amendment is 
sometimes made by concurrent action of the two Houses (V, 6536, 6537; 
VIII, 3308). A motion to refer to a standing committee (V, 6558) or to 
lay on the table is not entertained in the House (V, 6538-6544); and a 
conference report may not be sent to Committee of the Whole on 
suggestion that it contains matter ordinarily requiring consideration in 
that committee (V, 6559-6561). It is in order on motion to recommit a 
conference report if the other body, by action on the report, have not 
discharged their managers (V, 6545-6553, 6609; VIII, 3310), and by 
concurrent resolution a report may be recommitted to conference after 
each House has acted thereon (VIII, 3316), but such a proposition would 
not be privileged in the House (V, 6554-6557; VIII, 3309).
  A bill being recommitted to the committee of conference, no further 
action is taken by the House until it is again reported by the managers 
(VIII, 3326, 3327), and when reported is subject to another motion to 
recommit (VIII, 3325). Because instructions included in a motion to 
recommit a conference report are not binding, adoption of such a motion 
opens to further

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negotiation all issues committed to conference (Apr. 21, 1988, p. 8198). 
A motion to recommit a conference report may not instruct House managers 
to exceed the scope of conference (Sec. 1088, infra); and, under clause 
7(d) of rule XXII, a motion to instruct may not contain argument 
(Sec. 1079, infra).
  When either <> House disagrees to a conference report the matter is left in 
the position it was in before the conference was asked (V, 6525), and 
the amendments in disagreement come up for further action (II, 1473), 
but do not return to the state they were in before disagreement, so that 
they need not be considered in Committee of the Whole (V, 6589). Motions 
for disposition of Senate amendments, sending to conference and 
instruction of conferees, are again in order (VIII, 3303). However, if a 
conference report is considered as rejected pursuant to the provisions 
of clause 10 of rule XXII because of the inclusion of nongermane matter, 
the pending question is as specified in that clause and, depending on 
the nature of the text in disagreement, may be to recede and concur with 
an amendment, to insist on the House position, or to insist on 
disagreement (see Sec. Sec. 1089, 1090, infra).

  A <> conference may be asked, before the House asking 
it has come to a resolution of disagreement, insisting or adhering. 3 
Hats., 269, 341. In which case the papers are not left with the other 
conferees, but are brought back to the foundation of the vote to be 
given. And this is the most reasonable and respectful proceeding; for, 
as was urged by the Lords on a particular occasion, ``it is held vain, 
and below the wisdom of Parliament, to reason or argue against fixed 
resolutions, and upon terms of impossibility to persuade.'' 3 Hats., 
226. * * *

  In the Houses of Congress conferences are sometimes asked before a 
disagreement, and while the rule as to retention of the papers 
undoubtedly holds good, neglect to observe it has not been questioned 
(V, 6585).

  * * * So the <> Commons say, ``an adherence is never 
delivered at a free conference, which implies debate.'' 10 Grey, 137. 
And on another occasion the

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Lords made it an objection that the Commons had asked a free conference 
after they had made resolutions of adhering. It was then affirmed, 
however, on the part of the Commons that nothing was more parliamentary 
than to proceed with free conferences after adhering, 3 Hats., 269, and 
we do in fact see instances of conference, or of free conference, asked 
after the resolution of disagreeing, 3 Hats., 251, 253, 260, 286, 291, 
316, 349; of insisting, ib., 280, 290, 299, 319, 322, 355; of adhering, 
269, 270, 283, 300; and even of a second or final adherence. 3 Hats., 
270. * * *

  The two Houses <> not observing the 
parliamentary distinctions as to free and other conferences, their 
practice in case of adherence is also different. Conferences are not 
asked after an adherence by both Houses, but have often been asked and 
granted where only one House has adhered (V, 6241-6244). A vote to 
adhere may not be accompanied by a request for a conference (V, 6303; 
VIII, 3208), because the House that votes to adhere does not ask a 
conference (V, 6304-6308). The request for a conference in such a case 
is properly accompanied by a motion to insist (V, 6308). And the House 
that has adhered may insist on its adherence when it agrees to the 
conference (V, 6251). But it is not considered necessary either to 
recede or insist before agreeing to the conference (V, 6242, 6244, 6310, 
6311).

  * * * And in <> all cases of conference asked after a vote of 
disagreement, &c., the conferees of the House asking it are to leave the 
papers with the conferees of the other; and in one case where they 
refused to receive them they were left on the table in the conference 
chamber. Ib., 271, 317, 323, 354; 10 Grey, 146.

  This principle of the parliamentary law is recognized in both Houses, 
and is customarily followed in cases wherein the managers of the 
conference come to an agreement on which a report may be based (July 31,

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1981, p. 18884). If conferees of House agreeing to conference surrender 
papers to House asking conference, the report can be received first by 
House asking the conference (VIII, 3330). In the 101st Congress, where a 
report following a successful conference was filed in both Houses, an 
objection to a unanimous-consent request in the Senate prevented the 
release of papers held at the Senate desk to the House, where the Senate 
in the normal course of events was scheduled to act first on the report 
(June 28, 1990, p. 16249).
  Where a <> conference breaks up without reaching any 
agreement the managers for the House that requested the conference, who 
have the papers by right, are justified in retaining them and carrying 
them back to the House (IV, 3905, footnote; V, 6246, 6254, 6571-6584; 
VIII, 3332). And in one case wherein under such circumstances the papers 
were taken back to the Senate, which was the body agreeing to the 
conference, the Senate after consideration sent them to the House, 
because it seemed proper for the asking House to take the first action 
(V, 6573). But sometimes managers have brought the papers to the 
agreeing House without question (V, 6239, footnote; July 14, 1988, p. 
18411).

  After a <> free 
conference the usage is to proceed with free conferences and not to 
return again to a conference. 3 Hats., 270; 9 Grey, 229.
  After a conference denied a free conference may be asked. 1 Grey, 45.

  The House instructs its managers whenever it sees fit, without regard 
to whether or not the preceding conference has been free or instructed.

  When a <> conference is asked, the subject of it must 
be expressed or the conference not agreed to. Ord. H. Com., 89; 1 Grey, 
425; 7 Grey, 31. They are sometimes asked to inquire concerning an 
offense or default of a member of the other House. 6 Grey, 181; 1 
Chand., 304. Or the failure of the other House to present to the King a 
bill passed by both Houses. 8 Grey, 302. Or on information received and 
relating to the safety of the nation. 10 Grey, 171. Or when the methods 
of Par

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liament are thought by the one House to have been departed from by the 
other a conference is asked to come to a right understanding thereon. 10 
Grey, 148. So when an unparliamentary message has been sent, instead of 
answering it they ask a conference. 3 Grey, 155. Formerly an address or 
articles of impeachment or a bill, with amendments, or a vote of the 
House, or concurrence in a vote, or a message from the King were 
sometimes communicated by way of conference. 6 Grey, 128, 300, 387; 7 
Grey, 80; 8 Grey, 210, 255; 1 Torbuck's Deb., 278; 10 Grey, 293; 1 
Chandler, 49, 287. But this is not the modern practice. 8 Grey, 255.
<>   A conference has been asked after the first reading of a 
bill. 1 Grey, 194. This is a singular instance.

  The House has no procedure conforming to this provision.




                          sec. xlvii--messages

<>   
Messages between the Houses are to be sent only while both Houses are 
sitting. 3 Hats., 15. * * *

  Formerly this rule was observed (V, 6603, 6604), but since the 62d 
Congress messages have been received by the House when the Senate was 
not in session (VIII, 3338). Clause 2 of rule II was added in the 97th 
Congress, and amended in the 111th Congress, to authorize the Clerk to 
receive messages at any time that the House is not in session (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 1981, p. 98) or in recess (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9).

<>   * * * They are 
received during a debate without adjourning the debate. 3 Hats., 22.

  In the House messages are received during debate, the Member having 
the floor yielding on request of the Speaker.


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  In Senate <> the messengers are introduced in any state 
of business, except: 1. While a question is being put. 2. While the yeas 
and nays are being called. 3. While the ballots are being counted. The 
first case is short; the second and third are cases where any 
interruption might occasion errors difficult to be corrected. So 
arranged June 15, 1798.

  In the House messages are not received while a question is being put 
or during a vote by division. However, they are received during the call 
of the yeas and nays, during consideration of a question of privilege 
(V, 6640-6642), during a call of the House (V, 6600), during debate on a 
motion to approve the Journal (Sept. 13, 1965, p. 23607), and before the 
organization of the House (V, 6647-6649). But the Speaker exercises 
discretion about interrupting the pending business (V, 6602).

  In the <> House, as in Parliament, if the House be in 
committee when a messenger attends, the Speaker takes the chair to 
receive the message, and then quits it to return into committee without 
any question or interruption. 4 Grey, 226.
<>   
Messengers are not saluted by the Members, but by the Speaker for the 
House. 2 Grey, 253, 274.

  The practice of the House as to reception of messages is founded on 
this paragraph of the parliamentary law and on the former joint rules 
(V, 6591-6595). The Speaker, with a slight inclination, addresses the 
messenger, by title, after the messenger, with an inclination, has 
addressed the Speaker (V, 6591).

  If <> messengers 
commit an error in delivering their message, they may be admitted or 
called in to correct their message. 4 Grey, 41. Accordingly, March 13, 
1800, the Senate having made two amendments to a

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bill from the House, their Secretary, by mistake, delivered one only, 
which being inadmissible by itself, that House disagreed, and notified 
the Senate of their disagreement. This produced a discovery of the 
mistake. The Secretary was sent to the other House to correct his 
mistake, the correction was received, and the two amendments acted on de 
novo.

  A request of one House for the return of a bill messaged to the other, 
or the request of one House to correct an error in its message to the 
other, may qualify as privileged in the House or may be disposed of by 
unanimous consent (III, 2613; V, 6605; Deschler-Brown, ch. 32, Sec. 2; 
Oct. 1, 1982, p. 27172; May 20, 1996, p. 11809). For example: (1) the 
House by unanimous consent agreed to a request from the Senate for the 
return of a Senate bill, to the end that the Senate effect a specified 
(substantive) change in its text (May 7, 1998, p. 8386) or to the end 
that the bill be recommitted to committee (July 15, 2004, p. 15890); (2) 
the House by unanimous consent directed its Clerk to correct an error in 
a message to the Senate (V, 6607); (3) the House, upon receipt of a 
request by the Senate to return a bill during consideration of the 
conference report accompanying that bill, laid the conference report 
aside and agreed to the Senate request (V, 6609); (4) the House 
requested the return of a message indicating passage of a Senate joint 
resolution after learning that both Houses had previously passed an 
identical House Joint Resolution, so that it could indefinitely postpone 
action thereon (Nov. 16, 1989, p. 29587); (5) the Speaker laid before 
the House as privileged a message from the Senate requesting the return 
of a message where it had erroneously appointed conferees to a bill 
after the papers had been messaged to the House, so that the message 
could be changed to reflect the appointment of Senate conferees (May 20, 
1996, p. 11809); (6) the Speaker laid before the House as privileged a 
message from the Senate requesting the return of a Senate bill that 
included provisions intruding on the constitutional prerogative of the 
House to originate revenue measures (Oct. 19, 1999, p. 25901; Sept. 28, 
2004, p. 19724; Sept. 30, 2004, p. 20045); (7) where the engrossment 
failed to depict certain action of the House, the House considered and 
agreed to a privileged resolution requesting the Senate to return the 
engrossment of a House bill (July 15, 2004, p. 15890) and a House-passed 
Senate bill (Oct. 8, 2004, p. 22630); (8) the Speaker laid before the 
House as privileged a message from the Senate requesting the return of 
Senate amendments to a House bill where the engrossment failed to 
properly depict the action of the Senate (July 14, 2005, p. 15932).


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  As soon <> as 
the messenger who has brought bills from the other House has retired, 
the Speaker holds the bills in his hand; and acquaints the House ``that 
the other House have by their messenger sent certain bills,'' and then 
reads their titles, and delivers them to the Clerk to be safely kept 
till they shall be called for to be read. Hakew., 178.

  In the House the message goes to the Speaker's table for disposition 
under clause 2 of rule XIV. The Speaker does not acquaint the House, 
because it has already heard the message.

  It is not <> the usage for one House to inform the other by what numbers a 
bill is passed. 10 Grey, 150. Yet they have sometimes recommended a 
bill, as of great importance, to the consideration of the House to which 
it is sent. 3 Hats., 25. * * *

  The Houses of Congress do not communicate by what numbers a bill is 
passed, or otherwise recommend their bills.

  * * * Nor when <> they have rejected a bill from the other House, do 
they give notice of it; but it passes sub silentio, to prevent 
unbecoming altercations. 1 Blackst., 183.
  But in Congress the rejection is notified by message to the House in 
which the bill originated.

  In the two Houses of Congress the fact of the rejection of a bill is 
messaged to the House in which the bill originated, as in the days of 
Jefferson, although the joint rule requiring it has disappeared (IV, 
3422; V, 6601). And in a case wherein the House had stricken the 
enacting words of a Senate bill, the Senate was notified that the bill 
had been rejected (IV, 3423; VII, 2638; Oct. 4, 1972, pp. 33785-87).


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  A question <> is never asked by the one House of the other by way of 
message, but only at a conference; for this is an interrogatory, not a 
message. 3 Grey, 151, 181.

  In 1798 the House asked of the Senate a question by way of conference, 
but this appears to be the only instance (V, 6256).

  When a <> bill is 
sent by one House to the other, and is neglected, they may send a 
message to remind them of it. 3 Hats., 25; 5 Grey, 154. But if it be 
mere inattention, it is better to have it done informally by 
communication between the Speakers or Members of the two Houses.

  It does not appear that either House of Congress has by message 
reminded the other of a neglected bill.

  Where the <> subject of a message is of a nature that it can properly be 
communicated to both Houses of Parliament, it is expected that this 
communication should be made to both on the same day. But where a 
message was accompanied with an original declaration, signed by the 
party to which the message referred, its being sent to one House was not 
noticed by the other, because the declaration being original, could not 
possibly be sent to both Houses at the same time. 2 Hats., 260, 261, 
262.
  The King having sent original letters to the Commons afterward desires 
they may be returned, that he may communicate them to the Lords. 1 
Chandler, 303.


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  A message of the President of the United States is usually 
communicated to both Houses on the same day when its nature permits (V, 
6590); but an original document accompanying can, of course, be sent to 
but one House (V, 6616, 6617). The President having by inadvertence 
included certain papers in a message, was allowed to withdraw them (V, 
6651). In the House the Speaker has the discretion, which is rarely 
exercised, to suspend a roll call in order to receive a message from the 
President.




                           sec. xlviii--assent

  The <> House which has received a bill and passed it may 
present it for the King's assent, and ought to do it, though they have 
not by message notified to the other their passage of it. Yet the 
notifying by message is a form which ought to be observed between the 
two Houses from motives of respect and good understanding. 2 Hats., 242. 
Were the bill to be withheld from being presented to the King, it would 
be an infringement of the rules of Parliament. Ib.

  In the House it was held that where there had been no unreasonable 
delay in transmitting an enrolled bill to the President, a resolution 
relating thereto did not present a question of privilege (III, 2601), 
but a resolution seeking such a determination may be privileged (Oct. 8, 
1991, p. 25761).

  When a <> bill has passed both Houses of Congress, the House last acting 
on it notifies its passage to the other, and delivers the bill to the 
Joint Committee on Enrollment, who sees that it is truly enrolled in 
parchment. When the bill is enrolled it is not to be written in 
paragraphs, but solidly, and all of a piece, that the blanks between the 
paragraphs may not give room for forgery. 9 Grey, 143. * * *


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  Formerly the <> enrollment in the House and the Senate was 
in writing (IV, 3436, 3437); but in 1893 the two Houses, by concurrent 
resolution, provided that bills should be enrolled on parchment by 
printing instead of by writing, and also that the engrossment of bills 
before sending them to the other House for action should be in printing 
(IV, 3433), and in 1895 this concurrent resolution was approved by 
statute (IV, 3435; 1 U.S.C. 106). In the last six days of a session of 
Congress the two Houses, by concurrent resolution, may permit the 
enrolling and engrossing to be done by hand (IV, 3435, 3438; Dec. 20, 
1982, p. 32875; Oct. 11, 1984, p. 32149), and such a concurrent 
resolution is privileged for consideration in the House during the last 
six days of the session (Jan. 1, 2013, p. _; see 1 U.S.C. 106 for 
authority to waive ordinary printing requirements at the end of a 
session), but before the last six days, a joint resolution waiving the 
law to permit hand enrollments is required and may be considered in the 
House by unanimous consent (Dec. 10, 1985, p. 35741) or by special order 
of business (Oct. 8, 1998, p. 24735). The two Houses have by joint 
resolution authorized not only a ``hand enrollment'' of a time-sensitive 
bill but also a parchment enrollment of the same measure, to be prepared 
at a later time for deposit in the National Archives with the original 
(P.L. 100-199, Dec. 21, 1987; P.L. 100-454, Sept. 29, 1988). Where an 
enrolled bill enacts another numbered bill by reference, that same law 
may require the Archivist to include as an appendix to that law the text 
of the referenced bill (see, e.g., P.L. 106-554). Only in a very 
exceptional case have the two Houses waived the requirement that bills 
shall be enrolled (IV, 3442). The enrolling clerk should make no change, 
however unimportant, in the text of a bill to which the House has agreed 
(III, 2598); but the two Houses may by concurrent resolution authorize 
the correction of an error when enrollment is made (IV, 3446-3450), and 
this seems a better practice than earlier methods by authority of the 
Committee on Enrolled Bills (IV, 3444, 3445).

  * * * It is <> then put into the hands of the Clerk of 
the House to have it signed by the Speaker. The Clerk then brings it by 
way of message to the Senate to be signed by their President. The 
Secretary of the Senate returns it to the Committee of Enrollment, who 
present it to the President of the United States. * * *

  The practice of the two Houses of Congress for the signing of enrolled 
bills was formerly governed by joint rules, and has continued since 
those rules were abrogated in 1876 (IV, 3430). The bills are signed 
first by the

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Speaker, then by the President of the Senate (IV, 3429). The two Houses 
by concurrent action may authorize the cancellation of signatures and 
reenrollment in case of error (see Sec. 625, infra) or a bill 
prematurely enrolled (IV, 3454).
  A Speaker pro <> tempore elected by the House (II, 
1401), or whose designation has received the approval of the House (II, 
1404; VI, 277; clause 8 of rule I), signs enrolled bills (see clause 4 
of rule I); but a Member merely called to the chair during the day (II, 
1399, 1400; VI, 276), or designated in writing by the Speaker, does not 
exercise this function (II, 1401).
  The Senate, by rule, has empowered a presiding officer by written 
designation to sign enrolled bills (II, 1403).
  In early <> days a joint committee took enrolled bills to the President 
(IV, 3432); but in the later practice the chair of the committee in each 
House that had responsibility for the enrollment of bills also had the 
responsibility of presenting the bills from that House, and submitted 
from his committee daily a report of the bills presented for entry in 
the Journal (IV, 3431). In the 107th Congress the responsibility in the 
House for enrolled bills was transferred from the Committee on House 
Administration to the Clerk (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). 
Enrolled bills pending at the close of a session have, at the next 
session of the same Congress, been ordered to be treated as if no 
adjournment had taken place (IV, 3487-3488). Enrolled bills signed by 
the presiding officers at one session have been sent to the President 
and approved at the next session of the same Congress (IV, 3486). 
Enrollments presented at the close of one Congress have been signed by 
the President after the convening of the next Congress (see Sec. 111, 
supra).




                           sec. xlix--journals

* * * * *
  If a <> question is interrupted by a vote to adjourn, or to 
proceed to the orders of the day, the original question is never printed 
in the journal, it never having been a vote, nor introductory to any 
vote; but when suppressed by the previous question, the first question 
must be stated, in order to introduce and make intelligible the second. 
2 Hats., 83.


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  This provision of the parliamentary law is superseded by clause 1 of 
rule XVI, which requires every motion entertained by the Speaker to be 
entered on the Journal.
  So also <> when a question is postponed, adjourned, or laid on 
the table, the original question, though not yet a vote, must be 
expressed in the journals, because it makes part of the vote of 
postponement, adjourning, or laying it on the table.

  In the House a question is not adjourned, except in the sense that it 
may be left to go over as unfinished business by reason of a vote to 
adjourn.

  Where <> amendments are made to a question, those amendments are not 
printed in the journals, separated from the question; but only the 
question as finally agreed to by the House. The rule of entering in the 
journals only what the House has agreed to, is founded in great prudence 
and good sense, as there may be many questions proposed which it may be 
improper to publish to the world in the form in which they are made. 2 
Hats., 85.

  In the practice of the House a motion to amend is entered on the 
Journal as any other motion, under clause 1 of rule XVI.
* * * * *
<>   
The first order for printing the votes of the House of Commons was 
October 30, 1685. 1 Chandler, 387.
  Some <> judges 
have been of opinion that the journals of the House of Commons are no 
records, but only remembrances. But this is not law. Hob., 110, 111; 
Lex. Parl., 114, 115; Jour. H. C., Mar. 17, 1592; Hale, Parl., 105. For 
the Lords in their House have

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power of judicature, the Commons in their House have power of 
judicature, and both Houses together have power of judicature; and the 
book of the Clerk of the House of Commons is a record, as is affirmed by 
act of Parl., 6 H. 8, c. 16; 4 Inst., 23, 24; and every member of the 
House of Commons hath a judicial place. 4 Inst., 15. As records they are 
open to every person, and a printed vote of either House is sufficient 
ground for the other to notice it. Either may appoint a committee to 
inspect the journals of the other, and report what has been done by the 
other in any particular case. 2 Hats., 261; 3 Hats., 27-30. Every member 
has a right to see the journals and to take and publish votes from them. 
Being a record, every one may see and publish them. 6 Grey, 118, 119.

  The Journal of the House is the official record of the proceedings of 
the House (IV, 2727), and certified copies are admitted as evidence in 
the courts of the United States (IV, 2810; 28 U.S.C. 1736). A Senate 
committee concluded that the Journal entries of a legislative body were 
conclusive as to all the proceedings had, and might not be contradicted 
by ex parte evidence (I, 563).

  On <> information of a misentry or omission of an entry in the 
journal, a committee may be appointed to examine and rectify it, and 
report it to the House. 2 Hats., 194, 195.




                           sec. l--adjournment

  The two <> Houses of Parliament have the sole, separate, and 
independent power of adjourning each their respective Houses. The King 
has no authority

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to adjourn them; he can only signify his desire, and it is in the wisdom 
and prudence of either House to comply with his requisition, or not, as 
they see fitting. 2 Hats., 232; 1 Blackst., 186; 5 Grey, 122.
* * * * *
  A motion <> to 
adjourn, simply cannot be amended, as by adding ``to a particular day;'' 
but must be put simply ``that this House do now adjourn;'' and if 
carried in the affirmative, it is adjourned to the next sitting day, 
unless it has come to a previous resolution, ``that at its rising it 
will adjourn to a particular day,'' and then the House is adjourned to 
that day. 2 Hats., 82.

  The modern practice of the House adheres to this principle 
(Sec. Sec. 912, 913, infra). Clause 4 of rule XVI admits at the 
discretion of the Speaker a separate motion of equal privilege that when 
the House adjourns on that day it stand adjourned to a day and time 
certain (consistent with article I, section 5, clause 4 of the 
Constitution, not in excess of three days).

  Where it is <> convenient that 
the business of the House be suspended for a short time, as for a 
conference presently to be held, &c., it adjourns during pleasure; 2 
Hats., 305; or for a quarter of an hour. 4 Grey, 331.

  An adjournment during pleasure is effected in the House by a motion 
for a recess. A recess may not be taken by less than a quorum (IV, 2958-
2960), and consequently the motion for it is not in order in the absence 
of a quorum (IV, 2955-2957). When the hour previously fixed for a recess 
arrives, the Chair declares the House in recess even in the midst of a 
division or when a quorum is not present (V, 6665, 6666; VI, 664); but a 
roll call is not in this way interrupted (V, 6054, 6055). Where a 
special order requires a recess at a certain hour of a certain day, the 
recess is not taken if the encroachment of a prior legislative day 
prevents the existence of said certain day as a legislative day (IV, 
3192). And an adjournment

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at a time before the hour fixed for a recess vacates the recess (IV, 
3283). A motion for a recess must, when entertained, be voted on, even 
though the taking of the vote may have been prevented until after the 
hour specified for the conclusion of the proposed recess (V, 6667). A 
Committee of the Whole takes a recess only by permission of the House 
(V, 6669-6671; VIII, 3362). The motion for a recess is not privileged 
(V, 4302, 5301, 6740), in the House or in Committee of the Whole (June 
26, 1981, p. 14356) against a demand that business proceed in the 
regular order (V, 6663; VIII, 3354-3356). However, beginning in the 102d 
Congress a motion to authorize the Speaker to declare a recess was given 
a privilege equal to that of the motion to adjourn (clause 4 of rule 
XVI); and beginning in the 103d Congress the Speaker was authorized to 
declare a recess ``for a short time when no question is pending'' 
(clause 12 of rule I). For the Speaker's authority to declare an 
emergency recess when notified of an imminent threat to the safety of 
the House, see Sec. 639, infra.

  If a <> question be put for adjournment, it is no adjournment till 
the Speaker pronounces it. 5 Grey, 137. And from courtesy and respect, 
no member leaves his place till the Speaker has passed on.




                           sec. li--a session

  Parliament have <> three 
modes of separation, to wit: by adjournment, by prorogation or 
dissolution by the King, or by the efflux of the term for which they 
were elected. Prorogation or dissolution constitutes there what is 
called a session; provided some act was passed. In this case all matters 
depending before them are discontinued, and at their next meeting are to 
be taken up de novo, if taken up at all. 1 Blackst., 186. Adjournment, 
which is by themselves, is no more than a continuance of the session 
from one day to another, of for a fortnight, a month, &c., ad libitum. 
All matters depending remain in statu quo, and when they meet again, be 
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sumed, without any fresh commencement, at the point at which they were 
left. 1 Lev., 165; Lex. Parl., c. 2; 1 Ro. Rep., 29; 4 Inst., 7, 27, 28; 
Hutt., 61; 1 Mod., 252; Ruffh. Jac., L. Dict. Parliament; 1 Blackst., 
186. Their whole session is considered in law but as one day, and has 
relation to the first day thereof. Bro. Abr. Parliament, 86.
  Committees may be <> appointed 
to sit during a recess by adjournment, but not by prorogation. 5 Grey, 
374; 9 Grey, 350; 1 Chandler, 50. Neither House can continue any portion 
of itself in any parliamentary function beyond the end of the session 
without the consent of the other two branches. When done, it is by a 
bill constituting them commissioners for the particular purpose.

  The House may empower a committee to sit during a recess that is 
within the constitutional term of the House (IV, 4541-4543), but not 
thereafter (IV, 4545). A commission created by law may operate beyond 
the term of the Congress in which it was created (IV, 4545). Under 
clause 2(m)(1)(A) of rule XI, all committees are authorized to sit and 
act anywhere within the United States, and to issue subpoenas, whether 
the House is in session or has adjourned to a date certain or adjourned 
sine die, even after the second regular session of a Congress until the 
end of the constitutional term. Under clause 1(b)(4) and clause 1(d)(3) 
of rule XI, all committees are authorized to file investigative reports 
and activities reports following adjournment sine die.

  Congress separate <> in two ways only, to wit, by adjournment, or dissolution by 
the efflux of their time. What, then, constitutes a session with them? A 
dissolution certainly closes one session, and the meeting of the new 
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tion authorizes the President, ``on extraordinary occasions to convene 
both Houses, or either of them.'' I. 3. If convened by the President's 
proclamation, this must begin a new session, and of course determine the 
preceding one to have been a session. So if it meets under the clause of 
the Constitution which says, ``the Congress shall assemble at least once 
in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in 
December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.'' I. 4. This 
must begin a new session; for even if the last adjournment was to this 
day the act of adjournment is merged in the higher authority of the 
Constitution, and the meeting will be under that, and not under their 
adjournment. So far we have fixed landmarks for determining sessions. * 
* *

  The twentieth amendment to the Constitution, clause 2, now provides 
that the Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, at noon on 
the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. 
Section 132 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 812, 
as amended by section 461 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, 
84 Stat. 1140, provides that except in time of war the two Houses shall 
adjourn sine die not later than the last day of July (Sundays excepted) 
unless otherwise provided by the Congress. (For form of resolution used 
to continue in session past July 31, see H. Con. Res. 648, 92d Cong., 
July 25, 1972, p. 25145.) The same section contemplates an adjournment 
of Congress from the thirtieth day before to the second day following 
Labor Day in the first session of a Congress (each odd-numbered year) in 
lieu of an adjournment sine die. See Sec. 1106, infra. Congress is 
adjourned for more than three days by a concurrent resolution (IV, 4031, 
footnote), and such adjournments to a day certain, within the session, 
do not terminate the session (V, 6676, 6677). In one instance the two 
Houses by concurrent resolution provided for adjournment to a day 
certain with the provision that if there be no quorum present on that 
day the session should terminate (V, 6686). Before the adoption of the 
twentieth amendment it had become established practice that a meeting of 
Congress once within the year did not make uncertain the constitutional 
mandate to meet on the first Monday of December (I, 10, 11). And where a 
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time prescribed by the Constitution for the annual meeting without an 
appreciable intervening time (V, 6690, 6692), a question arose as to 
whether there had actually been a recess of Congress (V, 6687, 6693), 
with the conclusion that a recess was a real and not an imaginary time 
(V, 6687).

  * * * In other <> cases it is declared by the joint vote authorizing 
the President of the Senate and the Speaker to close the session on a 
fixed day, which is usually in the following form: ``Resolved by the 
Senate and House of Representatives, that the President of the Senate 
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be authorized to close 
the present session by adjourning their respective Houses on the __ day 
of __.''

  In the modern practice the resolving clause of the concurrent 
resolution is in form different from that given by Jefferson. For a 
history and chronology of adjournment resolutions, see Sec. 84, supra.

  When it was <> said above that all matters depending before 
Parliament were discontinued by the determination of the session, it was 
not meant for judiciary cases depending before the House of Lords, such 
as impeachments, appeals, and writs of error. These stand continued, of 
course, to the next session. Raym., 120, 381; Ruffh. Fac., L. D., 
Parliament.
  Impeachments stand, in like manner, continued before the Senate of the 
United States.

  For a discussion of continuance of impeachments, see Sec. 620, infra.




                           sec. lii--treaties

* * * * *

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  Treaties are <> legislative acts. A treaty is the law of the land. It 
differs from other laws only as it must have the consent of a foreign 
nation, being but a contract with respect to that nation. In all 
countries, I believe, except England, treaties are made by the 
legislative power; and there, also, if they touch the laws of the land 
they must be approved by Parliament. Ware v. Hylton, 3 Dallas's Rep., 
223. It is acknowledged, for instance, that the King of Great Britain 
cannot by a treaty make a citizen of an alien. Vattel, b. 1, c. 19, sec. 
214. An act of Parliament was necessary to validate the American treaty 
of 1783. And abundant examples of such acts can be cited. In the case of 
the treaty of Utrecht, in 1712, the commercial articles required the 
concurrence of Parliament; but a bill brought in for that purpose was 
rejected. France, the other contracting party, suffered these articles, 
in practice, to be not insisted on, and adhered to the rest of the 
treaty. 4 Russell's Hist. Mod. Europe, 457; 2 Smollet, 242, 246.
  By the <> Constitution of the United States this department of 
legislation is confined to two branches only of the ordinary 
legislature--the President originating and the Senate having a negative. 
To what subjects this power extends has not been defined in detail by 
the Constitution; nor are we entirely agreed among ourselves. 1. It is 
admitted that it must concern the foreign nation party to the contract, 
or it would be a mere nullity, res

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inter alias acta. 2. By the general power to make treaties, the 
Constitution must have intended to comprehend only those subjects which 
are usually regulated by treaty, and can not be otherwise regulated. 3. 
It must have meant to except out of these the rights reserved to the 
States; for surely the President and Senate can not do by treaty what 
the whole Government is interdicted from doing in any way. 4. And also 
to except those subjects of legislation in which it gave a participation 
to the House. This last exception is denied by some on the ground that 
it would leave very little matter for the treaty power to work on. The 
less the better, say others. The Constitution thought it wise to 
restrain the executive and Senate from entangling and embroiling our 
affairs with those of Europe. Besides, as the negotiations are carried 
on by the executive alone, the subjecting to the ratification of the 
representatives such articles as are within their participation is no 
more inconvenient than to the Senate. But the ground of this exception 
is denied as unfounded. For examine, e.g., the treaty of commerce with 
France, and it will be found that, out of thirty-one articles, there are 
not more than small portions of two or three of them which would not 
still remain as subjects of treaties, untouched by these exceptions.

  The <> participation of the House in the treaty-making power has 
been often examined since Jefferson's Manual was written. The House has 
in several instances taken action in carrying into effect, terminating, 
enforcing, and suggesting treaties (II, 1502-1505, 1520-1522), although 
sometimes the propriety of requesting the executive to negotiate a 
treaty has been questioned (II, 1514-1517).

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  The exact <> authority of the House in the making of general treaties has 
been the subject of differences of opinion. In 1796 the House affirmed 
that, when a treaty related to subjects within the power of Congress, it 
was the constitutional duty of the House to deliberate on the expediency 
of carrying such treaty into effect (II, 1509); and in 1816, after a 
discussion with the Senate, the House maintained its position that a 
treaty must depend on a law of Congress for its execution as to such 
stipulations as relate to subjects constitutionally entrusted to 
Congress (II, 1506). In 1868 the House's assertion of right to a voice 
in carrying out the stipulations of certain treaties was conceded in a 
modified form (II, 1508). Again, in 1871, the House asserted its 
prerogative (II, 1523). In 1820 and 1868 there were discussions of the 
House's functions as to treaties ceding or acquiring foreign territory 
(II, 1507, 1508), and at various other times there have been discussions 
of the general subject (II, 1509, 1546, 1547; VI, 324-326).
  After long and <> careful consideration the Judiciary Committee of the House 
decided, in 1887, that the executive branch of the Government might not 
conclude a treaty affecting the revenue without the assent of the House 
(II, 1528-1530), and a Senate committee after examination concluded that 
duties were more properly regulated with the publicity of congressional 
action than by treaties negotiated by the President and ratified by the 
Senate in secrecy (II, 1532). In practice the House has acted on revenue 
treaties (II, 1531, 1533); and in 1880 it declared the negotiation of a 
revenue treaty an invasion of its prerogatives (II, 1524). At other 
times the subject has been discussed (II, 1525-1528, 1531, 1533).
  After long <> discussion the House, in 1871, successfully asserted its 
right to a voice in approving Indian treaties (II, 1535, 1536), although 
in earlier times this prerogative had been jealously guarded by the 
executive (II, 1534).
  There have been various conflicts with the executive over requests of 
the House for papers relating to treaties (II, 1509-1513, 1518, 1519, 
1561).

  Treaties being <> declared, equally with the laws of the United States, to be the 
supreme law of the land, it is understood that an act of the legislature 
alone can declare them infringed and rescinded. This was accordingly the 
process adopted in the case of France in 1798.

  Notice to a foreign government of the abrogation of a treaty is 
authorized by a joint resolution (V, 6270). A resolution alleging an 
unconstitutional abrogation of a treaty by the President, and calling on 
the President to seek the approval of Congress before such abrogation, 
does not constitute

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a question of the privileges of the House under rule IX (June 6, 2002, 
pp. 9492-98 (sustained by tabling of appeal)).

  It has <> been the usage for the Executive, when it communicates a 
treaty to the Senate for their ratification, to communicate also the 
correspondence of the negotiators. This having been omitted in the case 
of the Prussian treaty, was asked by a vote of the House of February 12, 
1800, and was obtained. And in December, 1800, the convention of that 
year between the United States and France, with the report of the 
negotiations by the envoys, but not their instructions, being laid 
before the Senate, the instructions were asked for and communicated by 
the President.
  The mode of voting on questions of ratification is by nominal call.

  The Senate now has rules governing its procedure on treaties.




                         sec. liii--impeachment

* * * * *
  These are the <> provisions of the Constitution of the United States 
on the subject of impeachments. The following is a sketch of some of the 
principles and practices of England on the same subject:
  Jurisdiction. The Lords can not impeach any to themselves, nor join in 
the accusation, because they are the judges. Seld. Judic. in Parl., 12, 
63. Nor can they proceed against a commoner but on complaint of the 
Commons. Ib., 84. The Lords may not, by the law, try a commoner for a 
capital offense, on the information of the

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King or a private person, because the accused is entitled to a trial by 
his peers generally; but on accusation by the House of Commons, they may 
proceed against the delinquent, of whatsoever degree, and whatsoever be 
the nature of the offense; for there they do not assume to themselves 
trial at common law. The Commons are then instead of a jury, and the 
judgment is given on their demand, which is instead of a verdict. So the 
Lords do only judge, but not try the delinquent. Ib., 6, 7. But 
Wooddeson denies that a commoner can now be charged capitally before the 
Lords, even by the Commons; and cites Fitzharris's case, 1681, impeached 
of high treason, where the Lords remitted the prosecution to the 
inferior court. 8 Grey's Deb., 325-7; 2 Wooddeson, 576, 601; 3 Seld., 
1604, 1610, 1618, 1619, 1641; 4 Blackst., 25; 9 Seld., 1656; 73 Seld., 
1604-18.
  Accusation. The <> Commons, as the grand inquest of the nation, becomes 
suitors for penal justice. 2 Wood., 597; 6 Grey, 356. The general course 
is to pass a resolution containing a criminal charge against the 
supposed delinquent, and then to direct some member to impeach him by 
oral accusation, at the bar of the House of Lords, in the name of the 
Commons. The person signifies that the articles will be exhibited, and 
desires that the delinquent may be sequestered from his seat, or be 
committed, or that the peers will take order for his appearance. Sachev. 
Trial, 325; 2

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Wood., 602, 605; Lords' Journ., 3 June, 1701; 1 Wms., 616; 6 Grey, 324.

  In the <> House various events have been credited with setting an 
impeachment in motion: charges made on the floor on the responsibility 
of a Member or Delegate (II, 1303; III, 2342, 2400, 2469; VI, 525, 526, 
528, 535, 536); charges preferred by a memorial, which is usually 
referred to a committee for examination (III, 2364, 2491, 2494, 2496, 
2499, 2515; VI, 543); a resolution introduced by a Member and referred 
to a committee (Apr. 15, 1970, p. 11941; Oct. 23, 1973, p. 34873); a 
message from the President (III, 2294, 2319; VI, 498); charges 
transmitted from the legislature of a State (III, 2469) or territory 
(III, 2487) or from a grand jury (III, 2488); or facts developed and 
reported by an investigating committee of the House (III, 2399, 2444). 
In the 93d Congress, the Vice President sought to initiate an 
investigation by the House of charges against him of possibly 
impeachable offenses. The Speaker and the House took no action on the 
request because the matter was pending in the courts and the offenses 
did not relate to activities during the Vice President's term of office 
(Sept. 25, 1973, p. 31368; III, 2510 (wherein the Committee on the 
Judiciary, to which the matter had been referred by privileged 
resolution, reported that the Vice President could not be impeached for 
acts or omissions committed before his term of office)). On the other 
hand, in 1826 the Vice President's request that the House investigate 
charges against his prior official conduct as Secretary of War was 
referred, on motion, to a select committee (III, 1736). On September 9, 
1998, an independent counsel transmitted to the House under 28 U.S.C. 
595(c) a communication containing evidence of alleged impeachable 
offenses by the President. The House adopted a privileged resolution 
reported by the Committee on Rules referring the communication to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, restricting Members' access to the 
communication, and restricting access to committee meetings and hearings 
on the communication (H. Res. 525, Sept. 11, 1998, p. 20020). Later, the 
House adopted a privileged resolution reported by the Committee on the 
Judiciary authorizing an impeachment inquiry by that committee (H. Res. 
581, Oct. 8, 1998, p. 24679). The authority to appoint an independent 
counsel under 28 U.S.C. 573 expired on June 30, 1999.
  A direct <> proposition to impeach is a question of high privilege in 
the House and at once supersedes business otherwise in order under the 
rules governing the order of business (III, 2045-2048, 2051, 2398; VI, 
468, 469; July 22, 1986, p. 17294; Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20206; May 10, 1989, 
p. 8814; Sept. 23, 1998, pp. 21560-62; Nov. 6, 2007, p. 29817; June 10, 
2008, p. 12053; July 15, 2008, pp. 15084, 15086; see Deschler, ch. 14, 
Sec. 8). It may not even be superseded by an election case, which is 
also a matter of high privilege (III, 2581). It does not lose its 
privilege from the fact that a similar

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proposition has been made at a previous time during the same session of 
Congress (III, 2408; July 15, 2008, pp. 15084, 15086 (see June 10, 2008, 
p. 12053)), previous action of the House not affecting it (III, 2053). 
As such, a report of the Committee on the Judiciary accompanying an 
impeachment resolution is filed from the floor as privileged (Dec. 17, 
1998, p. 27819), and is called up as privileged (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 
27828). The addition of new articles of impeachment offered by the 
managers but not reported by committee is also privileged (III, 2401), 
as is a proposition to refer to committee the papers and testimony in an 
impeachment of the preceding Congress (V, 7261). To a privileged 
resolution of impeachment, an amendment proposing instead censure, which 
is not privileged, was held not germane (Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28107). On 
several occasions the Committee on the Judiciary, having been referred a 
question of impeachment, reported a recommendation that impeachment was 
not warranted and, thereafter, called up the report as a question of 
privilege (Deschler, ch. 14, Sec. 1.3). Under 28 U.S.C. 596(a) an 
independent counsel appointed to investigate the President may be 
impeached; and a resolution impeaching such independent counsel 
constitutes a question of the privileges of the House under rule IX 
(Sept. 23, 1998, p. 21560).
  Propositions relating to an impeachment already made also are 
privileged (III, 2400, 2402, 2410; July 22, 1986, p. 17294; Dec. 2, 
1987, p. 33720; Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20206), such as resolutions providing 
for selection of managers of an impeachment (VI, 517; Dec. 19, 1998, p. 
28112), proposing abatement of impeachment proceedings (VI, 514), 
reappointing managers for impeachment proceedings continued in the 
Senate from the previous Congress (Jan. 3, 1989, p. 84; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
14), empowering managers to hire special legal and clerical personnel 
and providing for their pay, and to carry out other responsibilities 
(Jan. 3, 1989, p. 84; Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28112; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 240), 
and replacing an excused manager (Feb. 7, 1989, p. 1726); but a 
resolution simply proposing an investigation, even though impeachment 
may be a possible consequence, is not privileged (III, 2050, 2546; VI, 
463).
  Where a resolution of investigation positively proposes impeachment or 
suggests that end, it has been admitted as of privilege (III, 2051, 
2052, 2401, 2402), such as a resolution reported by the Committee on the 
Judiciary authorizing an impeachment inquiry by that committee and 
investing the committee with special investigative authorities to 
facilitate the inquiry (III, 2029; VI, 498, 528, 549; Deschler, ch. 14, 
Sec. Sec. 5.8, 6.2; H. Res. 581, Oct. 8, 1998, p. 24679). A committee to 
which has been referred privileged resolutions for the impeachment of an 
officer may call up as privileged resolutions incidental to 
consideration of the impeachment question, including conferral of 
subpoena authority and funding of the investigation from the contingent 
fund (now referred to as ``applicable accounts of the House described in 
clause 1(k)(1) of rule X'') (VI, 549; Feb. 6, 1974, p. 2349). Similarly, 
a resolution authorizing depositions by committee counsel

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in an impeachment inquiry is privileged under rule IX as incidental to 
impeachment (Speaker Wright, Oct. 3, 1988, p. 27781).
  The impeachment <> having been made on the floor by a Member (III, 2342, 2400; 
VI, 525, 526, 528, 535, 536), or charges suggesting impeachment having 
been made by memorial (III, 2495, 2516, 2520; VI, 552), or even 
appearing through common fame (III, 2385, 2506), the House has at times 
ordered an investigation at once. At other times it has refrained from 
ordering investigation until the charges had been examined by a 
committee (III, 2364, 2488, 2491, 2492, 2494, 2504, 2513) or has 
referred to committee an impeachment resolution raised as a question of 
privilege (Nov. 6, 2007, p. 29820; June 10, 2008, p. 12072 and June 11, 
2008, p. 12218). Under the later practice, resolutions introduced 
through the hopper that directly call for the impeachment of an officer 
have been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, but resolutions 
calling for an investigation by that committee or by a select committee 
with a view toward impeachment have been referred to the Committee on 
Rules (Oct. 23, 1973, p. 34873). Upon receipt of a communication from an 
independent counsel transmitting to the House under 28 U.S.C. 595(c) a 
communication containing evidence of alleged impeachable offenses by the 
President, the House adopted a resolution reported by the Committee on 
Rules referring the communication to the Committee on the Judiciary to 
conduct a review (H. Res. 525, 106th Cong., Sept. 11, 1998, p. 20020). 
Later, the House adopted a privileged resolution reported by the 
Committee on the Judiciary authorizing an impeachment inquiry by that 
committee (H. Res. 581, Oct. 8, 1998, pp. 24679, 24735).
  The House has <> always examined the charges by its own committee before 
it has voted to impeach (III, 2294, 2487, 2501). This committee has 
sometimes been a select committee (III, 2342, 2487, 2494), sometimes a 
standing committee (III, 2400, 2409). In some instances the committee 
has made its inquiry ex parte (III, 2319, 2343, 2366, 2385, 2403, 2496, 
2511); but in the later practice the sentiment of committees has been in 
favor of permitting the accused to explain, present witnesses, cross-
examine (III, 2445, 2471, 2518), and be represented by counsel (III, 
2470, 2501, 2511, 2516; 93d Cong., Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29219; H. Rept. 
105-830, Dec. 16, 1998). The Committee on the Judiciary having been 
directed by the House to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed 
for the impeachment of President Nixon, and the President having 
resigned following the decision of that committee to recommend his 
impeachment to the House, the chair of the committee submitted from the 
floor as privileged the committee's report containing the articles of 
impeachment approved by the committee but without an accompanying 
resolution of impeachment. The House thereupon adopted a resolution (1) 
taking notice of the committee's action on a resolution and Articles of 
Impeachment and of the President's resignation; (2) accepting the report 
and authorizing its printing, with additional

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views; and (3) commending the chair and members of the committee for 
their efforts (Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29361).
  During the <> pendency of an impeachment resolution, remarks in debate 
may include references to personal misconduct on the part of the 
President but may not include language generally abusive toward the 
President and may not include comparisons to the personal conduct of 
sitting Members of the House or Senate (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27829). A 
resolution setting forth separate articles of impeachment may be divided 
among the articles (e.g., Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28110; Mar. 11, 2010, p. 
3153).
  Its committee <> on investigation having reported, the House may vote the 
impeachment (III, 2367, 2412; VI, 500, 514; Mar. 2, 1936, pp. 3067-91), 
and, after having notified the Senate by message (III, 2413, 2446), may 
direct the impeachment to be presented at the bar of the Senate by a 
single Member (III, 2294), or by two (III, 2319, 2343, 2367), or five 
(III, 2445) or nine (July 22, 1986, p. 17306) or 13 (Dec. 19, 1998, p. 
28112). These Members in two notable cases represented the majority 
party alone (e.g., Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28112), but ordinarily include 
representation of the minority party (III, 2445, 2472, 2505). Under 
early practice the House elected managers by ballot (III, 2300, 2323, 
2345, 2368, 2417). In two instances the Speaker appointed the managers 
on behalf of the House pursuant to an order of the House (III, 2388, 
2475). Since 1912 the House has adopted a resolution appointing 
managers. In the later practice the House considers together the 
resolution and articles of impeachment (VI, 499, 500, 514; Mar. 2, 1936, 
pp. 3067-91) and following their adoption adopts resolutions electing 
managers to present the articles before the Senate, notifying the Senate 
of the adoption of articles and election of managers, and authorizing 
the managers to prepare for and to conduct the trial in the Senate (VI, 
500, 514, 517; Mar. 6, 1936, pp. 3393, 3394; July 22, 1986, p. 17306; 
Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20206). These privileged incidental resolutions may be 
merged into a single indivisible privileged resolution (H. Res. 614, 
Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28112; H. Res. 10, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 240).
  Process. If the <> party do not appear, proclamations are to be issued, giving 
him a day to appear. On their return they are strictly examined. If any 
error be found in them, a new proclamation issues, giving a short day. 
If he appear not, his goods may be arrested, and they may proceed. Seld. 
Jud. 98, 99.


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  Under <> an order of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate 
informed the House and the Chief Justice that it was ready to receive 
the House managers for the purpose of exhibiting articles of impeachment 
against President Clinton (Jan. 6, 1999, p. 37). At the appointed hour 
the House managers were announced and escorted into the Senate chamber 
by the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272). The managers 
presented the articles of impeachment by reading two resolutions as 
follows: (1) the appointment of managers (H. Res. 10, Jan. 7, 1999, p. 
272); and (2) the two articles of impeachment (H. Res. 611, Jan. 7, 
1999, p. 273). Thereupon, the managers requested the Senate take order 
for trial (Jan. 7, 1999, p. 273).
  The Senate adopted a resolution governing the initial impeachment 
proceedings of President Clinton (S. Res. 16, Jan. 8, 1999, p. 349). 
Later it adopted a second resolution governing the remaining proceedings 
(S. Res. 30, Jan. 28, 1999, p. 1843). The first resolution issued the 
summons in the usual form. It also provided a timetable for (1) the 
filing of an answer by the President; (2) the filing of a reply by the 
House, together with the record consisting of publicly available 
materials that had been submitted to or produced by the House Judiciary 
Committee (the resolution further directed that the record be admitted 
into evidence, printed, and made available to Senators); (3) the filing 
of a trial brief by the House; (4) the filing of any motions permitted 
under the rules of impeachment (except for motions to subpoena witnesses 
or to present evidence not in the record); (5) the filing of responses 
to any such motions; (6) the filing of a trial brief by the President; 
(7) the filing of a rebuttal brief by the House; and (8) arguments on 
such motions. The resolution then directed the Senate to dispose of any 
such motions and established a further timetable for (1) the House to 
make its presentation in support of the articles of impeachment (such 
argument to be confined to the record); (2) the President to make his 
presentation in opposition to the articles of impeachment; and (3) the 
Senators to question the parties. The resolution directed the Senate, 
upon completion of that phase of the proceedings, to dispose of a motion 
to dismiss, and if defeated, to dispose of a motion to subpoena 
witnesses or to present any evidence not in the record. The resolution 
further provided that, if the motion to call witnesses were adopted, the 
witnesses would first be deposed and then the Senate would decide which 
witnesses should testify. It further provided that if the Senate failed 
to dismiss the case, the parties would proceed to present evidence. 
Finally, the resolution directed the Senate to vote on each article of 
impeachment at the conclusion of the deliberations. The evidentiary 
record (summons, answer, replies, and trial briefs) was printed in the 
Record by unanimous consent (Jan. 14, 1999, p. 357). Pursuant to the 
previous order of the Senate (S. Res. 16, Jan. 8, 1999, p. 349), the 
House managers were recognized for 24 hours to present their case in 
support of conviction and removal (Jan. 14, 1999, p. 521); counsel for 
the President was then recognized for 24 hours to

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present the President's defense (Jan. 19, 1999, p. 1055); and Senators 
submitted questions in writing of either the House managers or the 
President's counsel (which were read by the Chief Justice, alternating 
between parties) for a period not to exceed 16 hours (Jan. 22, 1999, p. 
1244). The Chief Justice ruled that a House manager could not object to 
a question although he could object to an answer (Jan. 22, 1999, p. 
1250; Jan. 23, 1999, p. 1320). The Senate adopted a motion to consider a 
motion to dismiss in executive session (Jan. 25, 1999, p. 1339), and the 
motion to dismiss was defeated (Jan. 27, 1999, p. 1397). The Senate 
adopted a motion to consider a motion of the House managers to subpoena 
witnesses in executive session (Jan. 26, 1999, p. 1370). The Senate 
adopted that motion, which: (1) authorized the issuance of subpoenas for 
depositions of three witnesses; (2) admitted miscellaneous documents 
into the trial record; and (3) petitioned the Senate to request the 
appearance of the President at a deposition (Jan. 26, 1999, p. 1370).
  The Senate subsequently adopted a resolution governing the remaining 
impeachment proceedings as follows: (1) establishment of a timetable for 
conducting and reviewing depositions, resolving any objections made 
during the depositions, and considering motions to admit any portions of 
the depositions into evidence; (2) consideration of motions for 
additional discovery (if made by the two Leaders jointly); (3) 
disposition of motions governing the presentation of evidence or 
witnesses before the Senate and motions by the President's counsel 
(specifically precluding a motion to reopen the record and specifically 
permitting a motion to allow final deliberations in open session); (4) 
establishment of a timetable to vote on the articles of impeachment; and 
(5) authorization to issue subpoenas to take certain depositions and to 
establish procedures for conducting depositions (S. Res. 30, Jan. 28, 
1999, p. 1453). The Senate adopted two parts of a divided motion as 
follows: (1) permitting the House managers to admit transcripts and 
videotapes of oral depositions into evidence (Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1817); 
and (2) permitting the parties to present before the Senate for an 
equally divided specified period of time portions of videotapes or oral 
depositions admitted into evidence, having first rejected a preemptive 
motion to restrict the House managers' presentation of evidence to 
written transcripts (Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1817). The Senate rejected the 
portion of the divided motion that would have authorized a subpoena for 
the appearance of a named witness (Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1827). During debate 
on the motion, the Senate, by unanimous consent, permitted the House 
managers and counsel for the President to make references to videotaped 
oral depositions (Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1817). The Senate rejected two 
additional motions as follows: (1) a motion to proceed directly to 
closing arguments and an immediate vote on the articles of impeachment 
(Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1827); and (2) a motion that the House managers 
provide written notice to counsel for the President by a time certain of 
those portions of videotaped deposition testimony they planned to use 
during their evidentiary presentation or during closing arguments (Feb. 
4, 1999, p. 1827). By unanimous consent the Senate printed

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certain deposition transcripts in the Record and transmitted to the 
House managers and the counsel for the President deposition transcripts 
and videotapes (Feb. 4, 1999, p. 1827). The Chief Justice held 
inadmissible a portion of a videotaped deposition not entered as 
evidence into the Senate record (other portions of which were admitted 
under an order of the Senate), and a unanimous-consent request 
nevertheless to admit that portion of a deposition was objected to (Feb. 
6, 1999, p. 1954). After closing arguments, the Senate adopted a motion 
to consider the articles of impeachment in closed session (Feb. 9, 1999, 
p. 2055). After closed deliberations the Senate Clerk read the articles 
of impeachment in open session, and each Senator voted ``guilty'' or 
``not guilty'' on each article (Feb. 12, 1999, p. 2375). By votes of 45-
55 and 50-50 respectively, the Senate adjudged President Clinton not 
guilty on each article of impeachment (Feb. 12, 1999, p. 2375). The 
Senate communicated to the House and the Secretary of State the judgment 
of the Senate (Feb. 12, 1999, p. 2375).
  See S. Doc. 93-102, ``Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials 
in the United States Senate,'' for precedents relating to the conduct of 
Senate impeachments.

  Articles. The accusation <> (articles) of the Commons is substituted in place of an 
indictment. Thus, by the usage of Parliament, in impeachment for writing 
or speaking, the particular words need not be specified. Sach. Tr., 325; 
2 Wood., 602, 605; Lords' Journ., 3 June, 1701; 1 Wms., 616.

  Having delivered the impeachment, the committee returns to the House 
and reports verbally (III, 2413, 2446; VI, 501). Formerly, the House 
exhibited its articles after the impeachment had been carried to the bar 
of the Senate; in the later practice, the resolution and articles of 
impeachment have been considered together and exhibited simultaneously 
in the Senate by the managers (VI, 501, 515; Mar. 10, 1936, pp. 3485-88; 
Oct. 7, 1986, p. 29126; Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272). The managers, who are 
elected by the House (III, 2300, 2345, 2417, 2448; VI, 500, 514, 517; 
Mar. 2, 1936, pp. 3393, 3394) or appointed by the Speaker (III, 2388, 
2475), carry the articles in obedience to a resolution of the House 
(III, 2417, 2419, 2448) to the bar of the Senate (III, 2420, 2449, 
2476), the House having previously informed the Senate (III, 2419, 2448) 
and received a message informing them of the readiness of the latter 
body to receive the articles (III, 2078, 2325, 2345; Aug. 6, 1986, p. 
19335; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 240). Having exhibited the articles the managers 
return and report verbally to the House (III, 2449, 2476).
  The articles in the Belknap impeachment were held sufficient, although 
attacked for not describing the respondent as one subject to impeachment

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(III, 2123). In the proceedings against Judge Ritter, objections to the 
articles of impeachment, on the ground that they duplicated and 
accumulated separate offenses, were overruled (Apr. 3, 1936, p. 4898; 
Apr. 17, 1936, p. 5606). These articles are signed by the Speaker and 
attested by the Clerk (III, 2302, 2449), and in form approved by the 
practice of the House (III, 2420, 2449, 2476).
  Articles of impeachment that have been exhibited to the Senate may be 
subsequently modified or amended by the House (VI, 520; Mar. 30, 1936, 
pp. 4597-99), and a resolution proposing to amend articles of 
impeachment previously adopted by the House is privileged for 
consideration when reported by the managers on the part of the House 
(VI, 520; Mar. 30, 1936, p. 4597).
  For discussion of substantive charges contained in articles of 
impeachment and the constitutional grounds for impeachment, see 
Sec. 175, supra (accompanying Const., art. II, sec. 4). For a discussion 
of the presentation of the House managers in support of the impeachment 
of President Clinton, and related matters, see Sec. 608a, supra.

  Appearance. If he <> appear, and the case be capital, he answers in custody; 
though not if the accusation be general. He is not to be committed but 
on special accusations. If it be for a misdemeanor only, he answers, a 
lord in his place, a commoner at the bar, and not in custody, unless, on 
the answer, the Lords find cause to commit him, till he finds sureties 
to attend, and lest he should fly. Seld. Jud., 98, 99. A copy of the 
articles is given him, and a day fixed for his answer. T. Ray.; 1 
Rushw., 268; Fost., 232; 1 Clar. Hist. of the Reb., 379. On a 
misdemeanor, his appearance may be in person, or he may answer in 
writing, or by attorney. Seld. Jud., 100. The general rule on accusation 
for a misdemeanor is, that in such a state of liberty or restraint as 
the party is when the Commons complain of him, in such he is to answer. 
Ib., 101. If previously committed by the commons, he answers as a 
prisoner. But this

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may be called in some sort judicium parium suorum. Ib. In misdemeanors 
the party has a right to counsel by the common law, but not in capital 
cases. Seld. Jud., 102, 105.

  This paragraph <> of the parliamentary law is largely obsolete 
so far as the practice of the House and the Senate are concerned. The 
accused may appear in person or by attorney (III, 2127, 2349, 2424), and 
take the stand (VI, 511, 524; Apr. 11, 1936, pp. 5370-86; Oct. 7, 1986, 
p. 29149), or may not appear at all (III, 2307, 2333, 2393). In case the 
accused does not appear the House does not ask that the accused be 
compelled to appear (III, 2308), but the trial proceeds as on a plea of 
``not guilty.'' The writ of summons to the accused recites the articles 
and notifies the accused to appear at a fixed time and place and file an 
answer (III, 2127). In all cases respondent may appear by counsel (III, 
2129), and in one trial, when a petition set forth that respondent was 
insane, the counsel of his son was admitted to be heard and present 
evidence in support of the petition, but not to make argument (III, 
2333). For a discussion of answers, arguments, and presentations of the 
respondent in the Clinton impeachment proceedings, see Sec. 608a, supra.
  The chair of the committee impeaches at the bar of the Senate by oral 
accusation (III, 2413, 2446, 2473), and the managers for the House 
attend in the Senate after the articles have been exhibited and demand 
that process issue for the attendance of respondent (III, 2451, 2478), 
after which they return and report verbally to the House (III, 2423, 
2451; VI, 501). The Senate thereupon issue a writ of summons, fixing the 
day of return (III, 2423, 2451; S. Res. 16, Jan. 8, 1999, p. 349); and 
in a case wherein the respondent did not appear by person or attorney 
the Senate published a proclamation for him to appear (III, 2393). But 
the respondent's goods were not attached. In only one case has the 
parliamentary law as to sequestration and committal been followed (III, 
2118, 2296), later inquiry resulting in the conclusion that the Senate 
had no power to take into custody the body of the accused (III, 2324, 
2367).

  Answer. The <> answer need not 
observe great strictness of the form. He may plead guilty as to part, 
and defend as to the residue; or, saving all exceptions, deny the whole 
or give a particular answer to each article separately. 1 Rush., 274; 2 
Rush., 1374; 12 Parl. Hist., 442; 3 Lords' Journ., 13 Nov., 1643; 2 
Wood., 607. But he cannot plead a pardon in

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bar to the impeachment. 2 Wood., 615; 2 St. Tr., 735.

  In the Senate proceedings of the impeachment of President Andrew 
Johnson, the answer of the President took up the articles one by one, 
denying some of the charges, admitting others but denying that they set 
forth impeachable offenses, and excepting to the sufficiency of others 
(III, 2428). The form of this answer was commented on during preparation 
of the replication in the House (III, 2431). In the Senate proceedings 
on the impeachment of President Clinton, the answer of the President 
also took up the articles one by one, denying some of the charges and 
admitting others but denying that they set forth impeachable offenses 
(Jan. 14, 1999, pp. 359-361). Blount and Belknap demurred to the charges 
on the ground that they were not civil officers within the meaning of 
the Constitution (III, 2310, 2453), and Swayne also raised questions as 
to the jurisdiction of the Senate (III, 2481). The answer is part of the 
pleadings, and exhibits in the nature of evidence may not properly be 
attached thereto (III, 2124). The answer of the respondent in 
impeachment proceedings is messaged to the House and subsequently 
referred to the managers on the part of the House (VI, 506; Apr. 6, 
1936, p. 5020; Sept. 9, 1986, p. 22317).
  For a chronology of arguments and presentations of the respondent in 
the Clinton impeachment proceedings, see Sec. 608a, supra.

  Replication, rejoinder, <> &c. There 
may be a replication, rejoinder, &c. Sel. Jud., 114; 8 Grey's Deb., 233; 
Sach. Tr., 15; Journ. H. of Commons, 6 March, 1640-1.

  A replication is always filed (for the form of replication in modern 
practice, see Sept. 26, 1988, p. 25357), and in one instance the 
pleadings proceeded to a rejoinder, surrejoinder, and similiter (III, 
2455). A respondent also has filed a protest instead of pleading on the 
merits (III, 2461), but there was objection to this and the Senate 
barely permitted it. In another case respondent interposed a plea as to 
jurisdiction of offenses charged in certain articles, but declined to 
admit that it was a demurrer with the admissions pertinent thereto (III, 
2125, 2431). In the Belknap trial the House was sustained in averring in 
pleadings as to jurisdiction matters not averred in the articles (III, 
2123). The right of the House to allege in the replication matters not 
touched in the articles has been discussed (III, 2457). In the 
Louderback (VI, 522) and Ritter (Apr. 6, 1936, p. 4971) impeachment 
proceedings, the managers on the part of the House prepared and 
submitted the replication to the Senate without its consideration by the 
House, contrary to former practice (VI, 506). The Senate may consider in 
closed session various preliminary motions made by respondent (e.g., to 
declare the Senate rule on appointment of a committee to receive 
evidence to be unconstitutional, to declare beyond a reasonable doubt as 
the

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standard of proof in an impeachment trial, and to postpone the 
impeachment trial) before voting in open session to dispose of those 
motions (Oct. 7, 8, 1986, pp. 29151, 29412).
  For a chronology in the Senate of disposition of motions permitted 
under Senate impeachment rules, see Sec. 608a, supra.

  Witnesses. The <> practice 
is to swear the witnesses in open House, and then examine them there; or 
a committee may be named, who shall examine them in committee, either on 
interrogatories agreed on in the House, or such as the committee in 
their discretion shall demand. Seld. Jud., 120, 123.

  In trials before the Senate witnesses have always been examined in 
open Senate, although examination by a committee has been suggested 
(III, 2217) and utilized (S. Res. 38, 101st Cong., Mar. 16, 1989, p. 
4533). In the 74th Congress, the Senate amended its rules for 
impeachment trials to allow the presiding officer, upon the order of the 
Senate, to appoint a committee to receive evidence and take testimony in 
the trial of any impeachment (May 28, 1935, p. 8309). In the trial of 
Judge Claiborne the Senate directed the appointment of a committee of 
twelve Senators to take evidence and testimony pursuant to rule XI of 
the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate when Sitting on 
Impeachment Trials (S. Res. 481, Aug. 15, 1986, p. 22035); and in Nixon 
v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993), the Supreme Court refused to 
declare unconstitutional the appointment of such a committee to take 
evidence and testimony.
  For a chronology of motions to subpoena witnesses during the Senate 
impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, see Sec. 608a, supra.

  Jury. In the <> case of Alice Pierce, 1 R., 2, a jury was impaneled for 
her trial before a committee. Seld. Jud., 123. But this was on a 
complaint, not on impeachment by the Commons. Seld. Jud., 163. It must 
also have been for a misdemeanor only, as the Lords spiritual sat in the 
case, which they do on misdemeanors, but not in capital cases. Id., 148. 
The judgment was a forfeiture of all her lands and goods. Id., 188. 
This, Selden says, is the only jury he finds recorded in Parliament for

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misdemeanors; but he makes no doubt, if the delinquent doth put himself 
on the trial of his country, a jury ought to be impaneled, and he adds 
that it is not so on impeachment by the Commons, for they are in loco 
proprio, and there no jury ought to be impaneled. Id., 124. The Ld. 
Berkeley, 6 E., 3, was arraigned for the murder of L. 2, on an 
information on the part of the King, and not on impeachment of the 
Commons; for then they had been patria sua. He waived his peerage, and 
was tried by a jury of Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. Id., 126. In 1 
H., 7, the Commons protest that they are not to be considered as parties 
to any judgment given, or hereafter to be given in Parliament. Id., 133. 
They have been generally and more justly considered, as is before 
stated, as the grand jury; for the conceit of Selden is certainly not 
accurate, that they are the patria sua of the accused, and that the 
Lords do only judge, but not try. It is undeniable that they do try; for 
they examine witnesses as to the facts, and acquit or condemn, according 
to their own belief of them. And Lord Hale says, ``the peers are judges 
of law as well as of fact;'' 2 Hale, P. C., 275; Consequently of fact as 
well as of law.

  No jury is possible as part of an impeachment trial under the 
Constitution (III, 2313). In 1868, after mature consideration, the 
Senate overruled the old view of its functions (III, 2057), and decided 
that it sat for impeachment trials as the Senate and not as a court 
(III, 2057), and eliminated from its rules all mention of itself as a 
``high court of impeachment'' (III, 2079, 2082). However, the modern 
view of the Senate as a court was evident during the impeachment trial 
of President Clinton. There the Senate convened as a ``Court of 
Impeachment'' (see, e.g., Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272). In response to an 
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the Senate was not sitting as a ``jury'' but was sitting as a ``court'' 
during the impeachment trial of President Clinton. As such, the House 
managers were directed to refrain from referring to the Senators as 
``jurors'' (Jan. 15, 1999, p. 580).
  An anxiety lest <> the Chief 
Justice might have a vote in the approaching trial of the President 
seems to have prompted this earlier action (III, 2057). There was 
examination of the question of the Chief Justice's power to vote (III, 
2098); but the Senate declined to declare his incapacity to vote, and he 
did in fact give a casting vote on incidental questions (III, 2067). 
Under the earlier practice, the Senate declined to require that the 
Chief Justice be sworn when about to preside (III, 2080); but the Chief 
Justice had the oath administered by an associate justice (III, 2422). 
The President pro tempore of the Senate, pursuant to an earlier order of 
the Senate, appointed a committee to escort the Chief Justice into the 
Senate chamber to preside over the impeachment trial of President 
Clinton, administered the oath to him, and the Chief Justice in turn 
administered the oath to the Senators (Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272).
  In impeachments for officers other than the President of the United 
States the presiding officer of the Senate presides, whether being Vice 
President, the regular President pro tempore (III, 2309, footnote, 2337, 
2394) or a special President pro tempore chosen to preside at the trial 
only (III, 2089, 2477).
  Senators elected after <> the 
beginning of an impeachment trial are sworn as in the case of other 
Senators (III, 2375). The quorum of the Senate sitting for an 
impeachment trial is a quorum of the Senate itself, and not merely a 
quorum of the Senators sworn for the trial (III, 2063). The vote 
required for conviction is two-thirds of those Senators present and 
voting (Oct. 20, 1989, p. 25335). In 1868, when certain States were 
without representation, the Senate declined to question its competency 
to try an impeachment case (III, 2060). The President pro tempore of the 
Senate administered the oath to the Chief Justice presiding over the 
impeachment trial of President Clinton, and the Chief Justice in turn 
administered the oath to the Senators (Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272).

  Presence of <> Commons. 
The Commons are to be present at the examination of witnesses. Seld. 
Jud., 124. Indeed, they are to attend throughout, either as a committee 
of the whole House, or otherwise, at discretion, appoint managers to 
conduct the proofs. Rushw. Tr. of Straff., 37; Com. Journ., 4 Feb., 
1709-10; 2 Wood., 614. And judgment is not to

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be given till they demand it. Seld. Jud., 124. But they are not to be 
present on impeachment when the Lords consider of the answer or proofs 
and determine of their judgment. Their presence, however, is necessary 
at the answer and judgment in case capital Id., 58, 158, as well as not 
capital; 162. * * *.

  The <> House has consulted its own inclination and 
convenience about attending its managers at an impeachment. It did not 
attend at all in the trials of Blount, Swayne, Archbald, Louderback, and 
Ritter (III, 2318, 2483; VI, 504, 516); and after attending at the 
answer of Belknap, decided that it would be represented for the 
remainder of the trial by its managers alone (III, 2453). At the trial 
of President Johnson the House, in Committee of the Whole, attended 
throughout the trial (III, 2427), but this is exceptional. In the Peck 
trial the House discussed the subject (III, 2377) and reconsidered its 
decision to attend the trial daily (III, 2028). While the Senate is 
deliberating the House does not attend (III, 2435); but when the Senate 
votes on the charges, as at the other open proceedings of the trial, it 
may attend (III, 2383, 2388, 2440). Although it has frequently attended 
in Committee of the Whole, it may attend as a House (III, 2338).

  * * * The <> Lords debate the judgment among themselves. Then the vote is 
first taken on the question of guilty or not guilty; and if they 
convict, the question, or particular sentence, is out of that which 
seemeth to be most generally agreed on. Seld. Jud., 167; 2 Wood., 612.

  The question in judgment in an impeachment trial has occasioned 
contention in the Senate (III, 2339, 2340), and in the trial of 
President Johnson the form was left to the Chief Justice (III, 2438, 
2439). In the Belknap trial there was much deliberation over this 
subject (III, 2466). In the Chase trial the Senate modified its former 
rule as to form of final question (III, 2363). The yeas and nays are 
taken on each article separately (III, 2098, 2339) in the form 
``Senators, how say you? is the respondent guilty or not guilty?'' (Oct. 
9, 1986, p. 29871). But in the trial of President Johnson the Senate, by 
order, voted on the articles in an order differing from the numerical 
order (III, 2440), adjourned after voting on one article (III, 2441), 
and adjourned without day after voting on three of the eleven articles 
(III,

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2443). In other impeachments, the Senate has adopted an order to provide 
the method of voting and putting the question separately and 
successively on each article (VI, 524; Apr. 16, 1936, p. 5558). For a 
discussion of the vote of the Senate on each article of impeachment of 
President Clinton, see Sec. 608a, supra.

  Judgment. Judgments in <> Parliament, for death have been strictly guided per 
legem terrae, which they can not alter; and not at all according to 
their discretion. They can neither omit any part of the legal judgment 
nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum non ultra legem. Seld. 
Jud., 168, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet 
differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior 
courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and 
punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed to alter the 
law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful 
delinquents. The judgment, therefore, is to be such as is warranted by 
legal principles or precedents. 6 Sta. Tr., 14; 2 Wood., 611. The 
Chancellor gives judgment in misdemeanors; the Lord High Steward 
formerly in cases of life and death. Seld. Jud., 180. But now the 
Steward is deemed not necessary. Fost., 144; 2 Wood., 613. In 
misdemeanors the greatest corporal punishment hath been imprisonment. 
Seld. Jud., 184. The King's assent is necessary to capital judgments 
(but 2 Wood., 614, contra), but not in misdemeanors, Seld. Jud., 136.

  The Constitution of the United States (art. I, sec. 3, cl. 7) limits 
the judgment to removal and disqualification. The order of judgment 
following conviction in an impeachment trial is divisible for a separate 
vote if it contains both removal and disqualification (III, 2397; VI, 
512; Apr. 17,

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1936, p. 5606), and an order of judgment (such as disqualification) 
requires a majority vote (VI, 512; Apr. 17, 1936, p. 5607). Under 
earlier practice, after a conviction the Senate voted separately on the 
question of disqualification (III, 2339, 2397), but no vote is required 
by the Senate on judgment of removal from office following conviction, 
because removal follows automatically from conviction under article II, 
section 4 of the Constitution (Apr. 17, 1936, p. 5607). Thus, the 
presiding officer directs judgment of removal from office to be entered 
and the respondent removed from office without separate action by the 
Senate where disqualification is not contemplated (Oct. 9, 1986, p. 
29873). A resolution impeaching the President may provide for only 
removal from office (H. Res. 1333, 93d Cong., Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29361) 
or for both removal and disqualification from holding any future office 
(H. Res. 611, 105th Cong., Dec. 19, 1998, p. 27828).

  Continuance. An <> impeachment is not discontinued by the dissolution of 
Parliament, but may be resumed by the new Parliament. T. Ray 383; 4 Com.
Journ., 23 Dec., 1790; Lord's Jour., May 15, 1791; 2 Wood., 618.

  In Congress impeachment proceedings are not discontinued by a recess 
(III, 2299, 2304, 2344, 2375, 2407, 2505, see also Sec. 592, supra). The 
following impeachment proceedings extended from one Congress to the 
next: (1) the impeachment of Judge Pickering was presented in the Senate 
on the last day of the Seventh Congress (III, 2320), and the Senate 
conducted the trial in the Eighth Congress (III, 2321); (2) the 
impeachment of Judge Louderback was presented in the Senate on the last 
day of the 72d Congress (VI, 515), and the Senate conducted the trial in 
the 73d Congress (VI, 516); (3) the impeachment of Judge Hastings was 
presented in the Senate during the second session of the 100th Congress 
(Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20223) and the trial in the Senate continued into the 
101st Congress (Jan. 3, 1989, p. 84); (4) the impeachment of President 
Clinton was presented to the Senate after the Senate had adjourned sine 
die for the 105th Congress (Jan. 6, 1999, p. 14), and the Senate 
conducted the trial in the 106th Congress (Jan. 7, 1999, p. 272); (5) 
the impeachment inquiry of Judge Porteous was authorized in the 110th 
Congress (Sept. 17, 2008) and continued in the next Congress (Jan. 13, 
2009). Although impeachment proceedings may continue from one Congress 
to the next, the authority of the managers appointed by the House 
expires at the end of a Congress; and the managers must be reappointed 
when a new Congress convenes (Jan. 6, 1999, p. 15). end segment 
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    RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WITH NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS

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                                 Rule I

                              the speaker

Approval of the Journal
  1. The Speaker shall take the Chair on every legislative day precisely 
at the hour to which the House last adjourned and immediately call the 
House to order. <> Having 
examined and approved the Journal of the last day's proceedings, the 
Speaker shall announce to the House approval thereof. The Speaker's 
approval of the Journal shall be deemed agreed to unless a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner demands a vote thereon. If such a 
vote is decided in the affirmative, it shall not be subject to a motion 
to reconsider. If such a vote is decided in the negative, then one 
motion that the Journal be read shall be privileged, shall be decided 
without debate, and shall not be subject to a motion to reconsider.

  This clause was adopted in 1789, amended in 1811, 1824 (II, 1310), 
1971 (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, pp. 140-44, with the implementation of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, 84 Stat. 1140), and 1979 (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7, 16). Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-based reference was eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

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  The hour of meeting is fixed by standing order, and was traditionally 
set at noon (I, 104-109, 116, 117; IV, 4325); but beginning in the 95th 
Congress, the House by standing order formalized the practice of varying 
its convening time to accommodate committee meetings on certain days of 
the week and to maximize time for floor action on other days (e.g., H. 
Res. 7, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 70). The House retains the right to vary from 
this schedule by use of the motion to fix the day and time to which the 
House shall adjourn as provided in clause 4 of rule XVI. The House may 
provide for a session of the House on a Sunday, traditionally a ``dies 
non'' under the precedents of the House (e.g., Dec. 17, 1982, p. 31946; 
Dec. 18, 1987, p. 36352; Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25483). Beginning in the 
second session of the 103d Congress, the House has by unanimous consent 
agreed to convene earlier on certain days for morning-hour debate and 
then recess to the hour established for convening under a previous order 
(see Sec. 951, infra).
  Immediately after the Members are called to order, the prayer is 
offered by the Chaplain (IV, 3056), and the Speaker declines to 
entertain a point of no quorum before prayer is offered (VI, 663; clause 
7 of rule XX). Before the 96th Congress, clause 1 of rule I directed the 
Speaker to announce the approval of the Journal on the appearance of a 
quorum after having called the House to order. Under that form of the 
rule, a point of no quorum could be made after the prayer and before the 
approval of the Journal when the House convened, notwithstanding the 
provisions of former clause 6(e) of rule XV (now clause 7 of rule XX), 
allowing such points of order in the House only when the Speaker had put 
the pending motion or proposition to a vote (Oct. 3, 1977, p. 31987). 
Similarly, prior practice had permitted a point of no quorum before the 
reading of the Journal (IV, 2733; VI, 625) or during its reading (VI, 
624). In the 96th Congress, the House eliminated the necessity for the 
appearance of a quorum before the Speaker's announcement of the approval 
of the Journal (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7, 16). If a quorum fails 
to respond on a motion incident to the approval, reading, or amendment 
of the Journal, and there is an objection to the vote, a call of the 
House under clause 6 of rule XX is automatic (Feb. 2, 1977, p. 3342).
  Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Speaker may postpone until a 
later time on the same legislative day a record vote on the Speaker's 
approval of the Journal. Where the House adjourns on consecutive days 
without having approved the Journal of the previous days' proceedings, 
the Speaker puts the question de novo in chronological order as the 
first order of business on the subsequent day (Nov. 3, 1987, p. 30592).
  The Journal of the last day of a session is not read on the first day 
of the next session (IV, 2742). No business is transacted before the 
approval of the Journal (or the postponement of a vote under clause 8 of 
rule XX on agreeing to the Speaker's approval), including the filing of 
a conference report (IV, 2751-2756; VI, 629, 630, 637). However, the 
motion to adjourn (IV, 2757; Speaker Wright, Nov. 2, 1987, p. 30387) and 
the swearing of a Member (I, 172) could take precedence.

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  Once begun, the reading may not be interrupted, even by business so 
highly privileged as a conference report (V, 6443; clause 7(a) of rule 
XXII). However, a parliamentary inquiry (VI, 624), an arraignment of 
impeachment (VI, 469), or a question of privilege relating to a breach 
of privilege (such as an assault occurring during the reading) may 
interrupt its reading or approval (II, 1630).
  If the Speaker's approval of the Journal is rejected, a motion to 
amend takes precedence of a motion to approve (IV, 2760; VI, 633), and a 
Member offering an amendment is recognized under the hour rule (Mar. 19, 
1990, p. 4488); but the motion is not admissible after the previous 
question is demanded on the motion to approve (IV, 2770; VI, 633; VIII, 
2684; Sept. 13, 1965, p. 23600). The House by unanimous consent has 
permitted an untimely demand for a vote on approval of the Journal (Mar. 
18, 2013, p. _).
  Before the 92d Congress, the reading of the Journal was mandatory and 
could not be dispensed with except by unanimous consent (VI, 625; Sept. 
19, 1962, p. 19941) or by motion to suspend the rules (IV, 2747-2750). 
It had to be read in full when demanded by any Member (IV, 2739-2741; 
VI, 627, 628; Feb. 22, 1950, p. 2152), but the demand came too late 
after the Journal was approved (VI, 626). The Speaker's examination and 
approval of the Journal was preliminary to the reading and did not 
preclude subsequent amendment by the House itself (IV, 2734-2738). Under 
the rule as in effect from the 92d Congress through the 95th Congress, 
any Member could offer a privileged, nondebatable motion that the 
Journal be read pending the Speaker's announcement of approval and 
before agreement by the House (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11482).

Preservation of order
<>   2. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum and, in case 
of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or in the lobby, 
may cause the same to be cleared.

  This clause was adopted in 1789 and amended in 1794 (II, 1343). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The Speaker may name a Member who is disorderly, but may not, of the 
Speaker's own authority, censure or punish the Member (II, 1344, 1345; 
VI, 237). In cases of extreme disorder in the Committee of the Whole the 
Speaker has taken the chair and restored order without a formal rising 
of the Committee (II, 1348, 1648-1653, 1657). Before the establishment 
of recess authority in clause 12(b), the Speaker, as an exercise of 
authority under this clause, has on initiative declared the House in 
recess in an emergency (Speaker Martin, Mar. 1, 1954, p. 2424; see also 
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burn, Mar. 1, 1943, p. 1487 (air-raid drill)). A former Member must 
observe the rules of decorum while on the floor, and the Speaker may 
request the Sergeant-at-Arms to assist in maintaining such decorum 
(Sept. 17, 1997, pp. 19026, 19027). The Chair announced that failure to 
heed the gavel constitutes an act of stark incivility (July 28, 2009, p. 
19565).
  The authority to have the galleries cleared has been exercised but 
rarely (II, 1352; Speaker Albert, Jan. 18, 1972, p. 9). On one occasion, 
acting on the basis of police reports and other evidence, the Speaker 
ordered the galleries cleared before the House convened (May 10, 1972, 
p. 16576) and then informed the House of his decision. In an early 
instance the Speaker ordered the arrest of a person in the gallery; but 
this exercise of power was questioned (II, 1605). In response to a 
disruptive demonstration in the gallery, the Chair notes for the Record 
the disruptive character of the demonstration and enlists the Sergeant-
at-Arms to remove the offending parties (see, e.g., Oct. 8, 2002, p. 
19543; Apr. 29, 2010, p. 6858). After repeated disturbances in the 
gallery, the chair of the Committee of the Whole warned occupants of the 
gallery of possible prosecution (under 40 U.S.C. 5104) (Apr. 15, 2011, 
p. 6296). Occupants of the gallery are not to manifest approval or 
disapproval of, or otherwise disrupt, proceedings on the floor (see, 
e.g., Speaker Foley, June 12, 1990, p. 13593) and the Speaker may quell 
such demonstrations before the adoption of the rules (Speaker Gingrich, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 454).
  Although Members are permitted to use exhibits such as charts during 
debate (subject to clause 6 of rule XVII), the Speaker may direct the 
removal of a chart from the well of the House that is not being utilized 
during debate (Apr. 1, 1982, p. 6304; Apr. 19, 1990, p. 7402). The 
Speaker's responsibility to preserve decorum requires the disallowance 
of exhibits in debate that would be demeaning to the House, or to any 
Member of the House, or that would be disruptive of the decorum thereof 
(Sept. 13, 1989, p. 20362; Oct. 16, 1990, p. 29647; Oct. 1, 1991, p. 
24828; Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33395; Jan. 3, 1996, p. 42). The Speaker has 
disallowed the use of a person on the floor as a guest of the House as 
an ``exhibit,'' including a Member's child (see Sec. 678, infra). The 
Chair also has cautioned Members to refrain from using audio devices 
during debate (May 24, 2005, p. 11008). Although a Member may have 
enlisted the assistance of a House Page to manage the placement of an 
exhibit on an easel, it was not appropriate to refer to the Page or to 
use the Page as though part of the exhibit (June 11, 2003, p. 14417; 
Speaker Hastert, June 12, 2003, p. 14576). The Chair will distinguish 
between using an exhibit in the immediate area the Member is addressing 
the House as a visual aid for the edification of Members and staging an 
exhibition; for example, a Member having a large number of his 
colleagues accompany him in the well, each carrying a part of his 
exhibit, was held to impair the decorum of the House (June 12, 2003, p. 
14627). A gathering of Members improperly displaying electronic and non-
electronic exhibits is a breach of decorum (Mar. 13, 2014, p. _). The 
Speaker may inquire concerning a Member's intentions, as to the use of 
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before conferring recognition to address the House (Mar. 21, 1984, p. 
6187). In the 101st Congress both the Speaker and the chair of the 
Committee of the Whole reinforced the Chair's authority to control the 
use of exhibits in debate, distinguishing between the constitutional 
authority of the House to make its own rules and first amendment rights 
of free speech, and the use of all exhibits was prohibited during the 
consideration of a bill in the Committee of the Whole (Oct. 11, 1990, p. 
28650). The Speaker may permit the display of an exhibit in the 
Speaker's lobby during debate on a measure (May 20, 1999, p. 10280). 
Just as an appeal may be entertained on a decision from the Chair that a 
Member has engaged in personalities in debate (Sept. 28, 1996, pp. 
25780-82; see also clause 4 of rule XVII), so also may an appeal be 
entertained on a ruling of the Chair on the propriety of an exhibit 
(Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33395).
  At the request of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics), the Speaker announced that (1) all handouts distributed on or 
adjacent to the floor must bear the name of a Member authorizing the 
distribution; (2) the content of such handouts must comport with the 
standards applicable to words used in debate; (3) failure to comply with 
these standards may constitute a breach of decorum and thus give rise to 
a question of privilege; (4) staff are prohibited in the Chamber or 
rooms leading thereto from distributing handouts and from attempting to 
influence Members with regard to legislation; and (5) Members should 
minimize the use of handouts to enhance the quality of debate (Sept. 27, 
1995, p. 26567; Mar. 20, 1996, p. 5644; Mar. 4, 1998, p. 2523; Mar. 21, 
2010, p. 4095).
  Questions having been raised concerning proper attire for Members in 
the Chamber (thermostat controls having been raised to comply with a 
Presidential directive conserving energy in the summer months), the 
Speaker announced he considered traditional attire for Members 
appropriate, including coats and ties for male Members and appropriate 
attire for female Members, but that he would recognize for a question of 
the privileges of the House to relax such standards. The Speaker also 
requested a Member in violation of those standards to remove himself 
from the Chamber and appear in appropriate attire, and refused to 
recognize such Member until he did so (Speaker O'Neill, July 17, 1979, 
p. 19008; see also Mar. 28, 2012, p. _). The House later agreed to a 
resolution (presented as a question of the privileges of the House) 
requiring Members to wear proper attire as determined by the Speaker 
(July 17, 1979, p. 19072). See also Sec. 962, infra.
  Recognition is within the discretion of the Chair, and in order to 
uphold order and decorum in the House as required under clause 2 of rule 
I, the Speaker may deny a Member recognition for a ``one-minute speech'' 
(Aug. 27, 1980, p. 23456). Furthermore, it is a breach of decorum for a 
Member to continue to speak beyond the time for which recognized (Mar. 
22, 1996, p. 6086; May 22, 2003, p. 12965; Oct. 2, 2003, pp. 23949, 
23950), and the Speaker may deny further recognition to such Member 
(Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4081; Mar. 29, 2012, p. _; July 19, 2013, p. _; Oct. 
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from which there is no appeal (see Sec. 629, infra). Even before 
adoption of the rules, the Speaker may maintain decorum by directing a 
Member engaging in such breach of decorum to be removed from the well 
and by directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to present the mace as the 
traditional symbol of order (Jan. 3, 1991, p. 58). A Member's 
comportment may constitute a breach of decorum even though the content 
of that Member's speech is not, itself, unparliamentary (July 29, 1994, 
p. 18609). Under this standard the Chair may deny further recognition to 
a Member engaged in unparliamentary debate who ignores repeated 
admonitions by the Chair to proceed in order (unless the Member is 
permitted to proceed by order of the House) (Sept. 18, 1996, p. 23535). 
The Chair announced that time consumed while obtaining order would not 
be charged to the Member under recognition (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4104; Apr. 
18, 2012, p. _).

Control of Capitol facilities
  3. <> Except as otherwise provided by rule or law, the Speaker shall 
have general control of the Hall of the House, the corridors and 
passages in the part of the Capitol assigned to the use of the House, 
and the disposal of unappropriated rooms in that part of the Capitol.

  This clause was adopted in 1811 and amended in 1824, 1885 (II, 1354), 
and 1911 (VI, 261). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Control of the appropriated rooms in the House portion of the Capitol 
is exercised by the House itself (V, 7273-7279), but repairs and 
alterations have been authorized by statute (V, 7280-7281; 59 Stat. 
472). On January 15, 1979, the Speaker announced his directive 
concerning free access by Members in the corridors approaching the 
Chamber (p. 19). The Speaker has declined to recognize for a unanimous-
consent request to change the decor in the Chamber, stating that he 
would take the suggestion under advisement in exercising his authority 
under this clause (Mar. 2, 1989, p. 3220). The Speaker has announced 
that a joint Republican Conference and Democratic Caucus meeting would 
be held in the Chamber following the adjournment of the House on that 
day (July 27, 1998, p. 17466). The Speaker has announced standards for 
use of the Chamber when the House is not in session (Speaker Pelosi, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 25; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 106; Speaker 
Boehner, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).


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Signature of documents
  4. <> The Speaker shall sign all acts and joint resolutions passed by 
the two Houses and all writs, warrants, and subpoenas of, or issued by 
order of, the House. The Speaker may sign enrolled bills and joint 
resolutions whether or not the House is in session.

  The Speaker was given authority to sign acts, warrants, subpoenas, 
etc., in 1794 (II, 1313). The last sentence of this clause, granting the 
Speaker standing authority to sign enrolled bills, even if the House is 
not in session, was added in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, 
pp. 98-113). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, clauses 4 and 5 occupied a single clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Enrolled <> bills are 
signed first by the Speaker (IV, 3429) or a Speaker pro tempore under 
clause 8 of rule I. For precedents relevant to the signing of enrolled 
bills before this clause was amended to permit the Speaker to sign at 
any time, see IV, 3458, and V, 5705. Before the adoption of clause 
2(d)(2) of rule II (enabling the Clerk to examine enrolled bills), the 
House authorized the Speaker to sign an enrolled bill before the 
Committee on Enrolled Bills could attest to its accuracy (IV, 3452). In 
cases of error the House has permitted the Speaker's signature to be 
vacated (IV, 3453, 3455-3457; VII, 1077-1080; Mar. 11, 1986, p. 4240; 
Dec. 19, 2012, p. _).
  Warrants, <> subpoenas, etc., during recesses of Congress are signed only by 
authority specially given (III, 1753, 1763, 1806). The issuing of 
warrants must be specially authorized by the House (I, 287) or pursuant 
to a standing rule (clause 6 of rule XX; Sec. 1026, infra). Instance 
wherein the House authorized the Speaker to issue a warrant for the 
arrest of absentees (VI, 638). The Speaker also signs the articles, 
replications, etc., in impeachments (III, 2370, 2455; e.g., H. Res. 611, 
Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28112); and certifies cases of contumacious witnesses 
for action by the courts (III, 1691, 1769; VI, 385; 2 U.S.C. 194). A 
subpoena validly issued under clause 2(m) of rule XI need only be signed 
by the chair of that committee, whereas when the House issues an order 
or warrant, the summons is issued under the hand and seal of the 
Speaker, and it must be attested by the Clerk (III, 1668; see H. Rept. 
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Questions of order
  5. <> The Speaker shall decide all 
questions of order, subject to appeal by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner. On such an appeal a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner may not speak more than once without permission of the 
House.

  This rule was adopted in 1789 and amended in 1811. Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, clauses 4 and 5 occupied a 
single clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The <> Speaker may require that a question of order be 
presented in writing (V, 6865). When enough of a proposition has been 
read to show that it is out of order, the question of order may be 
raised without waiting for the reading to be completed (V, 6886, 6887; 
VIII, 2912, 3378, 3437; July 9, 2009, pp. 17309-11), though the Chair 
may decline to rule until the entire proposition has been read (Dec. 14, 
1973, pp. 41716-18). For example, the Chair declined to entertain a 
point of order that a motion to recommit was not germane before any 
nongermane portion of the motion had been read (May 9, 2003, p. 11110); 
and a motion to recommit with instructions was ruled out of order before 
the entire motion had been read as a matter of form where a special 
order of business precluded instructions (May 6, 2004, pp. 8590, 8591). 
A point of order may be withdrawn as a matter of right before action 
thereon (e.g., June 24, 2008, p. 13500). Present insistence on a point 
of order takes precedence over reservation (Nov. 19, 2009, pp. 28235, 
28243). A point of order against consideration of a measure must be 
raised (or reserved) before commencement of debate on the measure (e.g., 
Feb. 15, 1995, p. 5012; June 1, 2011, p. 8475; July 11, 2013, p. _; May 
29, 2014, p. _; July 11, 2014, p. _) and a timely reservation of a point 
of order by one Member inures to the benefit of any other Member who 
desires to raise a point of order (V, 6906; July 18, 1990, p. 17930). 
Questions arising during a division are decided peremptorily (V, 5926), 
and when they arise out of any other question must be decided before 
that question (V, 6864). In rare instances the Speaker has declined to 
rule until taking time for examination of the question (III, 2725; VI, 
432; VII, 2106; VIII, 2174, 2396, 3475; Mar. 24, 2010, p. 4767).
  Debate on a point of order, being for the Chair's information, is 
within the Chair's discretion (see, e.g., V, 6919, 6920; VIII, 3446-
3448; Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 67.3; Jan. 24, 1996, p. 1248; Sept. 
12, 1996, p. 22901; Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25420; July 10, 2014, p. _) and is 
solely to edify the judgment of the Chair, who may decline to hear more 
when prepared to rule (Mar. 3, 2011, pp. 3171, 3172; Oct. 8, 2013, p. _) 
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to respond to questions in advance of ruling (Oct. 2, 2013, p. _). 
Debate is confined to the question of order and may not extend to the 
merits of the proposition against which it lies or to parliamentarily 
similar propositions permitted to remain in the pending bill by waivers 
of points of order (e.g., July 18, 1995, p. 19335; June 22, 2000, p. 
12078). Members must address the Chair and cannot engage in colloquies 
on the point of order (e.g., Sept. 18, 1986, p. 24083; May 19, 2005, p. 
10337; June 18, 2014, p. _), nor can they offer pro forma amendments to 
debate the point of order (July 21, 1998, p. 16369; June 27, 2007, pp. 
17715, 17716) or the underlying proposition (Feb. 16, 2011, p. 2174). To 
ensure that the arguments recorded on a question of order are those 
actually heard by the Chair before ruling, the Chair will not entertain 
a unanimous-consent request to permit a Member to revise and extend 
remarks on a point of order (Sept. 22, 1976, p. 31873; May 15, 1997, pp. 
8493, 8494; July 24, 1998, p. 17278; June 12, 2008, pp. 12318, 12319). 
However, the Committee of the Whole by unanimous consent has allowed a 
Member to revise and extend his remarks to follow the ruling on a point 
of order (July 13, 2000, p. 14095). A Member may raise multiple points 
of order simultaneously, and the Chair may hear argument and rule on 
each question individually (Mar. 28, 1996, pp. 6931, 6933); or the Chair 
may choose to rule on only one of the points of order raised (July 24, 
1998, p. 17278). If a Member incorrectly demands the ``regular order,'' 
rather than making a point of order to assert that remarks are not 
confined to the question under debate, the Chair may treat the demand as 
a point of order and rule thereon (May 1, 1996, p. 9889).
  The Chair is constrained to give precedent its proper influence (II, 
1317; VI, 248). Although the Chair will normally not disregard a 
decision of the Chair previously made on the same facts (IV, 4045), such 
precedents may be examined and reversed if shown to be erroneous (IV, 
4637; VI, 639; VII, 849; VIII, 2794, 3435; Sept. 12, 1986, p. 23178). 
The authoritative source for proper interpretation of a rule is a 
statement made directly from the Chair and not a comment made by the 
Speaker in another context (May 25, 1995, p. 14437; Sept. 19, 1995, p. 
25454). Preserving the authority and binding force of parliamentary law 
is as much the duty of each Member of the House as it is the duty of the 
Chair (VII, 1479). The Speaker's decisions are recorded in the Journal 
(IV, 2840, 2841), but responses to parliamentary inquiries are not so 
recorded (IV, 2842).
  The Chair does not decide on the legislative or legal effect of 
propositions (II, 1274, 1323, 1324; VI, 254; VII, 2112; VIII, 2280, 
2841; Mar. 16, 1983, p. 5669; May 13, 1998, p. 9129), on the consistency 
of proposed action with other acts of the House (II, 1327-1336; VII, 
2112, 2136; VIII, 3237, 3458), whether Members have abused leave to 
print (V, 6998-7000; VIII, 3475), or on the propriety or expediency of a 
proposed course of action (II, 1275, 1325, 1326, 1337; IV, 3091-3093, 
3127).
  Also, the Chair does not rule on: (1) the constitutional power of the 
House (II, 1490; IV, 3507), such as the constitutional authority of the 
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propose a rule of the House, such matter appropriately being decided by 
way of the question of consideration or disposition of the proposal 
(Jan. 4, 2005, pp. 44-46); (2) the constitutional competency of proposed 
legislation (II, 1255, 1318-1322, VI, 250, 251; VIII, 2225, 3031, 3427; 
July 21, 1947, pp. 9522, 9551; May 13, 1948, p. 5817; Oct. 10, 1998, p. 
25424); (3) the constitutional rights of Members (VIII, 3071).
  The Chair is not required to decide a question not directly presented 
by the proceedings (II, 1314). Furthermore, it is not the duty of the 
Chair to decide a hypothetical question (VI, 249, 253; Nov. 20, 1989, p. 
30225), including: (1) the germaneness of an amendment not yet offered 
(Dec. 12, 1985, p. 36167; May 5, 1988, p. 9936; May 18, 1988, p. 11404; 
Mar. 22, 2000, p. 3283) or previously offered and entertained without a 
point of order (June 6, 1990, p. 13194); (2) the admissibility under 
existing Budget Act allocations of an amendment not yet offered, 
particularly if the Chair's response might depend on the disposition of 
a prior amendment on which proceedings had been postponed (June 27, 
1994, p. 14593; June 12, 2000, p. 10377); (3) the admissibility under 
clause 2 of rule XXI of an amendment already pending (July 29, 1998, p. 
17963), against which all points of order had been waived (July 27, 
1995, p. 20800); (4) the admissibility of an amendment at a future date, 
pending a ruling of the Chair on its immediate admissibility (June 25, 
1997, p. 12488). The Chair will not declare judgment on the propriety of 
words taken down before they are read to the House (Sept. 21, 2001, p. 
17613). The Chair does not take cognizance of complaints relating to 
pairs (VIII, 3087). The Chair passes on the validity of conference 
reports (V, 6409, 6410, 6414-6416; VIII, 3256, 3264), but not on the 
sufficiency of the accompanying statements as distinguished from the 
form (V, 6511-6513), or on the question of whether a conference report 
violates instructions of the House (V, 6395; VIII, 3246). As to reports 
of committees, the Chair does not decide as to their sufficiency (II, 
1339; IV, 4653) or whether the committee has followed instructions (II, 
1338; IV, 4404, 4689); or on matters arising in the Committee of the 
Whole (V, 6927, 6928, 6932-6937; Dec. 12, 1985, p. 36173); but has 
decided as to the validity of the authorization of a report (IV, 4592, 
4593) and has indicated that a point of order could be raised at a 
proper time where the content of a filed report varies from that 
approved by the committee (May 16, 1989, p. 9356). An objection to the 
use of an exhibit under clause 6 of rule XVII (formerly rule XXX) is not 
a point of order on which the Chair must rule (July 31, 1996, pp. 20694, 
20700). Before the rule was rewritten in the 107th Congress, it required 
that the Chair put the question whether the exhibit may be used. It now 
merely permits the Chair to put such question (sec. 2(o), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). A complaint that certain remarks that might be 
uttered in debate would improperly disclose executive-session material 
of a committee is not cognizable as a point of order in the House if the 
Chair is not aware of the executive-session status of the information 
(Nov. 5, 1997, p. 24648). The assertion that a Member may be 
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ership does not give rise to a point of order that the Member cannot 
attend both to House and constituent duties at the same time (Nov. 10, 
1999, p. 29537).
  Under long practice, precedents and applicable guidelines allowed the 
Chair to refine a ruling on a point of order in the Record in order to 
clarify the ruling without changing its substance, including one 
sustained by the House on appeal (Feb. 19, 1992, p. 2461; see H. Res. 
230, 99th Cong., July 31, 1985, p. 21783; and H. Rept. 99-228 (in 
accordance with existing accepted practices, the Chair may make such 
technical or parliamentary corrections or insertions in transcript as 
may be necessary to conform to rule, custom, or precedent); see also H. 
Res. 330, 101st Cong., Feb. 7, 1990, p. 1515, and report of House 
Administration task force on Record inserted by Speaker Foley, Oct. 27, 
1990, p. 37124). The Chair ruled that the requirement of former clause 9 
of rule XIV (now clause 8 of rule XVII), that the Record be a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks made during House proceedings, 
extended to statements and rulings of the Chair (Speaker Gingrich, Jan. 
20, 1995, p. 1866).
  In interpreting the language of a special order adopted by the House, 
the Chair will not look behind the unambiguous language of the 
resolution itself (June 18, 1986, p. 14267). Questions concerning 
informal guidelines of the Committee on Rules for advance submission of 
amendments for possible inclusion under a ``modified closed'' rule may 
not be raised under the guise of parliamentary inquiry (May 5, 1988, p. 
9938). Because the Chair refrains from issuing advisory opinions on 
hypothetical or anticipatory questions of order, the Chair will not 
interpret a special order before it is adopted by the House (Oct. 14, 
1986, p. 30862; July 27, 1993, p. 17116; July 27, 1995, p. 20741; Jan. 
5, 1996, p. 366; Mar. 28, 1996, p. 7064; June 28, 2000, p. 12649; Mar. 
8, 2001, p. 3229; May 22, 2002, p. 8681; Oct. 17, 2003, pp. 25031, 
25032). Thus, the Chair has declined to identify provisions in a bill as 
ostensible objects of a waiver in the pending resolution providing a 
special order for that bill (Oct. 19, 1995, pp. 28503, 28504; Oct. 26, 
1995, p. 29477; Mar. 28, 1996, p. 7064); to determine whether a bill, 
for which the pending resolution provides a special order waiving any 
requirement for a three-fifths vote on passage, actually ``carries'' a 
Federal income tax rate increase under clause 5 of rule XXI (Oct. 26, 
1995, p. 29477); or to opine whether an amendment might be in order in 
the Committee of the Whole (May 22, 2002, p. 8681; Oct. 17, 2003, pp. 
25031, 25032), including one required to be printed in the Congressional 
Record where the Record had not yet been printed (Jan. 26, 2011, p. 
906). The Chair will not compare the text made in order by a pending 
special order as original text for further amendment with the text 
reported by the committee of jurisdiction (Oct. 19, 1995, p. 28503). 
Similarly, the Chair will not issue an advisory opinion on how debate on 
a pending resolution will bear on the Chair's ultimate interpretation of 
the resolution as an order of the House (Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19343).

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  The Speaker rarely submits a question directly to the House for its 
decision (IV, 3173, 3282, 4930; V, 5014, 5323, 6701; VI, 49; Speaker 
Longworth, Apr. 8, 1926, p. 7148; Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28107), and rarely 
takes initiative to raise and submit a question (II, 1277, 1315, 1316; 
VIII, 3405). Even as to questions of privilege the Speaker usually, in 
later practice, makes a preliminary decision instead of submitting the 
question directly to the House (III, 2648, 2649, 2650, 2654, 2678; 
Speaker Wright, Mar. 11, 1987, p. 5404).
  Recognition <> for parliamentary inquiry lies 
in the discretion of the Chair (VI, 541; Apr. 7, 1992, p. 8273; Mar. 21, 
2010, p. 4106; Apr. 8, 2014, p. _). As such, the Chair may recognize for 
a demand for the yeas and nays rather than entertain a parliamentary 
inquiry (Aug. 4, 2007, p. 23233). The Speaker may recognize and respond 
to a parliamentary inquiry although the previous question may have been 
demanded (Mar. 27, 1926, p. 6469). Although the Chair has discretion to 
recognize Members for parliamentary inquiries when no other Member is 
occupying the floor for debate, a parliamentary inquiry may not be 
raised unless the Member having the floor yields for that purpose (Oct. 
1, 1986, p. 27465; July 13, 1989, p. 14633; May 29, 2014, p. _; June 12, 
2014, p. _; Jan. 13, 2015, p. _) and the yielding Member is charged time 
consumed thereby (Deschler-Brown, ch. 31, Sec. 15.4; Feb. 5, 2014, p. 
_). A Member under recognition for a parliamentary inquiry may not yield 
to another Member (Nov. 22, 2002, p. 23510; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _) and may 
not engage in debate (June 24, 2011, p. 10018; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _; Apr. 
8, 2014, p. _; June 12, 2014, p. _).
  The Speaker may take a parliamentary inquiry under advisement, 
especially if not related to the pending proceedings (VIII, 2174; Apr. 
7, 1992, p. 8273). The Chair responds to parliamentary inquiries 
relating in a practical sense to the pending proceedings but does not 
respond to requests to place them in historical context (June 25, 1992, 
p. 16174; Jan. 3, 1996, pp. 36-41; Nov. 5, 1997, p. 24653; Sept. 9, 
2003, pp. 21557, 21558). The Chair announced parameters for a proper 
parliamentary inquiry (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4106) and announced an 
intention to refuse further recognition on a particular line of improper 
inquiry (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4093; Apr. 8, 2014, p. _).
  The Speaker may entertain a parliamentary inquiry during a record vote 
if it relates to the vote (Oct. 9, 1997, p. 22017; Oct. 6, 1999, p. 
24199; Sept. 9, 2003, pp. 21557, 21558; Mar. 30, 2004, pp. 5577, 5578). 
However, the Speaker will not (1) respond to a request to place the 
length of a record vote in historical context (Sept. 9, 2003, p. 21558), 
(2) explain the exercise of discretion to hold a vote open beyond the 
minimum time prescribed under clause 2 of rule XX (Mar. 30, 2004, pp. 
5577, 5578; Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4093), or (3) state the vote tally as it 
stood upon expiration of the minimum time (May 8, 2008, p. 8147).

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  A proper parliamentary inquiry relates to an interpretation of a House 
rule, not of a statute or of the Constitution (Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25424; 
July 18, 2006, p. 14784). The Chair will not respond to a parliamentary 
inquiry to: (1) judge the propriety of words spoken in debate pending a 
demand that those words be taken down as unparliamentary (June 8, 1995, 
p. 15267; July 16, 2009, p. 18146; Feb. 11, 2011, p. 1585; July 11, 
2013, p. _); (2) judge the propriety of words uttered earlier in debate 
(June 15, 2000, p. 11106; July 18, 2007, p. 19560; Nov. 20, 2013, p. _); 
(3) judge the veracity of remarks in debate (June 5, 1996, p. 13195; 
June 17, 2004, p. 12886); (4) decide whether certain remarks in debate 
were confined to the question under consideration (as required by clause 
1 of rule XVII) (May 27, 2010, p. 9652); (5) reexamine and explain the 
validity of a prior ruling (Oct. 26, 1995, p. 29477; June 8, 2005, pp. 
11945, 11946; May 15, 2008, p. 9229); (6) anticipate the precedential 
effect of a ruling (Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25424); (7) opine as to the 
substantive effect of an objection to a unanimous-consent request (July 
11, 2013, p. _); (8) judge the accuracy of the content of an exhibit 
(Nov. 10, 1995, p. 32142); (9) indicate which side of the aisle has 
failed under the Speaker's guidelines to clear a unanimous-consent 
request (Feb. 1, 1996, p. 2260; Nov. 22, 2002, p. 23510; Oct. 11, 2013, 
p. _; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _); (10) respond to political commentary (June 
25, 1998, p. 13978; Apr. 4, 2001, p. 5417; Oct. 8, 2004, p. 22634); (11) 
comment on the effect of time consumed on a pending amendment as a 
tactic to prevent the offering of other amendments under a special order 
adopted by the House (May 10, 2000, p. 7508); (12) anticipate whether 
bill language would trigger certain executive actions (Sept. 20, 1989, 
p. 20969); (13) interpret a pending proposition (May 13, 1998, p. 9129; 
July 9, 2009, p. 17233; Mar. 20, 2010, p. 4041; Apr. 8, 2014, p. _) 
(although the Chair may explain the application of the procedural status 
quo to a pending proposal to change that status quo by way of an 
amendment to the standing rules (Feb. 1, 2006, p. 541)); (14) identify 
which points of order were waived by a special order of business for a 
measure then pending (July 11, 2014, p. _); (15) judge the 
appropriateness of Senate action (Apr. 10, 2003, p. 9279); (16) 
characterize proceedings of a committee (June 15, 2006, p. 11409; Apr. 
8, 2014, p. _) or speculate as to hypothetical committee action (Feb. 6, 
2012, p. _) or the operation of committee rules (July 27, 2007, p. 
21124; Oct. 10, 2007, p. 26993), although the Chair has confirmed that 
the adoption of a motion to recommit with instructions to report 
``promptly'' does not necessarily suspend the operation of any rule of 
the House (Feb. 27, 2008, p. 2640) or of a committee (Nov. 15, 2007, p. 
31789); (17) speculate whether Members-elect are entitled to 
compensation prior to taking the oath of office (Jan. 7, 2011, p. 228); 
(18) identify the number or party membership of cosponsors of a measure 
(Dec. 13, 2011, p. _; Apr. 8, 2014, p. _; Feb. 26, 2015, p. _) or 
signatories to a discharge petition (Apr. 8, 2014, p. _); (19) address 
the legislative schedule (Sept. 28, 2012, p. _).

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  The Chair may clarify a prior response to a parliamentary inquiry 
(July 31, 1996, p. 20700; Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4106).
  The <> right of appeal 
insures the House against the arbitrary control of the Speaker and 
cannot be taken away from the House (V, 6002). Although a decision of 
the Chair on a point of order is subject to appeal on demand of any 
Member, a Member cannot secure a recorded vote on a point of order 
absent an appeal and the Chair's putting the question thereon (June 20, 
1996, p. 14847).
  An appeal may not be entertained from the following: (1) response to a 
parliamentary inquiry (V, 6955; VIII, 3457; July 11, 2013, p. _); (2) 
decision on recognition (II, 1425-1428; VI, 292; VIII, 2429, 2646, 2762; 
July 23, 1993, p. 16820; Apr. 4, 1995, p. 10298; June 17, 1999, p. 
13465; June 22, 2006, p. 12299; July 9, 2009, p. 17233); (3) decision on 
dilatoriness of motions (V, 5731); (4) question on which an appeal has 
just been decided (IV, 3036; V, 6877); (5) count of the number rising to 
demand tellers (VIII, 3105), to demand a recorded vote (June 24, 1976, 
p. 20390; June 14, 2000, p. 10841) or the yeas and nays (Sept. 12, 1978, 
p. 28950), or to object to a request under the former rule that required 
a committee have permission to sit during floor proceedings under the 
five-minute rule (Sept. 12, 1978, p. 28984); (6) count of a quorum (July 
24, 1974, p. 25012); (7) call of a voice vote (Aug. 10, 1994, p. 20766); 
(8) refusal to recapitulate a vote (VIII, 3128); (9) refusal under 
clause 7 of rule XX (formerly clause 6(e) of rule XV) to entertain a 
point of no quorum when a pending question has not been put to a vote 
(Sept. 16, 1977, p. 29594); (10) determination that a Member's time in 
debate has expired (Mar. 22, 1996, p. 6086); (11) announcement of the 
whole number of the House upon the death, resignation, expulsion, 
disqualification, or removal of a Member (clause 5(d) of rule XX); (12) 
announcement of the content of a catastrophic quorum failure report 
under clause 5(c) of rule XX (Sec. 1024a, infra). Although an 
announcement by the Chair that an objection to a unanimous-consent 
request has been heard is not subject to appeal (July 11, 2013, p. _), 
the Chair's ruling on the timeliness of the objection is subject to 
appeal (Apr. 14, 2005, pp. 6393, 6394). Although the timeliness of the 
Chair's recognition of a Member to offer a motion to table an appeal is 
not subject to appeal (June 22, 2006, p. 12299), the Chair's ruling on 
timeliness of a Member's demand that words be taken down is subject to 
appeal (Jan. 22, 2007, p. 1899). The decision of the Chair that a 
unanimous-consent request to revise and extend remarks contains oratory 
extending beyond a simple declarative statement of the Member's attitude 
toward the underlying measure and thus constitutes debate is subject to 
appeal (July 11, 2013, p. _, p. _, and p. _).
  An appeal also may not be entertained: (1) while another is pending 
(V, 6939-6941); (2) between the motion to adjourn and vote thereon (V, 
5361); (3) during a call of the yeas and nays (V, 6051); (4) when 
dilatory (V, 5715-5722; VIII, 2822).

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  An appeal may be debated (VII, 1608; VIII, 2347, 2375, 3453-3455; June 
24, 2003, pp. 15854-56); unless laid on the table (V, 5301; Mar. 16, 
1988, p. 4086), or the previous question has been ordered (V, 5448, 
5449). An appeal from a decision relating to the priority of business 
(V, 6952), or relevancy of debate (V, 5056-5063) is not debatable. 
Debate in the House is under the hour rule (V, 4978), but may be closed 
at any time by the adoption of a motion for the previous question (V, 
6947); or to lay on the table (VIII, 3453). An appeal may be withdrawn 
at any time before action by the House thereon (as where the Chair has 
not even stated the question on appeal) (May 6, 2004, pp. 8590, 8591). 
Debate on an appeal in the Committee of the Whole is under the five-
minute rule (VII, 1608; VIII, 2347, 2556a, 3454, 3455; June 24, 2003, 
pp. 15854-56), and may be closed by motion to close debate or to rise 
for such motion in the House (V, 6947, 6950; VIII, 3453). An appeal may 
be withdrawn in the Committee of the Whole as a matter of right (June 8, 
2000, p. 9954).
  The House has postponed, along with the underlying matter, an appeal 
from a decision of the Chair thereon (VIII, 2613). The Speaker may vote 
to sustain the Speaker's own decision (IV, 4569; V, 5686, 6956, 6957).

Form of a question
  6. <> The Speaker 
shall rise to put a question but may state it sitting. The Speaker shall 
put a question in this form: ``Those in favor (of the question), say 
`Aye.'''; and after the affirmative voice is expressed, ``Those opposed, 
say `No.'''. After a vote by voice under this clause, the Speaker may 
use such voting procedures as may be invoked under rule XX.

  This clause was adopted in 1789 (II, 1311). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this clause (formerly clause 
5) consisted of this clause and current clause 1(a), clause 1(b), and 
clause 2(a) of rule XX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The motion as stated by the Chair in putting the question and not as 
stated by the Member in offering the motion, is the proposition voted on 
(VI, 247). Under this paragraph the Speaker must put the pending 
question to a voice vote before entertaining a demand for a recorded 
vote or the yeas and nays (Speaker Foley, Mar. 9, 1992, p. 4698). It is 
not in order for a Member having the floor in debate to conduct a 
``straw vote'' or otherwise ask for a show of support for a proposition 
(Nov. 18, 1995, p. 33973).


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Discretion to vote
  7. <> The Speaker is not 
required to vote in ordinary legislative proceedings, except when such 
vote would be decisive or when the House is engaged in voting by ballot.

  This clause was adopted in 1789, and amended in 1850 (V, 5964) and 
1911. A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, clause 7 (formerly clause 6) consisted 
of this clause and current clause 1(c) of rule XX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Although the amendment of 1850 granted the Speaker the same right to 
vote as other Members (V, 5966, 5967), it has historically rarely been 
exercised (V, 5964, footnote). The Speaker's name is not on the roll 
from which the yeas and nays are called (V, 5970), is called only on the 
Speaker's request (V, 5965), and is then called at the end of the roll 
by name (V, 5965; VIII, 3075). During an electronic vote, the Speaker 
directs the Clerk to record the Speaker's vote and verifies that 
instruction by submitting a vote card (Oct. 17, 1990, p. 30229). The 
Speaker may vote to make a tie and so decide a question in the negative, 
or may vote to break a tie and so decide a question in the affirmative 
(VIII, 3100; Aug. 14, 1957, p. 14783). The Speaker never has two votes 
on the same question; that is, having voted as a Member, the Speaker may 
not vote again should the result be a tie (V, 5964). The duty of giving 
a decisive vote may be exercised after the intervention of other 
business, or after the announcement of the result or on another day, if 
a correction of the roll shows a condition wherein the Speaker's vote 
would be decisive (V, 5969, 6061-6063; VIII, 3075). In one instance the 
Speaker asserted a right to withdraw a vote where a correction indicated 
that it was unnecessary (V, 5971).
  Before the vote by tellers was repealed (Sec. Sec. 1012, 1013, infra), 
the chair of the Committee of the Whole could be counted on a vote by 
tellers without passing through the tellers (V, 5996, 5997; VIII, 3100, 
3101).

Speaker pro tempore
  8. <> (a) The Speaker may appoint a 
Member to perform the duties of the Chair. Except as specified in 
paragraph (b), such an appointment may not extend beyond three 
legislative days.
  (b)(1) In the case of illness, the Speaker may appoint a Member to 
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Chair for a period not exceeding 10 days, subject to the approval of the 
House. If the Speaker is absent and has omitted to make such an 
appointment, then the House shall elect a Speaker pro tempore to act 
during the absence of the Speaker.
  (2) With the approval of the House, the Speaker may appoint a Member 
to act as Speaker pro tempore only to sign enrolled bills and joint 
resolutions for a specified period of time.
  (3)(A) In the case of a vacancy in the Office of Speaker, the next 
Member on the list described in subdivision (B) shall act as Speaker pro 
tempore until the election of a Speaker or a Speaker pro tempore. 
Pending such election the Member acting as Speaker pro tempore may 
exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary 
and appropriate to that end.
  (B) As soon as practicable after the election of the Speaker and 
whenever appropriate thereafter, the Speaker shall deliver to the Clerk 
a list of Members in the order in which each shall act as Speaker pro 
tempore under subdivision (A).
  (C) For purposes of subdivision (A), a vacancy in the Office of 
Speaker may exist by reason of the physical inability of the Speaker to 
discharge the duties of the office.

  Paragraph (a) was adopted in 1811 and limited to three legislative 
days in 1920 (VI, 263). Paragraph (b)(1) was adopted in 1876 (II, 1377). 
Paragraph (b)(2) was adopted in the 99th Congress (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 
1985, p. 393). Paragraph (b)(3) was adopted in the 108th Congress (sec. 
2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, clause 
8 (formerly clause

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7) and clause 9 occupied a single clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). The Speaker delivers to the Clerk the list required under paragraph 
(b)(3)(B) and announces such delivery to the House (e.g., Mar. 13, 2003, 
p. 6118; Jan. 20, 2005, p. 266).
  The <> right of the House to elect a Speaker pro tempore in the 
absence of the Speaker was exercised before the rule was adopted (II, 
1405), although the House sometimes preferred to adjourn (I, 179). An 
elected Speaker pro tempore in the earlier practice was not sworn (I, 
229; II, 1386); but the Senate and sometimes the President were notified 
of such election (II, 1386-1389, 1405-1412; VI, 275). On August 31, 1961 
(p. 17765), the House adopted House Resolution 445, electing Hon. John 
W. McCormack as Speaker pro tempore in the absence and terminal illness 
of Speaker Rayburn. The resolution provided that the Clerk notify the 
President and the Senate. The chair of the Democratic Caucus then 
administered the oath. The Speaker has appointed a Speaker pro tempore 
to perform the duties of the Chair for a fourth consecutive day on 
account of illness (Speaker Hastert, Feb. 26, 2001, p. 2192). Elected 
Speakers pro tempore have signed enrolled bills, appointed select 
committees, administered the oath of office to a Member-elect (Mar. 17, 
1998, p. 3836), etc., functions not exercised by a Speaker pro tempore 
designated under paragraph (a) of this clause (II, 1399, 1400, 1404; VI, 
274, 277; Sept. 21, 1961, p. 20572; June 21, 1984, p. 17708). The House 
may permit the Speaker to make appointments beyond the limit in 
paragraph (a) (e.g., Dec. 16, 2009, pp. 32039, 32040). The House may 
agree by unanimous consent to the Speaker's appointment under this 
clause of Members in the alternative to act as Speakers pro tempore to 
sign enrollments through a date certain (e.g., Aug. 6, 1998, p. 19128) 
or for an entire Congress (e.g., Jan. 6, 2009, p. 25).
  A call of the House may take place with a Speaker pro tempore in the 
chair (IV, 2989), and the Speaker pro tempore may issue a warrant for 
the arrest of absent Members under a call of the House (VI, 688). When 
the Speaker is not present at the opening of a session, including 
morning-hour debate, the Speaker designates a Speaker pro tempore in 
writing (II, 1378, 1401); but does not usually announce the Members 
called to the chair temporarily during the day's sitting (II, 1379, 
1400). The presence of the Speaker either at the opening of morning-hour 
debate or at the opening of the regular session on a day satisfies the 
requirement that the Speaker be present to convene the House at least 
every fourth day. A Speaker pro tempore elected under clause 8 of rule I 
may in turn designate another Member to act as Speaker pro tempore on a 
day certain (II, 1384; VI, 275; Feb. 23, 1996, p. 2807). Members of the 
minority have been called to the chair on occasions of ceremony (II, 
1383; VI, 270; Jan. 31, 1951, p. 779), but rarely otherwise (II, 1382, 
1390; III, 2596; VI, 264).


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Other responsibilities
  9. <> The Speaker, in 
consultation with the Minority Leader, shall develop through an 
appropriate entity of the House a system for drug testing in the House. 
The system may provide for the testing of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, and otherwise shall be 
comparable in scope to the system for drug testing in the executive 
branch pursuant to Executive Order 12564 (Sept. 15, 1986). The expenses 
of the system may be paid from applicable accounts of the House for 
official expenses.

  This clause was added in the 105th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, 
p. 121). Clerical and stylistic changes to this clause were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This clause was redesignated from clause 13 to 
clause 9 in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 
7).

  Clause 9 <> formerly was occupied 
by a prohibition against the Speaker serving for more than four 
consecutive Congresses, which was added in the 104th Congress (sec. 
103(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462) and repealed in the 108th 
Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, the former term-limit rule 
and current clause 8 occupied a single clause (formerly clause 7) (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Designation of travel
  10. <> The Speaker may designate a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House to travel on the business of the House within or without the 
United States, whether the House is meeting, has recessed, or has 
adjourned. Expenses for such travel may be paid from applicable accounts 
of the House described in clause

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1(k)(1) of rule X on vouchers approved and signed solely by the Speaker.

  This clause was adopted in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 
1975, p. 20). In the 105th Congress this clause was amended to update 
archaic references to the ``contingent fund'' (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, 
p. 121). In the 106th, 109th, and 112th Congresses, clerical corrections 
were effected with respect to the ``applicable accounts of the House'' 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 
42; sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this clause and the 
provision now found in clause 10 of rule XXIV together occupied former 
clause 8 of this rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). See also 
Sec. Sec. 769, 770, infra, for discussion of the Speaker's authority 
under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 1754) 
to authorize use of counterpart funds for Members and employees for 
foreign travel, except where authorized by the chair of the committee 
for members and employees thereof.

Committee appointment
  11. The <> Speaker 
shall appoint all select, joint, and conference committees ordered by 
the House. At any time after an original appointment, the Speaker may 
remove Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from, or appoint 
additional Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner to, a select 
or conference committee. In appointing Members, Delegates, or the 
Resident Commissioner to conference committees, the Speaker shall 
appoint no less than a majority who generally supported the House 
position as determined by the Speaker, shall name those who are 
primarily responsible for the legislation, and shall, to the fullest 
extent feasible, include the principal proponents of the major 
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  The provision of this clause relating to select committees was adopted 
in 1880, and the provision relating to conference committees was first 
adopted in 1890, although the practice of leaving the appointment of 
conference committees to the Speaker had existed from the earliest years 
of the House's history (IV, 4470; VIII, 2192). The provision authorizing 
the Speaker to add or remove select committee members or conferees after 
the initial appointment was added in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 1993, p. 49). The provision requiring the Speaker to appoint a 
majority of Members who generally supported the House position became 
effective on January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). The provision requiring the Speaker to appoint Members primarily 
responsible for the legislation was added in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(f) of 
rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Before 1880 the House could take from the Speaker the appointment of a 
select committee (IV, 4448, 4470; VIII, 2192) and on several occasions 
did so (IV, 4471-4476). In the earlier practice of the House, the Member 
moving a select committee was appointed its chair (II, 1275; III, 2342; 
IV, 4514-4516). However, in modern practice, except for matters of 
ceremony, the inconvenience and even impropriety of the usage has caused 
it often to be disregarded (IV, 4517-4523, 4671). The Speaker has 
removed Members from a select committee (e.g., Sept. 8, 2004, pp. 17754, 
17755).
  It is within the discretion of the Chair whom to appoint as conferees 
(June 24, 1932, p. 13876; July 8, 1947, p. 8469), and such discretion is 
not subject to challenge on a point of order even though clause 11 
requires the Speaker to appoint as conferees Members who are primarily 
responsible for the legislation (Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 12, 1977, p. 
33434). A motion to instruct the Speaker as to the number and 
composition of a conference committee on the part of the House is not in 
order (VIII, 2193, 3221), and a motion to instruct conferees does not 
necessarily form the basis for the Speaker's determination under this 
clause as to which Members support the legislation (May 9, 1990, p. 
9830).
  The Speaker may appoint conferees from committees: (1) that have not 
reported a measure; (2) that have jurisdiction over provisions of a non-
germane Senate amendment to a House amendment to a Senate bill 
originally narrower in scope (Speaker O'Neill, Nov. 28, 1979, p. 33904); 
(3) that have jurisdiction over provisions of an original Senate bill 
where the House amendment was narrower in scope (Speaker O'Neill, July 
28, 1980, p. 19875; July 11, 1985, p. 18545). The Speaker may also 
appoint one who, although not a member of the committee of jurisdiction, 
is a principal proponent of the measure (Speaker Gingrich, Feb. 1, 1995, 
p. 3258) or a principal proponent of an adopted floor amendment (June 
21, 1977, p. 20132). The Speaker has appointed as sole conferees on a 
nongermane portion of a Senate bill or amendment only members from the 
committee having jurisdiction over the subject matter thereof (Speaker 
O'Neill, Aug.

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27, 1980, p. 23548; July 24, 1986, p. 17644), and also members from such 
committees as additional rather than exclusive conferees on other 
nongermane portions of the Senate bill (July 24, 1986, p. 17644). Where 
a comprehensive matter is committed to conference, the Speaker may 
appoint separate groups of conferees from several committees for 
concurrent or exclusive consideration of provisions within their 
respective jurisdictions (Feb. 7, 1990, p. 1522; May 9, 1990, p. 9830). 
In the 102d Congress the Speaker reiterated the announced policy of 
simplifying conference appointments by noting on the occasion of a 
relatively complex appointment that, inasmuch as conference committees 
are select committees that dissolve when their report is acted upon, 
conference appointments should not be construed as jurisdictional 
precedent (Speaker Foley, June 3, 1992, p. 13288).
  Pursuant to this clause the Speaker may by the terms of the 
appointment empower a group of exclusive conferees to report in total 
disagreement (June 10, 1988, p. 14077; Sept. 20, 1989, p. 20955). The 
Speaker may modify an appointment by removal (e.g., Mar. 10, 1998, p. 
3049), addition (e.g., Nov. 14, 2005, p. 25816), or substitution of one 
conferee for another (Dec. 16, 2005, p. 29212; Oct. 6, 2009, p. 23628; 
Nov. 14, 2013, p. _), or by expansion of the specification of provisions 
for which a conferee is appointed (Oct. 3, 2002, p. 19011; Nov. 14, 
2005, p. 25816). The Speaker may fill a vacancy on a conference 
committee by appointment but may not accept a resignation from a 
conference committee (as contrasted with the authority to remove) absent 
an order of the House (Nov. 4, 1987, p. 30808). The Speaker may choose 
to appoint minority conferees on the recommendation of the Minority 
Leader (Speaker Boehner, Dec. 20, 2011, p. _; Dec. 23, 2011, p. _).
  For a further discussion of the Speaker's authority to appoint 
conferees, see Sec. 536, supra.

Recess and Convening Authorities
  12. <> (a) To suspend the 
business of the House for a short time when no question is pending 
before the House, the Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call 
of the Chair.

  This paragraph was added as clause 12 of rule I in the 103d Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). It was redesignated as paragraph (a) 
in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Having 
postponed proceedings on a pending question (Apr. 30, 1998, p. 7381) or 
having withdrawn recognition for a special-order speech (Nov. 4, 2009, 
p. 26795), the Speaker may declare a recess for a short time under this 
paragraph (there being no question then pending before the House). A 
Member's mere revelation that the Member seeks to offer a motion to 
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suffice to make that motion ``pending,'' and thus the Chair remains able 
to declare a short recess under this paragraph (Oct. 28, 1997, p. 23524; 
June 25, 2003, p. 16241; July 13, 2009, p. 17493).

  (b)(1) <> To suspend the business of the House when notified of an 
imminent threat to its safety, the Speaker may declare an emergency 
recess subject to the call of the Chair.
  (2) To suspend the business of the Committee of the Whole House on the 
state of the Union when notified of an imminent threat to its safety, 
the chair of the Committee of the Whole may declare an emergency recess 
subject to the call of the Chair.
  (c) During any recess or adjournment of not more than three days, if 
the Speaker is notified by the Sergeant-at-Arms of an imminent 
impairment of the place of reconvening at the time previously appointed, 
then the Speaker may, in consultation with the Minority Leader--
      (1) postpone the time for reconvening within the limits of clause 
4, section 5, article I of the Constitution and notify Members 
accordingly; or
      (2) reconvene the House before the time previously appointed 
solely to declare the House in recess within the limits of clause 4, 
section 5, article I of the Constitution and notify Members accordingly.
  (d) The Speaker may convene the House in a place at the seat of 
government other than the Hall of the House whenever, in the opinion of 
the Speaker, the public interest shall warrant it.

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  (e) During any recess or adjournment of not more than three days, if 
in the opinion of the Speaker the public interest so warrants, then the 
Speaker, after consultation with the Minority Leader, may reconvene the 
House at a time other than that previously appointed, within the limits 
of clause 4, section 5, article I of the Constitution, and notify 
Members accordingly.
  (f) The Speaker may name a designee for purposes of paragraphs (c), 
(d), and (e).

  Paragraphs (b)-(d) were added in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(c), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7) and the application of paragraph (b) to the 
Committee of the Whole was clarified in the 110th Congress (sec. 505(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). Gender-based 
references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Paragraphs (e) and (f) were added in the 114th 
Congress (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). An emergency recess 
under paragraph (b) has been declared by the Speaker pro tempore (Mar. 
6, 2003, p. 5355 (drill); May 11, 2005, p. 9163; Oct. 3, 2013, p. _) and 
by the chair of the Committee of the Whole (June 29, 2005, p. 14835). 
For the Speaker's inherent authority to declare a recess under clause 2 
of rule I, see Sec. 622, supra. The Speaker has dispensed with the 
conduct of morning-hour debate (July 10, 2014, p. _; see Sec. 951, 
infra) or changed the convening time under paragraph (c) (Dec. 19, 2009, 
p. 32729; Oct. 30, 2012, p. _; Jan. 21, 2014, p. _; Mar. 4, 2014, p. _) 
upon notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms of an imminent impairment to 
reconvening. The House previously provided the public interest 
reconvening authority now in paragraph (e) by standing order (see 
Sec. 83a, supra, discussing also similar authority in the Senate). The 
Speaker executes by letter the designation under paragraph (f) (e.g., 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).




                                 Rule II

                      other officers and officials

Elections
  1. <> There 
shall be elected at the commencement of each Congress, to continue in 
office until their successors are chosen and qualified, a Clerk, a

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Sergeant-at-Arms, a Chief Administrative Officer, and a Chaplain. Each 
of these officers shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the 
United States, and for the true and faithful exercise of the duties of 
the office to the best of the knowledge and ability of the officer, and 
to keep the secrets of the House. Each of these officers shall appoint 
all of the employees of the department concerned provided for by law. 
The Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Chief Administrative Officer may be 
removed by the House or by the Speaker.

  When the House recodified its rules, it consolidated former rules II 
through VII, former clauses 10 and 11 of rule I, former clause 6 of rule 
XIII, and former clause 5 of rule XVI under rule II (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). A rudimentary form of this clause was adopted in 1789, and 
was amended several times before 1880, when it assumed the form it 
retained for more than a century (I, 187). During the 102d Congress, the 
House Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 amended the clause to 
abolish the Office of the Postmaster (see Sec. 668, infra) and to 
empower the Speaker to remove certain elected officers (H. Res. 423, 
Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9039). The 104th Congress made conforming changes to 
the clause to reflect the abolishment of the Office of the Doorkeeper 
and the establishment of an elected Chief Administrative Officer (sec. 
201(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). Clerical and stylistic changes 
were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). For a discussion of the former Office of the Doorkeeper, see 
Sec. 663a, infra; and for a discussion of the evolution of the Chief 
Administrative Officer (an elected officer) from the former Director of 
Non-legislative and Financial Services (an officer appointed jointly by 
the Speaker and the Majority and Minority Leaders under clause 1 of rule 
VI of the 103d Congress), see Sec. 664, infra.
  The House having discarded a theory that the rules might be imposed by 
one House on its successor (V, 6743-6745), it follows that this clause 
is not operative at the organization before the rules are adopted. 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, the House 
was required under former rule II to elect its Speaker and other 
officers by a viva voce vote following nominations (I, 204, 208). 
However, the officers mentioned in the rule, other than Speaker, were, 
even then, usually chosen by resolution, which is not a viva voce 
election (I, 193, 194). A majority

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vote is required for the election of officers of both Houses of Congress 
(VI, 23). The oath is administered by the Speaker to the officers (I, 
81; Sec. 198, supra). The requirement that the officers be sworn to keep 
the secrets of the House had become obsolete (I, 187), but the 104th 
Congress adopted a requirement that Members, officers, and employees 
subscribe an oath of secrecy regarding classified information (clause 13 
of rule XXIII). Clause 4(d)(1)(A) of rule X requires the Committee on 
House Administration to provide policy direction for, and oversight of, 
the Chief Administrative Officer and the Inspector General, and 
oversight of the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms (see Sec. 752, infra).
  The House has declined to interfere with the Clerk's power of removing 
subordinates (I, 249). Employees under the Clerk and other officers are 
to be assigned only the duties for which they are appointed (V, 7232). 
The Sergeant-at-Arms having died, the Clerk was elected by the House to 
serve temporarily also as Sergeant-at-Arms without additional 
compensation (July 8, 1953, p. 8242). The Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 5501) authorizes the Speaker to fill temporary 
vacancies in the offices of Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief 
Administrative Officer, and Chaplain. A former version of the Act also 
permitted temporary appointments to the former offices of Doorkeeper and 
Postmaster. The Speaker has exercised the authority to fill temporary 
vacancies in the offices of Sergeant-at-Arms (Jan. 6, 1954, p. 8; June 
30, 1972, p. 23665; Feb. 28, 1980, p. 4350; and Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5519), 
Clerk (Nov. 15, 1975, p. 36901; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 257; Nov. 18, 2005, p. 
27489), Chaplain (Mar. 14, 1966, p. 5712; Mar. 23, 2000, p. 3481), 
Doorkeeper (Dec. 20, 1974, p. 41855), and Chief Administrative Officer 
(Jan. 9, 1997, p. 279; July 15, 2010, p. 13111). A resolution electing a 
House officer is presented as a question of privilege (July 31, 1997, p. 
17021; Speaker Hastert, Dec. 6, 2005, p. 27569; May 25, 2011, p. 7885; 
Jan. 7, 2014, p. _) even when prospective (Feb. 6, 2007, p. 3156). The 
resignation of an elected officer of the House is subject to acceptance 
by the House (Mar. 23, 2000, p. 3480; Feb. 6, 2007, p. 3156) and may be 
prospective (July 15, 2010, pp. 13110, 13111) or retroactive (May 25, 
2011, pp. 7884, 7885).

Clerk
  2. <> (a) At the 
commencement of the first session of each Congress, the Clerk shall call 
the Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner to order and proceed 
to record their presence by States in alphabetical order, either by call 
of the roll or by use of the electronic voting system. Pending the 
election of a Speaker or Speaker pro

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tempore, the Clerk shall preserve order and decorum and decide all 
questions of order, subject to appeal by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner.

  In 1880 several rules, adopted at different periods from 1794 to 1846, 
were consolidated into this clause, which, before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, was found in rule III (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47). Paragraph (a) was initially framed in 1880, on a basis 
furnished by a rule of 1860 (I, 64), and amended in 1911.
  Various <> administrative 
duties, similar to those specified in this clause, are imposed on the 
Clerk by law (I, 253; Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 
812); and the law also requires the furnishing of stationery, blank 
books, etc., to the committees and officers of the House (V, 7322); to 
exercise discretionary authority as to reprinting of bills and documents 
(V, 7319); and to receive the testimony taken in election contests (I, 
703, 705; see also Federal Contested Election Act, P.L. 91-138, 83 Stat. 
284). Instance of Clerk serving temporarily also as Sergeant-at-Arms 
(July 8, 1953, p. 8242).
  As <> rules are not 
usually adopted until after the election of the Speaker, this paragraph 
is not in force at the time of organization of a new House. The 
procedure at organization does, however, follow a practice conforming to 
the terms of the paragraph (I, 81), although the House may depart from 
it. For a discussion of procedure in the House before the adoption of 
rules, including the procedure by which the Clerk conducts the election 
of the Speaker, see Sec. Sec. 27, 60, supra. The Clerk, in presiding 
before the election of the Speaker, recognizes Members (I, 74). The 
Members-elect have on one occasion, before the election of the Speaker 
or adoption of rules, authorized the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
last House to preserve order (I, 101).
  Although the Speaker ceases to be an officer of the House with the 
expiration of a Congress, the Clerk, by old usage, continues in a new 
Congress (I, 187, 188, 235, 244).-
  The <> roll of Members is 
made up by the Clerk from the credentials, in accordance with a 
provision of law (I, 14-62; VI, 2; 2 U.S.C. 26). A certificate of 
election in due form having been filed, the Clerk placed the name of the 
Member-elect on the roll, although he was subsequently advised that a 
State Supreme Court had issued a writ restraining the Secretary of State 
from issuing such certificate (Jan. 3, 1949, p. 8). The call of the roll 
may not be interrupted, especially by one not on that roll (I, 84), and 
a person not on the roll may not be recognized (I, 86). A motion to 
proceed to the election of the Speaker is of higher privilege than a 
motion to correct the

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roll (I, 19-24). The House has declined to permit enrollment by the 
Clerk to be final as to prima facie right (I, 376, 589, 592).
  In <> early years the authority of the Clerk to decide 
questions of order pending the election of a Speaker was questioned (I, 
65). The Clerks often declined to make decisions (I, 68-72; V, 5325). 
However, in 1855 and 1997 the Clerk decided a question of order; and in 
1997 the Clerk was sustained on appeal (I, 91; Jan. 7, 1997, pp. 115, 
116). During the existence of a rule that applied the rules of a prior 
House to a successor House (1860 through 1890) (I, 64; V, 6743-6747) the 
Clerks made several rulings (I, 76, 77; VI, 623).
  Before clause 8(b)(3) of rule I, this clause operated also in the case 
of a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker arising during a Congress. For 
example, upon the death of the Speaker during an adjournment sine die of 
the first session of the 87th Congress, the Clerk called the House to 
order on the first day of the second session (Jan. 10, 1962, p. 5). 
However, clause 8(b)(3) of rule I now requires the Speaker to deliver to 
the Clerk a list of Members in the order in which each shall act as 
Speaker pro tempore in the case of a vacancy.
  The Clerk having died, and in the absence of the Sergeant-at-Arms, the 
Doorkeeper of the 79th Congress presided at organization of the 80th 
Congress (Jan. 3, 1947, p. 33). The Clerk, having been appointed 
pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 5501 by the previous Speaker at the end of the 
105th Congress to fill a vacancy caused by resignation of the Clerk 
elected for that Congress, presided at the organization of the 106th 
Congress (Jan. 6, 1999, p. 41).

  (b) <> At the 
commencement of every regular session of Congress, the Clerk shall make 
and cause to be delivered to each Member, Delegate, and the Resident 
Commissioner a list of the reports that any officer or Department is 
required to make to Congress, citing the law or resolution in which the 
requirement may be contained and placing under the name of each officer 
the list of reports required to be made by such officer.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2 of rule II (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). The paragraph was initially adopted in 1822 (I, 252). It 
was amended in the 107th Congress to permit the Clerk to publish the 
list in a form other than printed (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 25). A gender-based

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reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

  (c) The Clerk shall--
      (1) note <> all questions of order, with the decisions thereon, the 
record of which shall be appended to the Journal of each session;
      (2) enter on the Journal the hour at which the House adjourns;
      (3) complete the distribution of the Journal to Members, 
Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner, together with an accurate and 
complete index, as soon as possible after the close of a session; and
      (4) send a copy of the Journal to the executive of and to each 
branch of the legislature of every State as may be requested by such 
State officials.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph (except subparagraph (2)) was found in former clause 3 of rule 
III (I, 251); and subparagraph (2) was found in former clause 5 of rule 
XVI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (2) was adopted 
initially in 1837 and amended in 1880 (V, 6740). Former provisions 
directing the Clerk to make all contracts, keep contingent and 
stationery accounts, and pay officers and employees were stricken by the 
House Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, 102d Cong., 
Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9050) to relieve the Clerk of functions to be 
transferred to the Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services 
pursuant to that resolution (see Sec. 664, infra). Clerical corrections 
were effected at the beginning of the 104th Congress (sec. 223(f), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469) and the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). During the 104th Congress the requirement to send a 
printed copy of the Journal to each branch of every State legislature 
was changed to an authorization to send such copies on request (H. Res. 
254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Subparagraphs (3) and (4) were amended in 
the 107th Congress to permit the Clerk to publish the Journal in a form 
other than printed (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).


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  (d)(1) <> The 
Clerk shall attest and affix the seal of the House to all writs, 
warrants, and subpoenas issued by order of the House and certify the 
passage of all bills and joint resolutions.
  (2) The Clerk shall examine all bills, amendments, and joint 
resolutions after passage by the House and, in cooperation with the 
Senate, examine all bills and joint resolutions that have passed both 
Houses to see that they are correctly enrolled and forthwith present 
those bills and joint resolutions that originated in the House to the 
President in person after their signature by the Speaker and the 
President of the Senate, and report to the House the fact and date of 
their presentment.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
subparagraph (1) was found in former clause 3 of rule III (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). When the House issues an order or warrant, the 
Speaker must issue the summons under the Speaker's hand and seal, and it 
must be attested by the Clerk; but when the power is granted to a 
committee to send for persons and papers under clause 2(m) of rule XI, a 
summons signed by the chair of the committee is sufficient (III, 1668).
  The enrollment process was originally the responsibility of the 
Committee on Enrolled Bills, which was created in 1789 by a joint rule 
of the two Houses (IV, 4350). This joint rule lapsed in 1876 with other 
joint rules, but in 1880 the Rules of the House were amended to again 
recognize the Committee on Enrolled Bills (IV, 4350, 4416; VII, 2099). 
Responsibility for the engrossment and enrollment process was given to 
the Committee on House Administration when that committee was created 
effective January 2, 1947 as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) as an enumerated subject of legislative 
jurisdiction. That responsibility was transferred from the committee's 
legislative jurisdiction to its special oversight jurisdiction (see 
former clause 4(d)(1)(A) of rule X) by the Committee Reform Amendments 
of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470) and was transferred to the Clerk in the 107th Congress 
(sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 28).
  A special order of business reported by the Committee on Rules 
directing the Clerk to refrain from certifying an enrollment pending the 
resolution

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of a given contingency does not violate subparagraph (2) (Apr. 13, 2011, 
p. 5873).

  (e) <> The Clerk shall cause 
the calendars of the House to be distributed each legislative day.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph 
(e) was found in former clause 6 of rule XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). This paragraph was adopted initially in the 62d Congress, April 
5, 1911 (VI, 743), and amended December 8, 1931 (pp. 10, 83). It was 
amended in the 107th Congress to permit the Clerk to publish the 
calendars in a form other than printed (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 25).

  (f) The Clerk shall--
      (1) retain <> in the library at the 
Office of the Clerk for the use of the Members, Delegates, Resident 
Commissioner, and officers of the House, and not to be withdrawn 
therefrom, two copies of all the books and printed documents deposited 
there; and
      (2) deliver to any Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner 
an extra copy of each document requested by that Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner that has been printed by order of either House of 
Congress in any Congress in which the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner served.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
paragraphs (c) and (f) were found in former clause 3 of rule III (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). They were amended in the 92d Congress to 
include Delegates and the Resident Commissioner among those entitled to 
the listed services (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, pp. 140-44; H. Res. 1153, 
Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 36013-15). Paragraph (f) was amended in the 107th 
Congress to permit the Clerk to distribute documents by a method other 
than mail and in a form other than bound (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 25).


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  (g) <> The 
Clerk shall provide for the temporary absence or disability of the Clerk 
by designating an official in the Office of the Clerk to sign all papers 
that may require the official signature of the Clerk and to perform all 
other official acts that the Clerk may be required to perform under the 
rules and practices of the House, except such official acts as are 
provided for by statute. Official acts performed by the designated 
official shall be under the name of the Clerk. The designation shall be 
in writing and shall be laid before the House and entered on the 
Journal.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph was found in former clause 4 of rule III (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially on January 18, 1912 (VI, 25) and 
was amended January 3, 1953 (p. 16). Form of designation of a Clerk pro 
tempore (VI, 26). Technical corrections were effected in the 108th 
Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

  (h) <> The Clerk may 
receive messages from the President and from the Senate at any time when 
the House is in recess or adjournment.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph was found in former clause 5 of rule III (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1981, pp. 98-113) and amended in the 111th Congress to apply to recesses 
as well as adjournments (sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9) to 
reflect current practice (see Dec. 22, 1987, p. 37966). In the case of 
Kennedy v. Sampson, 511 F.2d 430 (D.C. Cir. 1974) (see Sec. 113, supra, 
accompanying Const., art. I, sec. 7, cl. 2) a United States court of 
appeals held that a bill could not be pocket-vetoed by the President 
during an ``intrasession'' adjournment of Congress to a day certain for 
more than three days, where the House of origin has made appropriate 
arrangements for the receipt of Presidential messages during the 
adjournment.


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  (i)(1) <> The Clerk shall supervise the staff and manage the office of a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who has died, resigned, or 
been expelled until a successor is elected. The Clerk shall perform 
similar duties in the event that a vacancy is declared by the House in 
any congressional district because of the incapacity of the person 
representing such district or other reason. When acting as a supervisory 
authority over such staff, the Clerk shall have authority to terminate 
employees and, with the approval of the Committee on House 
Administration, may appoint such staff as is required to operate the 
office until a successor is elected.
  (2) For 60 days following the death of a former Speaker, the Clerk 
shall maintain on the House payroll, and shall supervise in the same 
manner, staff appointed under House Resolution 1238, Ninety-first 
Congress (as enacted into permanent law by chapter VIII of the 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1971) (2 U.S.C. 5128).

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph was found in former clause 6 of rule III (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). It was amended in the 104th and 106th Congresses 
to reflect changes in the name of the Committee on House Administration 
(sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

-  (j) In <> addition to any other 
reports required by the Speaker or the Committee on House 
Administration, the Clerk shall report to the Committee on House 
Administration not later than 45 days following the

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close of each semiannual period ending on June 30 or on December 31 on 
the financial and operational status of each function under the 
jurisdiction of the Clerk. Each report shall include financial 
statements and a description or explanation of current operations, the 
implementation of new policies and procedures, and future plans for each 
function.
  (k) <> The Clerk shall fully 
cooperate with the appropriate offices and persons in the performance of 
reviews and audits of financial records and administrative operations.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
paragraphs (j) and (k) were found in former clauses 7 and 8 of rule III 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). They were adopted initially in the 
104th Congress (sec. 201(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). A 
conforming change was effected at the beginning of the 106th Congress in 
the name of the Committee on House Administration (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

Sergeant-at-Arms--
  3. (a) <>  
The Sergeant-at-Arms shall attend the House during its sittings and 
maintain order under the direction of the Speaker or other presiding 
officer. The Sergeant-at-Arms shall execute the commands of the House, 
and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to the Sergeant-
at-Arms by the Speaker.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph was found in former clause 1 of rule IV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in 1789, with additions and 
amendments in 1838, 1877, 1890 (I, 257), 1911 (VI, 29), and 1971. A 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Amendments adopted in the 92d Congress 
to clarify the responsibility of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep the 
accounts for the pay and mileage of the Delegates from the District of 
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the Virgin Islands and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico as 
well as for Members (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; H. Res. 1153, 
Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 36013-15) were stricken by the House Administrative 
Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, 102d Cong., Apr. 9, 1992, p. 
9039) to relieve the Sergeant-at-Arms of functions transferred to the 
Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services pursuant to that 
resolution (see Sec. 664, supra). In the 94th Congress, the provisions 
of House Resolution 732, directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to enter into 
agreements with State officials, with the approval of the Committee on 
House Administration, to withhold State income taxes from the pay of 
each Member subject to such State income tax and requesting such 
withholding, were enacted into permanent law (90 Stat. 1448; 2 U.S.C. 
4556). During the 102d Congress, the House adopted a resolution 
presented by the Majority Leader as a question of the privileges of the 
House to terminate all bank and check-cashing operations in the Office 
of the Sergeant-at-Arms and direct the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct (now Ethics) to review GAO audits of such operations 
(Oct. 3, 1991, p. 25435). When former rule IV was rewritten in the 104th 
Congress, clause 1 was restated without change (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). The Chair may enlist the Sergeant-at-Arms to 
assist the Chair in maintaining decorum (Sept. 17, 1997, p. 19027; Mar. 
28, 2012, p. _).
  The Sergeant-at-Arms is authorized to make payments from the 
contingent fund of the House (now referred to as ``applicable accounts 
of the House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X''), under rules 
prescribed by the Committee on House Administration, to defray the 
expenses of the funeral of a deceased Member of the House and the 
expenses of any delegation of Members of Congress duly appointed to 
attend (76 Stat. 686; 2 U.S.C. 5606).
  The Speaker ordered that documents received in a communication from an 
independent counsel advising the House of substantial and credible 
information that may constitute grounds for impeachment of the President 
be kept under armed guard of the Sergeant-at-Arms until the House 
determined which documents to make available to the public (Sept. 9, 
1998, p. 19769).
  At the organization of the House in a new Congress, the Speaker may 
maintain decorum before adoption of rules by directing the Sergeant-at-
Arms to present the mace as the traditional symbol of order (Jan. 3, 
1991, p. 58). Before the election of Speaker, a special rule may be 
adopted conferring the authority of this paragraph, as was done in 1849 
and 1859 (I, 101, 102).
  Duties imposed on the Sergeant-at-Arms by law (I, 258) include control 
of the Capitol Police; and the making up of the roll of Members-elect 
and presiding over the organization of a new Congress in case of vacancy 
in the Office of the Clerk, or the absence or disability of that officer 
(2 U.S.C. 26). The death of the Sergeant-at-Arms being announced, the 
House passed appropriate resolutions and adjourned as a mark of respect 
(VI, 32; July

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8, 1953, p. 8263). The Clerk having died, and in the absence of the 
Sergeant-at-Arms, the Doorkeeper of the 79th Congress presided at the 
organization of the 80th Congress (Jan. 3, 1947, p. 33). In the 83d 
Congress the Sergeant-at-Arms having died, the Clerk was elected to 
serve temporarily both as Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms (July 8, 1953, p. 
8242), and upon resignation by the Clerk from the additional position of 
Sergeant-at-Arms, the Speaker, pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 5501, appointed a 
temporary Sergeant-at-Arms (Jan. 6, 1954, p. 8). The Sergeant-at-Arms 
having resigned in the 96th Congress, the Speaker appointed a temporary 
Sergeant-at-Arms pursuant to the statute (Feb. 28, 1980, pp. 4349-50); 
and the same occurred in the 102d Congress (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5519).

-- <>   (b) The symbol of the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms shall 
be the mace, which shall be borne by the Sergeant-at-Arms while 
enforcing order on the floor.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph was found in former clause 2 of rule IV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in 1789 (II, 1346). When former 
rule IV was rewritten entirely in the 104th Congress, the paragraph was 
restated without change (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). 
A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Extreme disorder arising on the 
floor, the Speaker directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to enforce order with 
the mace (VI, 258; VIII, 2530), but an attempt to enforce order without 
the mace has been questioned as illegitimate (II, 1347).

  (c) <> The Sergeant-at-Arms shall 
enforce strictly the rules relating to the privileges of the Hall of the 
House and be responsible to the House for the official conduct of 
employees of the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
  (d) The Sergeant-at-Arms may not allow a person to enter the room over 
the Hall of the House during its sittings and, from 15 minutes before 
the hour of the meeting of the House each day until 10 minutes after 
adjournment, shall see that the floor is cleared of all persons except 
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  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
paragraphs (c) and (d) were found in former clauses 3 and 4 of rule IV 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). They were adopted initially in the 
104th Congress to transfer functions incident to the abolishment of the 
Office of the Doorkeeper (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). 
Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). For the history of the Office of 
the Doorkeeper, see Sec. 663a, infra.

-  (e) <> In addition to any other 
reports required by the Speaker or the Committee on House 
Administration, the Sergeant-at-Arms shall report to the Committee on 
House Administration not later than 45 days following the close of each 
semiannual period ending on June 30 or on December 31 on the financial 
and operational status of each function under the jurisdiction of the 
Sergeant-at-Arms. Each report shall include financial statements and a 
description or explanation of current operations, the implementation of 
new policies and procedures, and future plans for each function.
  (f) The <> Sergeant-at-Arms 
shall fully cooperate with the appropriate offices and persons in the 
performance of reviews and audits of financial records and 
administrative operations.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
paragraphs (e) and (f) were found in former clauses 5 and 6 of rule IV 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). They were adopted initially in the 
104th Congress (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). A 
conforming change was effected at the beginning of the 106th Congress in 
the name of the Committee on House Administration (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

Chief Administrative Officer
  4. <> (a) The Chief Administrative Officer shall 
have operational and financial responsibility for functions as as

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signed by the Committee on House Administration and shall be subject to 
the policy direction and oversight of the Committee on House 
Administration.-
  (b) <> In addition to any other 
reports required by the Committee on House Administration, the Chief 
Administrative Officer shall report to the Committee on House 
Administration not later than 45 days following the close of each 
semiannual period ending on June 30 or December 31 on the financial and 
operational status of each function under the jurisdiction of the Chief 
Administrative Officer. Each report shall include financial statements 
and a description or explanation of current operations, the 
implementation of new policies and procedures, and future plans for each 
function.
  (c) <> The Chief 
Administrative Officer shall fully cooperate with the appropriate 
offices and persons in the performance of reviews and audits of 
financial records and administrative operations.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, clause 4 
was found in former rule V (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It was 
adopted initially in this form in the 104th Congress (sec. 201(c), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). It was amended in the 105th Congress to 
eliminate the supervisory role of the Speaker over the Chief 
Administrative Officer (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). A conforming 
change was effected at the beginning of the 106th Congress in the name 
of the Committee on House Administration (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). Paragraph (a) was amended in the 107th Congress to reflect the 
removal of the requirement that the Committee on House Administration 
provide policy direction to the Chief Administrative Officer (sec. 2(g), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25), but that change was reversed in the 
114th Congress (sec. 2(a)(3)(B), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). The 
earlier form of the rule enumerated the duties of the Doorkeeper, which 
were transferred to the Sergeant-at-Arms incident to the abolishment of 
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Officer makes certain reports on receipts and expenditures (2 U.S.C. 
4108, 4109), which are available to the public. However, members of the 
public have no statutory or constitutional right to examine the actual 
financial records that are used in preparing such reports. Trimble v. 
Johnston, 173 F. Supp. 651 (D.C. Cir. 1959).
  Before <> the 104th 
Congress (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463), rule V 
enumerated the duties of the Doorkeeper, who enforced the rules relating 
to the privileges of the Hall of the House. The earlier form of the rule 
was adopted in 1838 and amended in 1869, 1880 (I, 260), and 1890 (V, 
7295). By law the Doorkeeper was assigned certain administrative duties 
(I, 262), including certain housekeeping functions. Through employees 
and appointees, the Doorkeeper also discharged various duties not 
enumerated in the law or in the rules, such as announcing at the door of 
the Hall of the House all messengers from the President and the Senate 
(V, 6591). The Clerk having died, and the Sergeant-at-Arms having been 
absent, the Doorkeeper of the 79th Congress presided at the organization 
of the 80th Congress (Jan. 3, 1947, p. 33). In the 78th Congress, the 
House adopted a resolution on the death of the Doorkeeper and appointed 
a committee to attend his funeral (Jan. 28, 1943, pp. 421, 422).-
  The Chief <> Administrative Officer supplanted the Director of 
Non-legislative and Financial Services formerly provided for under 
clause 1 of rule VI in the 103d Congress, which corresponded to an 
erstwhile rule LII of the 102d Congress. Certain functions and entities 
formerly within the purview of elected officers were transferred to the 
Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services pursuant to the House 
Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 
9040), which also vested the Committee on House Administration with 
authority to prescribe regulations providing for the orderly transfer of 
such functions and entities and any other transfers necessary for the 
improvement of non-legislative and financial services in the House, so 
long as not transferring a function or entity within the jurisdiction of 
the committee under rule X. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule VI of the 103d 
Congress (then still designated as rule LII of the 102d Congress), the 
Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader jointly appointed 
the first Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services on October 
23, 1992 (Oct. 29, 1992, p. 34802).

Chaplain
  5. The <> Chaplain shall offer a 
prayer at the commencement of each day's sitting of the House.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
clause was found in former rule VII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It 
was adopted

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initially in 1880 (I, 272), but the sessions of the House were opened 
with prayer from the first, and the Chaplain was an officer of the House 
before the adoption of the rule (I, 273-282). The Chaplain takes the 
oath prescribed for the officers of the House (VI, 31; Feb. 1, 1950, p. 
1311). Prayer by the Chaplain is not business requiring the presence of 
a quorum and the Speaker declines to entertain a point of no quorum 
before prayer is offered (VI, 663; clause 7 of rule XX). There is no 
precedent for prayer to be offered by the Chaplain during a continuous 
session of the House, absent an adjournment or recess (compare Apr. 22 
and 23, 1985, pp. 8753 and 8959). Form of resignation of the Chaplain 
(Feb. 28, 1921, p. 4075; Jan. 30, 1950, p. 1097; Mar. 23, 2000, p. 3480; 
May 25, 2011, pp. 7884, 7885). Form of resolution electing a Chaplain 
emeritus (VI, 31; Jan. 30, 1950, p. 1095; Nov. 10, 1999, p. 29493).
  During the 97th Congress, the Supreme Court held that employment of a 
chaplain for the legislative body of Nebraska did not violate the 
Establishment Clause of the first amendment to the Constitution. Marsh 
v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983). The Court of Appeals cited the Marsh 
decision as controlling authority in a similar challenge to the House 
Chaplain. Murray v. Buchanan, 729 F.2d 689 (D.C. Cir. 1983). The House 
adopted a privileged resolution articulating its position in the Murray 
case (H. Res. 413, Mar. 30, 1982, p. 5890). During the 113th Congress, 
the Supreme Court held that the practice of opening a town board meeting 
with a prayer offered by a member of the clergy did not violate the 
Estalishment Clause in part because of the tradition long followed by 
Congress and state legislatures. Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U.S. _ 
(2014).

Office of Inspector General
  6. (a) <> There is established an 
Office of Inspector General.
  (b) The Inspector General shall be appointed for a Congress by the 
Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader, acting jointly.
  (c) Subject to the policy direction and oversight of the Committee on 
House Administration, the Inspector General shall only--
      (1) provide audit, investigative, and advisory services to the 
House and joint entities in a manner consistent with government-wide 
standards;

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      (2) inform the officers or other officials who are the subject of 
an audit of the results of that audit and suggesting appropriate 
curative actions;
      (3) simultaneously notify the Speaker, the Majority Leader, the 
Minority Leader, and the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on House Administration in the case of any financial 
irregularity discovered in the course of carrying out responsibilities 
under this clause;
      (4) simultaneously submit to the Speaker, the Majority Leader, the 
Minority Leader, and the chair and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on House Administration a 
report of each audit conducted under this clause; and
      (5) report to the Committee on Ethics information involving 
possible violations by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House of any rule of the House or of any law 
applicable to the performance of official duties or the discharge of 
official responsibilities that may require referral to the appropriate 
Federal or State authorities under clause 3(a)(3) of rule XI.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
clause was found in former rule VI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It 
was adopted initially in this form at the beginning of the 104th 
Congress (sec. 201(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). Later in the 
104th Congress and in the 106th Congress it was amended to effect a 
technical correction (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077; H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Its predecessor form was composed in the 103d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49) by combining two rules adopted 
in the House Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, 102d 
Cong., Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040). Paragraph

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(c)(1) was amended, and gender-based references were eliminated, in the 
111th Congress (secs. 2(a), 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). 
Paragraph (c)(5) was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a change 
in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). 
Paragraph (c)(4) was amended in the 113th Congress to add the Committee 
on Appropriations (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  In the form of the rule adopted in the 103d Congress, paragraph (a) 
(formerly clause 1) corresponded to an erstwhile rule LII of the 102d 
Congress (relating to the Director of Non-legislative and Financial 
Services, who in the 104th Congress was supplanted by the Chief 
Administrative Officer; see clause 4 of rule II, Sec. Sec. 661-663, 
supra), and paragraph (b) (formerly clause 2) corresponded to an 
erstwhile rule LIII of the 102d Congress (relating to the Inspector 
General). The 104th Congress rewrote clause 2 of rule VI (as it was 
composed in the 103d Congress) to occupy all of rule VI and to: broaden 
the auditing responsibilities beyond the offices of the elected officers 
(paragraph (c)(1), formerly clause 2(c)(1)); add requirements for 
simultaneous reporting (paragraphs (c)(3) and (4), formerly clauses 
2(c)(3) and (4)); delete a provision relating to classification of 
employees (formerly clause 2(d)); and add the responsibility to report 
certain information to the Committee on Ethics (paragraph (c)(5)) (sec. 
201, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). The 104th Congress also mandated 
that the Inspector General, in consultation with the Speaker and the 
Committee on House Administration, procure an independent and 
comprehensive audit of House financial records and administrative 
operations and report the results thereof in accord with this rule (sec. 
107, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463).

  Until <> the 102d 
Congress, former rule VI provided for an Office of the Postmaster, which 
supervised the post offices of the House and the delivery of its mail. 
The earlier form of the rule was adopted in 1838 and amended in 1880 (I, 
270), 1911 (VI, 34), 1971 (H. Res. 5, 92d Cong., p. 144), and 1972 (H. 
Res. 1153, 92d Cong., pp. 36013-15). The Office of the Postmaster was 
abolished during the 102d Congress by the House Administrative Reform 
Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040).

Office of the Historian
  7. <> There is established an Office of the 
Historian of the House of Representatives. The Speaker shall appoint and 
set the annual rate of pay for employees of the Office of the Historian.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 10 of rule I (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

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It was adopted initially in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, 
p. 72). The second sentence was added in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). An earlier form of this clause provided for the 
seven-year establishment of an Office for the Bicentennial to coordinate 
the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the House of 
Representatives (H. Res. 621, 97th Cong., Dec. 17, 1982, p. 31951). The 
management, supervision, and administration of the office was under the 
direction of the Speaker and was staffed by a professional historian 
appointed by the Speaker on a nonpartisan basis. In 1984 the office was 
removed from the standing rules and established for the remainder of its 
existence by P.L. 98-367. Apart from the Office of the Historian, the 
History of the House Awareness and Preservation Act requires the 
Librarian of Congress to prepare a new and complete written history of 
the House in consultation with the Committee on House Administration (2 
U.S.C. 183). The Act also requires the Librarian to accept for deposit, 
preserve, maintain, and make accessible an oral history of the House as 
told by its Members and former Members (2 U.S.C. 183a).

Office of General Counsel
  8. (a) <> There is established an Office 
of General Counsel for the purpose of providing legal assistance and 
representation to the House. Legal assistance and representation shall 
be provided without regard to political affiliation. The Speaker shall 
appoint and set the annual rate of pay for employees of the Office of 
General Counsel. The Office of General Counsel shall function pursuant 
to the direction of the Speaker, who shall consult with the Bipartisan 
Legal Advisory Group.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 11 of rule I (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). The previous year, in the House Administrative 
Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040), the 
House had directed the Committee on House Administration to provide for 
an Office of General Counsel in a manner ensuring appropriate 
coordination with and participation by both the majority and minority 
leaderships in matters of representation and litigation. It was amended 
in the 114th Congress to move composition of the Bipartisan Legal 
Advisory Group to a new paragraph (b) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _).

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  The General Counsel is authorized by law to appear in any proceeding 
before a State or Federal court (except the United States Supreme Court) 
without compliance with admission requirements of such court (2 U.S.C. 
5571(a)). Furthermore, the law requires the Attorney General to notify 
the General Counsel of a determination not to appeal a court decision 
affecting the constitutionality of an Act (2 U.S.C. 5571(b)). The House 
may authorize the General Counsel to represent the House or a committee 
or take other action in a judicial proceeding (Feb. 14, 2008, p. 2191; 
sec. 4(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 10; June 28, 2012, p. _; sec. 
4(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; July 30, 2014, p. _; secs. 
3(f)(1), 3(f)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _)).

  (b) <> There is 
established a Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group composed of the Speaker 
and the majority and minority leaderships. Unless otherwise provided by 
the House, the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group speaks for, and 
articulates the institutional position of, the House in all litigation 
matters.

  This paragraph was added in the 114th Congress to affirmatively 
establish the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, whose composition was 
previously included in what is now paragraph (a) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). The second sentence reflected a separate order of 
the House of the 113th Congress, which also authorized the Bipartisan 
Legal Advisory Group to continue certain civil actions begun in the 
previous Congress (sec. 4(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).




                                Rule III

    the members, delegates, and resident commissioner of puerto rico

Voting
  1. <> Every Member shall be present 
within the Hall of the House during its sittings, unless excused or 
necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put, unless 
having a direct personal or pecuniary interest in the event of such 
question.


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  When the House recodified its rules, it consolidated former rule VIII, 
rule XII, and clause 6(h) of rule X under rule III, except that viable 
provisions of former clause 2 of rule VIII were transferred to current 
clause 3 of rule XX. This clause was adopted initially in 1789, with 
amendment in 1890 (V, 5941). A gender-based reference was eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this clause was 
found in former clause 1 of rule VIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Leaves of absence are presented pending the motion to adjourn (IV, 
3151), and are usually granted by unanimous consent, but sometimes are 
opposed or even refused (II, 1142-1145). Application for leave of 
absence is properly presented by filing with the Clerk the printed form 
to be secured at the desk rather than by oral request from the floor 
(VI, 199). Whether or not they are privileged is a matter of doubt (II, 
1146, 1147). Excuses for absence, as distinguished from leaves of 
absence, may be granted by less than a quorum (IV, 3000-3002). The 
statutes provide that deductions may be made from the salaries of 
Members who are absent without sufficient excuse (II, 1149, 1150); and 
although this law has been enforced (IV, 3011, footnote; VI, 30, 198), 
its general application is not practical under modern conditions. Form 
of resolution for the arrest of Members absent without leave (VI, 686).
  It <> has been found 
impracticable to enforce the provision requiring every Member to vote 
(V, 5942-5948), and such question, even if entertained, may not 
interrupt a pending record vote (V, 5947). The weight of authority also 
favors the idea that there is no authority in the House to deprive a 
Member of the right to vote (V, 5937, 5952, 5959, 5966, 5967; VIII, 
3072). In one or two early instances the Speaker decided that because of 
personal interest, a Member should not vote (V, 5955, 5958); but on all 
other occasions and in the later practice the Speaker has held that the 
Member and not the Chair should determine this question (V, 5950, 5951; 
VIII, 3071; Speaker Albert, Dec. 2, 1975, p. 38135; Speaker O'Neill, 
Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3748; July 30, 1996, p. 19952; July 16, 2009, pp. 
18125, 18126), and the Speaker has denied the Speaker's own power to 
deprive a Member of the constitutional right to vote (V, 5956; Speaker 
Albert, Dec. 2, 1975, p. 38135; Speaker O'Neill, Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3748).
  The House has at times excused Members from voting in cases of 
personal interest (III, 2294; V, 5962; Aug. 2, 1949, pp. 10591, 10592; 
Oct. 20, 1951, p. 13746; July 21, 1954, p. 11262; July 28, 1955, p. 
11930; July 12, 1956, p. 12566).
  It <> is a 
principle of ``immemorial observance'' that a Member should withdraw 
when a question concerning that Member arises (V, 5949); but it has been 
held that the disqualifying interest must be such as affects the Member 
directly (V, 5954, 5955, 5963), and not as one of a class (V, 5952; 
VIII, 3071, 3072; Speaker Bankhead, May 31, 1939, p. 6359; Speaker Al

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bert, Dec. 2, 1975, p. 38135). In a case in which question affected the 
titles of several Members to their seats, each refrained from voting in 
his own case, but did vote on the identical cases of his associates (V, 
5957, 5958). A Member should not vote on direct questions affecting that 
Member, but has sometimes voted on incidental questions (V, 5960, 5961).

  2. <> (a) A Member may not authorize any 
other person to cast the vote of such Member or record the presence of 
such Member in the House or the Committee of the Whole House on the 
state of the Union.
  (b) No other person may cast a Member's vote or record a Member's 
presence in the House or the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
clause was found in former clause 3 of rule VIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). The Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) recommended this addition to 
the rules in its May 15, 1980, report on voting anomalies that had 
occurred in the House (H. Rept. 96-991), and the House adopted the rule 
in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113). Even before 
the addition of this clause, however, ``ghost voting'' was considered 
unethical (VII, 1014; Dec. 18, 1987, p. 36274).

Delegates and the Resident Commissioner
  3. <> (a) Each Delegate and the 
Resident Commissioner shall be elected to serve on standing committees 
in the same manner as Members and shall possess in such committees the 
same powers and privileges as the other members of the committee.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
The first form of paragraph (a) was adopted in 1871, and it was 
perfected by amendments in 1876, 1880, 1887, and 1892 (II, 1297). 
Reference to the Resident Commissioner was first found in 1904 (II, 
1306). Paragraph (a) was again amended on January 2, 1947 (Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946), August 2, 1949 (p. 10618), February 2, 1951 
(p. 883), January 22, 1971 (H.

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Res. 5, 92d Cong., p. 144), January 3, 1973 (H. Res. 6, 93d Cong., p. 
26), January 3, 1991 (H. Res. 5, 102d Cong., p. 39), and January 5, 2011 
(H. Res. 5, 112th Cong., p. _) (technical correction). Paragraph (a) was 
completely revised in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49) 
to provide that each of the Delegates and the Resident Commissioner be 
elected to committees of the House on the same bases, vote in any 
committees on which they serve, and vote on questions arising in the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. The latter power 
was affected by former clause 2(d) of rule XXIII (later changed to 
clause 6(h) of rule XVIII) (providing for immediate reconsideration in 
the House of questions resolved in the Committee of the Whole by a 
margin within which the votes of Delegates and the Resident Commissioner 
were decisive; see Sec. 985, infra). The changes effected in the 103d 
Congress were revoked in the 104th Congress (sec. 212, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 462), reinstated in the 110th Congress (H. Res. 78, Jan. 24, 
2007, p. 2140), and revoked in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(4), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Under the previous form of paragraph (a), the 
Delegates and the Resident Commissioner were counted for purposes of 
establishing a quorum in a Committee of the Whole (Feb. 8, 2007, p. 
3550).
  The constitutionality of granting to Delegates the right to vote in 
the Committee of the Whole under the former rule, as circumscribed by 
former clause 2(d) of rule XXIII (later changed to clause 6(h) of rule 
XVIII), was upheld based on the premise that immediate ``revote'' where 
votes cast by Delegates had been decisive rendered their votes merely 
symbolic and not an investment of true legislative power. Michel v. 
Anderson, 14 F.3d 623 (D.C. Cir. 1994).
  The Office of Delegate was established by ordinance of the Continental 
Congress and confirmed by a law of Congress (I, 400, 421). The nature of 
the office has been the subject of much discussion (I, 400, 403, 473); 
and except as provided by law (I, 431, 526) the qualifications of the 
Delegate also have been a matter of discussion (I, 421, 423, 469, 470, 
473). A territory or district must be organized by law before the House 
will admit a Delegate (I, 405, 407, 411, 412). The Office of Delegate 
from the District of Columbia was established by Public Law 91-405 (84 
Stat. 845). The Offices of Delegate from the Territories of Guam and the 
Virgin Islands were established by Public Law 92-271 (86 Stat. 118). The 
Office of Delegate from American Samoa was established by Public Law 95-
556 (92 Stat. 2078) and was first filled by the general Federal election 
of 1980. The Office of Delegate from the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands was established by Public Law 110-229 (122 Stat. 868). 
The Office of Resident Commissioner was established (with a four-year 
term) by the Act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 963; 48 U.S.C. 891). The Act 
of May 17, 1932, changed the name of Porto Rico to Puerto Rico (48 
U.S.C. 731a).
  Under an earlier practice, Delegates did not vote in committee (VI, 
243); but this had not always been so (II, 1301). The Resident 
Commissioner, who under the rules of the 91st and earlier Congresses, 
was designated

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as an additional member of the Committees on Agriculture, Armed 
Services, and Interior and Insular Affairs, is now elected to committees 
in the same fashion as are other Members.
  The law provides that on the floor of the House a Delegate may debate 
(II, 1290), and may in debate call a Member to order (II, 1295), may 
make any motion that a Member may make except the motion to reconsider 
(II, 1291, 1292), and may make a point of order (VI, 240). A Delegate 
has even moved an impeachment (II, 1303). However, a resolution offered 
from the floor to permit the Delegate of the District of Columbia to 
vote on the articles of impeachment against the President was held not 
to constitute a question of the privileges of the House under rule IX 
(Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27825). A Delegate may be appointed a teller (II, 
1302); but the law forbids a Delegate to vote (II, 1290). A Delegate has 
been recognized to object to the consideration of a bill (VI, 241), to a 
unanimous-consent request to concur in a Senate amendment (June 29, 
1984, p. 20267), and has made reports for committees (July 1, 1958, p. 
12870). A discharge petition may not be signed by a Delegate or the 
Resident Commissioner, even by unanimous consent (Oct. 1, 2003, p. 
23853) because the phrase in clause 2 of rule XV ``a majority of the 
total membership of the House'' is construed to mean 218 Members 
(Speaker Byrns, Apr. 15, 1936, p. 5509), not including Delegates or the 
Resident Commissioner. The rights and prerogatives of Delegates in 
parliamentary matters are not limited to legislation affecting their own 
territory (VI, 240).
  At the organization of the House, the Delegates and Resident 
Commissioner are sworn (I, 400, 401); but the Clerk does not put them on 
the roll (I, 61, 62; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 41).
  A Delegate resigns in a communication addressed to the Speaker (II, 
1304). A Delegate may be arrested and censured for disorderly conduct 
(II, 1305), but there has been disagreement as to whether expulsion is 
by a majority or two-thirds vote (I, 469).
  The privileges of the floor with the right to debate were extended to 
Resident Commissioners in the 60th Congress (VI, 244). Before the 
independence of the Philippines it was represented in the House by a 
Resident Commissioner (Deschler, ch. 7, Sec. 3.3).

   <> (b) The Delegates and the Resident Commissioner may be 
appointed to any select committee and to any conference committee.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph 
(b) was found in former clause 6(h) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). Paragraph (b), effective January 3, 1975, initially authorized 
the appointment of Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to certain 
conferences (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Paragraph 
(b) was amended in the 96th Congress to authorize their appointment to 
select

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committees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16), and again in the 103d 
Congress to authorize their appointment to any conference (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).
  Before the adoption and refinement of this paragraph, a Delegate or 
the Resident Commissioner could not be appointed to a conference 
committee (Sept. 18, 1973, p. 30144; July 20, 1973, p. 25201); and they 
could be appointed to a select committee only with the permission of the 
House (Sept. 21, 1976, p. 31673).

 end segment .005  deg. segment .006 -- rule IV 
through rule IX  deg.



                                 Rule IV

                          the hall of the house

Use and admittance
  1. The Hall <> of the House 
shall be used only for the legislative business of the House and for 
caucus and conference meetings of its Members, except when the House 
agrees to take part in any ceremonies to be observed therein.

  When the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, it 
consolidated former rules XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIII under rule IV, and 
clause 1 was found in former rule XXXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Rules relating to the use of the Hall were adopted as early as 1804. The 
present form of this clause dates from 1880 (V, 7270). It was renumbered 
January 3, 1953 (p. 24). A technical amendment to this clause, in 
conjunction with one to clause 2(b), was effected in the 112th Congress 
(sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The Speaker has announced 
standards for use of the Chamber when the House is not in session 
(Speaker Pelosi, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 25; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 5, 2011, 
106; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 3, 2013, _; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 6, 2015, p. 
_).

  2. <> (a) Only the following persons shall be 
admitted to the Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto:
      (1) Members of Congress, Members-elect, and contestants in 
election cases during the pendency of their cases on the floor.

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      (2) The Delegates and the Resident Commissioner.
      (3) The President and Vice President of the United States and 
their private secretaries.
      (4) Justices of the Supreme Court.
      (5) Elected officers and minority employees nominated as elected 
officers of the House.
      (6) The Parliamentarian.
      (7) Staff of committees when business from their committee is 
under consideration, and staff of the respective party leaderships when 
so assigned with the approval of the Speaker.
      (8) Not more than one person from the staff of a Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner when that Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner has an amendment under consideration (subject to clause 5).
      (9) The Architect of the Capitol.
      (10) The Librarian of Congress and the assistant in charge of the 
Law Library.
      (11) The Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
      (12) Heads of departments.
      (13) Foreign ministers.
      (14) Governors of States.
      (15) Former Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners; former 
Parliamentarians of the House; and former elected officers and minority 
employees nominated as elected officers of the House (subject to clause 
4).
      (16) One attorney to accompany a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner who is the respondent in an investigation undertaken

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by the Committee on Ethics when a recommendation of that committee is 
under consideration in the House.
      (17) Such persons as have, by name, received the thanks of 
Congress.
  (b) The Speaker may not entertain a unanimous consent request or a 
motion to suspend this clause or clauses 1, 3, 4, or 5.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was subjected to many changes from 1802 until 1880 (V, 
7283; VIII, 3634) and was renumbered in the 83d Congress (Jan. 3, 1953, 
p. 24). The rule was amended in the 92d Congress to include the Delegate 
from the District of Columbia among those having the privilege of the 
floor (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144), and later in that Congress was 
revised to grant all Delegates the privilege (H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 
1972, pp. 36021-23). The latter revision was necessary because of the 
enactment of Public Law 92-271, which created the positions of Delegate 
from Guam and Delegate from the Virgin Islands. Officers and elected 
employees, both present and former, were given floor privileges by the 
adoption of this same resolution (H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 1972, p. 36013) 
but had in fact, by custom, been permitted on the floor before this 
change. This clause was substantially amended in the 94th Congress (H. 
Res. 1435, Oct. 1, 1976, pp. 35175-80) and was amended by the Ethics 
Reform Act of 1989 to permit floor privileges for one attorney for a 
Member-respondent during consideration of a disciplinary resolution 
(P.L. 101-194, Nov. 30, 1989). Clause 2(a)(7) was amended in the 108th 
Congress to extend floor privileges to party leadership staff when so 
assigned with the approval of the Speaker (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 7). This amendment codified current practice, including the 
Speaker's ultimate control over such assignments. In the 112th Congress, 
paragraph (a)(16) was amended to reflect a change in committee name and 
paragraph (b) was amended to clarify the breadth of the restriction on 
suspending various prohibitions of rule IV, which had been 
unintentionally narrowed by recodification in the 106th Congress (secs. 
2(e)(8), 2(f)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  The portion of this clause that permits clerks of committees access to 
the floor during the consideration of business from their committees has 
been interpreted by the Speaker to allow four professional staff members 
and one clerk on the floor at one time (Speaker Albert, June 8, 1972, p. 
20318; Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 26, 1977, p. 2333). The Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970, section 503(3) (84 Stat. 1140, 1202; 2 
U.S.C. 281b(3)), also allows two staff members of the Legislative 
Counsel access to the floor to assist the committee.

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  The portion of the clause forbidding the Speaker to entertain requests 
for suspension of certain clauses applies also to the chair of the 
Committee of the Whole (V, 7285) but the House may grant specific access 
by resolution (e.g., July 26, 2010, p. 13938). ``Heads of departments'' 
means members of the President's Cabinet, and not subordinate executive 
officers, and ``foreign ministers'' means ministers from foreign 
governments only. ``Governors of States'' does not include governors of 
territories (V, 7283; VIII, 3634).
  An alleged violation of the rule relating to admission to the floor 
presents a question of privilege (III, 2624, 2625; VI, 579), but not a 
higher question of privilege than an election case (III, 2626). In one 
case in which a former Member was abusing the privilege, he was excluded 
by direction of the Speaker (V, 7288), but in another case the Speaker 
declared it a matter for the House and not the Chair to consider (V, 
7286). In one case an alleged abuse was inquired into by a select 
committee (V, 7287). See Sec. 680, infra, for the rule constraining 
conduct of former Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, 
officers, and staff while on the floor. The Speaker announced an 
intention to strictly enforce the rule to prevent a proliferation of 
committee and other staff on the floor (Aug. 22, 1974, p. 30027; Jan. 
19, 1981, p. 402; Jan. 25, 1983, p. 224). The Speaker announced that 
committee staff would be required to display staff badges on the floor 
in exchange for identification cards before admission to the floor 
(Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 21, 1986, p. 5; Jan. 5, 1993, p. 105). It is not 
in order to refer to persons on the floor of the House as guests of the 
House, such as Members' children (Apr. 28, 1994, p. 8783; Dec. 19, 1995, 
p. 37575; Jan. 22, 1996, p. 682; Apr. 30, 1998, p. 7320; June 17, 2004, 
p. 12847; Aug. 1, 2011, p. 12698), other children (May 18, 1995, p. 
13490; Oct. 7, 1999, p. 24425; Apr. 25, 2013, p. _), or Senators 
exercising floor privileges (May 18, 1995, p. 13491).

  3. (a) <> Except as provided in paragraph (b), all persons not entitled 
to the privilege of the floor during the session shall be excluded at 
all times from the Hall of the House and the cloakrooms.
  (b) Until 15 minutes of the hour of the meeting of the House, persons 
employed in its service, accredited members of the press entitled to 
admission to the press gallery, and other persons on request of a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by card or in writing, may be 
admitted to the Hall of the House.


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  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2 of rule XXXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in 1902 (V, 7346).

  4. <> (a) A former 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner; a former Parliamentarian of 
the House; or a former elected officer of the House or former minority 
employee nominated as an elected officer of the House shall not be 
entitled to the privilege of admission to the Hall of the House and 
rooms leading thereto if such individual--
      (1) is a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal as 
those terms are defined in clause 5 of rule XXV;
      (2) has any direct personal or pecuniary interest in any 
legislative measure pending before the House or reported by a committee; 
or
      (3) is in the employ of or represents any party or organization 
for the purpose of influencing, directly or indirectly, the passage, 
defeat, or amendment of any legislative proposal.
  (b) The Speaker may promulgate regulations to carry out this rule 
including regulations that exempt ceremonial or educational functions 
from the restrictions of this clause.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XXXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 
1435, Oct. 1, 1976, pp. 35175-80) to consolidate in one place and to 
clarify the restrictions on admittance to the floor of former Members, 
officers, and employees and to give the Speaker the power to promulgate 
regulations to enforce the rule. The form of the rule adopted during the 
109th Congress established plainer proscriptions with respect to 
registered lobbyists, agents of foreign principals, and persons with 
similar representational roles and specified particular exercises of 
regulatory authority by the Speaker (H. Res. 648, Feb. 1, 2006, p. 540). 
The 111th Congress clarified the authority of the Speaker over the 
entire rule and not merely the exemptions specified

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in paragraph (b), and eliminated a gender-based reference (secs. 2(l), 2 
(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, pp. 7, 9).
  As early as 1945 the Chair held that former Members do not have the 
privilege of the floor when they are personally interested in 
legislation (Speaker Rayburn, Oct. 2, 1945, p. 9251). Pursuant to the 
authority granted by this clause, Speakers have issued regulations from 
time to time (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 6, 1977, p. 321; Speaker Foley, June 
9, 1994, p. 12387; Speaker Gingrich, May 24, 1995, p. 14300; Speaker 
Gingrich, Aug. 1, 1996, p. 21031; Speaker Hastert, Feb. 1, 2006, p. 644; 
Speaker Pelosi, Jan. 5, 2007, p. 273).
  A former Member has not been entitled to the privileges of the floor 
under this clause if (1) having a direct personal or pecuniary interest 
in legislation under consideration in the House or reported by any 
committee, or (2) representing any party or organization for the purpose 
of influencing the disposition of legislation pending before the House, 
reported by any committee or under consideration in any committee or 
subcommittee (June 7, 1978, p. 16625). The essence of the rule has been 
the former Member's status as one with a personal or pecuniary interest 
and not whether the former Member may have a present intent to lobby 
(Speaker Foley, June 9, 1994, p. 12387). Even before the adoption of a 
more categorical form of the rule during the 109th Congress, intent to 
lobby was assumed if a former Member was employed or retained as a 
lobbyist to influence legislative measures as described in (2) above 
(Aug. 1, 1996, p. 21031). The Speaker has emphasized that the rule 
applies not only to the floor but also to ``rooms leading thereto,'' and 
has construed the latter phrase to include, for example, the Speaker's 
Lobby and the cloakrooms (Speaker Gingrich, May 24, 1995, p. 14300; Aug. 
1, 1996, p. 21031) and the Rayburn Room (Feb. 1, 2006, p. 541).
  A former Member must observe the rules of proper decorum while on the 
floor, and the Chair may direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to assist the Chair 
in maintaining such decorum (Sept. 17, 1997, pp. 19026, 19027). A former 
Member may not manifest approval or disapproval of the proceedings 
(VIII, 3635). In the 105th Congress the House adopted a resolution 
offered as a question of the privileges of the House alleging indecorous 
behavior of a former Member and instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms to ban 
the former Member from the floor, and rooms leading thereto, until the 
resolution of a contested election to which he was party (H. Res. 233, 
Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19340).

  5. A person <> from the staff of a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may be admitted to the Hall 
of the House or rooms leading thereto under clause 2 only upon prior 
notice to the Speaker. Such persons, and persons from the staff of 
committees

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admitted under clause 2, may not engage in efforts in the Hall of the 
House or rooms leading thereto to influence Members with regard to the 
legislation being amended. Such persons shall remain at the desk and are 
admitted only to advise the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or 
committee responsible for their admission. A person who violates this 
clause may be excluded during the session from the Hall of the House and 
rooms leading thereto by the Speaker.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 4 of rule XXXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). This clause was added initially in the 95th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to extend the privilege of the floor to 
one person from the staff of a Member having an amendment under 
consideration but not of a measure's sponsor or during special-order 
speeches. The Speaker promulgated regulations for the implementation of 
this clause on January 26, 1977 (p. 2333). In the 97th Congress the 
Speaker announced that personal staff of Members did not have the 
privilege of the floor and that committee staff, permitted on the floor 
when business from their committees is under consideration, were 
required to remain unobtrusively by the committee tables (Aug. 18, 1982, 
p. 21934). Staff permitted on the floor under this clause are not 
permitted to distribute literature or otherwise attempt to influence 
Members in their votes (Aug. 1, 1990, p. 21519; Sept. 27, 1995, p. 
26567) and may not applaud during debate (June 14, 1995, p. 15896).

Gallery
  6. (a) <> The Speaker shall set aside a portion of the west gallery for 
the use of the President, the members of the Cabinet, justices of the 
Supreme Court, foreign ministers and suites, and the members of their 
respective families. The Speaker shall set aside another portion of the 
same gallery for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on

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the cards of Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner.
  (b) The Speaker shall set aside the southerly half of the east gallery 
for the use of the families of Members of Congress. The Speaker shall 
control one bench. On the request of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, or Senator, the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to 
the family of such individual, which may include their visitors. No 
other person shall be admitted to this section.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XXXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). It was adopted initially in 1880 (V, 7302) and renumbered January 
3, 1953 (p. 24). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  On special occasions the House sometimes makes a special rule for 
admission to the galleries (V, 7303), as on the occasion of the 
electoral count (III, 1961), of an address by the President, and of 
public funerals.

Prohibition on campaign contributions
  7. A <> Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House, or any other person entitled to admission to the 
Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto by this rule, may not 
knowingly distribute a political campaign contribution in the Hall of 
the House or rooms leading thereto.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 5 of rule XXXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47). It was adopted initially in the 105th Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121).


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                                 Rule V

                         broadcasting the house

  1. <> The Speaker 
shall administer, direct, and control a system for closed-circuit 
viewing of floor proceedings of the House in the offices of all Members, 
Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and committees and in such other 
places in the Capitol and the House Office Buildings as the Speaker 
considers appropriate. Such system may include other communications 
functions as the Speaker considers appropriate. Any such communications 
shall be subject to rules and regulations issued by the Speaker.
  2. (a) The Speaker shall administer, direct, and control a system for 
complete and unedited audio and visual broadcasting and recording of the 
floor proceedings of the House. The Speaker shall provide for the 
distribution of such broadcasts and recordings to news media, for the 
storage of audio and video recordings of the proceedings, and for the 
closed-captioning of the proceedings for hearing-impaired persons.
  (b) All television and radio broadcasting stations, networks, 
services, and systems (including cable systems) that are accredited to 
the House Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries, and all radio 
and television correspondents who are so accredited, shall be provided 
access to the live coverage of the House.
  (c) Coverage made available under this clause, including any recording 
thereof--

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      (1) may not be used for any partisan political campaign purpose;
      (2) may not be used in any commercial advertisement; and
      (3) may not be broadcast with commercial sponsorship except as 
part of a bona fide news program or public affairs documentary program.
  3. The Speaker may delegate any of the responsibilities under this 
rule to such legislative entity as the Speaker considers appropriate.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 9 of rule I (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). It was adopted in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 
1979, p. 7). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). The requirement 
that televised broadcasts of proceedings of the House be closed 
captioned for hearing-impaired individuals was added in the 101st 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). The authority of the Speaker 
to make rules governing telecommunications functions within the House 
was added in the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39) and 
broadened to all communications functions in the 113th Congress, along 
with a clarification that clause 2(a) applies to proceedings on the 
floor, and a clarification in clause 2(c)(1) of the restrictions on use 
of coverage (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  In the 95th Congress the House considered as a question of the 
privileges of the House and adopted a resolution directing the Committee 
on Rules to investigate the impact on the safety, dignity, and integrity 
of House proceedings, of a test authorized by the Speaker under the 
Speaker's general control over the Hall of the House for the audiovisual 
broadcast of House proceedings within the Capitol and House Office 
Buildings (H. Res. 404, Mar. 15, 1977, p. 7608). The resolution directed 
the Committee on Rules to report to the House at the earliest 
practicable date its findings and recommendations, including whether 
such coverage should be made available to the public. The committee 
reported and the House adopted another resolution that: (1) authorized 
the Speaker to establish a closed-circuit system for in-House 
broadcasting of House proceedings; (2) directed the Committee on Rules 
to study methods for providing complete audio and visual broadcasting of 
House proceedings and to report to the House thereon; and (3) directed 
the Speaker after receipt of the committee's report to establish a 
system subject to his direction and control for audio and visual 
broadcast and recording of House proceedings and to provide for 
distribution and access to the news media (H. Res. 866, Oct. 27, 1977,

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pp. 35425-37). The Speaker, after receipt of that report (H. Rept. 95-
881, Feb. 15, 1978), directed implementation of full audio coverage, 
with distribution to the media, on June 8, 1978 (p. 16746). Public Law 
95-391 (Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1979) contained the 
following proviso: ``No funds in this bill may be used to implement a 
system for televising and broadcasting the proceedings of the House 
pursuant to House Resolution 866, Ninety-Fifth Congress, under which the 
TV cameras in the Chamber purchased by the House are controlled and 
operated by persons not in the employ of the House.''
  Pursuant to this rule, the Speaker directed the Clerk in the 98th 
Congress to immediately implement periodic wide-angle television 
coverage of all ``special-order'' speeches at the end of legislative 
business (with captions at the bottom of the screen indicating that 
legislative business has been completed) (May 10, 1984, p. 11894) but 
not during ``interim'' special orders (Dec. 19, 1985, p. 38106). 
However, in the 103d and 104th Congresses, the Speaker prohibited wide-
angle coverage but continued the caption at the bottom of the screen not 
only during special-order speeches but also during morning-hour debate 
(Speaker Foley, Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2244; Speaker Gingrich, Jan. 4, 1995, 
p. 551). In the 99th Congress, the House adopted a resolution, raised as 
a question of the privileges of the House, authorizing and directing the 
Speaker to provide for the audio and visual broadcast coverage of the 
Chamber while Members are voting (H. Res. 150, Apr. 30, 1985, p. 9821). 
Although paragraph (a) requires complete and unedited broadcast coverage 
of House proceedings, the House held (by tabling an appeal of a ruling 
of the Chair) that it does not require in-House microphone amplification 
of disorderly conduct by a Member following expiration of recognition 
for debate (Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4081).




                                 Rule VI

               official reporters and news media galleries

Official reporters
  1. <> Subject to the direction and control of the Speaker, 
the Clerk shall appoint, and may remove for cause, the official 
reporters of the House, including stenographers of committees, and shall 
supervise the execution of their duties.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). From 1874 until March 1, 1978, the appointment and removal 
of the official reporters, and the manner of the execution of their 
duties, was

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vested in the Speaker (V, 6958); effective March 1, 1978 (H. Res. 959, 
Jan. 23, 1978, p. 431) those responsibilities were vested in the Clerk, 
subject to the direction and control of the Speaker.
  The reporters of debates have played an important role in the 
evolution of the system by which the House compiles a daily verbatim 
report of its proceedings, made by its own corps of reporters (V, 6959). 
Since these reporters have become officers of the House a correction of 
the Congressional Record has been held a question of privilege (V, 7014-
7016). The House has directed the Clerk to provide a copy of the audio 
backup file of a committee deposition made by the reporters to the 
prosecuting attorney in a criminal proceeding (Feb. 17, 2012, p. _).
  The <> arrangement, style, etc., of the Congressional Record is 
prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 901, 
904 (see also VIII, 3500). The rules of the Joint Committee on Printing 
governing publication of the Congressional Record are as follows:

  1. Arrangement of the daily Congressional Record.--The Director of the 
Government Publishing Office shall arrange the contents of the daily 
Congressional Record as follows: The Senate proceedings shall alternate 
with the House proceedings in order of placement in consecutive issues 
insofar as such an arrangement is feasible, and Extensions of Remarks 
and Daily Digest shall follow: Provided, That the makeup of the 
Congressional Record shall proceed without regard to alternation 
whenever the Director of the Government Publishing Office deems it 
necessary in order to meet production and delivery schedules.
  2. Type and style.--The Director of the Government Publishing Office 
shall print the report of the proceedings and debates of the Senate and 
House of Representatives, as furnished by the official reporters of the 
Congressional Record, in 8-point type; and all matter included in the 
remarks or speeches of Members of Congress, other than their own words, 
and all reports, documents, and other matter authorized to be inserted 
in the Congressional Record shall be printed in 7-point type; and all 
roll calls shall be printed in 6-point type. No italic or black type nor 
words in capitals or small capitals shall be used for emphasis or 
prominence; nor will unusual indentions be permitted. These restrictions 
do not apply to the printing of or quotations from historical, official, 
or legal documents or papers of which a literal reproduction is 
necessary.
  3. Only as an aid in distinguishing the manner of delivery in order to 
contribute to the historical accuracy of the Record, statements or 
insertions in the Record where no part of them was spoken will be 
preceded and followed by a ``bullet'' symbol, i.e.,  (now 
applicable only in Senate).
  4. Return of manuscript.--When manuscript is submitted to Members for 
revision it should be returned to the Government Publishing Office not 
later than 9 o'clock p.m. in order to insure publication in the 
Congressional Record issued on the following morning; and if all of the 
manuscript is not furnished at the time specified, the Director of the 
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lishing Office is authorized to withhold it from the Congressional 
Record for 1 day. In no case will a speech be printed in the 
Congressional Record of the day of its delivery if the manuscript is 
furnished later than 12 o'clock midnight.
  5. Tabular matter.--The manuscript of speeches containing tabular 
statements to be published in the Congressional Record shall be in the 
hands of the Director of the Government Publishing Office not later than 
7 o'clock p.m. to insure publication the following morning. When 
possible, manuscript copy for tabular matter should be sent to the 
Government Publishing Office 2 or more days in advance of the date of 
publication in the Congressional Record. Proof will be furnished 
promptly to the Member of Congress to be submitted by him instead of 
manuscript copy when he offers it for publication in the Congressional 
Record.
  6. Proof furnished.--Proofs or ``leave to print'' and advance speeches 
will not be furnished the day the manuscript is received but will be 
submitted the following day, whenever possible to do so without causing 
delay in the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress. Advance 
speeches shall be set in the Congressional Record style of type, and not 
more than six sets of proofs may be furnished to Members without charge.
  7. Notation of withheld remarks.--If manuscript or proofs have not 
been returned in time for publication in the proceedings, the Director 
of the Government Publishing Office will insert the words ``Mr. __ 
addressed the Senate (House or Committee). His remarks will appear 
hereafter in Extensions of Remarks'' and proceed with the printing of 
the Congressional Record.
  8. Thirty-day limit.--The Director of the Government Publishing Office 
shall not publish in the Congressional Record any speech or extension of 
remarks which has been withheld for a period exceeding 30 calendar days 
from the date when its printing was authorized: Provided, That at the 
expiration of each session of Congress the time limit herein fixed shall 
be 10 days, unless otherwise ordered by the committee.
  9. Corrections.--The permanent Congressional Record is made up for 
printing and binding 30 days after each daily publication is issued; 
therefore all corrections must be sent to the Director of the Government 
Publishing Office within that time: Provided, That upon the final 
adjournment of each session of Congress the time limit shall be 10 days, 
unless otherwise ordered by the committee: Provided further, That no 
Member of Congress shall be entitled to make more than one revision. Any 
revision shall consist only of corrections of the original copy and 
shall not include deletions of correct material, substitutions for 
correct material, or additions of new subject matter.
  10. The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall not publish 
in the Congressional Record the full report or print of any committee or 
subcommittee when the report or print has been previously printed. This 
rule shall not be construed to apply to conference reports. However, 
inasmuch as rule XXII (Sec. 1082, infra) provides that conference 
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ed in the daily edition of the Congressional Record, they shall not be 
printed therein a second time.
  11. Makeup of the Extensions of Remarks.--Extensions of Remarks in the 
Congressional Record shall be made up by successively taking first an 
extension from the copy submitted by the official reporters of one House 
and then an extension from the copy of the other House, so that Senate 
and House extensions appear alternately as far as possible. The sequence 
for each House shall follow as closely as possible the order or 
arrangement in which the copy comes from the official reporters of the 
respective Houses.
  The official reporters of each House shall designate and distinctly 
mark the lead item among their extensions. When both Houses are in 
session and submit extensions, the lead item shall be changed from one 
House to the other in alternate issues, with the indicated lead item of 
the other House appearing in second place. When only one House is in 
session, the lead item shall be an extension submitted by a Member of 
the House in session. This rule shall not apply to Congressional Records 
printed after the sine die adjournment of the Congress.
  12. Official reporters.--The official reporters of each House shall 
indicate on the manuscript and prepare headings for all matter to be 
printed in Extensions of Remarks and shall make suitable reference 
thereto at the proper place in the proceedings.
  13. Two-page rule--Cost estimate from Director of the Government 
Publishing Office.--(1) No extraneous matter in excess of two printed 
Record pages, whether printed in its entirety in one daily issue or in 
two or more parts in one or more issues, shall be printed in the 
Congressional Record unless the Member announces, coincident with the 
request for leave to print or extend, the estimate in writing from the 
Director of the Government Publishing Office of the probable cost of 
publishing the same. (2) No extraneous matter shall be printed in the 
House proceedings or the Senate proceedings, with the following 
exceptions: (a) Excerpts from letters, telegrams, or articles presented 
in connection with a speech delivered in the course of debate; (b) 
communications from State legislatures; (c) addresses or articles by the 
President and the Members of his Cabinet, the Vice President, or a 
Member of Congress. (3) The official reporters of the House or Senate or 
the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall return to the 
Member of the respective House any matter submitted for the 
Congressional Record which is in contravention of these provisions.

      house supplement to ``laws and rules for publication of the 
            congressional record''--effective august 12, 1986

  1. Extensions of Remarks in the daily Congressional Record.--When the 
House has granted leave to print (1) a newspaper or magazine article, or 
(2) any other matter not germane to the proceedings, it shall be 
published under Extensions of Remarks. This rule shall not apply to 
quotations which form part of a speech of a Member, or to an authorized 
extension of his own remarks: Provided, That no address, speech, or 
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or released subsequently to the sine die adjournment of a session of 
Congress may be printed in the Congressional Record. One-minute speeches 
delivered during the morning business of Congress shall not exceed 300 
words. Statements exceeding this will be printed following the business 
of the day.
  2. Any extraneous matter included in any statement by a Member, either 
under the 1-minute rule or permission granted to extend at this point, 
will be printed in the ``Extensions of Remarks'' section, and that such 
material will be duly noted in the Member's statement as appearing 
therein.
  3. Under the general leave request by the floor manager of specific 
legislation only matter pertaining to such legislation will be included 
as per the request. This, of course, will include tables and charts 
pertinent to the same, but not newspaper clippings and editorials.
  4. In the makeup of the portion of the Record entitled ``Extensions of 
Remarks,'' the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall 
withhold any Extensions of Remarks which exceed economical press fill or 
exceed production limitations. Extensions withheld for such reasons will 
be printed in succeeding issues, at the direction of the Director of the 
Government Publishing Office, so that more uniform daily issues may be 
the end result and, in this way, when both Houses have a short session 
the makeup would be in a sense made easier so as to comply with daily 
proceedings, which might run extremely heavy at times.
  5. The request for a Member to extend his or her remarks in the body 
of the Record must be granted to the individual whose remarks are to be 
inserted.
  6. All statements for ``Extensions of Remarks,'' as well as copy for 
the body of the Congressional Record must be submitted on the Floor of 
the House to the Official Reporters of Debates and must carry the actual 
signature of the Member. Extensions of Remarks will be accepted up to 15 
minutes after adjournment of the House. To insure printing in that day's 
proceedings, debate transcripts still out for revision must be returned 
to the Office of Official Reporters of Debates, Room HT-60, the Capitol, 
(1) by 5 p.m., or 2 hours following adjournment, whichever occurs later; 
or (2) within 30 minutes following adjournment when the House adjourns 
at 11 p.m., or later.
  7. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XVII of the Rules of the House, the 
Congressional Record shall be a substantially verbatim account of 
remarks made during the proceedings of the House, subject only to 
technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections authorized by the 
Member making the remarks involved. Unparliamentary remarks may be 
deleted only by permission or order of the House. Consistent with rule 9 
of the Joint Committee on Printing Rules, any revision shall consist 
only of technical, grammatical, or typographical corrections of the 
original copy and shall not include deletions of correct material, 
substitutions for correct material, or additions of new subject matter. 
By obtaining unanimous consent to revise and extend, a Member will be 
able to relax the otherwise strict prohibition

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contained in clause 8 of rule XVII only in two respects: (1) to revise 
by technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections; and (2) to 
extend remarks in a distinctive type style to follow the remarks 
actually uttered. In no event would the actually uttered remarks be 
removable.

  The requirement <> of 
rule 7 of the supplemental rules that the Congressional Record be a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks actually rendered was included 
in clause 8(a) of rule XVII (formerly clause 9 of rule XIV) in the 104th 
Congress, with the prescription that that rule constitute a standard of 
conduct under clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI (formerly clause 4(e)(1)(B) of 
rule X) (sec. 213, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Under clause 8 of 
rule XVII, remarks actually delivered may not be deleted and remarks 
inserted must appear in distinctive type (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541). The 
Speaker has instructed the Official Reporters of Debates to adhere 
strictly to the requirement of rule 7 of the supplemental rules (Mar. 2, 
1988, p. 2963; Feb. 3, 1993, p. 1980).
  Words spoken by a Member not under recognition are not included in the 
Congressional Record (V, 6975-6978; VIII, 3466, 3471; Oct. 11, 2011, p. 
_) and a Member should not expect the official reporters to transcribe 
such remarks (Jan. 24, 2011, p. 583) or the remarks of two Members 
speaking simultaneously (Oct. 11, 2011, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 
2012, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 26, 2013, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Mar. 
25, 2014, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, p. _). For example the 
Record does not include remarks uttered: (1) after a Member has been 
called to order (July 29, 1994, p. 18609); (2) when a Member fails to 
heed the gavel at the expiration of time for debate (May 22, 2003, p. 
12965; Oct. 2, 2003, p. 23950; July 25, 2012, p. _); (3) when a Member 
interrupts another during debate without being yielded to (Feb. 15, 
2012, p. _) or otherwise recognized (as on a point of order) (Speaker 
O'Neill, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2229). Remarks held irrelevant by the Chair 
may be removed from the Record by unanimous consent only (Mar. 20, 2002, 
p. 3663).
  In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair advised that when 
the Pledge of Allegiance is delivered as the third element of the daily 
order of business, the Record reflects the pledge in its statutory form 
(Apr. 27, 2004, pp. 7588, 7600). The Chair announced the Record-printing 
policy regarding remarks in debate uttered in languages other than 
English, to deny transcription in the foreign language (unless a 
transcript is provided in a language that the Government Publishing 
Office can print) and to require Members to submit translations for 
distinctive printing in the Record in English as a revision of remarks 
(Mar. 4, 1998, p. 2535; see also Feb. 25, 2003, p. 4402; Mar. 15, 2013, 
p. _).
  Under long practice and applicable precedents and guidelines, the 
Chair has refined rulings on points of order in the Record in order to 
clarify them without changing their substance, including those sustained 
by the House on appeal (Feb. 19, 1992, p. 2461; see H. Res. 230, 99th 
Cong., July 31, 1985, p. 21783, and H. Rept. 99-228). In accordance with 
existing

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accepted practices, the Speaker customarily made such technical or 
parliamentary corrections or insertions in the transcript of a ruling or 
statement by the Chair as may have been necessary to conform to rule, 
custom, or precedent (see H. Res. 330, 101st Cong., Feb. 7, 1990, p. 
1515, and report of House Administration task force on Record inserted 
by Speaker Foley, Oct. 27, 1990, p. 37124). In the 104th Congress the 
Speaker ruled that the requirement of clause 8 of rule XVII (formerly 
clause 9 of rule XIV) that the Record be a substantially verbatim 
account of remarks made during House proceedings extended to statements 
and rulings of the Chair (Jan. 20, 1995, p. 1866).
  The Congressional Record is for the proceedings of the House and 
Senate only, and matters not connected therewith are rigidly excluded 
(V, 6962). It is not, however, the official record, that function being 
fulfilled by the Journal (IV, 2727). Because the Record is maintained as 
a substantially verbatim account of the proceedings of the House (44 
U.S.C. 901), the Speaker will not entertain a unanimous-consent request 
to give a special-order speech ``off the Record'' (June 24, 1992, p. 
16131). As a general principle the Speaker has no control over the 
Record (V, 6984, 7017).
  The traditional practice to allow Members, with the approval of the 
House and under conditions set forth by the Joint Committee on Printing, 
to revise remarks before publication in the Congressional Record (V, 
6971, 7024; VIII, 3500) should be interpreted in light of clause 8 of 
rule XVII and rule 7 of the supplemental rules of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, which require the Record to be a substantially verbatim 
account of remarks made during House proceedings (see Sec. 686, supra, 
and Sec. Sec. 967, 968, infra). In any event, a Member should not change 
the notes of the Member's own speech in such a way as to affect the 
remarks of another without bringing the correction to the attention of 
that Member (V, 6972; VIII, 3461) because such alterations require 
authorization by the House (VIII, 3463, 3497). Where a Member so revised 
his remarks as to affect the import of words uttered by another Member, 
the House corrected the Record (V, 6973). A Member is not entitled to 
inspect the reporter's notes of remarks that do not contain reflections 
on that Member, delivered by another Member and withheld for revision 
(V, 6964).
  As a general <> rule the Committee of the Whole has no 
control over the Congressional Record (V, 6986); but the chairman in the 
preservation of order may direct the exclusion of disorderly words 
spoken by a Member after a call to order (V, 6987). In a case wherein a 
letter read in Committee involved a breach of privilege, the Committee 
reported the matter to the House for action, and the House struck the 
letter from the Record (V, 6986). The chair of the Committee of the 
Whole does not determine the privileges of a Member under a general 
leave to print in the Record, that being for the House alone (V, 6988). 
The Committee of the Whole may neither grant a general leave to print, 
although for convenience it does permit individual Members to extend 
their remarks

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(V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-3490; Aug. 31, 1965, p. 22385), nor permit 
the inclusion of extraneous material (Jan. 23, 1936, p. 950; Feb. 1, 
1937, p. 656; Sept. 19, 1967, p. 26032).
  Although the <> House controls the Congressional Record, the Speaker with the 
assent of the House laid down the principle that words spoken by a 
Member in order might not be changed by the House, because this would be 
determining what a Member should utter on the floor (V, 6974; VI, 583; 
VIII, 3469, 3498). Neither should one House strike matter placed in the 
Record by permission of the other House (V, 6966). But the House may 
correct the speech of one of its Members so that it may record 
faithfully what was actually said (V, 6972). Similarly, a motion to 
correct the Record has been entertained to allow a Member to print in a 
subsequent edition of the daily Record the correct text of an amendment 
offered on a previous day and that had been substantially misprinted in 
the daily Record for the day on which it was offered (Deschler, ch. 5, 
Sec. 18.6). In addition, privileged motions have been permitted to 
correct the Record as follows: (1) striking unparliamentary words 
inserted in the Record (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 17); (2) correcting the 
Record where the remarks of one Member have been attributed to another 
(Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. Sec. 18.1, 18.2); (3) correcting the Record where 
a Member has improperly altered his remarks during an exchange of 
colloquy with another Member (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec.  18.9). Mere 
typographical errors in the Record or ordinary revisions of a Member's 
remarks do not give rise to privileged motions for the correction of the 
Record (Apr. 25, 1985, p. 9419), because such changes for the permanent 
edition of the Record may be made without the permission of the House 
(Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 19) (subject to clause 8 of rule XVII). The House 
does not change the Record merely to show what a Member should have said 
during debate (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 18).
  Furthermore, the Speaker declines to entertain unanimous-consent 
requests to correct the Record on a vote taken by electronic device, 
based upon the presumed accuracy of the electronic system and the 
ability and responsibility of each Member to verify votes (Feb. 6, 1973, 
p. 3558; Apr. 18, 1973, p. 13081; Dec. 3, 1974, p. 37897). It also has 
been held that a Member may not, in a controversy over a proposed 
correction of the Record as to a matter of business, demand as a matter 
of right the reading of the reporter's notes (V, 6967; VIII, 3460).
  The accuracy and propriety of reports in the Congressional Record 
constitute questions of the privileges of the House (see Sec. 704, 
infra). Subject to the requirements of rule IX, a motion or resolution 
for the correction of the Record that involves a question of privilege 
may be made properly after the reading and approval of the Journal (V, 
7013; VIII, 3496), is not in order pending the approval of the Journal 
(V, 6989), and may not be raised until the Record has appeared (V, 
7020). A correction of the Record that involves a motion and a vote is 
recorded in the Journal (IV, 2877). A resolution directing the placement 
of an asterisk in the Record

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to note alleged inaccuracies in a State of the Union address (but not 
alleging improper transcription of that address) was held not to 
constitute a question of privilege (Oct. 20, 2003, pp. 25255, 25256). 
Propositions to make corrections are sometimes considered by the 
Committee on House Administration.
  Where <> a Member had uttered disorderly words on the floor without 
challenge, the House decided that it was not precluded from action when 
the words, after being withheld for revision, appeared in the Record, 
and struck them (V, 6979, 6981; VI, 582; VIII, 2538, 3463, 3472). The 
House also has ordered stricken printed speeches condemned as 
unparliamentary for reflections on Members, committees of the House, the 
House itself (V, 7017), and the Senate (V, 5129). In the 101st Congress 
a resolution presented as a question of privilege was adopted to direct 
the Committee on House Administration to report with respect to certain 
unauthorized deletions from the Record. A task force of that committee 
recommended that deletion of unparliamentary remarks be permitted only 
by consent of the House and not by the Member uttering the words under 
authority to revise and extend (Oct. 27, 1990, p. 37124). That 
recommendation has been incorporated into the Rules of the House (clause 
8(b) of rule XVII). In debating a resolution to strike from the Record 
disorderly language a Member may not read the language (V, 7004); but it 
was held that as part of a personal explanation relating to matter 
excluded as out of order a Member might read the matter, subject to a 
point of order if the reading should develop anything in violation of 
the rules of debate (V, 5079). A resolution to omit from the Record 
certain remarks merely declared by the Member offering the resolution to 
be out of order is not privileged (V, 7021). A motion to strike 
unparliamentary words from the Record is privileged (see Sec. 961, 
infra), although a question of privilege may not subsequently arise 
therefrom (V, 7023; VI, 596).
  The practice <> of inserting in the Congressional Record speeches not actually 
delivered on the floor has developed by consent of the House as the 
membership has increased and it has become difficult at times for every 
Member to fully debate public questions on the floor (V, 6990-6996, 
6998-7000). The House, in granting such leave to print, stipulates that 
it be exercised without unreasonable freedom (V, 7002, 7003). For 
example: (1) a Member with permission to insert one matter may not 
insert another (V, 7001; VIII, 3462, 3479, 3480); (2) a Member may not 
insert statements and letters of others unless the leave granted 
specifies such matter as extraneous (VIII, 3475, 3481), whether the 
extension be under general leave for all Members or individual; (3) 
although a Member may not request leave to insert the remarks of another 
Member (see supplemental rule 5 of the ``Laws and Rules for Publication 
of the Congressional Record''), the House may grant general leave for 
all Members to insert remarks (Mar. 19, 2012, p. _); (4) a Member may 
not insert that which would not have

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been in order if uttered on the floor, and the House may exclude such 
insertion in whole or in part (V, 7004-7008; VIII, 3495; Oct. 2, 1992, 
p. 30709; Sept. 27, 1996, p. 25633); (5) a Member may not insert the 
individual votes of Members on a question of which the yeas and nays 
have not been entered on the Journal (V, 6982). The principle that a 
Member shall not be called to order for words spoken in debate if 
business has intervened does not apply to a case where leave to print 
has been violated (V, 7005). Neither the House nor the Committee of the 
Whole may permit the insertion of an entire colloquy between two or more 
Members not actually delivered (Aug. 10, 1982, pp. 20266, 20267; Oct. 3, 
1985, p. 26028; Dec. 15, 1995, p. 37133; July 31, 2012, p. _; June 5, 
2013, p. _). This prohibition does not apply to the insertion of remarks 
spoken in debate in the Senate in the form of a colloquy (Mar. 7, 2006, 
p. 2791) given the form of clause 1 of rule XVII as adopted in the 109th 
Congress.
  The House, and not the Speaker, determines what liberty shall be 
allowed to a Member who has leave to extend remarks (V, 6997-7000; VIII, 
3475), whether or not a copyrighted article shall be printed therein (V, 
6985), as to an alleged abuse of the leave to print (V, 7012; VIII, 
3474), or as to a proposed amendment (V, 6983). General leave to print 
may be granted only by the House, although in the Committee of the Whole 
a Member, by unanimous consent, may be given leave to extend remarks (V, 
7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-3490), though such leave should be granted only 
in connection with remarks actually delivered and relevant to the bill; 
and the extension under such circumstances should be brief (Speaker 
Longworth, Mar. 18, 1926, p. 5854).
  Where a Member abused a leave to print on the last day of the session, 
the House at the next session condemned the abuse and declared the 
matter not a legitimate part of the official debates (V, 7017). An abuse 
of leave to print gives rise to a question of privilege (V, 7005-7008, 
7011; VIII, 3163, 3491, 3495), and a resolution or motion to expunge 
from the Record in such a case is offered as a question of privilege (V, 
7012; VIII, 3475, 3491). An inquiry by the House as to an alleged abuse 
of the leave to print does not necessarily entitle the Member implicated 
to the floor on a question of privilege (V, 7012). Clause 8 of rule XVII 
(formerly clause 9 of rule XIV) requires substantive remarks inserted 
under leave to revise and extend to be printed in distinctive type and 
precludes deletion under such permission of words actually uttered (Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 541).
  A motion that a Member be permitted to extend remarks in the Record is 
not privileged (Feb. 8, 1950, p. 1661), and under the rules of the Joint 
Committee on Printing, one Member cannot obtain permission for other 
individual Members to extend their remarks (rule 5 of House Supplement, 
Sec. 686, supra).
  Where extraneous material proposed to be inserted in the body or in 
the Extension of Remarks portion of the Record exceeds two Record pages, 
the rules of the Joint Committee on Printing require that the Member 
state an estimate of printing cost when permission is requested to make

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the insertion (Feb. 12, 1962, p. 2207; May 24, 1972, p. 18653). It is 
the Member's responsibility and not that of the Chair to ascertain the 
cost of printing extraneous material and obtaining consent of the House 
when necessary (Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2245). As indicated in supplemental 
rule 3 of the Laws and Rules for Publication of the Congressional 
Record, the general leave request of the floor manager permits matter 
pertaining to specific legislation, including tables and charts but not 
newspaper clippings and editorials. The Clerk normally does not require 
a cost estimate for charts and tables admitted under general leave that 
exceed two Record pages.
  The former rules of the Joint Committee on Printing for publication of 
the Record, effective March 1, 1978, required the identification by 
``bullet'' symbols of statements or insertions no part of which were 
actually delivered in debate (Feb. 20, 1978, p. 3676). Where the House 
permitted all Members leave to revise and extend their remarks on a 
certain subject, those Members who actually spoke during the debate 
could revise their remarks to appear as if actually delivered, but 
Members' statements no part of which were spoken were preceded and 
followed by a ``bullet'' symbol (Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32729). In the 99th 
Congress, the House adopted a resolution requesting the Joint Committee 
on Printing to adopt temporary rules to require distinctive type styles 
to replace the bulleting of remarks not actually spoken in debate (H. 
Res. 230, July 31, 1985, p. 21783), and also adopted a resolution 
requesting that those rules be made permanent (H. Res. 514, Aug. 12, 
1986, p. 20980). Under regulations of the Joint Committee on Printing, 
remarks delivered or inserted under leave to revise and extend in 
connection with a ``one-minute speech'' made before legislative business 
are printed after legislative business if exceeding 300 words (Speaker 
O'Neill, Apr. 5, 1978, p. 8846; Sec. 686, supra).
  Based upon several unauthorized insertions of extensions of remarks in 
the Record, the Speaker announced that henceforth all extensions of 
remarks must be signed by the Member submitting them (Aug. 15, 1974, p. 
28385). The House by unanimous consent may grant permission for all 
Members to extend their remarks and to include extraneous material 
within the established limits in that section of the Congressional 
Record entitled ``Extensions of Remarks'' for a session (e.g., Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 247) or a Congress (e.g., Jan. 4, 2007, p. 42).

News media galleries
  2. <> A portion of the gallery over the Speaker's chair, as may be 
necessary to accommodate representatives of the press wishing to report 
debates and proceedings, shall be set aside for their use. Reputable 
reporters and correspondents shall be ad

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mitted thereto under such regulations as the Speaker may prescribe from 
time to time. The Standing Committee of Correspondents for the Press 
Gallery, and the Executive Committee of Correspondents for the 
Periodical Press Gallery, shall supervise such galleries, including the 
designation of its employees, subject to the direction and control of 
the Speaker. The Speaker may admit to the floor, under such regulations 
as the Speaker may prescribe, not more than one representative of each 
press association.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2 of rule XXXIV. When it was 
transferred to this clause, it also was amended to reflect the existing 
practice of including the Periodical Press Gallery under the ambit of 
the rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This provision was first 
adopted in 1857 and has been amended from time to time (V, 7304; VIII, 
3642; Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24; Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). 
A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). See also Consumers Union v. 
Periodical Correspondents' Association, 515 F.2d 1341 (D.C. Cir. 1975), 
cert. den. 423 U.S. 1051 (1976) (action in enforcing correspondents' 
association regulations is within legislative immunity granted by the 
Speech or Debate Clause).
  3. A portion of the gallery as may be necessary to accommodate 
reporters of news to be disseminated by radio, television, and similar 
means of transmission, wishing to report debates and proceedings, shall 
be set aside for their use. Reputable reporters and correspondents shall 
be admitted thereto under such regulations as the Speaker may prescribe. 
The Executive Committee of the Radio and Television Correspondents' 
Galleries shall supervise such gallery, including the designation of its 
employees, subject to the direction and control of the Speaker. The

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Speaker may admit to the floor, under such regulations as the Speaker 
may prescribe, not more than one representative of each media outlet.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XXXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). This provision was first adopted on April 20, 1939 (p. 
4561) and has been amended from time to time (May 30, 1940, p. 7208; 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A gender-based reference 
was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 7).




                                Rule VII

                          records of the house

Archiving
  1. (a) <> At the end of each Congress, the chair of 
each committee shall transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records of 
such committee, including the subcommittees thereof.
  (b) At the end of each Congress, each officer of the House elected 
under rule II shall transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records made or 
acquired in the course of the duties of such officer.
  2. The Clerk shall deliver the records transferred under clause 1, 
together with any other noncurrent records of the House, to the 
Archivist of the United States for preservation at the National Archives 
and Records Administration. Records so delivered are the permanent 
property of the House and remain subject to this rule and any order of 
the House.
Public availability
  3. (a) The Clerk shall authorize the Archivist to make records 
delivered under clause 2 avail

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able for public use, subject to clause 4(b) and any order of the House.
  (b)(1) A record shall immediately be made available if it was 
previously made available for public use by the House or a committee or 
a subcommittee.
  (2) An investigative record that contains personal data relating to a 
specific living person (the disclosure of which would be an unwarranted 
invasion of personal privacy), an administrative record relating to 
personnel, or a record relating to a hearing that was closed under 
clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI shall be made available if it has been in 
existence for 50 years.
  (3) A record for which a time, schedule, or condition for availability 
is specified by order of the House shall be made available in accordance 
with that order. Except as otherwise provided by order of the House, a 
record of a committee for which a time, schedule, or condition for 
availability is specified by order of the committee (entered during the 
Congress in which the record is made or acquired by the committee) shall 
be made available in accordance with the order of the committee.
  (4) A record (other than a record referred to in subparagraph (1), 
(2), or (3)) shall be made available if it has been in existence for 30 
years.
  4. (a) A record may not be made available for public use under clause 
3 if the Clerk determines that such availability would be detrimental to 
the public interest or inconsistent with the rights and privileges of 
the House. The

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Clerk shall notify in writing the chair and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on House Administration of any such determination.
  (b) A determination of the Clerk under paragraph (a) is subject to 
later orders of the House and, in the case of a record of a committee, 
later orders of the committee.
  5. (a) This rule does not supersede rule VIII or clause 11 of rule X 
and does not authorize the public disclosure of any record if such 
disclosure is prohibited by law or executive order of the President.
  (b) The Committee on House Administration may prescribe guidelines and 
regulations governing the applicability and implementation of this rule.
  (c) A committee may withdraw from the National Archives and Records 
Administration any record of the committee delivered to the Archivist 
under this rule. Such a withdrawal shall be on a temporary basis and for 
official use of the committee.
Definition of record
  6. In this rule the term ``record'' means any official, permanent 
record of the House (other than a record of an individual Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner), including--
      (a) with respect to a committee, an official, permanent record of 
the committee (including any record of a legislative, oversight, or 
other activity of such committee or a subcommittee thereof); and

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      (b) with respect to an officer of the House elected under rule II, 
an official, permanent record made or acquired in the course of the 
duties of such officer.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, clauses 1 
through 6 were found in former rule XXXVI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). That rule was adopted initially in 1880 (V, 7260). Clause 2 (which 
derived from section 140(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946 (60 Stat. 812)) was added in the 83d Congress when the rule was 
also renumbered (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24). It was amended on 
January 22, 1971 (p. 144). It was again amended in the 99th Congress to 
change the reference from the General Services Administration to the 
National Archives and Records Administration (H. Res. 114, Oct. 14, 
1986, p. 30821). The rule was rewritten entirely in the 101st Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 73) to incorporate the provisions of H. 
Res. 419 as reported from the Committee on Rules in the 100th Congress 
(H. Rept. 100-1054). Clerical corrections were effected to reflect 
changes in the name of the Committee on House Administration in the 
104th and 106th Congresses (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Clerical corrections were effected 
in the 107th Congress to correct cross references (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 
111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  The Clerk has historically been authorized to permit the Administrator 
of General Services (now Archivist) to make available for use certain 
records of the House transferred to the National Archives (H. Res. 288, 
June 16, 1953, p. 6641). Under this rule, an order of the House is 
required for the release of noncurrent records of the House not covered 
by clause 3 of this rule (Mar. 22, 1991, p. 7549).

Withdrawal of papers
  7. <> A 
memorial or other paper presented to the House may not be withdrawn from 
its files without its leave. If withdrawn certified copies thereof shall 
be left in the Office of the Clerk. When an act passes for the 
settlement of a claim, the Clerk may transmit to the officer charged 
with the settlement thereof the papers on file in the Office of the 
Clerk relating to such claim. The Clerk

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may lend temporarily to an officer or bureau of the executive 
departments any papers on file in the Office of the Clerk relating to 
any matter pending before such officer or bureau, taking proper receipt 
therefor.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XXXVII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). It was adopted initially in 1873 and amended in 1880 (V, 7256). It 
was renumbered January 3, 1953 (p. 24). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7).
  The House usually allows the withdrawal of papers only in cases in 
which there has been no adverse report. As the rules for the order of 
business give no place to the motion to withdraw, it is made by 
unanimous consent (V, 7259). The House formerly adopted a privileged 
resolution at the beginning of each Congress authorizing the Clerk to 
furnish certified copies of certain types of House papers subpoenaed by 
courts upon determination of relevancy by the court, but not permitting 
production of executive session papers or transfer of original papers 
(Jan. 3, 1973, p. 30).
  See rule VIII for procedure for response to subpoenas for papers of 
the House.




                                Rule VIII

                          response to subpoenas

  1. <> When a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House is properly 
served with a judicial or administrative subpoena or judicial order 
directing appearance as a witness relating to the official functions of 
the House or for the production or disclosure of any document relating 
to the official functions of the House, such Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee shall comply, consistently with the 
privileges and rights of the House, with the judicial or administrative 
subpoena or judicial

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order as hereinafter provided, unless otherwise determined under this 
rule.
  2. Upon receipt of a properly served judicial or administrative 
subpoena or judicial order described in clause 1, a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall promptly 
notify the Speaker of its receipt in writing. Such notification shall 
promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker. During a period of 
recess or adjournment of longer than three days, notification to the 
House is not required until the reconvening of the House, when the 
notification shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker.
  3. Once notification has been laid before the House, the Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall 
determine whether the issuance of the judicial or administrative 
subpoena or judicial order described in clause 1 is a proper exercise of 
jurisdiction by the court, is material and relevant, and is consistent 
with the privileges and rights of the House. Such Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee shall notify the Speaker 
before seeking judicial determination of these matters.
  4. Upon determination whether a judicial or administrative subpoena or 
judicial order described in clause 1 is a proper exercise of 
jurisdiction by the court, is material and relevant, and is consistent 
with the privileges and rights of the House, the Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House

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shall immediately notify the Speaker of the determination in writing.
  5. The Speaker shall inform the House of a determination whether a 
judicial or administrative subpoena or judicial order described in 
clause 1 is a proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court, is material 
and relevant, and is consistent with the privileges and rights of the 
House. In so informing the House, the Speaker shall generally describe 
the records or information sought. During a period of recess or 
adjournment of longer than three days, such notification is not required 
until the reconvening of the House, when the notification shall promptly 
be laid before the House by the Speaker.
  6. (a) Except as specified in paragraph (b) or otherwise ordered by 
the House, upon notification to the House that a judicial or 
administrative subpoena or judicial order described in clause 1 is a 
proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court, is material and relevant, 
and is consistent with the privileges and rights of the House, the 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House shall comply with the judicial or administrative subpoena or 
judicial order by supplying certified copies.
  (b) Under no circumstances may minutes or transcripts of executive 
sessions, or evidence of witnesses in respect thereto, be disclosed or 
copied. During a period of recess or adjournment of longer than three 
days, the Speaker may authorize compliance or take such other action as 
the

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Speaker considers appropriate under the circumstances. Upon the 
reconvening of the House, all matters that transpired under this clause 
shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker.
  7. A copy of this rule shall be transmitted by the Clerk to the court 
when a judicial or administrative subpoena or judicial order described 
in clause 1 is issued and served on a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House.
  8. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to deprive, condition, or 
waive the constitutional or legal privileges or rights applicable or 
available at any time to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House, or of the House itself, or the right 
of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, 
or of the House itself, to assert such privileges or rights before a 
court in the United States.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule L (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
It was added initially in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, p. 
98). Until the 95th Congress, whenever a Member, officer, or employee 
received a subpoena, the House would adopt a resolution authorizing the 
person to respond. In the 95th and 96th Congresses general authority was 
granted to respond to subpoenas without the necessity of a House vote 
(H. Res. 10, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 73; H. Res. 10, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 19). 
This standing authority was clarified and revised later in the 96th 
Congress (H. Res. 722, Sept. 17, 1980, pp. 25777-90) and forms the basis 
for the present rule. In the 107th Congress the rule was amended to 
broaden its application to administrative subpoenas (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 
111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  In the 102d Congress the House considered as questions of the 
privileges of the House resolutions: responding to a subpoena for 
records of the ``bank''

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in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (Apr. 29, 1992, p. 9753); 
responding to a contemporaneous request for such records from a Special 
Counsel (Apr. 29, 1992, p. 9763); and authorizing an officer of the 
House to release certain documents in response to another such request 
from the Special Counsel (May 28, 1992, p. 12790). Under rule VIII as 
amended in the 107th Congress, a Member or employee receiving such a 
subpoena informs the Speaker, as had been the practice under precedent 
(Deschler, ch. 11, Sec. 14.8) before the rule was amended (July 30, 
1998, p. 18298; May 3, 1999, p. 8040).
  Under clause 2, the Speaker promptly lays before the House a 
communication notifying the Speaker of the receipt of a subpoena, but 
the rule does not require that the text of a subpoena be printed in the 
Record (July 31, 1992, p. 20602).




                                 Rule IX

                         questions of privilege

  1. <> Questions 
of privilege shall be, first, those affecting the rights of the House 
collectively, its safety, dignity, and the integrity of its proceedings; 
and second, those affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of 
Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, individually, in their 
representative capacity only.
  2. (a)(1) A resolution <> reported as a question of the privileges of the House, or 
offered from the floor by the Majority Leader or the Minority Leader as 
a question of the privileges of the House, or offered as privileged 
under clause 1, section 7, article I of the Constitution, shall have 
precedence of all other questions except motions to adjourn. A 
resolution offered from the floor by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner other than the Majority Leader or the Minority Leader as a 
question of the privileges of the House shall have precedence of all 
other questions except

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motions to adjourn only at a time or place, designated by the Speaker, 
in the legislative schedule within two legislative days after the day on 
which the proponent announces to the House an intention to offer the 
resolution and the form of the resolution. Oral announcement of the form 
of the resolution may be dispensed with by unanimous consent.
  (2) The time allotted for debate on a resolution offered from the 
floor as a question of the privileges of the House shall be equally 
divided between (A) the proponent of the resolution, and (B) the 
Majority Leader, the Minority Leader, or a designee, as determined by 
the Speaker.
  (b) A question of personal privilege shall have precedence of all 
other questions except motions to adjourn.

  This rule was adopted in 1880 (III, 2521) to codify long-established 
practice that the House had hitherto been unwilling to define (II, 
1603). It was amended in the 103d Congress to authorize the Speaker to 
designate a time within a period of two legislative days for the 
consideration of a resolution to be offered from the floor by a Member 
other than the Majority Leader or the Minority Leader after that Member 
has announced to the House an intention to do so and the content of the 
resolution, and to divide the time for debate on the resolution (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). Clause 2 was amended in the 106th Congress to 
permit the announcement of the form of the resolution to be dispensed 
with by unanimous consent, and clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-based reference was eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

  The <> body of 
precedent relating to questions of the privileges of the House includes 
rulings that span the adoption of this rule. The rule was adopted ``to 
prevent the large consumption of time which resulted from Members 
getting the floor for all kinds of speeches under the pretext of raising 
a question of privilege'' (III, 2521). In a landmark decision on 
constitutional assertions of privilege, Speaker Gillett placed 
significant reliance on the history of rule IX by observing that it 
``was obviously adopted for the pur

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pose of hindering the extension of constitutional or other privilege'' 
(VI, 48). Thus a resolution merely asserting the position of the House 
with regard to an external issue does not qualify (Oct. 6, 2011, p. _).

  The <> privileges 
of the House include questions relating to its organization (I, 22-24, 
189, 212, 290), and the title of its Members to their seats (III, 2579-
2587), which may be raised as questions of the privileges of the House 
even though the subject has been previously referred to committee (I, 
742; III, 2584; VIII, 2307). Such resolutions include those: (1) to 
declare prima facie right to a seat, or to declare a vacancy, where the 
House has referred the questions of prima facie and final rights to a 
committee for investigation (H. Res. 1, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 381; H. Res. 
52, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2220; H. Res. 97, Mar. 4, 1985, p. 4277; H. Res. 
121, Apr. 2, 1985, p. 7118; H. Res. 148, Apr. 30, 1985, p. 9801); (2) to 
raise various questions incidental to the right to a seat (I, 322, 328, 
673, 742; II, 1207; III, 2588; VII, 2316), such as a resolution to 
declare a vacancy in the House because a Member-elect is unable to take 
the oath of office and to serve as a Member or to expressly resign the 
office due to an incapacitating illness (H. Res. 80, Feb. 24, 1981, p. 
2916); (3) to declare neither of two claimants seated pending a 
committee report and decision of final right to the seat by the House 
(Jan. 3, 1961, pp. 23-25; Jan. 3, 1985, p. 381), including incidental 
provisions providing compensation for both claimants and office staffing 
by the Clerk (Jan. 3, 1985, p. 381) and to direct temporary seating of a 
certified Member-elect pending determination of final right 
notwithstanding prior House action declining to seat either claimant 
(Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2220; Mar. 4, 1985, p. 4277); (4) to propose directly 
to dispose of a contest over the title to a seat in the House (Nov. 8, 
1997, p. 25294; Nov. 9, 1997, p. 25721; Jan. 28, 1998, p. 175) or to 
dispose of such contest upon the expiration of a specified day (Oct. 23, 
1997, p. 23231; Oct. 29, 1997, p. 23695; Oct. 30, 1997, p. 23959; Nov. 
5, 1997, p. 24645).
  A resolution electing a House officer is presented as a question of 
the privileges of the House (July 31, 1997, p. 17021; Feb. 6, 2007, p. 
3156). A resolution declaring vacant the Office of the Speaker is 
presented as a matter of high constitutional privilege (VI, 35). For 
further discussion with respect to the organization of the House and the 
title of its Members to seats, see Sec. Sec. 18-30, 46-51, 56, and 58-
60, supra.

  The <> privileges of the House, as distinguished from that of 
the individual Member, include questions relating to its constitutional 
prerogatives in respect to revenue legislation and appropriations (see, 
e.g., II, 1480-1501; VI, 315; Nov. 8, 1979, p. 31517; Oct. 1, 1985, p. 
25418; June 16, 1988, p. 14780; June 21, 1988, p. 15425; Aug. 12, 1994, 
p. 21655). For a more thorough record of revenue bills returned to the 
Senate, see Sec. 102, supra. Such a question of privilege may be raised 
at any time when the House is in possession of the papers (June 20, 
1968, Deschler, ch. 13, Sec. 14.2; Aug. 19, 1982, p. 22127), but not 
otherwise (Apr. 6, 1995,

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p. 10701). Such a question of privilege includes a resolution asserting 
that a conference report accompanying a House bill originated revenue 
provisions in derogation of the sole constitutional prerogative of the 
House and resolving that such bill be recommitted to conference (July 
27, 2000, p. 16565). The constitutional prerogatives of the House also 
include its function with respect to: (1) impeachment and matters 
incidental thereto (see Sec. 604, supra); (2) bills ``pocket vetoed'' 
during an intersession adjournment (Nov. 21, 1989, p. 31156); (3) its 
power to punish for contempt, whether of its own Members (II, 1641-
1665), of witnesses who are summoned to give information (II, 1608, 
1612; III, 1666-1724), or of other persons (II, 1597-1640); (4) 
questions relating to legal challenges involving the prerogatives of the 
House (Jan. 29, 1981, p. 1304; Mar. 30, 1982, p. 5890), including a 
resolution responding to a court challenge to the prerogative of the 
House to establish a Chaplain (Mar. 30, 1982, p. 5890). A resolution 
laying on the table a message from the President containing certain 
averments inveighing disrespect toward Members of Congress was 
considered as a question of the privileges of the House asserting a 
breach of privilege in a formal communication to the House (VI, 330).
  For a discussion of the relationship of the House and its Members to 
the courts, see Sec. Sec. 290-291b, supra. For examples of Senate 
messages requesting the return of Senate measures that intruded on the 
constitutional prerogative of the House to originate revenue measures, 
see Sec. 565, supra. For a discussion of the prerogatives of the House 
with respect to treaties affecting revenue, see Sec. 597, supra.
  The ordinary rights and functions of the House under the Constitution 
are exercised in accordance with the rules without precedence as matters 
of privilege (III, 2567). Neither the enumeration of legislative powers 
in article I of the Constitution nor the prohibition in the seventh 
clause of section 9 of that article against any withdrawal from the 
Treasury except by enactment of an appropriation renders a measure 
purporting to exercise or limit the exercise of those powers a question 
of the privileges of the House, because rule IX is concerned not with 
the privileges of the Congress, as a legislative branch, but only with 
the privileges of the House, as a House (Feb. 7, 1995, p. 3905; Dec. 22, 
1995, p. 38501; Jan. 3, 1996, p. 40; Jan. 24, 1996, p. 1248; Feb. 1, 
1996, p. 2245; Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25420; Nov. 4, 1999, pp. 28528-33; June 
6, 2002, p. 9492 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Oct. 2, 2002, pp. 
18932 (sustained by tabling of appeal), 18934 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal), 18936 (sustained by tabling of appeal), 18938 (sustained by 
tabling of appeal); Oct. 3, 2002, pp. 19001 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal), 19002 (sustained by tabling of appeal)). For example, the 
following legislative propositions have been held not to involve a 
question of constitutional privileges of the House: (1) a resolution 
requiring a committee inquiry into the extent to which the right to vote 
was denied under the provisions of the 14th amendment (VI, 48); (2) a 
resolution alleging an unconstitutional abrogation of a treaty by the 
President, and calling on the President to seek the approval of Congress 
before such abrogation

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(June 6, 2002, p. 9492 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); (3) a 
resolution alleging that Congress had been negligent in its oversight 
responsibilities with regard to military involvement in Iraq, and 
calling on leadership and committee chairs to conduct oversight of that 
matter, but refraining from alleging any impropriety (Nov. 3, 2005, pp. 
24757-59 (sustained by tabling of appeal)). On the other hand, an 
extraordinary question relating to the House vote required by the 
Constitution to pass a joint resolution extending the ratification 
period of a proposed constitutional amendment was raised as a question 
of privilege where the House had not otherwise made a separate 
determination on that procedural question and where consideration of the 
joint resolution had been made in order (Speaker O'Neill, Aug. 15, 1978, 
p. 26203).

  The <> privileges of the House include certain questions relating to 
the conduct of Members, officers, and employees (see, e.g., I, 284, 285; 
III, 2628, 2645-2647). Under that standard, the following resolutions 
have been held to constitute questions of the privileges of the House: 
(1) directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) to investigate illegal solicitation of political contributions 
in the House Office Buildings by unnamed sitting Members (July 10, 1985, 
p. 18397); (2) establishing an ad hoc committee to investigate 
allegations of ``ghost'' employment in the House (Apr. 9, 1992, p. 
9029); (3) directing a committee to further investigate the conduct of a 
Member on which it has reported to the House (Aug. 5, 1987, p. 22458); 
(4) directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) to report to the House the status of an investigation pending 
before the committee (Nov. 17, 1995, p. 33846; Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35075); 
(5) appointing an outside counsel (Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23851; Sept. 24, 
1996, p. 24525); (6) committing other matters to an outside counsel 
already appointed by the committee (June 27, 1996, p. 15917); (7) 
directing the committee to release the report of an outside counsel 
(Sept. 19, 1996, p. 23852; Sept. 24, 1996, p. 24526); (8) making 
allegations concerning the propriety of responses by officers of the 
House to court subpoenas for papers of the House without notice to the 
House, and directions to a committee to investigate such allegations 
(Feb. 13, 1980, p. 2768); (9) making allegations of improper 
representation by counsel of the legal position of Members in a brief 
filed in the Court and directions for withdrawal of the brief (Mar. 22, 
1990, p. 4996); (10) making allegations of unauthorized actions by a 
committee employee to intervene in judicial proceedings (Feb. 5, 1992, 
p. 1601); (11) directing the Clerk to notify interested parties that the 
House regretted the use of official resources to present to the Supreme 
Court of Florida a legal brief arguing the unconstitutionality of 
congressional term limits, and that the House had no position on that 
question (Nov. 4, 1991, p. 29968); (12) alleging a chronology of 
litigation relating to the immunity of a Member from civil liability for 
bona fide official acts and expressing the views of the House thereon 
(May 12, 1988, p. 10574); (13) directing the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct (now Ethics)

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to establish an investigative subcommittee and appoint outside counsel 
to investigate certain allegations against a Member (Oct. 8, 2004, p. 
22734); (14) alleging, among other things, the improper and unilateral 
firing of nonpartisan staff of the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct (now Ethics) and directing the Speaker to appoint a bipartisan 
task force to address the efficacy of that committee so as to restore 
public confidence in the ethics process (Mar. 15, 2005, pp. 4657, 4658; 
Apr. 14, 2005, pp. 6399, 6400) and directing the committee to appoint 
nonpartisan professional staff (June 9, 2005, pp. 12025, 12026); (15) 
alleging, among other things, the improper and unilateral firing of 
nonpartisan staff of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) and illegal activities between a lobbyist and Members, and 
directing that committee to investigate misconduct of Members and staff 
with that lobbyist (Mar. 30, 2006, p. 4445; Apr. 5, 2006, pp. 4993, 
4994); (16) alleging improper conduct by a former Member with regard to 
the House Page program and insufficient response thereto by the House 
leadership, and directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics) to establish a subcommittee to investigate (Sept. 29, 2006, 
p. 21334); (17) alleging a violation of the Code of Official Conduct and 
issuing a reprimand (May 22, 2007, p. 13525); (18) directing the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to investigate a 
Member's conduct and make a recommendation regarding expulsion (June 5, 
2007, p. 14600); (19) directing the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct (now Ethics) to review irregularities in the conduct of a vote 
in the House (Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22746); (20) directing the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) and a previously-established 
select committee to investigate whether a vote was held open beyond a 
reasonable period of time for the purpose of circumventing the will of 
the House, and vacating such vote (Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3855); (21) 
directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to 
investigate violations of the Code of Official Conduct (Mar. 12, 2008, 
p. 3864); (22) alleging receipt of illegal campaign contributions and 
gifts and censuring a Member therefor (July 31, 2008, p. 17463); (23) 
alleging receipt of illegal campaign contributions and gifts and 
violations of federal tax law, directing the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct (now Ethics) to investigate, and removing a Member as 
chair of a standing committee pending such investigation (Sept. 18, 
2008, p. 19600); (24) alleging failure to properly report the receipt of 
gifts in accordance with financial disclosure and tax laws, and removing 
the Member as chair pending an on-going investigation by the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) (Feb. 10, 2009, p. 3508; 
Oct. 7, 2009, pp. 23770, 23771); (25) alleging a quid pro quo between 
legislative activity and campaign contributions to Members, and 
directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to 
investigate that relationship (Feb. 25, 2009, p. 5759; Mar. 5, 2009, p. 
6561; Mar. 10, 2009, p. 6765; Mar. 19, 2009, p. 8106; Mar. 25, 2009, p. 
8743; Mar. 30, 2009, p. 9097; Apr. 1, 2009, p. 9542; May 12, 2009, p. 
12213; July 22, 2009, p. 18588) and alleging an inadequate investigation

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into such allegations by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics), and directing the committee to report on the extent of 
said investigation (Mar. 18, 2010, p. 3846; Mar. 25, 2010, p. 5033; Apr. 
15, 2010, pp. 5659, 5660; Apr. 22, 2010, pp. 6083, 6084); (26) alleging 
improper involvement of Members with a certain lobbying organization, 
and directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) to report any action it has taken with respect thereto (June 3, 
2009, p. 13841); (27) alleging improper conduct by a former Member with 
regard to various House staff and insufficient response thereto by House 
leadership, and directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics) to establish a subcommittee to investigate the 
circumstances surrounding the former Member's misconduct and the 
responses thereto and to issue a report thereon (Mar. 11, 2010, pp. 
3157, 3158; April 14, 2010, p. 5518). On the other hand, a resolution 
alleging inconsistency between statements of the Speaker and of an 
intelligence agency and commissioning an investigation of the accuracy 
of her statements, where such investigation would extend beyond the 
conduct of a Member and necessarily involve a review of the agency 
itself, was held not to constitute a question of the privileges of the 
House (May 21, 2009, p. 13175; June 16, 2009, p. 15272).
  For a discussion of disciplinary resolutions meting out punishment for 
violations of standards of official conduct, which constitute questions 
of the privileges of the House, see Sec. Sec. 62-66, supra.
  In the 102d and 103d Congresses, a large number of resolutions 
relating to the operation of the ``bank'' in the Office of the Sergeant-
at-Arms and the management of the Office of the Postmaster were 
presented as questions of the privileges of the House. The former 
category included resolutions: (1) terminating all bank and check-
cashing operations in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms and directing 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to review 
GAO audits of such operations (Oct. 3, 1991, p. 25435); (2) instructing 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to disclose 
the names and pertinent account information of Members and former 
Members found to have abused the privileges of the ``bank'' in the 
Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5519); (3) instructing 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to disclose 
further account information respecting Members and former Members having 
checks held by that entity (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5534); (4) mandating full 
and accurate disclosure of pertinent information concerning the 
operation of that entity (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5551); (5) responding to a 
subpoena for records of that entity (Apr. 29, 1992, p. 9453); (6) 
responding to a contemporaneous request for such records from a Special 
Counsel (Apr. 29, 1992, p. 9763); (7) authorizing an officer of the 
House to release certain documents in response to another such request 
from the Special Counsel (May 28, 1992, p. 12790). The latter category 
included resolutions: (1) directing the Committee on House 
Administration to conduct a thorough investigation of the operation and 
management of the Office of the Postmaster in light of recent press 
allegations of wrongdoing (Feb. 5, 1992,

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p. 1589); (2) creating a select committee to investigate the same matter 
(Feb. 5, 1992, p. 1599); (3) requiring an explanation of a reported 
interference with authorized access to a committee investigation of that 
matter (Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9024); (4) redressing a perception of 
obstruction of justice by recusing the General Counsel to the Clerk from 
matters relating to the investigation of that matter (Apr. 9, 1992, p. 
9076); (5) directing the Speaker to explain the lapse of time before the 
House received notice that several Members and an officer of the House 
had received subpoenas to testify before a Federal grand jury 
investigating that matter (May 14, 1992, p. 11309); (6) directing the 
Committee on House Administration to transmit to the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) and to the Department of 
Justice all records obtained by its task force to investigate that 
matter (July 22, 1992, p. 18786); (7) directing the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to investigate violations of 
confidentiality by staff engaged in the investigation of that matter 
(July 22, 1992, p. 18795); (8) directing the Committee on House 
Administration to release transcripts of the proceedings of its task 
force to investigate that matter, where the investigation was ordered as 
a question of privilege and its results had been ordered reported to the 
House (July 22, 1992, p. 18796; July 23, 1992, p. 19125); (9) directing 
the Committee on House Administration to redress the erroneous naming of 
a Member in minority views accompanying a report on that matter (July 
23, 1992, p. 19121); (10) directing the public release of official 
papers of the House relating to an investigation by the Committee on 
House Administration's task force to investigate the operation and 
management of the Office of the Postmaster (July 22, 1993, p. 16634); 
(11) directing the public release of transcripts and other relevant 
documents relating to an investigation by the Committee on House 
Administration's task force to investigate the operation and management 
of the Office of the Postmaster unless two designees of the bipartisan 
leadership agree to the contrary (June 9, 1994, p. 12437); (12) 
directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to 
defer any investigation relating to the operation of the former Post 
Office until assured that its inquiry would not interfere with an 
ongoing criminal investigation, as well as a resolution directing the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to proceed with 
the investigation (Mar. 2, 1994, p. 3672).
  In the 105th Congress a 12-member bipartisan task force appointed by 
the Majority and Minority Leaders conducted a comprehensive review of 
the House ethics process. During the deliberations of the task force, 
the House imposed a moratorium on raising certain questions of privilege 
under this rule with respect to official conduct and on the filing or 
processing of ethics complaints. The moratorium was imposed in the 
expectation that the recommendations of the task force would include 
rules changes relating to establishment and enforcement of standards of 
official conduct for Members, officers, and employees of the House (Feb. 
12, 1997, p. 2058). The moratorium was extended through September 10, 
1997 (July

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30, 1997, p. 16958). The task force recommendations ultimately were 
reported from the Committee on Rules and were adopted with certain 
amendments (H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19340).

  The <> privileges of the House include questions relating to the 
integrity of its proceedings, including the processes by which bills are 
considered (III, 2597-2601, 2614; IV, 3383, 3388, 3478), such as the 
constitutional question of the vote required to pass a joint resolution 
extending the State ratification period of a proposed constitutional 
amendment (Speaker O'Neill, Aug. 15, 1978, p. 26203). Privileges of the 
House also include: (1) resignation of a Member from a select or 
standing committee (Speaker Albert, June 16, 1975, p. 19054; Speaker 
O'Neill, Mar. 8, 1977, pp. 6579-82); (2) newspaper charges affecting the 
honor and dignity of the House (VII, 911); (3) the conduct of 
representatives of the press (II, 1630, 1631; III, 2627; VI, 553).
  Admission to the floor of the House constitutes a question of 
privilege (III, 2624-2626), including a resolution alleging indecorous 
behavior of a former Member and instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms to ban 
the former Member from the floor, and rooms leading thereto, until the 
resolution of a contested election to which he was party (H. Res. 233, 
Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19340).
  The accuracy and propriety of reports in the Congressional Record also 
constitute a question of privileges of the House (V, 7005-7023; VIII, 
3163, 3461, 3463, 3464, 3491, 3499; Apr. 20, 1936, p. 5704; May 11, 
1936, p. 7019; May 7, 1979, p. 10099), including a resolution: (1) 
asserting that a Member's remarks spoken in debate were omitted from the 
printed Record, directing that the Record be corrected and requiring the 
Clerk to report on the circumstances and possible corrective action 
(July 29, 1983, p. 21685); (2) directing the Committee on Rules to 
investigate and report to the House within a time certain on alleged 
alterations of the Record (Jan. 24, 1984, p. 250); (3) addressing 
whether the Record should constitute a verbatim transcript (May 8, 1985, 
p. 11072; Feb. 7, 1990, p. 1515); (4) alleging impropriety by a 
presiding officer and improper alteration of the Record, and directing 
that a select committee investigate and that the Record be corrected 
(Aug. 4, 2007, p. 23194). Although a motion to correct the Congressional 
Record based on improper alterations or insertions may constitute a 
question of privilege, mere typographical errors or ordinary revisions 
of a Member's remarks do not form the basis for privileged motions to 
correct the Record (Apr. 25, 1985, p. 9419; see Sec. 690, supra). A 
resolution directing the placement of an asterisk in the Congressional 
Record to note alleged inaccuracies in a State of the Union address (but 
not alleging improper transcription of that address) was held not to 
constitute a question of privilege (Oct. 20, 2003, pp. 25255, 25256).
  The protection of House records constitutes a question of the 
privileges of the House, especially when records are demanded by the 
courts (III, 2604, 2659-2664; VI, 587; Sept. 18, 1992, p. 25750; see 
also Sec. 291a, supra).

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Privileges of the House involving records also include resolutions: (1) 
furnishing certain requested information to an Independent Counsel 
investigating covert arms transactions with Iran (June 4, 1992, p. 
13664); (2) responding to a request of a law enforcement official 
regarding the timing of the public release of official papers of the 
House (July 22, 1993, p. 16624); (3) directing a committee to 
investigate press publication of a report that the House had ordered not 
to be released (Speaker Albert, Feb. 19, 1976, p. 3914); (4) directing 
the public release of transcripts and other relevant documents relating 
to an investigation by the Committee on House Administration's task 
force to investigate the operation and management of the Office of the 
Postmaster unless two designees of the bipartisan leadership agreed to 
the contrary (June 9, 1994, p. 12437); (5) alleging that a Member 
willfully abused his power as chair of a committee by unilaterally 
releasing records of the committee in contravention of its rules 
(adopted ``protocol''), and expressing disapproval of such conduct (May 
14, 1998, p. 9279). However, a resolution directing a standing committee 
to release executive-session material referred to it as such by special 
rule of the House was held to propose a change in the rules and, 
therefore, not to constitute a question of the privileges of the House 
under rule IX (Sept. 23, 1998, p. 21562).
  A question regarding the accuracy of House documents constitutes a 
question of privileges of the House (V, 7329), including resolutions: 
(1) asserting that a printed transcript of joint subcommittee hearings 
contained unauthorized alterations of the statements of subcommittee 
members in the prior Congress and that unauthorized alterations may have 
occurred in other committee hearing transcripts, and proposing the 
creation of a select committee to investigate and report by a date 
certain (June 29, 1983, p. 18279); (2) alleging the unauthorized 
creation and falsification of documents distributed to the general 
public at a committee hearing and resolving that the Speaker take 
appropriate measures to ensure the integrity of the legislative process 
and report his actions and recommendations to the House (Oct. 25, 1995, 
p. 29373); (3) alleging that a committee report contained descriptions 
of recorded votes (as required by clause 3(b) of rule XIII) that 
deliberately mischaracterized certain amendments and directing the chair 
of the committee to file a supplemental report to change those 
descriptions (May 3, 2005, pp. 8417, 8418); (4) alleging that known 
errors in the engrossment of a bill were ignored, that matter had been 
inserted into a conference report after conferees had signed it, that 
material information concerning legislation had been withheld for the 
purpose of achieving passage of that measure in a prior Congress, and 
resolving that the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) investigate inaccuracies in the enrollment of a bill (Feb. 16, 
2006, p. 1948); (5) alleging that known errors in the enrollment of a 
bill were ignored by the majority leadership after the President had 
transmitted to the House a return veto of the measure, admonishing the 
majority leadership for their roles therein, and directing the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to investigate the abuse 
of power surrounding the

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inaccuracies (May 22, 2008, p. 10522). The privileges of the House also 
include: (1) the integrity of its Journal (II, 1363; III, 2620) and 
messages (III, 2613); (2) unreasonable delay in transmitting an enrolled 
bill to the President (Oct. 8, 1991, p. 25761); (3) a concurrent 
resolution directing the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the 
Senate to produce official duplicates of certain legislative papers 
(Oct. 5, 1992, p. 32064). For a discussion of the privileged status of a 
request of one House for the return of a measure messaged to the other, 
see Sec. 565, supra.
  A resolution alleging that the Chair had improperly ordered the 
interruption of audio broadcast coverage of certain House proceedings 
constitutes a question of privileges of the House (Mar. 17, 1988, p. 
4180), as does a resolution providing for an experiment in the 
telecasting and broadcasting of House proceedings (Speaker O'Neill, Mar. 
15, 1977, p. 7607). Similarly, a resolution authorizing and directing 
the Speaker to provide for the audio and visual broadcast coverage of 
the Chamber while Members are voting has been held to present a question 
of the privileges of the House, because rule V (formerly clause 9 of 
rule I), which requires complete and unedited audio and visual coverage 
of House proceedings and coverage of record votes, had not been 
implemented (Apr. 30, 1985, p. 9821).
  Integrity in the conduct of a vote may involve a question of the 
privileges of the House, including resolutions: (1) alleging intentional 
abuse of House practices and customs in holding a vote open for 
approximately three hours for the sole purpose of circumventing the 
initial will of the House and directing the Speaker to take such steps 
as necessary to prevent further abuse (Dec. 8, 2003, p. 32099), or 
alleging such abuse, both in a prior Congress and in the current one, 
and alleging illegal behavior on the House floor during one such vote 
(bribery of a public official) (Dec. 8, 2005, pp. 27811, 27812); (2) 
directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) to 
review irregularities in the conduct of a vote in the House (Aug. 3, 
2007, p. 22746); (3) alleging irregularities in the conduct of a vote, 
directing House officers to preserve all records relating thereto, and 
establishing a select committee of investigation thereof (Aug. 3, 2007, 
p. 22768); (4) directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
(now Ethics) and a previously-established select committee to 
investigate whether a vote was held open beyond a reasonable period of 
time for the purpose of circumventing the will of the House, and 
vacating such vote (Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3855).
  A resolution alleging partiality in the manner of presiding by a 
Speaker pro tempore and stating that such actions bring dishonor and 
discredit on the House (Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22783) or alleging impropriety 
by a presiding officer, as well as alleging improper alteration of the 
Congressional Record and directing an investigation and correction 
thereof (Aug. 4, 2007, p. 23194), presents a question of the privileges 
of the House.
  Alleged improprieties in committee procedures may give rise to 
questions of the privileges of the House, including resolutions: (1) 
alleging that the chair of a committee directed his staff to request the 
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remove minority party members from a committee room where they were 
meeting during the reading of an amendment, alleging that the chair 
deliberately and improperly refused to recognize a legitimate and timely 
objection by a member of the committee to dispense with the reading of 
that amendment, resolving that the House disapproves of the manner in 
which the chair conducted the markup, and finding that the bill 
considered at that markup was not validly ordered reported (July 18, 
2003, p. 18698) and resolving that the House disapproves of the manner 
in which the chair summoned the Capitol Police as well as the manner in 
which he conducted the markup, finding that the bill considered at that 
markup was not validly ordered reported, and calling for a police report 
to be placed in the Record (July 23, 2003 p. 19171); (2) alleging, among 
other things, the improper and unilateral firing of nonpartisan staff of 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) and 
directing the Speaker to appoint a bipartisan task force to address the 
efficacy of that committee so as to restore public confidence in the 
ethics process (Mar. 15, 2005, pp. 4657, 4658; Apr. 14, 2005, pp. 6399, 
6400) and directing the committee to appoint nonpartisan professional 
staff (June 9, 2005, pp. 12025, 12026); (3) alleging that the chair of a 
committee intentionally violated House rules and abused his power as 
chair during a minority day of hearings under clause 2(j) of rule XI and 
directing the chair to schedule a further day of hearings (June 16, 
2005, p. 12994); (4) alleging that the majority members of a committee 
wrongfully withheld a committee record from minority committee members 
(Jan. 24, 2007, p. 2139); (5) alleging that staff of the House 
Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards willfully applied 
different standards to submitted material on the basis of party and 
disapproving of the failure of the majority Members of that commission 
to ensure that staff executed their duties in a professional, fair, and 
impartial manner (July 29, 2009, pp. 19687, 19688); (6) disapproving the 
actions of a committee chair for alleged impropriety in interfering with 
a criminal investigation (June 29, 2012, p. _); (7) alleging that the 
chair of a committee violated House rules during a hearing and condeming 
his actions as offensive and disrespectful (Mar. 6, 2014, p. _) and 
requiring him to apologize in the well of the House (Mar. 13, 2014, p. 
_). However, charges of committee inaction (III, 2610), secret committee 
conferences (VI, 578), refusal to make a staff study available to 
certain Members and to the public (Feb. 14, 1939, p. 1370), refusal to 
give hearings or allow petitions to be read (III, 2607), refusal to 
permit committee member to take photostatic copies of committee files 
(Aug. 14, 1957, p. 14739), and calling for a determination whether a 
committee violated House rules by voting to take allegedly defamatory 
testimony in open session (June 30, 1958, p. 12690), were all held not 
to give rise to a question of the privileges of the House.
  A resolution alleging that a Member had interrupted an address by the 
President to a joint session of Congress by interjecting remarks, and 
disapproving of that behavior, presents a question of the privileges of 
the House (Sept. 15, 2009, p. 21662).


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  The <> privileges of the House include questions relating to the 
comfort and convenience of Members and employees (III, 2629-2636), such 
as resolutions concerning the proper attire for Members in the Chamber 
when the temperature is uncomfortably warm (July 17, 1979, p. 19008); as 
well as questions relating to safety, such as resolutions requiring an 
investigation into the safety of Members in view of alleged structural 
deficiencies in the West Front of the Capitol (July 25, 1980, pp. 19762-
64) or an insecure ceiling in the Hall (III, 2685); directing the 
appointment of a select committee to inquire into alleged fire safety 
deficiencies in the environs of the House (May 10, 1988, p. 10286); and 
directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to ensure that House personnel are 
alerted to the dangers of electronic security breaches on computer and 
information systems (June 11, 2008, p. 12233).

  A motion <> to amend 
the Rules of the House does not present a question of privilege (Speaker 
Cannon, sustained by the House, thereby overruling the House's decision 
of March 19, 1910 (VIII, 3376), which held such motion privileged (VIII, 
3377)), and a question of the privileges of the House may not be invoked 
to effect a change in the rules or standing orders of the House or their 
interpretation (Speaker O'Neill, Dec. 6, 1977, pp. 38470-73; Sept. 9, 
1988, p. 23298; July 30, 1992, p. 20339; Jan. 31, 1996, p. 1887), 
including directions to the Speaker infringing upon the discretionary 
power of recognition under clause 2 of rule XVII (formerly clause 2 of 
rule XIV) (July 25, 1980, pp. 19762-64), for example, by requiring that 
the Speaker give priority in recognition to any Member seeking to call 
up a matter highly privileged pursuant to a statutory provision, over a 
member from the Committee on Rules seeking to call up a privileged 
report from that committee (Speaker Wright, Mar. 11, 1987, p. 5403), or 
by requiring that the Speaker state the question on overriding a veto 
before recognizing for a motion to refer (thereby overruling prior 
decisions of the Chair to change the order of precedence of motions) 
(Speaker Wright, Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20281). Similarly, a resolution 
alleging that, in light of an internationally objectionable French 
program of nuclear test detonations, for the House to receive the 
President of France in a joint meeting would be injurious to its dignity 
and to the integrity of its proceedings, and resolving that the Speaker 
withdraw the pending invitation and refrain from similar invitations, 
was held not to present a question of the privileges of the House 
because it proposed a collateral change in an order of the House 
previously adopted (that the House recess for the purpose of receiving 
the President of France) and a new rule for future cases (Jan. 31, 1996, 
p. 1887). A resolution collaterally challenging the validity or fairness 
of an adopted rule of the House by delaying its implementation was held 
not to give rise to a question of the privileges of the House (Feb. 3, 
1993, p. 1974 (sustained by tabling of appeal)). A resolution directing 
that the party ratios of all standing committees, subcommittees, and 
staffs thereof be changed within a time certain

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to reflect overall party ratios in the House was held to constitute a 
change in the Rules of the House and not to constitute a proper question 
of the privileges of the House (the standing rules already providing 
mechanisms for selecting committee members and staff) (Jan. 23, 1984, p. 
78). On the other hand, although the Rules of the House establish a 
procedure for fixing the ratio of majority to minority members on full 
committees and also provide that subcommittees are subject to the 
direction and control of the full committee (clause 1 of rule XI), a 
question of the privileges of the House is raised where it is alleged 
that subcommittee ratios should reflect full committee ratios 
established by the House and failure to do so denies representational 
rights at the subcommittee level (Oct. 4, 1984, p. 30042). A resolution 
alleging that a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of 
each legislative day would enhance the dignity and integrity of the 
proceedings of the House and directing that the Speaker implement such a 
recitation as the practice of the House was held to propose a change in 
the rules and therefore not to give rise to a question of the privileges 
of the House (Sept. 9, 1988, p. 23298). A resolution directing that the 
reprogramming process established in law for legislative branch 
appropriations be subjected to third-party review for conformity with 
external standards of accounting but alleging no deviation from duly 
constituted procedure was held not to give rise to a question of the 
privileges of the House (May 20, 1992, p. 12005 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)). A resolution to permit the Delegate of the District of 
Columbia to vote on articles of impeachment of the President in 
contravention of statutory law and the Rules of the House was held to be 
tantamount to a change in the rules and therefore not to constitute a 
question of the privileges of the House (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27825). A 
resolution directing a standing committee to release executive-session 
material referred to it as such by special rule of the House was held to 
propose a change in the rules and, therefore, not to constitute a 
question of the privileges of the House (Sept. 23, 1998, p. 21562). A 
resolution expressing Congressional sentiment that the President should 
take specified action to achieve a desired public policy, even though 
involving executive action under a treaty (under which the Senate had 
exercised its prerogative to ratify), does not present a question of the 
privileges of the House, but rather is a legislative matter to be 
considered under ordinary rules relating to priority of business (June 
6, 2002, p. 9492 (sustained by tabling of appeal)).
  A question of the privileges of the House may not be invoked to 
prescribe a special order of business for the House, because otherwise 
any Member would be able to attach privilege to a legislative measure 
merely by alleging impact on the dignity of the House based upon House 
action or inaction (June 27, 1974, p. 21596; Feb. 7, 1995, p. 3905; Dec. 
22, 1995, p. 38501; Jan. 3, 1996, p. 40; Jan. 24, 1996, p. 1248; Feb. 1, 
1996, p. 2245; Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25420; Nov. 4, 1999, pp. 28528-33; June 
6, 2002, p. 9492 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Oct. 2, 2002, pp. 
18932 (sustained by tabling of appeal), 18934 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal), 18936 (sustained

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by tabling of appeal), 18938 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Oct. 3, 
2002, pp. 19001 (sustained by tabling of appeal), 19002 (sustained by 
tabling of appeal)). For example, the following resolutions have been 
held not to give rise to a question of the privileges of the House: (1) 
a resolution directing a committee to meet and conduct certain business 
(June 27, 1974, p. 21596; July 31, 1975, p. 26250; June 25, 2009, p. 
16440 (sustained by tabling of appeal); July 9, 2009, p. 17242 
(sustained by tabling of appeal); July 23, 2009, p. 18853 (sustained by 
tabling of appeal)); (2) a resolution amending a special order of 
business resolution (July 17, 2009, p. 18192 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal); July 24, 2009, p. 19156 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); (3) 
a resolution alleging that the inability of the House to enact certain 
legislation constituted an impairment of the dignity of the House, the 
integrity of its proceedings, and its place in public esteem, and 
resolving that the House be considered to have passed such legislation 
(Jan. 3, 1996, p. 40; Jan. 24, 1996, p. 1248), exhorting it to do so 
(Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3707 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Dec. 13, 2011, 
p. _), or expressing its willingness to do so (Oct. 8, 2013, p. _); (4) 
a resolution precluding an adjournment of the House until a specified 
legislative measure is considered (Feb. 1, 1996, p. 2247; Mar. 13, 2008, 
pp. 4075, 4076 (sustained by tabling of appeal)) or precluding an 
assembly during a specified post-election period (Aug. 10, 2010, pp. 
15438, 15439 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Sept. 23, 2010, pp. 
16374-76 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); (5) a resolution prohibiting 
the House from considering a measure alleged to violate a House rule and 
to be unconstitutional (May 21, 2013, p. _). See also Sec. 702, supra, 
for a discussion of legislative propositions purporting to present 
questions of the privileges of the House.

  The <> clause 
of the rule giving questions of privilege precedence over all other 
questions except a motion to adjourn is a recognition of a well-
established principle in the House, for it is an axiom of the 
parliamentary law that such a question ``supersedes the consideration of 
the original question, and must be first disposed of'' (III, 2522, 2523; 
VI, 595). As the business of the House began to increase it was found 
necessary to give certain important matters a precedence by rule, and 
such matters are called ``privileged questions.'' But as they relate 
merely to the order of business under the rules, they are to be 
distinguished from ``questions of privilege'' that relate to the safety 
or efficiency of the House itself as an organ for action (III, 2718). It 
is evident, therefore, that a question of privilege takes precedence 
over a matter merely privileged under the rules (III, 2526-2530; V, 
6454; VIII, 3465). Certain matters of business, arising under provisions 
of the Constitution, have been held to have a privilege that superseded 
the rules establishing the order of business, as bills providing for 
census or apportionment (I, 305-308), bills returned with the objections 
of the President (IV, 3530-3536), propositions of impeachment (see 
Sec. 604, supra), and questions incidental thereto (III, 2401, 2418; V, 
7261; July 22, 1986, p. 17306; Dec. 2, 1987, p. 33720; Jan. 3, 1989, p. 
84; Feb. 7, 1989, p. 1726), matters

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relating to the count of the electoral vote (III, 2573-2578), 
resolutions relating to adjournment and recess of Congress (V, 6698, 
6701-6706; Nov. 13, 1997, p. 26538), and a resolution declaring the 
Office of the Speaker vacant (VI, 35); but under later decisions certain 
of these matters that have no other basis in the Constitution or in the 
rules for privileged status, such as bills relating to census and 
apportionment, have been held not to present questions of privilege, and 
the effect of such decisions is to require all questions of privilege to 
come within the specific provisions of this rule (VI, 48; VII, 889; Apr. 
8, 1926, p. 7147) (see Sec. 702, supra).
  A resolution that presents a proper question of the privileges of the 
House (alteration of subcommittee hearing transcripts) may propose the 
creation of a select investigatory committee with subpoena authority to 
report back to the House by a date certain (June 29, 1983, p. 18104), 
but may not appropriate funds for the investigating committee from the 
contingent fund (now referred to as ``applicable accounts of the House 
described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X'') (VI, 395).

  The <> privilege of 
the Member rests primarily on the Constitution, which grants conditional 
immunity from arrest (Sec. 90, supra) and an unconditional freedom of 
debate in the House (III, 2670, Sec. 92, supra). An assault on a Member 
within the Capitol when the House was not in session, from a cause not 
connected with the Member's representative capacity, was also held to 
involve a question of privilege (II, 1624). But there has been doubt as 
to the right of the House to interfere for the protection of Members in 
matters not connected with their official duties (II, 1277; III, 2678, 
footnote). Charges against the conduct of a Member are held to involve 
privilege when they relate to the Member's representative capacity (III, 
1828-1830, 2716; VI, 604, 612; VIII, 2479), but not when they relate to 
conduct at a time before such person became a Member (II, 1287; III, 
2691, 2723, 2725). Although questions of personal privilege normally 
involve matters touching on a Member's reputation, a Member may be 
recognized for a question of personal privilege based on a violation of 
his rights as a Member, such as unauthorized printed alterations in his 
statements made during a subcommittee hearing in a prior Congress 
(because the second phrase of this clause speaks to the ``rights, 
reputation, and conduct of Members, individually'') (June 28, 1983, p. 
17674). A printed characterization by an officer of the House of a 
Member's proposed amendments as ``dilatory and frivolous'' may give rise 
to a question of personal privilege (Aug. 1, 1985, p. 22542) as may the 
fraudulent use of a Member's official stationery as a ``Dear Colleague'' 
letter (Sept. 17, 1986, p. 23605). Although a Member may be recognized 
on a question of personal privilege to complain about an abuse of House 
rules as applied to debate in which such Member was properly 
participating, such Member may not raise a question of personal 
privilege merely to complain that microphones had been turned off during 
disorderly conduct following expiration of recognition for debate (Mar. 
16, 1988, p. 4085). A Member's mere assertion of general corruption in 
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House does not support a question of personal privilege (Jan. 18, 2007, 
p. 1625).
  Speaker Wright rose to a question of personal privilege to respond to 
a ``statement of alleged violations'' pending in the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics); and, pending the committee's 
disposition of his motion to dismiss, announced his intention to resign 
as Speaker and as a Member (May 31, 1989, p. 10440). Speaker Gingrich 
rose to a question of personal privilege to discuss his own official 
conduct previously resolved by the House, which question was based upon 
press accounts (Apr. 17, 1997, p. 5834). Speaker Hastert rose to a 
question of personal privilege to discuss the process for selecting a 
Chaplain, which question was based on press accounts (Mar. 23, 2000, p. 
3478).
  A Member rose to a question of personal privilege to discuss: (1) his 
own official conduct relative to his account with the ``bank'' operated 
by the Sergeant-at-Arms, which question was based on press accounts 
(Mar. 19, 1992, p. 6074); (2) reflections on his character in pointed 
descriptions of recorded votes taken in committee on a Member's 
amendments, included in a committee report under clause 3(b) of rule 
XIII, which question was based on the report and on certain media 
coverage thereof (May 5, 2005, p. 8691; May 10, 2005, p. 9094); (3) 
allegations that he had used procedural tactics to disrupt a memorial 
service in the Rotunda for a late Member (Feb. 14, 2008, p. 2195); (4) a 
``Dear Colleague'' alleging willful violation of the rules of the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) by its ranking 
minority member (Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3858); (5) allegations that he 
accepted an appointment from the administration in exchange for certain 
votes (Mar. 19, 2010, p. 3945); (6) a pending investigation by the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) of her, 
including disciplinary action taken by the committee against 
professional staff assigned to the case (Dec. 9, 2010, pp. 19394-5).
  A committee chair rose to a question of personal privilege: (1) based 
on press accounts concerning allegations by other Members that he had 
been ``buying votes'' (Mar. 26, 1998, p. 4851); (2) based on press 
accounts containing statements impugning his character and motive by 
alleging intentional violation of rules governing the conduct of an 
investigation (May 12, 1998, p. 8838); (3) to discuss his own official 
conduct, which question was based on a letter of reproval reported by 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) (Oct. 5, 
2000, p. 21048); (4) based on press accounts impugning his character to 
discuss his decision to direct his staff to request the Capitol Police 
to remove minority party members from a committee room where they were 
meeting during the reading of an amendment at a committee markup (July 
23, 2003, p. 19171); (5) based on press accounts regarding the receipt 
of illegal gifts and campaign contributions (July 31, 2008, p. 17462) 
and violations of federal tax law (Sept. 10, 2008, p. 18419) and a 
statement of alleged violations by the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct (now Ethics) regarding those accusations (Aug. 10, 
2010, p. 15440).

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  A distinction has been drawn between charges made by one Member 
against another in a newspaper or press release (July 28, 1970, p. 
26002) or in a ``Dear Colleague'' letter (Aug. 4, 1989, p. 19139; May 
14, 1996, p. 11081; Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3858), and the same when made on 
the floor (III, 1827, 2691, 2717). Charges made in newspapers against 
Members in their representative capacities involve privilege (III, 1832, 
2694, 2696-2699, 2703, 2704; VI, 576, 621; VIII, 2479), even though the 
names of individual Members are not given (III, 1831, 2705, 2709; VI, 
616, 617). But vague charges in newspaper articles (III, 2711; VI, 570), 
criticisms (III, 2712-2714; VIII, 2465), or even misrepresentations of 
the Member's speeches or acts or responses in an interview (III, 2707, 
2708; Aug. 3, 1990, p. 22135), have not been entertained. A question of 
personal privilege may not ordinarily be based merely on words spoken in 
debate (July 23, 1987, p. 20861; Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4085; Nov. 16, 1989, 
p. 29569; Sept. 25, 1996, p. 24807; Sept. 21, 2001, p. 17613; Mar. 31, 
2004, p. 5763; July 21, 2009, p. 18508) or conveyed by an exhibit in 
debate (June 28, 2000, p. 12723) and the Chair does not interpret 
remarks in debate challenged on the basis of personal privilege (July 
25, 2012, p. _). However, a Member may raise a question of personal 
privilege based upon press accounts of another Member's remarks, in 
debate or off the floor, that impugn the character or motives of that 
Member (May 15, 1984, pp. 12207, 12211; May 31, 1984, p. 14620; Mar. 27, 
2012, p. _), newspaper accounts of televised press coverage of a 
committee hearing at which that Member was criticized derogatorily (Mar. 
3, 1988, p. 3196), or press accounts arraigning personally offensive 
remarks a Member had made in debate regarding the President (Oct. 23, 
2007, p. 27967).

  The <> body of precedent relating to the precedence of questions of 
privilege spans both the adoption of this rule in 1880 and its amendment 
to require notice in certain cases in 1993.
  A question of privilege may interrupt: (1) the reading of the Journal 
(II, 1630; VI, 637); (2) the consideration of a bill (or series of 
measures) that had been made in order by a special rule (III, 2524, 
2525); (3) in an exceptional decision, where the rule thereon ordered 
the previous question to final passage without intervening motion, after 
consideration of the measure in the Committee of the Whole but before 
passage in the House (VI, 560); (4) under antiquated drafting 
conventions for special orders of business that ordered the previous 
question after debate, the consideration of certain matters on which the 
previous question has been ordered (III, 2532; VI, 561; VIII, 2688). A 
question of privilege takes precedence over (1) business in order on 
Calendar Wednesday (VI, 394; VII, 908-910), a ``suspension day'' (III, 
2553; VI, 553; June 5, 2007, p. 14600), or over certain motions given 
precedence under a special rule (VI, 565); (2) reports from the 
Committee on Rules before consideration has begun (VIII, 3491; Mar. 11, 
1987, p. 5403); (3) call of the Consent Calendar on Monday (VI, 553), 
before that Calendar was repealed (H. Res. 168, June 20, 1995, p.

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16574); (4) motions to resolve into the Committee of the Whole (VI, 554; 
VIII, 3461); (5) unfinished business, privileged under clauses 1 and 3 
of rule XIV (formerly rule XXIV) (Speaker Albert, June 4, 1975, p. 
16860). Because a resolution raising a question of the privileges of the 
House takes precedence over a motion to suspend the rules, it may be 
offered and voted on between motions to suspend the rules on which the 
Speaker has postponed record votes (May 17, 1983, p. 12486). In general, 
one question of privilege may not take precedence over another (III, 
2534, 2552, 2581), and the Chair's power of recognition determines which 
of two matters of equal privilege is considered first (July 24, 1990, p. 
18916). Although under rule IX a question of the privileges of the House 
takes precedence over all other questions except the motion to adjourn, 
the Speaker may, pursuant to the power of recognition under clause 2 of 
rule XVII (formerly clause 2 of rule XIV), entertain unanimous-consent 
requests for ``one-minute speeches'' pending recognition for a question 
of privilege, because such unanimous-consent requests, if granted, 
temporarily waive the standing Rules of the House relating to the order 
of business (Speaker O'Neill, July 10, 1985, p. 18394; Feb. 6, 1989, pp. 
1676-82).
  A Member's announcement of intent to offer a resolution as a question 
of privilege may take precedence over a special order reported from the 
Committee on Rules; but, if a special order is pending, such 
announcements are counted against debate on the resolution absent 
unanimous consent to the contrary (Oct. 28, 1997, pp. 23525, 23527).
  While a question of privilege is pending, a message of the President 
is received (V, 6640-6642), but is read only by unanimous consent (V, 
6639). A motion to reconsider may also be entered but may not be 
considered (V, 5673-5676). It has been held that only one question of 
privilege may be pending at a time (III, 2533), but having presented one 
question of privilege, a Member, before discussing it, may submit a 
second question of privilege related to the first and discuss both on 
one recognition (VI, 562). Although a resolution raising a question of 
the privileges of the House has precedence over all other questions, it 
is nevertheless subject to disposition by the ordinary motions permitted 
under clause 4 of rule XVI, and by the motion to commit under clause 2 
of rule XIX (formerly clause 1 of rule XVII) (Speaker Albert, Feb. 19, 
1976, p. 3914; Apr. 28, 1983, p. 10423; Mar. 22, 1990, p. 4996).

  When <> a Member proposes merely to address the House on a question 
of personal privilege, and does not offer a resolution affecting the 
dignity or integrity of the House for action, the practice as to 
precedence is somewhat different. Thus, a Member rising to a question of 
personal privilege may not interrupt a call of the yeas and nays (V, 
6051, 6052, 6058, 6059; VI, 554, 564), or take from the floor another 
Member who has been recognized for debate (V, 5002; VIII, 2459, 2528; 
Sept. 29, 1983, p. 26508; July 23, 1987, p. 20861), but may interrupt 
the ordinary legislative business (III, 2531). A Member may address the 
House on a question of personal

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privilege even after the previous question has been ordered on a pending 
bill (VI, 561; VIII, 2688). Under modern practice, a question of 
personal privilege may not be raised in the Committee of the Whole 
(Sept. 4, 1969, p. 24372; Dec. 13, 1973, p. 41270), the proper remedy 
being a demand that words be taken down pursuant to clause 4 of rule 
XVI; yet a breach of privilege occurring in the Committee of the Whole 
relates to the dignity of the House and is so treated (II, 1657). A 
question of personal privilege may not be raised while a question of the 
privileges of the House is pending (Apr. 30, 1985, p. 9808; May 1, 1985, 
p. 10003). The Chair may require a Member to submit for examination the 
material upon which the Member would rely before conferring recognition 
for a question of personal privilege (Jan. 18, 2007, p. 1625).

   <> During a call of the House in the absence of a quorum, only 
such questions of privilege as relate immediately to those proceedings 
may be presented (III, 2545). See also Sec. 1024, infra.

<>   Whenever 
it is asserted on the floor that the privileges of the House are 
invaded, the Speaker entertains the question (II, 1501), and may then 
refuse recognition if the resolution is not admissible as a question of 
privilege under the rule. A proper question of privilege may be renewed 
(Nov. 17, 1995, p. 33846). Although the early custom was for the Speaker 
to submit to the House the question whether a resolution involved the 
privileges of the House (III, 2718), the modern practice is for the 
Speaker to rule directly on the question (VI, 604; Speaker Wright, Mar. 
11, 1987, p. 5404; Feb. 3, 1995, p. 3571; Feb. 7, 1995, p. 3905), 
subject to appeal where appropriate (Speaker Albert, June 27, 1974, p. 
21596). In raising a question of personal privilege, a Member in the 
first instance must apprise the Chair of the grounds on which 
recognition may be conferred (Deschler, ch. 11, Sec. 21.1; Jan. 18, 
2007, p. 1625; Sept. 10, 2008, p. 18422).
  Under the form of the rule adopted in the 103d Congress, the Speaker 
has discretion to recognize a Member other than the Majority or Minority 
Leader to proceed immediately on a resolution offered as a question of 
the privileges of the House (Speaker Foley, Feb. 3, 1993, p. 1974); and 
is not required to announce the time designated to consider a resolution 
at the time the resolution is noticed (Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2209). The 
Speaker does not rule on the privileged status of a resolution at the 
time that resolution is noticed, but only when called up (Feb. 11, 1994, 
p. 2209; Sept. 13, 1994, p. 24389; Feb. 3, 1995, p. 3571).
  Common fame has been held sufficient basis for raising a question 
(III, 2538, 2701); a telegraphic dispatch may also furnish a basis (III, 
2539). A report relating to the contemptuous conduct of a witness before 
a committee gives rise to a question of the privileges of the House and 
may, under this rule, be considered on the same day reported 
notwithstanding the requirement of clause 4(a) of rule XIII (formerly 
clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI) that reports from committees be available to 
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calendar days before consideration (Speaker Albert, July 13, 1971, pp. 
24720-23). But a Member may not, as a matter of right, require the 
reading of a book or paper by suggesting that it contains matter 
infringing on the privileges of the House (V, 5258). In presenting a 
question of personal privilege the Member is not required in the first 
instance to offer a motion or resolution, but must take this preliminary 
step in raising a question of the privileges of the House (III, 2546, 
2547; VI, 565-569, 580; VII, 3464). Such a resolution is read in full by 
the Clerk (Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25420), and a parliamentary inquiry 
regarding its content, in the discretion of the Chair, should await the 
conclusion of the reading (Dec. 8, 2005, p. 27812). A proposition of 
privilege may lose its precedence by association with a matter not of 
privilege (III, 2551; V, 5890; VI, 395). Debate on a question of 
privilege is under the hour rule (V, 4990; VIII, 2448), but the previous 
question may be moved (II, 1256; V, 5459, 5460; VIII, 2672); since the 
103d Congress, however, the rule has provided for divided control of the 
hour in the case of a resolution offered from the floor. Consideration 
of a resolution as a question of the privileges of the House may include 
recognition for an hour of debate on a motion to refer under clause 4 of 
rule XVI (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5557; Sept. 29, 2006, p. 21334); a separate 
hour of debate on the resolution, itself, under clause 2 of rule XVII 
(formerly clause 2 of rule XIV); and a motion to commit (not debatable 
after the ordering of the previous question) under clause 2 of rule XIX 
(formerly clause 1 of rule XVII) (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5557). Debate on a 
letter of resignation is controlled by the Member moving the acceptance 
of the resignation (Mar. 8, 1977, pp. 6579-82) if the resigning Member 
does not seek recognition (June 16, 1975, p. 19054; June 8, 2006, p. 
10498). Debate on a question of personal privilege must be confined to 
the statements or issues that gave rise to the question of privilege (V, 
5075-77; VI, 576, 608; VIII, 2448, 2481; May 31, 1984, p. 14623). A 
Member recognized only on the question of whether a resolution qualifies 
as a question of privilege is not recognized to debate such resolution 
(Nov. 3, 2005, pp. 24757, 24758; May 21, 2013, p. _). Remarks uttered 
while not under recognition for debate do not render untimely a motion 
before debate to lay on the table a resolution offered under this rule 
(Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22783). end segment .006  deg. 
segment .007 -- rule X  deg.

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                                 Rule X

                       organization of committees

Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
  1. <> There shall be in the House the following standing 
committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and related 
functions assigned by this clause and clauses 2, 3, and 4. All bills, 
resolutions, and other matters relating to subjects within the 
jurisdiction of the standing committees listed in this clause shall be 
referred to those committees, in accordance with clause 2 of rule XII, 
as follows:

  Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the 
44 committees of the 79th Congress were consolidated into 19, effective 
January 2, 1947. The number of standing committees grew over time with 
the creation of the Committee on Science and Astronautics (now Science, 
Space, and Technology), established on July 21, 1958 (p. 14513); the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), established on 
April 13, 1967 (p. 9425); the Committee on the Budget, established on 
July 12, 1974, by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297); 
and the Committee on Small Business, established as a standing committee 
effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). The Committee on Internal Security was abolished in the 94th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20).
  The 104th Congress reduced the number to 19 by abolishing the 
Committees on the District of Columbia, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 
and Post Office and Civil Service (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, 
p. 464). Matters formerly in the jurisdiction of the Committees on the 
District of Columbia and Post Office and Civil Service were transferred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (formerly Government 
Reform and Oversight); and matters formerly in the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries were transferred to the 
Committees on Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure 
(formerly Public Works and Transportation), Armed Services (National 
Security during the 104th and 105th Congresses), and Science, Space, and 
Technology (Science during the 104th through 109th Congresses) (sec. 
202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan.

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4, 1995, p. 464). The 109th Congress established the Committee on 
Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42).
  A Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was established in the 
95th Congress (H. Res. 658, July 14, 1977, pp. 22932-49). Before the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, that committee was 
found in former rule XLVIII (current clause 11 of rule X) (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A Permanent Select Committee on Aging was added to 
clause 6 of this rule effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470) and stricken in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).
  Although earlier forms of the rule specified the number of Members 
comprising each of the standing committees, those specifications were 
eliminated in the 93d Congress, leaving to the House the authority to 
establish the sizes of committees by the numbers elected pursuant to 
clause 5 of rule X. The rules still specify part of the composition of 
the Committee on the Budget (clause 5(a)(2) of rule X), and the size and 
ratio of the Committee on Ethics (clause 5(a)(3)(A) of rule X), as well 
as the size and preferred composition of the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence (clause 11(a) of rule X).
  The Speaker refers public bills in accordance with clause 1 of rule X, 
but when the House itself refers a bill it may send it to any committee 
without regard to the rules of jurisdiction (IV, 4375; V, 5527; VII, 
2131) and jurisdiction is thereby conferred (IV, 4362-4364; VII, 2105). 
Motions for change of reference of public bills and resolutions must be 
authorized by the committee claiming jurisdiction (clause 7 of rule XII; 
VII, 2121; Feb. 13, 1918, p. 2070; Jan. 10, 1941, p. 100), must be made 
immediately following the reading of the Journal (VII, 1809, 2119, 
2120), must apply to a single bill and not to a class of bills (VII, 
2125), may be amended (VII, 2127), may not be divided (VII, 2125), and 
may not be debated (VII, 2126, 2128), but are not in order on Calendar 
Wednesday (VII, 2117), and are not privileged if the original reference 
was not erroneous (VII, 2125). The rereferral of most bills, however, is 
accomplished by unanimous consent (see Procedure, ch. 17, Sec. Sec. 17-
38).
  Before the 94th Congress, a bill could not be divided among two or 
more committees, even though it might have contained matters properly 
within the jurisdiction of several committees (IV, 4372). The Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974 added former clause 5 of rule X (current 
clause 2 of rule XII), permitting the Speaker to refer any matter to 
more than one committee (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). That provision was amended in the 104th Congress to require the 
Speaker to designate a primary committee among those to which a matter 
is initially referred (sec. 205, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). 
However, the provision was amended again in the 108th Congress to permit 
the Speaker to refrain from designating a primary committee in 
extraordinary circumstances (sec. 2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7; 
see Sec. 816, infra).

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  A committee having jurisdiction over a subject by means of a petition 
(IV, 3365) properly referred (IV, 4361) can report on the subject 
thereof. It has generally been held that a committee may not report a 
bill whereof the subject matter has not been referred to it by the House 
(IV, 4355-4360, 4372; VII, 1029, 2101, 2102). Where a House bill is 
returned from the Senate with a substitute amendment relating to a new 
and different subject, the reference could nevertheless be to the 
committee having jurisdiction over the original bill (IV, 4373, 4374); 
normally, however, such amended measures are held at the Speaker's table 
until disposed of by the House. The erroneous reference of a public bill 
under this rule, if it remains uncorrected, in effect gives jurisdiction 
(IV, 4365-4371; VII, 2108), but such is not the case with a private bill 
or petition (IV, 3364, 4382-4389) unless the reference be made by action 
of the House itself (IV, 4390, 4391; VII 2131). A point of order as to 
the reference of a private bill is timely when the bill comes up for 
consideration, either in the House or in the Committee of the Whole (IV, 
4382-4389; VII, 2116, 2132; VIII, 2262) or at any time before passage 
(VII, 2116). The reference of a bill to a committee involving the same 
subject matter as a bill previously reported confers jurisdiction anew 
upon the committee to consider and report the bill subsequently 
introduced (VIII, 2311).
  Clause 4 of rule XII prohibits the receipt or consideration of certain 
private bills relating to claims, pensions, construction of bridges, and 
the correction of military or naval records. In the 104th Congress the 
House adopted a rule to prohibit introduction or consideration of any 
bill or resolution expressing a commemoration by designation of a 
specified period of time (current clause 5 of rule XII, former clause 2 
of rule XXII) (sec. 216, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468).

  (a) Committee on Agriculture.
      (1) <> Adulteration of seeds, insect 
pests, and protection of birds and animals in forest reserves.
      (2) Agriculture generally.
      (3) Agricultural and industrial chemistry.
      (4) Agricultural colleges and experiment stations.
      (5) Agricultural economics and research.
      (6) Agricultural education extension services.
      (7) Agricultural production and marketing and stabilization of 
prices of agricultural prod

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ucts, and commodities (not including distribution outside of the United 
States).
      (8) Animal industry and diseases of animals.
      (9) Commodity exchanges.
      (10) Crop insurance and soil conservation.
      (11) Dairy industry.
      (12) Entomology and plant quarantine.
      (13) Extension of farm credit and farm security.
      (14) Inspection of livestock, poultry, meat products, and seafood 
and seafood products.
      (15) Forestry in general and forest reserves other than those 
created from the public domain.
      (16) Human nutrition and home economics.
      (17) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
      (18) Rural electrification.
      (19) Rural development.
      (20) Water conservation related to activities of the Department of 
Agriculture.

  This committee was established in 1820 (IV, 4149). In 1880 the subject 
of forestry was added to its jurisdiction, and the committee was 
conferred authority to receive estimates of and to report appropriations 
(IV, 4149). However, on July 1, 1920, authority to report appropriations 
for the Department of Agriculture was transferred to the Committee on 
Appropriations (VII, 1860).
  The basic form of the present jurisdictional statement was made 
effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). Subparagraph (7) was altered by the 93d 
Congress, effective January 3, 1975, to include jurisdiction over 
agricultural commodities (including the Commodity Credit Corporation 
(CCC)) while transferring jurisdiction over foreign distribution and 
nondomestic production of commodities to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Nevertheless, 
the committee has retained limited jurisdiction over measures to release 
CCC stocks for such foreign distribution (Sept. 14, 1989, p. 20428). 
Previously unstated jurisdictions over commod

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ities exchanges and rural development were codified effective January 3, 
1975.
  The 104th Congress consolidated the committee's jurisdiction over 
inspection of livestock and meat products to include inspection of 
poultry, seafood, and seafood products, and added subparagraph (20) 
relating to water conservation (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The committee has had jurisdiction over bills for establishing and 
regulating the Department of Agriculture (IV, 4150), for inspection of 
livestock and meat products, regulation of animal industry, diseases of 
animals (IV, 4154; VII, 1862), adulteration of seeds, insect pests, 
protection of birds and animals in forest reserves (IV, 4157; VII, 
1870), the improvement of the breed of horses, even with the cavalry 
service in view (IV, 4158; VII, 1865), and, in addition to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, amending the Horse Protection Act to prevent the 
shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, or receiving of horses to be 
slaughtered for human consumption (July 13, 2006, p. 14304).
  The committee, having charge of the general subject of forestry, has 
reported bills relating to timber, and forest reserves other than those 
created from the public domain (IV, 4160). The Committee on Natural 
Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill to 
convey land that is part of a National Forest created from the public 
domain (Mar. 23, 2004, p. 4926). The committee also has exercised 
jurisdiction over bills: relating to agricultural colleges and 
experiment stations (IV, 4152), incorporation of agricultural societies 
(IV, 4159), and establishment of a highway commission (IV, 4153); to 
discourage fictitious and gambling transactions in farm products (IV, 
4161; VII, 1861); to regulate the transportation, sale, and handling of 
dogs and cats intended for use in research and the licensing of animal 
research facilities (July 29, 1965, p. 18691); to designate an 
agricultural research center (May 14, 1996, p. 11070). The committee 
shares with the Committee on the Judiciary jurisdiction over a bill 
comprehensively amending the Immigration and Nationality Act and 
including food stamp eligibility requirements for aliens (Sept. 19, 
1995, p. 25533).
  The House referred the President's message dealing with the 
refinancing of farm-mortgage indebtedness to the committee, thus 
conferring jurisdiction (Apr. 4, 1933, p. 1209).
  The committee has jurisdiction over a bill relating solely to 
executive level positions in the Department of Agriculture (Mar. 2, 
1976, p. 4958) and has jurisdiction over bills to develop land and water 
conservation programs on private and non-Federal lands (June 7, 1976, p. 
16768).

  (b) Committee on Appropriations.
      (1) <>   Appropriation of the 
revenue for the support of the Government.

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      (2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriation Acts.
      (3) Transfers of unexpended balances.
      (4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by other committees that 
provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and referred to the committee under 
clause 4(a)(2).
      (5) Bills and joint resolutions that provide new budget authority, 
limitation on the use of funds, or other authority relating to new 
direct loan obligations and new loan guarantee commitments referencing 
section 504(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

  This committee was established in 1865, when all the general 
appropriation bills were confided to its care. In 1885 a portion of the 
bills were distributed to other committees. On July 1, 1920, the 
committee again was given jurisdiction over all appropriation measures 
(VII, 1741).
  In the 95th Congress this paragraph was amended to correct a 
typographical error (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 53). Subparagraph (4) 
was amended in the 105th and 106th Congresses to conform to changes made 
by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33; H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (5) was added in the 114th 
Congress (sec. 2(a)(2)(B), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). When the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, it transferred an 
undesignated portion of this paragraph to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The authority to conduct studies and examinations of the organization 
and operation of executive departments and agencies was first given to 
this committee on February 11, 1943 (p. 884); continued by resolution of 
January 9, 1945 (p. 135); and incorporated into permanent law in section 
202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). 
This authority was first made part of the standing rules on January 3, 
1953 (pp. 17, 24), and is now listed as a special oversight 
responsibility of the committee in clause 3 of rule X, effective January 
3, 1975 (formerly clause 2(b)(3) of rule X) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The committee is also authorized and directed 
to hold hearings on the budget as a whole in open session within 30 days 
of its submission (clause 4(a)(1)(A) of rule X), and to study on a 
continuing basis provisions of law providing spending authority or 
permanent budget authority and to report

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to the House recommendations for terminating or modifying such 
provisions (clause 4(a)(3) of rule X). The requirement of section 139 of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) that the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate develop a standard 
appropriation classification schedule was superseded by section 202(a) 
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1167), which now 
imposes that responsibility upon the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Office of Management and Budget. The further requirement of section 139 
of the 1946 Act that the Appropriations Committees study existing 
permanent appropriations and recommend which, if any, should be 
discontinued was made the responsibility of all standing committees of 
the House by clause 4(e) of rule X, through enactment of section 253 of 
the 1970 Act (84 Stat. 1175).
  Effective <> July 
12, 1974, special Presidential messages on rescissions and deferrals of 
budget authority submitted pursuant to sections 1012 and 1013 of the 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 683, 684), as well as 
rescission bills and impoundment resolutions defined in section 1011 (2 
U.S.C. 682) and required in section 1017 (2 U.S.C. 688) to be referred 
to the appropriate committee, are referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations if the proposed rescissions or deferrals involve funds 
already appropriated or obligated. Also effective July 12, 1974, the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (sec. 404(a)) added to the committee's 
jurisdiction, which was later perfected by the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470, 
subparagraphs (2), (3), and (4)).

  (c) Committee on Armed Services.
      (1) <> Ammunition depots; forts; 
arsenals; and Army, Navy, and Air Force reservations and establishments.
      (2) Common defense generally.
      (3) Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserves.
      (4) The Department of Defense generally, including the Departments 
of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally.
      (5) Interoceanic canals generally, including measures relating to 
the maintenance, operation, and administration of interoceanic canals.

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      (6) Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies.
      (7) Military applications of nuclear energy.
      (8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the Department of Defense.
      (9) National security aspects of merchant marine, including 
financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels, 
maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, 
cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant marine officers and seamen as 
these matters relate to the national security.
      (10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges 
of members of the armed forces.
      (11) Scientific research and development in support of the armed 
services.
      (12) Selective service.
      (13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air 
Force.
      (14) Soldiers' and sailors' homes.
      (15) Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common 
defense.
      (16) Cemeteries administered by the Department of Defense.

  This committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the 
Committee on Military Affairs with the Committee on Naval Affairs, both 
of which had been created in 1822 (IV, 4179, 4189) and had jurisdiction 
over appropriations from 1885 to 1920 (IV, 4179, 4189; VII, 1741). The 
committee was redesignated the Committee on National Security in the 
104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464) and was 
redesignated again the Committee on Armed Services in the 106th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
including the deletion

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of a redundant undesignated recitation of a special oversight function 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Much of the present legislative jurisdiction in this paragraph was 
adopted on January 3, 1953 (p. 17), to reflect jurisdiction over the 
Department of Defense, which was created in the National Security Act of 
1947 (61 Stat. 495). In the 95th Congress, when the Joint Committee on 
Atomic Energy was abolished, this committee gained jurisdiction over 
military applications of nuclear energy (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 
53). The 104th Congress added subparagraph (8) for clarification and 
subparagraphs (5), (6), and (9) to reflect the transfer of those matters 
from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (sec. 202(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), and later amended subparagraph (8) to 
effect a technical correction (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). 
The 112th Congress added subparagraph (16), a matter formerly within the 
sole jurisdiction of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs (sec. 2(e)(6), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  The committee has jurisdiction over bills: relating to military 
housing construction (Feb. 21, 1962, p. 2684; Apr. 18, 1967, p. 9981); 
amending title 10 of the United States Code to permit suits against the 
United States for damage to reputation of members of Armed Forces 
acquitted of charges of crimes against civilians in combat zones (July 
15, 1970, p. 24451); for construction of military medical facilities 
(Oct. 3, 1966, p. 24859); to require military commissary, post exchange, 
and medical care privileges for veterans with sufficient service-
connected disabilities (Feb. 3, 1976, p. 1972); of a private character 
to waive the statutory time limit on the award of the Congressional 
Medal of Honor to individuals (Feb. 22, 1982, p. 1812); including 
authorization of appropriations to the Department of Energy for resource 
applications for naval petroleum and oil shale reserves (May 1, 1978, p. 
11946); and effecting the transfer of military property to a State to be 
designated by the State as a wilderness area (Nov. 15, 1995, p. 32627).
  The committee exercised jurisdiction with the Committee on Interior 
and Insular Affairs (now Natural Resources) over a resolution regarding 
continued operation of the Hanford Nuclear Reactor to produce power for 
the Bonneville Power Administration (July 17, 1986, p. 16888).

  (d) Committee on the Budget.
      (1) Concurrent resolutions on the <> budget (as defined in section 3(4) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974), other matters required to be referred to the committee 
under titles III and IV of that Act, and other measures setting forth 
appropriate

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levels of budget totals for the United States Government.
      (2) Budget process generally.
      (3) Establishment, extension, and enforcement of special controls 
over the Federal budget, including the budgetary treatment of off-budget 
Federal agencies and measures providing exemption from reduction under 
any order issued under part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.

  This committee was established in the 93d Congress, effective July 12, 
1974, by section 101 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 
299). The separate subpoena authority conferred upon the committee by 
section 101(b) of that Act has been superseded by the general grant of 
subpoena authority to all committees in clause 2(m) of rule XI (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The committee is also charged 
with the special oversight functions as described in clause 3(c) and 
clause 4(b) of rule X.
  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
paragraph consisted of the committee's legislative jurisdiction (current 
paragraph (d)), its oversight jurisdiction (current clause 4 of rule X), 
and its composition (current clause 5(a)(2) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47)).
  In the 99th Congress this paragraph was again amended by section 
232(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
to confer jurisdiction over Senate joint or concurrent resolutions 
constituting congressional responses to a Presidential sequestration 
order issued pursuant to a report of the Comptroller General under 
section 252(b) of that Act (P.L. 99-177). It was again amended by the 
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to conform subparagraph (2) to changes in 
the congressional budget laws (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508). In the 104th 
Congress, the House amended the paragraph to expand the limited 
legislative jurisdiction of the committee by: (1) adding other measures 
setting forth appropriate levels of budget totals to subparagraph (2) 
(now subparagraph (1)); (2) granting the committee jurisdiction over the 
congressional budget process generally in a new subparagraph (3) (now 
subparagraph (2)); and (3) granting the committee jurisdiction over 
special controls over the Federal budget in a new subparagraph (4) (now 
subparagraph (3)), including receiving from the former Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform) jurisdiction 
over budgetary treatment of off-budget Federal agencies and measures 
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tration orders issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). Three 
rereferrals from the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now 
Oversight and Government Reform) to the Committee on the Budget marked 
this migration of off-budget treatment jurisdiction: (1) the Committee 
on the Budget has primary jurisdiction over a bill excluding from the 
budget the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (although the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform retains programmatic 
jurisdiction over that Fund); (2) the Committee on the Budget has 
primary jurisdiction over a bill excluding from the budget the Highway 
Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways 
Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (although the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure retains programmatic 
jurisdiction); and (3) the Committee on the Budget has secondary 
jurisdiction over a bill amending title 49 of the United States Code and 
providing off-budget treatment for the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund (Dec. 6, 1995, p. 35572). The chair of the 
Committee on the Budget inserted in the Congressional Record a 
memorandum of understanding between this committee and the Committee on 
Rules to clarify each Committee's jurisdiction over the congressional 
budget process (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 617). In the 105th Congress the 
jurisdictional statement in subparagraph (2), previously confined to the 
congressional budget process, was broadened to encompass also the 
executive budget process formerly included in the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now Oversight and 
Government Reform) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Clerical and 
stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This committee, and 
not the Committee on Ways and Means, has jurisdiction over a bill 
establishing a rule of sequestration under the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085). This committee 
has primary jurisdiction, and the Committee on Ways and Means has 
additional jurisdiction, over a bill taking Social Security trust funds 
off budget (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085). This committee has primary 
jurisdiction, and the Committee on Rules has additional jurisdiction, 
over a bill amending the Budget Act to establish new legislative points 
of order and directing that the President include a specified matter 
with the budget (Feb. 13, 2001, p. 1817).

  (e) Committee on Education and the Workforce.
      (1) Child labor.
       <> (2) Gallaudet 
University and Howard University and Hospital.

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      (3) Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into 
interstate commerce.
      (4) Food programs for children in schools.
      (5) Labor standards and statistics.
      (6) Education or labor generally.
      (7) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
      (8) Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers 
under contract.
      (9) Workers' compensation.
      (10) Vocational rehabilitation.
      (11) Wages and hours of labor.
      (12) Welfare of miners.
      (13) Work incentive programs.

  This committee was established on January 2, 1947, as part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the 
Committee on Education (created in 1867) (IV, 4242) and the Committee on 
Labor (created in 1883) (IV, 4244). When it was redesignated as the 
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities in the 104th 
Congress, the jurisdictional statement remained unchanged except by the 
combination of labor standards and labor statistics in a single 
subparagraph (5) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). In the 
105th Congress the committee was redesignated the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), was redesignated 
the Committee on Education and Labor in the 110th Congress (sec. 212(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19), and was redesignated again as the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce in the 112th Congress (sec. 
2(e)(7), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, 
the committee gained jurisdiction over food programs for children in 
schools, an expansion of earlier jurisdiction over school-lunch programs 
(subpara. (4)), work incentive programs (subpara. (13)), and Indian 
education, a matter formerly within the specific jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Natural Resources); 
jurisdiction of the committee over international education matters was 
specifically transferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and its 
special oversight function was inserted in clause 3(c) of rule X 
(current clause 3(d) of rule X) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of 
obsolete references to the Columbia

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Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, Freedmen's Hospital, and the 
United States Employees' Compensation Commission and the deletion of a 
redundant undesignated recitation of general and special oversight 
functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The committee has jurisdiction over bills dealing with juvenile 
delinquency (Jan. 22, 1959, p. 1027), runaway youth (July 12, 1973, p. 
23633; Sept. 10, 1973, p. 28970), education of Indians (Apr. 15, 1975, 
p. 10247; June 10, 1991, p. 14049), including the Native American 
Programs Act (Oct. 30, 1997, p. 23967), and compensation for work 
injuries to Federal employees (Apr. 16, 1975, p. 10339); over bills 
amending the Community Services Block Grant Act to continue antipoverty 
programs originally authorized by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 
(Nov. 4, 1993, p. 27359); and over an executive communication proposing 
draft legislation to amend the Labor Management Relations Act and the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Mar. 24, 1983, p. 7402). The 
committee shares with the Committee on the Judiciary jurisdiction over a 
bill comprehensively amending the Immigration and Nationality Act and 
including provisions addressing the enforcement of labor laws (Sept. 19, 
1995, p. 25533). The committee has additional jurisdiction (Energy and 
Commerce has primary jurisdiction) over a developmental disabilities 
assistance and family support bill (Feb. 10, 2000, p. 1023). The 
jurisdiction of this committee over education and vocational 
rehabilitation does not include those subjects as they relate to 
veterans, which fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs. This committee, and not also the Committees on 
Oversight and Government Reform and House Administration, has 
jurisdiction over a bill amending the Family and Medical Leave Act of 
1993 to address only private-sector employees (Oct. 30, 2007, p. 28651).

  (f) Committee on Energy and Commerce.
      (1) Biomedical research and development.
       <> (2) Consumer affairs and 
consumer protection.
      (3) Health and health facilities (except health care supported by 
payroll deductions).
      (4) Interstate energy compacts.
      (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally.
      (6) Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, 
and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar en

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ergy, and other unconventional or renewable energy resources.
      (7) Conservation of energy resources.
      (8) Energy information generally.
      (9) The generation and marketing of power (except by federally 
chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability 
and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and 
siting of generation facilities (except the installation of 
interconnections between Government waterpower projects).
      (10) General management of the Department of Energy and management 
and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
      (11) National energy policy generally.
      (12) Public health and quarantine.
      (13) Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, including 
regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory 
research.
      (14) Regulation of interstate and foreign communications.
      (15) Travel and tourism.

The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to 
regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has 
with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of 
nonnuclear energy.

  The committee dates from 1795 (IV, 4096). Effective January 3, 1975 
(H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), the name of the 
committee was changed from Interstate and Foreign Commerce to Commerce 
and Health. Effective January 14, 1975, it was redesignated as 
Interstate and

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Foreign Commerce (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20). In the 96th Congress it 
was redesignated as Energy and Commerce and given much of its present 
jurisdiction, effective January 3, 1981 (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 
6405-10; note publication of intercommittee memoranda of understanding). 
In the 104th Congress it was redesignated as the Committee on Commerce 
(sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). In the 107th Congress it 
was redesignated again as the Committee on Energy and Commerce (sec. 
2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  In the 74th Congress the jurisdictional statement of the committee was 
amended to include jurisdiction over bills relating to radio, and to 
transfer jurisdiction over water transportation, Coast Guard, lifesaving 
service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, and the Panama Canal to the former Committee on Merchant Marine 
and Fisheries (VII, 1814, 1847), but with the demise of the latter 
committee in the 104th Congress, the latter subjects now reside in the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
except that the Committee on National Security (now Armed Services) has 
jurisdiction over the Panama Canal (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 464). In the 85th Congress matters relating to the Bureau of 
Standards, standardization of weights and measures, and the metric 
system (conferred on the committee by the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946, 60 Stat. 812), were transferred to the Committee on Science and 
Astronautics (now Science, Space, and Technology) (July 21, 1958, p. 
14513). In the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 
1975, the committee obtained specific jurisdiction over consumer affairs 
and consumer protection (subpara. (2)), travel and tourism (subpara. 
(15)), health and health facilities, except health care supported by 
payroll deductions (subpara. (3)) (a matter formerly within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means), and biomedical 
research and development (subpara. (1)), and was released of 
jurisdiction over civil aeronautics to the Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure), jurisdiction 
over civil aviation research and development, energy and environmental 
research and development, and the National Weather Service to the 
Committee on Science and Technology (now Science, Space, and 
Technology), and jurisdiction over trading with the enemy to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). In the 95th Congress, when the legislative jurisdiction of the 
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in the House was transferred to various 
standing committees, this committee was given the same jurisdiction over 
nuclear energy as it had over nonnuclear energy and facilities (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). In the 96th Congress the committee obtained 
specific jurisdiction over national energy policy generally (subpara. 
(11)), measures relating to exploration, production, storage, supply, 
marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources (subpara. (6)), 
measures relating to conservation of energy resources (subpara. (7)), 
measures relating to energy information generally (subpara. (8)), 
measures relating to the

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generation, marketing, interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for 
power as well as the siting of generation facilities, with certain 
exceptions (subpara. (9)), interstate energy compacts (subpara. (4)), 
and measures relating to general management of the Department of Energy 
and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (subpara. 
(10)) (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). In the 104th Congress 
the committee's jurisdiction over inland waterways and railroads 
(including railroad labor, retirement, and unemployment) was transferred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and jurisdiction 
over measures relating to the commercial application of energy 
technology was transferred to the Committee on Science (now Science, 
Space, and Technology), while the committee obtained jurisdiction over 
regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry (subpara. (13)) from 
the Committee on Natural Resources (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 107th Congress the committee's jurisdiction over 
securities and exchanges was transferred to the Committee on Financial 
Services (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). The Speaker 
inserted in the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding 
between the two committees to clarify the nature of this transfer (Jan. 
30, 2001, p. 995), the final two paragraphs of which no longer provide 
jurisdictional guidance (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).
  The committee has the special oversight responsibility under clause 
3(e) of rule X as well as the general oversight responsibility required 
by clause 2 of rule X. This special oversight responsibility was 
expanded in the 96th Congress to include all energy, effective January 
3, 1981 (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). In the 104th Congress 
it was again expanded to include nonmilitary nuclear energy and research 
and development including the disposal of nuclear waste (sec. 202(a), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), though a conforming change in clause 3 
was inadvertently omitted.
  The committee formerly reported the river and harbor appropriation 
bill, but in 1883 the Committee on Rivers and Harbors was created for 
that role (IV, 4096), and since the 66th Congress such appropriations 
have been reported by the Committee on Appropriations.
  The committee has general jurisdiction over bills affecting domestic 
and foreign commerce, except such as may affect the revenue (IV, 4097). 
It also has jurisdiction over bills authorizing the construction of 
marine hospitals and the acquisition of sites therefor (IV, 4110; VII, 
1816), the general subjects of quarantine and the establishment of 
quarantine stations (IV, 4109), health, spread of leprosy and other 
contagious diseases, international congress of hygiene, etc. (IV, 4111). 
This committee formerly had jurisdiction over bills proposing 
construction of bridges across navigable streams, which now are banned 
under clause 4 of rule XII if private (see Sec. 822, infra; see also 
General Bridge Act, 33 U.S.C. 525).
  Before the 104th Congress the committee considered bills regulating 
railroads in their interstate commerce relations (IV, 414) and exercised 
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diction with the Committees on Education and Labor (now Education and 
the Workforce) and Public Works and Transportation (now Transportation 
and Infrastructure) over bills providing labor protections to workers in 
the transportation industry, including railroad employees (Feb. 24, 
1993, p. 3577). The committee considers bills relating to commercial 
travelers as agents of interstate commerce and the branding of articles 
going into such commerce (IV, 4115), the prevention of the carriage of 
indecent and harmful pictures or literature (IV, 4116), the adulteration 
and misbranding of foods and drugs (IV, 4112), and protection of game 
through prohibition of interstate transportation (IV, 4117). The 
committee has jurisdiction over bills imposing safety standards on motor 
vehicles purchased by the U.S. Government (Feb. 16, 1959, p. 2420), 
bills creating civil remedies for false advertising or other violations 
of commercial ethics (June 4, 1962, p. 9601), and bills to assist 
financing of the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska (June 7, 1972, p. 19935). 
The committee had jurisdiction over a bill to reauthorize the 
Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (ultimately 
repealed), which was focused on health matters rather than job training 
(June 1, 1981, p. 11028; Nov. 3, 1993, p. 27274). This committee and, in 
addition, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, have 
jurisdiction over the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of 
Rights Act of 1999 (which replaced the above-mentioned Act) as it 
contained a family support program within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce (Feb. 10, 2000, p. 1023). In 
the 94th Congress, the committee gained jurisdiction over bills amending 
the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act and bills dealing with 
nursing home construction as public health matters (June 10, 1975, p. 
18009).

  (g) Committee on Ethics.
      The Code of Official Conduct.

  In <> the 90th Congress the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct was established as a standing committee 
(H. Res. 418, Apr. 13, 1967, p. 9425). Its precursor was the Select 
Committee on Standards and Conduct, created in the 89th Congress (H. 
Res. 1013, Oct. 19, 1966, pp. 27713-30). At various times in its 
history, the legislative jurisdiction of the committee has included 
jurisdiction over measures relating to (1) financial disclosure by 
Members, officers, and employees of the House (H. Res. 1099, 90th Cong., 
Apr. 3, 1968, p. 8776); (2) the raising, reporting, and use of campaign 
contributions for candidates for the House (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 
8, 1974, p. 34470); and (3) lobbying activities (H. Res. 1031, 91st 
Cong., July 8, 1970, p. 23141). However, legislative jurisdiction over 
measures relating to financial disclosure was transferred to the 
Committee on Rules in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 
53-70); legislative jurisdiction over measures relating to campaign 
contributions for candidates for the House was transferred to House 
Administration, and legislative jurisdiction over measures relating to 
lobbying activities was removed from the committee (thereby devolv

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ing on the Committee on the Judiciary) in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including the 
deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation of general and special 
functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). In the 112th Congress it was 
redesignated as the Committee on Ethics (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 2011, p. 80).
  Three rules relating to the official conduct of Members outside the 
confines of rule XXIII, the ``Code of Official Conduct,'' are as 
follows: rule XXIV, limitations on use of official funds, rule XXV, 
limitations on outside earned income and acceptance of gifts, and rule 
XXVII, disclosure of employment negotiations.
  Under clause 5(a) of rule XIII, the committee is empowered to report 
as privileged resolutions recommending action by the House of 
Representatives with respect to the official conduct of an individual 
Member, officer, or employee of the House.
  In addition to its legislative jurisdiction, the committee has the 
general oversight responsibility set forth in clause 2(b) and the 
additional functions of conducting the investigations and making the 
reports and recommendations required by clause 5 of rule XIII or by 
resolution of the House (see, e.g., H. Res. 252, 95th Cong., Feb. 9, 
1977, pp. 3966-75, directing investigation of gifts from the Korean 
Government; H. Res. 1042, 94th Cong., Feb. 16, 1976, pp. 3158-61, 
directing investigation of unauthorized publication of report of Select 
Committee on Intelligence; and H. Res. 608, 96th Cong., Mar. 27, 1980, 
pp. 6995-98, relating to ``Abscam'').
  The committee has investigated roll call procedures in the House and 
recommended installation of a modernized voting system (June 19, 1969, 
p. 16629). In the 95th Congress the committee was authorized by section 
515 of Public Law 95-105 to act as the ``employing agency'' for the 
House of Representatives under the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, 
and the committee promulgated regulations under that statute concerning 
acceptance of foreign gifts and decorations by Members and employees 
(Jan. 23, 1978, p. 452). In the 96th Congress the committee was assigned 
as additional responsibilities the functions designated in title I of 
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521) relating to the 
administration of government ethics laws as they apply to Members, 
officers, and employees of the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 7). 
In the 102d Congress those responsibilities were enlarged to include the 
functions designated in title V of the Act and the specified sections of 
title 5, United States Code (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39).
  The committee has compiled statutory and rule-based ethical standards 
in the House Ethics Manual (110th Cong., 2d Sess.). In the Manual, the 
committee incorporates its advisory opinions issued under clause 3(a)(4) 
of rule XI, together with advisory opinions issued by the former Select 
Committee on Ethics, in its discussions of various ethical issues, 
including gifts, outside income, financial disclosure, staff rights and 
duties, official

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allowances and franking, casework considerations, campaign financing and 
practices, and involvement with official and unofficial organizations.
  In the 95th <> Congress, the House established a Select Committee on Ethics 
and granted it exclusive legislative jurisdiction over bills that 
incorporated into permanent law provisions of House rules addressing 
financial ethics of Members, officers, and employees (H. Res. 383, Mar. 
9, 1977, pp. 6811-16). The Select Committee was also granted 
jurisdiction to promulgate implementing regulations and to issue 
advisory opinions. The resolution creating the Select Committee provided 
that it would expire on December 31, 1977, but the committee and its 
functions ultimately were extended through the completion of its 
official business (H. Res. 871, Oct. 31, 1977, p. 35957).
  In the 105th Congress a new subparagraph (3) was added at the end of 
former clause 4(e) of rule X to establish a Select Committee on Ethics 
only to resolve an inquiry originally undertaken by the standing 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) in the 104th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The Select Committee filed 
one report to the House (H. Rept. 105-1, H. Res. 31, Jan. 21, 1997, p. 
393).
  For Office of Congressional Ethics, see Sec. 1125h, infra.

  (h) Committee on Financial Services.
      (1) Banks and banking, including deposit insurance and Federal 
monetary policy.
       <> (2) Economic 
stabilization, defense production, renegotiation, and control of the 
price of commodities, rents, and services.
      (3) Financial aid to commerce and industry (other than 
transportation).
      (4) Insurance generally.
      (5) International finance.
      (6) International financial and monetary organizations.
      (7) Money and credit, including currency and the issuance of notes 
and redemption thereof; gold and silver, including the coinage thereof; 
valuation and revaluation of the dollar.
      (8) Public and private housing.

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      (9) Securities and exchanges.
      (10) Urban development.

  This committee was established in 1865 as the Committee on Banking and 
Currency (IV, 4082). In the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, 
effective January 3, 1975, its name was changed to Banking, Currency and 
Housing (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 95th 
Congress its name was changed to Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). In the 104th Congress its name was 
changed to Banking and Financial Services (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 464). In the 107th Congress its name was changed to 
Financial Services (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  The committee was given much of its present jurisdiction in the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), by which it 
absorbed the jurisdiction of the former Committee on Coinage, Weights, 
and Measures (created in 1864) (IV, 4090), except jurisdiction over the 
standardization of weights and measures and the metric system was given 
to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and was later 
transferred to the Committee on Science and Astronautics (now Science, 
Space, and Technology) in the 85th Congress (H. Res. 580, July 21, 1958, 
p. 14513). In the 92d Congress jurisdiction over the impact on the 
economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts was transferred 
from the Subcommittee on Foundations of the Select Committee on Small 
Business, along with all that subcommittee's files, to this committee 
(H. Res. 320, Apr. 27, 1971, p. 12081). Before the end of the 93d 
Congress, the committee had legislative jurisdiction over the problems 
of small business under its general jurisdiction over financial aid to 
commerce and industry; but with the adoption of the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, that jurisdiction was 
transferred to the standing Committee on Small Business, the permanent 
Select Committee on Small Business was abolished, and this committee was 
specifically given jurisdiction over Federal monetary policy, money and 
credit, urban development, economic stabilization, defense production, 
and renegotiation (the latter matter formerly within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Ways and Means), international finance, and 
international financial and monetary organizations (formerly within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Affairs), while jurisdiction 
over the Commodity Credit Corporation was transferred to the Committee 
on Agriculture, jurisdiction over export controls and international 
economic policy to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, jurisdiction over 
construction of nursing home facilities to what is now the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, and jurisdiction over urban mass transportation to 
what is now the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 104th Congress 
subparagraphs (2) and (3) were added (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the

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107th Congress jurisdiction over securities and exchanges was 
transferred from the Committee on Energy and Commerce to this committee 
(sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). As a result of the new 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Financial Services over securities and 
exchanges, its former jurisdiction over matters relating to bank capital 
markets activities and depository institutions securities activities 
were deleted as redundant (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). 
In the 107th Congress this committee also received jurisdiction over 
insurance generally (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). The 
Speaker inserted in the Congressional Record a memorandum of 
understanding between this committee and the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce to clarify these jurisdictional changes (Jan. 30, 2001, p. 
995), the final two paragraphs of which no longer provide jurisdictional 
guidance (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71). A technical change to subparagraph (6) 
was effected in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, 
p. 7).
  The committee has reported on subjects relating to the strengthening 
of public credit, issues of notes, and State taxation and redemption 
thereof (IV, 4084), propositions to maintain the parity of the money of 
the United States (IV, 4089; VII, 1792), the issue of silver 
certificates as currency (IV, 4087, 4088), national banks and current 
deposits of public money (IV, 4083; VII, 1790), the incorporation of an 
international bank (IV, 4086), subjects relating to the Freedman's Bank 
(IV, 4085), and Federal Reserve System, Farm Loan Act, home loan bills, 
stabilization of the dollar, War Finance Corporation, Federal Reserve 
bank buildings (VII, 1793, 1795). The committee has jurisdiction over 
bills providing consolidation of grant-in-aid programs for urban 
development (Mar. 18, 1970, p. 7887), bills providing for U.S. 
participation in the International Development Association (Mar. 9, 
1960, p. 5046), bills to authorize GSA to acquire land in D.C. for 
transfer to the International Monetary Fund (May 1, 1962, p. 7428), 
bills relating to flood insurance (Dec. 4, 1975, p. 38701), and over an 
executive communication proposing regulations for college housing 
programs (notwithstanding that the requirement for such regulations was 
contained in higher education legislation reported from the Committee on 
Education and Labor) (June 15, 1982, p. 13638).

  (i) Committee on Foreign Affairs.
      (1) <> Relations of the United 
States with foreign nations generally.
      (2) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and legations 
in foreign countries.
      (3) Establishment of boundary lines between the United States and 
foreign nations.

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      (4) Export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear 
technology and nuclear hardware.
      (5) Foreign loans.
      (6) International commodity agreements (other than those involving 
sugar), including all agreements for cooperation in the export of 
nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.
      (7) International conferences and congresses.
      (8) International education.
      (9) Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
      (10) Diplomatic service.
      (11) Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign 
nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad.
      (12) International economic policy.
      (13) Neutrality.
      (14) Protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation.
      (15) The American National Red Cross.
      (16) Trading with the enemy.
      (17) United Nations organizations.

  This committee was established in 1822 (IV, 4162), and from 1885 to 
1920 had authority to report appropriations. In the 94th Congress the 
name of the committee was changed from Foreign Affairs to International 
Relations (H. Res. 163, Mar. 19, 1975, p. 7343). In the 96th Congress it 
was changed back to Foreign Affairs (H. Res. 89, Feb. 5, 1979, p. 1848). 
In the 104th Congress the name was again changed to International 
Relations (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). In the 110th 
Congress it was changed back to Foreign Affairs (sec. 213(a), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).
  In addition to the jurisdiction vested in the committee by the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, gave the committee 
jurisdiction

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over measures relating to: international economic policy (subpara. (12)) 
and export controls (subpara. (4)), matters formerly within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Banking and Currency (now Financial 
Services); international commodity agreements other than those relating 
to sugar (subpara. (6)), formerly within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Agriculture; trading with the enemy (subpara. (16)), 
formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Interstate and 
Foreign Commerce (now Energy and Commerce); and international education 
(subpara. (8)); while transferring jurisdiction over international 
financial and monetary organizations to the Committee on Banking and 
Currency (now Financial Services), and jurisdiction over international 
fishing agreements to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 
(now Natural Resources) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). When the legislative jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on 
Atomic Energy in the House was abolished in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), the committee was given jurisdiction over 
nonproliferation of nuclear technology and hardware (subpara. (4)), and 
over international agreements on nuclear exports (subpara. (6)). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of a redundant 
undesignated recitation of general and special oversight functions (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The committee has broad jurisdiction over foreign relations, including 
boundary lines between the United States and foreign nations, bridges 
and dams on international waters (IV, 4166; see also the ``General 
Bridge Act,'' 33 U.S.C. 525, 533), the protection of American citizens 
abroad and expatriation (IV, 4169; VII, 1883), extradition with foreign 
nations, international arbitration, relating to violations of neutrality 
(IV, 4178a), international conferences and congresses (IV, 4177; VII, 
1884), the incorporation of the American National Red Cross and 
protection of its insignia (IV, 4173), intervention abroad and 
declarations of war (IV, 4164; VII 1880), affairs of the consular 
service, including acquisition of land and buildings for legations in 
foreign capitals (IV, 4163; VII, 1879), creation of courts of the United 
States in foreign countries (IV, 4167), treaty regulations as to 
protection of fur seals (IV, 4170), matters relating to the Philippines 
(see 60 Stat. 315), and measures establishing a District of Columbia 
corporation to support private American organizations engaged in 
communications with foreign nations (June 21, 1971, p. 21062).
  The committee also has considered measures for fostering commercial 
intercourse with foreign nations and for safeguarding American business 
interests abroad (IV, 4175), and even the subjects of commercial 
treaties and reciprocal arrangements (IV, 4174), although in later 
practice the Committee on Ways and Means has considered such matters 
(IV, 4021). The committee has exercised general but not exclusive 
jurisdiction over legislation relating to claims affecting international 
relations (IV, 4168; VII, 1882). Pursuant to its jurisdiction over 
international education, the committee (and not the Committee on 
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cised jurisdiction over bills establishing scholarship programs for 
foreign students (May 10, 1988, p. 10305). The committee has 
jurisdiction over a communication from the President notifying the 
House, consistent with the War Powers Resolution, of the deployment 
abroad of U.S. armed forces to participate in an embargo against another 
nation (Nov. 4, 1993, p. 27393).
  The special oversight function of the committee set forth in clause 
3(f) of rule X (current clause 3(g) of rule X) was made effective 
January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

  (j) Committee on Homeland Security.
      (1) Overall homeland <> security policy.
      (2) Organization, administration, and general management of the 
Department of Homeland Security.
      (3) Functions of the Department of Homeland Security relating to 
the following:
          (A) Border and port security (except immigration policy and 
non-border enforcement).
          (B) Customs (except customs revenue).
          (C) Integration, analysis, and dissemination of homeland 
security information.
          (D) Domestic preparedness for and collective response to 
terrorism.
          (E) Research and development.
          (F) Transportation security.

  This committee was established in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(a), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). Subparagraph (2) was amended in the 113th 
Congress to include general management of the department (sec. 2(c), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). For debate (and material submitted during 
debate) that may edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues 
surrounding the new committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60-62. The 
Speaker announced that the referral of measures in the 108th Congress to 
the Select Committee on Homeland Security would not constitute precedent 
for referral to this committee (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).

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  In the <> 107th Congress the House established a Select Committee on 
Homeland Security (H. Res. 449, June 19, 2002, p. 10722). Its mission 
was to develop recommendations on such matters that relate to the 
establishment of a department of homeland security as may be referred to 
it by the Speaker and on recommendations submitted to it by standing 
committees to which the Speaker referred a bill establishing the 
department and to report its recommendation to the House on such bill. 
It was terminated after final disposition of the specified bill (Nov. 
25, 2002, p. 23433). In the 108th Congress the House reestablished a 
Select Committee on Homeland Security (sec. 4, H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, 
p. 11). Its mission was to develop recommendations on such matters that 
relate to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296) as may be 
referred to it by the Speaker; to conduct oversight of laws, programs, 
and Government activities relating to homeland security; to conduct a 
study of the operation and implementation of the Rules of the House, 
including rule X, with respect to homeland security; and to report its 
recommendations to the House by bill or otherwise on matters referred to 
it by the Speaker and to report its recommendations on changes to House 
rules to the Committee on Rules.

  (k) Committee on House Administration.
      (1) <> Appropriations from 
accounts for committee salaries and expenses (except for the Committee 
on Appropriations); House Information Resources; and allowance and 
expenses of Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and 
administrative offices of the House.
      (2) Auditing and settling of all accounts described in 
subparagraph (1).
      (3) Employment of persons by the House, including staff for 
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and committees; and 
reporters of debates, subject to rule VI.
      (4) Except as provided in paragraph (r)(11), the Library of 
Congress, including management thereof; the House Library; statuary and 
pictures; acceptance or purchase of works of

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art for the Capitol; the Botanic Garden; and purchase of books and 
manuscripts.
      (5) The Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of similar 
institutions (except as provided in paragraph (r)(11)).
      (6) Expenditure of accounts described in subparagraph (1).
      (7) Franking Commission.
      (8) Printing and correction of the Congressional Record.
      (9) Accounts of the House generally.
      (10) Assignment of office space for Members, Delegates, the 
Resident Commissioner, and committees.
      (11) Disposition of useless executive papers.
      (12) Election of the President, Vice President, Members, Senators, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner; corrupt practices; contested 
elections; credentials and qualifications; and Federal elections 
generally.
      (13) Services to the House, including the House Restaurant, 
parking facilities, and administration of the House Office Buildings and 
of the House wing of the Capitol.
      (14) Travel of Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.
      (15) Raising, reporting, and use of campaign contributions for 
candidates for office of Representative, of Delegate, and of Resident 
Commissioner.
      (16) Compensation, retirement, and other benefits of the Members, 
Delegates, the Resi

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dent Commissioner, officers, and employees of Congress.

  This committee was created as the Committee on House Administration on 
January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 
(60 Stat. 812), combining the Committees on Accounts (created in 1803) 
(IV, 4328), Enrolled Bills (created in 1789) (IV, 4350), Disposition of 
Executive Papers (created in 1889) (IV, 4419), Printing (created in 
1846), Elections (created in 1794 and divided into three committees in 
1895) (IV, 4019), Election of President, Vice President, and 
Representatives in Congress (created in 1893) (IV, 4299), and Memorials 
(created January 3, 1929, VII, 2080).
  The committee was redesignated as the Committee on House Oversight in 
the 104th Congress, obtaining from the former Committee on Post Office 
and Civil Service jurisdiction over the Franking Commission (also known 
as the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) in 
subparagraph (7), while transferring to the Committee on Resources (now 
Natural Resources) jurisdiction over erection of monuments to the memory 
of individuals (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). 
References in subparagraphs (1) and (2) to the ``contingent fund'' were 
eliminated without changing the committee's jurisdiction over the 
accounts that the fund comprised. In the 105th Congress subparagraph (1) 
was amended to effect a technical correction (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, 
p. 121). In the 106th Congress the committee was redesignated House 
Administration, and the House recodified its rules to effect clerical 
and stylistic changes, including the deletion of a redundant 
undesignated recitation of general and special oversight functions (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). In the 107th Congress the committee's 
responsibilities with respect to enrolled bills (which were set forth in 
former clause 4(d)(1)(A) of rule X) were transferred to the Clerk (see 
clause 2(d)(2) of rule II) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  The committee has jurisdiction over measures relating to the election 
of the President, Vice President, or Members of Congress; corrupt 
practices; contested elections; credentials and qualifications; Federal 
elections generally; and the electoral count, which formerly was within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee on Election of the President, Vice 
President, and Representatives in Congress (IV, 4303).
  The committee's former responsibility to report on Members' travel was 
supplanted by the function of providing policy direction to and 
oversight of the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, 
and Inspector General (sec. 10, H. Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040; sec. 
201(e), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463; see rule II and Sec. 752, 
infra). In the 107th Congress the committee retained the responsibility 
to provide policy direction to and oversight of the Inspector General 
but retained only oversight of the remaining officers (sec. 2(g), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25) until the 114th Congress restored its 
function of providing policy direction to

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the Chief Administrative Officer (sec. 2(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, 
p. _; see Sec. 754, infra).

  The <> committee has jurisdiction 
over measures relating to the House Restaurant (2 U.S.C. 2041), which 
was first under the jurisdiction of the former Committee on Accounts, 
then under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol (H. Res. 590, 
76th Cong., Sept. 5, 1940, p. 11552, as made permanent law by P.L. 76-
812), and then the Select Committee on the House Restaurant (H. Res. 
472, 91st Cong., July 10, 1969, p. 19080; H. Res. 111, 93d Cong., Feb. 
7, 1973, p. 3680), which was not reestablished after the 93d Congress.
  By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, 
the committee obtained jurisdiction over parking facilities of the 
House, a matter formerly assigned to a select committee (subpara. (13)) 
(H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 94th Congress 
the committee was given jurisdiction over campaign contributions to 
candidates for the House, a matter formerly within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) (subpara. 
(15)), and over compensation, retirement, and other benefits of Members, 
officers, and employees of Congress (subpara. (16)) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 
1975, p. 20).
  The committee has jurisdiction over resolutions authorizing committees 
to employ additional professional and clerical personnel (Feb. 7, 1966, 
p. 2373). The committee has supervisory authority over the House barber 
shops, beauty shops, and House Information Resources.

  Under <> the Reorganization Act the 
committee has jurisdiction over some of the subjects formerly within the 
jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on the Library, such as matters 
relating to the Library of Congress and the House Library, statuary and 
pictures, acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol, the 
Botanic Gardens, management of the Library of Congress, purchase of 
books and manuscripts, matters relating to the Smithsonian Institution, 
and the incorporation of similar institutions. Excepted are measures 
relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of 
the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of 
Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution, which fall under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation (now Transportation and 
Infrastructure). The House Members of the Joint Committee on the 
Library, provided for by law (2 U.S.C. 132b), are elected by resolution 
each Congress.

  The <> committee has 
jurisdiction over matters relating to printing and correction of the 
Congressional Record, formerly within the jurisdiction of the erstwhile 
Committee on Printing. The House Members of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, provided for by law (44 U.S.C. 101), are elected by resolution 
each Congress.


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  (l) Committee on the Judiciary.
      (1) <> The judiciary and judicial 
proceedings, civil and criminal.
      (2) Administrative practice and procedure.
      (3) Apportionment of Representatives.
      (4) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
      (5) Civil liberties.
      (6) Constitutional amendments.
      (7) Criminal law enforcement and criminalization.
      (8) Federal courts and judges, and local courts in the Territories 
and possessions.
      (9) Immigration policy and non-border enforcement.
      (10) Interstate compacts generally.
      (11) Claims against the United States.
      (12) Meetings of Congress; attendance of Members, Delegates, and 
the Resident Commissioner; and their acceptance of incompatible offices.
      (13) National penitentiaries.
      (14) Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, and 
trademarks.
      (15) Presidential succession.
      (16) Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints 
and monopolies.
      (17) Revision and codification of the Statutes of the United 
States.
      (18) State and territorial boundary lines.
      (19) <> Subversive activities 
affecting the in-
ternal security of the United States.


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  This committee dates from 1813 (IV, 4054). The essential jurisdiction 
defined in the rule was made effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and combined the 
Committees on Revision of Laws (created 1868, IV, 4293), Patents 
(created in 1837) (IV, 4254), Immigration and Naturalization (created in 
1893) (IV, 4309), Claims (created in 1794) (IV, 4262), and War Claims 
(created in 1883) (IV, 4269). By the Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, effective January 3, 1975, the committee's jurisdiction over 
holidays and celebrations was transferred to the former Committee on 
Post Office and Civil Service (now Oversight and Government Reform) (H. 
Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 94th Congress the 
Committee on Internal Security was abolished and jurisdiction over 
communist and other subversive activities affecting the internal 
security of the United States was transferred to this committee 
(subpara. (18), now (19)) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), though an 
accompanying provision for the transfer of records and staff of the 
Internal Security Committee to this committee was deleted as obsolete in 
the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), and the specific 
reference to communism was deleted as unnecessary in the 104th Congress 
(sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). The 104th Congress also 
inserted ``the judiciary'' in subparagraph (1); added subparagraph (2) 
for clarification; combined former subparagraphs (6) and (9) in a new 
subparagraph (7) (now (8)); and combined former subparagraphs (13) and 
(14) in a new subparagraph (13) (now (14)) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including an update of 
a reference to the Patent and Trademark Office (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). In the 109th Congress the House established the Committee on 
Homeland Security with jurisdiction over certain functions of the 
Department of Homeland Security that resulted in a conforming change to 
subparagraph (9) (sec. 2(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). For 
debate (and material submitted during debate) that may edify the reader 
on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the creation of the Committee 
on Homeland Security, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60-62. In the 109th 
Congress the House added subparagraph (7) (sec. 2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 2005, p. 42) and expanded it to include ``criminalization'' in the 
114th Congress (sec. 2(a)(2)(A), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  Under subparagraph (15) the committee has jurisdiction over 
Presidential nominations to fill vacancies in the Office of Vice 
President, submitted pursuant to the 25th amendment to the Constitution 
(Oct. 13, 1973, p. 34032; Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29366). The committee has 
reported Articles of Impeachment of the President (Aug. 20, 1974, pp. 
29219-81; Dec. 17, 1998, p. 27819). If the House has voted to impeach, 
members of the committee have been appointed as managers on the part of 
the House in presenting the charges to the Senate for trial (H. Res. 
501, 99th Cong., July 22, 1986, p. 17306; H. Res. 511, 100th Cong., Aug. 
3, 1988, p. 20223; H.

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Res. 12, 101st Cong., Jan. 3, 1989, p. 84; Dec. 19, 1998, p. 28112; Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 15).
  The committee considers charges against judges of the Federal courts 
(IV, 4062), legislative propositions relating to the service of the 
Department of Justice (IV, 4067), bills relating to local courts in the 
District of Columbia, Alaska, and the territories (IV, 4068), the 
establishment of a court of patent appeals (IV, 4075), relations of 
labor to courts and corporations (IV, 4072), crimes, penalties, 
extradition (IV, 4069; VII, 1747), construction and management of 
national penitentiaries (IV, 4070), matters relating to trusts (VII, 
1764), claims of States against the United States (IV, 4080), general 
legislation relating to international and other claims (IV, 4078, 4079, 
4081), including measures extending the terms of members of the Foreign 
Claims Settlement Commission (Nov. 14, 1991, p. 32130), bills relating 
to the flag (IV, 4055), bankruptcy (IV, 4065), removal of political 
disabilities (IV, 4058), prohibition of traffic in intoxicating liquors 
(IV, 4061; VII, 1773), mutiny and willful destruction of vessels (IV, 
4145), counterfeiting (IV, 4071; VII, 1753), settlement of State and 
territorial boundary lines (VII, 1768), meeting of Congress and 
attendance of Members and their acceptance of incompatible offices (IV, 
4077).
  The committee also has jurisdiction over joint resolutions proposing 
amendments to the Constitution (IV, 4056; VII, 1779). Although the 
committee has historically exercised jurisdiction over lobbying 
activities, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) 
was assigned such jurisdiction during a brief period (H. Res. 1031, 91st 
Cong., July 8, 1970, p. 23141; H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., Jan. 14, 1975, p. 
20).
  The committee also has jurisdiction over bills regulating the 
authority of States to impose taxes on interstate commerce (June 18, 
1959, p. 11317), imposing conflict of interest standards and civil and 
criminal penalties relating thereto on government employees (Feb. 25, 
1960, p. 3484), establishing an academy of criminal justice (Apr. 5, 
1965, p. 6822), eliminating racketeering in the interstate sale of 
cigarettes (Feb. 9, 1972, p. 3429), providing worker's compensation for 
non-Federal firefighters killed during civil disorder (May 6, 1968, p. 
11798) or to non-Federal policemen and firemen (Dec. 12, 1975, p. 
40204), authorizing the Attorney General to consent to a modification of 
a certain trust on behalf of the Library of Congress (Aug. 17, 1959, p. 
16051), amending an omnibus pension act to increase the amount of 
pension granted a certain class of persons (Feb. 15, 1960, p. 2523), and 
imposing criminal sanctions under the Controlled Substances Act (Nov. 
14, 1983, p. 32457). The committee has sole jurisdiction over the Legal 
Services Corporation (Nov. 19, 1975, p. 37288). The committee has 
exercised jurisdiction, with the Committee on Education and Labor (now 
Education and the Workforce), over bills to amend the Walsh-Healey Act 
regarding hours of work under government contracts (May 15, 1985, p. 
11946). This committee, and not the Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure), exercised 
jurisdiction over a bill extending the authority for the Marshal of

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the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Police to protect the Chief 
Justice, Associate Justices, officers, and employees of the Supreme 
Court beyond its building and grounds (Nov. 22, 1993, p. 32074). The 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and not this committee, 
has jurisdiction over pay adjustments for administrative law judges 
(July 31, 1991, p. 20677; June 10, 1999, p. 12435). The Committee on 
Natural Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill 
to designate an immigration museum within a facility of the National 
Park Service (July 8, 2004, p. 5348).
  The committee has the general oversight responsibility set forth in 
clause 2(b).

  (m) Committee on Natural Resources.
      (1) <> Fisheries and wildlife, 
including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation.
      (2) Forest reserves and national parks created from the public 
domain.
      (3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien 
ownership of mineral lands.
      (4) Geological Survey.
      (5) International fishing agreements.
      (6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for 
irrigation purposes.
      (7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for 
reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation 
projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete 
irrigation projects.
      (8) Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment 
of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to 
claims that are paid out of Native American funds.

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      (9) Insular areas of the United States generally (except those 
affecting the revenue and appropriations).
      (10) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District 
of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.
      (11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
      (12) Mineral resources of public lands.
      (13) Mining interests generally.
      (14) Mining schools and experimental stations.
      (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for 
measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters).
      (16) Oceanography.
      (17) Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of 
the radium supply in the United States.
      (18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on 
the public domain.
      (19) Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and 
grazing thereon.
      (20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans and 
Native American tribes.
      (21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).

  The Committee on Public Lands was created in 1805 (IV, 4194). Its name 
has since been changed to Interior and Insular Affairs (Feb. 2, 1951, p. 
883); to Natural Resources (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49); to 
Resources (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464); and back to 
Natural Resources (sec. 214(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).

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  The core of the jurisdiction reflected in this paragraph was assigned 
to the committee effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), which consolidated in this 
committee the jurisdictions of the former Committees on Mines and Mining 
(created in 1865) (IV, 4223), Insular Affairs (created in 1899) (IV, 
4213), Irrigation and Reclamation (created in 1893) (IV, 4307), Indian 
Affairs (created in 1821) (IV, 4204), and Territories (created in 1825) 
(IV, 4208), though vesting the subject of welfare of miners, formerly 
under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Mines and Mining, in the 
Committee on Education and Labor (now Education and the Workforce). 
Until the Reorganization Act, military parks, battlefields, and national 
cemeteries were under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Military 
Affairs. Jurisdiction over cemeteries of the United States in which 
veterans may be buried, except those administered by the Secretary of 
the Interior, was transferred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 
the 90th Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct. 20, 1967).
  In the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, 
the committee gained jurisdiction over parks within the District of 
Columbia, formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Public 
Works and Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure) 
(subpara. (10)), and lost specific jurisdiction over Indian education 
and over Hawaii and Alaska, generally (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470). By that same resolution, the committee was given 
special oversight functions in clause 3.
  The 104th Congress expanded the jurisdiction of the committee by: 
adding subparagraphs (1), (5), (15), and (16) to reflect the transfer of 
those matters from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and 
Fisheries; inserting the subject of monuments in memory of individuals 
in subparagraph (10) to reflect the transfer of that matter from the 
Committee on House Administration; adding subparagraph (21), an 
exceptional treatment of pipeline jurisdiction otherwise vested in the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and deleting the subject 
of regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry to reflect the 
transfer of that jurisdiction, which this committee had acquired when 
the 95th Congress abolished the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) and which it shared with the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, to the Committee on Energy and Commerce (sec. 
202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). At the same time, the 
statements of special oversight functions formerly found in this 
paragraph and in former paragraph (e) of this clause were adjusted to 
reflect the transfer of nonmilitary nuclear energy and research and 
development, including disposal of nuclear waste, from this committee to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, though conforming changes in 
former paragraphs (e) and (h) of clause 3 were inadvertently omitted. 
The 113th Congress amended subparagraph (9) by changing ``insular 
possessions'' to ``insular areas'' (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013,

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p. _). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The committee reports on subjects relating to the mineral resources of 
the public lands (IV, 4202), forfeiture of land grants and alien 
ownership (IV, 4201), validation of certain conveyances of erstwhile 
public lands by a railway company (July 11, 1995, p. 18397), public 
lands of Alaska (IV, 4196), forest reserves created out of the public 
domain (IV, 4197, 4199), including measures relating to criminal 
trespass provisions applying only within national forests created from 
the public domain (July 18, 1977, p. 23434); admission of States (IV, 
4208); preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the 
public domain (IV, 4199); and various classes of land claims (IV, 4203). 
The committee also has jurisdiction over the following bills: to dispose 
of proceeds from oil shale on public lands (other than naval oil shale 
reserves) (Aug. 3, 1967, p. 21179); to exclude certain lands in the 
Outer Continental Shelf from mineral leasing provisions of the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (May 16, 1963, p. 8777); to reinstate a U.S. 
oil and gas lease (Aug. 5, 1959, p. 15190); to address U.S. claims to 
lands along the Colorado River forming State boundaries (June 28, 1967, 
p. 17738); to designate national forest lands created from the public 
domain as wilderness (May 6, 1969, p. 11459); to include additional 
units in the Missouri River Basin project (Sept. 8, 1959, p. 18587); to 
establish a commission on development of Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. as 
a national historic site (Oct. 21, 1965, p. 27803); to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility investigation of 
potential water resource development (May 1, 1975, p. 12764); to 
establish a commission to consider the creation of a (Hudson) River 
compact (July 21, 1975, p. 23653); to name a building constructed as 
part of a Federal recreation area (June 8, 1988, p. 13803); to address 
the siting on Federal park land of an established national memorial 
(Sept. 24, 1991, p. 23731); (with the Committee on Agriculture) to 
exchange a Federal tree nursery for certain State mining patents 
touching a public domain (western) forest (Sept. 17, 1991, p. 23193); 
and to transfer interest in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration fisheries research laboratory (Oct. 1, 2002, p. 18796). 
The Committee on National Security (now Armed Services), and not this 
committee, has jurisdiction over the transfer of military property to a 
State to be designated by the State as a wilderness area (Nov. 15, 1995, 
p. 32627). The Committee on Agriculture, and not this committee, has 
jurisdiction over the designation of an agricultural research center 
(May 14, 1996, p. 11070). The Committee on Education and the Workforce, 
and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill amending the Native 
American Programs Act of 1974 (an Indian education matter) (Oct. 30, 
1997, p. 23967). This committee, and not the Committee on Agriculture, 
has jurisdiction over a bill to convey land that is part of a National 
Forest created from the public domain (Mar. 23, 2004, p. 4926). This 
committee, and not the Committee on the Judiciary, has jurisdiction over 
a bill to designate an immigration museum within a facility of the 
National Park Service (July 8, 2004, p.

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14755). This committee, and not the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, has jurisdiction over a bill addressing a federal water 
project operated by the Bureau of Reclamation (June 25, 2007, p. 17128).
  The authority of the committee to report as privileged bills for the 
forfeiture of land grants to railroad and other corporations, preventing 
speculation in the public lands, for the preservation of the public 
lands for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers, and for the 
admission of new States was eliminated in the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

  (n) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
      (1) <> Federal 
civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of 
officers and employees of the United States, including their 
compensation, classification, and retirement.
      (2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general 
(other than appropriations).
      (3) Federal paperwork reduction.
      (4) Government management and accounting measures generally.
      (5) Holidays and celebrations.
      (6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government 
operations and activities, including Federal procurement.
      (7) National archives.
      (8) Population and demography generally, including the Census.
      (9) Postal service generally, including transportation of the 
mails.
      (10) Public information and records.
      (11) Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and 
municipalities generally.
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  In the 82d Congress the name of this committee was changed from 
Expenditures in the Executive Departments to Government Operations (July 
3, 1952, p. 9217). In the 104th Congress it was changed to Government 
Reform and Oversight (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), in 
the 106th Congress to Government Reform (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47), and in the 110th Congress to Oversight and Government Reform (sec. 
215(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). The former Committee on 
Expenditures in the Executive Departments was established December 5, 
1927 (VII, 2041), and took the place of 11 separate committees on 
expenditures in the several executive departments. The first of these 
committees was established in 1816, and others were added as new 
departments were created (IV, 4315). They reported bills relating to the 
efficiency and integrity of the public service (IV, 4320) and creation 
and abolition of offices (IV, 4318).
  In addition to the jurisdiction vested in the committee by the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, assigned the 
committee jurisdiction over measures relating to the overall economy and 
efficiency of Government operations and activities, including Federal 
procurement, intergovernmental relationships, and general revenue 
sharing (the latter from the Committee on Ways and Means was stricken 
from the jurisdictional statement of this committee in the 104th 
Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464)), and the 
National Archives (from the former Committee on Post Office and Civil 
Service) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 104th 
Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), the committee 
assumed the jurisdictions of the former Committee on the District of 
Columbia (subpara. (2)) and the former Committee on Post Office and 
Civil Service except that relating to the Franking Commission (subparas. 
(1), (5), (8), and (9)); and subparagraphs (3) and (10) were added to 
clarify existing jurisdiction. At the same time the committee's 
jurisdiction over measures relating to off-budget treatment of agencies 
or programs, which had been added by the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177), was transferred to the 
Committee on the Budget. Three rereferrals from this committee to the 
Committee on the Budget marked this migration of off-budget treatment 
jurisdiction: (1) the Committee on the Budget has primary jurisdiction 
over a bill excluding from the budget the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund (although this committee retains programmatic 
jurisdiction over that Fund); (2) the Committee on the Budget has 
primary jurisdiction over a bill excluding from the budget the Highway 
Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways 
Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (although the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure retains programmatic 
jurisdiction); and (3) the Committee on the Budget has secondary 
jurisdiction over a bill amending title 49 of the United States Code and 
providing off-budget treatment for the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways

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Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (Dec. 6, 1995, p. 
35572). The committee was also released from jurisdiction over measures 
relating to exemptions from executive orders sequestering budget 
authority, which had been added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 
(tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508). In the 105th Congress any residual 
jurisdiction over budget process was transferred to the Committee on the 
Budget (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The 104th Congress assigned 
the committee its responsibilities to coordinate committee oversight 
plans under clause 2(d) (sec. 203(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). 
In the 104th Congress the committee was also given the responsibility to 
consider and report recommendations concerning alternatives to 
commemorative legislation, although no such report was made to the House 
(sec. 216(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Clerical and stylistic 
changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation 
of general and special oversight functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The committee has exercised jurisdiction over bills: waiving 
Reorganization Plans to establish the Rural Electrification 
Administration as an independent agency and transferring certain 
functions thereto (Mar. 19, 1959, p. 4692); establishing a Commission on 
Population Growth (Sept. 23, 1969, p. 26568); establishing a Cabinet 
Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking Americans (Nov. 24, 
1969, p. 35509); providing payment of travel costs for Federal 
employment applicants (Feb. 15, 1967, p. 3466); and a bill to rename an 
existing post office building (Aug. 4, 1995, p. 22085; Oct. 1, 1998, p. 
22933), even if the post office building also houses a courthouse (Sept. 
14, 2000, p. 18054). The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a measure redesignating a 
general-purpose Federal building as a post office (Apr. 24, 1997, p. 
22085). The committee has exercised jurisdiction over countercyclical 
programs of revenue-sharing grants to State and local governments, such 
as that contained in Title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 
(Feb. 1, 1977, p. 3057). The committee shares jurisdiction over a bill 
to facilitate the reorganization of an agency by instituting a 
separation pay program to encourage eligible employees to voluntarily 
resign or retire (Aug. 2, 1993, p. 18161). The committee has 
jurisdiction over a bill explicitly waiving the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act and directing the Administrator of General 
Services to convey excess real property (Oct. 2, 1998, p. 23186). This 
committee, and not the Committee on the Judiciary, has jurisdiction over 
a bill authorizing a pay adjustment for administrative law judges (July 
31, 1991, p. 20677; June 10, 1999, p. 12435).
  The specific subpoena authority conferred upon the committee in the 
standing rules on February 10, 1947 (p. 942) was superseded by the 
general conferral of subpoena authority on all committees in clause 2(m) 
of rule XI. The committee may authorize the taking of depositions 
pursuant to subpoena (clause 4(c)(3) of rule X). By the Committee Reform 
Amendments

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of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, the committee was given the general 
function under clause 4(c)(1) of examining and reporting upon reports of 
the Comptroller General, evaluating laws reorganizing the legislative 
and executive branches, and studying intergovernmental relationships 
domestically and with international organizations to which the United 
States belongs (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Under 
section 2954 of title 5, United States Code, an executive agency, if so 
requested by this committee or any seven members thereof, shall submit 
any information requested of it relating to any matter within the 
jurisdiction of the committee.

  (o) Committee on Rules.
      (1) <> Rules and joint rules (other than 
those relating to the Code of Official Conduct) and the order of 
business of the House.
      (2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.

  This committee, which had existed as a select committee from 1789, 
became a standing committee in 1880 (IV, 4321; VII, 2047). The 
jurisdiction defined in this paragraph became effective January 2, 1947, 
as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of a redundant 
undesignated paragraph permitting the committee to sit during sessions 
of the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). That undesignated 
paragraph, originally designated as subparagraph (3) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1993, p. 49), was derived from section 134(c) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946, even though the committee had authority to 
sit during sessions of the House since 1893 (IV, 4546). Effective 
January 3, 1975, however, the authority for all committees to sit and 
act whether the House is in session or has adjourned rendered this 
provision obsolete (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).
  The Speaker was first made a member of the committee in 1858 (IV, 
4321), and ceased to be a member on March 19, 1910 (VII, 2047). However, 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 deleted from the former rule 
the prohibition against the Speaker serving on the committee. The size 
of the committee was increased from 12 to 15 members for the 87th 
Congress (Jan. 31, 1961, p. 1589), and the increase in the committee's 
size was incorporated as a part of the rules in the 88th Congress (Jan. 
9, 1963, p. 14). Effective January 3, 1975, however, the rules were 
amended to eliminate prescriptions of committee sizes (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and in the 94th through the 98th 
Congresses 16 Members were named to the committee on nominations from 
the respective

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party caucuses (see, e.g., H. Res. 76, Jan. 20, 1975, p. 803; H. Res. 
101, Jan. 28, 1975, p. 1611), and in the 99th through 101st Congresses, 
13 Members were so named to the committee (see, e.g., H. Res. 34, 35, 
Jan. 30, 1985, pp. 1271, 1273).
  The subject of recesses and adjournments was formerly under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means. In section 402(b) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344, July 12, 1974), the 
committee was given specific authority to report emergency waivers of 
the required reporting date for bills and resolutions authorizing new 
budget authority. That authority was incorporated into this rule, 
effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470), but was repealed as obsolete in the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). Jurisdiction over rules relating to official 
conduct and financial disclosure was transferred to the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) on April 3, 1968 (H. Res. 
1099, 90th Cong.), but in the 95th Congress, jurisdiction over rules 
relating to financial disclosure by Members, officers, and employees of 
the House was returned to this committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 
53-70).
  The jurisdiction of this committee is primarily over propositions to 
make or change the rules (V, 6770, 6776; VII, 2047), to create 
committees (IV, 4322; VII, 2048), and to direct them to make 
investigations (IV, 4322-4324; VII, 2048). Effective January 3, 1975, 
however, the authority for all committees to conduct investigations and 
studies was made a part of the standing rules (clause 1(b) of rule XI), 
as was the authority to issue subpoenas (clause 2(m) of rule XI) (H. 
Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The committee also reports 
resolutions relating to the hour of daily meeting and the days on which 
the House shall sit (IV, 4325), and orders relating to the use of the 
galleries during the electoral count (IV, 4327). The chair of the 
Committee on the Budget inserted in the Congressional Record a 
memorandum of understanding between this committee and the Committee on 
the Budget to clarify each committee's jurisdiction over the 
congressional budget process (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 617). The Committee on 
the Budget has primary jurisdiction, and this committee has additional 
jurisdiction, over a bill amending the Budget Act to establish new 
legislative points of order and directing that the President include a 
specified matter in the budget (Feb. 13, 2001, p. 1817).

  Since <> 1883 the 
Committee on Rules has reported special orders providing times and 
methods for consideration of individual measures or classes of measures, 
thereby enabling the House by majority vote to forward particular 
legislation, instead of being forced to use for this purpose the motion 
to suspend the rules, which requires a two-thirds vote (IV, 3152; V, 
6870; for forms of, IV, 3238-3263).
  Special orders may still be made by suspension of the rules (IV, 3154) 
or by unanimous consent (IV, 3165, 3166; VII, 758); but it is not in 
order to provide that a subject be made a special order by way of a 
motion to

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postpone to a day certain (IV, 3164). Before the adoption of rules, and 
consequently before there is a rule as to the order of business, the 
Speaker may recognize a Member to offer for immediate consideration a 
special order providing for the consideration in the House of a 
subsequent resolution to adopt rules for the new Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 447; H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 7). A special order 
reported by the Committee on Rules must be agreed to by a majority vote 
of the House (IV, 3169).
  It is not in order to move to postpone a special order providing for 
the consideration of a class of bills (V, 4958), but a bill that comes 
before the House by the terms of a special order merely assigning the 
day for its consideration may be postponed by a majority vote (IV, 3177-
3182). A motion to rescind a special order is not privileged under the 
rules regulating the order of business (IV, 3173, 3174; V, 5323).
  A motion to amend the Rules of the House does not present a question 
of privilege (VIII, 3377, overruling VIII, 3376; see also Sec. 706, 
supra), and it is not in order by raising a question of the privileges 
of the House under rule IX to move to direct the Committee on Rules to 
consider a request to report a special order of business (Speaker 
Albert, June 27, 1974, p. 21599), or to direct the Committee on Rules to 
meet, to elect a temporary chair (in the temporary absence of the chair) 
and consider special orders of business (Speaker Albert, July 31, 1975, 
p. 26250).
  For further discussion of the Committee on Rules, see Sec. Sec. 857-
863, infra.

  (p) Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
      (1) <> All energy 
research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all 
federally owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories.
      (2) Astronautical research and development, including resources, 
personnel, equipment, and facilities.
      (3) Civil aviation research and development.
      (4) Environmental research and development.
      (5) Marine research.
      (6) Commercial application of energy technology.

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      (7) National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
standardization of weights and measures, and the metric system.
      (8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
      (9) National Space Council.
      (10) National Science Foundation.
      (11) National Weather Service.
      (12) Outer space, including exploration and control thereof.
      (13) Science scholarships.
      (14) Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and 
projects therefor.

  The standing Committee on Science and Astronautics was established in 
the 85th Congress and given jurisdiction formerly vested in a Select 
Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration established a few months 
earlier (Mar. 5, 1958, p. 3443), as well as the former jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (now Energy and 
Commerce) over the Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology) and science scholarships (July 21, 1958, p. 
14513). By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 
1975, the committee was redesignated as the Committee on Science and 
Technology and given additional jurisdiction over civil aviation 
research and development, environmental research and development, 
nonnuclear energy research and development, and the National Weather 
Service (now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). At the 
same time the committee was given the general and special oversight 
functions set forth in clause 2(b) and former clause 3(f) (current 
clause 3(k)). When the House abolished the Joint Committee on Atomic 
Energy in the 95th Congress, this committee was given jurisdiction over 
nuclear research and development as well (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 
53-70). Its jurisdiction over energy research and development (now 
subpara. (1)) was amended in the 96th Congress, effective January 3, 
1981, to specifically include energy demonstration projects and 
federally owned nonmilitary energy laboratories (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 
1980, pp. 6405-10). In the 100th Congress, the committee was 
redesignated as the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). In the 103d Congress the jurisdictional 
statement of the committee was updated to reflect the renaming of 
executive branch entities (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). The 104th 
Congress renamed the committee as the Committee on Science and ex

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panded its jurisdiction by adding subparagraph (5), from the former 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and subparagraph (6), from 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion 
of a redundant undesignated recitation of general and special oversight 
functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The 110th Congress renamed 
the committee as the Committee on Science and Technology (sec. 216(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19) and the 112th Congress redesignated it 
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (sec. 2(e)(9), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  The committee has jurisdiction over proposals dealing with U.S. 
participation in the World Science Pan-Pacific Exposition (June 24, 
1959, p. 11810); over a resolution condemning Soviet Union internal 
exile of an individual, and recommending that Government agencies 
including NASA, the National Bureau of Standards and the National 
Science Foundation defer official travel to that country (Jan. 30, 1980, 
p. 1320); with the Committees on Armed Services and Interior and Insular 
Affairs (now Natural Resources), over bills to test the commercial 
viability of oil shale technologies within the naval oil shale reserves 
or on other public lands (Sept. 26, 1978, p. 31623); and with four other 
committees over a bill coordinating Federal agencies' research into 
ground water contamination, including that done by the Environmental 
Protection Agency (Mar. 15, 1989, p. 4163). The Committee on Natural 
Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill 
transferring interest in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration fisheries research laboratory (Oct. 1, 2002, p. 18796).

  (q) Committee on Small Business.
      (1) <> Assistance to and 
protection of small business, including financial aid, regulatory 
flexibility, and paperwork reduction.
      (2) Participation of small-business enterprises in Federal 
procurement and Government contracts.

  A Select Committee on Small Business was first established in the 77th 
Congress (H. Res. 294, pp. 9418-28) and was reconstituted each Congress 
thereafter by resolution reported from the Committee on Rules until made 
permanent in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144).
  The Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 established a standing 
Committee on Small Business, effective January 3, 1975, and vested it 
with legislative jurisdiction formerly held by the Committee on Banking 
and Currency (now Financial Services) (subpara. (1)) and the Committee

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on the Judiciary (subpara. (2)) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470). At the same time the general and special oversight functions 
were set forth in clause 2(b) and in former clause 3(g) (current clause 
3(l)). The 104th Congress expanded the jurisdiction of the committee 
over assistance to and protection of small business by inserting the 
references to regulatory flexibility and paperwork reduction in 
subparagraph (1) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; see also 
Feb. 9, 1995, p. 4328) and later effected a technical correction (H. 
Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation of general 
and special oversight functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (r) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
      (1) <> Coast 
Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean 
derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy.
      (2) Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters.
      (3) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.
      (4) Inland waterways.
      (5) Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, 
lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels.
      (6) Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage.
      (7) Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.
      (8) Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at 
sea.
      (9) The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office 
Buildings.

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      (10) Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads (other 
than appropriations therefor).
      (11) Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of 
buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, 
and the Smithsonian Institution.
      (12) Merchant marine (except for national security aspects 
thereof).
      (13) Purchase of sites and construction of post offices, 
customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the 
District of Columbia.
      (14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including 
inland, coastal, and ocean waters.
      (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as they 
relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.
      (16) Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the 
United States generally.
      (17) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges 
and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
      (18) Related transportation regulatory agencies (except the 
Transportation Security Administration).
      (19) Roads and the safety thereof.
      (20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water 
transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and 
transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland 
Security), transportation infrastruc

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ture, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment 
(except revenue measures related thereto).
      (21) Water power.

  The committee was created effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the 
Committees on Flood Control (created in 1916) (VII, 2069), Public 
Buildings and Grounds (created in 1837) (IV, 4231), Rivers and Harbors 
(created in 1883) (IV, 4118)), and Roads (created in 1913) (VII, 2065). 
The authority of the committee to report as privileged bills authorizing 
the improvement of rivers and harbors was eliminated by the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). At the same time the committee's 
jurisdiction over parks in the District of Columbia was transferred to 
the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Natural Resources); 
and it gained jurisdiction over transportation, including civil aviation 
(except railroads, railroad labor, and railroad pensions), over roads 
and the safety thereof, over water transportation subject to the 
jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and over related 
transportation regulatory agencies with certain exceptions. The 104th 
Congress changed the name of the Committee from Public Works and 
Transportation to Transportation and Infrastructure and expanded its 
jurisdiction by: adding subparagraphs (1), (5)-(8), (12), and (15) to 
reflect the transfer of those matters from the former Committee on 
Merchant Marine and Fisheries; adding subparagraph (4) and enlarging 
subparagraph (20) to reflect the transfer of those matters from the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce; and adding subparagraph (2) and 
inserting the reference to inland, coastal, and ocean waters in 
subparagraph (14), as clarifying consolidations of formerly 
fractionalized subjects (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress. The 106th Congress also adopted a 
substantive amendment to this provision deleting the prohibition against 
including a provision for a specific road in a bill providing for 
another specific road or in a general road bill (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 109th Congress the House established the Committee 
on Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). The 
new committee was given jurisdiction over certain functions of the 
Department of Homeland Security that resulted in two conforming changes 
to this paragraph. For debate (and material submitted during debate) 
that may edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the 
creation of that committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60-62.
  The committee has jurisdiction over proposals establishing Treasury 
revolving funds for the Southeastern and Southwestern Power 
Administrations (July 2, 1959, p. 12629); directing the Secretary of the 
Army to provide school facilities for dependents of Corps of Engineers 
construction workers

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(June 17, 1968, p. 17429); conveying Corps of Engineers flood-control 
project lands (July 15, 1965, p. 17002), naming reservoirs within such 
projects (Oct. 3, 1989, p. 22770) or allocating or limiting water use 
therefrom (Feb. 28, 1990, p. 2893); directing the Secretary of the Army 
to renew the license of an American Legion Post to use a parcel of land 
on a Corps of Engineer project (May 10, 1988, p. 10282); authorizing 
construction of an annex to the National Gallery of Art by the 
Smithsonian Institution (Apr. 10, 1968, p. 9553); addressing the 
location and development of the J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts (Sept. 15, 1965, p. 23927; Oct. 21, 1965, p. 27803); transferring 
land under the control of the Corps of Engineers to Indian tribes (Jan. 
29, 1976, p. 1577); amending the Interstate Commerce Act to regulate 
truck transportation (Feb. 24, 1976, p. 4109; Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3754); 
concerning the treatment of a U.S. air freight carrier by the Japanese 
Ministry of Transport pursuant to an understanding negotiated under the 
International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 (not a Trade 
Act matter) (July 28, 1988, p. 19536); and over an executive 
communication amending Public Law 90-553, reported by the committee, to 
authorize the transfer, conveyance, lease and improvement of, and 
construction on, certain property in the District of Columbia, for use 
as a headquarters site for an international organization, as sites for 
governments of foreign countries (Sept. 15, 1981, p. 20598). The 
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now Oversight and 
Government Reform), and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill 
renaming an existing post office building (Aug. 4, 1995, p. 22085; Oct. 
1, 1998, p. 22933) and renaming an existing post office building that 
also housed a courthouse (Sept. 14, 2000, p. 18054). However, this 
committee, and not the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has 
jurisdiction over a bill redesignating a general-purpose Federal 
building as a post office (Apr. 24, 1997, p. 6291). This committee, and 
not the Committee on Ways and Means, has jurisdiction over a bill 
designating a customs building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. 36165). The Committee 
on Natural Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a 
bill to validate certain conveyances of erstwhile public lands by a 
railway company (July 11, 1995, p. 18397). The Committee on Oversight 
and Government Reform, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a 
bill transferring real property administered by the Coast Guard where 
the bill explicitly waives the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act and directs the Administrator of General Services to convey 
the property (Oct. 2, 1998, p. 23186).
  The committee has shared jurisdiction: with the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce over a bill amending the Solid Waste Disposal Act to 
provide for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites or discharges 
presenting a threat to human health and the environment, including 
navigable waters (Mar. 21, 1984, p. 6186); with the Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform) over a bill 
to require the Administrator of General Services to convey certain real 
property (a Federal building) to the Museum for the American Indian and 
providing for renovation and

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alteration of the property (Oct. 28, 1987, p. 29685); with the Committee 
on House Administration over a bill authorizing the Smithsonian 
Institution to construct, expand, and renovate facilities at the Cooper-
Hewitt Museum in New York (July 21, 1987, p. 20309), and over a bill 
authorizing appropriations to plan, design, construct, and equip museum 
space for the Smithsonian (July 18, 1991, p. 18830); with several other 
committees over bills to convert from a defense economy by, inter alia, 
authorizing economic assistance for public works and economic 
development (June 24, 1991, p. 16021; June 11, 1992, p. 14470); and with 
the Committee on Education and Labor (now Education and the Workforce) 
over bills providing labor protections to workers, including airline 
employees, in the transportation industry (June 24, 1991, p. 16020; Feb. 
24, 1993, p. 3577).
  In the 101st Congress, the committee reported a bill requiring a 
cooling-off period in a labor-management dispute between an airline and 
its unions under the Railway Labor Act (H.R. 1231, Mar. 13, 1989, p. 
4032).

  (s) Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
      (1) Veterans' measures generally.
      (2) <> Cemeteries of the 
United States in which veterans of any war or conflict are or may be 
buried, whether in the United States or abroad (except cemeteries 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior).
      (3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education of 
veterans.
      (4) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service 
in the Armed Forces.
      (5) Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general and 
special.
      (6) Readjustment of servicemembers to civil life.
      (7) Servicemembers' civil relief.
      (8) Veterans' hospitals, medical care, and treatment of veterans.

  This committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and was vested 
with jurisdiction formerly exercised by the Committees on World War 
Veterans' Legislation (VII, 2077); Invalid Pensions (IV, 4258); and 
Pensions (IV, 4260). Jurisdiction over veterans' cemeteries administered 
by the Department of De

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fense was transferred from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 
(now Natural Resources) in the 90th Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct. 20, 
1967, p. 29560), a matter now shared with the Committee on Armed 
Services. Vocational rehabilitation, except that pertaining to veterans, 
is under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce. The committee has jurisdiction over bills to amend the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit certain declarations of fact 
in lieu of affidavits (Feb. 4, 1959, p. 1812), and over bills to amend 
the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act relating to 
service-connected deaths of retired members of the uniformed services 
(May 18, 1959, p. 8273). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Technical changes to subparagraphs (6) and (7) 
were effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, 
p. 44).

  (t) Committee on Ways and Means.
      (1) <> Customs revenue, 
collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery.
      (2) Reciprocal trade agreements.
      (3) Revenue measures generally.
      (4) Revenue measures relating to insular possessions.
      (5) Bonded debt of the United States, subject to the last sentence 
of clause 4(f).
      (6) Deposit of public monies.
      (7) Transportation of dutiable goods.
      (8) Tax exempt foundations and charitable trusts.
      (9) National social security (except health care and facilities 
programs that are supported from general revenues as opposed to payroll 
deductions and except work incentive programs).

  A select Committee on Ways and Means dates from 1789. It was made a 
standing committee in 1802. Originally it considered both revenue and 
appropriations, but in 1865 the appropriation bills were given to the 
Committee on Appropriations and certain other bills to the Committee on 
Banking and Currency (now Financial Services) (IV, 4020). Its 
jurisdiction was

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also amended on April 5, 1911 (p. 58), and further defined in the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), which transferred 
the subject of recesses and final adjournments from this committee to 
the Committee on Rules.
  By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, 
the committee gained legislative jurisdiction over tax exempt 
foundations and charitable trusts (subpara. (8)), formerly within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Banking and Currency (now Financial 
Services) because of their impact on the economy, while it was released 
from: jurisdiction over health care and facilities programs supported 
from general revenues to the Committee on Energy and Commerce; 
jurisdiction over work incentive programs to the Committee on Education 
and Labor (now Education and the Workforce); and jurisdiction over 
renegotiation to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs 
(now Financial Services) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). The Committee Reform Amendments also transferred jurisdiction 
over general revenue sharing from this committee to the Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform); however, 
revenue sharing was stricken from the jurisdictional statement of that 
committee in the 104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, 
p. 464).
  The committee's jurisdiction over the bonded debt of the United States 
(subpara. (5)) was made subject to the last sentence of clause 4(f) 
(formerly clause 4(g)) of rule X in the 96th Congress by Public Law 96-
78 (93 Stat. 589). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 109th Congress the House established the Committee 
on Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42), which 
was given jurisdiction over certain functions of the Department of 
Homeland Security that resulted in a conforming change to this 
paragraph. For debate (and material submitted during debate) that may 
edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the creation 
of that committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60-62.
  The revenue jurisdiction of the committee extends to such subjects as 
transportation of dutiable goods, collection districts, ports of entry 
and delivery (IV, 4026), customs unions, reciprocity treaties (IV, 
4021), revenue relations of the United States with Puerto Rico (IV, 
4025), the revenue bills relating to agricultural products generally, 
excepting oleomargarine (IV, 4022), and tax on cotton and grain futures. 
The committee formerly had jurisdiction as to seal herds and other 
revenue-producing animals in Alaska but this jurisdiction was changed in 
the 68th Congress to the former Committee on Merchant Marine and 
Fisheries (VII, 1725, 1851). As exemplified by sequential referrals in 
the 96th Congress, the committee has jurisdiction over reported bills 
creating major oil spill and hazardous waste trust funds in the 
Treasury, funded by assessments on all quantities of oil, petrochemical 
feedstocks, and other hazardous substances offered for sale, where the 
scope and size of the funds and the method of assessment

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(similar to an excise tax) represented the collection of general revenue 
to fund particular Federal activities, a type of financing mechanism 
over which the Ways and Means Committee has traditionally exercised 
jurisdiction (May 20, 1980, p. 11862).
  The committee has jurisdiction over subjects relating to the Treasury 
of the United States and the deposit of the public moneys (IV, 4028), 
but it failed to make good a claim to the subjects of ``national 
finances'' and ``preservation of the Government credit'' (IV, 4023). The 
committee has jurisdiction over bills providing tax incentives for 
persons investing in Indian property (Feb. 1, 1964, p. 1582), providing 
unemployment compensation to individuals with military or Federal 
service (Apr. 28, 1976, p. 11590), providing extended and increased 
unemployment compensation (Apr. 16, 1975, p. 10346), and over private 
bills waiving provisions of the Tariff Act to require reliquidation of 
certain imported materials as duty-free (July 13, 1982, p. 16014). The 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and not this committee, 
has jurisdiction over a bill to designate a customs administrative 
building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. 36165). The Committee on the Budget, and not 
this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill establishing a rule of 
sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085). The Committee on the Budget has primary 
jurisdiction, and this committee has additional jurisdiction, over a 
bill taking Social Security trust funds off budget (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 
27085).
  The committee has exercised jurisdiction, with the Committee on Public 
Works and Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure), over 
executive communications proposing draft legislation reauthorizing the 
Surface Transportation Act but also containing a revenue title raising 
taxes to fund surface transportation programs (Mar. 20, 1986, p. 5804); 
with the former Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (succeeded by 
the Committee on Natural Resources) over a bill amending the Fishermen's 
Protective Act to authorize the President to prohibit the importation of 
any product from a country violating an international fishery 
conservation program (Mar. 21, 1989, p. 5077); and with three other 
committees over a bill imposing certain international economic sanctions 
including tariffs (May 27, 1992, p. 12658).
  The committee in the earlier practice reported resolutions 
distributing the President's annual message (IV, 4030), but since the 
first session of the 64th Congress this practice has been discontinued 
(VIII, 3350).

General oversight responsibilities
  2. (a) <> The various standing 
committees shall have general oversight responsibilities as provided in 
paragraph (b) in order to assist the House in--

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      (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of--
          (A) the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of Federal laws; and
          (B) conditions and circumstances that may indicate the 
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation; and
      (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of changes in 
Federal laws, and of such additional legislation as may be necessary or 
appropriate.
  (b)(1) In order to determine whether laws and programs addressing 
subjects within the jurisdiction of a committee are being implemented 
and carried out in accordance with the intent of Congress and whether 
they should be continued, curtailed, or eliminated, each standing 
committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) shall review and 
study on a continuing basis--
      (A) the application, administration, execution, and effectiveness 
of laws and programs addressing subjects within its jurisdiction;
      (B) the organization and operation of Federal agencies and 
entities having responsibilities for the administration and execution of 
laws and programs addressing subjects within its jurisdiction;
      (C) any conditions or circumstances that may indicate the 
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation 
addressing subjects within its jurisdiction (whether or

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not a bill or resolution has been introduced with respect thereto); and
      (D) future research and forecasting on subjects within its 
jurisdiction.
  (2) <> Each committee to 
which subparagraph (1) applies having more than 20 members shall 
establish an oversight subcommittee, or require its subcommittees to 
conduct oversight in their respective jurisdictions, to assist in 
carrying out its responsibilities under this clause. The establishment 
of an oversight subcommittee does not limit the responsibility of a 
subcommittee with legislative jurisdiction in carrying out its oversight 
responsibilities.
  (c) Each standing committee shall review and study on a continuing 
basis the impact or probable impact of tax policies affecting subjects 
within its jurisdiction as described in clauses 1 and 3.
  (d)(1) Not later than February 15 of the first session of a Congress, 
each standing committee shall, in a meeting that is open to the public 
and with a quorum present, adopt its oversight plan for that Congress. 
Such plan shall be submitted simultaneously to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform and to the Committee on House 
Administration. In developing its plan each committee shall, to the 
maximum extent feasible--
      (A) consult with other committees that have jurisdiction over the 
same or related laws, programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction with 
the objective of ensuring maximum coordina

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tion and cooperation among committees when conducting reviews of such 
laws, programs, or agencies and include in its plan an explanation of 
steps that have been or will be taken to ensure such coordination and 
cooperation;
      (B) review specific problems with Federal rules, regulations, 
statutes, and court decisions that are ambiguous, arbitrary, or 
nonsensical, or that impose severe financial burdens on individuals;
      (C) give priority consideration to including in its plan the 
review of those laws, programs, or agencies operating under permanent 
budget authority or permanent statutory authority;
      (D) have a view toward ensuring that all significant laws, 
programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to review 
every 10 years;
      (E) have a view toward insuring against duplication of Federal 
programs; and
      (F) include proposals to cut or eliminate programs, including 
mandatory spending programs, that are inefficient, duplicative, 
outdated, or more appropriately administered by State or local 
governments.
  (2) Not later than March 31 in the first session of a Congress, after 
consultation with the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority 
Leader, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall report to 
the House the oversight plans submitted by committees together with any 
recommendations that it, or the House leadership group described above, 
may

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make to ensure the most effective coordination of oversight plans and 
otherwise to achieve the objectives of this clause.
  (e) The Speaker, with the approval of the House, may appoint special 
ad hoc oversight committees for the purpose of reviewing specific 
matters within the jurisdiction of two or more standing committees.

  Clause 2(a), and the first requirement of clause 2(b)(1) that each 
standing committee shall review the application, etc., of all laws 
within its jurisdiction, were originally contained in section 118(b) of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and were made 
part of the standing rules on January 22, 1971 (H. Res. 5, p. 144). 
Effective January 3, 1975, general oversight responsibilities set forth 
in the remainder of the clause were incorporated into the rule (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Oversight responsibilities are 
also contained in section 190d of title 2, United States Code. On 
January 14, 1975, the size of those standing committees required by 
clause 2(b)(2) (formerly clause 2(b)(1)) to establish an oversight 
subcommittee or to require its subcommittees to conduct oversight was 
increased from 15 to more than 20 (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20). In the 
100th Congress a requirement that representatives from the Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform) meet with 
other committees at the beginning of each Congress to discuss oversight 
plans and that that committee report to the House its oversight 
coordination recommendations within 60 days after the convening of the 
first session was deleted (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). The 104th 
Congress added the requirement that each standing committee adopt by 
February 15 of the first session of a Congress its oversight plans for 
that Congress, such plans to be submitted to the Committees on 
Government Reform and Oversight (now Oversight and Government Reform) 
and House Oversight (now House Administration). The 104th Congress also 
added paragraph (e) (sec. 203(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). The 
106th Congress deleted a provision added in the 104th Congress making 
consideration of resolutions funding each committee contingent on 
submission of its oversight plans to the committees specified; deleted 
the exception for the Committee on the Budget from the general oversight 
responsibilities listed in clause 2(b); effected clerical corrections to 
conform references to a renamed committee; and effected clerical and 
stylistic changes when the House recodified its rules (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47). Clause 2(d)(1)(B) was added in the 107th Congress (sec. 
2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). Clause 2(d)(1)(E) was added in 
the 109th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, pp. 42, 43) and 
clause 2(d)(1)(F) was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(11), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Paragraph (d) was

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amended in the 110th Congress to reflect a change in committee name 
(sec. 215(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).

Special oversight functions
  3. <> (a) The Committee on 
Appropriations shall conduct such studies and examinations of the 
organization and operation of executive departments and other executive 
agencies (including an agency the majority of the stock of which is 
owned by the United States) as it considers necessary to assist it in 
the determination of matters within its jurisdiction.
  (b) The Committee on Armed Services shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
international arms control and disarmament and the education of military 
dependents in schools.
  (c) The Committee on the Budget shall study on a continuing basis the 
effect on budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed legislation 
and report the results of such studies to the House on a recurring 
basis.
  (d) The Committee on Education and the Workforce shall review, study, 
and coordinate on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government 
activities relating to domestic educational programs and institutions 
and programs of student assistance within the jurisdiction of other 
committees.
  (e) The Committee on Energy and Commerce shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
nuclear and other energy and nonmilitary

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nuclear energy research and development including the disposal of 
nuclear waste.
  (f) The Committee on Foreign Affairs shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
customs administration, intelligence activities relating to foreign 
policy, international financial and monetary organizations, and 
international fishing agreements.
  (g)(1) The Committee on Homeland Security shall review and study on a 
continuing basis all Government activities relating to homeland 
security, including the interaction of all departments and agencies with 
the Department of Homeland Security.
  (2) In addition, the committee shall review and study on a primary and 
continuing basis all Government activities, programs, and organizations 
related to homeland security that fall within its primary legislative 
jurisdiction.
  (h) The Committee on Natural Resources shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
Native Americans.
  (i) The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall review and 
study on a continuing basis the operation of Government activities at 
all levels with a view to determining their economy and efficiency.
  (j) The Committee on Rules shall review and study on a continuing 
basis the congressional budget process, and the committee shall report

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its findings and recommendations to the House from time to time.
  (k) The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology shall review and 
study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities 
relating to nonmilitary research and development.
  (l) The Committee on Small Business shall study and investigate on a 
continuing basis the problems of all types of small business.
  (m) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence shall review and 
study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and activities of the 
intelligence community and shall review and study on an exclusive basis 
the sources and methods of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A).

  The oversight authority conferred on the Committee on Appropriations 
was first given that committee on February 11, 1943 (p. 884), continued 
by resolution of January 9, 1945 (p. 135), and incorporated into 
permanent law in section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946, and made a part of the standing rules on January 3, 1953 (pp. 17, 
24). The special oversight responsibilities of the Committee on the 
Budget were made part of the rules effective July 12, 1974 by section 
101(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 300). Paragraph 
(e) (formerly paragraph (h)) was added on January 4, 1977, upon the 
abolition of the legislative jurisdiction in the House of the Joint 
Committee on Atomic Energy (H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., pp. 53-70). The 
special oversight responsibilities of the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce over nuclear energy to all energy programs became effective 
January 3, 1981 (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). The oversight 
authority conferred on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
was first made effective as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). In the 104th Congress conforming amendments to 
the special oversight functions of the Committees on Natural Resources 
and Energy and Commerce were adopted to reflect the transfer of 
jurisdiction over nonmilitary nuclear energy from the Committee on 
Natural Resources to the Committee on Energy and Commerce (H. Res. 254, 
Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Paragraph (j) was added by section 226 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177). 
The remainder of the clause (except for

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paragraphs (g) and (m)) became effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 
93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). This clause has been amended several 
times to conform references to renamed committees (H. Res. 89, Feb. 5, 
1979, p. 1848; H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10; H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 1993, p. 49; sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
2007, p. 19; H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Clerical and stylistic 
changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, including the transfer to this clause of oversight functions 
of the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Appropriations 
found in clause 2 (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The oversight 
authority of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in paragraph 
(m) was added in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 25). The Committee on Homeland Security was established in the 109th 
Congress and given the oversight authority set forth in paragraph (g)(1) 
(sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). Paragraph (g)(2) was added 
in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  Section 9 of the House Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 (H. 
Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040) added a paragraph in this clause 
creating a bipartisan Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight of the 
Committee on House Administration, to be chaired by the chair of the 
Committee on House Administration and to be composed of members of the 
Committee on House Administration, one-half from the majority party and 
one-half from the minority party. The paragraph was rewritten in the 
103d Congress to provide that the Speaker, the Majority and Minority 
Leaders, and the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
House Administration be informed of tie votes in that subcommittee (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49), but the paragraph was deleted entirely in 
the 104th Congress (sec. 201(d), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463).

Additional functions of committees
  4. <> (a)(1)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall, within 30 
days after the transmittal of the Budget to Congress each year, hold 
hearings on the Budget as a whole with particular reference to--
      (i) the basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the 
President in the presentation of the Budget; and

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      (ii) the fiscal, financial, and economic assumptions used as bases 
in arriving at total estimated expenditures and receipts.
  (B) In holding hearings under subdivision (A), the committee shall 
receive testimony from the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget, the Chairman of the Council of 
Economic Advisers, and such other persons as the committee may desire.
  (C) <> A hearing under 
subdivision (A), or any part thereof, shall be held in open session, 
except when the committee, in open session and with a quorum present, 
determines by record vote that the testimony to be taken at that hearing 
on that day may be related to a matter of national security. The 
committee may by the same procedure close one subsequent day of hearing. 
A transcript of all such hearings shall be printed and a copy thereof 
furnished to each Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner.
  (D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, may be held 
before a joint meeting of the committee and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate in accordance with such procedures as the 
two committees jointly may determine.

  This part of clause 4 was originally contained in section 242(c)(1) of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and was made part of the 
standing rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). 
Paragraph (a)(1)(C), requiring open hearings, was first adopted in the 
93d Congress (H. Res. 259, Mar. 7, 1973, pp. 6713-20) and was amended in 
the 94th Congress to limit the effect of a vote to close a hearing to 
that day and one subsequent day (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). 
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changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

-  (2) <> Pursuant to section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, when a committee reports a bill or joint resolution 
that provides new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of 
that Act, and enactment of the bill or joint resolution, as reported, 
would cause a breach of the committee's pertinent allocation of new 
budget authority under section 302(a) of that Act, the bill or joint 
resolution may be referred to the Committee on Appropriations with 
instructions to report it with recommendations (which may include an 
amendment limiting the total amount of new entitlement authority 
provided in the bill or joint resolution). If the Committee on 
Appropriations fails to report a bill or joint resolution so referred 
within 15 calendar days (not counting any day on which the House is not 
in session), the committee automatically shall be discharged from 
consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint 
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
  (3) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall study on a 
continuing basis those provisions of law that (on the first day of the 
first fiscal year for which the congressional budget process is 
effective) provide spending authority or permanent budget authority and 
shall report to the House from time to time its recommendations for 
terminating or modifying such provisions.

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  (4) In the manner provided by section 302 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, the Committee on Appropriations (after consulting with the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate) shall subdivide any 
allocations made to it in the joint explanatory statement accompanying 
the conference report on such concurrent resolution, and promptly report 
the subdivisions to the House as soon as practicable after a concurrent 
resolution on the budget for a fiscal year is agreed to.

  Subparagraph (2) first became effective on July 12, 1974, by inclusion 
in section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 
317), was incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), was amended in the 95th 
Congress to correct an error in cross-reference (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
1977, pp. 53-70), and was again amended in the 105th Congress to reflect 
the repeal of the collective definition of ``new spending authority'' 
and the revision of various remaining parts (Budget Enforcement Act of 
1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33). Subparagraph (3) was also contained in 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in section 402(f), and was likewise 
incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The requirements of subparagraph (4) 
(formerly paragraph (h)) was originally contained in section 302(b) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344, July 12, 1974) and 
was incorporated into this rule effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 
93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). It was amended by the Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) to conform to the 
enactment of title VI of the Budget Act. It was again amended by the 
Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10118, P.L. 105-33) to conform to 
the subsequent repeal of title VI. Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
including the transfer of former paragraph (h) to this paragraph as new 
subparagraph (4) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  A former <> subparagraph (5) added in the 110th Congress established a 
Select Intelligence Oversight Panel of the Committee on Appropriations 
to review budget requests for and execution of intelligence activities 
(H. Res. 35, Jan. 9, 2007, p. 567). It was abolished in the 112th 
Congress (sec. 2(e)(10), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).

  (b) The Committee on the Budget shall--

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      (1) <> review on a continuing basis the 
conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;
      (2) hold hearings and receive testimony from Members, Senators, 
Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and such appropriate 
representatives of Federal departments and agencies, the general public, 
and national organizations as it considers desirable in developing 
concurrent resolutions on the budget for each fiscal year;
      (3) make all reports required of it by the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974;
      (4) study on a continuing basis those provisions of law that 
exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays from 
inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government, and report to 
the House from time to time its recommendations for terminating or 
modifying such provisions;
      (5) study on a continuing basis proposals designed to improve and 
facilitate the congressional budget process, and report to the House 
from time to time the results of such studies, together with its 
recommendations; and
      (6) request and evaluate continuing studies of tax expenditures, 
devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and programs 
with direct budget outlays, and report the results of such studies to 
the House on a recurring basis.

  Paragraph (b)(1) became a part of the rules on July 12, 1974 by 
enactment of section 101(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 
Stat.

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300). Subparagraph (2), contained in section 301(d) of that Act, 
subparagraph (3), subparagraph (4), contained in section 606 of that 
Act, and subparagraph (5), contained in section 703 of that Act, all 
were made part of the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Paragraph (b)(2) was amended in the 99th 
Congress by section 232 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177) to remove reference to the first 
concurrent resolution on the budget. Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, subparagraph (6) was found in former clause 
1(d)(5)(C) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (c)(1) <> The 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall--
      (A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller General of the 
United States and submit to the House such recommendations as it 
considers necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter 
of the reports;
      (B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the 
legislative and executive branches of the Government; and
      (C) study intergovernmental relationships between the United 
States and the States and municipalities and between the United States 
and international organizations of which the United States is a member.
      (2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform may at any time conduct 
investigations of any matter without regard to clause 1, 2, 3, or this 
clause conferring jurisdiction over the matter to another standing 
committee. The findings and recommendations of the committee in such an 
investigation shall be made available to any other standing com

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mittee having jurisdiction over the matter involved.

  Paragraph (c)(1) became effective January 2, 1947, as part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). Paragraph (c)(2) 
was made a function of the Committee effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Paragraph (c)(2) was amended in 
the 107th Congress to delete the requirement that committees include 
oversight findings and recommendations by the Committee on Government 
Reform in their reports as was required under the former clause 3(c)(4) 
of rule XIII (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Clerical and 
stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Under section 2954 
of title 5, United States Code, an executive agency, if so requested by 
this committee or any seven members thereof, shall submit any 
information requested of it relating to any matter within the 
jurisdiction of the committee.
  (3)(A) <> The Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform may adopt a rule authorizing and 
regulating the taking of depositions by a member or counsel of the 
committee, including pursuant to subpoena under clause 2(m) of rule XI 
(which hereby is made applicable for such purpose).
  (B) A rule adopted by the committee pursuant to this subparagraph--
      (i) may provide that a deponent be directed to subscribe an oath 
or affirmation before a person authorized by law to administer the same;
      (ii) shall ensure that the minority members and staff of the 
committee are accorded equitable treatment with respect to notice of and 
a reasonable opportunity to participate in any proceeding conducted 
thereunder; and
      (iii) shall, unless waived by the deponent, require the attendance 
of a member of the committee.

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  (C) Information secured pursuant to the authority described in 
subdivision (A) shall retain the character of discovery until offered 
for admission in evidence before the committee, at which time any proper 
objection shall be timely.

  This subparagraph was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 502, H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). Subdivision (A)(iii) was 
added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(14), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80). Other committees have been granted such authority generally (sec. 
3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _) or for specific investigations 
(Dec. 5, 2007, p. 32250; sec. 4(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 10; May 
20, 2010, p. 8758).

  (d)(1) <> The Committee on 
House Administration shall--
  (A) <> provide policy 
direction for the Chief Administrative Officer and the Inspector General 
and oversight of the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative 
Officer, and Inspector General;
  (B) oversee the management of services provided to the House by the 
Architect of the Capitol, except those services that lie within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure under 
clause 1(r);
  (C) <> have the function of 
accepting on behalf of the House a gift, except as otherwise provided by 
law, if the gift does not involve a duty, burden, or condition, or is 
not made dependent on some future performance by the House;
  (D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision (C); and

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  (E) establish and maintain standards for making documents publicly 
available in electronic form by the House and its committees.
  (2) <> An employing 
office of the House may enter into a settlement of a complaint under the 
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 that provides for the payment 
of funds only after receiving the joint approval of the chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration 
concerning the amount of such payment.

  The duty of the committee to arrange for memorial services of Members 
was eliminated from the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 
93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Former paragraph (d)(3) required the 
committee to provide a committee scheduling service, which was provided 
through House Information Resources and was made mandatory on all 
committees and subcommittees in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1981, pp. 98-113). The requirement was stricken altogether when two 
provisions were added by section 10 of the House Administrative Reform 
Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, 102d Cong., Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040) to 
ensure the orderly transfer of functions and entities from elected 
officers to the Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services and 
to provide for policy direction and oversight of certain administrative 
officials and elected officers. However, in the 107th Congress the House 
amended clause 4(d)(1) of rule X to remove the requirement that the 
committee provide policy direction to such officials and officers except 
the Inspector General (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), but 
policy direction for the Chief Administrative Officer was restored in 
the 114th Congress (sec. 2(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). The 
committee also provides policy review and oversight of the Chief 
Executive Officer for Visitor Services within the Office of the 
Architect of the Capitol (sec. 6701, P.L. 110-28). In the 104th Congress 
the rule was amended (1) to reflect the change in the name of the 
Committee on House Administration to the Committee on House Oversight 
and (2) to reflect the abolishment of the Director of Non-legislative 
and Financial Services (sec. 201, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). 
Later in the 104th Congress the provision for the acceptance of gifts 
was added as paragraph (d)(3) (H. Res. 250, Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33434). In 
the 105th Congress paragraph (d) was redesignated as (d)(1), its former 
subparagraphs (1) through (3) were redesignated as (1)(A) through 
(1)(C), and a new paragraph (d)(2) was added to require approval by the 
committee for monetary settlements of certain employment claims (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). In the 111th Congress a new subparagraph 
(1)(B) was inserted regarding

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the Architect of the Capitol (and existing subparagraphs (1)(B) and 
(1)(C) were redesignated) (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). In 
the 112th Congress subparagraph (E) was added (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The 104th Congress also prohibited the 
establishment or continuation of any legislative service organization 
(as that term had been understood in the 103d Congress) and directed the 
Committee on House Oversight (now House Administration) to take such 
steps as were necessary to ensure an orderly termination and accounting 
for funds of any legislative service organization in existence on 
January 3, 1995 (sec. 222, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469), but the 
114th Congress authorized the payment of salaries and expenses by 
certain similar groups (called ``Congressional Member Organizations'') 
that had registered with the Committee on House Administration during 
the previous Congress (sec. 3(p), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The 
107th Congress transferred the committee's responsibilities with respect 
to enrolled bills (formerly paragraph (d)(1)(A)) to the Clerk (clause 
2(d)(2) of rule II) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).

  (e)(1) <> Each standing 
committee shall, in its consideration of all public bills and public 
joint resolutions within its jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations 
for continuing programs and activities of the Federal Government and the 
government of the District of Columbia will be made annually to the 
maximum extent feasible and consistent with the nature, requirement, and 
objective of the programs and activities involved. In this subparagraph 
programs and activities of the Federal Government and the government of 
the District of Columbia includes programs and activities of any 
department, agency, establishment, wholly owned Government corporation, 
or instrumentality of the Federal Government or of the government of the 
District of Columbia.
  (2) Each standing committee shall review from time to time each 
continuing program within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are 
not

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made annually to ascertain whether the program should be modified to 
provide for annual appropriations.

  The provisions of this paragraph derive from section 253(c) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140), and were made 
part of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 
144). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).

Budget Act responsibilities
  (f)(1) <> Each standing 
committee shall submit to the Committee on the Budget not later than six 
weeks after the submission of the budget by the President, or at such 
time as the Committee on the Budget may request--
      (A) its views and estimates with respect to all matters to be set 
forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget for the ensuing fiscal 
year that are within its jurisdiction or functions; and
      (B) an estimate of the total amounts of new budget authority, and 
budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be provided or authorized in all 
bills and resolutions within its jurisdiction that it intends to be 
effective during that fiscal year.
  (2) The views and estimates submitted by the Committee on Ways and 
Means under subparagraph (1) shall include a specific recommendation, 
made after holding public hearings, as to the appropriate level of the 
public debt that should be set forth in the concurrent resolution on the 
budget.


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  The requirements of paragraph (f)(1) were originally contained in 
section 301(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344, 
July 12, 1974), and were incorporated into this rule effective January 
3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The 
requirement of paragraph (f)(2) that the Committee on Ways and Means 
include a specific recommendation as to the appropriate level of the 
public debt in its views and estimates submitted to the Committee on the 
Budget was added in the 96th Congress by Public Law 96-78 (93 Stat. 589) 
and was originally intended to apply to concurrent resolutions on the 
budget for fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 1980. However, 
in the 96th Congress the provisions of that public law amending the 
Rules of the House were made applicable to the third concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1980 as well as the first 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 (H. Res. 642, 
Apr. 23, 1980, pp. 8789-90). The deadline for submitting views and 
estimates to the Committee on the Budget has changed several times 
(Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, sec. 232(c), 
P.L. 99-177; Budget Enforcement Act of 1997, sec. 10104, P.L. 105-33; H. 
Res. 5, 106th Cong., Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A former paragraph directing 
standing committees to submit reconciliation recommendations to the 
Committee on the Budget was deleted in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), but committees are still required to submit such 
recommendations under section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974. Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). Paragraph (f)(2) was amended in the 107th Congress to reflect the 
repeal of former rule XXIII (``Statutory Limit on Public Debt'') (sec. 
2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), which was reinstated in the 108th 
Congress as rule XXVII (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7), 
renumbered in the 110th Congress as rule XXVIII (sec. 301, P.L. 110-81), 
and repealed in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(d)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).

Election and membership of standing committees
  5. <> (a)(1) The standing committees 
specified in clause 1 shall be elected by the House within seven 
calendar days after the commencement of each Congress, from nominations 
submitted by the respective party caucus or conference. A resolution 
proposing to change the composition of a standing committee

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shall be privileged if offered by direction of the party caucus or 
conference concerned.

  The old rule entrusting the appointment of committees to the Speaker 
was adopted in 1789 and amended in 1790 and in 1860 (IV, 4448-4476). 
Committees are now elected on resolutions offered from the floor (VIII, 
2171) and it is in order to move the previous question on each 
resolution (VIII, 2174). The resolution is not divisible (clause 5 of 
rule XVI), and is privileged (VIII, 2179) if offered by direction of the 
respective party caucus (a requirement that was made part of the rules 
effective January 3, 1975, by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 
(H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470)). That same resolution 
also eliminated the designations in the rules of the numbers of Members 
comprising the standing committees, thereby permitting the House to 
establish committee size by the numbers of Members elected to each 
committee pursuant to this paragraph. The role of the party caucuses in 
presenting privileged resolutions to the House electing Members to 
committees is discussed in detail in Deschler, ch. 17, Sec. 9. In the 
99th Congress the requirement for election of standing committees within 
the first seven calendar days and the conferral of privileged status on 
resolutions from the party caucuses to change the composition of 
standing committees were added by section 227 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 6 of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (2)(A) <> The Committee on 
the Budget shall be composed of members as follows:
      (i) Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner who are 
members of other standing committees, including five from the Committee 
on Appropriations, five from the Committee on Ways and Means, and one 
from the Committee on Rules;
      (ii) one Member designated by the elected leadership of the 
majority party; and
      (iii) one Member designated by the elected leadership of the 
minority party.
  (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee 
on the Budget other

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than one described in subdivision (A)(ii) or (A)(iii) may not serve on 
the committee during more than four Congresses in a period of six 
successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for 
less than a full session in a Congress).
  (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may exceed the 
limitation of subdivision (B) if elected to serve a second consecutive 
Congress as the chair or a second consecutive Congress as the ranking 
minority member.

  This paragraph (formerly clause 1(d) of rule X) was amended in the 
96th Congress to relax the limitation on Members' service on the 
Committee on the Budget to three Congresses (from two) in any period of 
five successive Congresses, to exempt representatives from the party 
leaderships from the limitation, and to permit an incumbent chair who 
had served on the committee for three Congresses and as chair for not 
more than one Congress to be eligible for reelection as chair for one 
additional Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 8). It was again 
amended in the 100th Congress to eliminate as obsolete the words 
``beginning after 1974'' following ``any period of five successive 
Congresses'' as a measure of permissible terms of service on the 
committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). It was further amended in the 
101st Congress to permit, in that Congress only, a minority Member who 
had served on the committee for three terms to run within the party's 
caucus for the position of ranking minority member and thus be able to 
serve on the committee for one additional Congress, and to permit a 
Member elected as ranking minority member during a third term on the 
committee to serve one additional term on the committee as the ranking 
minority member (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). It was again amended 
in the 102d Congress to extend the waiver of the tenure restriction for 
the ranking minority member of the committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, 
p. 39), but in the 103d Congress that provision was stricken as obsolete 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). In the 104th Congress the limitation 
on a Member's service on the committee was relaxed to four Congresses 
(from three) in any period of six successive Congresses, with the 
exception that a Member who has served as chair or as ranking minority 
member during a fourth such Congress may serve in either capacity during 
a fifth, so long as not thereby exceeding two consecutive terms as chair 
or as ranking minority member (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
464). The tenure limitation of clause 5(a)(2)(B) was suspended during 
the 106th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The 
special tenure limitation for the chair and ranking minority member was 
replaced in the 108th

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Congress with a provision subjecting the chair only to the overall 
tenure limitation that applies to all standing committee chairs (sec. 
2(e-1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). This provision was replaced in 
the 111th Congress with an exception to the tenure limitation for the 
second consecutive Congress in which a chair or ranking minority member 
serves (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). In the 109th Congress 
subdivisions (A)(ii) and (A)(iii) were amended to address a member 
designated by the elected leadership as opposed to a member of the 
elected leadership of each party, and a conforming change was made to 
subdivision (B) (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43).
  In the 94th Congress the membership of the committee was increased to 
25 (from 23), with 13 (rather than 11) members elected from committees 
other than Appropriations and Ways and Means (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, 
p. 20). The membership was increased again in the 97th Congress to 30, 
with 28 from other standing committees and two from the respective 
leaderships (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113), and again in the 98th 
Congress to 31 (unanimous-consent order, Feb. 7, 1983, p. 1791). In the 
99th Congress, the House amended this paragraph to remove any numerical 
limitation on the membership of the committee (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, 
p. 393). In the 108th Congress the composition of the committee was 
changed to require inclusion of one member from the Committee on Rules 
(sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).
  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1(d) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

  (3)(A) <> The Committee on 
Ethics shall be composed of 10 members, five from the majority party and 
five from the minority party.
  (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee 
on Ethics may not serve on the committee during more than three 
Congresses in a period of five successive Congresses (disregarding for 
this purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
  (C) A member of the Committee on Ethics may serve on the committee 
during a fourth Congress in a period of five successive Congresses only 
as either the chair or the ranking minority member of the committee.

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  (4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or a designee and 
the Minority Leader or a designee each shall name 10 Members, Delegates, 
or the Resident Commissioner from the respective party of such 
individual who are not members of the Committee on Ethics to be 
available to serve on investigative subcommittees of that committee 
during that Congress. The lists of Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
Commissioner so named shall be announced to the House.
  (B) Whenever the chair and the ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Ethics jointly determine that Members, Delegates, or the 
Resident Commissioner named under subdivision (A) should be assigned to 
serve on an investigative subcommittee of that committee, each of them 
shall select an equal number of such Members, Delegates, or Resident 
Commissioner from the respective party of such individual to serve on 
that subcommittee.

  Before the 93d Congress, the rule that established the size of the 
Committee on Ethics (formerly Standards of Official Conduct) at 12 
members also required that its membership be equally divided between the 
parties. Effective in the 93d Congress, the ratio of the committee was 
codified in the first sentence of subparagraph (3)(A) (formerly clause 
6(a)(2)) (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Ethics Reform Act of 
1989 added a sentence to limit service on the committee (P.L. 101-194, 
Nov. 30, 1989), which was amended in the 105th and 106th Congresses 
(sec. 2, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19336; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). A requirement that two members from each party rotate off the 
committee was adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 2, H. Res. 168, Sept. 
18, 1997, p. 19336), but was deleted in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (4) (formerly clause 6(a)(3)) was 
adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 1, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 
19335). The 106th Congress formally reduced the size of the committee to 
10 members, which was the de facto size of the committee in the 105th 
Congress even though the Ethics Reform

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Act of 1989 required each party caucus to nominate seven Members (sec. 
803(b), P.L. 101-194, Nov. 30, 1989; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). This subparagraph was amended in 
the 112th Congress to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(a) of 
rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (b)(1) Membership on a standing committee during the course of 
a <> Congress 
shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or 
conference that nominated the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
concerned for election to such committee. Should a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of a particular party caucus 
or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
automatically cease to be a member of each standing committee to which 
elected on the basis of nomination by that caucus or conference. The 
chair of the relevant party caucus or conference shall notify the 
Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner ceases to 
be a member of that caucus or conference. The Speaker shall notify the 
chair of each affected committee that the election of such Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to the committee is automatically 
vacated under this subparagraph.
  (2)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner may not serve simultaneously as a member of more 
than two standing committees or more

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than four subcommittees of the standing committees.
  (B)(i) Ex officio service by a chair or ranking minority member of a 
committee on each of its subcommittees under a committee rule does not 
count against the limitation on subcommittee service.
  (ii) Service on an investigative subcommittee of the Committee on 
Ethics under paragraph (a)(4) does not count against the limitation on 
subcommittee service.
  (iii) Any other exception to the limitations in subdivision (A) may be 
approved by the House on the recommendation of the relevant party caucus 
or conference.
  (C) In this subparagraph the term ``subcommittee'' includes a panel 
(other than a special oversight panel of the Committee on Armed 
Services), task force, special subcommittee, or other subunit of a 
standing committee that is established for a cumulative period longer 
than six months in a Congress.

  The requirement that membership on standing committees be contingent 
on continuing membership in a party caucus or conference, along with the 
mechanism for the automatic vacating of a Member's election to committee 
should party relationship cease, was added to the rules in the 98th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). The limitation on full 
committee and subcommittee assignments was added in the 104th Congress 
(sec. 204, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467; see H. Res. 11, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 549). The exception for special service on an investigative 
subcommittee of the Committee on Ethics (formerly Standards of Official 
Conduct) from the limitation on subcommittee service was added in the 
105th Congress (sec. 1, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19335). A 
technical correction was effected in the 106th and 112th Congresses to 
conform references to a renamed committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47; H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A technical correction to paragraph 
(b)(2)(B)(iii) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44). Gender-based references

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were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 7).
  The Speaker lays before the House communications relative to the 
removal of a Member from committee pursuant to this clause (see, e.g., 
Sept. 11, 1984, p. 24790; Feb. 22, 1989, p. 2500; May 10, 1995, p. 
12396; July 19, 1999, p. 16586; Feb. 1, 2000, p. 401; Sept. 13, 2000, p. 
17832). The Speaker also lays before the House a communication from a 
Member announcing a change in party affiliation (Sept. 13, 2000, p. 
17832). On one occasion there was a delay in laying the latter 
communication before the House, and the House by unanimous consent 
retroactively changed informational voting records from the date on the 
communication (Sept. 13, 2000, p. 17832). Instance where a Member 
submitted his resignation from a committee on grounds of disqualifying 
personal interest (VIII, 3074). The earlier practice was for the 
minority party to handle committee assignments for third-party Members 
(VIII, 2184-2185). On some occasions, the majority party takes that 
responsibility by separate resolution (see, e.g., H. Res. 45, Jan. 24, 
1991, p. 2171).

  (c)(1) <> One of the members of 
each standing committee shall be elected by the House, on the nomination 
of the majority party caucus or conference, as chair thereof. In the 
absence of the member serving as chair, the member next in rank (and so 
on, as often as the case shall happen) shall act as chair. Rank shall be 
determined by the order members are named in resolutions electing them 
to the committee. In the case of a vacancy in the elected chair of a 
committee, the House shall elect another chair.
  (2) Except in the case of the Committee on Rules, a member of a 
standing committee may not serve as chair of the same standing 
committee, or of the same subcommittee of a standing committee, during 
more than three consecutive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose 
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  The requirement that nominations for chairs be submitted by the 
majority party caucus was made part of the rules effective January 3, 
1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). A provision 
addressing temporary and permanent vacancies in chairs was adopted on 
April 5, 1911 (VIII, 2201), and was continued in the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), but the 111th Congress 
deleted such references when clarifying the devolution of authority in 
case of absence or vacancy (sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9). 
The 104th Congress adopted a limitation on terms for committee and 
subcommittee chairs (sec. 103(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 
109th Congress excepted the Committee on Rules from that limitation 
(sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). The 111th Congress repealed 
the limitation (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7) and the 112th 
Congress restored it (sec. 2(e)(12), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). 
Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
6(c) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  In the 102d Congress a resolution included as a matter properly 
incidental to its election of the chair of a standing committee a 
proviso that his powers and duties be exercised by the vice chair until 
otherwise ordered by the House (H. Res. 43, Jan. 24, 1991, p. 2169; Feb. 
6, 1991, p. 3198). In the 103d Congress a privileged resolution, offered 
at the direction of the Democratic Caucus, authorized a named acting 
chair to exercise the powers and duties of a chair of a standing 
committee until otherwise ordered by the House (H. Res. 396, Mar. 23, 
1994, p. 6093). Upon the resignation of a chair, the acting chair 
assumes that role without further action of the House (Mar. 3, 2010, p. 
2344). The Chair has refused to respond to a parliamentary inquiry 
seeking hypothetical guidance on how a Member, having resigned as chair 
of a committee, could be reinstated in that role (Mar. 3, 2010, p. 
2344). A Member may resign the role of acting chair (Mar. 4, 2010, p. 
2573), in which case the member third in rank assumes the role of acting 
chair (Mar. 4, 2010, p. 2589).

  (d)(1) <> Except as 
permitted by subparagraph (2), a committee may have not more than five 
subcommittees.
  (2) A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight may have 
not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on Appropriations may 
have not more than 13 subcommittees. The Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform may have not more than seven subcommittees.


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  This paragraph was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(b), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462), replacing a requirement that all standing 
committees having more than 20 members (except the Committee on the 
Budget) establish at least four subcommittees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, 
p. 20). In the 106th Congress the paragraph was amended to delete the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from the list of 
exceptions to the general rule and to add a new exception for committees 
that maintain a subcommittee on oversight (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). In the 110th Congress it was amended to reflect a change in the 
name of a committee (sec. 215(e), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 6(d) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Notwithstanding clause 5(d), the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform was permitted to have not more than eight subcommittees during 
the 106th and 107th Congresses (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47; sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26); the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs was permitted to have not more than six during the 107th and 
108th Congresses and not more than seven during the 109th through 114th 
Congresses (sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26; sec. 3(b), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; 
sec. 511(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 
3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 
p. 80; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(j), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _); the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
was permitted to have not more than six during the 107th through 114th 
Congresses (sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26; sec. 3(b), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; 
sec. 511(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 
3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 
p. 80; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(j), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _); the Committee on Armed Services was permitted to 
have not more than six during the 108th and 109th Congresses and not 
more than seven during the 110th through 114th Congresses (sec. 3(b), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; 
sec. 511(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 
3(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(j), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _); and the Committee on Agriculture was 
permitted to have not more than six during the 114th Congress (sec. 
3(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). In the 108th Congress the 
Committee on Appropriations reorganized its subcommittees to reflect the 
creation of the new Department on Homeland Security (P.L. 107-296) by 
creating a new subcommittee on Homeland Security and combining the 
subcommittees on Transportation and Treasury, Postal Service and General 
Government. That committee reduced the number of its subcommittees to 10 
in the 109th Congress, and increased it to 12 in the 110th Congress.


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  (e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a standing committee by election 
on the nomination of the respective party caucus or conference.

  This paragraph was first adopted in the 62d Congress (VIII, 2178). At 
the beginning of the 80th Congress it was amended to prevent a Member 
from serving on more than one standing committee, except that Members 
elected to serve on the Committees on District of Columbia or Un-
American Activities (renamed the Committee on Internal Security and 
jurisdiction redefined on Feb. 19, 1969, p. 3723) could be elected to 
serve on not more than two standing committees, and that Members of the 
majority party, serving on the Committee on Expenditures in the 
Executive Departments (changed to Committee on Government Operations 
July 3, 1952, p. 9217) or House Administration could be elected to serve 
on not more than two standing committees. This limitation was continued 
through the 80th, 81st, and part of the 82d Congresses until July 3, 
1952 (p. 9217) when it was modified so that Members elected to serve on 
the Committees on the District of Columbia, Government Operations, Un-
American Activities, or House Administration could be elected to serve 
on not more than two standing committees. It was restored to its 
original form by amendment on January 13, 1953 (p. 368) so that there 
was no limitation in House rules on the number of committees to which a 
Member may be elected until the 104th Congress added paragraph (b)(2) 
(see Sec. 760, supra). Party caucuses or conferences have also placed 
restrictions on committee assignments. The role of the respective party 
caucus or conference in making nominations to fill vacancies in standing 
committees was made part of the rule in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(e) of rule X (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The House by unanimous consent fixed the relative rank of two Members 
on a committee where an error had been made on the original appointment 
(Jan. 20, 1947, p. 481). The House has filled a vacancy on a standing 
committee (H. Res. 43, Jan. 24, 1991, p. 2169) with a Member 
subsequently designated by the party caucus as ``temporary'' (in order 
to avoid caucus limitations on committee assignments) (Feb. 5, 1991, p. 
2814).

Expense resolutions
  6. <> (a) Whenever a 
committee, commission, or other entity (other than the Committee on 
Appropriations) is granted authorization for the payment of its expenses 
(including staff salaries) for a Congress, such authorization initially 
shall be procured by one pri

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mary expense resolution reported by the Committee on House 
Administration. A primary expense resolution may include a reserve fund 
for unanticipated expenses of committees. An amount from such a reserve 
fund may be allocated to a committee only by the approval of the 
Committee on House Administration. A primary expense resolution reported 
to <> the House may not be 
considered in the House unless a printed report thereon was available on 
the previous calendar day. For the information of the House, such report 
shall--
      (1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to the 
committee, commission, or other entity under the primary expense 
resolution for all anticipated activities and programs of the committee, 
commission, or other entity; and
      (2) to the extent practicable, contain such general statements 
regarding the estimated foreseeable expenditures for the respective 
anticipated activities and programs of the committee, commission, or 
other entity as may be appropriate to provide the House with basic 
estimates of the expenditures contemplated by the primary expense 
resolution.
  (b) After the date of adoption by the House <> of a primary expense resolution for a 
committee, commission, or other entity for a Congress, authorization for 
the payment of additional expenses (including staff salaries) in that 
Congress may be procured by one or more supplemental expense resolutions 
re

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ported by the Committee on House Administration, as necessary. A 
supplemental expense resolution reported to the House may not be 
considered in the House unless a printed report thereon was available on 
the previous calendar day. For the information of the House, such report 
shall--
      (1) state the total amount of additional funds to be provided to 
the committee, commission, or other entity under the supplemental 
expense resolution and the purposes for which those additional funds are 
available; and
      (2) state the reasons for the failure to procure the additional 
funds for the committee, commission, or other entity by means of the 
primary expense resolution.
  (c) The preceding provisions of this clause do not apply to--
      (1) a <> resolution providing for the payment from committee salary 
and expense accounts of the House of sums necessary to pay compensation 
for staff services performed for, or to pay other expenses of, a 
committee, commission, or other entity at any time after the beginning 
of an odd-numbered year and before the date of adoption by the House of 
the primary expense resolution described in paragraph (a) for that year; 
or
      (2) a resolution providing each of the standing committees in a 
Congress additional office equipment, airmail and special-delivery post

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age stamps, supplies, staff personnel, or any other specific item for 
the operation of the standing committees, and containing an 
authorization for the payment from committee salary and expense accounts 
of the House of the expenses of any of the foregoing items provided by 
that resolution, subject to and until enactment of the provisions of the 
resolution as permanent law.

  Paragraphs (a)-(c) of this clause were contained originally in section 
110(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and 
were added to the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, 
p. 144). Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470), the authority of all committees to incur expenses, 
including travel expenses, was made contingent upon adoption by the 
House of resolutions reported pursuant to this clause (clause 1(b) of 
rule XI). The clause was amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to extend its applicability to all committees, 
commissions, and entities rather than just to standing committees. 
Paragraphs (a)-(c) were amended in the 104th Congress to institute 
biennial funding of committee expenses and to require that all committee 
staff salaries and expenses (including statutory staff) be authorized by 
expense resolution (sec. 101(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). In 
the 105th Congress paragraph (a) was amended to permit a primary expense 
resolution to include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses of 
committees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). A technical correction to 
paragraphs (a) and (b) was effected in the 106th Congress to conform 
references to a renamed committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 5 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  The Committee on Appropriations is not covered by this clause, but is 
reimbursed by funds in appropriation acts for expenses of examinations 
of estimates of appropriations in the field (31 U.S.C. 1108). An 
exemption from this clause for the Committee on the Budget was effective 
from the enactment of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 through the 
103d Congress.
  Based on the exception stated in paragraph (c), a resolution 
establishing a task force of members of a standing committee and 
providing for the payment of its expenses from the contingent fund of 
the House (now referred to as ``applicable accounts of the House 
described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X'') was held not to be subject to a 
point of order under clause 5(a) of rule XI (now clause 6(a) of this 
rule) for lack of report language

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detailing the funding provided, because the resolution was called up at 
the beginning of the session before consideration of a primary expense 
resolution for all committees for that calendar year (Feb. 5, 1992, p. 
1621).

  (d) <> From the funds made available for the appointment of 
committee staff by a primary or additional expense resolution, the chair 
of each committee shall ensure that sufficient staff is made available 
to each subcommittee to carry out its responsibilities under the rules 
of the committee and that the minority party is treated fairly in the 
appointment of such staff.

  Paragraph (d) was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(c)(4), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). A preceding form of the paragraph, first 
adopted in the 94th Congress, authorized the chair and ranking minority 
member of a subcommittee each to appoint one staff member to the 
subcommittee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). As adopted in the 93d 
Congress to take effect on the first day of the 94th Congress, the 
paragraph had required that each standing committee, upon request of a 
majority of its minority members, devote one-third of its staffing funds 
to the needs of the minority (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). As 
adopted in the 92d Congress, the paragraph required that the minority be 
accorded fair consideration in the appointment of committee staff (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(d) of 
rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7).

  (e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause and clauses 7 
and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities of the committee.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2(n)(1) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47).

Interim funding
  7. (a) <> For the period beginning at 
noon on January 3 and ending at midnight on March 31 in each odd-
numbered

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year, such sums as may be necessary shall be paid out of the committee 
salary and expense accounts of the House for continuance of necessary 
investigations and studies by--
      (1) each standing and select committee established by these rules; 
and
      (2) except as specified in paragraph (b), each select committee 
established by resolution.
  (b) In the case of the first session of a Congress, amounts shall be 
made available for a select committee established by resolution in the 
preceding Congress only if--
      (1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select committee is 
introduced in the present Congress; and
      (2) the House has not adopted a resolution of the preceding 
Congress providing for termination of funding for investigations and 
studies by such select committee.
  (c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) shall be entitled for 
each month during the period specified in paragraph (a) to 9 percent (or 
such lesser percentage as may be determined by the Committee on House 
Administration) of the total annualized amount made available under 
expense resolutions for such committee in the preceding session of 
Congress.
  (d) Payments under this clause shall be made on vouchers authorized by 
the committee involved, signed by the chair of the committee, except as 
provided in paragraph (e), and approved by the Committee on House 
Administration.

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  (e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule of the House, or other 
authority, from noon on January 3 of the first session of a Congress 
until the election by the House of the committee concerned in that 
Congress, payments under this clause shall be made on vouchers signed by 
the ranking member of the committee as it was constituted at the 
expiration of the preceding Congress who is a member of the majority 
party in the present Congress.
  (f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur expenses under this 
clause shall expire upon adoption by the House of a primary expense 
resolution for the committee.
  (2) Amounts made available under this clause shall be expended in 
accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House 
Administration.
  (3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is not 
inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee on House 
Administration and adopted by the House after the adoption of these 
rules.

  This clause (formerly clause 5(f) of rule XI) was originally adopted 
in the 99th Congress to provide automatic interim funding for committees 
at the beginning of a Congress (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393). 
Resolutions providing such interim funding had been routinely adopted at 
the convening of Congress before the adoption of this standing 
authority. In the 100th Congress, the provision was amended to make the 
automatic committee funding mechanism applicable to the first three 
months of the second session of a Congress, as well as the first 
session, and to authorize the Committee on House Administration to 
establish interim funding for any committee at a percentage lower than 9 
percent of the total annualized amount (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). 
In the 104th and 106th Congresses technical corrections were effected to 
conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Clerical corrections 
were effected in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x),

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H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Paragraph (e) was simplified and a 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (secs. 2(l), 
2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
5(f) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  At its organization the 104th Congress suspended the operation of 
paragraph (f) in favor of special provisions for interim funding in 
light of its abolishment of three standing committees, its reduction in 
the overall number of committee staff, and its institution of biennial 
primary expense resolutions (sec. 101(c)(3), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
462). The House by unanimous consent has agreed to a resolution 
providing funding for interim expenses of a new select committee (Feb. 
13, 2003, p. 3793) and a new standing committee (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).

Travel
  8. (a) <> Local currencies owned by the 
United States shall be made available to the committee and its employees 
engaged in carrying out their official duties outside the United States 
or its territories or possessions. Appropriated funds, including those 
authorized under this clause and clause 6, may not be expended for the 
purpose of defraying expenses of members of a committee or its employees 
in a country where local currencies are available for this purpose.
  (b) The following conditions shall apply with respect to travel 
outside the United States or its territories or possessions:
      (1) A member or employee of a committee may not receive or expend 
local currencies for subsistence in a country for a day at a rate in 
excess of the maximum per diem set forth in applicable Federal law.
      (2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for the expenses of 
such individual for a day at the lesser of--

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          (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or
          (B) the actual, unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
transportation) incurred during that day.
      (3) <> Each member or employee of 
a committee shall make to the chair of the committee an itemized report 
showing the dates each country was visited, the amount of per diem 
furnished, the cost of transportation furnished, and funds expended for 
any other official purpose and shall summarize in these categories the 
total foreign currencies or appropriated funds expended. Each report 
shall be filed with the chair of the committee not later than 60 days 
following the completion of travel for use in complying with reporting 
requirements in applicable Federal law and shall be open for public 
inspection.
  (c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a committee outside the 
United States in a country where local currencies are unavailable, a 
member or employee of a committee may not receive reimbursement for 
expenses (other than for transportation) in excess of the maximum per 
diem set forth in applicable Federal law.
  (2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for the expenses of such 
individual for a day, at the lesser of--
      (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or

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      (B) the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
transportation) incurred during that day.
  (3) A member or employee of a committee may not receive reimbursement 
for the cost of any transportation in connection with travel outside the 
United States unless the member or employee actually paid for the 
transportation.
  (d) The restrictions respecting travel outside the United States set 
forth in paragraph (c) also shall apply to travel outside the United 
States by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House authorized under any standing rule.

  Before the adoption of this clause (formerly clause 2(n) of rule XI) 
and of clause 1(b) of rule XI under the Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470), each committee was given separate authority to incur expenses 
in connection with its investigations and studies, and certain 
committees were authorized to use local currencies for foreign committee 
travel, in resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules in each 
Congress. This clause was amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to clarify the availability of local currencies for 
travel outside the United States and its territories and possessions, to 
require reports within 60 days for use in complying with statutory 
reporting requirements, and to authorize the Committee on House 
Administration to recommend in expense resolutions expenses for foreign 
as well as domestic travel. This clause was further amended on March 2, 
1977 (H. Res. 287, 95th Cong., pp. 5933-53) to limit all travel expenses 
to the maximum per diem rate or actual, unreimbursed expenses, whichever 
is less. Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former clause 2(n) of rule XI, except that 
the ``lame duck'' travel prohibitions formerly found in clause 2(n)(5) 
of rule XI and clause 8 of rule I were transferred to former rule XXV 
(redesignated as rule XXIV in the 107th Congress) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). Clerical corrections were effected and gender-based 
references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (secs. 2(l), 2(m), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  Under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 
1754(b)), foreign local currencies owned or purchased by the United 
States may be used for foreign travel expenses by members or employees 
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ing or select committees when authorized by the chair thereof, and by 
other Members or employees when authorized by the Speaker. Consolidated 
committee reports prepared on a quarterly basis, and individual reports 
required within 30 days after the travel involved, must be forwarded to 
the Clerk of the House and published in the Congressional Record.

Committee staffs
  9. <> (a)(1) Subject to 
subparagraph (2) and paragraph (f), each standing committee may appoint, 
by majority vote, not more than 30 professional staff members to be 
compensated from the funds provided for the appointment of committee 
staff by primary and additional expense resolutions. Each professional 
staff <> member appointed under this 
subparagraph shall be assigned to the chair and the ranking minority 
member of the committee, as the committee considers advisable.
  (2) <> Subject to paragraph (f) whenever a 
majority of the minority party members of a standing committee (other 
than the Committee on Ethics or the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence) so request, not more than 10 persons (or one-third of the 
total professional committee staff appointed under this clause, 
whichever is fewer) may be selected, by majority vote of the minority 
party members, for appointment by the committee as professional staff 
members under subparagraph (1). The committee shall appoint persons so 
selected whose character and qualifications are acceptable to a majority 
of the committee. If the committee determines that the character and 
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able, a majority of the minority party members may select another person 
for appointment by the committee to the professional staff until such 
appointment is made. Each professional staff member appointed under this 
subparagraph shall be assigned to such committee business as the 
minority party members of the committee consider advisable.

  This clause (formerly clause 6 of rule XI) had its origins in section 
202 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), which 
allocated up to four nonpartisan professionals to each committee other 
than Appropriations and specifically provided for clerical staff, and 
which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). 
Section 302(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 
1140), which increased the authorized maximum for professional staff 
from four to six and added the concept of minority staffing, was 
incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 
1971, p. 144). In the 93d Congress the maximum was increased from six to 
18, the minority entitlement within that number was increased from two 
to six, a requirement that professional staff be appointed without 
regard to political affiliation was eliminated, and prohibitions against 
consideration of race, creed, sex, or age in the appointment of staff 
were added (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). An exemption for the 
Committee on the Budget was included in section 901 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 330), was later omitted under the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and was 
reinserted by the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). The 
requirement added in 1975 that staff positions made available to 
subcommittee chairs and ranking minority members pursuant to former 
provisions of clause 5 of rule XI be provided from staff positions 
available under this clause unless provided in a primary or additional 
expense resolution was eliminated in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(c)(5), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 98th Congress added the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence to the exception for the Committee on 
Ethics (formerly Standards of Official Conduct) (H. Res. 58, Mar. 1, 
1983, p. 3241). The 101st Congress added an exemption for the Committee 
on Rules (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 
struck the antidiscrimination provisions as redundant (P.L. 101-194, 
Nov. 30, 1989). The 104th Congress eliminated the former distinction 
between professional and clerical staff, set the authorized maximum for 
committee staff under expense resolutions at 30, eliminated subcommittee 
entitlement to staff, and set the entitlement of the full committee 
minority within that number at one-third (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 104th Congress also mandated that the total 
number of staff

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of House committees be at least one-third less than the corresponding 
total in the 103d Congress (sec. 101(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
462). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Subparagraph (2) was amended 
in the 112th Congress to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 
2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former 
clause 6 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Additional staff of committees are authorized by the Committee on 
House Administration and agreed to by the House. There is no legal power 
to fill a vacancy in the clerkship of a committee after one Congress has 
expired and before the next House has been organized (IV, 4539). An 
assault upon the clerk of a committee within the walls of the Capitol 
was held to be a breach of privilege (II, 1629). The pay of clerks has 
been the subject of several decisions (IV, 4536-4538).
  Committees <> may, with the 
approval of the Committee on House Administration, procure the temporary 
or intermittent services of consultants and obtain specialized training 
for professional staff, subject to expense resolutions, under the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, sections 303 and 304 (2 U.S.C. 
4301(i) and (j)).

  (b)(1) <> The professional staff 
members of each standing committee--
      (A) may not engage in any work other than committee business 
during congressional working hours; and
      (B) may not be assigned a duty other than one pertaining to 
committee business.
  (2)(A) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to staff designated by a 
committee <> as 
``associate'' or ``shared'' staff who are not paid exclusively by the 
committee, provided that the chair certifies that the compensation paid 
by the committee for any such staff is commensurate with the work 
performed for the committee in accordance with clause 8 of rule XXIII.
  (B) The use of any ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff by a committee 
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Appropriations shall be subject to the review of, and to any terms, 
conditions, or limitations established by, the Committee on House 
Administration in connection with the reporting of any primary or 
additional expense resolution.

  The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 prescribed that staff work be confined 
to committee business during congressional working hours but maintained 
exceptions for the Committees on the Budget and Rules (P.L. 101-194, 
Nov. 30, 1989). The 104th Congress eliminated exceptions by committee in 
favor of exceptions for ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff (sec. 
101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). Technical corrections were 
effected in the 104th Congress (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077); 
in the 106th Congress, which conformed references to a renamed committee 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); in the 107th Congress, which conformed 
references to a redesignated rule (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 24); and in the 108th Congress, which confined the exception for the 
Committee on Appropriations to subparagraph (B), rather than to the 
entire paragraph (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). A gender-
based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6 of rule XI 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (c) <> Each employee on the professional or 
investigative staff of a standing committee shall be entitled to pay at 
a single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chair and that does 
not exceed the maximum rate of pay as in effect from time to time under 
applicable provisions of law.

  This provision (formerly clause 6(c) of rule XI) was derived from 
section 477(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 
1140) and was incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Under the Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470), the maximum salary was set at level V of the Executive 
Schedule, rather than at the highest rate of basic pay law (5 U.S.C. 
5332(a)(1)), as specified in the 1970 Reorganization Act, and effective 
in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), the authority 
for two professional staff to be paid at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule was added to the clause. Under section 311 of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (2 U.S.C. 4532), the maximum salary for 
staff members is now set by pay order

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of the Speaker. At the beginning of the 101st Congress, references to 
particular levels of the executive schedule were deleted (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). In the 104th Congress this paragraph was amended 
to reflect the elimination of the former distinction between 
``professional'' and ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 462). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 6 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (d) <> Subject to 
appropriations hereby authorized, the Committee on Appropriations may 
appoint by majority vote such staff as it determines to be necessary (in 
addition to the clerk of the committee and assistants for the minority). 
The staff appointed under this paragraph, other than minority 
assistants, shall possess such qualifications as the committee may 
prescribe.

  This paragraph (formerly clause 6(d) of rule XI) derives from section 
202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), 
which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). The 
exemption was extended to the Committee on the Budget by section 901 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 330). The reference to 
that committee was inadvertently omitted by the 93d Congress (H. Res. 
988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470) and reinserted by the 94th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). The 104th Congress deleted the exemption 
for the Committee on the Budget (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 462). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(d) of rule XI (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (e) <> A committee may not 
appoint to its staff an expert or other personnel detailed or assigned 
from a department or agency of the Government except with the written 
permission of the Committee on House Administration.

  This paragraph was contained in section 202(f) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) and was incorporated into the 
rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). In the 104th and 106th Congresses it 
was

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amended to conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (f) If a request for the appointment of a minority professional staff 
member under paragraph (a) is made when no vacancy exists for such an 
appointment, the committee nevertheless may appoint under paragraph (a) 
a person selected by the minority and acceptable to the committee. A 
person so appointed shall serve as an additional member of the 
professional staff of the committee until such a vacancy occurs (other 
than a vacancy in the position of head of the professional staff, by 
whatever title designated), at which time that person is considered as 
appointed to that vacancy. Such a person shall be paid from the 
applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X. 
If such a vacancy occurs on the professional staff when seven or more 
persons have been so appointed who are eligible to fill that vacancy, a 
majority of the minority party members shall designate which of those 
persons shall fill the vacancy.
  (g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a request by minority 
party members under paragraph (a), and each staff member appointed to 
assist minority members of a committee pursuant to an expense resolution 
described in clause 6(a), shall be accorded equitable treatment with 
respect to the fixing of the rate of pay, the assignment of work 
facilities, and the accessibility of committee records.
  (h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to authorize the appointment of 
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sional staff members of a committee pursuant to a request under 
paragraph (a) by the minority party members of that committee if 10 or 
more professional staff members provided for in paragraph (a)(1) who are 
satisfactory to a majority of the minority party members are otherwise 
assigned to assist the minority party members.

  Paragraphs (f)-(h) (formerly clause 6(f)-(h) of rule XI) are derived 
from section 302(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 
Stat. 1140) and were incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 
93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), conforming changes were made in 
paragraphs (f) and (h) to reflect increased minority professional and 
clerical staff permitted to committees under paragraphs (a) and (b) of 
this clause. In the 104th Congress paragraphs (f)-(h) were amended to 
reflect the elimination of the former distinction between 
``professional'' and ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 462). The 104th Congress also mandated that the total number 
of staff of House committees be at least one-third less than the 
corresponding total in the 103d Congress (sec. 101(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 462). In the 105th Congress paragraph (f) was amended to 
update an archaic reference to the ``contingent fund'' (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
7, 1997, p. 121). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6 of rule XI (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A clerical correction was effected in the 
107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), and 
conforming changes to paragraph (f) were effected in the 109th and 112th 
Congresses (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 2(e)(8), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).

  (i) <> Notwithstanding paragraph 
(a)(2), a committee may employ nonpartisan staff, in lieu of or in 
addition to committee staff designated exclusively for the majority or 
minority party, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of 
the majority party and of a majority of the members of the minority 
party.

  Section 202(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 
812), which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24), 
required committee professional staffs to be appointed on a permanent

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basis without regard to political affiliation. The concept of minority 
staffing was added by section 302(b) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1970. Under the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective 
January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), 
paragraph (i) (formerly clause 6(i) of rule XI) was added to permit 
committees to employ nonpartisan staff upon an affirmative vote of the 
majority of the members of each party. In the 104th Congress it was 
amended to reflect the elimination of the former distinction between 
``professional'' and ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 462). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(i) of rule XI (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Effective <> in the 95th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), former clause 6(j) of 
rule XI, which was added on January 3, 1953 (p. 24) and which was 
contained in section 134(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1945, was deleted; that clause required committees to report 
semiannually to the Clerk on the names, professions, and salaries of 
committee employees.

Select and joint committees
  10. (a) <> Membership on a select or joint committee appointed by 
the Speaker under clause 11 of rule I during the course of a Congress 
shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or 
conference of which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
concerned was a member at the time of appointment. Should a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of that caucus 
or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
automatically cease to be a member of any select or joint committee to 
which assigned. The chair of the relevant party caucus or conference 
shall notify the Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner ceases to be a member of a party caucus or conference. The 
Speaker shall notify the chair of each affected select or joint 
committee

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that the appointment of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
to the select or joint committee is automatically vacated under this 
paragraph.

  This party membership requirement for select and joint committees, 
analogous to clause 5(b), was added in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
1983, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). Gender-based references were eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 6(g) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (b) <> Each 
select or joint committee, other than a conference committee, shall 
comply with clause 2(a) of rule XI unless specifically exempted by law.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph 
(b) was found in clause 2(a) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). The extension of clause 2(a) requirements to select and joint 
committees was added to clause 2(a) when that rule was rewritten by the 
Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470).
  A <> paragraph (i) of former clause 6 of rule 
X was incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), to provide for a permanent 
select committee on aging. That provision was stricken in the 103d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  11. (a)(1) There is <> established a Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
(hereafter in this clause referred to as the ``select committee''). The 
select committee shall be composed of not more than 22 Members, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than 13 may be 
from the same party. The select committee shall include at least one 
Member, Delegate, or

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the Resident Commissioner from each of the following committees:
      (A) the Committee on Appropriations;
      (B) the Committee on Armed Services;
      (C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and
      (D) the Committee on the Judiciary.
  (2) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be ex officio members of 
the select committee but shall have no vote in the select committee and 
may not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum thereof.
  (3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a respective 
leadership staff member to assist in the capacity of the Speaker or 
Minority Leader as ex officio member, with the same access to committee 
meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as employees of the select 
committee and subject to the same security clearance and confidentiality 
requirements as employees of the select committee under this clause.
  (4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner, other than the Speaker or the Minority Leader, 
may not serve as a member of the select committee during more than four 
Congresses in a period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for 
this purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
  (B) In the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
appointed to serve as the chair or the ranking minority member of the se

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lect committee, tenure on the select committee shall not be limited.
  (b)(1) There shall be referred to the select committee proposed 
legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
to the following:
      (A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the National Intelligence Program as defined in 
section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.
      (B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all other 
departments and agencies of the Government, including the tactical 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of 
Defense.
      (C) The organization or reorganization of a department or agency 
of the Government to the extent that the organization or reorganization 
relates to a function or activity involving intelligence or 
intelligence-related activities.
      (D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct and indirect, 
for the following:
          (i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the National Intelligence Program as defined in 
section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.
          (ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the Government, including the tactical 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of 
Defense.

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          (iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or program that is a 
successor to an agency or program named or referred to in (i) or (ii).
  (2) Proposed legislation initially reported by the select committee 
(other than provisions solely involving matters specified in 
subparagraph (1)(A) or subparagraph (1)(D)(i)) containing any matter 
otherwise within the jurisdiction of a standing committee shall be 
referred by the Speaker to that standing committee. Proposed legislation 
initially reported by another committee that contains matter within the 
jurisdiction of the select committee shall be referred by the Speaker to 
the select committee if requested by the chair of the select committee.
  (3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as prohibiting or 
otherwise restricting the authority of any other committee to study and 
review an intelligence or intelligence-related activity to the extent 
that such activity directly affects a matter otherwise within the 
jurisdiction of that committee.
  (4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending, limiting, 
or otherwise changing the authority of a standing committee to obtain 
full and prompt access to the product of the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of the 
Government relevant to a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
that committee.
  (c)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, the select 
committee shall make regular and periodic reports to the House on the 
nature

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and extent of the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the various departments and agencies of the United States. The select 
committee shall promptly call to the attention of the House, or to any 
other appropriate committee, a matter requiring the attention of the 
House or another committee. In making such report, the select committee 
shall proceed in a manner consistent with paragraph (g) to protect 
national security.
  (2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports from the Director 
of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such reports shall 
review the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
agency or department concerned and the intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of foreign countries directed at the United States or 
its interests. An unclassified version of each report may be made 
available to the public at the discretion of the select committee. 
Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring the public disclosure in 
such reports of the names of persons engaged in intelligence or 
intelligence-related activities for the United States or the divulging 
of intelligence methods employed or the sources of information on which 
the reports are based or the amount of funds authorized to be 
appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related activities.

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  (3) Within six weeks after the President submits a budget under 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or at such time as the 
Committee on the Budget may request, the select committee shall submit 
to the Committee on the Budget the views and estimates described in 
section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding matters 
within the jurisdiction of the select committee.
  (d)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), clauses 8(a), (b), and 
(c) and 9(a), (b), and (c) of this rule, and clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule 
XI shall apply to the select committee to the extent not inconsistent 
with this clause.
  (2) Notwithstanding the requirements of the first sentence of clause 
2(g)(2) of rule XI, in the presence of the number of members required 
under the rules of the select committee for the purpose of taking 
testimony or receiving evidence, the select committee may vote to close 
a hearing whenever a majority of those present determines that the 
testimony or evidence would endanger the national security.
  (e) An employee of the select committee, or a person engaged by 
contract or otherwise to perform services for or at the request of the 
select committee, may not be given access to any classified information 
by the select committee unless such employee or person has--
      (1) agreed in writing and under oath to be bound by the Rules of 
the House, including the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ethics and of 
the select committee concerning the se

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curity of classified information during and after the period of the 
employment or contractual agreement of such employee or person with the 
select committee; and
      (2) received an appropriate security clearance, as determined by 
the select committee in consultation with the Director of National 
Intelligence, that is commensurate with the sensitivity of the 
classified information to which such employee or person will be given 
access by the select committee.
  (f) The select committee shall formulate and carry out such rules and 
procedures as it considers necessary to prevent the disclosure, without 
the consent of each person concerned, of information in the possession 
of the select committee that unduly infringes on the privacy or that 
violates the constitutional rights of such person. Nothing herein shall 
be construed to prevent the select committee from publicly disclosing 
classified information in a case in which it determines that national 
interest in the disclosure of classified information clearly outweighs 
any infringement on the privacy of a person.
  (g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any information in 
its possession after a determination by the select committee that the 
public interest would be served by such disclosure. With respect to the 
disclosure of information for which this paragraph requires action by 
the select committee--

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      (A) the select committee shall meet to vote on the matter within 
five days after a member of the select committee requests a vote; and
      (B) a member of the select committee may not make such a 
disclosure before a vote by the select committee on the matter, or after 
a vote by the select committee on the matter except in accordance with 
this paragraph.
  (2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to disclose 
publicly any information that has been classified under established 
security procedures, that has been submitted to it by the executive 
branch, and that the executive branch requests be kept secret, the 
select committee shall notify the President of such vote.
  (B) The select committee may disclose publicly such information after 
the expiration of a five-day period following the day on which notice of 
the vote to disclose is transmitted to the President unless, before the 
expiration of the five-day period, the President, personally in writing, 
notifies the select committee that the President objects to the 
disclosure of such information, provides reasons therefor, and certifies 
that the threat to the national interest of the United States posed by 
the disclosure is of such gravity that it outweighs any public interest 
in the disclosure.
  (C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the select 
committee of objections to the disclosure of information as provided in 
subdivision (B), the select committee may, by majority vote, refer the 
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information, with a recommendation thereon, to the House. The select 
committee may not publicly disclose such information without leave of 
the House.
  (D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the question of 
disclosure of any information to the House under subdivision (C), the 
chair shall, not later than the first day on which the House is in 
session following the day on which the vote occurs, report the matter to 
the House for its consideration.
  (E) If the chair of the select committee does not offer in the House a 
motion to consider in closed session a matter reported under subdivision 
(D) within four calendar days on which the House is in session after the 
recommendation described in subdivision (C) is reported, then such a 
motion shall be privileged when offered by a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner. In either case such a motion shall be decided 
without debate or intervening motion except one that the House adjourn.
  (F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve into closed 
session as described in subdivision (E), the Speaker may declare a 
recess subject to the call of the Chair. At the expiration of the 
recess, the pending question, in closed session, shall be, ``Shall the 
House approve the recommendation of the select committee?''.
  (G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F) shall be 
limited to two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
ranking minority member of the select committee. After

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such debate the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
question of approving the recommendation without intervening motion 
except one motion that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on the 
question in open session but without divulging the information with 
respect to which the vote is taken. If the recommendation of the select 
committee is not approved, then the question is considered as 
recommitted to the select committee for further recommendation.
  (3)(A) Information in the possession of the select committee relating 
to the lawful intelligence or intelligence-related activities of a 
department or agency of the United States that has been classified under 
established security procedures, and that the select committee has 
determined should not be disclosed under subparagraph (1) or (2), may 
not be made available to any person by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House except as provided in 
subdivision (B).
  (B) The select committee shall, under such regulations as it may 
prescribe, make information described in subdivision (A) available to a 
committee or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and permit a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to attend a hearing of the 
select committee that is closed to the public. Whenever the select 
committee makes such information available, it shall keep a written 
record showing, in the case of particular information, which committee 
or which Member, Del

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egate, or Resident Commissioner received the information. A Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who, and a committee that, receives 
information under this subdivision may not disclose the information 
except in a closed session of the House.
  (4) The Committee on Ethics shall investigate any unauthorized 
disclosure of intelligence or intelligence-related information by a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House in violation of subparagraph (3) and report to the House 
concerning any allegation that it finds to be substantiated.
  (5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an investigation 
described in subparagraph (4), the Committee on Ethics shall release to 
such person at the conclusion of its investigation a summary of its 
investigation, together with its findings. If, at the conclusion of its 
investigation, the Committee on Ethics determines that there has been a 
significant breach of confidentiality or unauthorized disclosure by a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House, it shall report its findings to the House and recommend 
appropriate action. Recommendations may include censure, removal from 
committee membership, or expulsion from the House, in the case of a 
Member, or removal from office or employment or punishment for contempt, 
in the case of an officer or employee.
  (h) The select committee may permit a personal representative of the 
President, designated

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by the President to serve as a liaison to the select committee, to 
attend any closed meeting of the select committee.
  (i) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may not be appropriated 
for a fiscal year, with the exception of a bill or joint resolution 
continuing appropriations, or an amendment thereto, or a conference 
report thereon, to, or for use of, a department or agency of the United 
States to carry out any of the following activities, unless the funds 
shall previously have been authorized by a bill or joint resolution 
passed by the House during the same or preceding fiscal year to carry 
out such activity for such fiscal year:
      (1) The activities of the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
      (2) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
      (3) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
      (4) The activities of the National Security Agency.
      (5) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of other 
agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense.
      (6) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of State.
      (7) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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      (8) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the executive branch.
  (j)(1) In this clause the term ``intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities'' includes--
      (A) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of 
information that relates to a foreign country, or a government, 
political group, party, military force, movement, or other association 
in a foreign country, and that relates to the defense, foreign policy, 
national security, or related policies of the United States and other 
activity in support of the collection, analysis, production, 
dissemination, or use of such information;
      (B) activities taken to counter similar activities directed 
against the United States;
      (C) covert or clandestine activities affecting the relations of 
the United States with a foreign government, political group, party, 
military force, movement, or other association;
      (D) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of 
information about activities of persons within the United States, its 
territories and possessions, or nationals of the United States abroad 
whose political and related activities pose, or may be considered by a 
department, agency, bureau, office, division, instrumentality, or 
employee of the United States to pose, a threat to the internal security 
of the United States; and
      (E) covert or clandestine activities directed against persons 
described in subdivision (D).

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  (2) In this clause the term ``department or agency'' includes any 
organization, committee, council, establishment, or office within the 
Federal Government.
  (3) For purposes of this clause, reference to a department, agency, 
bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference to any successor 
department, agency, bureau, or subdivision to the extent that a 
successor engages in intelligence or intelligence-related activities now 
conducted by the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to 
in this clause.
  (k) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to meetings of a 
conference committee respecting legislation (or any part thereof) 
reported by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

  This clause (formerly rule XLVIII) was <> adopted in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 
658, July 14, 1977, pp. 22932-49) and has had several technical 
amendments: (1) to change the size of the committee from 13 to 14 
members (H. Res. 70, 96th Cong., Jan. 25, 1979, p. 1023); (2) to conform 
references to a renamed committee (H. Res. 89, 96th Cong., Feb. 5, 1979, 
p. 1848); (3) to change the size to not more than 16 members (H. Res. 
33, 99th Cong., Jan. 30, 1985, p. 1271); (4) to change the size to not 
more than 17 members and to change the cross-reference in clause 7(c)(1) 
to include paragraph (a) or (b) (H. Res. 5, 100th Cong., Jan. 6, 1987, 
p. 6); (5) to change the size to not more than 19 members (H. Res. 5, 
101st Cong., Jan. 3, 1989, p. 73) and to permit the Speaker to attend 
meetings and have access to information (H. Res. 268, Nov. 14, 1989, p. 
28789); (6) to strike obsolete language relating to tenure restrictions 
in clause 1 and relating to the requirement for authorizations of 
appropriations in clause 9 (H. Res. 5, 102d Cong., Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39); 
(7) to limit the size of the panel to 16, with no more than nine members 
from the same party; to set the tenure limitation at four Congresses 
within a period of six Congresses, with exceptions for ongoing service 
as chair or ranking minority member; to make the Speaker (rather than 
the Majority Leader) an ex officio member of the panel (as opposed to 
former free access to its meetings and information); and to conform 
references to renamed committees (sec. 221, H. Res. 6, 104th Cong., Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 469); (8) to make certain

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conforming changes (Budget Enforcement Act of 1997, sec. 10104, P.L. 
105-33; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); (9) to increase the size of the 
committee to not more than 18 members, of whom not more than 10 shall be 
of the same political party (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 25); (10) to make a clerical correction in a cross reference 
(sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26); (11) to remove 
the tenure limitation for the chair and ranking minority member (sec. 
2(e-1), H. Res. 5, 108th Cong., Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7); (12) to increase 
the size of the committee to not more than 21 members, of whom not more 
than 12 shall be of the same political party (H. Res. 51, 109th Cong., 
Jan. 26, 2005, p. 826); (13) to conform references to a renamed 
committee (sec. 213(c), H. Res. 6, 110th Cong., Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19); 
(14) to conform jurisdictional statements to changes in the intelligence 
community (sec. 504, H. Res. 6, 110th Cong., Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 
(adopted Jan. 5, 2007)); (15) to eliminate gender-based references (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, 111th Cong., Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7); (16) to increase the 
size of the committee to not more than 22 members, of whom not more than 
13 shall be of the same political party (H. Res. 97, 111th Cong., Jan. 
28, 2009, p. 1946); (17) to conform references to a renamed committee 
and to reduce the size of the committee to not more than 20 members, of 
whom not more than 12 shall be of the same political party (secs. 
2(e)(8), 2(e)(11), H. Res. 5, 112th Cong., Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80); (18) to 
increase the size of the committee to not more than 22 members, of whom 
not more than 13 shall be of the same political party (sec. 2(a)(9), H. 
Res. 5, 114th Cong., Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). By order of the House, the 
size of the committee was increased for the 107th Congress to not more 
than 20 members, of whom not more than 11 could be of the same political 
party (Jan. 6, 2001, p. 25), and for the 113th Congress to not more than 
21 members (Feb. 13, 2013, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former rule XLVIII 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458) reorganized the intelligence 
community.
  More substantive amendments have been adopted as follows: (1) clause 4 
was amended to make former clause 6(c) of rule XI (current clause 9(c) 
of rule X) applicable to salaries of the staff of the committee (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16); (2) paragraph (d) (formerly clause 4) was 
amended to make an exception to the provisions of clause 2(g)(2) of rule 
XI (requiring a majority of the membership of a committee be present in 
order to vote to close a hearing) to allow the committee to vote to go 
into executive session if a majority of the members present, there being 
in attendance the requisite number under the committee rules for the 
purpose of taking testimony, determine that it is necessary to do so for 
national security reasons (but in no event to be determined by less than 
two members) (H. Res. 165, Mar. 29, 1979, p. 6820); (3) paragraph (d) 
(formerly clause 4) was amended to provide the committee with permanent 
professional and clerical staff as provided by former clauses 6(a) and 
(b) of rule XI (current

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clauses 9(a) and (b) of rule X) (H. Res. 58, Mar. 1, 1983, p. 3241); (4) 
paragraph (b)(1) (formerly clause 2(a)) was amended to clarify 
jurisdiction over the National Foreign Intelligence Program and the 
tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of Defense and paragraph (a)(3) (formerly clause 1(b)) was 
added to clarify staffing arrangements for the Speaker and the Minority 
Leader as ex officio members (sec. 221, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
469).
  The resolution creating the committee directed the committee to make a 
study with respect to intelligence and intelligence-related activities 
of the U.S. and to report thereon, together with appropriate 
recommendations, not later than the close of the 95th Congress (sec. 3, 
H. Res. 658; see H. Rept. 95-1795, Oct. 14, 1978), and transferred to 
the committee all records, files, documents, and other materials of the 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the 94th Congress in the possession, 
custody, or control of the Clerk of the House.
  The committee has shared jurisdiction with the Committee on the 
Judiciary over electronic surveillance of foreign intelligence (Nov. 4, 
1977, p. 37070) and with the Committees on Science, Space, and 
Technology and Foreign Affairs over a bill establishing a satellite 
monitoring commission (Mar. 15, 1988, p. 3847), and has sole 
jurisdiction over a resolution of inquiry directing the Secretary of 
Defense to furnish to the House documents and information on Cuban or 
other foreign military or paramilitary presence in Panama or the Canal 
Zone (Apr. 6, 1978, p. 9105).
  Paragraph (g)(2) places restrictions on the committee only with 
respect to the public disclosure of classified information in the 
possession of that committee, and does not prevent the House from 
determining to release any matter properly presented to it in secret 
session pursuant to clause 9 of rule XVII (formerly rule XXIX) (Feb. 25, 
1980, p. 3618).
  In the 107th Congress the committee was given oversight authority 
described in clause 3(m) of rule X (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 25).

 end segment .007  deg. segment .008 -- rule XI  deg.


                                 Rule XI

            procedures of committees and unfinished business

In general
  1. <> (a)(1)(A) The Rules of the 
House are the rules of its committees and subcommittees so far as 
applicable.
  (B) Each subcommittee is a part of its committee and is subject to the 
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tion of that committee and to its rules, so far as applicable.
  (2)(A) In a committee or subcommittee--
      (i) a motion to recess from day to day, or to recess subject to 
the call of the Chair (within 24 hours), shall be privileged; and
      (ii) a motion to dispense with the first reading (in full) of a 
bill or resolution shall be privileged if printed copies are available.
  (B) A motion accorded privilege under this subparagraph shall be 
decided without debate.

  This paragraph was first adopted December 8, 1931, to provide that the 
Rules of the House are the rules of the standing committees (without 
reference to subcommittees) and to provide for a privileged motion to 
recess from day to day (VIII, 2215). The paragraph was amended March 23, 
1955, when the House adopted rules governing committee investigations 
that are now embodied in clause 2 (pp. 3569-3585). In the 92d Congress 
paragraph (a) was amended in the form contained in the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) to specifically address 
subcommittees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). It was amended again 
in the 99th Congress to allow a privileged motion to dispense with the 
first reading of a measure if printed copies are available (H. Res. 7, 
Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 109th Congress paragraph (a) was reorganized and 
amended to provide for a privileged motion to recess subject to the call 
of the chair (within 24 hours) (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 
43). For the requirement in Jefferson's Manual that a bill or resolution 
be read in full upon demand, before being read by paragraphs or sections 
for amendment, see Sec. 412, supra.
  Each committee may appoint subcommittees (VI, 532), which should 
include majority and minority representation (IV, 4551), and confer on 
them powers delegated to the committee itself (VI, 532) except such 
powers as are reserved to the full committee by the Rules of the House; 
but express authority also has been given subcommittees by the House 
(III, 1754-1759, 1801, 2499, 2504, 2508, 2517; IV, 4548).
  As indicated in Sec. 369, supra, clause 1(a)(1)(A) enables standing 
and select committees to enforce in committee applicable House rules of 
decorum, such as clause 2 of rule I and rule XVII.


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  (b)(1) <> Each committee may 
conduct at any time such investigations and studies as it considers 
necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its responsibilities under 
rule X. Subject to the adoption of expense resolutions as required by 
clause 6 of rule X, each committee may incur expenses, including travel 
expenses, in connection with such investigations and studies.
  (2) A proposed investigative or oversight report shall be considered 
as read in committee if it has been available to the members for at 
least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except 
when the House is in session on such a day).
  (3) A report of an investigation or study conducted jointly by more 
than one committee may be filed jointly, provided that each of the 
committees complies independently with all requirements for approval and 
filing of the report.
  (4) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of a 
Congress, an investigative or oversight report may be filed with the 
Clerk at any time, provided that a member who gives timely notice of 
intention to file supplemental, minority, additional, or dissenting 
views shall be entitled to not less than seven calendar days in which to 
submit such views for inclusion in the report.

  Paragraph (b)(1) was incorporated into the rules under the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and, together with clause 8 of rule X 
and clause 2(m) of rule XI, eliminated the necessity that each committee 
obtain such authority each Congress by a separate resolution reported 
from the

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Committee on Rules. Paragraphs (b)(2), (b)(3), and (b)(4) were added in 
the 105th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Clerical and 
stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (4) 
was amended in the 114th Congress to include dissenting views to mirror 
an amendment to clause 2(l) (sec. 2(a)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. 
_).

  (c) <> Each committee may have 
printed and bound such testimony and other data as may be presented at 
hearings held by the committee or its subcommittees. All costs of 
stenographic services and transcripts in connection with a meeting or 
hearing of a committee shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the 
House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X.

  Paragraph (c) was made part of the rules by the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 105th and 106th Congresses, it was 
amended to update a reference to the ``contingent fund'' (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), and conforming 
changes were effected in the 109th and 112th Congresses (sec. 2(a), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).

  (d)(1) <> Not later than January 2 
of each odd-numbered year, a committee shall submit to the House a 
report on the activities of that committee.
  (2) Such report shall include--
      (A) separate sections summarizing the legislative and oversight 
activities of that committee under this rule and rule X during the 
Congress;
      (B) a summary of the oversight plans submitted by the committee 
under clause 2(d) of rule X;

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      (C) a summary of the actions taken and recommendations made with 
respect to the oversight plans specified in subdivision (B);
      (D) a summary of any additional oversight activities undertaken by 
that committee and any recommendations made or actions taken thereon; 
and
      (E) a delineation of any hearings held pursuant to clauses 2(n), 
(o), or (p) of this rule.
  (3) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of a 
Congress, or after December 15 of an even-numbered year, whichever 
occurs first, the chair of a committee may file the report described in 
subparagraph (1) with the Clerk at any time and without approval of the 
committee, provided that--
      (A) a copy of the report has been available to each member of the 
committee for at least seven calendar days; and
      (B) the report includes any supplemental, minority, additional, or 
dissenting views submitted by a member of the committee.

  The provisions of paragraph (d)(1) were first made requirements of the 
rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144, 
incorporating the provisions of sec. 118(b) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140)), and effective on January 3, 
1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), exemptions from 
the reporting requirements for the Committees on Appropriations, the 
Budget, House Administration, Rules, and Ethics (formerly Standards of 
Official Conduct) were removed, so the paragraph from that point applied 
to all committees. The 104th Congress added what is now subparagraph (2) 
to require that activity reports include separate sections on 
legislative and oversight activities, including a summary comparison of 
oversight plans and eventual recommendations and actions (sec. 203(b), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). What is now subparagraph (3) was added 
in the 105th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Clerical and 
stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,

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1999, p. 47). In the 111th Congress, the House amended subparagraph (2) 
to require the inclusion of hearings under paragraphs (n), (o), and (p) 
of this clause in the oversight section of activities reports (H. Res. 
40, Jan. 14, 2009, p. 757), and eliminated a gender-based reference 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). In the 112th Congress, the 
paragraph was rewritten entirely to clarify late-session filing and to 
increase from biennial to semiannual the frequency of reports (sec. 
2(e)(13), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), which was reduced to annual 
in the 113th Congress (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _) and 
back to biennial in the 114th Congress (sec. 2(a)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _). Subparagraph (3)(B) was amended in the 114th Congress to 
include dissenting views to mirror an amendment to clause 2(l) (sec. 
2(a)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, the Committee on Rules 
is required to include in its activity report a separate item 
identifying all waivers of points of order relating to Federal mandates, 
listed by bill or joint resolution number and subject matter (sec. 
107(b), P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 63).

Adoption of written rules
  2. <> (a)(1) Each standing committee 
shall adopt written rules governing its procedure. Such rules--
      (A) shall be adopted in a meeting that is open to the public 
unless the committee, in open session and with a quorum present, 
determines by record vote that all or part of the meeting on that day 
shall be closed to the public;
      (B) may not be inconsistent with the Rules of the House or with 
those provisions of law having the force and effect of Rules of the 
House;
      (C) shall in any event incorporate all of the succeeding 
provisions of this clause to the extent applicable; and
      (D) shall include provisions to govern the implementation of 
clause 4 as provided in paragraph (f) of such clause.

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  (2) Each committee shall make its rules publicly available in 
electronic form and submit such rules for publication in the 
Congressional Record not later than 30 days after the chair of the 
committee is elected in each odd-numbered year.
  (3) A committee may adopt a rule providing that the chair be directed 
to offer a motion under clause 1 of rule XXII whenever the chair 
considers it appropriate.

  The requirement that standing committees adopt written rules was first 
incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 
1971, p. 144), having been included in the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140). Under the Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, clause 2(a) became effective in essentially its present form on 
January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 
94th Congress it was amended to permit a record vote to close the 
committee meeting at which committee rules are adopted only on the day 
of the meeting (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). In the 102d Congress 
it was amended to allow a committee 30 days after the election of its 
members, rather than after the convening of the Congress, to publish its 
rules in the Congressional Record (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). The 
provision requiring publication of committee rules in the Congressional 
Record derived from statute (2 U.S.C. 190a-2 (repealed 1979)). A court 
interpreted that statute to be mandatory in a case in which a Senate 
committee failed to publish in the Record a rule regarding a quorum for 
the purpose of taking sworn testimony. In overturning a perjury 
conviction, the court held that the unpublished committee rule was not 
valid. United States v. Reinecke, 524 F.2d 435 (D.C. Cir. 1975). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Subparagraph (2) was amended in the 112th Congress to require committee 
rules to also be publicly available in electronic form, and to begin the 
day-count for submission from the election of the chair (vice the 
committee) (sec. 2(c)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Subparagraph 
(3) was added in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, 
p. 43). Subparagraph (1)(D) was added in the 114th Congress when this 
requirement was removed from clause 4(f) (sec. 2(a)(6), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 2015, p. _). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  Committees have historically adopted rules under which they function 
(I, 707; III, 1841, 1842; VIII, 2214). Committee rules are compiled by 
the Committee on Rules each Congress as a committee print. It is the 
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bility of the committees, and not the House, to construe and enforce 
additional committee rules on the calling of committee meetings (Speaker 
Albert, July 22, 1974, pp. 24436-47). This provision requires a select 
committee to publish its adopted rules in the Record (June 25, 1998, p. 
14014).
  Failure <> to follow 
certain procedural requirements imposed on committees by this rule may 
invalidate committee actions. Violation of the requirements as to open 
meetings and hearings and other hearing irregularities improperly 
overruled (see clause 2(g)(5) of rule XI) or the prescribed committee 
procedures for reporting bills and resolutions (clause 2(h) of rule XI) 
may in some instances be the basis for a point of order in the House, 
resulting in the recommitment of the bill. However, a point of order 
does not ordinarily lie in the House against consideration of a bill by 
reason of defective committee procedures occurring before the time the 
bill is ordered reported to the House (Procedure, ch. 17, Sec. 11.1).
  Many of the procedures applicable to committees derive from 
Jefferson's Manual, which governs the House and its committees in all 
cases to which it is applicable (clause 1 of rule XXIX). A committee may 
act only when together, and not by separate consultation and consent, 
nothing being the report (or recommendation) of the committee except 
what has been agreed to in committee actually assembled (see Jefferson's 
Manual at Sec. 407, supra). A measure before a committee for 
consideration must be read for amendment by section as in the House (see 
Jefferson's Manual at Sec. Sec. 412-414, supra), and reading of the 
measure and of amendments thereto must be in full. The procedures 
applicable in the House as in the Committee of the Whole (see 
Sec. Sec. 424, 427, supra) generally apply to proceedings in committees 
of the House of Representatives, except that because a measure 
considered in committee must be read for amendment, a motion to limit 
debate under the five-minute rule in committee must be confined to the 
portion of the bill then pending. The motion for the previous question 
may be applied to a question under debate in committee when it has been 
read (or considered as read) for amendment in its entirety.
  Committees generally conduct their business under the five-minute rule 
but may employ the ordinary motions that are in order in the House, such 
as under clause 4 of rule XVI.
Regular meeting days
  (b) <> Each standing committee shall 
establish regular meeting days for the conduct of its business, which 
shall be not less frequent than monthly. Each such committee shall meet 
for the consideration of a bill or resolution pending before the 
committee or the transaction of other committee business on

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all regular meeting days fixed by the committee if notice is given 
pursuant to paragraph (g)(3).
Additional and special meetings
  (c)(1) The chair of each standing committee may call and convene, as 
the chair considers necessary, additional and special meetings of the 
committee for the consideration of a bill or resolution pending before 
the committee or for the conduct of other committee business, subject to 
such rules as the committee may adopt. The committee shall meet for such 
purpose under that call of the chair.
  (2) Three or more members of a standing committee may file in the 
offices of the committee a written request that the chair call a special 
meeting of the committee. Such request shall specify the measure or 
matter to be considered. Immediately upon the filing of the request, the 
clerk of the committee shall notify the chair of the filing of the 
request. If the chair does not call the requested special meeting within 
three calendar days after the filing of the request (to be held within 
seven calendar days after the filing of the request) a majority of the 
members of the committee may file in the offices of the committee their 
written notice that a special meeting of the committee will be held. The 
written notice shall specify the date and hour of the special meeting 
and the measure or matter to be considered. The committee shall meet on 
that date and hour. Immediately upon the filing of the notice, the clerk 
of the committee shall no

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tify all members of the committee that such special meeting will be held 
and inform them of its date and hour and the measure or matter to be 
considered. Such notice shall also be made publicly available in 
electronic form and shall be deemed to satisfy paragraph (g)(3)(A)(ii). 
Only the measure or matter specified in that notice may be considered at 
that special meeting.
Temporary absence of chair
  (d) A member of the majority party on each standing committee or 
subcommittee thereof shall be designated by the chair of the full 
committee as the vice chair of the committee or subcommittee, as the 
case may be, and shall preside during the absence of the chair from any 
meeting. If the chair and vice chair of a committee or subcommittee are 
not present at any meeting of the committee or subcommittee, the ranking 
majority member who is present shall preside at that meeting.

  Paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) were first adopted on December 8, 1931 
(VIII, 2208), were amended on January 3, 1953 (p. 24), and were revised 
both by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and 
in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). In the 102d 
Congress paragraph (d) was amended to provide that the ranking majority 
member of each committee and subcommittee be designated as its vice 
chair (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). In the 104th Congress paragraph 
(d) was amended to permit the chair of a full committee to designate 
vice chairs of the committee and its subcommittees (sec. 223(c), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 477). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 
111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). In the 113th 
Congress paragraph (b) was amended to require the holding of a regular 
meeting only if notice thereof is given, and paragraph (c)(2) was 
amended to clarify that a special meeting does not require additional 
notice under paragraph (g) (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).

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  A committee scheduled to meet on stated days, when convened on such 
day with a quorum present, may proceed to the transaction of business 
regardless of the absence of the chair (VIII, 2213, 2214). These 
precedents should be read in light of paragraph (d) and clause 5(c) of 
rule X. A committee meeting being adjourned for lack of a quorum, a 
majority of the members of the committee may not, without the consent of 
the chair, call a meeting of the committee on the same day (VIII, 2213).
Committee records
  (e)(1)(A) <> Each committee shall keep 
a complete record of all committee action which shall include--
      (i) in the case of a meeting or hearing transcript, a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks actually made during the 
proceedings, subject only to technical, grammatical, and typographical 
corrections authorized by the person making the remarks involved; and
      (ii) a record of the votes on any question on which a record vote 
is taken.
  (B)(i) <> Except as provided in 
subdivision (B)(ii) and subject to paragraph (k)(7), the result of each 
such record vote shall be made available by the committee for inspection 
by the public at reasonable times in its offices and also made publicly 
available in electronic form within 48 hours of such record vote. 
Information so available shall include a description of the amendment, 
motion, order, or other proposition, the name of each member voting for 
and each member voting against such amendment, motion, order, or 
proposition, and the names of those members of the committee present but 
not voting.
  (ii) The result of any record vote taken in executive session in the 
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not be made available for inspection by the public without an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
  (2)(A) <> Except as provided in 
subdivision (B), all committee records (including hearings, data, 
charts, and files) shall be kept separate and distinct from the 
congressional office records of the member serving as its chair. Such 
records shall be the property of the House, and each Member, Delegate, 
and the Resident Commissioner shall have access thereto.
  (B) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, other than members 
of the Committee on Ethics, may not have access to the records of that 
committee respecting the conduct of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House without the specific 
prior permission of that committee.
  (3) Each committee shall include in its rules standards for 
availability of records of the committee delivered to the Archivist of 
the United States under rule VII. Such standards shall specify 
procedures for orders of the committee under clause 3(b)(3) and clause 
4(b) of rule VII, including a requirement that nonavailability of a 
record for a period longer than the period otherwise applicable under 
that rule shall be approved by vote of the committee.
  (4) Each committee shall make its publications available in electronic 
form to the maximum extent feasible.

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  (5) To the maximum extent practicable, each committee shall--
      (A) provide audio and video coverage of each hearing or meeting 
for the transaction of business in a manner that allows the public to 
easily listen to and view the proceedings; and
      (B) maintain the recordings of such coverage in a manner that is 
easily accessible to the public.
  (6) Not later than 24 hours after the adoption of any amendment to a 
measure or matter considered by a committee, the chair of such committee 
shall cause the text of each such amendment to be made publicly 
available in electronic form.

  The first sentence of paragraph (e)(1) was rewritten entirely in the 
104th Congress (sec. 206, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 475). Its 
predecessor, requiring a complete record of all committee actions, 
including votes on any question on which a roll call was demanded, was 
enacted as section 133(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 
(60 Stat. 812) and made part of the standing rules on January 3, 1953 
(p. 24). The requirement that committee roll calls be subject to public 
inspection was added by section 104(b) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and made a part of the rules in the 92d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). The qualified exception for 
the Committee on Ethics (formerly Standards of Official Conduct) from 
the requirement of public availability of record votes was added in the 
105th Congress (sec. 8, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19336). 
Effective on January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470), the requirement that proxy votes in committee be made available 
for public inspection was eliminated from this paragraph because proxies 
were prohibited as of that date, but in the 94th Congress clause 2(f) of 
rule XI was amended to permit proxies in committee, and this paragraph 
was likewise amended to reinsert the requirement of availability for 
public inspection (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). When proxy voting 
was again eliminated in the 104th Congress, the reference thereto in the 
third sentence of paragraph (e)(1) was deleted (sec. 104(b), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). Paragraph (e)(1) was amended in the 112th 
Congress to require that record votes be electronically available within 
48 hours (sec. 2(c)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80) and amended in 
the 113th Congress to effect a technical correction (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 
5, Jan.

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3, 2013, p. _). Paragraph (e)(2) derives from section 202(d) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), was made a part 
of the rules in the 83d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24), was 
amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to 
restrict the access of Members to certain records of the Committee on 
Ethics (formerly Standards of Official Conduct), and was amended in the 
113th Congress to effect a technical correction (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Paragraph (e)(3) was added in the 101st Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). Paragraph (e)(4) was added in the 
105th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Subparagraphs (5) and 
(6) were added in the 112th Congress (secs. 2(c)(6), 2(c)(9), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). This paragraph was 
amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a change in committee name 
(sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  Although all Members have access to committee records under this 
clause, it is not without qualification. For example, this clause: (1) 
does not give a Member the right to make photostatic copies of such 
records (Speaker Rayburn, Aug. 14, 1957, pp. 14737-39), and such records 
may not be brought into the well of the House if the committee has not 
authorized such action (Speaker Rayburn, June 3, 1960, p. 11820); (2) 
does not necessarily apply to records within the possession of the 
executive branch that the members of the committee have been allowed to 
examine under limited conditions at the discretion of the executive 
agency in possession of such materials (Speaker O'Neill, July 31, 1980, 
p. 20765); (3) does not apply to records (an executive communication not 
yet referred to committee) in the possession of the House (Sept. 9, 
1998, p. 19769). In the 105th Congress the House adopted a resolution 
restricting Members' access to documents received from an independent 
counsel (said to relate to possible grounds for impeachment of the 
President) and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary (H. Res. 525, 
Sept. 11, 1998, p. 20020).
  Testimony or evidence taken in executive sessions of a committee is 
under the control and subject to the regulation of the committee and, 
under clause 2(k)(7) of rule XI (Sec. 803, infra), cannot be released 
without the consent of the committee (June 26, 1961, p. 11233; see also 
Deschler, ch. 17, Sec. 18). Furthermore, such access allows a Member to 
examine executive session materials only in committee rooms and does not 
permit a Member to copy or to take personal notes from such materials, 
to keep such notes or copies in personal office files, or to release 
such materials to the public without the consent of the committee or 
subcommittee under clause 2(k)(7) of rule XI (Speaker O'Neill, Dec. 6, 
1977, pp. 38470-73). Compare this clause with clause 11(g)(3) of rule X, 
which only permits access of nonmembers of the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to classified information in the possession of 
that committee when authorized by that committee. A resolution directing 
a standing committee to release executive-

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session material referred to it by special rule of the House was held to 
propose a change in the rules and, therefore, not to constitute a 
question of the privileges of the House under rule IX (Sept. 23, 1998, 
p. 21562).
  In implementing clause 2(e), committees may prescribe regulations to 
govern the manner of access to their records, such as requiring 
examination only in committee rooms.

Prohibition against proxy voting
  (f) <> A vote by a member of a committee 
or subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter may not be cast by 
proxy.

  The 104th Congress adopted paragraph (f) in this form (sec. 104, H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). An earlier form of the provision was 
enacted as section 106(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 
(84 Stat. 1140) and made part of the standing rules in the 92d Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The original form of this paragraph permitted committees to adopt 
written rules permitting proxies in writing, designating the persons to 
execute them and specifying the measures or matters to which they 
applied. Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470), proxies in committee were prohibited, but in the 94th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), the rule was amended to 
permit proxies in committees with additional restrictions requiring an 
assertion that the grantor was absent on official business or otherwise 
unable to attend, requiring the Member to sign and date the proxy, and 
permitting general proxies for procedural matters.

Open meetings and hearings
  (g)(1) <> Each meeting for 
the transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, by a 
standing committee or subcommittee thereof (other than the Committee on 
Ethics or its subcommittees) shall be open to the public, including to 
radio, television, and still photography coverage, except when the 
committee or subcommittee, in open session and with a majority present, 
determines by record

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vote that all or part of the remainder of the meeting on that day shall 
be in executive session because disclosure of matters to be considered 
would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law 
enforcement information, would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate 
any person, or otherwise would violate a law or rule of the House. 
Persons, other than members of the committee and such noncommittee 
Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, congressional staff, or 
departmental representatives as the committee may authorize, may not be 
present at a business or markup session that is held in executive 
session. This subparagraph does not apply to open committee hearings, 
which are governed by clause 4(a)(1) of rule X or by subparagraph (2).
  (2)(A) Each hearing conducted by a committee or subcommittee (other 
than the Committee on Ethics or its subcommittees) shall be open to the 
public, including to radio, television, and still photography coverage, 
except when the committee or subcommittee, in open session and with a 
majority present, determines by record vote that all or part of the 
remainder of that hearing on that day shall be closed to the public 
because disclosure of testimony, evidence, or other matters to be 
considered would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive 
law enforcement information, or would violate a law or rule of the 
House.
  (B) Notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision (A), in the 
presence of the number of

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members required under the rules of the committee for the purpose of 
taking testimony, a majority of those present may--
      (i) agree to close the hearing for the sole purpose of discussing 
whether testimony or evidence to be received would endanger national 
security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would violate clause 2(k)(5); or
      (ii) agree to close the hearing as provided in clause 2(k)(5).
  (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not be excluded 
from non-
participatory attendance at a hearing of a committee or subcommittee 
(other than the Committee on Ethics or its subcommittees) unless the 
House by majority vote authorizes a particular committee or 
subcommittee, for purposes of a particular series of hearings on a 
particular article of legislation or on a particular subject of 
investigation, to close its hearings to Members, Delegates, and the 
Resident Commissioner by the same procedures specified in this 
subparagraph for closing hearings to the public.
  (D) The committee or subcommittee may vote by the same procedure 
described in this subparagraph to close one subsequent day of hearing, 
except that the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed 
Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the 
subcommittees thereof, may vote by the same procedure to close up to 
five additional, consecutive days of hearings.

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  (3)(A) The chair of a committee shall announce the date, place, and 
subject matter of--
      (i) a committee hearing, which may not commence earlier than one 
week after such notice; or
      (ii) a committee meeting, which may not commence earlier than the 
third day on which members have notice thereof.
  (B) A hearing or meeting may begin sooner than specified in 
subdivision (A) in either of the following circumstances (in which case 
the chair shall make the announcement specified in subdivision (A) at 
the earliest possible time):
      (i) the chair of the committee, with the concurrence of the 
ranking minority member, determines that there is good cause; or
      (ii) the committee so determines by majority vote in the presence 
of the number of members required under the rules of the committee for 
the transaction of business.
  (C) An announcement made under this subparagraph shall be published 
promptly in the Daily Digest and made publicly available in electronic 
form.
  (D) This subparagraph and subparagraph (4) shall not apply to the 
Committee on Rules.
  (4) At least 24 hours prior to the commencement of a meeting for the 
markup of legislation, or at the time of an announcement under 
subparagraph (3)(B) made within 24 hours before such meeting, the chair 
of the committee shall cause the text of such legislation to be made 
publicly available in electronic form.

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  (5)(A) Each committee shall, to the greatest extent practicable, 
require witnesses who appear before it to submit in advance written 
statements of proposed testimony and to limit their initial 
presentations to the committee to brief summaries thereof.
  (B) In the case of a witness appearing in a nongovernmental capacity, 
a written statement of proposed testimony shall include a curriculum 
vitae and a disclosure of any Federal grants or contracts, or contracts 
or payments originating with a foreign government, received during the 
current calendar year or either of the two previous calendar years by 
the witness or by an entity represented by the witness and related to 
the subject matter of the hearing.
  (C) The disclosure referred to in subdivision (B) shall include--
      (i) the amount and source of each Federal grant (or subgrant 
thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) related to the subject 
matter of the hearing; and
      (ii) the amount and country of origin of any payment or contract 
related to the subject matter of the hearing originating with a foreign 
government.
  (D) Such statements, with appropriate redactions to protect the 
privacy or security of the witness, shall be made publicly available in 
electronic form not later than one day after the witness appears.
  (6)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), a point of order does 
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measure reported by a committee on the ground that hearings on such 
measure were not conducted in accordance with this clause.
  (B) A point of order on the ground described in subdivision (A) may be 
made by a member of the committee that reported the measure if such 
point of order was timely made and improperly disposed of in the 
committee.
  (7) This paragraph does not apply to hearings of the Committee on 
Appropriations under clause 4(a)(1) of rule X.

  Subparagraphs (1) and (2), relating to open committee meetings and 
hearings, were first made part of the rules on March 7, 1973 (H. Res. 
259, 93d Cong., pp. 6713-20). They were amended in the 94th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), to limit to one day (in the case of a 
meeting) or to one day plus one subsequent day (in the case of a 
hearing) the period during which a committee may close its session. They 
were again amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 
53-70) to require that a majority (rather than a quorum) be present when 
a committee or subcommittee votes to close a meeting or hearing and to 
provide that a noncommittee Member cannot be excluded from a hearing 
except by a vote of the House. However, subparagraph (2) was amended in 
the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 8) to permit a majority 
of those present under the rules of the committee for the purpose of 
taking testimony (not less than two members as provided in clause 
2(h)(2) of rule XI) to vote to close a hearing either to discuss whether 
the testimony would endanger national security or would violate clause 
2(k)(5) of this rule, or to proceed to close the hearing as provided by 
clause 2(k)(5). In the 98th Congress subparagraph (2) was amended 
further to permit the Committees on Appropriations and Armed Services, 
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and their 
subcommittees, when voting in open session with a quorum present, to 
close a hearing on that particular day and for up to five additional 
days, for a total of not to exceed six days (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 
34). In the 104th Congress the paragraph was amended to require that 
meetings and hearings open to the public also be open to broadcast and 
photographic media; subparagraph (2) was further amended to permit 
closed meetings only on specified conditions and to delete an exception 
for meetings relating to internal budget or personnel matters and to 
specify a new condition (sensitive law enforcement information) for 
closing hearings (sec. 105, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463). The 
paragraph was also amended to conform references to renamed committees 
(sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p.

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47). In the 105th Congress subparagraphs (1) and (2) were again amended 
to reflect an amendment to former clause 4(e)(3) of rule X (currently 
clause 3 of rule XI) requiring meetings of the Committee on Ethics to 
occur in executive session (except for adjudicatory subcommittee 
meetings or full committee sanction hearings) unless opened by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of members (sec. 5, H. Res. 168, Sept. 
18, 1997, p. 19336). Subparagraphs (3), (5), (6), and (7) derive from 
sections 111(b), 113(b), 115(b), and 242(c) respectively of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and became part 
of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). 
Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470), these provisions were inadvertently omitted from the rules, and 
were therefore reinserted in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 
1975, p. 20). Subparagraph (3) was amended as follows: in the 97th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113) to add the requirement of 
prompt entering of public notice of committee hearings into the 
committee scheduling service of the House Information Resources; in the 
104th Congress to permit the calling of a hearing on less than seven 
days' notice upon a determination of good cause either by vote of the 
committee or subcommittee or by its chair with the concurrence of its 
ranking minority member (H. Res. 43, Jan. 31, 1995, p. 3028); and in the 
112th Congress to apply the notice requirement to meetings (sec. 
2(c)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A new subparagraph (4) was 
inserted (and subsequent subparagraphs redesignated) in the 112th 
Congress to require availability of committee markup text (sec. 2(c)(4), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). In the 105th and 106th Congresses 
subparagraphs (3) and (2) (respectively) were amended to effect a 
technical correction (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (5) (then subparagraph (4)) was rewritten 
in the 105th Congress to encourage committees to elicit curricula vitae 
and disclosures of certain interests from nongovernmental witnesses (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), in the 112th Congress to require 
electronic availability of such disclosures and enable redactions for 
witness privacy (sec. 2(c)(7), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), and in 
the 114th Congress to require the disclosure of contracts or payments 
from foreign governments, to confine the disclosure to the subject 
matter of the hearing, and to enable redactions for witness security 
(sec. 2(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). Clerical and stylistic 
changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). This paragraph was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a change 
in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  In the 105th Congress the House adopted a resolution restricting 
access to meetings and hearings held by the Committee on the Judiciary 
on a communication received from an independent counsel relating to 
possible grounds for impeachment of the President (H. Res. 525, Sept. 
11, 1998, p. 20020).


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Quorum requirements
  (h)(1) <> A measure or 
recommendation may not be reported by a committee unless a majority of 
the committee is actually present.

  This subparagraph is from section 133(d) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) and was made a part of the 
rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). Before the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
2(l)(2)(A) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The point of 
order that a bill was reported from a committee without a formal meeting 
and a quorum present comes too late if debate has started on a bill in 
the House (VIII, 2223; Feb. 24, 1947, p. 1374). No committee report is 
valid unless authorized with a quorum of the committee actually present 
at the time the vote is taken (IV, 4584; VIII, 2211, 2212, 2221, 2222), 
and although Speakers have indicated that committee members may come and 
go during the course of the vote if the roll call indicates that a 
quorum was present (VIII, 2222), where it is admitted that a quorum was 
not in the room at any time during the vote and the committee transcript 
does not show a quorum acting as a quorum, the Chair will sustain the 
point of order (VIII, 2212). In the 103d Congress, this provision was 
amended to provide that responses to roll calls in committee be deemed 
contemporaneous and to require that a point of no quorum with respect to 
a committee report be timely asserted in committee or considered waived 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49), but in the 104th Congress both of 
those features were deleted from the rule (sec. 207, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 467).
  Where the committee transcript was not conclusive and the manager of 
the bill gave absolute assurance that a majority of the full committee 
was actually present when the bill was ordered reported the Speaker 
overruled a point of order made under this provision (Oct. 22, 1987, p. 
28807). A point of no quorum pending a committee vote on ordering a 
measure reported may provoke a quorum call requiring a majority of the 
committee to be present in the committee room. A committee may act only 
when together, nothing being the report of the committee except what has 
been agreed to in committee actually assembled (see Jefferson's Manual 
at Sec. 407, supra).

  (2) <> Each committee may fix the 
number of its members to constitute a quorum for taking testimony and 
receiving evidence, which may not be less than two.

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  (3) Each committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations, the 
Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Ways and Means) may fix 
the number of its members to constitute a quorum for taking any action 
other than one for which the presence of a majority of the committee is 
otherwise required, which may not be less than one-third of the members.

  Subparagraphs (2) and (3) (formerly subparagraphs (1) and (2)) were 
adopted in the 84th Congress and only related to the authority of a 
committee to fix a quorum of not less than two for taking testimony (H. 
Res. 151, Mar. 23, 1955, pp. 3569, 3585). In the 95th Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) subparagraph (3) (formerly subparagraph (2)) 
was added to authorize committees to fix a quorum less than a majority 
for certain other action. Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, paragraph (h) consisted only of subparagraphs (2) and 
(3) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (3) was amended in 
the 107th Congress to preserve all requirements for a majority quorum 
found in House rules (sec. 2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  Authority for a committee (other than the committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform under clause 4(c) of rule X) to conduct depositions or 
interrogatories before one member or staff of the committee must be 
specifically conferred by the House (see, e.g., Oct. 13, 1988, p. 30467; 
H. Res. 167, 105th Cong., June 20, 1997, p. 11677).

  (4)(A) <> Each 
committee may adopt a rule authorizing the chair of a committee or 
subcommittee--
      (i) to postpone further proceedings when a record vote is ordered 
on the question of approving a measure or matter or on adopting an 
amendment; and
      (ii) to resume proceedings on a postponed question at any time 
after reasonable notice.
  (B) A rule adopted pursuant to this subparagraph shall provide that 
when proceedings resume on a postponed question, notwithstanding any 
intervening order for the previous question,

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an underlying proposition shall remain subject to further debate or 
amendment to the same extent as when the question was postponed.

  This subparagraph was added in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 
111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
Limitation on committee sittings
  (i) <> A committee may not sit 
during a joint session of the House and Senate or during a recess when a 
joint meeting of the House and Senate is in progress.

  This prohibition was added in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1989, p. 72). Other limitations on committee sittings, removed from this 
paragraph in the 105th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), had 
their origins in a separate clause in 1794. That clause was omitted from 
rule XI in the adoption of rules for the 80th Congress but remained 
effective as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the 
applicable provisions of which were continued as a part of the Rules of 
the House. It prohibited committees from sitting at any time when the 
House was in session, but was narrowed to proscribe sittings during the 
five-minute rule by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (sec. 
117(b); 84 Stat. 1140) and this revision was made part of the standing 
rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Effective 
January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), the 
Committees on Appropriations, the Budget, and Rules were exempted; and 
in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct was also exempted. The Committee on 
Ways and Means was traditionally permitted to sit during proceedings 
under the five-minute rule by unanimous consent granted each Congress 
(Jan. 29, 1975, p. 1677) until it was exempted in the 97th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113). A provision that special leave to sit 
be granted if ten Members did not object was added in the 95th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). An exemption for the Committee on 
House Administration was added in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1989, p. 72). In the 103d Congress the prohibition against sitting 
during proceedings under the five-minute rule was stricken altogether 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49), but in the 104th Congress the former 
rule was reinstated with exemptions for the Committees on 
Appropriations, the Budget, Rules, Standards of Official Conduct, and 
Ways and Means, and also with provision for a privileged motion by the 
Majority Leader (sec. 208, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467), who 
controlled one hour of debate thereon (Jan. 23, 1995, p. 2209). Clerical 
and

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stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Calling and questioning of witnesses
  (j)(1) <> Whenever a hearing is conducted by a 
committee on a measure or matter, the minority members of the committee 
shall be entitled, upon request to the chair by a majority of them 
before the completion of the hearing, to call witnesses selected by the 
minority to testify with respect to that measure or matter during at 
least one day of hearing thereon.
  (2)(A) Subject to subdivisions (B) and (C), each committee shall apply 
the five-minute rule during the questioning of witnesses in a hearing 
until such time as each member of the committee who so desires has had 
an opportunity to question each witness.
  (B) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting a specified 
number of its members to question a witness for longer than five 
minutes. The time for extended questioning of a witness under this 
subdivision shall be equal for the majority party and the minority party 
and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate.
  (C) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting committee staff 
for its majority and minority party members to question a witness for 
equal specified periods. The time for extended questioning of a witness 
under this subdivision shall be equal for the majority party and the 
minority party and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate.


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  Paragraph (j)(1) was contained in section 114(b) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and was made a part of the 
rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Paragraph 
(j)(2) was added to the rules on that latter date. Although a majority 
of the minority members of a committee are entitled to call witnesses 
selected by the minority for at least one day of hearings, no rule of 
the House requires the calling of witnesses on opposing sides of an 
issue (Oct. 14, 1987, p. 27921). In the 105th Congress paragraph (j)(2) 
was redesignated as (2)(A) and two new subparagraphs were added as 
(2)(B) and (2)(C) to enable committees to permit extended examinations 
of witnesses by designated members or by staff (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, 
p. 121). A technical correction was effected in the 106th Congress to 
clarify the procedure to extend questioning, and clerical and stylistic 
changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the same 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). In the 114th Congress a select committee was permitted to increase 
from five to ten minutes the time for questioning a witness under 
subparagraph (2)(A) (sec. 4(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

Hearing procedures
  (k)(1) <> The chair at a hearing shall 
announce in an opening statement the subject of the hearing.
  (2) A copy of the committee rules and of this clause shall be made 
available to each witness on request.
  (3) Witnesses at hearings may be accompanied by their own counsel for 
the purpose of advising them concerning their constitutional rights.
  (4) The chair may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of 
professional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion 
from the hearings; and the committee may cite the offender to the House 
for contempt.
  (5) Whenever it is asserted by a member of the committee that the 
evidence or testimony at a hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or 
incriminate any person, or it is asserted by a witness

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that the evidence or testimony that the witness would give at a hearing 
may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate the witness--
      (A) notwithstanding paragraph (g)(2), such testimony or evidence 
shall be presented in executive session if, in the presence of the 
number of members required under the rules of the committee for the 
purpose of taking testimony, the committee determines by vote of a 
majority of those present that such evidence or testimony may tend to 
defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; and
      (B) the committee shall proceed to receive such testimony in open 
session only if the committee, a majority being present, determines that 
such evidence or testimony will not tend to defame, degrade, or 
incriminate any person.
In either case the committee shall afford such person an opportunity 
voluntarily to appear as a witness, and receive and dispose of requests 
from such person to subpoena additional witnesses.
  (6) Except as provided in subparagraph (5), the chair shall receive 
and the committee shall dispose of requests to subpoena additional 
witnesses.
  (7) Evidence or testimony taken in executive session, and proceedings 
conducted in executive session, may be released or used in public 
sessions only when authorized by the committee, a majority being 
present.

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  (8) In the discretion of the committee, witnesses may submit brief and 
pertinent sworn statements in writing for inclusion in the record. The 
committee is the sole judge of the pertinence of testimony and evidence 
adduced at its hearing.
  (9) A witness may obtain a transcript copy of the testimony of such 
witness given at a public session or, if given at an executive session, 
when authorized by the committee.

  The provisions of paragraph (k) were first incorporated into the rules 
in the 84th Congress (H. Res. 151, Mar. 23, 1955, pp. 3569, 3585). The 
requirement of subparagraph (2) that a copy of committee rules be 
furnished to each witness was added in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
22, 1971, p. 144) and was amended in the 107th Congress to require the 
committee to furnish such rules only when the witness so requests (sec. 
2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). The former requirement of 
subparagraph (9) that a witness pay the cost of a transcript copy of 
testimony was eliminated under the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, 
effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). Subparagraph (5) was amended in the 96th Congress to permit a 
committee or subcommittee to hear testimony asserted to be defamatory in 
executive session upon a determination by a majority of those present 
that such testimony is indeed defamatory, degrading, or incriminating 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16), in the 105th Congress to clarify a 
majority of those voting (a full quorum being present) may decide to 
proceed in open session (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), and in the 
107th Congress to permit such an assertion to be made by the witness 
(with respect to that witness) or a member of the committee (with 
respect to any person) (sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
``Investigative'' was removed from the heading and subparagraphs (1), 
(3), and (5) in the 107th Congress to conform the rule to House 
practice, which is to apply this paragraph to all committee hearings 
(sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). Gender-based references 
were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 7).
  The requirements of clause 2(g)(1) and (2), and of 2(m)(2)(A), of this 
rule that a majority of the committee or subcommittee shall constitute a 
quorum for the purposes of closing meetings or hearings or issuing 
subpoenas have been construed to require, under clause 2(k)(7) of this 
rule, that a majority shall likewise constitute a quorum to release or 
make public any evidence or testimony received in any closed meeting or 
hearing and

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any other executive session record of the committee or subcommittee. See 
also clauses 11(c) and 11(g) of rule X, which provide that classified 
material transmitted by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
to another committee of the House becomes the executive session material 
of the recipient committee by virtue of the nature of the material and 
the injunction of clause 11(g) of rule X, which prohibits disclosure of 
information provided to committees or Members of the House except in a 
secret session. For a discussion of questions of the privileges of the 
House addressing committee hearing procedure, see Sec. 704, supra.

Supplemental, minority, additional, or dissenting views
  (l) <> If at the time of approval of a 
measure or matter by a committee (other than the Committee on Rules) a 
member of the committee gives notice of intention to file supplemental, 
minority, additional, or dissenting views for inclusion in the report to 
the House thereon, all members shall be entitled to not less than two 
additional calendar days after the day of such notice (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays except when the House is in 
session on such a day) to file such written and signed views with the 
clerk of the committee.

  This provision was originally included in section 107 of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and was 
incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 
1971, p. 144). In the 104th Congress it was amended to count as a 
``calendar day'' any day on which the House is in session (H. Res. 254, 
Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). In the 105th Congress it was amended to reduce 
the guaranteed time for composing separate views from three full days to 
two full days after the day of notice (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). 
In the 113th Congress it was amended to clarify that notice inures to 
all committee members (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). It was 
amended in the 114th Congress to include dissenting views (sec. 2(a)(5), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, paragraph (l) consisted of this paragraph and 
current clause 2(c) of rule XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).


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Power to sit and act; subpoena power
  (m)(1) <> For 
the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and duties under this 
rule and rule X (including any matters referred to it under clause 2 of 
rule XII), a committee or subcommittee is authorized (subject to 
subparagraph (3)(A))--
      (A) to sit and act at such times and places within the United 
States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, 
and to hold such hearings as it considers necessary; and
      (B) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and 
testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as it considers 
necessary.
  (2) The chair of the committee, or a member designated by the chair, 
may administer oaths to witnesses.
  (3)(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (A)(ii), a subpoena may be 
authorized and issued by a committee or subcommittee under subparagraph 
(1)(B) in the conduct of an investigation or series of investigations or 
activities only when authorized by the committee or subcommittee, a 
majority being present. The power to authorize and issue subpoenas under 
subparagraph (1)(B) may be delegated to the chair of the committee under 
such rules and under such limitations as the committee may prescribe. 
Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the chair of the com

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mittee or by a member designated by the committee.
  (ii) In the case of a subcommittee of the Committee on Ethics, a 
subpoena may be authorized and issued only by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members.
  (B) A subpoena duces tecum may specify terms of return other than at a 
meeting or hearing of the committee or subcommittee authorizing the 
subpoena.
  (C) Compliance with a subpoena issued by a committee or subcommittee 
under subparagraph (1)(B) may be enforced only as authorized or directed 
by the House.

  Before the adoption of clause 2(m) under the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), only the Committees on Appropriations, the 
Budget, Government Operations, Internal Security, and Standards of 
Official Conduct were permitted by the standing rules to perform the 
functions as specified in subparagraphs (1)(A) and (1)(B), and other 
standing and select committees were given those authorities by separate 
resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules each Congress. In the 
94th Congress the paragraph was amended to require authorized subpoenas 
to be signed by the chair of the full committee or any member designated 
by the committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). In the 95th Congress 
the paragraph was amended to permit a subcommittee, as well as a full 
committee, to authorize subpoenas and to allow a full committee to 
delegate such authority to the chair of the full committee (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). The special rule for authorizing and issuing a 
subpoena of a subcommittee of the Committee on Ethics (formerly 
Standards of Official Conduct) was adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 
15, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19319). In the 106th Congress 
subparagraph (3)(B) was added, and clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the same Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A clerical correction was effected to 
paragraph (m)(1) in the 107th Congress to correct a cross reference 
(sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26). Gender-based references 
were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 7). This paragraph was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect 
a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80).

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  A subpoena issued under this clause need only be signed by the chair 
of the committee or by any member designated by the committee, whereas 
when the House issues an order or warrant the Speaker must under clause 
4 of rule I issue the summons under the Speaker's hand and seal, and it 
must be attested by the Clerk pursuant to clause 2(d) of rule II 
(formerly clause 3 of rule III) (III, 1668; see H. Rept. 96-1078, p. 
22). A statute empowers the chair of the Committee of the Whole, the 
Speaker, chairs of joint, select, or standing committees, and Members to 
administer oaths to witnesses (2 U.S.C. 191; III, 1769).
  Although under this clause the Committee on Ethics may issue subpoenas 
in investigating the conduct of a Member, officer, or employee of the 
House (the extent of the committee's jurisdiction under rule X and 
functions under clause 3 of rule XI), where the House authorizes an 
investigation by that committee of other persons not directly associated 
with the House, the committee's jurisdiction is thereby enlarged and a 
broader subpoena authority must be conferred on the committee (Mar. 3, 
1976, p. 5165). Subparagraph (3)(B) (formerly subparagraph (2)(B)) has 
been interpreted to require authorization by the full House before a 
subcommittee chair could intervene in a lawsuit in order to gain access 
to documents subpoenaed by the subcommittee. In re Beef Industry 
Antitrust Litigation, 589 F.2d 786 (5th Cir. 1979). The authority 
conferred in clause 2(m)(1)(B) to require information ``by subpoena or 
otherwise'' has not been interpreted to authorize depositions or 
interrogatories. Except in the case of the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform under clause 4(c) of rule X, such authority must be 
conferred by separate action of the House (see Sec. 749a, supra).

  (n)(1) <> Each standing 
committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at least one hearing 
during each 120-day period following the establishment of the committee 
on the topic of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government 
programs which that committee may authorize.
  (2) A hearing described in subparagraph (1) shall include a focus on 
the most egregious instances of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement as 
documented by any report the committee has received from a Federal 
Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller General of the United 
States.

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  (o) Each committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at least one 
hearing in any session in which the committee has received disclaimers 
of agency financial statements from auditors of any Federal agency that 
the committee may authorize to hear testimony on such disclaimers from 
representatives of any such agency.
  (p) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at 
least one hearing on issues raised by reports issued by the Comptroller 
General of the United States indicating that Federal programs or 
operations that the committee may authorize are at high risk for waste, 
fraud, and mismanagement, known as the ``high-risk list'' or the ``high-
risk series.''

  Paragraphs (n), (o), and (p) were added in the 111th Congress (H. Res. 
40, Jan. 14, 2009, p. 575).

Committee on Ethics
  3. (a) The <> Committee on 
Ethics has the following functions:
      (1) The committee may recommend to the House from time to time 
such administrative actions as it may consider appropriate to establish 
or enforce standards of official conduct for Members, Delegates, the 
Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees of the House. A letter of 
reproval or other administrative action of the committee pursuant to an 
investigation under subparagraph (2) shall only be issued or implemented 
as a part of a report required by such subparagraph.

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      (2) The committee may investigate, subject to paragraph (b), an 
alleged violation by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
or employee of the House of the Code of Official Conduct or of a law, 
rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the conduct 
of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee in 
the performance of the duties or the discharge of the responsibilities 
of such individual. After notice and hearing (unless the right to a 
hearing is waived by the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee), the committee shall report to the House its 
findings of fact and recommendations, if any, for the final disposition 
of any such investigation and such action as the committee may consider 
appropriate in the circumstances.
      (3) The committee may report to the appropriate Federal or State 
authorities, either with the approval of the House or by an affirmative 
vote of two-thirds of the members of the committee, any substantial 
evidence of a violation by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House, of a law applicable to the 
performance of the duties or the discharge of the responsibilities of 
such individual that may have been disclosed in a committee 
investigation.
      (4) The committee may consider the request of a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for an advisory 
opinion with respect to the general

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propriety of any current or proposed conduct of such Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee. With appropriate deletions 
to ensure the privacy of the person concerned, the committee may publish 
such opinion for the guidance of other Members, Delegates, the Resident 
Commissioner, officers, and employees of the House.
      (5) The committee may consider the request of a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for a written 
waiver in exceptional circumstances with respect to clause 4 of rule 
XXIII.
      (6)(A) The committee shall offer annual ethics training to each 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, and employee of the 
House. Such training shall--
          (i) involve the classes of employees for whom the committee 
determines such training to be appropriate; and
          (ii) include such knowledge of the Code of Official Conduct 
and related House rules as may be determined appropriate by the 
committee.
      (B)(i) A new Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House shall receive training under this paragraph not 
later than 60 days after beginning service to the House.
      (ii) Not later than January 31 of each year, each officer and 
employee of the House shall file a certification with the committee that 
the officer or employee attended ethics training in

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the last year as established by this subparagraph.
  (b)(1)(A) Unless approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of its 
members, the Committee on Ethics may not report a resolution, report, 
recommendation, or advisory opinion relating to the official conduct of 
a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House, or, except as provided in subparagraph (2), undertake an 
investigation of such conduct.
  (B)(i) Upon the receipt of information offered as a complaint that is 
in compliance with this rule and the rules of the committee, the chair 
and ranking minority member jointly may appoint members to serve as an 
investigative subcommittee.
  (ii) The chair and ranking minority member of the committee jointly 
may gather additional information concerning alleged conduct that is the 
basis of a complaint or of information offered as a complaint until they 
have established an investigative subcommittee or either of them has 
placed on the agenda of the committee the issue of whether to establish 
an investigative subcommittee.
  (2) Except in the case of an investigation undertaken by the committee 
on its own initiative, the committee may undertake an investigation 
relating to the official conduct of an individual Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House only--
      (A) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in writing 
and under oath, from a

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Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner and transmitted to the 
committee by such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner;
      (B) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in writing 
and under oath, from a person not a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner provided that a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
certifies in writing to the committee that such Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner believes the information is submitted in good 
faith and warrants the review and consideration of the committee; or
      (C) upon receipt of a report regarding a referral from the board 
of the Office of Congressional Ethics.
If a complaint is not disposed of within the applicable periods set 
forth in the rules of the Committee on Ethics, the chair and ranking 
minority member shall establish jointly an investigative subcommittee 
and forward the complaint, or any portion thereof, to that subcommittee 
for its consideration. However, if at any time during those periods 
either the chair or ranking minority member places on the agenda the 
issue of whether to establish an investigative subcommittee, then an 
investigative subcommittee may be established only by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
  (3) The committee may not undertake an investigation of an alleged 
violation of a law, rule, regulation, or standard of conduct that was 
not

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in effect at the time of the alleged violation. The committee may not 
undertake an investigation of such an alleged violation that occurred 
before the third previous Congress unless the committee determines that 
the alleged violation is directly related to an alleged violation that 
occurred in a more recent Congress.
  (4) A member of the committee shall be ineligible to participate as a 
member of the committee in a committee proceeding relating to the 
member's official conduct. Whenever a member of the committee is 
ineligible to act as a member of the committee under the preceding 
sentence, the Speaker shall designate a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner from the same political party as the ineligible member to 
act in any proceeding of the committee relating to that conduct.
  (5) A member of the committee may seek disqualification from 
participating in an investigation of the conduct of a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House upon the 
submission in writing and under oath of an affidavit of disqualification 
stating that the member cannot render an impartial and unbiased decision 
in the case in which the member seeks to be disqualified. If the 
committee approves and accepts such affidavit of disqualification, the 
chair shall so notify the Speaker and request the Speaker to designate a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from the same political party 
as the disqualifying member to

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act in any proceeding of the committee relating to that case.
  (6) Information or testimony received, or the contents of a complaint 
or the fact of its filing, may not be publicly disclosed by any 
committee or staff member unless specifically authorized in each 
instance by a vote of the full committee.
  (7) The committee shall have the functions designated in titles I and 
V of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, in sections 7342, 7351, and 
7353 of title 5, United States Code, and in clause 11(g)(4) of rule X.
  (8)(A) Except as provided by subdivisions (B), (C), and (D), not later 
than 45 calendar days or 5 legislative days, whichever is later, after 
receipt of a written report and any findings and supporting 
documentation regarding a referral from the board of the Office of 
Congressional Ethics or of a referral of the matter from the board 
pursuant to a request under paragraph (r), the chair of the Committee on 
Ethics shall make public the written report and findings of the board 
unless the chair and ranking member, acting jointly, decide or the 
committee votes to withhold such information for not more than one 
additional period of the same duration, in which case the chair shall--
      (i) upon the termination of such additional period, make public 
the written report and findings; and
      (ii) upon the day of such decision or vote, make a public 
statement that the matter, relating to the referral made by the board of 
the

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Office of Congressional Ethics regarding the Member, officer, or 
employee of the House who is the subject of the applicable referral, has 
been extended.
At least one calendar day before the committee makes public any written 
report and findings of the board, the chair shall notify such board and 
the applicable Member, officer, or employee of that fact and transmit to 
such individual a copy of the statement on the committee's disposition 
of, and any committee report on, the matter.
  (B)(i) Notwithstanding subdivision (A)(i), if the committee votes to 
dismiss a matter which is the subject of a referral from the board of 
the Office of Congressional Ethics, the committee is not required to 
make public the written report and findings described in such 
subdivision unless the committee's vote is inconsistent with the 
recommendation of the board. For purposes of the previous sentence, a 
vote by the committee to dismiss a matter is not inconsistent with a 
report from the board respecting the matter as unresolved due to a tie 
vote.
  (ii) Notwithstanding subdivision (A)(ii), if the board transmits a 
report respecting any matter with a recommendation to dismiss or as 
unresolved due to a tie vote, and the matter is extended for an 
additional period as provided in subdivision (A), the committee is not 
required to make a public statement that the matter has been extended.
  (iii) Except as provided by subdivision (E), if the committee 
establishes an investigative sub

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committee respecting any such matter, then the report and findings of 
the board shall not be made public until the conclusion of the 
investigative subcommittee process and the committee shall issue a 
public statement of the establishment of an investigative subcommittee, 
which statement shall include the name of the applicable Member, 
officer, or employee, and shall set forth the alleged violation. If any 
such investigative subcommittee does not conclude its review within one 
year after the board transmits a report respecting any matter, then the 
committee shall make public the report and upon the expiration of the 
Congress in which the report is made public, the committee shall make 
public any findings.
  (C)(i) If, after receipt of a written report and any findings and 
supporting documentation regarding a referral from the board of the 
Office of Congressional Ethics or of a referral of the matter from the 
board pursuant to a request under paragraph (r), the committee agrees to 
a request from an appropriate law enforcement or regulatory authority to 
defer taking action on the matter--
      (I) notwithstanding subdivision (A)(i), the committee is not 
required to make public the written report and findings described in 
such subdivision, except that if the recommendation of the board with 
respect to the report is that the matter requires further review, the 
committee shall make public the written report but not the findings; and

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      (II) before the end of the first day (excluding Saturdays, 
Sundays, and public holidays) after the day that the committee agrees to 
the request, the committee shall make a public statement that it is 
deferring taking action on the matter at the request of such authority.
  (ii) If, upon the expiration of the one-year period that begins on the 
date the committee makes the public statement described in item (i)(II), 
the committee has not acted on the matter, the committee shall make a 
new public statement that it is still deferring taking action on the 
matter, and shall make a new statement upon the expiration of each 
succeeding one-year period during which the committee has not acted on 
the matter.
  (D) The committee may not receive any referral from the board of the 
Office of Congressional Ethics within 60 days before a Federal, State, 
or local election in which the subject of the referral is a candidate. 
The committee may delay any reporting requirement under this 
subparagraph that falls within that 60-day period until the end of such 
period and in that case, for purposes of subdivision (A), days within 
the 60-day period shall not be counted.
  (E) If, at the close of any applicable period for a reporting 
requirement under this subparagraph with respect to a referral from the 
board of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the vote of the committee 
is a tie or the committee fails to act, the report and the findings of 
the board shall be made public by the committee, along

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with a public statement by the chair explaining the status of the 
matter.
  (c)(1) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(1) of rule XI, each meeting of the 
Committee on Ethics or a subcommittee thereof shall occur in executive 
session unless the committee or subcommittee, by an affirmative vote of 
a majority of its members, opens the meeting to the public.
  (2) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, each hearing of an 
adjudicatory subcommittee or sanction hearing of the Committee on Ethics 
shall be held in open session unless the committee or subcommittee, in 
open session by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, closes 
all or part of the remainder of the hearing on that day to the public.
  (d) Before a member, officer, or employee of the Committee on Ethics, 
including members of a subcommittee of the committee selected under 
clause 5(a)(4) of rule X and shared staff, may have access to 
information that is confidential under the rules of the committee, the 
following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:
      ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose, to any 
person or entity outside the Committee on Ethics, any information 
received in the course of my service with the committee, except as 
authorized by the committee or in accordance with its rules.''
Copies of the executed oath shall be retained by the Clerk as part of 
the records of the House. This paragraph establishes a standard of 
conduct within the meaning of paragraph (a)(2).

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Breaches of confidentiality shall be investigated by the Committee on 
Ethics and appropriate action shall be taken.
  (e)(1) If a complaint or information offered as a complaint is deemed 
frivolous by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the 
Committee on Ethics, the committee may take such action as it, by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members, considers appropriate in 
the circumstances.
  (2) Complaints filed before the One Hundred Fifth Congress may not be 
deemed frivolous by the Committee on Ethics.

  The investigative authority contained in this provision (formerly 
clause 4(e) of rule X) was first conferred upon the committee in the 
90th Congress (H. Res. 1099, Apr. 3, 1968, p. 8802). Effective January 
3, 1975, the former requirement in paragraph (b)(1)(A) (formerly clause 
4(e)(2)(A) of rule X) that not less than seven committee members 
authorize an investigation was changed to permit a majority of the 
committee to provide that authorization (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470). That provision was further amended in the 105th 
Congress to permit the chair and ranking minority member, with respect 
to a properly filed complaint, to gather additional information or to 
establish an investigative subcommittee (sec. 11, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 
1997, p. 19318). Paragraph (b)(5) (formerly clause 4(e)(2)(E) of rule X) 
was added in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to 
provide a mechanism for a committee member to seek disqualification from 
participating in an investigation, and paragraph (b)(6) (formerly clause 
4(e)(2)(F) of rule X) was added in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
15, 1979, p. 8). For an example of a disqualification letter, see 
February 17, 2012, p. _.
  This provision was amended in several particulars by the Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-194): (1) paragraph (a)(1) (formerly clause 
4(e)(1)(A) of rule X) was amended to enable a letter of reproval or 
other administrative action of the committee to be implemented as part 
of a report to the House, with no action required of the House; (2) 
paragraph (a)(2) (formerly clause 4(e)(1)(B) of rule X) was amended to 
require the committee to report to the House its findings of fact and 
any recommendations respecting the final disposition of a matter in 
which it votes to undertake an investigation; (3) a new paragraph (a)(4) 
(formerly clause 4(e)(1)(E) of rule X) was added to empower the 
committee to consider requests that the rule restricting the acceptance 
of gifts be waived in exceptional circumstances; and (4)

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paragraph (b)(3) (formerly clause 4(e)(2)(C) of rule X) was amended to 
set a general limitation on actions for committee consideration of 
ethics matters.
  In the beginning of the 105th Congress a subparagraph (3) was added at 
the end of former clause 4(e) of rule X to establish a Select Committee 
on Ethics only to resolve a specific inquiry originally undertaken by 
the standing Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in the 104th 
Congress but not concluded (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The select 
committee filed one report to the House (H. Rept. 105-1, H. Res. 31, 
Jan. 21, 1997, p. 393). The current form of paragraph (c) (formerly 
clause 4(e)(3) of rule X) was adopted later in the 105th Congress (sec. 
5, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19318).
  Additional amendments to this provision were adopted in the 105th 
Congress as follows: (1) paragraphs (d) and (e) (formerly clauses 
4(e)(4) and 4(e)(5)) were adopted (sec. 6 and sec. 19, H. Res. 168, 
Sept. 18, 1997, pp. 19318, 19320); (2) paragraph (b)(2) (formerly clause 
4(e)(2)(B) of rule X) was amended to address the disposition of a 
complaint after expiration of periods set forth in the committee rules 
and to specify parameters for the filing of complaints by non-Members 
(sec. 11, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19318); and (3) paragraph 
(a)(3) (formerly clause 4(e)(1)(C) of rule X) was amended to permit the 
committee to report to the appropriate authorities substantial evidence 
of a violation of law by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the 
members of the committee without the approval of the House (sec. 18, H. 
Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19320). Paragraph (a)(5) was amended in the 
107th Congress to reflect the redesignation of a rule (sec. 2(s), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Paragraph (a)(6) was added in the 110th 
Congress, effective March 1, 2007 (sec. 211, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 
19). Paragraphs (b)(2)(C) and (b)(8) were added in the 110th Congress 
(H. Res. 895, Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3471). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress, and paragraph (b)(5) was amended to 
clarify the disqualification process (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 7). Amendments were effected in the 112th Congress to reflect a 
change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). 
Paragraph (b)(8) was amended in the 113th Congress to clarify the 
circumstances in which certain public statements are not required to be 
made (sec. 2(e)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Paragraph 
(a)(6)(B)(i) was amended in the 114th Congress to include new Members, 
Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 4(e) of rule X and 
paragraph (b)(7) was found in former clause 1(p) of rule X (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  In the 110th through 113th Congresses, the House directed the 
committee to empanel an investigative subcommittee upon a Member being 
indicted or otherwise formally charged with criminal conduct, or to 
report to the House if it decides not to so empanel a subcommittee (H. 
Res. 451,

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June 5, 2007, p. 14605; sec. 4(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7; sec. 
4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 4(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2013, p. _).
  In the 110th Congress, the House adopted a resolution establishing an 
independent Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate individually-
initiated alleged ethics violations and to report its recommendations to 
the committee (Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3741). The House re-established the 
office in the 111th and 112th Congresses with a modification on its 
authority to engage consultants (sec. 4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
12; sec. 4(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), in the 113th Congress 
with a further modification to the term limits of the governing board 
(sec. 4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _), and in the 114th Congress 
with further modifications regarding representation by counsel and 
prohibiting any action that would deny any person a constitutional right 
(sec. 4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

Committee agendas
  (f) <> The committee shall 
adopt rules providing that the chair shall establish the agenda for 
meetings of the committee, but shall not preclude the ranking minority 
member from placing any item on the agenda.
Committee staff
  (g)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that--
      (A) the staff be assembled and retained as a professional, 
nonpartisan staff;
      (B) each member of the staff shall be professional and 
demonstrably qualified for the position for which hired;
      (C) the staff as a whole and each member of the staff shall 
perform all official duties in a nonpartisan manner;
      (D) no member of the staff shall engage in any partisan political 
activity directly affecting any congressional or presidential election;

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      (E) no member of the staff or outside counsel may accept public 
speaking engagements or write for publication on any subject that is in 
any way related to the employment or duties with the committee of such 
individual without specific prior approval from the chair and ranking 
minority member; and
      (F) no member of the staff or outside counsel may make public, 
unless approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of 
the committee, any information, document, or other material that is 
confidential, derived from executive session, or classified and that is 
obtained during the course of employment with the committee.
  (2) Only subdivisions (C), (E), and (F) of subparagraph (1) shall 
apply to shared staff.
  (3)(A) All staff members shall be appointed by an affirmative vote of 
a majority of the members of the committee. Such vote shall occur at the 
first meeting of the membership of the committee during each Congress 
and as necessary during the Congress.
  (B) Subject to the approval of the Committee on House Administration, 
the committee may retain counsel not employed by the House of 
Representatives whenever the committee determines, by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee, that the retention 
of outside counsel is necessary and appropriate.
  (C) If the committee determines that it is necessary to retain staff 
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a particular investigation or other proceeding, then such staff shall be 
retained only for the duration of that particular investigation or 
proceeding.
  (D) Outside counsel may be dismissed before the end of a contract 
between the committee and such counsel only by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of the members of the committee.
  (4) In addition to any other staff provided for by law, rule, or other 
authority, with respect to the committee, the chair and ranking minority 
member each may appoint one individual as a shared staff member from the 
respective personal staff of the chair or ranking minority member to 
perform service for the committee. Such shared staff may assist the 
chair or ranking minority member on any subcommittee on which the chair 
or ranking minority member serves.
Meetings and hearings
  (h) The committee shall adopt rules providing that--
      (1) all meetings or hearings of the committee or any subcommittee 
thereof, other than any hearing held by an adjudicatory subcommittee or 
any sanction hearing held by the committee, shall occur in executive 
session unless the committee or subcommittee by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members opens the meeting or hearing to the public; and

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      (2) any hearing held by an adjudicatory subcommittee or any 
sanction hearing held by the committee shall be open to the public 
unless the committee or subcommittee by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members closes the hearing to the public.
Public disclosure
  (i) The committee shall adopt rules providing that, unless otherwise 
determined by a vote of the committee, only the chair or ranking 
minority member, after consultation with each other, may make public 
statements regarding matters before the committee or any subcommittee 
thereof.
Requirements to constitute a complaint
  (j) The committee shall adopt rules regarding complaints to provide 
that whenever information offered as a complaint is submitted to the 
committee, the chair and ranking minority member shall have 14 calendar 
days or five legislative days, whichever is sooner, to determine whether 
the information meets the requirements of the rules of the committee for 
what constitutes a complaint.
Duties of chair and ranking minority member regarding properly filed 
        complaints
  (k)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that whenever the 
chair and ranking minority member jointly determine that information 
submitted to the committee meets the requirements of the rules of the 
committee for what constitutes a complaint, they shall have 45

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calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is later, after that 
determination (unless the committee by an affirmative vote of a majority 
of its members votes otherwise) to--
      (A) recommend to the committee that it dispose of the complaint, 
or any portion thereof, in any manner that does not require action by 
the House, which may include dismissal of the complaint or resolution of 
the complaint by a letter to the Member, officer, or employee of the 
House against whom the complaint is made;
      (B) establish an investigative subcommittee; or
      (C) request that the committee extend the applicable 45-calendar 
day or five-legislative day period by one additional 45-calendar day 
period when they determine more time is necessary in order to make a 
recommendation under subdivision (A).
  (2) The committee shall adopt rules providing that if the chair and 
ranking minority member jointly determine that information submitted to 
the committee meets the requirements of the rules of the committee for 
what constitutes a complaint, and the complaint is not disposed of 
within the applicable time periods under subparagraph (1), then they 
shall establish an investigative subcommittee and forward the complaint, 
or any portion thereof, to that subcommittee for its consideration. 
However, if, at any time during those periods, either the chair or 
ranking minority member places on the agen

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da the issue of whether to establish an investigative subcommittee, then 
an investigative subcommittee may be established only by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
Duties of chair and ranking minority member regarding information not 
        constituting a complaint
  (l) The committee shall adopt rules providing that whenever the chair 
and ranking minority member jointly determine that information submitted 
to the committee does not meet the requirements of the rules of the 
committee for what constitutes a complaint, they may--
      (1) return the information to the complainant with a statement 
that it fails to meet the requirements of the rules of the committee for 
what constitutes a complaint; or
      (2) recommend to the committee that it authorize the establishment 
of an investigative subcommittee.
Investigative and adjudicatory subcommittees
  (m) The committee shall adopt rules providing that--
      (1)(A) an investigative subcommittee shall be composed of four 
Members (with equal representation from the majority and minority 
parties) whenever such a subcommittee is established pursuant to the 
rules of the committee;

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      (B) an adjudicatory subcommittee shall be composed of the members 
of the committee who did not serve on the pertinent investigative 
subcommittee (with equal representation from the majority and minority 
parties) whenever such a subcommittee is established pursuant to the 
rules of the committee; and
      (C) notwithstanding any other provision of this clause, the chair 
and ranking minority member of the committee may consult with an 
investigative subcommittee either on their own initiative or on the 
initiative of the subcommittee, shall have access to information before 
a subcommittee with which they so consult, and shall not thereby be 
precluded from serving as full, voting members of any adjudicatory 
subcommittee;
      (2) at the time of appointment, the chair shall designate one 
member of a subcommittee to serve as chair and the ranking minority 
member shall designate one member of the subcommittee to serve as the 
ranking minority member; and
      (3) the chair and ranking minority member of the committee may 
serve as members of an investigative subcommittee, but may not serve as 
non-voting, ex officio members.
Standard of proof for adoption of statement of alleged violation
  (n) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that an investigative 
subcommittee may adopt a statement of alleged violation only if it 
determines by an affirmative vote of a majority of the

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members of the subcommittee that there is substantial reason to believe 
that a violation of the Code of Official Conduct, or of a law, rule, 
regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the performance 
of official duties or the discharge of official responsibilities by a 
Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives, has 
occurred.
Subcommittee powers
  (o)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that an investigative 
subcommittee or an adjudicatory subcommittee may authorize and issue 
subpoenas only when authorized by an affirmative vote of a majority of 
the members of the subcommittee.
  (2) The committee shall adopt rules providing that an investigative 
subcommittee may, upon an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, 
expand the scope of its investigation when approved by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
  (3) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that--
      (A) an investigative subcommittee may, upon an affirmative vote of 
a majority of its members, amend its statement of alleged violation 
anytime before the statement of alleged violation is transmitted to the 
committee; and
      (B) if an investigative subcommittee amends its statement of 
alleged violation, the respondent shall be notified in writing and shall 
have 30 calendar days from the date of that notifi

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cation to file an answer to the amended statement of alleged violation.
Due process rights of respondents
  (p) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that--
      (1) not less than 10 calendar days before a scheduled vote by an 
investigative subcommittee on a statement of alleged violation, the 
subcommittee shall provide the respondent with a copy of the statement 
of alleged violation it intends to adopt together with all evidence it 
intends to use to prove those charges which it intends to adopt, 
including documentary evidence, witness testimony, memoranda of witness 
interviews, and physical evidence, unless the subcommittee by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members decides to withhold 
certain evidence in order to protect a witness; but if such evidence is 
withheld, the subcommittee shall inform the respondent that evidence is 
being withheld and of the count to which such evidence relates;
      (2) neither the respondent nor the counsel of the respondent 
shall, directly or indirectly, contact the subcommittee or any member 
thereof during the period of time set forth in paragraph (1) except for 
the sole purpose of settlement discussions where counsel for the 
respondent and the subcommittee are present;
      (3) if, at any time after the issuance of a statement of alleged 
violation, the committee or any subcommittee thereof determines that

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it intends to use evidence not provided to a respondent under paragraph 
(1) to prove the charges contained in the statement of alleged violation 
(or any amendment thereof), such evidence shall be made immediately 
available to the respondent, and it may be used in any further 
proceeding under the rules of the committee;
      (4) evidence provided pursuant to paragraph (1) or (3) shall be 
made available to the respondent and the counsel of the respondent only 
after each agrees, in writing, that no document, information, or other 
materials obtained pursuant to that paragraph shall be made public 
until--
          (A) such time as a statement of alleged violation is made 
public by the committee if the respondent has waived the adjudicatory 
hearing; or
          (B) the commencement of an adjudicatory hearing if the 
respondent has not waived an adjudicatory hearing;
    but the failure of respondent and the counsel of the respondent to 
so agree in writing, and their consequent failure to receive the 
evidence, shall not preclude the issuance of a statement of alleged 
violation at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1);
      (5) a respondent shall receive written notice whenever--
          (A) the chair and ranking minority member determine that 
information the committee has received constitutes a complaint;

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          (B) a complaint or allegation is transmitted to an 
investigative subcommittee;
          (C) an investigative subcommittee votes to authorize its first 
subpoena or to take testimony under oath, whichever occurs first; or
          (D) an investigative subcommittee votes to expand the scope of 
its investigation;
      (6) whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a statement of 
alleged violation and a respondent enters into an agreement with that 
subcommittee to settle a complaint on which that statement is based, 
that agreement, unless the respondent requests otherwise, shall be in 
writing and signed by the respondent and respondent's counsel, the chair 
and ranking minority member of the subcommittee, and the outside 
counsel, if any;
      (7) statements or information derived solely from a respondent or 
the counsel of a respondent during any settlement discussions between 
the committee or a subcommittee thereof and the respondent shall not be 
included in any report of the subcommittee or the committee or otherwise 
publicly disclosed without the consent of the respondent; and
      (8) whenever a motion to establish an investigative subcommittee 
does not prevail, the committee shall promptly send a letter to the 
respondent informing the respondent of such vote.

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Committee reporting requirements
  (q) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that--
      (1) whenever an investigative subcommittee does not adopt a 
statement of alleged violation and transmits a report to that effect to 
the committee, the committee may by an affirmative vote of a majority of 
its members transmit such report to the House of Representatives;
      (2) whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a statement of 
alleged violation, the respondent admits to the violations set forth in 
such statement, the respondent waives the right to an adjudicatory 
hearing, and the respondent's waiver is approved by the committee--
          (A) the subcommittee shall prepare a report for transmittal to 
the committee, a final draft of which shall be provided to the 
respondent not less than 15 calendar days before the subcommittee votes 
on whether to adopt the report;
          (B) the respondent may submit views in writing regarding the 
final draft to the subcommittee within seven calendar days of receipt of 
that draft;
          (C) the subcommittee shall transmit a report to the committee 
regarding the statement of alleged violation together with any views 
submitted by the respondent pursuant to subdivision (B), and the 
committee shall make the report together with the respond

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ent's views available to the public before the commencement of any 
sanction hearing; and
          (D) the committee shall by an affirmative vote of a majority 
of its members issue a report and transmit such report to the House of 
Representatives, together with the respondent's views previously 
submitted pursuant to subdivision (B) and any additional views 
respondent may submit for attachment to the final report; and
      (3) members of the committee shall have not less than 72 hours to 
review any report transmitted to the committee by an investigative 
subcommittee before both the commencement of a sanction hearing and the 
committee vote on whether to adopt the report.
  (r) Upon receipt of any written notification from the board of the 
Office of Congressional Ethics that the board is undertaking a review of 
any alleged conduct of any Member, officer, or employee of the House and 
if the committee is investigating such matter, the committee may at any 
time so notify the board and request that the board cease its review and 
refer the matter to the committee for its consideration. If at the end 
of the applicable time period (including any permissible extension) the 
committee has not reached a final resolution of the matter or has not 
referred the matter to the appropriate Federal or State authorities, the 
committee shall so notify the board of the Office of Congressional 
Ethics in writing. The committee may not re

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quest the same matter from the board more than one time.
  (s) The committee may not take any action that would deny any person 
any right or protection provided under the Constitution of the United 
States.

  In the 105th Congress a 12-member bipartisan task force was informally 
appointed by the Majority and Minority Leaders to conduct a 
comprehensive review of the House ethics process. At the same time an 
order of the House was adopted imposing a moratorium on filing or 
processing ethics complaints and on raising certain questions of 
privilege under rule IX with respect to official conduct. The moratorium 
was imposed with the expectation that the recommendations of the task 
force would include changes relating to the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct (now Ethics) and the process by which the House 
enforces standards of official conduct (Feb. 12, 1997, p. 2058). The 
moratorium was extended through September 10, 1997 (July 30, 1997, p. 
16958). On September 18, 1997, the House adopted the recommendations of 
the task force with certain amendments (H. Res. 168, 105th Cong., p. 
19340), which included not only changes to the standing Rules of the 
House but also free-standing directives to the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct, which were reaffirmed for the 106th Congress (sec. 
2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47) and again for the 107th Congress 
with an exception to section 13 (sec. 3(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 
24). In the 108th Congress the pertinent free-standing provisions were 
codified (including the exception to section 13 added in the 107th 
Congress) as new paragraphs (f) through (q) of clause 3 (sec. 2(h), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). On the opening day of the 109th Congress, 
various changes were made to paragraphs (b), (k), (p), and (q) (sec. 
2(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Later in the 109th Congress, 
those changes were redacted and the affected provisions as they existed 
at the close of the 108th Congress were reinstated (H. Res. 240, Apr. 
27, 2005, p. 8045). Paragraph (r) was added in the 110th Congress (H. 
Res. 895, Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3741). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). A technical amendment to paragraph (o)(2) was effected in the 112th 
Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). An erroneous 
designation in paragraph (h) was corrected in the 113th Congress (sec. 
2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Paragraph (s) was added in the 
114th Congress (sec. 2(a)(10), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  Section 803 of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (2 U.S.C. 4711) contains 
several free-standing provisions, which are carried in this annotation. 
The requirement that the respective party caucuses nominate seven 
majority and seven minority members should be read in light of clause 5 
of rule X, setting the composition of the committee at 10, five from the 
majority

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and five from the minority. The requirement that the committee adopt 
rules establishing investigative and adjudicative subcommittees should 
be read in light of clause 3(m), which constitutes the same requirement. 
The references to clause 5(d) of rule XI applied to a former rule 
regarding minority staffing requirements, which was eliminated in the 
104th Congress (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462).

                               __________

 ``Sec. 803. Reforms Respecting the Committee on Standards of Official 
                               Conduct.--

                                  * * *

  ``(b) committee composition.--The respective party caucus or 
conference of the House of Representatives shall each nominate to the 
House of Representatives at the beginning of each Congress 7 members to 
serve on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

  ``(c) investigative subcommittees.--The Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct shall adopt rules providing--
          ``(1) for the establishment of a 4 or 6-member investigative 
        subcommittee (with equal representation from the majority and 
        minority parties) whenever the committee votes to undertake any 
        investigation;
          ``(2) that the senior majority and minority members on an 
        investigative subcommittee shall serve as the chairman and 
        ranking minority member of the subcommittee; and
          ``(3) that the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
        full committee may only serve as non-voting, ex officio members 
        on an investigative subcommittee.
``Clause 5(d) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
shall not apply to any investigative subcommittee.

  ``(d) adjudicatory subcommittees.--The Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct shall adopt rules providing--
          ``(1) that upon the completion of an investigation, an 
        investigative subcommittee shall report its findings and 
        recommendations to the committee;
          ``(2) that, if an investigative subcommittee by majority vote 
        of its membership adopts a statement of alleged violation, the 
        remaining members of the committee shall comprise an 
        adjudicatory subcommittee to hold a disciplinary hearing on the 
        violation alleged in the statement;
          ``(3) that any statement of alleged violation and any written 
        response thereto shall be made public at the first meeting or 
        hearing on the matter which is open to the public after the 
        respondent has been given full opportunity to respond to the 
        statement in accordance with committee rules, but, if no public 
        hearing or meeting is held on the matter, the statement of 
        alleged violation and any writ

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        ten response thereto shall be included in the committee's final 
        report to the House of Representatives as required by clause 
        4(e)(1)(B) of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives;
          ``(4) that a quorum for an adjudicatory subcommittee for the 
        purpose of taking testimony and conducting any business shall 
        consist of a majority of the membership of the subcommittee plus 
        one; and
          ``(5) that an adjudicatory subcommittee shall determine, after 
        receiving evidence, whether the counts in the statement have 
        been proved and shall report its findings to the committee.
``Clause 5(d) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
shall not apply to any adjudicatory subcommittee.

                                  * * *

  ``(i) advice and education.--(1) The Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct shall establish within the Committee an Office on 
Advice and Education (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the 
`Office') under the supervision of the chairman.
          ``(2) The Office shall be headed by a director who shall be 
        appointed by the chairman, in consultation with the ranking 
        minority member, and shall be comprised of such staff as the 
        chairman determines is necessary to carry out the 
        responsibilities of the Office.
          ``(3) The primary responsibilities of the Office shall 
        include:
                  ``(A) Providing information and guidance to Members, 
                officers and employees of the House regarding any laws, 
                rules, regulations, and other standards of conduct 
                applicable to such individuals in their official 
                capacities, and any interpretations and advisory 
                opinions of the committee.
                  ``(B) Submitting to the chairman and ranking minority 
                member of the committee any written request from any 
                such Member, officer or employee for an interpretation 
                of applicable laws, rules, regulations, or other 
                standards of conduct, together with any recommendations 
                thereon.
                  ``(C) Recommending to the committee for its 
                consideration formal advisory opinions of general 
                applicability.
                  ``(D) Developing and carrying out, subject to the 
                approval of the chairman, periodic educational briefings 
                for Members, officers and employees of the House on 
                those laws, rules, regulations, or other standards of 
                conduct applicable to them.
          ``(4) No information provided to the Committee on Standards of 
        Official Conduct by a Member, officer or employee of the House 
        of Representatives when seeking advice regarding prospective 
        conduct of such Member, officer or employee may be used as the 
        basis for initiating an investigation under clause 4(e)(1)(B) of 
        rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives, if such 
        Member, officer or employee acts in accordance with the written 
        advice of the committee.''.

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                               __________

  On occasions in which the House has directed the committee to conduct 
specific investigations by separate resolution, it has authorized the 
committee to take depositions with one member present, notwithstanding 
clause 2(h) of rule XI, to serve subpoenas, to participate by special 
counsel in relevant judicial proceedings (see H. Res. 252, 95th Cong., 
Feb. 9, 1977, pp. 3966-75; H. Res. 608, Mar. 27, 1980, pp. 6995-98; H. 
Res. 254, June 30, 1983, p. 18279), and to investigate persons other 
than Members, officers and employees with expanded subpoena authority 
(see H. Res. 1054, 94th Cong., Mar. 3, 1976, pp. 5165-68). By unanimous 
consent the committee was authorized to receive evidence and take 
testimony before a quorum of one of its members for the remainder of the 
second session of the 100th Congress (Oct. 13, 1988, p. 30467). By 
resolutions considered as questions of the privileges of the House, the 
committee has been directed to investigate illegal solicitation of 
political contributions in the House Office Building by unnamed sitting 
Members (July 10, 1985, p. 18397); to review GAO audits of the 
operations of the ``bank'' in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (Oct. 
3, 1991, p. 25435), to disclose the names and pertinent account 
information of Members and former Members found to have abused the 
privileges of that entity (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5519), and to disclose 
further account information respecting Members and former Members having 
checks held by that entity (Mar. 12, 1992, p. 5534); and to investigate 
violations of confidentiality by staff engaged in the investigation of 
the operation and management of the Office of the Postmaster (July 22, 
1992, p. 18786). In compliance with one such direction of the House, the 
acting chair of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) inserted in the Record names and pertinent account information 
of Members and former Members found to have abused the privileges of the 
``bank'' in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (H. Res. 393, Apr. 1, 
1992, p. 7888). In the 106th Congress the chair of the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct inserted in the Record an explanation of 
the committee's amendment to committee rule 20(f) to reflect that the 
full committee retains discretion whether to report to the House that an 
investigative subcommittee has not adopted a statement of alleged 
violation (Apr. 13, 2000, p. 5631).
  Under clause 3(b)(4) (formerly clause 4(e)(2)(D) of rule X), a member 
of the Committee on Ethics is ineligible to participate in a committee 
proceeding relating to that member's official conduct. Upon notification 
to the Speaker of such ineligibility, the Speaker designates another 
Member of the same political party as the ineligible member to serve on 
the committee during proceedings relating to that conduct (Speaker 
O'Neill, Feb. 5, 1980, p. 1908; July 23, 1996, p. 18596). Under clause 
3(b)(5) (formerly clause 4(e)(2)(E) of rule X), a member of the 
committee may be recused from serving on the committee during 
proceedings relating to a pending investigation by submitting an 
affidavit of disqualification to the committee stating that the member 
cannot render an impartial and unbiased decision relating to that 
investigation. If the committee accepts the affidavit, the

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chair notifies the Speaker and requests the Speaker to designate another 
Member from the same political party as the disqualified member to serve 
on the committee during proceedings relating to that investigation 
(Speaker O'Neill, Mar. 18, 1980, p. 5752; Feb. 17, 2012, p. _).
  The committee has compiled statutory and rule-based ethical standards 
in the House Ethics Manual (110th Cong., 2d Sess.). In the Manual, the 
committee incorporates its advisory opinions issued under clause 3(a)(4) 
(formerly clause 4(e)(1)(D) of rule X), together with advisory opinions 
issued by the former Select Committee on Ethics, in its discussions of 
various ethical issues, including gifts, outside income, financial 
disclosure, staff rights and duties, official allowances and franking, 
casework considerations, campaign financing and practices, and 
involvement with official and unofficial organizations. The committee is 
required to issue interpretive guidance regarding the prohibition on use 
of nonpublic information for private profit (sec. 3, P.L. 112-105).

Audio and visual coverage of committee proceedings
  4. <> (a) The purpose 
of this clause is to provide a means, in conformity with acceptable 
standards of dignity, propriety, and decorum, by which committee 
hearings or committee meetings that are open to the public may be 
covered by audio and visual means--
      (1) for the education, enlightenment, and information of the 
general public, on the basis of accurate and impartial news coverage, 
regarding the operations, procedures, and practices of the House as a 
legislative and representative body, and regarding the measures, public 
issues, and other matters before the House and its committees, the 
consideration thereof, and the action taken thereon; and
      (2) for the development of the perspective and understanding of 
the general public with respect to the role and function of the House

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under the Constitution as an institution of the Federal Government.
  (b) In addition, it is the intent of this clause that radio and 
television tapes and television film of any coverage under this clause 
may not be used for any partisan political campaign purpose or be made 
available for such use.
  (c) It is, <> further, the intent of 
this clause that the general conduct of each meeting (whether of a 
hearing or otherwise) covered under authority of this clause by audio or 
visual means, and the personal behavior of the committee members and 
staff, other Government officials and personnel, witnesses, television, 
radio, and press media personnel, and the general public at the hearing 
or other meeting, shall be in strict conformity with and observance of 
the acceptable standards of dignity, propriety, courtesy, and decorum 
traditionally observed by the House in its operations, and may not be 
such as to--
      (1) distort the objects and purposes of the hearing or other 
meeting or the activities of committee members in connection with that 
hearing or meeting or in connection with the general work of the 
committee or of the House; or
      (2) cast discredit or dishonor on the House, the committee, or a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner or bring the House, the 
committee, or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner into 
disrepute.

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  (d) The coverage of committee hearings and meetings by audio and 
visual means shall be permitted and conducted only in strict conformity 
with the purposes, provisions, and requirements of this clause.
  (e) Whenever <> a hearing or meeting 
conducted by a committee or subcommittee is open to the public, those 
proceedings shall be open to coverage by audio and visual means. A 
committee or subcommittee chair may not limit the number of television 
or still cameras to fewer than two representatives from each medium 
(except for legitimate space or safety considerations, in which case 
pool coverage shall be authorized).
  (f) Written <> rules adopted by each 
committee pursuant to clause 2(a)(1)(D) shall contain provisions to the 
following effect:
      (1) If audio or visual coverage of the hearing or meeting is to be 
presented to the public as live coverage, that coverage shall be 
conducted and presented without commercial sponsorship.
      (2) The allocation among the television media of the positions or 
the number of television cameras permitted by a committee or 
subcommittee chair in a hearing or meeting room shall be in accordance 
with fair and equitable procedures devised by the Executive Committee of 
the Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries.

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      (3) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to obstruct in 
any way the space between a witness giving evidence or testimony and any 
member of the committee or the visibility of that witness and that 
member to each other.
      (4) Television cameras shall operate from fixed positions but may 
not be placed in positions that obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of 
the hearing or meeting by the other media.
      (5) Equipment necessary for coverage by the television and radio 
media may not be installed in, or removed from, the hearing or meeting 
room while the committee is in session.
      (6)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), floodlights, 
spotlights, strobelights, and flash-
guns may not be used in providing any method of coverage of the hearing 
or meeting.
      (B) The television media may install additional lighting in a 
hearing or meeting room, without cost to the Government, in order to 
raise the ambient lighting level in a hearing or meeting room to the 
lowest level necessary to provide adequate television coverage of a 
hearing or meeting at the current state of the art of television 
coverage.
      (7) If requests are made by more of the media than will be 
permitted by a committee or subcommittee chair for coverage of a hearing 
or meeting by still photography, that coverage shall be permitted on the 
basis of a fair

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and equitable pool arrangement devised by the Standing Committee of 
Press Photographers.
      (8) <> Photographers may not 
position themselves between the witness table and the members of the 
committee at any time during the course of a hearing or meeting.
      (9) Photographers may not place themselves in positions that 
obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing by the other media.
      (10) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio 
media shall be currently accredited to the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries.
      (11) <> Personnel providing 
coverage by still photography shall be currently accredited to the Press 
Photographers' Gallery.
      (12) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio 
media and by still photography shall conduct themselves and their 
coverage activities in an orderly and unobtrusive manner.

  The rule permitting broadcasting of committee hearings was contained 
in section 116(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 
Stat. 1140) and became part of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). In the 93d Congress, the rule was amended to 
permit committees to adopt rules allowing coverage of committee meetings 
as well as hearings (H. Res. 1107, July 22, 1974, p. 24447). Paragraphs 
(e), (f)(3), (f)(5), and (f)(8) of this clause were amended in the 99th 
Congress to remove the limit on the number of television cameras 
(previously four) and press photographers (previously five) covering 
committee proceedings, and to provide the committee or subcommittee 
chair with the discretion to determine the appropriate number (H. Res. 
7, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393). At the beginning of the 104th Congress 
paragraph (d) was amended to delete the former characterization of 
broadcast and photographic coverage of committee meetings and hearings 
as ``a privilege made available by the House,''

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and paragraph (e) was amended to eliminate the requirement that a 
committee vote to permit broadcast and photographic coverage of open 
hearings and meetings and to prohibit chairs from limiting coverage to 
less than two representatives from each medium, except if space or 
safety considerations warrant pool coverage (sec. 105, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 463). Later in the 104th Congress this clause was again 
amended to make conforming changes in its heading and in paragraph (f) 
(H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Former clause 4(f)(2), 
permitting a witness to terminate audio and visual (including 
photographic) coverage, was eliminated in the 105th Congress (H. Res. 
301, Nov. 12, 1997, p. 26041). Gender-based references were eliminated 
in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). 
Paragraph (f)(7) was amended in the 112th Congress to remove obsolete 
references to news organizations (sec. 2(e)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 
p. 80). The requirement that committees adopt rules implementing this 
clause was transferred from clause 4(f) to clause 2(a)(1) in the 114th 
Congress (sec. 2(a)(6), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). Paragraph (b) 
was amended in the 114th Congress to conform the restriction on use of 
coverage to clause 2(c)(1) of rule V (sec. 2(a)(7), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XI (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Pay of witnesses
  5. <> Witnesses appearing before the House or any of its 
committees shall be paid the same per diem rate as established, 
authorized, and regulated by the Committee on House Administration for 
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and employees of the 
House, plus actual expenses of travel to or from the place of 
examination. Such per diem may not be paid when a witness has been 
summoned at the place of examination.

  This clause (formerly rule XXXV) was adopted in 1872, with amendments 
in 1880 (III, 1825), 1930 (VI, 393), and on April 19, 1955 (p. 4722), 
August 12, 1969 (H. Res. 495, 91st Cong., p. 23355), and July 28, 1975 
(H. Res. 517, 94th Cong. p. 25258). The last amendment eliminated the 
specific per diem and travel rate of reimbursement and allowed actual 
travel costs and per diem for witnesses requested or subpoenaed to 
appear at the same rate as established by the Committee on House 
Administration for Mem

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bers and employees. In the 104th and 106th Congresses it was amended to 
conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former rule XXXV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). For further 
provisions relating to witnesses, see clauses 2(j) and (k) of rule XI 
(Sec. Sec. 802-803, supra).
  Regulations of the Committee on House Administration do not permit per 
diem reimbursement for witnesses. Regulations for reimbursement of 
actual travel costs may be found in the Committees' Congressional 
Handbook, Committee on House Administration, under the section entitled 
``Hearings and Meetings.''

Unfinished business of the session
  6. All business <> of the House at the end of one session shall be resumed at 
the commencement of the next session of the same Congress in the same 
manner as if no adjournment had taken place.

  At first the Congress attempted to follow the rule of the English 
Parliament that business unfinished in one session should begin anew at 
the next; but in 1818, after an investigation of a joint committee in 
1816, a rule was adopted that House bills remaining undetermined in the 
House should be continued at the next session after six days. This rule 
did not reach House bills sent to the Senate; but in 1848 the two Houses 
remedied this omission by a joint rule. Business referred to committees 
of the House was still subject to the old rule of Parliament; but in 
1860 the present rule was adopted as a supplement to the rule of 1818. 
In 1890, desiring to do away with the limitation of the six days and 
apparently overlooking the main purpose of the rule of 1818, the House 
rescinded that limitation. Also, in 1876 the joint rules were abrogated, 
leaving no provision, except the headline of the rule, for the 
continuance of business not before committees. The practice, however, 
had become so well established that no question has ever been raised (V, 
6727). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XXVI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The business of conferences between the two Houses is not interrupted 
by an adjournment of a session that does not terminate the Congress (V, 
6260-6262), and if one House asks a conference at one session the other 
may agree to it in the next session (V, 6286). Where bills were enrolled 
and signed by the presiding officers of the two Houses at the close of 
one session they were sent to the President and approved at the 
beginning of the next session (IV, 3486-3488).

 end segment .008  deg. segment .009 -- rule XII 
through rule XIV  deg.
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                                Rule XII

              receipt and referral of measures and matters

Messages
  1. <> Messages received from the Senate, or from the President, 
shall be entered on the Journal and published in the Congressional 
Record of the proceedings of that day.

  This provision was adopted in 1867 and amended in 1880 (V, 6593). It 
was renumbered January 3, 1953 (p. 24). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former rule 
XXXIX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The House may receive a message from the Senate when the Senate is not 
in session (VIII, 3338).

Referral
  2. <> (a) The Speaker shall refer 
each bill, resolution, or other matter that relates to a subject listed 
under a standing committee named in clause 1 of rule X in accordance 
with the provisions of this clause.
  (b) The Speaker shall refer matters under paragraph (a) in such manner 
as to ensure to the maximum extent feasible that each committee that has 
jurisdiction under clause 1 of rule X over the subject matter of a 
provision thereof may consider such provision and report to the House 
thereon. Precedents, rulings, or procedures in effect before the Ninety-
Fourth Congress shall be applied to referrals under this clause only to 
the extent that they will contribute to the achievement of the 
objectives of this clause.

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  (c) In carrying out paragraphs (a) and (b) with respect to the 
referral of a matter, the Speaker--
      (1) shall designate a committee of primary jurisdiction (except 
where the Speaker determines that extraordinary circumstances justify 
review by more than one committee as though primary);
      (2) may refer the matter to one or more additional committees for 
consideration in sequence, either initially or after the matter has been 
reported by the committee of primary jurisdiction;
      (3) may refer portions of the matter reflecting different subjects 
and jurisdictions to one or more additional committees;
      (4) may refer the matter to a special, ad hoc committee appointed 
by the Speaker with the approval of the House, and including members of 
the committees of jurisdiction, for the specific purpose of considering 
that matter and reporting to the House thereon;
      (5) may subject a referral to appropriate time limitations; and
      (6) may make such other provision as may be considered 
appropriate.

  This provision became effective as part of the rules on January 3, 
1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Before that time 
a bill or resolution could not be divided for reference among two or 
more committees, although it contained matter properly within the 
jurisdiction of several committees (IV, 4361). Paragraph (c) was amended 
on January 4, 1977 (H. Res. 5, pp. 53-70) to authorize the Speaker to 
place an appropriate time limit for consideration by the first committee 
or committees to which referred. In the 104th Congress paragraph (c) was 
again amended to require the Speaker to initially designate a committee 
of primary jurisdiction

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in each referral of a measure to more than one committee (sec. 205, H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). In the 108th Congress the parenthetical 
exception in paragraph (c)(1) was added (sec. 2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 7). A paragraph (e) was added to the clause on January 4, 1977 
(H. Res. 5, pp. 53-70) to abolish the legislative jurisdiction in the 
House of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. The legislative 
jurisdiction of the Joint Committee was divided among the Committees on 
Armed Services (military applications of nuclear energy), Interior and 
Insular Affairs (now Natural Resources) (regulation of the domestic 
nuclear energy industry, since transferred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce in the 104th Congress), Foreign Affairs (nonproliferation 
of nuclear energy and international nuclear export agreements), 
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (now Energy and Commerce) (the same 
jurisdiction over nuclear energy as exercised over other energy), and 
Science, Space, and Technology (nondefense nuclear research and 
development). In addition, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 
Commerce (now Energy and Commerce) was given oversight jurisdiction over 
all laws, programs, and government activities affecting nuclear energy. 
Paragraph (e) was deleted entirely in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 1981, p. 98). At the same time the House deleted former paragraph 
(d), which required the Congressional Research Service of the Library of 
Congress to prepare factual descriptions of each bill or resolution 
introduced in the House to be published in the Congressional Record. A 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5 of rule 
X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  An order of the House precluding or limiting the potential for 
organizational or legislative business on certain days was considered 
not to deprive Members of the privilege of introducing bills and 
resolutions during pro forma sessions on those days, such measures being 
numbered on the day introduced but not noted in the Record or referred 
to committee until the day on which business was resumed (H. Con. Res. 
260, Nov. 26, 1991, p. 35840, extended by unanimous consent on Jan. 22, 
1992, p. 149, and Jan. 28, 1992, p. 745; H. Res. 619, Dec. 16, 2005, p. 
29054, amended by H. Res. 640, Dec. 18, 2005, p. 30378; H. Res. 877, 
Dec. 18, 2007, p. 35825).
  Under clause 2(c), the Speaker may (1) refer a bill to more than one 
committee for their respective consideration of such provisions of the 
bill as fall within their jurisdiction (Speaker Albert, Feb. 25, 1976, 
p. 4315), (2) divide a matter for initial reference to committees 
(Speaker Albert, Feb. 4, 1975, p. 2253; Speaker Hastert, Apr. 26, 1999, 
p. 7354), or (3) refer designated portions of a bill to one committee 
while referring the entire bill to another committee (Speaker O'Neill, 
Mar. 3, 1982, p. 3155). The Speaker also may set appropriate time 
limitations on the initial reference to each committee (Speaker O'Neill, 
Feb. 16, 1977, p. 4532; Speaker O'Neill, May 2, 1977, p. 13184). For 
example, the Speaker may refer a bill to two committees, with a time 
limit on one of the committees ending

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within a certain period after the other committee reports to the House 
(Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 27, 1983, p. 937; Speaker O'Neill, Feb. 2, 1983, 
p. 1492; Speaker Wright, Apr. 9, 1987, p. 8665) or with a time limit on 
one committee ending with a date certain (Speaker O'Neill, July 31, 
1985, p. 21936; Speaker Hastert, Mar. 13, 2001, p. 3448; Speaker 
Hastert, July 26, 2002, p. 15146). The Speaker may discharge a committee 
from further consideration of a bill not reported by it within the time 
for which the bill was referred and place the bill on the appropriate 
calendar (Speaker O'Neill, May 8, 1978, p. 12924).
  Before paragraph (c) was amended in the 104th Congress to require the 
Speaker to designate a committee of primary jurisdiction, the Speaker 
announced at the convening of the 98th Congress that he would exercise 
his authority, in situations that warranted it, to designate a primary 
committee among those to which a bill was jointly referred, and to 
impose time limits on committees having a secondary interest following 
the report of the primary committee under a joint referral (Speaker 
O'Neill, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 54; reiterated by Speaker Foley, Jan. 5, 1993, 
p. 105). The Speaker may refer a bill primarily to one committee while 
also referring it initially to additional committees for time periods to 
be subsequently determined when the primary committee reports, in each 
case for consideration of matters within their respective jurisdictions 
(Speaker Gingrich, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 123).
  Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIV (formerly clause 2 of rule XXIV), 
relating to messages from the Senate, the Speaker has discretionary 
authority to refer from the Speaker's table to standing committees, 
Senate amendments to House-passed bills, under any conditions permitted 
under this provision for introduced bills. The Speaker may for example 
impose a time limitation for consideration only of a portion of the 
Senate amendment, not germane to the original House bill, by the 
standing committee with subject-matter jurisdiction, without referring 
the remainder of the Senate amendment to the House committee with 
jurisdiction over the original House bill (Speaker O'Neill, H.R. 31, 
Mar. 26, 1981, p. 5397). Beginning with the 98th Congress, the Speaker 
announced a policy of referring nongermane Senate amendments under 
certain conditions (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 54; Speaker Foley, 
Jan. 5, 1993, p. 105).
  Under <> clause 
2(c), the Speaker has authority to sequentially refer a bill reported 
from a committee to other committees for a time certain for 
consideration of such portions of the bill as fall within their 
respective jurisdictions (Speaker Albert, Apr. 9, 1976, p. 10265; 
Speaker Albert, May 17, 1976, p. 14093). Under that authority, the 
Speaker may limit a sequential referral to matters having a direct 
effect on subjects within the committee's jurisdiction (Speaker O'Neill, 
Apr. 5, 1982, p. 6580; Speaker O'Neill, June 7, 1983, p. 14699; Speaker 
Wright, Sept. 9, 1987, p. 23648). For example, the Speaker sequentially 
referred a bill reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce to the 
Committee on the Judiciary for a specified time for consid

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eration of ``such provisions of the bill and amendment recommended by 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce as propose to narrow the purview of 
the Attorney General under section 271 of the Communications Act of 
1934'' (Speaker Hastert, May 24, 2001, p. 9384). The Speaker exercised 
authority under this clause to sequentially refer a joint resolution 
making continuing appropriations, reported as privileged by the 
Committee on Appropriations, to the committee having legislative 
jurisdiction over a legislative provision in the resolution, without a 
time limitation on the sequential referral (Speaker O'Neill, Sept. 22, 
1983, p. 25523).
  The Speaker has sometimes announced the application of the authority 
on sequential referrals at the outset of a Congress. For example, in the 
97th Congress, the Speaker announced that the sequential referral of a 
measure would be based on the subject matter of any amendment 
recommended by the reporting committee, as well as upon the original 
text of the measure (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 115, 116). In 
the 100th Congress, the Speaker announced that, in certain cases, a 
sequential referral would be based only upon the text of a reported 
substitute amendment in lieu of original text (Speaker Wright, Jan. 6, 
1987, p. 22). The Speaker has sequentially referred (1) a bill for 
consideration of the bill and amendment of the previous committee 
(Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 13, 1977, p. 33716); (2) a bill to two committees 
for different periods of time, solely for consideration of designated 
sections of the first committee's recommended amendment (Speaker 
O'Neill, May 18, 1982, p. 10418; Speaker O'Neill, Aug. 1, 1985, p. 
22681); (3) a bill for consideration by a third committee of a portion 
of an amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by one of the 
committees to which the bill had been initially referred (Speaker 
O'Neill, May 22, 1985, p. 13126); (4) a bill back to the first-reporting 
committee when it was reported from the second-reporting committee with 
a nongermane amendment within the jurisdiction of the first committee 
and not within the bounds of the initial referral (Speaker Wright, Oct. 
4, 1988, p. 28242). The Speaker also may base a sequential referral only 
on the text of the bill as introduced, even if a bill is reported by the 
primary committee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
(Speaker Gingrich, Sept. 12, 1995, p. 24791). For example, the Speaker 
sequentially referred a bill where the amendment recommended by the 
primary committee would delete portions of the bill within the 
jurisdiction of the sequential committee (Speaker Hastert, May 10, 1999, 
p. 8690).
  In the 96th Congress, the Speaker followed a more restrictive policy, 
permitting a sequential committee to review (1) those portions of 
introduced text within its jurisdiction and (2) those portions of an 
amendment within its jurisdiction when the introduced version also 
warranted a sequential referral to the committee (Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 
15, 1980, p. 7760). The Speaker first exercised the authority to base 
referrals on committee amendments by sequentially referring a bill 
reported from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation (now 
Transportation and Infrastructure), relating only to Corps of Engineers' 
water projects as introduced

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but amended in committee to address general water resource policy 
affecting irrigation and reclamation projects and soil conservation 
programs, to the Committees on Agriculture and Interior and Insular 
Affairs (now Natural Resources) for consideration of provisions of the 
committee amendment within their jurisdiction (Speaker O'Neill, May 20, 
1981, p. 10361).
  The Speaker may (1) discharge a measure from the Union Calendar and 
sequentially refer it to another committee (Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 27, 
1978, p. 11742; Speaker O'Neill, May 21, 1982, p. 11169; Speaker 
O'Neill, June 19, 1986, p. 14741; Speaker Foley, June 12, 1990, p. 
13670; Speaker Hastert, Nov. 30, 2001, p. 23681); (2) sequentially refer 
a bill that has been initially referred to several committees but 
reported only by one, for consideration of the reporting committee's 
amendment (Speaker O'Neill, June 17, 1982, p. 14069; Speaker Foley, 
Sept. 5, 1990, p. 23477); and (3) sequentially refer a bill referred to 
more than one committee when the first committee reports, for a period 
ending a number of days after the next committee reports (Speaker 
O'Neill, Aug. 1, 1985, p. 22681), or after all committees report 
(Speaker Wright, June 10, 1988, p. 14079).
  The Speaker may (1) extend the time of a sequentially referred bill 
and may refer the bill to yet another committee under the same 
sequential referral conditions (Speaker Albert, June 1, 1976, p. 16588); 
(2) delimit the period for sequential consideration of a bill in terms 
of legislative days (Speaker Wright, June 30, 1988, p. 16597); or (3) 
sequentially refer a bill without day (Speaker Wright, Sept. 27, 1988, 
p. 25827). On the last day of an expiring sequential referral, a 
committee has until midnight to file its report with the Clerk (Oct. 9, 
1991, p. 26045).
  Resolutions <> authorizing the Speaker to establish an ad hoc committee 
for the consideration of a particular bill under paragraph (c) of this 
clause, and extending the reporting date for such a committee, are 
privileged when offered from the floor at the Speaker's request (Speaker 
Albert, Apr. 22, 1975, p. 11261; Speaker Albert, Jan. 26, 1976, p. 876; 
Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 11, 1977, pp. 894-98; Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 21, 
1977, pp. 11550-56).
  Pursuant to the authority under paragraph (c)(4), the Speaker may 
refer a bill to a special ad hoc committee appointed by the Speaker with 
the approval of the House (from the members of the committees with 
legislative jurisdiction) for consideration and report on that 
particular bill (Speaker Albert, Apr. 22, 1975, p. 11261) or may jointly 
refer a report of a select committee filed with the Clerk to standing 
committees of the House for their study (Speaker Albert, Feb. 16, 1976, 
p. 3158).
  The Speaker may refer to an ad hoc committee, established with the 
approval of the House, bills, resolutions, and other matters (including 
messages and communications) for the purpose of considering such matters 
and reporting to the House thereon, and the resolution creating such a 
committee may specify whether referrals to such a committee shall be by 
initial or sequential reference or by any of the other methods provided

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by this clause (H. Res. 508, Apr. 21, 1977, pp. 11550-56; Speaker 
O'Neill, July 11, 1977, p. 22183; Speaker O'Neill, July 20, 1977, p. 
24167). For a discussion of Speaker's referrals to the former Select 
Committees on Homeland Security, see Sec. 723b, supra.
  Clause 7 provides the mechanism for changes of referrals erroneously 
made.
  The parliamentary <> law provides that the House may commit a portion of a bill, 
or a part thereof to one committee and another part thereof to another 
(V, 5558), yet under the practice of the House until January 3, 1975, a 
bill or joint resolution could not be divided for reference even if it 
contained matters properly within the jurisdiction of several committees 
(IV, 4372, 4376). On that date, the Speaker was given authority over 
referral of bills as prescribed in clause 2 of this rule (formerly 
clause 5 of rule X). In the 106th Congress the Speaker referred a bill 
by title to two committees (H.R. 1554, Apr. 26, 1999, p. 7355).

  (d) <> A bill 
for the payment or adjudication of a private claim against the 
Government may not be referred to a committee other than the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs or the Committee on the Judiciary, except by 
unanimous consent.

  The present form of this paragraph was made effective January 2, 1947, 
as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). 
It was amended several times to conform references to renamed committees 
(H. Res. 163, Mar. 19, 1975, p. 7343; H. Res. 89, Feb. 5, 1979, p. 1848; 
sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467; sec. 213(d), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). The old rule, adopted in 1885 and amended May 29, 
1936, provided that private claims bills be referred to a Committee on 
Invalid Pensions, Claims, War Claims, Public Lands, and Accounts, in 
addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and the Judiciary. Certain 
private bills, resolutions and amendments are barred (see Sec. 822, 
infra). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former clause 4 of rule XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47).
  Under this paragraph unanimous consent is required for the reference 
of a bill for the payment of a private claim to a committee other than 
the Committee on the Judiciary or the Committee on Foreign Affairs (May 
4, 1978, p. 12615). The Committee on the Judiciary, and not the 
Committee on Ways and Means, has jurisdiction over a private bill 
specifying that a certain annuity fund is exempt from taxation under 
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (Deschler, ch. 17, Sec. 43.22).


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Petitions, memorials, and private bills
  3. If a <> Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner has a petition, memorial, or private bill to present, the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall sign it, deliver it to 
the Clerk, and may specify the reference or disposition to be made 
thereof. Such petition, memorial, or private bill (except when judged by 
the Speaker to be obscene or insulting) shall be entered on the Journal 
with the name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
presenting it and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.

  At the first organization of the House in 1789 the rules then adopted 
provided for the presentation of petitions to the House by the Speaker 
and Members, and for the introduction of bills by motion for leave. In 
1842 it was found necessary, in order to save time, to provide that 
petitions and memorials should be filed with the Clerk. In 1870, 1879, 
and 1887 the practice as to petitions was extended to private bills, at 
first as to certain classes and later so that all should be filed with 
the Clerk (IV, 3312, 3365; VII, 1024). A gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Petitions, memorials, <> and other papers addressed to the House may 
be presented by the Speaker as well as by a Member (IV, 3312). Petitions 
from the country at large are presented by the Speaker in the manner 
prescribed by the rule (III, 2030; IV, 3318; VII, 1025). A Member may 
present a petition from the people of another State (IV, 3315, 3316). 
The House itself may refer one portion of a petition to one committee 
and another portion to another committee (IV, 3359, 3360), but 
ordinarily the reference of a petition does not come before the House 
itself. A committee may receive a petition only through the House (IV, 
4557).

  4. A <> private 
bill or private resolution (including an omnibus claim or pension bill), 
or amendment thereto, may

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not be received or considered in the House if it authorizes or directs--
      (a) the payment of money for property damages, for personal 
injuries or death for which suit may be instituted under the Tort Claims 
Procedure provided in title 28, United States Code, or for a pension 
(other than to carry out a provision of law or treaty stipulation);
      (b) the construction of a bridge across a navigable stream; or
      (c) the correction of a military or naval record.

  This paragraph derives from section 131 of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) and was made a part of the 
standing rules January 3, 1953 (p. 24). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
2(a) of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The prohibition 
relating to correction of a military record does not apply to a private 
bill that changes the computation of retired pay for a former member of 
the armed services (after exhaustion of administrative remedies) but 
does not directly correct the military record (Sept. 18, 1984, p. 
25824).

Prohibition on commemorations
  5. (a) <> A bill or 
resolution, or an amendment thereto, may not be introduced or considered 
in the House if it establishes or expresses a commemoration.
  (b) In this clause the term ``commemoration'' means a remembrance, 
celebration, or recognition for any purpose through the designation of a 
specified period of time.

  The 104th Congress added the prohibition against commemorative 
legislation and directed the Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight (now Oversight and Government Reform) to consider alternative 
means for establishing commemorations, including the creation of an 
independent or executive branch commission for such purpose, and to 
report to the

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House any recommendations thereon (sec. 216, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
468). No recommendations were reported. Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
2(b) of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The House by 
unanimous consent waived the prohibition against introduction of a 
certain joint resolution specified by sponsor and title proposing a 
commemoration (which was contained in the resolving clause and not 
merely in the preamble) (Oct. 24, 2001, p. 20545).

Excluded matters
  6. A <> petition, memorial, bill, or resolution excluded under 
this rule shall be returned to the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner from whom it was received. A petition or private bill that 
has been inappropriately referred may, by direction of the committee 
having possession of it, be properly referred in the manner originally 
presented. An erroneous reference of a petition or private bill under 
this clause does not confer jurisdiction on a committee to consider or 
report it.

  This clause of the rule was first adopted in 1880, although the 
portion relating to the return of certain petitions and bills was 
adapted from an older rule of 1842 (IV, 3312, 3365). In the 104th 
Congress it was amended to conform to the new prohibition against 
commemorative legislation (sec. 216, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Errors in reference of petitions, memorials, or private bills are 
corrected at the Clerk's table, without action by the House, at the 
suggestion of the committee holding possession (IV, 4379). As provided 
in the rule, the erroneous reference of a private House bill does not 
confer jurisdiction, and a point of order is good when the bill comes up 
for consideration either in the House or in the Committee of the Whole 
(IV, 4382-4389). But in cases where the House itself refers a private 
House or Senate bill a point of order may not be raised as to 
jurisdiction (IV, 4390, 4391; VII, 2131). The Speaker may correct the 
erroneous referral of a bill as private by referring it to the 
appropriate (Union) calendar as a public bill when reported (June 1, 
1988, p. 13184).


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Sponsorship
  7. (a) Bills, <> memorials, 
petitions, and resolutions, endorsed with the names of Members, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner introducing them, may be 
delivered to the Speaker to be referred. The titles and references of 
all bills, memorials, petitions, resolutions, and other documents 
referred under this rule shall be entered on the Journal and printed in 
the Congressional Record. An erroneous reference may be corrected by the 
House in accordance with rule X on any day immediately after the Pledge 
of Allegiance to the Flag by unanimous consent or motion. Such a motion 
shall be privileged if offered by direction of a committee to which the 
bill has been erroneously referred or by direction of a committee 
claiming jurisdiction and shall be decided without debate.
  (b)(1) The sponsor of a public bill or public resolution may name 
cosponsors. The name of a cosponsor added after the initial printing of 
a bill or resolution shall appear in the next printing of the bill or 
resolution on the written request of the sponsor. Such a request may be 
submitted to the Speaker at any time until the last committee authorized 
to consider and report the bill or resolution reports it to the House or 
is discharged from its consideration.
  (2) The name of a cosponsor of a bill or resolution may be deleted by 
unanimous consent. The Speaker may entertain such a request only by the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commis

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sioner whose name is to be deleted or by the sponsor of the bill or 
resolution, and only until the last committee authorized to consider and 
report the bill or resolution reports it to the House or is discharged 
from its consideration. The Speaker may not entertain a request to 
delete the name of the sponsor of a bill or resolution. A deletion shall 
be indicated by date in the next printing of the bill or resolution.
  (3) The addition or deletion of the name of a cosponsor of a bill or 
resolution shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the 
Congressional Record of that day.
  (4) A bill or resolution shall be reprinted on the written request of 
the sponsor. Such a request may be submitted to the Speaker only when 20 
or more cosponsors have been added since the last printing of the bill 
or resolution.

  The rule of 1789 provided that all bills should be introduced on 
report of a committee or by motion for leave. By various modifications 
it was first provided that all classes of private bills should be 
introduced by filing them with the Clerk, and in 1890 this system was by 
this rule extended to all public bills (IV, 3365). In the 105th and 
107th Congresses paragraph (a) was amended, and in the 112th Congress 
paragraph (b) was amended, to effect technical corrections (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26; sec. 
2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 4 
of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  At its organization for the 106th Congress the House adopted an order 
of the House that the first 10 bill numbers be reserved for assignment 
by the Speaker during a specified period (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 107th and 108th Congresses the House adopted the 
same order, but extended the applicable time to the entire first session 
(sec. 3(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24; sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
7, 2003, p. 7). In the 108th Congress, the House by unanimous consent 
extended such authority through the remainder of the Congress (Oct. 4, 
2004, p. 20566). In the 109th through 111th Congresses the House adopted 
the same initial order but for the entire Congress (sec. 3(c), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 4, 2005, p.

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44; sec. 217, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19; sec. 3(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 2009, p. 9) and the House in the 112th through 114th Congresses 
expanded it to reserve the second 10 bill numbers for assignment by the 
Minority Leader (sec. 3(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(h), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. 
_).
  The motion for a change of reference and subsidiary motions take 
precedence over motions to go into the Committee of the Whole for the 
consideration of appropriation bills and the consideration of conference 
reports (VII, 2124), and may not be debated (VII, 2126-2128). But the 
motion is not in order on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 2117), and is not 
privileged under the rule if the original reference was not erroneous 
(VII, 2125). The motion may be amended, but the amendment, like the 
original motion, is subject to the requirement that it be authorized by 
the committee (VII, 2127). The motion must apply to a single bill and 
not to a class of bills (VII, 2125).
  According to the later practice the erroneous reference of a public 
bill, if it remain uncorrected, in effect gives jurisdiction to the 
committee receiving it (IV, 4365-4371; VII, 1489, 2108-2113; VIII, 
2312). It is too late to move a change of reference after such committee 
has reported the bill (VII, 2110; VIII, 2312), but the Speaker may, 
pursuant to authority granted by clause 2 (formerly clause 5 of rule X) 
effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470), refer a bill sequentially to other committees. All bills and 
resolutions must be signed by the sponsor thereof (Speaker Albert, Feb. 
3, 1972, p. 2521).
  Joint sponsorship of public bills by not more than 25 Members was 
authorized in the 90th Congress (H. Res. 42, Apr. 25, 1967, p. 10712). 
Prior thereto a special committee had reported against this practice and 
the report had been adopted by the House (VII, 1029). Effective January 
3, 1979 (H. Res. 86, 95th Cong., Oct. 10, 1978, p. 34929), paragraph (b) 
was added to allow unlimited cosponsorship and to provide a mechanism 
for Members to add their names as cosponsors to bills or resolutions 
that have already been introduced, up until the bill is finally reported 
from committee, and on January 15, 1979, the Speaker announced his 
directive for the processing of lists of cosponsors pursuant to the new 
clause (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 19).
  Although paragraph (b)(2), before the 106th Congress, permitted only a 
cosponsoring Member to request unanimous consent to be deleted as a 
cosponsor, the sponsor of a measure was permitted to request unanimous 
consent to remove a cosponsor inadvertently or erroneously listed (Feb. 
9, 1982). In the 106th Congress, paragraph (b)(2) codified that such 
requests could be made by either the sponsor or the cosponsor (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Unanimous-consent requests to delete Members' 
names as cosponsors are not entertained after the last committee of 
referral has reported to the House (or has been discharged from further 
consideration) (Oct. 8, 1985, p. 26668; Feb. 10, 2000, p. 982), and the 
Speaker has vacated unanimous-consent orders of the House to delete 
cosponsors when advised

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that the bill had already been reported (Aug. 5, 1987, p. 22458; June 
17, 2013, p. _). A Member may request unanimous consent to be deleted as 
a cosponsor of an unreported bill during its consideration under 
suspension of the rules and before a final vote thereon (June 9, 1986, 
p. 12979).
  By unanimous consent a Member may be added as a cosponsor of an 
unreported bill if the sponsor is no longer a Member of the House (Aug. 
4, 1983, p. 23188; Oct. 3, 2008, p. 24009), and a designated Member may 
be authorized to sign and submit lists of additional cosponsors if the 
actual sponsor is no longer a Member (e.g., June 23, 1989, p. 13271; 
Apr. 5, 2000, p. 4487; June 20, 2001, p. 11196; Sept. 21, 2004, p. 
18827), but the Chair will not otherwise entertain a request to add 
cosponsors by a Member other than the sponsor (Mar. 5, 1991, p. 5026). 
In fact, the Chair will not entertain any unanimous-consent request to 
add a cosponsor (July 24, 2000, p. 15878), whether such request includes 
only the Member making the request (Oct. 25, 1995, p. 29352), includes 
all Members (Dec. 18, 1985, p. 37765), or includes a specified 
additional sponsor (Jan. 28, 1985, p. 1141; May 23, 1985, p. 13421). 
Such requests must be made by the sponsor through the hopper not later 
than the last day on which any committee is authorized to consider and 
report the measure to the House (Nov. 4, 1997, p. 24413).
  The Chair does not entertain a unanimous-consent request to add a co-
offeror of an amendment (May 20, 2004, p. 10631; Sept. 14, 2004, p. 
18429; Apr. 29, 2015, p. _) or to change the offeror of a pending 
amendment (Apr. 29, 2015, p. _).
  At its organization for the 104th Congress the House resolved that 
each of the first 20 bills and each of the first two joint resolutions 
introduced in the House in that Congress could have more than one Member 
reflected as a sponsor (sec. 223(g), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469); 
and the Speaker stated that all signatures of such ``primary'' sponsors 
would be required on the bills (Speaker Gingrich, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551). 
A Member was subsequently added as such a ``primary'' sponsor by 
unanimous consent (Jan. 18, 1995, p. 1447).
  The fraudulent <> introduction of a measure involves a question of privilege, and 
a measure so introduced has been ordered stricken from the files (IV, 
3388). As the result of the unauthorized introduction of several bills 
without the knowledge of the Members listed as sponsors, the Speaker 
directed that all bills and resolutions must be signed by the sponsor 
thereof in order to be accepted for introduction (Speaker Albert, Feb. 
3, 1972, p. 2521).

  (5) <> When a bill or resolution is introduced ``by request,'' 
those words shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the 
Congressional Record.


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  This provision was adopted in 1888 (IV, 3366). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, it was found in former 
clause 6 of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It has never 
been the practice of the House to permit the names of the persons 
requesting the introduction of the bill to be printed in the Record.

  (c)(1) <> A bill or joint resolution may not be introduced unless 
the sponsor submits for printing in the Congressional Record a statement 
citing as specifically as practicable the power or powers granted to 
Congress in the Constitution to enact the bill or joint resolution. The 
statement shall appear in a portion of the Record designated for that 
purpose and be made publicly available in electronic form by the Clerk.
  (2) Before consideration of a Senate bill or joint resolution, the 
chair of a committee of jurisdiction may submit the statement required 
under subparagraph (1) as though the chair were the sponsor of the 
Senate bill or joint resolution.

  Paragraph (c) was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(a)(1), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A point of order under this paragraph is not 
timely when the relevant measure is not pending (May 16, 2013, p. _).
  The <> House in the 
113th and 114th Congresses required, to the extent practicable, an 
applicable United States Code citation in the case of an amendatory 
instruction in a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a 
law not codified (sec. 3(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(m), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

Executive communications
  8. Estimates <> of appropriations and all other 
communications from the executive departments intended for the 
consideration of any committees of the

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House shall be addressed to the Speaker for referral as provided in 
clause 2 of rule XIV.

  This rule was adopted in 1867 and amended in 1880 (V, 6593). It was 
renumbered January 3, 1953 (p. 24). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former rule XL 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Formerly estimates of appropriations 
were transmitted through the Secretary of the Treasury (IV, 3573-3576, 
4045), but under 31 U.S.C. 1105 they are now included in the budget 
submitted by the President.




                                Rule XIII

                     calendars and committee reports

Calendars
  1. (a) <> All 
business reported by committees shall be referred to one of the 
following three calendars:
      (1) A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union, to which shall be referred public bills and public 
resolutions raising revenue, involving a tax or charge on the people, 
directly or indirectly making appropriations of money or property or 
requiring such appropriations to be made, authorizing payments out of 
appropriations already made, releasing any liability to the United 
States for money or property, or referring a claim to the Court of 
Claims.
      (2) A House Calendar, to which shall be referred all public bills 
and public resolutions not requiring referral to the Calendar of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

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      (3) A Private Calendar as provided in clause 5 of rule XV, to 
which shall be referred all private bills and private resolutions.

  This provision was adopted in 1880 and amended in 1911 (VI, 742); but 
as early as 1820 a rule was adopted creating calendars for the 
Committees of the Whole. Clerical and stylistic changes were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), including a change in subparagraph (3) from the 
``Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House'' to the ``Private 
Calendar.'' Bills not requiring consideration in Committee of the Whole 
were considered when reported, but in 1880 the House Calendar was 
created to remedy the delays in making reports caused by such 
consideration (IV, 3115). Reference of a bill to a calendar is governed 
by the text of the bill as referred to committee, and amendments 
reported by committees are not considered (VIII, 2392).
  A motion to correct an error in referring a bill to the proper 
calendar presents a question of privilege (III, 2614, 2615); but a mere 
clerical error in the calendar does not give rise to such question (III, 
2616). A bill improperly reported is not entitled to a place on the 
calendar (IV, 3117).
  A bill on the wrong calendar may be transferred to the proper calendar 
as of the date of original reference by direction of the Speaker (VI, 
744-748; VII, 859, 2406; Dec. 7, 1950, p. 16307; Apr. 26, 1984, p. 
10242; Sept. 10, 1990, p. 23677). But the Speaker has no authority to 
change calendar reference made by the House (VI, 749; VII, 859). Reports 
from the Court of Claims did not remain on the calendar from Congress to 
Congress, even when a law seemed so to provide (IV, 3298-3302). In 
determining whether a bill should be placed on the House or Union 
Calendar, clause 3 of rule XVIII should be consulted. The Speaker may 
correct the erroneous referral of a bill as private by referring it to 
the appropriate (Union) calendar as a public bill when reported (June 1, 
1988, p. 13184).
  Although the Speaker has no general authority to remove a reported 
bill from the Union Calendar (other than to correct the erroneous 
reference of a reported bill between calendars), the Speaker may 
discharge a bill therefrom for reference to another committee when 
required (1) by section 401(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
permitting 15-day referral to the Committee on Appropriations of 
reported bills providing new entitlement authority in excess of that 
allocated to the reporting committee in connection with the most 
recently agreed-to concurrent resolution on the budget (Speaker O'Neill, 
Sept. 8, 1977, p. 28153), or (2) by clause 2 of rule XII (formerly 
clause 5 of rule X), authorizing and directing the Speaker to assure 
that each committee has responsibility to consider legislation within 
its jurisdiction by fashioning sequential referrals when appropriate 
(Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 27, 1978, p. 11742; June 19, 1986, p. 14741).


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  (b) <> There is established a 
Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees as provided in clause 2 of 
rule XV.

  From the 106th Congress through the 108th Congress, paragraph (b) was 
occupied by a cross reference to the Corrections Calendar. The provision 
was added when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47) and was stricken when the Corrections 
Calendar was abolished in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 2005, p. 43). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, the current paragraph (b) was found in former clause 5 of rule 
XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Filing and printing of reports
  2. (a)(1) <> Except as 
provided in subparagraph (2), all reports of committees (other than 
those filed from the floor) shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing 
and reference to the proper calendar under the direction of the Speaker 
in accordance with clause 1. The title or subject of each report shall 
be entered on the Journal and printed in the Congressional Record.
  (2) <> A bill or resolution reported 
adversely (other than those filed as privileged) shall be laid on the 
table unless a committee to which the bill or resolution was referred 
requests at the time of the report its referral to an appropriate 
calendar under clause 1 or unless, within three days thereafter, a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner makes such a request.

  A technical amendment was effected by the 93d Congress (H. Res. 988, 
Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), but the 111th Congress reversed an inadvertent 
change to paragraph (a)(2) to restore its application to nonprivileged 
reports only

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(sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9) (contrast the 1999 
codification with its predecessor in form; VI, 411).
  When <> the House codified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, it deleted the portion of clause 2 of rule XVIII that required 
the printing of reports. That provision was redundant because this 
provision carries the same requirement (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Former clause 2 of rule XVIII was adopted in 1880 (V, 5647).
  The House insists on its requirement that all reports be in writing 
(IV, 4655) and does not receive verbal reports as to bills (IV, 4654). 
But the sufficiency of a report is passed on by the House and not by the 
Speaker (II, 1339; IV, 4653). A report is not necessarily signed by all 
those concurring (II, 1274) or even by any of those concurring, but 
minority, supplemental, additional, and dissenting views are signed by 
those submitting them (IV, 4671; VIII, 2229; see clause 2(l)(5) of rule 
XI). Under this rule, the printing requirement is not a condition 
precedent to consideration of the matter reported (VIII, 2307-2309). 
However, for various availability and layover requirements in the rules, 
see clause 6 of rule X (Sec. 764, supra), clauses 5 and 6 of rule XIII 
(Sec. 850, Sec. 851, Sec. 853, Sec. 857, infra, respectively), and 
clause 8 of rule XXII (Sec. 1082, infra). See also clause 3(a)(2) of 
rule XIII (Sec. 838, infra), which excepts from the availability 
requirements of clauses 4 and 6 supplemental reports to correct a 
technical error in the depiction of record votes in a committee report.
  Unless filed with a report pursuant to clause 2(c) or rule XIII, 
minority, supplemental, additional, or dissenting views may be presented 
only with the consent of the House (IV, 4600; VIII, 2231, 2248).
  It has been held that the fact that a report was not printed by the 
Director of the Government Publishing Office as originally made to the 
House does not prevent the consideration of the matter reported (VIII, 
2307). A committee may not file its report on a bill after the House has 
passed the bill (Sept. 30, 1985, p. 25270).

  (b)(1) <> It shall be the duty of the 
chair of each committee to report or cause to be reported promptly to 
the House a measure or matter approved by the committee and to take or 
cause to be taken steps necessary to bring the measure or matter to a 
vote.
  (2) <> In any event, 
the report of a committee on a measure that has been approved by the 
committee shall be filed within seven calendar days (exclusive of days 
on which the House is not in session) after the day

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on which a written request for the filing of the report, signed by a 
majority of the members of the committee, has been filed with the clerk 
of the committee. The clerk of the committee shall immediately notify 
the chair of the filing of such a request. This subparagraph does not 
apply to a report of the Committee on Rules with respect to a rule, 
joint rule, or order of business of the House, or to the reporting of a 
resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department.

  Subparagraph (1) (formerly clause 2(l)(1)(A) of rule XI) is derived 
from section 133(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 
Stat. 812) and was made a part of the standing rules on January 3, 1953 
(p. 24). It is sufficient authority for the chair to call up a bill on 
Calendar Wednesday (Speaker Rayburn, Feb. 22, 1950, p. 2162). 
Subparagraph (2) (formerly clause 2(l)(1)(B) of rule XI) is derived from 
section 105 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 
1140) and was made part of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Former clause 2(l)(1)(C) of rule XI was added by 
the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. 
Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), to incorporate section 307 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 313), requiring the 
Committee on Appropriations to strive to complete committee action on 
all regular appropriation bills before reporting any of them to the 
House, and to submit a report comparing specified spending levels, but 
was repealed by section 232(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177). An obsolete reference in 
former subdivision (B) to the former subdivision (C) was deleted in the 
104th Congress (sec. 223(f), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469). Gender-
based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2(l)(1) of 
rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Absent a special order of the House (e.g., Mar. 30, 2012, p. _), 
committee reports must be submitted while the House is in session, 
except as permitted under clause 2(c) of rule XIII with respect to the 
guaranteed time for composing separate views (see Sec. 836, infra) (Dec. 
17, 1982, p. 31951).

  (c) <> All supplemental, 
minority, additional, or dissenting views filed under clause 2(l) of 
rule XI by one or more mem

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bers of a committee shall be included in, and shall be a part of, the 
report filed by the committee with respect to a measure or matter. When 
time guaranteed by clause 2(l) of rule XI has expired (or, if sooner, 
when all separate views have been received), the committee may arrange 
to file its report with the Clerk not later than one hour after the 
expiration of such time. This clause and provisions of clause 2(l) of 
rule XI do not preclude the immediate filing or printing of a committee 
report in the absence of a timely request for the opportunity to file 
supplemental, minority, additional, or dissenting views as provided in 
clause 2(l) of rule XI.

  The first sentence of this paragraph was originally included in 
section 107 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 
1140) and was made a part of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). The remainder of the paragraph (establishing 
standing authority for committees to file reports with the Clerk after 
honoring the guarantee of the rule) was adopted in the 105th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The paragraph was amended in the 
114th Congress to include dissenting views to mirror an amendment to 
clause 2(l) of rule XI (sec. 2(a)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2(l)(5) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47).

Content of reports
  3. (a)(1) <> Except as provided in 
subparagraph (2), the report of a committee on a measure or matter shall 
be printed in a single volume that--
      (A) shall include all supplemental, minority, additional, or 
dissenting views that have been submitted by the time of the filing of 
the report; and

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      (B) shall bear on its cover a recital that any such supplemental, 
minority, additional, or dissenting views (and any material submitted 
under paragraph (c)(3)) are included as part of the report.
  (2) <> A committee may file a 
supplemental report for the correction of a technical error in its 
previous report on a measure or matter. A supplemental report only 
correcting errors in the depiction of record votes under paragraph (b) 
may be filed under this subparagraph and shall not be subject to the 
requirement in clause 4 or clause 6 concerning the availability of 
reports.

  Clause 3 (formerly clause 2(l)(5) of rule XI) was originally included 
in section 107 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 
1140) and was incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2(l)(5) of 
rule XI, and the former companion provision of clause 2(l)(5) of rule XI 
entitling members to supplemental, minority, additional, or dissenting 
views was transferred to new clause 2(l) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). The last sentence of subparagraph (2) was added in the 
107th Congress (sec. 2(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). A technical 
correction to subparagraph (1)(B) was effected in the 108th Congress 
(sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Subparagraphs (1)(A) and 
(1)(B) were amended in the 114th Congress to include dissenting views to 
mirror an amendment to clause 2(l) of rule XI (sec. 2(a)(5), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  Except as provided in subparagraph (2), a supplemental report is 
subject to three-day availability under clause 4 (Deschler, ch. 17, 
Sec. 64.1). A committee may file a supplemental report pursuant to 
subparagraph (2) to correct a technical error in the depiction of a bill 
number in the portion of the report regarding congressional earmarks, 
targeted tax benefits, and targeted tariff benefits under clause 9 of 
rule XXI (July 30, 2010, p. 14834).
  (b) <> With respect to each record 
vote on a motion to report a measure or matter of a public nature, and 
on any amendment offered to the measure or matter,

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the total number of votes cast for and against, and the names of members 
voting for and against, shall be included in the committee report. The 
preceding sentence does not apply to votes taken in executive session by 
the Committee on Ethics.

  The requirement of subparagraph (b) (formerly clause 2(l)(2)(B) of 
rule XI) was contained in section 104(b) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140), was incorporated into the 
rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144), and was 
expanded in the 104th Congress to require that reports also reflect the 
total number of votes cast for and against any public measure or matter 
and any amendment thereto and the names of those voting for and against 
(sec. 209, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). An exception for the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) was adopted in 
the 105th Congress (sec. 8, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19318). An 
exception for certain reports by the Committee on Rules was adopted in 
the 110th Congress (sec. 503, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted 
Jan. 5, 2007) and repealed in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(10), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). This paragraph was amended in the 112th 
Congress to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2(l)(2)(B) of rule 
XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). If the accompanying report 
erroneously reflects information required by this paragraph, a bill 
would be subject to a point of order against its consideration, unless 
corrected pursuant to clause 3(a)(2) by a supplemental report; however, 
a point of order would not lie if the error was introduced by the 
Government Publishing Office (Jan. 19, 1995, p. 1613). A question 
alleging that a committee report contained descriptions of recorded 
votes (as required by this clause) that deliberately mischaracterized 
certain amendments and directing the chair of the committee to file a 
supplemental report to change those descriptions was held to constitute 
a question of the privileges of the House (May 3, 2005, pp. 8417, 8418).

  (c) <> The report of a committee 
on a measure that has been approved by the committee shall include, 
separately set out and clearly identified, the following:
      (1) Oversight findings and recommendations under clause 2(b)(1) of 
rule X.

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      (2) The statement required by section 308(a) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, except that an estimate of new budget authority 
shall include, when practicable, a comparison of the total estimated 
funding level for the relevant programs to the appropriate levels under 
current law.
      (3) An estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 if timely submitted to the committee before the 
filing of the report.
      (4) A statement of general performance goals and objectives, 
including outcome-related goals and objectives, for which the measure 
authorizes funding.

  This provision (formerly clause 2(l)(3) of rule XI) became effective 
January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). It was 
amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), to 
correct a cross-reference, and in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1993, p. 49) to correct the typographical transposition of a phrase. 
Subparagraphs (2) and (3) (formerly clauses 2(l)(3)(B) and 2(l)(3)(C) of 
rule XI) are requirements of sections 308(a) and 402 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297). Subparagraph (2) 
(formerly clause 2(l)(3)(B) of rule XI) was amended in the 99th Congress 
by section 232(f) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177) to include new entitlement and credit 
authority in conformity with section 308(a)(1) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, as amended by that law. It was again amended in the 
104th Congress to require estimates of new budget authority, when 
practicable, to compare the total estimated funding for the program to 
the appropriate level under current law (sec. 102(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 462). In the 104th and 106th Congresses, it was amended to 
conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This provision was 
amended in the 105th Congress to reflect the repeal of the collective 
definition of ``new spending authority'' and the revision of various 
remaining parts and to effect a technical and conforming change (Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33)). Subparagraph (4) was 
amended to replace a requirement that committees include in their 
reports over

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sight findings and recommendations by the Committee on Government Reform 
with a requirement that they include a statement of performance goals 
and objectives (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  The <> House in the 
113th and 114th Congresses required each report accompanying a bill or 
joint resolution to include a statement of whether the measure 
established or reauthorized a program of the Federal government known to 
be duplicative of another such program (sec. 3(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2013, p. _; sec. 3(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  The <> House in the 113th and 
114th Congresses required each report accompanying a bill or joint 
resolution to include a statement estimating the number of directed rule 
makings required by the measure (sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_; sec. 3(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

  (d) <> Each report of a committee 
on a public bill or public joint resolution shall contain the following:
      (1)(A) An estimate by the committee of the costs that would be 
incurred in carrying out the bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year 
in which it is reported and in each of the five fiscal years following 
that fiscal year (or for the authorized duration of any program 
authorized by the bill or joint resolution if less than five years);
      (B) a comparison of the estimate of costs described in subdivision 
(A) made by the committee with any estimate of such costs made by a 
Government agency and submitted to such committee; and
      (C) when practicable, a comparison of the total estimated funding 
level for the relevant programs with the appropriate levels under 
current law.
      (2)(A) In subparagraph (1) the term ``Government agency'' includes 
any department, agency, establishment, wholly owned Govern

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ment corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal Government or the 
government of the District of Columbia.
      (B) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to the Committee on 
Appropriations, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on 
Rules, or the Committee on Ethics, and does not apply when a cost 
estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
has been included in the report under paragraph (c)(3).

  This provision was adopted in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 
1971, p. 144) as part of the implementation of section 252(b) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and was amended 
in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to remove 
references to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subparagraph (2)(B) 
(formerly clause 7(d)) was amended in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 1981, pp. 98-113) to render committee cost estimates optional if an 
estimate by the Congressional Budget Office is included in the report. 
It was amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 900 note) 
to require five-year estimates of revenue changes in legislative 
reports. In the 104th Congress it was amended to require estimates of 
new budget authority, when practicable, to compare the total estimated 
funding for the program to the appropriate level under current law (sec. 
102(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). In the 104th and 106th 
Congresses subparagraph (2)(B) (formerly clause 7(d)) was amended to 
reflect a change in committee name (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). In the 105th Congress it 
was amended to effect a technical change (Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 
(sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33)). In the 112th Congress subparagraphs (2) and 
(3) were redesignated when a former subparagraph (1) was repealed (sec. 
2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80) and subparagraph (2)(B) was 
amended to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 7 of this rule (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  A committee cost estimate identifying certain spending authority as 
recurring annually and indefinitely was held necessarily to address the 
five-year period required by section 308 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (Nov. 20, 1993, p. 31354).

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  Under <> the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, each report 
accompanying a bill or joint resolution relating to terms and conditions 
of employment or access to public services or accommodations must 
describe the manner in which the provisions apply to the legislative 
branch or a statement of the reasons the provisions do not apply; and 
any Member may raise a point of order against the consideration of a 
bill or joint resolution not complying with this requirement, which may 
be waived in the House by majority vote (sec. 102(b)(3), P.L. 104-1; 109 
Stat. 6).
  The <> Unfunded Mandates Reform 
Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 48) added a new part B to title IV of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 658-658g) that imposes 
several requirements on committees with respect to measures effecting 
``Federal mandates'' (secs. 423-424; 2 U.S.C. 658b-c) and establishes 
points of order to permit separate votes on whether to enforce those 
requirements (sec. 425; 2 U.S.C. 658d). See Sec. 1127, infra.

  Former <> clause 2(l)(4) of rule XI, which 
became a part of the rules under the Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470), required an analytical statement of inflationary impact. It 
was converted in the 105th Congress to require a statement of 
constitutional authority (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121) and was 
repealed in the 112th Congress in conjunction with the establishment of 
clause 7(c) of rule XII (sec. 2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). 
If a point of order were sustained under this subparagraph, the measure 
would be ``recommitted'' to await possible return to the Calendar by the 
filing of a supplemental report pursuant to clause 3(a)(2) correcting 
the technical error (Feb. 13, 1995, p. 4591).

  (e)(1) <> Whenever a committee 
reports a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a 
statute or part thereof, it shall include in its report or in an 
accompanying document--
      (A) the entire text of each section of a statute that is proposed 
to be repealed or amended; and
      (B) a comparative print of each amendment to a section of a 
statute that the bill or joint resolution proposes to make, showing by 
ap

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propriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed.
  (2) If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution proposing to 
repeal or amend a statute or part thereof with a recommendation that the 
bill or joint resolution be amended, the comparative print required by 
subparagraph (1) shall reflect the changes in existing law proposed to 
be made by the bill or joint resolution as proposed to be amended.

  The first part of this paragraph (formerly clause 3) was adopted 
January 28, 1929 (VIII, 2234), was redesignated January 3, 1953 (p. 24), 
and subparagraph (2) (formerly a proviso in clause 3(2)) was added 
September 22, 1961 (p. 20823). Subparagraph (1)(B) was amended in the 
113th Congress to promote the inclusion of adjacent provisions (sec. 
2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Subparagraphs (1)(A) and (1)(B) 
were amended in the 114th Congress to require the inclusion of the 
entire text of a section proposed to be repealed or amended in addition 
to the existing requirement for a comparative print (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 3 of this rule 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Technical failure of a committee report to comply with the 
``Ramseyer'' rule may be remedied by a supplemental report (VIII, 2247). 
Although the filing of such a corrective report formerly required the 
consent of the House (VIII, 2248), it may now be filed with the Clerk 
pursuant to clause 3(a)(2). Reports held to violate the rule because 
they are not susceptible to correction by the filing of a supplemental 
report under clause 3(a)(2), as in the case of a substantial violation, 
are automatically recommitted to the respective committees reporting 
them (VIII, 2237, 2245, 2250). When a bill is so recommitted, further 
proceedings are de novo and the bill is considered again and reported by 
the committee as if no previous report had been made (VIII, 2249).
  Although a bill proposes but one minor and obvious change in existing 
law, the failure of the report to indicate the change is in violation of 
the rule (VIII, 2236). The statute proposed to be amended must be quoted 
in the report and it is not sufficient that it is incorporated in the 
bill (VIII, 2238). Under the rule the committee report on a bill 
amending existing law by the addition of a proviso should quote in full 
the section immediately preceding the proposed amendment (VIII, 2237). 
The rule applies to appropriation bills if such bills include 
legislative provisions (VIII, 2241) and reports on appropriation bills 
are also subject to the requirements of clause 3(f) of rule XIII, 
requiring a concise statement of the effect of any direct

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or indirect changes in the application of existing law. In order to fall 
within the purview of the rule the bill must seek to repeal or amend 
specifically an existing law (VIII, 2235, 2239, 2240).
  Special orders providing for consideration of bills, unless 
specifically waiving points of order, do not preclude the point of order 
that reports on such bills fail to indicate proposed changes in existing 
law (VIII, 2245). The point of order that a report fails to comply with 
the rule is properly made when the bill is called up in the House and 
comes too late after the House has resolved into the Committee of the 
Whole for its consideration (VIII, 2243-2245).
  Where the comparative print contained certain errors in punctuation 
and capitalization and utilized abbreviations not appearing in existing 
provisions of law, the Speaker held that the committee report was in 
substantial compliance with the rule and overruled a point of order 
against the report (Deschler, ch. 17, Sec. Sec. 60.13, 60.14).

  (f)(1) <> A report of the Committee on Appropriations on a general 
appropriation bill shall include--
      (A) a concise statement describing the effect of any provision of 
the accompanying bill that directly or indirectly changes the 
application of existing law; and
      (B) a list of all appropriations contained in the bill for 
expenditures not currently authorized by law for the period concerned 
(excepting classified intelligence or national security programs, 
projects, or activities), along with a statement of the last year for 
which such expenditures were authorized, the level of expenditures 
authorized for that year, the actual level of expenditures for that 
year, and the level of appropriations in the bill for such expenditures.

  This provision (formerly clause 3 of rule XXI) became a part of the 
rules under the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 
3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). This provision 
was amended on January 14, 1975 (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 32) to 
confine its applicability to general appropriation bills, and again in 
the 104th Con

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gress to add subparagraph (1)(B) concerning unauthorized items (sec. 
215(d), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Subparagraph (1)(B) was 
amended in the 107th Congress to require more detail on the status of 
unauthorized appropriations (sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

  (2) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations reports a bill or joint 
resolution including matter specified in clause 1(b)(2) or (3) of rule 
X, it shall include--
      (A) in the bill or joint resolution, separate headings for 
``Rescissions'' and ``Transfers of Unexpended Balances''; and
      (B) in the report of the committee, a separate section listing 
such rescissions and transfers.

  This provision (formerly clause 1(b) of rule X) was added by the 
Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 
1974, p. 34470). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1(b) of rule X (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (g) <> Whenever the Committee on 
Rules reports a resolution proposing to repeal or amend a standing rule 
of the House, it shall include in its report or in an accompanying 
document--
      (1) the text of any rule or part thereof that is proposed to be 
repealed; and
      (2) a comparative print of any part of the resolution proposing to 
amend the rule and of the rule or part thereof proposed to be amended, 
showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and 
insertions proposed.

  This provision (formerly clause 4(d) of rule XI) was added to the 
rules under the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 
3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and is similar 
to

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the ``Ramseyer Rule'' requirements of paragraph (e) relating to bills 
and joint resolutions repealing or amending existing law. Before the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 4(d) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
This clause is applicable to resolutions reported from the Committee on 
Rules that propose direct permanent repeal or amendment of a rule of the 
House, but does not apply to resolutions providing temporary waivers of 
rules during the consideration of particular legislative business 
(Speaker Albert, Mar. 20, 1975, p. 7676; Mar. 24, 1975, p. 8418), or to 
a special order of business resolution providing for the consideration 
of a bill with textual modifications that would effect certain changes 
in House rules on enactment of the bill into law, but not itself 
repealing or amending any rule (May 27, 1993, p. 11597).

  (h) <>  It shall not be in 
order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee 
on Ways and Means that proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 unless--
      (1) the report includes a tax complexity analysis prepared by the 
Joint Committee on Taxation in accordance with section 4022(b) of the 
Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; or
      (2) the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means causes such a tax 
complexity analysis to be printed in the Congressional Record before 
consideration of the bill or joint resolution.

  This provision was added by the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring 
and Reform Act of 1998 as a new clause 2(l)(8) of rule XI, effective 
January 1, 1999 (sec. 4022, P.L. 105-206). It was transferred to this 
paragraph as a former subparagraph (1) when the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-
based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). In the 114th Congress, designations were changed 
when a former subparagraph (2) was repealed (see Sec. 849a, infra) and 
an archaic reference to the name of the joint committee was updated 
(sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).


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  A requirement <> that macroeconomic analysis be included 
in the committee report for certain tax measures was repealed in the 
114th Congress (sec. 2(c)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). For its 
text and history, and the history of a former provision on dynamic 
scoring, see Sec. 849 of the House Rules and Manual for the 113th 
Congress (H. Doc. 112-161). For a current provision on macroeconomic 
analysis, see Sec. 868a, infra.

Availability of reports-
  4. (a)(1) <> Except as specified in 
subparagraph (2), it shall not be in order to consider in the House a 
measure or matter reported by a committee until the third calendar day 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House 
is in session on such a day) on which each report of a committee on that 
measure or matter has been available to Members, Delegates, and the 
Resident Commissioner.
  (2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to--
      (A) a resolution providing a rule, joint rule, or order of 
business reported by the Committee on Rules considered under clause 6;
      (B) a resolution providing amounts from the applicable accounts 
described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X reported by the Committee on House 
Administration considered under clause 6 of rule X;
      (C) a resolution presenting a question of the privileges of the 
House reported by any committee;
      (D) a measure for the declaration of war, or the declaration of a 
national emergency, by Congress; and

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      (E) a measure providing for the disapproval of a decision, 
determination, or action by a Government agency that would become, or 
continue to be, effective unless disapproved or otherwise invalidated by 
one or both Houses of Congress. In this subdivision the term 
``Government agency'' includes any department, agency, establishment, 
wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal 
Government or of the government of the District of Columbia.
  (b) A committee that reports a measure or matter shall make every 
reasonable effort to have its hearings thereon (if any) printed and 
available for distribution to Members, Delegates, and the Resident 
Commissioner before the consideration of the measure or matter in the 
House.

  This provision (formerly clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI) was originally 
contained in section 108 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 
(84 Stat. 1140) and was incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). It was amended in the 94th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 1977, pp. 53-70), and in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, 
p. 8). In the 102d Congress it was amended to clarify the availability 
requirements for reported measures, including concurrent resolutions on 
the budget (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). It was amended in the 104th 
Congress to count as a ``calendar day'' any day on which the House is in 
session (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077), and again in the 105th 
Congress to achieve like treatment in the case of a concurrent 
resolution on the budget (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). The rule was 
later amended in the 105th Congress to conform to a change in the 
layover requirement for a concurrent resolution on the budget (Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10109, P.L. 105-33)). In the 106th 
Congress two technical and conforming corrections were effected. The 
106th Congress also recodified the rules, transferring this provision 
from former clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI, which consisted of this provision 
and current clause 6(a)(2) of this rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). Subparagraph (2)(C) was added in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(n), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). In the 109th Congress a subdivision

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was deleted as obsolete upon the repeal of the Corrections Calendar and 
in that Congress and in the 112th conforming changes to subparagraph 
(2)(B) were effected (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 
2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  This availability requirement is not applicable to privileged reports 
from the Committee on Rules or to bills before the House that have not 
been reported from committee (Speaker Albert, Aug. 10, 1976, p. 26793; 
but see clause 11 of rule XXI for availability requirements for 
unreported measures). The Committee on Rules has the authority under 
clause 5(a) of rule XIII (formerly clause 4(a) of rule XI) to report a 
special order making in order the text of an introduced bill as a 
substitute original text for a reported bill, and no point of order lies 
that such introduced text has not been available for three days under 
this rule, which only applies to the consideration of reported measures 
themselves (Oct. 9, 1986, p. 29973). The exceptions from the three-day 
layover requirement were expanded in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 1981, p. 98) to include resolutions called up pursuant to legislative 
veto provisions in laws having the effect of approving or invalidating 
the actions of any government agency (and not just agencies of the 
executive branch). That exception allows the consideration of a measure 
disapproving an executive branch decision pursuant to statute within 
three days of the expiration of the congressional review period, 
notwithstanding the three-day availability requirement (concurrent 
resolution disapproving a regulation of the Federal Trade Commission 
pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act, P.L. 96-252) 
(May 26, 1982, pp. 12027-30). A report from a committee raising a 
question of the privileges of the House, such as a report relating to 
the contemptuous conduct of a witness before the committee, may be 
considered notwithstanding the availability requirements of this clause 
(Speaker Albert, July 13, 1971, pp. 24720-23; see also VI, 48; Deschler, 
ch. 14, Sec. 7.4, fn. 10, and Oct. 8, 1998, p. 24680, with respect to 
impeachment reports; and Feb. 12, 1998, p. 1323, with respect to a 
resolution dismissing an election contest reported as privileged under 
clause 5(a)(3) of rule XIII). Clause 3(a)(2) of rule XIII was amended in 
the 107th Congress to except from the three-day layover requirement a 
supplemental report only correcting errors in the depiction of record 
votes under clause 3(b) (sec. 2(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).-
  A committee <> expense resolution 
reported by the Committee on House Administration pursuant to clause 5 
of rule XIII need only be available for one day. However, other 
resolutions reported from that committee that are privileged (such as a 
resolution authorizing the printing of material as a House document), 
but that do not constitute questions of the privileges of the House, are 
subject to this clause (Speaker Albert, Mar. 6, 1975, p. 5537).


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  A former <> paragraph (c), prohibiting consideration of 
general appropriation bills until the third calendar day on which 
printed hearings had been available, was repealed in the 114th Congress 
(sec. 2(a)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). For its text and history, 
see Sec. 852 of the House Rules and Manual for the 113th Congress (H. 
Doc. 112-161).

Privileged reports, generally
  5. (a) <> The following committees 
shall have leave to report at any time on the following matters, 
respectively:
      (1) The Committee on Appropriations, on general appropriation 
bills and on joint resolutions continuing appropriations for a fiscal 
year after September 15 in the preceding fiscal year.
      (2) The Committee on the Budget, on the matters required to be 
reported by such committee under titles III and IV of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.
      (3) The Committee on House Administration, on enrolled bills, on 
contested elections, on matters referred to it concerning printing for 
the use of the House or the two Houses, on expenditure of the applicable 
accounts of the House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X, and on 
matters relating to preservation and availability of noncurrent records 
of the House under rule VII.
      (4) The Committee on Rules, on rules, joint rules, and the order 
of business.
      (5) The Committee on Ethics, on resolutions recommending action by 
the House with respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House as

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a result of an investigation by the committee relating to the official 
conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee.
  (b) A report filed from the floor as privileged under paragraph (a) 
may be called up as a privileged question by direction of the reporting 
committee, subject to any requirement concerning its availability to 
Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner under clause 4 or 
concerning the timing of its consideration under clause 6.

  The origins of this provision appear as early as 1812, but it was in 
1886 that the various provisions were consolidated in one rule. The rule 
was amended by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 
812), again on February 2, 1951 (p. 883), and yet again by the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). On the latter date the privileges given 
to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Natural Resources) 
on bills for the forfeiture of land grants to railroad and other 
corporations, preventing speculation in the public lands and reserving 
public lands for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers, and for 
the admission of new States, to the Committee on Public Works (now 
Transportation and Infrastructure) on bills authorizing the improvement 
of rivers and harbors, to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs on general 
pension bills, and to the Committee on Ways and Means on bills raising 
revenue, were eliminated from the rule. In the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), the rule was further amended to reinsert 
``contested elections'' under the authority of the Committee on House 
Administration, a matter inadvertently omitted by the 93d Congress (H. 
Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The rule was amended in the 97th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113) to permit joint 
resolutions continuing appropriations to be privileged if reported after 
a certain date. In the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72), 
the rule was amended to include under the authority of the Committee on 
House Administration all matters relating to preservation and 
availability of noncurrent House records. In the 104th, 106th, and 112th 
Congresses, it was amended to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 
202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; 
sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). In the 105th Congress it 
was amended to update an archaic reference to the ``contingent fund'' 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Before the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th

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Congress, this provision was found in former clause 4 of rule XI; as 
part of that recodification, former clause 9 of rule XVI (restating the 
privilege of general appropriation bills) was deleted as obsolete (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Conforming changes to paragraph (a)(3) 
were effected in the 109th and 112th Congresses (sec. 2(a) H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  At the time these privileges originated all reports were made on the 
floor, and often with great difficulty because of the pressure of 
business (IV, 4621), and by giving this privilege the most important 
matters of business were greatly expedited. In 1890 a rule was adopted 
providing that reports should be made by filing with the Clerk, but 
privileged reports must still be made from the floor (IV, 3146; VIII, 
2230). A privileged report from the Committee on Rules may be filed at 
any time when the House is in session, including during special-order 
speeches (Oct. 14, 1986, p. 30861). Before the original adoption of the 
provisions contained in former clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI in the 92d 
Congress (current clause 4 of this rule) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 
144), the right of reporting at any time was held to give the right of 
immediate consideration by the House (IV, 3131, 3132, 3142-3147; VIII, 
2291, 2312). However, from that date until the effective date of the 
provision of former clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI (current clause 4 of this 
rule) on January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470), only the Committees on House Administration, Rules (subject to 
the two-thirds vote requirement of clause 6 of this rule), and Standards 
of Official Conduct (now Ethics) could call up a matter in the House for 
immediate consideration as soon as the report was filed. Now only 
reports from the Committee on Rules on rules, joint rules, and the order 
of business under clause 6 of this rule; reports from the Committee on 
House Administration on committee expense resolutions under clause 5(a) 
of this rule; reports constituting questions of privilege (see generally 
Deschler, ch. 14, Sec. 7.4, fn. 10, discussing ruling of Speaker Albert, 
July 13, 1971, on a reported contempt); and reports on the official 
conduct of a Member (e.g., H. Res. 31, Jan. 21, 1997, p. 393) are exempt 
from the requirements of clause 4 of this rule (former clause 2(l)(6) of 
rule XI) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Other 
committees enumerated in this clause may still utilize the privilege 
after the report on the bill or resolution has been available for at 
least three calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such a day). Once called 
up for consideration, the matter so reported remains privileged until 
disposed of (IV, 3145). The House proceeds to the consideration of 
privileged questions only on motion directed to be made by the several 
committees reporting such questions (VIII, 2310). Privileged questions 
reported adversely have the same status so far as their privilege is 
concerned as those reported favorably (VI, 413; VIII, 2310).

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  The <> matters reported 
under the provisions of this clause are denominated ``privileged 
reports'' or ``privileged questions,'' and because the privilege relates 
merely to the order of business under the rules, they must be 
distinguished from ``questions of privilege'' that relate to the safety 
or dignity of the House itself defined in rule IX (III, 2718). 
Therefore, ``questions of privilege'' take precedence over these matters 
that are privileged under the rules (III, 2426-2530; V, 6454; VIII, 
3465).
  Privileged questions interrupt the regular order of business as 
established by former rule XXIV (current rule XIV), but when they are 
disposed of the regular order continues on from the point of 
interruption (IV, 3070, 3071). The Speaker has declined to allow a call 
of committees to be interrupted by a privileged report (IV, 3132). The 
presence of nonprivileged matter destroys the privileged character of a 
bill (IV, 4622, 4624, 4633, 4640, 4643; VIII, 2289; Speaker Rayburn, May 
21, 1958, pp. 9212-16), or resolution (VIII, 2300), and when the text of 
a bill contains nonprivileged matter, privilege may not be created by a 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute not containing the 
nonprivileged matter (IV, 4623).
  The <> privilege given by this clause to the Committee on Rules is 
confined to ``action touching rules, joint rules, and order of 
business'' and this committee may not report as privileged a concurrent 
resolution providing for a Senate investigating committee (VIII, 2255), 
or provide for the appointment of a clerk (VIII, 2256); but the 
privilege has been held to include the right to report special orders 
for the consideration of individual bills or classes of bills (V, 6774), 
or the consideration of a specified amendment to a bill and prescribing 
a mode of considering such amendment (VIII, 2258). A special rule 
providing for the consideration of a bill is not invalidated by the fact 
that at the time the rule was reported, the bill was not on the calendar 
(VIII, 2259; Speaker McCormack, Aug. 19, 1964, p. 20212). The authority 
to report special orders of business includes authority to recommend 
consideration of measures and amendments thereto the subject of which 
might be separately pending before a standing committee (Apr. 15, 1986, 
p. 7531); to make in order the consideration of the text of an 
introduced bill as original text in a reported bill (Oct. 9, 1986, p. 
29973); to permit consideration of a previously unnumbered and 
unsponsored measure that comes into existence by virtue of adoption by 
the House of the special order (Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 16, 1986, p. 
7610); to recommend a ``hereby'' resolution, for example, that a 
concurrent resolution correcting the enrollment of a bill be considered 
as adopted by the House upon the adoption of the special order (Speaker 
Wright, May 4, 1988, p. 9865), or that a Senate amendment pending at the 
Speaker's table and otherwise requiring consideration in Committee of 
the Whole under clause 3 of rule XXII (formerly clause 1 of rule XX) be 
``hereby'' considered as adopted upon adoption of the special order 
(Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 16.11; Feb. 4, 1993, p. 2500); to provide that 
an amendment containing an appropriation in viola

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tion of clause 4 of rule XXI (formerly clause 5(a)) be considered as 
adopted in the House when the reported bill is under consideration (Feb. 
24, 1993, p. 3542); to provide that an amendment containing an 
appropriation in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI be considered as 
adopted in the House when the reported bill is under consideration (July 
27, 1993, p. 17129); and to provide that a nongermane amendment 
otherwise in violation of clause 7 of rule XVI be considered as adopted 
in the House when the bill is under consideration (Feb. 24, 1993, p. 
3542; July 27, 1993, p. 17129). The Committee on Rules also has reported 
as privileged a joint resolution repealing a statutory joint rule 
(mandatory July adjournment, sec. 132 of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946) (July 27, 1990, p. 20178). The Committee on Rules has 
reported as privileged a special order of business nearly identical to 
one previously rejected by the House, but held not to constitute 
``another of the same substance'' within the meaning of the provisions 
in Jefferson's Manual on reconsideration (Sec. 513, supra) because it 
provided a different scheme for general debate (July 27, 1993, p. 
17115).
  A resolution consisting solely of privileged matter, albeit in two 
separate jurisdictions empowered to report at any time under clause 
4(a), has been referred to a primary committee, reported therefrom as 
privileged, referred sequentially, and reported as privileged from the 
sequential committee as well (H. Res. 258, 102d Cong., Nov. 8, 1991, p. 
30979; Nov. 19, 1991, p. 32903).
  The right of the Committee on Appropriations to report at any time is 
confined strictly to general appropriation bills (IV, 4629-4632; VIII, 
2282-2284) and does not include appropriations for specific purposes 
(VIII, 2285). Before privilege was extended to continuing appropriation 
bills (in 1981), the rule was construed not to apply to resolutions 
extending appropriations (VIII, 2282-2284).
  Reports from the Committee on House Administration authorizing 
appropriations from the Treasury directly for compensation of employees 
(IV, 4645) or fixing the salaries of employees are not privileged (VIII, 
2302).
   <> As early as 1835 the necessity of giving 
appropriation bills precedence became apparent, and in 1837 former 
clause 9 of rule XVI was adopted to establish that principle, but was 
deleted in recodification as redundant to this rule. Former clause 4(a) 
of rule XI was amended by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, 
effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470) to eliminate the authority of the Committee on Ways and Means to 
report as privileged bills raising revenue, and former clause 9 of rule 
XVI was amended in the 104th Congress (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 
35077) to delete as obsolete the reference to bills raising revenue (see 
Sec. 853, supra). However, the privilege to call up general 
appropriation bills in both rules was retained. When both types of 
reports were privileged under the rule before

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the 94th Congress, motions to consider revenue bills and appropriation 
bills were of equal privilege (IV, 3075, 3076).
  The motion may designate the particular appropriation bill to be 
considered (IV, 3074). The motion is privileged at any time after the 
approval of the Journal (subject to relevant report and hearing 
availability requirements), but only if offered at the direction of the 
committee (July 23, 1993, p. 16820). The motion is in order on District 
Mondays (VI, 716-718; VII, 876, 1123) and takes precedence over the 
motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole House to consider the 
Private Calendar (IV, 3082-3085; VI, 719, 720). The motion could be made 
on a ``suspension day'' as on other days (IV, 3080); and on consent days 
the call of the former Consent Calendar (abolished in the 104th 
Congress) took precedence of the motion (VII, 986). It may not be 
amended (VI, 52, 723), debated (VI, 716), laid on the table, or 
indefinitely postponed (VI, 726), and the previous question may not be 
demanded on it (IV, 3077-3079). Although highly privileged, it may not 
take precedence over a motion to reconsider (IV, 3087), or a motion to 
change the reference of a bill (VII, 2124). The motion is less highly 
privileged than the motion to discharge a committee from further 
consideration of a bill under former clause 3 of rule XXVII (current 
clause 2 of rule XV) (VII, 1011, 1016).

Privileged reports by the Committee on Rules
  6. (a) <> A report by 
the Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order of business 
may not be called up for consideration on the same day it is presented 
to the House except--
      (1) when so determined by a vote of two-thirds of the Members 
voting, a quorum being present;
      (2) in the case of a resolution proposing only to waive a 
requirement of clause 4 or of clause 8 of rule XXII concerning the 
availability of reports; or
      (3) during the last three days of a session of Congress.
  (b) Pending the consideration of a report by the Committee on Rules on 
a rule, joint rule, or

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the order of business, the Speaker may entertain one motion that the 
House adjourn but may not entertain any other dilatory motion until the 
report shall have been disposed of.
  (c) The Committee on Rules may not report a rule or order that would 
prevent the motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution from being 
made as provided in clause 2(b) of rule XIX, including a motion to 
recommit with instructions to report back an amendment otherwise in 
order, if offered by the Minority Leader or a designee, except with 
respect to a Senate bill or joint resolution for which the text of a 
House-passed measure has been substituted.

  The Committee on Rules, ``by uniform practice of the House,'' 
exercised the privilege of reporting at any time as early as 1888. The 
right to report at any time is confined to privileged matters (VIII, 
2255). This was probably the survival of a practice that existed as 
early as 1853 of giving the privilege of reporting at any time to this 
committee for a session (IV, 4650). In 1890 the committee was included 
among the committees whose reports were privileged by rule. The present 
rule (formerly clause 4(b) of rule XI) was adopted in 1892 (IV, 4621) 
and was amended on March 15, 1909. Clause 6(a)(1) (former matter found 
in parentheses in clause 4(b) of rule XI) was adopted January 18, 1924 
(pp. 1139, 1141), and the rule was further amended by the Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d 
Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), to limit its application to reports from 
the Committee on Rules on rules, joint rules, and orders of business. In 
the 94th Congress it was amended to permit the immediate consideration 
of a resolution reported from the Committee on Rules waiving the two-
hour layover requirement (H. Res. 868, Feb. 26, 1976, p. 4625). In the 
104th Congress the provision was amended to prohibit the Committee on 
Rules from recommending a rule or order that would prevent a motion by 
the Minority Leader or a designee to recommit a bill or joint resolution 
with instructions to report back an amendment otherwise in order except 
in the case of a Senate bill or resolution for which the text of a 
House-passed measure is being substituted (sec. 210, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 468). In the 111th Congress paragraph (c) was amended to remove 
a restriction on the authority of the committee with regard to Calendar 
Wednesday business under clause 6 of rule XV (sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules

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in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 4(b) of 
rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A conforming change to 
paragraph (c) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43), a technical change to paragraph (b) was effected 
in the 110th Congress (sec. 505(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 
(adopted Jan. 5, 2007)), and a technical change to paragraph (c) was 
effected in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80). For rulings under the earlier form of the rule, see Sec. 859, 
infra.
  A privileged report from the Committee on Rules, other than one filed 
during the last three days of a session (Dec. 31, 1970, p. 44292; Jan. 
1, 2013, p. _), may be considered on the same legislative day only by a 
two-thirds vote, but a report properly filed by the committee at any 
time before the convening of the House on the next legislative day may 
be called up for immediate consideration without the two-thirds vote 
requirement (Speaker Albert, July 31, 1975, p. 26243), including a 
report filed during special-order speeches after legislative business on 
that prior legislative day (Oct. 14, 1986, p. 30861), and if the House 
continues in session into a second calendar day and then meets again 
that day, or convenes for two legislative days on the same calendar day, 
any report filed on the first legislative day may be called up on the 
second without the question of consideration being raised (Speaker 
O'Neill, Dec. 16, 1985, p. 36755; Speaker Wright, Oct. 29, 1987, p. 
29937). This clause does not require that a privileged resolution, and 
the report thereon, from the Committee on Rules be printed before it is 
called up for consideration (Speaker O'Neill, Feb. 2, 1977, p. 3344).
  In the case of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on 
Rules, the two-thirds vote requirement for consideration on the same day 
reported does not apply. This clause provides for the immediate 
consideration of a resolution from the Committee on Rules waiving the 
requirement that copies of reports and reported measures be available 
for three days before their consideration, and waiving the requirement 
that copies of conference reports or amendments reported from conference 
in disagreement be available for two hours before their consideration 
(see Aug. 10, 1984, p. 23978).
  Although highly privileged, a report from the Committee on Rules 
yields to questions of privilege (VIII, 3491; Mar. 11, 1987, p. 5403), 
and is not in order after the House has voted to go into Committee of 
the Whole (V, 6781). Also a conference report has precedence over it, 
even when the previous question and the yeas and nays have been ordered 
(V, 6449). Formerly if a report from the Committee on Rules contained 
substantive propositions, a separate vote could be had on each 
proposition (VIII, 2271, 2272, 2274, 3167); but these decisions were 
nullified by the adoption of clause 5(b)(2) of rule XVI (formerly clause 
6). A report from the Committee on Rules takes precedence over a motion 
to consider a measure that is ``highly privileged'' pursuant to a 
statute enacted as an exercise in the rulemaking authority of the House, 
acknowledging the constitutional authority of the House to change its 
rules at any time (Speaker Wright, Mar.

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11, 1987, p. 5403). Before the House adopts rules, the Speaker may 
recognize a Member to offer for immediate consideration a special order 
providing for the consideration of a resolution adopting the rules (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 447; H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 7).
  The Committee on Rules may report and call up as privileged 
resolutions temporarily waiving or altering any rule of the House, 
including statutory provisions enacted as an exercise of the House's 
rulemaking authority that would otherwise prohibit the consideration of 
a bill being made in order by the resolution (Speaker Albert, Mar. 20, 
1975, p. 7676; Mar. 24, 1975, p. 8418), or that would otherwise 
establish an exclusive procedure for consideration of a particular type 
of measure (Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 16, 1986, p. 7610; Speaker Wright, 
Mar. 11, 1987, p. 5403). No rule of the House precludes the Committee on 
Rules from reporting a special order making in order specified 
amendments that have not been preprinted as otherwise required by an 
announced policy of that committee (Oct. 23, 1991, p. 28097). No point 
of order lies against a resolution reported from the Committee on Rules 
that waives points of order against a measure or provides special 
procedures for its consideration, if no law constituting a rule of the 
House prohibits consideration of such a resolution (resolution providing 
for consideration of a budget resolution, where a statute (P.L. 96-389) 
reaffirmed congressional commitment to balanced Federal budgets but did 
not dictate what legislation could be considered or otherwise constitute 
a rule of the House) (June 10, 1982, p. 13353).
  For a discussion of the Speaker's announced policy with respect to 
entertaining unanimous-consent requests in the House to alter a special 
order of business previously adopted by the House, see Sec. 956, infra. 
For a discussion of the unanimous-consent requests that may not be 
entertained in the Committee of the Whole if their effect is to 
materially modify procedures required by a special order of business 
adopted by the House, see Sec. 993, infra.
  In <> the later 
practice it has been held that the question of consideration may not be 
raised against a report from the Committee on Rules (V, 4961-4963; VIII, 
2440, 2441). The clause forbidding dilatory motions has been construed 
strictly (V, 5740-5742), and in the later practice the following have 
been excluded: (1) the motion to commit after the ordering of the 
previous question (V, 5593-5601; VIII, 2270, 2750; Feb. 22, 1984, p. 
2965); (2) an appeal from the Chair's decision not to entertain the 
question of consideration or a motion to lay the pending resolution on 
the table (V, 5739); and (3) the motion to postpone to a day certain 
(Oct. 9, 1986, p. 29972). A motion to reconsider the vote on ordering 
the previous question has been held not dilatory (V, 5739). Before 
debate has begun on a report from the Committee on Rules, a question of 
the privileges of the House takes precedence (VIII, 3491; Mar. 11, 1987, 
p. 5403). In the event that the previous question is rejected on a 
privileged resolution from the Committee on Rules, the provisions of 
clause 6(b) prohibiting ``dilatory'' motions no longer strictly

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apply; the resolution is subject to proper amendment, further debate, or 
a motion to table or refer, and the Member who led the opposition to the 
previous question is accorded priority in recognition (Oct. 19, 1966, 
pp. 27713, 27725-29; May 29, 1980, pp. 12667-78), subject to being 
preempted by a preferential motion offered by another Member (Aug. 13, 
1982, pp. 20969, 20975-78). The member of the Committee on Rules calling 
up a privileged resolution on behalf of the committee may offer an 
amendment thereto without specific authorization from the committee 
(Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575). A motion to table such a pending amendment 
is dilatory and not in order under this provision, but the motion to 
reconsider the vote on ordering the previous question on the rule and 
amendment thereto is not (see V, 5739; Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575), and 
may be laid on the table without carrying with it the resolution itself 
(Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575). Only one motion to adjourn is admissible 
during the consideration of a report from the Committee on Rules (July 
23, 1997, pp. 15366, 15374; Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3740) and may be offered 
immediately after the reading of the resolution (Mar. 20, 2002, pp. 
3671, 3672; June 24, 2009, pp. 16078, 16079) but may not be made when 
another Member has the floor (Sept. 27, 1993, p. 22608). If the House 
adjourns during the consideration of a report from the Committee on 
Rules, further consideration of the report becomes the unfinished 
business on the following day, and debate resumes from the point where 
interrupted (Sept. 27, 1993, p. 22609; Sept. 28, 1993, p. 22719). The 
Chair has held that a virtually consecutive invocation of former rule 
XXX (current clause 6 of rule XVII), resulting in a second pair of votes 
on use of a chart and on reconsideration thereof, was not dilatory under 
this clause (or former clause 10 of rule XVI (current clause 1 of rule 
XVI)) (July 31, 1996, p. 20693). In the 107th Congress clause 6 of rule 
XVII was amended to render the Chair's recognition for a motion on the 
use of charts completely discretionary (see Sec. 963, infra).
  A motion to recommit a special rule from the Committee on Rules is not 
in order (VIII, 2270, 2753).
  From <> 1934 until the amendment to this provision in the 104th 
Congress (sec. 210, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468), it was 
consistently held that the Committee on Rules could recommend a special 
order that limited, but did not totally prohibit, a motion to recommit 
pending passage of a bill or joint resolution, as by precluding the 
motion from containing instructions relating to specified amendments 
(Speaker Rainey, Jan. 11, 1934, pp. 479-83 (sustained on appeal)); or by 
omitting to preserve the availability of amendatory instructions in the 
case that the bill is entirely rewritten by the adoption of a substitute 
made in order as original text (Speaker Foley, June 4, 1991, p. 13170; 
Speaker Foley, Nov. 25, 1991, p. 34460); or by expressly allowing only a 
simple (``straight'') motion to recommit (without instructions) (Oct. 
16, 1990, p. 29657 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Feb. 26, 1992, p. 
3441 (sustained by tabling of appeal); May 7, 1992, p. 10586 (sustained 
by tabling of appeal); June 16, 1992, p. 14973

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(sustained by tabling of appeal); Nov. 21, 1993, p. 31544; Nov. 22, 
1993, p. 31815). A special order providing for consideration of a bill 
under suspension of the rules does not prevent a motion to recommit from 
being made ``as provided in clause 4 of rule XVI,'' i.e., after the 
previous question is ordered on passage, a procedure not applicable to a 
motion to suspend the rules (VIII, 2267; Speaker Foley, June 21, 1990, 
p. 15229). See Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 26.11; see generally Deschler, ch. 
23, Sec. 25.
  The caveat against including in a special order matter privileged to 
be reported by another committee (Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 17.13) does not 
extend to a ``hereby'' resolution (e.g., a special order providing that 
a concurrent resolution correcting the enrollment of a bill within the 
jurisdiction of another committee be considered as adopted by the House 
upon the adoption of the special order), so long as not precluding the 
motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution (Speaker Wright, May 4, 
1988, p. 9865).
  The Committee on Rules has reported special rules to dispose of Senate 
amendments that have ordered the previous question to adoption without 
intervening motion. At this stage the special order need not preserve 
(under clause 6(c) of rule XIII) the motion to recommit (as provided in 
clause 2(b) of rule XIX) because the bill is not at the stage of initial 
passage. For an exchange of correspondence between the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Rules regarding this practice, see 
January 24, 1996, pp. 1228, 1229.
  A special order of business reported by the Committee on Rules 
directing the Clerk to refrain from certifying an enrollment pending the 
resolution of a given contingency does not violate clause 2(d)(2) of 
rule II (Apr. 13, 2011, p. 5873).
  The <> Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 
48) added a new part B to title IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 658-658g) that imposes several requirements on committees 
with respect to ``Federal mandates'' (secs. 423, 424; 2 U.S.C. 658b, 
658c), establishes points of order to permit separate votes on whether 
to enforce those requirements (sec. 425; 2 U.S.C. 658d), and permits a 
vote on the consideration of a rule or order waiving such points of 
order (sec. 426(a); 2 U.S.C. 658e(a)). See Sec. 1127, infra.
  Clause 9 of rule XXI establishes a point of order against 
consideration of certain measures for failure to disclose (or disclaim 
the presence of) certain earmarks, tax benefits, and tariff benefits 
(paragraphs (a) and (b)), and permits a vote on the question of 
consideration of a rule or order waiving such points of order (paragraph 
(c)). See Sec. 1068d, infra.

  (d) <> The Committee on Rules shall 
present to the House reports concerning rules, joint rules, and the 
order of business, within three legislative days of the time

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when they are ordered. If such a report is not considered immediately, 
it shall be referred to the calendar. If such a report on the calendar 
is not called up by the member of the committee who filed the report 
within seven legislative days, any member of the committee may call it 
up as a privileged question on the day after the calendar day on which 
the member announces to the House intention to do so. The Speaker shall 
recognize a member of the committee who rises for that purpose.
  (e) An adverse report by the Committee on Rules on a resolution 
proposing a special order of business for the consideration of a public 
bill or public joint resolution may be called up as a privileged 
question by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner on a day when 
it is in order to consider a motion to discharge committees under clause 
2 of rule XV.

  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in one paragraph, former paragraph (c) of clause 4 
of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). What is now paragraph (d) 
was initially adopted January 18, 1924, and was amended on January 6, 
1987 (H. Res. 5, p. 6) (requiring one calendar day's notice before 
calling up a special order eligible under the rule). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). What is now paragraph (e) was amended December 8, 
1931 (VIII, 2268), January 3, 1949 (p. 16) (establishing the so-called 
``21-day rule''), January 3, 1951 (p. 18) (abolishing the ``21-day 
rule''), January 4, 1965 (p. 24) (reestablishing the ``21-day rule''), 
January 10, 1967 (H. Res. 7, p. 28) (abolishing the ``21-day rule''). 
Technical changes to this provision were effected on January 3, 1975 (H. 
Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). A special order reported from the 
Committee on Rules and not called up within seven legislative days may 
be called up by any member of that committee, including a minority 
member (Nov. 13, 1979, p. 32185; May 6, 1982, p. 8905).


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  (f) <> If the House has adopted a 
resolution making in order a motion to consider a bill or resolution, 
and such a motion has not been offered within seven calendar days 
thereafter, such a motion shall be privileged if offered by direction of 
all reporting committees having initial jurisdiction of the bill or 
resolution.

  This provision was contained in section 109 of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and became part of the rules 
in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 2(l)(7) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). In 
modern practice, this subparagraph is normally inapplicable in light of 
clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, which provides for the House resolving into 
the Committee of the Whole by declaration of the Speaker pursuant to a 
special order of business rather than by adoption of a motion.

  (g) <> Whenever the Committee on 
Rules reports a resolution providing for the consideration of a measure, 
it shall to the maximum extent possible specify in the accompanying 
report any waiver of a point of order against the measure or against its 
consideration.

  This provision was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 211, H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). It was amended in the 113th Congress to shift the 
specification of any waiver from the resolution to the accompanying 
report (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 4(e) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Resolutions of inquiry
  7. A <> report on a resolution of 
inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department may be filed 
from the floor as privileged. If such a resolution is not reported to 
the House within 14 legislative days after its introduction, a motion to 
discharge a

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committee from its consideration shall be privileged.

  The House has exercised the right, from its earliest days, to call on 
the President and heads of departments for information. The first rule 
on the subject was adopted in 1820 for the purpose of securing greater 
care and deliberation in the making of requests. The present form of the 
rule, in its essential features, dates from 1879 (III, 1856), although 
the time period for a committee to report was extended from one week to 
14 legislative days in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 
34). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 5 of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Resolutions of <> inquiry are usually simple rather than concurrent in 
form (III, 1875), and are never joint resolutions (III, 1860). A 
resolution authorizing a committee to request information has been 
treated as a resolution of inquiry (III, 1860). It has been considered 
proper to use the word ``request'' in asking for information from the 
President and ``direct'' in addressing the heads of departments (III, 
1856, footnote, 1895). It is usual for the House in calling on the 
President for information, especially with relation to foreign affairs, 
to use the qualifying clause ``if not incompatible with the public 
interest'' (II, 1547; III, 1896-1901; V, 5759; VI, 436). But in some 
instances the House has made its inquiries of the President without 
condition, and has even made the inquiry imperative (III, 1896-1901). 
Resolutions of inquiry are delivered under direction of the Clerk (III, 
1879) and are answered by subordinate officers of the Government either 
directly or through the President (III, 1908-1910).
  The practice of <> the House gives to resolutions of inquiry a privileged 
status. Thus, they are privileged for report and consideration at any 
time after their reference to a committee (III, 1870; VI, 413, 414), but 
not before (III, 1857), and are in order for consideration only on 
motion directed to be made by the committee reporting the same (VI, 413; 
VIII, 2310). They are privileged for consideration on ``suspension 
days'' (except on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 896-898)) and took precedence 
of the former Consent Calendar (VI, 409) before its abolishment in the 
104th Congress (H. Res. 168, June 20, 1995, p. 16574). Only resolutions 
addressed to the President and the heads of the executive departments 
have the privilege (III, 1861-1864; VI, 406). To enjoy the privilege a 
resolution should call for facts rather than opinions (III, 1872, 1873; 
VI, 413, 418-432; July 7, 1971, pp. 23810-11), should not require 
investigations (III, 1872-1874; VI, 422, 427, 429, 432), and should not 
present a preamble (III, 1877, 1878; VI, 422, 427); but if a resolution 
on its face calls for facts, the Chair will not investigate the 
probability of the existence of the facts called for (VI, 422). However, 
a resolution inquiring for such facts as would inevitably require

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the statement of an opinion to answer such inquiry is not privileged 
(Speaker Longworth, Feb. 11, 1926, p. 3805).
  Questions of privilege (as distinguished from privileged questions) 
have sometimes arisen in cases wherein the head of a department has 
declined to respond to an inquiry and the House has desired to demand a 
further answer (III, 1891; VI, 435); but a demand for a more complete 
reply (III, 1892) or a proposition to investigate as to whether or not 
there has been a failure to respond may not be presented as involving 
the privileges of the House (III, 1893).
  Committees are <> required to report resolutions of inquiry back 
to the House within a prescribed timeframe (formerly one week, now 14 
legislative days) (VIII, 3368; Speaker Rayburn, Feb. 9, 1950, p. 1755) 
exclusive of the day of introduction and the day of discharge (III, 
1858, 1859). If a committee refuses or neglects to report the resolution 
back, the House may reach the resolution only by a motion to discharge 
the committee (III, 1865). The ordinary motion to discharge a committee 
is not privileged (VIII, 2316); but the practice of the House has given 
privilege to the motion in cases of resolutions of inquiry (III, 1866-
1870). And this motion to discharge is privileged at the end of the time 
period, though the resolution may have been delayed in reaching the 
committee (III, 1871). The motion to discharge is not debatable (III, 
1868; VI, 415). However, if the motion is agreed to, the resolution is 
debatable under the hour rule unless the previous question is ordered 
(VI, 416, 417). If a committee reports a privileged resolution of 
inquiry (favorably or adversely), it may then be called up only by an 
authorized member of the reporting committee and not by another Member 
of the House (VI, 413; VIII, 2310). The Member calling up a privileged 
resolution of inquiry reported from committee is recognized to control 
one hour of debate and may move to lay the resolution on the table 
before or after that time (July 7, 1971, pp. 23807-10; Oct. 20, 1971, 
pp. 37055-57).
  The President <> having failed to respond to a resolution of inquiry, 
the House respectfully reminded him of the fact (III, 1890). In 1796 the 
House declared that its constitutional requests of the Executive for 
information need not be accompanied by a statement of purposes (II, 
1509). As to the kind of information that may be required, especially as 
to the papers that may be demanded, there has been much discussion (III, 
1700, 1738, 1888, 1902, 1903; VI, 402, 435). There have been several 
conflicts with the Executive (II, 1534, 1561; III, 1884, 1885-1889, 
1894) over demands for papers and information, especially when the 
resolutions have called for papers relating to foreign affairs (II, 
1509-1513, 1518, 1519).


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Estimates of major legislation
  8. (a) <> An estimate provided 
by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the 
extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 
economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic 
variables resulting from such legislation.
  (b) An estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the 
Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the 
extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in 
economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic 
variables resulting from such legislation.
  (c) An estimate referred to in this clause shall, to the extent 
practicable, include--
      (1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including 
macroeconomic variables described in paragraphs (a) and (b)) of such 
legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after the last fiscal 
year of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget 
that set forth appropriate levels required by section 301 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
      (2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the source 
of data underlying that estimate.
  (d) As used in this clause--

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      (1) the term ``major legislation'' means any bill or joint 
resolution--
      (A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to 
section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and that causes a 
gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects) in 
any fiscal year over the years of the most recently agreed to concurrent 
resolution on the budget equal to or greater than 0.25 percent of the 
current projected gross domestic product of the United States for that 
fiscal year; or
      (B) designated as such by the chair of the Committee on the Budget 
for all direct spending legislation other than revenue legislation or 
the Member who is chair or vice chair, as applicable, of the Joint 
Committee on Taxation for revenue legislation; and
      (2) the term ``budgetary effects'' means changes in revenues, 
outlays, and deficits.

  This clause was added in the 114th Congress (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). For former provisions on macroeconomic analysis, 
see Sec. 849a, supra.




                                Rule XIV

                     order and priority of business

  1. The daily order of business (unless varied by the application of 
other rules and except for the disposition of matters of higher 
precedence) shall be as follows:

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<>   
First. Prayer by the Chaplain. l  Second. Reading and approval of the 
Journal, unless postponed under clause 8 of rule XX.
  Third. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
  Fourth. Correction of reference of public bills.
  Fifth. Disposal of business on the Speaker's table as provided in 
clause 2.
  Sixth. Unfinished business as provided in clause 3.
  Seventh. The morning hour for the consideration of bills called up by 
committees as provided in clause 4.
  Eighth. Motions that the House resolve into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union subject to clause 5.
  Ninth. Orders of the day.

  Originally the House had no rule prescribing an order of business, but 
certain simple usages were gradually established by practice before the 
first rule on the subject was adopted in 1811. The rule was amended 
frequently to arrange the business to give the House as much freedom as 
possible in selecting for consideration and completing the consideration 
of the bills that it deems most important. The basic form of the rule 
has been in place since 1890 (IV, 3056). The 98th Congress made a 
conforming change to the second order of business relating to the 
postponement of the vote on approval of the Journal (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1983, p. 34). The 104th Congress added the present third order of 
business respecting the Pledge of Allegiance (sec. 218, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 1995, p. 468). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXIV (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A correction to a cross reference was 
effected in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 
26).
  The Speaker does not entertain a point of no quorum before the prayer 
is offered (VI, 663). Under clause 7 of rule XX, a point of no quorum 
may not be entertained unless a question is pending (see Sec. 1027, 
infra).
  In response to serial parliamentary inquiries regarding the pledge of 
allegiance to the flag, the Chair advised that (1) under clause 1 of 
rule XIV, the third element of the daily order of business is the Pledge 
of Allegiance; (2) section 4 of title 4, United States Code, prescribes 
the text of

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the pledge; (3) when the pledge is delivered as the third element of the 
daily order of business, the Record reflects the pledge in its statutory 
form; and (4) the statute prescribes the manner of delivery of the 
pledge (Apr. 27, 2004, pp. 7588, 7600).
  This rule <> does not bind the House to a daily routine 
because the system of making certain important subjects privileged (see 
clause 5 of rule XIII and rule XXII) permits the interruption of the 
order of business by matters that, in fact, often supplant it entirely 
for days at a time. In the 106th Congress the recodification 
acknowledged in the parenthetical of this clause that the prescribed 
daily order of business could be superseded by operation of other rules 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). But when the order of business is 
interrupted by a privileged matter, the business in order proceeds from 
the place of interruption (IV, 3070, 3071) unless the House adjourns, in 
which case it starts anew with the prayer. Although privileged matters 
may interrupt the order of business, they may do so only with the 
consent of a majority of the House, expressed as to appropriation bills 
by the vote on resolving into the Committee of the Whole to consider 
such bills, and as to matters like conference reports, questions of 
privilege, etc., by raising and voting on the question of consideration. 
The only exceptions to the principle that a majority may prevent 
interruption are contained in clauses 5 and 7 of rule XV, providing for 
a call of the Private Calendar on the first Tuesday of each month and a 
call of committees on Wednesdays. By this combination of an order of 
business with privileged interruptions the House gives precedence to its 
most important business without at the same time losing the power by 
majority vote to go to any other bills on its calendars.
<>   The privileged matters that may interrupt the order of 
business include: l  (1) General appropriation bills (clause 5 of rule 
XIII; IV, 3072). l  (2) Conference reports (clause 7(a) of rule XXII; V, 
6443) and motions to discharge or instruct conferees (clause 7(c) of 
rule XXII).
  (3) Special orders reported by the Committee on Rules for 
consideration by the House (clause 5 of rule XIII; IV, 3070-3076, 4621).
  (4) Consideration of amendments between the Houses after the stage of 
disagreement (IV, 3149, 3150).
  (5) Questions of privilege (rule IX; III, 2521).
  (6) Privileged bills reported under the right to report at any time 
(clauses 5 and 7 of rule XIII; IV, 3142-3144, 4621).
  (7) Call of committees on Wednesdays for bills on House and Union 
Calendars (clause 6 of rule XV).
  (8) Private business on Tuesday (clause 5 of rule XV).

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  (9) Motions on the second and fourth Mondays of the month to discharge 
committees on public bills and resolutions (clause 2 of rule XV), and 
consideration of District of Columbia business (clause 4 of rule XV; IV, 
3304).
  (10) Motions to suspend the rules and pass bills out of the regular 
order (clause 1 of rule XV; V, 6790).
  (11) Bills coming over from a previous day with the previous question 
ordered (V, 5510-5517).
  (12) Bills returned with the objections of the President (IV, 3534-
3536).
  (13) Motions to send a bill to conference (under clause 1 of rule 
XXII; Aug. 1, 1972, p. 26153).
  In addition to these matters, the House by practice permits its order 
of business to be interrupted, at the discretion of the Speaker, for the 
reception of messages (V, 6602). Before the 104th Congress, addressing 
the House out of order by unanimous consent, the Speaker announced that 
on at least two subsequent days he would recognize designated Members 
after approval of the Journal to lead the House in the Pledge of 
Allegiance to the Flag (Speaker Wright, Sept. 9, 1988, p. 23310). 
Requests of Members for leaves of absence are in practice put before the 
House at the time of adjournment (IV, 3151).
  When the <> House has no rule establishing 
an order of business, as at the beginning of a session before the 
adoption of rules, it is in order for any Member who is recognized by 
the Chair to offer a proposition relating to the order of business 
without asking consent of the House (IV, 3060). But after the adoption 
of the rule for the order of business, interruptions are confined to 
matters privileged to interrupt or to cases wherein the House gives 
unanimous consent for an interruption. A request for unanimous consent 
to consider a bill is in effect a request to suspend the order of 
business temporarily (IV, 3059). Therefore any Member, including the 
Chair, may object, or reserve the right to object and inquire, for 
example, about the reasons for the request, or demand the ``regular 
order'' (IV, 3058). Debate under a reservation of objection proceeds at 
the sufferance of the House and may not continue after a demand for the 
regular order (see, e.g., Speaker Foley, Nov. 14, 1991, p. 32128; Dec. 
15, 1995, p. 37142; Nov. 7, 2009, p. 27190). A Member objecting to a 
unanimous-consent request or demanding the regular order when another 
has reserved the right to object must stand to be observed by the Chair 
(Nov. 7, 1991, p. 30633; June 23, 1992, p. 15703). The Speaker, however, 
usually signifies objection by declining to put the request of the 
Member, thus saving the time of the House. The Speaker's guidelines for 
recognition for unanimous-consent requests for consideration of 
unreported measures are issued pursuant to clause 2 of rule XVII and are 
discussed in Sec. 956, infra. The request for unanimous consent began to 
be used about 1832 when the House first felt a pressure of business and 
the necessity of adhering to a fixed order (IV, 3155-3159). In 1909, by 
the adoption of former clause 4 of rule XIII, a Consent Calendar was 
established, which was abolished

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in the 104th Congress (H. Res. 168, June 20, 1995, p. 16574). For 
discussion of unanimous-consent requests and reservations of objections, 
see Sec. 956, infra. Unanimous consent for the immediate consideration 
of a measure in the House does not preclude a demand for a record vote 
when the Chair puts the question on final passage, because it merely 
permits consideration of a matter not otherwise privileged (Dec. 16, 
1987, p. 35816).

  2. Business on the Speaker's table <> shall be disposed of as follows:
      (a) Messages from the President shall be referred to the 
appropriate committees without debate.
      (b) Communications addressed to the House, including reports and 
communications from heads of departments and bills, resolutions, and 
messages from the Senate, may be referred to the appropriate committees 
in the same manner and with the same right of correction as public bills 
and public resolutions presented by Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
Commissioner.
      (c) Motions to dispose of Senate amendments on the Speaker's table 
may be entertained as provided in clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XXII.
      (d) Senate bills and resolutions substantially the same as House 
measures already favorably reported and not required to be considered in 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union may be 
disposed of by motion. Such a motion shall be privileged if offered by 
direction of all reporting committees having initial jurisdiction of the 
House measure.


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  A rule to govern disposition of business on the Speaker's table (to be 
distinguished from the table of the House, which is the Clerk's table) 
was adopted in 1832. In 1880 and 1885 efforts were made to modify the 
rule so as to prevent delays in business on the Speaker's table, but it 
was not until 1890 that the present rule was adopted (IV, 3089). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision and 
clause 2 of rule XXII occupied a single clause (formerly clause 2 of 
rule XXIV) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Such <> portions of messages from the Senate as 
require action by the House, messages from the President except those 
transmitting objections to bills (IV, 3534-3536), and communications and 
reports from the heads of departments go to the Speaker's table when 
received, to be disposed of under this rule. Simple resolutions of the 
Senate that do not require any action by the House are not referred 
(VII, 1048). Messages from the President are referred. Such portions of 
Senate messages (House bills with Senate amendments) that do not require 
consideration in Committee of the Whole may be laid before the House for 
action. Communications from the President, other than messages; all 
portions of Senate messages requiring consideration in Committee of the 
Whole (IV, 3101); and Senate bills of all kinds (with the exception 
noted in the rule) may be referred to the appropriate standing 
committees under direction of the Speaker without action by the House 
(IV, 3107, 3111; VI, 727). Under clause 2 of former rule XXIV (current 
rule XIV), the Speaker may temporarily retain custody of an executive 
communication addressed to the Speaker (or may pursuant to former clause 
1 of rule IV (current clause 3(a) of rule II) order the Sergeant-at-Arms 
to assume custody) pending House disposition of a special order reported 
from the Committee on Rules relating to a referral of the communication 
to committee (Sept. 9, 1998, p. 19769).
  A House bill returned with Senate amendments involving a new matter of 
appropriation, whether with or without a request for a conference, may 
be referred directly to a standing committee (VI, 731), and on being 
reported therefrom is referred directly to the Committee of the Whole 
(IV, 3094, 3095, 3108-3110). However, the usual practice is to take the 
bill from the Speaker's table and concur, concur with an amendment, or 
send to conference by unanimous consent, special rule, or suspension of 
the rules (VI, 732) (although a motion to send to conference may be 
privileged under clause 1 of rule XXII). The Speaker's authority under 
this clause includes the discretionary authority to refer from the 
Speaker's table Senate amendments to House-passed bills, to standing 
committees, under any conditions permitted under current clause 2 of 
rule XII (formerly clause 5 of rule X) for referral of introduced bills; 
the Speaker may for example impose a time limitation for consideration 
only of a portion of the Senate amendment, not germane to the original 
House bill, by the standing committee with subject-matter jurisdiction, 
without referring the remainder of the

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Senate amendment to the House committee with jurisdiction over the 
original House bill (Speaker O'Neill, H.R. 31, Mar. 26, 1981, p. 5397). 
The Speaker announced his policy regarding referral of nongermane Senate 
amendments to committee (Jan. 3, 1983, p. 54; Jan. 6, 1987, p. 21); and 
his policy regarding recognition for unanimous-consent requests to 
dispose of Senate amendments at the Speaker's table (Apr. 26, 1984, p. 
10194; Feb. 4, 1987, p. 2676) discussed in Sec. 956, infra. A Senate 
bill to come before the House directly from the table must conform to 
the conditions prescribed by the rule (IV, 3098, 3099; VI, 727, 734, 
737), and must have come to the House after and not before the House 
bill ``substantially the same'' and not involving an expenditure (IV, 
3103) has been placed on the House Calendar (IV, 3096; VI, 727, 736, 
738) or Private Calendar (IV, 3102). In the event the House bill has 
passed before the Senate bill is received, the Senate bill may 
nevertheless be disposed of on motion directed by the committee (VI, 
734, 735). The House bill must be correctly on the House Calendar (VI, 
736). In determining whether the House bill is substantially the same as 
the Senate bill, amendments recommended by the House committee must be 
considered (VI, 734, 736). The rule applies to private as well as to 
public Senate bills (IV, 3101), and to concurrent resolutions as well as 
to bills (IV, 3097). Although a committee must authorize the calling up 
of the Senate bill (VI, 739), the actual motion need not be made by a 
member of the committee (IV, 3100). The authority of a committee to call 
up a bill must be given at a formal meeting of the committee (VIII, 
2211, 2212, 2222).
  A <> message of the President on the Speaker's table is 
regularly laid before the House only at the time prescribed by the order 
of business (V, 6635-6638). Although it is always read in full and 
entered on the Journal and the Congressional Record (V, 6963), the 
accompanying documents are not read on demand of a Member or entered in 
the Journal or Record (V, 5267-5271; VII, 1108). The annual message of 
the President is usually referred to the Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union by the House on motion (V, 6631). In the earlier 
practice it was distributed to appropriate standing committees by 
resolutions reported from the Committee on Ways and Means (V, 6621, 
6622) but since the first session of the 64th Congress the practice has 
been discontinued (VIII, 3350). A portion of the annual message has been 
referred directly to a select committee (V, 6628). A message other than 
an annual message is usually referred directly to a standing committee 
by direction of the Speaker (IV, 4053; VIII, 3346), but may be referred 
by the House itself on motion by a Member (V, 6631; VIII, 3348), and 
such motion is privileged (VIII, 3348). The referral may be to a select 
as well as to a standing committee (V, 6633, 6634).


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  3. <> Consideration of 
unfinished business in which the House may have been engaged at an 
adjournment, except business in the morning hour and proceedings 
postponed under clause 8 of rule XX, shall be resumed as soon as the 
business on the Speaker's table is finished, and at the same time each 
day thereafter until disposed of. The consideration of all other 
unfinished business shall be resumed whenever the class of business to 
which it belongs shall be in order under the rules.

  The first rule relating to unfinished business was adopted in 1794. 
Changes were made in 1860 and 1880, but the rule finally became 
unsatisfactory, because of delays caused by it, and in 1890 the present 
form was adopted (IV, 3112). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 3 of rule 
XXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A clerical correction to a cross 
reference was effected in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2001, p. 26).
  This <> clause should be understood in light of clause 8 of rule XX, 
which permits the Chair to postpone record votes on certain questions to 
a designated time within two legislative days (see Sec. 1030, infra). 
The ``business in which the House may be engaged at an adjournment'' 
means, literally, business in the House, as distinguished from the 
Committee of the Whole; and it further means business in which the House 
is engaged in its general legislative time, as distinguished from the 
special periods set aside for classes of business, like the morning hour 
for calls of committee, Tuesdays for private bills, etc. In general, all 
business unfinished in the general legislative time goes over as 
unfinished business under the rule, but there are a few exceptions. 
Thus, a motion relating to the order of business does not recur as 
unfinished business on a succeeding day, even though the yeas and nays 
may have been ordered on it (IV, 3114). The question of consideration, 
also, when not disposed of at an adjournment, does not recur as 
unfinished business on a succeeding day (V, 4947, 4948), but may be 
again raised on a subsequent day when the matter is again called up as 
unfinished business (VIII, 2438). If the House adjourns during the 
consideration of a report from the Committee on Rules, further 
consideration of the report becomes the unfinished business on the 
following day, and debate resumes from the point where interrupted 
(Sept. 27, 1993, p. 22609; Sept. 28, 1993, p. 22719). When the House 
adjourns on the second legislative day after postponement of a question 
under clause 8 of rule XX without resuming proceedings thereon, the 
question remains unfin

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ished business on the next legislative day (Oct. 1, 1997, p. 20922; Oct. 
2, 1997, p. 20991). When the House adjourns while a motion to instruct 
under clause 7(c) of rule XXII is pending, the motion to instruct 
becomes unfinished business on the next day and does not need to be 
renoticed (Oct. 1, 1997, p. 20894).
  When the <> House 
adjourns before voting on a proposition on which the previous question 
has been ordered, either directly or by the terms of a special order 
(IV, 3185), the matter comes up the next day as unfinished business (V, 
5510-5517; VIII, 2691; Aug. 2, 1989, p. 18187). If several bills come 
over in this situation, they have precedence in the order in which the 
several motions for the previous question were made (V, 5518). When the 
previous question is ordered on a bill undisposed of at adjournment on 
Friday, the bill comes up for disposition on the next legislative day 
(VIII, 2694). A bill going over from Calendar Wednesday with the 
previous question ordered on it should be disposed of on the next 
legislative day (VII, 967). A bill coming over from a preceding day with 
the previous question ordered was of equal privilege with business on 
the former Consent Calendar (VII, 990).
  The rule <> excepts by its terms certain classes of 
business that are considered in periods set apart for classes of 
business, viz: l  (a) Bills considered in the morning hour and on 
Calendar Wednesday for the call of committees. l  (b) Bills in Committee 
of the Whole.
  (c) Private bills considered on Tuesdays.
  (d) District of Columbia bills.
  (e) Bills brought up under the rule setting apart days for motions to 
suspend the rules, motions to discharge committees, and bills under 
consideration after a committee has been discharged.
  A bill brought up in the morning hour and undisposed of when the call 
ceases for the day remains as unfinished business in the morning hour 
(IV, 3113, 3120), i.e., it is considered when the House next goes to a 
call of committees. Business unfinished when the Committee of the Whole 
rises remains unfinished, to be considered first in order when the House 
next goes into Committee of the Whole to consider that business (IV, 
4735, 4736).
  On District of Columbia day business unfinished on the preceding 
District day is in order for consideration, but does not come before the 
House unless called up (IV, 3307; VII, 879). Unless postponed under 
clause 8 of rule XX, a motion to suspend the rules that is undisposed of 
on one suspension day goes over as unfinished business to the next 
suspension day, individual motions going over to a committee day, and 
vice versa (V, 6814-6816; VII, 1005; VIII, 3411, 3412).


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  4. After the <> unfinished business has been disposed of, the Speaker 
shall call each standing committee in regular order and then select 
committees. Each committee when named may call up for consideration a 
bill or resolution reported by it on a previous day and on the House 
Calendar. If the Speaker does not complete the call of the committees 
before the House passes to other business, the next call shall resume at 
the point it left off, giving preference to the last bill or resolution 
under consideration. A committee that has occupied the call for two days 
may not call up another bill or resolution until the other committees 
have been called in their turn.

  The morning hour is one of the oldest devices of the rules for 
devoting an early portion of the session to a specific class of 
business. Until 1885 it was the hour for the reception of reports from 
committees. In 1890 it was provided that reports should be filed with 
the Clerk, and the morning hour was by this rule devoted to a call of 
committees for the consideration of House Calendar bills (IV, 3181). 
Since the adoption of the Calendar Wednesday rule (clause 6 of rule XV), 
the morning hour has been used but rarely. Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former 
clause 4 of rule XXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Originally the <> morning hour was a fixed period of 60 minutes (IV, 3118); but 
under the present rule it does not terminate until the call is exhausted 
or until the House adjourns (IV, 3119), unless the House on motion made 
at the end of 60 minutes votes to go into Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union (clause 5 of rule XIV; IV, 3134), or unless 
other privileged matter intervenes (IV, 3131, 3132). Before the 
expiration of the 60 minutes the Speaker has declined to permit the call 
to be interrupted by a privileged report (IV, 3132) or by unanimous 
consent (IV, 3130). Where the business for which the call was 
interrupted is concluded, the call is resumed unless there be other 
interrupting business or the House adjourns (IV, 3133). A bill once 
brought up on the call continues before the House in that order of 
business until disposed of (IV, 3120), unless withdrawn by authority of 
the committee before action that puts it in possession of the House (IV, 
3129); and may not be made a special order for a future day by a motion

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to postpone to a day certain (IV, 3164). In order to be called up in 
this order a bill must properly be on the House Calendar (IV, 3122-
3126), and a bill on the Union Calendar may not be brought up on call of 
committees under this clause (VI, 753). If the authority of the 
committee to call up a bill is disputed, the Chair does not consider it 
a duty to decide the question (IV, 3127) but may base the decision on 
statements from the chair and other members of the committee (IV, 3128).

  5. After <> consideration of bills or resolutions under clause 4 for one 
hour, it shall be in order, pending consideration thereof, to entertain 
a motion that the House resolve into the Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union or, when authorized by a committee, that the 
House resolve into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union to consider a particular bill. Such a motion shall be subject to 
only one amendment designating another bill. If such a motion is decided 
in the negative, another such motion may not be considered until the 
matter that was pending when such motion was offered is disposed of.

  This portion of the rule was adopted in 1890 as part of the plan for 
enabling the House at will to go at any time to any public bill on its 
calendars (IV, 3134). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5 of rule XXIV (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The phrase <> ``one hour'' has been 
interpreted to include a shorter time in the case that the call of 
committees shall have exhausted itself before the expiration of one hour 
(IV, 3135); but not otherwise (IV, 3141). After the House has been in 
Committee of the Whole under this order and has risen and reported, and 
the report has been acted on by the House, other motions to go into 
Committee to consider other bills are in order (IV, 3136). The motion to 
go into Committee generally may be made by the individual Member (IV, 
3138), but when it is proposed to designate a particular bill the Member 
must have the authority of a committee (IV, 3138). The amendment to the 
motion to consider a particular bill must refer to a bill on the Union 
Calendar (IV, 3139).

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This order of business is used entirely for nonprivileged bills and is 
not used in the House for consideration of bills in Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union if otherwise privileged under 
clause 5 of rule XIII.

6. <>   All questions relating to the priority of business 
shall be decided by a majority without debate.

  This provision was adopted in 1803 to prevent obstructive debate (IV, 
3061). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XXV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
The question of consideration under clause 3 of rule XVI and the motion 
that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole are not 
debatable (VIII, 2447; IV, 3062, 3063).
  This rule may not be invoked to establish an order of business or to 
inhibit the Speaker's power of recognition (Speaker Albert, July 31, 
1975, p. 26249). It has been held that appeals from decisions of the 
Chair as to priority of business are not debatable under this rule (V, 
6952).

 end segment .009  deg. segment .010 -- rule XV 
through rule XVII  deg.


                                 Rule XV

                    business in order on special days

Suspensions
  1. (a) <> A rule may not be 
suspended except by a vote of two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum 
being present. The Speaker may not entertain a motion that the House 
suspend the rules except on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and during 
the last six days of a session of Congress.

  This provision (formerly clause 1 of rule XXVII) developed from a rule 
adopted in 1794, which provided that no rule should be rescinded without 
one day's notice. In 1822 a paragraph was added that no rule should be 
suspended except by a two-thirds vote. In 1828 it was amended to provide 
that the order of business, as established by the rules, should not be 
changed except by a two-thirds vote. Originally contemplating motions to 
suspend the rules on any day, the rule was amended in 1847 to restrict 
the motion to Mondays of each week, and, in 1880, to the first and third 
Mondays of each month. In 1874 the old limit of 10 days at the end of

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the session was reduced to six days. In the 93d Congress, the rule was 
amended to permit motions to suspend the rules on the first and third 
Mondays and on the Tuesdays immediately following those days and to 
eliminate the distinction between days on which committees and 
individuals had preference (H. Res. 6, Jan. 3, 1973, pp. 26, 27). In the 
95th Congress, the rule was amended to permit such motions on every 
Monday and Tuesday (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, 95th Cong., pp. 53-70). 
During the first session of the 108th Congress, the House authorized the 
Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules on 
Wednesdays through the second Wednesday in April as though under this 
clause (sec. 3(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11). That authority was 
extended by unanimous consent through the last Wednesday in June (Apr. 
30, 2003, p. 10063) and by resolution through the entire 108th Congress 
(H. Res. 297, June 26, 2003, p. 16275). In the 109th Congress, the House 
amended the rule to permit motions to suspend the rules every Wednesday 
(sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former 
clause 1 of rule XXVII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Originally, <> when the House was operating under the older rules for the 
order of business, the motion was used to establish a special order of 
business for the consideration of a particular measure (IV, 3152, 3162; 
V, 6852). In 1890, the House adopted rules for the order of business 
that enabled the House on any day to consider public bills on its 
calendars. About the same time, the House perfected the process of 
establishing a special order of business by a majority vote through a 
report from the Committee on Rules (IV, 3169). As a result of these 
changes, the use of the motion to suspend gradually changed from one 
that established a special order of business to one that passes or 
adopts a measure (V, 6790, 6846, 6847). The latter motion suspends all 
rules inconsistent with its purposes, including a rule requiring that a 
recess be taken (V, 5752) or that a quorum be present when a bill is 
reported from committee (Sept. 22, 1992, p. 26932). The motion is not 
available in the Committee of the Whole (May 28, 2014, p. _).
  Although the normal use of the motion is to pass or adopt a 
noncontroversial measure, the motion may also be used to change or 
suspend a rule or order that is susceptible to suspension or to suspend 
the parliamentary law of Jefferson's Manual (V, 6796, 6862). The rules 
forbid the Speaker to entertain a motion to suspend the rules relating 
to the privilege of the floor (clause 2(b) of rule IV; V, 7283; VIII, 
3634), the use of the Hall of the House (clause 2(b) of rule IV; V, 
7270), or the introduction of persons in the galleries (clause 7 of rule 
XVII; VI, 197).
  The motion to suspend may include a series of actions, such as the 
discharge of a committee from consideration of a bill and the passage of 
it (V, 6850), the reconsideration of the vote passing a bill, amendment 
of it, and passage again (V, 6849), the permission for a committee to 
report

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several bills (V, 6857), an order to the Clerk to incorporate in the 
engrossment of a general appropriation bill a provision not otherwise in 
order (IV, 3845), an authorization to the House to entertain a specified 
motion to suspend the rules on a future day not a suspension day (IV, 
3845), a motion to take a bill (V, 6288; VIII, 3425) or a motion to 
reconsider, from the table (V, 5640). A motion to suspend may provide 
for agreeing to a conference report that has been ruled out of order by 
the Speaker (Dec. 20, 1974, p. 41860) or may provide for passage of a 
bill that consists of the text of two bills previously passed by the 
House (Sept. 19, 2000, p. 18510). One motion to suspend the rules having 
been rejected, the Speaker may recognize for a similar motion (Dec. 21, 
1973, pp. 43270-81).
  A motion to suspend the rules may provide for the passage of a bill 
regardless of whether it has been reported by committee, referred to a 
calendar, or even previously introduced (VIII, 3421; July 16, 1996, p. 
17228). It may include an amendment without the formality of committee 
approval (June 22, 1992, p. 15617). Copies of reports on bills 
considered under suspension are not required to be available in advance. 
No advance notice to Members of bills to be called up under suspension 
of the rules is required (Mar. 20, 1978, p. 7535; Jan. 22, 2007, p. 
1895) including to the sponsor (July 30, 2010, p. 14822). However, if a 
special rule requires that the object of a motion to suspend the rules 
be announced on the floor at least one hour before the Chair's 
entertaining the motion, unanimous consent is required to permit the 
Chair to entertain the motion before that time (Sept. 28, 1996, p. 
25765, 25774).
  The <> motion that the House ``suspend the rules and pass [or adopt]'' 
a measure is not subject to the demand for a division of the question, 
either as to the two branches of the motion or as to distinct 
substantive propositions in the subject of the motion (V, 6141-6143). 
The motion may not be amended (V, 5322, 5405, 6858; Deschler, ch. 21, 
Sec. 14.6; Apr. 11, 2000, p. 5206; July 30, 2011, p. 12544), and the 
power to withdraw and modify the motion rests with its proponent (May 
10, 2006, p. 7807). The motion may not be postponed (V, 5322) or laid on 
the table (V, 5405). The motion to reconsider may be applied to an 
affirmative (Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25796) but not a negative vote on the 
motion (V, 5645, 5646; VIII, 2781; Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25797). The motion 
to refer may not be applied to the bill that it is proposed to pass 
under suspension of the rules (V, 6860).
  Some older precedents indicate that the right of a Member to have read 
the paper on which the Member is called to vote is not changed by the 
fact that the procedure is by suspension of the rules (V, 5277; VIII, 
3400), and in earlier instances the separate motion to suspend the rules 
and dispense with reading of pending measures was held in order (V, 
5278-84). However, under the modern practice, only the motion to suspend 
the rules is itself read. The Clerk reports the title of the bill and a 
motion that the measure be read in full is not in order (July 30, 2010, 
p. 14815). Amendments included in the motion are not reported 
separately. Where a motion

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to suspend the rules and agree to a resolution that provided for 
concurring in a Senate amendment with an amendment consisting of the 
text of a bill introduced in the House, the Speaker ruled that the 
reading of the resolution itself was sufficient and that it could be re-
read to the House only by unanimous consent (Dec. 21, 1973, pp. 43251-
63).
  For a discussion of debate on the motion and the Chair's recognition 
of a Member to control time in opposition to the motion, see Sec. 891, 
infra.
  In the <> early practice, when the motion to suspend the rules was used 
to enable a matter to be taken up for consideration out of order, it was 
not admitted when a subject was already before the House (V, 5278, 6836, 
6837, 6852, 6853). However, a motion to suspend the rules was in order 
to dispense with the reading of a pending measure (V, 5278). A bill 
taken up under this early practice might be amended by the House (V, 
6842, 6856) or withdrawn by the mover, in which case another Member 
might not present it (V, 6854, 6855).
  In the later practice, if the motion includes both suspension of the 
rules and action on the subject, it is admitted even though another 
matter is pending (V, 6834), the yeas and nays are demanded on another 
privileged motion (V, 6835), or the previous question has been ordered 
or moved on another matter (V, 6827, 6831-6833; VIII, 3418; Sept. 17, 
1990, p. 24695). Earlier rulings did not permit a motion to suspend the 
rules to permit a vote to be taken en gros on a series of pending Senate 
amendments (V, 6828, 6830). The motion to suspend the rules has been 
ruled out of order when the House is considering a bill under a special 
order (V, 6838) or when a question of privilege under rule IX is before 
the House (V, 6825, 6826; VI, 553, 565), and yields to such questions of 
privilege (III, 2553; VI, 565). The motion to suspend the rules has been 
held of equal privilege with the motion to instruct conferees under 
former clause 1(c) of rule XXVIII (current clause 7(c) of rule XXII), 
which is of the highest privilege (Mar. 1, 1988, pp. 2749, 2751, 2754). 
A motion to suspend the rules and approve the Journal was held in order, 
although the Journal had not been read and the highly privileged motion 
to fix the day to which the House should adjourn was pending (IV, 2758). 
Moreover, in the absence of a motion to suspend, the ordinary motions 
relating to business of the House may be made on suspension days as on 
other days (IV, 3080).
  The motion to suspend the rules may be made on days other than 
suspension days by unanimous consent (V, 6795) or by adoption of a 
resolution reported by the Committee on Rules. On suspension days the 
motion to suspend the rules has been admitted at the discretion of the 
Speaker since 1881 (V, 6791-6794, 6845; VIII, 3402-3404; Nov. 2, 2009, 
p. 26393), and no appeal may be taken from the Speaker's denial of 
recognition (II, 1425).
   <> Authorization by a committee is not required for the Speaker to 
recognize for a motion to suspend the rules (VIII, 3410), including a 
motion to suspend the rules and pass a measure ``as amended'' (June 22, 
1992, p. 15617).

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  Before the 93d Congress, the rule gave to individuals preference on 
the first Monday of the month for making motions to suspend the rules, 
and preference on the third Mondays for committees to make the motion 
(V, 6790). If on a committee day an individual motion was made and 
seconded, it was then too late to make a point of order (V, 6809). In 
rare instances, under earlier House practice, the Speaker called the 
committees in regular order for motions to suspend the rules, but this 
method was not required (V, 6810, 6811). The earlier practice also 
required a motion to be formally and specifically authorized by a 
committee (V, 6805-6807), including specific authorization to include an 
amendment (V, 6812); but after the motion was seconded and debate had 
begun it was too late to raise a question as to the authorization (V, 
6808). The committee could not present a bill that had not been referred 
to it (V, 6813) or was not within its jurisdiction (V, 6848).
  Before <> the 102d Congress, certain motions to suspend the rules were 
required to be seconded, if demanded, by a majority by tellers, but this 
requirement was eliminated from the rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 
39). The requirement for a second was adopted in 1874, was rescinded two 
years later, but was again adopted in 1880. The object of it was to 
prevent consumption of the time of the House by forcing consideration of 
undesirable propositions (V, 6797). The requirement (formerly clause 2 
of rule XXVII) was amended in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 
1979, pp. 7-16) so that a second was not required where printed copies 
of the proposed measure were available. The constitutional right of a 
Member to demand the yeas and nays, or the right of a Member under 
clause 1(b) of rule XX to demand a recorded vote, did not exist on the 
question of ordering a second under the former clause 2 of rule XXVII, 
which only permitted the ordering of a second by tellers if a quorum was 
present (V, 6032-6036; VIII, 3109; Dec. 16, 1981, p. 31851). The fact 
that a majority of the Members of the House did not pass between the 
tellers on the question of ordering a second did not conclusively show 
that a quorum was not present in the Chamber, and the Speaker could 
count the House to determine whether a quorum was actually present (Dec. 
16, 1981, p. 31851). However, where a quorum failed on the vote for a 
second, under clause 6 of rule XX the yeas and nays were ordered (IV, 
3053-3055; Dec. 21, 1973, pp. 43251-63).
  A <> motion to suspend the 
rules may be withdrawn at any time before the Chair puts the question 
and a voice vote is taken thereon (V, 6840, 6844; VIII, 3405, 3419; June 
5, 2012, p. _). The motion may be withdrawn by unanimous consent, even 
after the Speaker has put the question on its adoption and postponed 
further proceedings (Deschler, ch 21 Sec. 13.23; Dec. 5, 2012, p. _).


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  (b) <> Pending a motion that the House suspend the rules, the Speaker 
may entertain one motion that the House adjourn but may not entertain 
any other motion until the vote is taken on the suspension.

  This provision (formerly clause 8 of rule XVI) was adopted in 1868 (V, 
5743), and amended in 1911 (VIII, 2823). A technical change was effected 
in the 110th Congress (sec. 505(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 
(adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). A motion for a recess (V, 5748-5751) and for a 
call of the House when there was no doubt of the presence of a quorum 
(V, 5747) were held to be dilatory motions within the meaning of the 
rule. But where a motion to suspend the rules has been made and, after 
one motion to adjourn has been acted on, a quorum has failed, another 
motion to adjourn has been admitted (V, 5744-5746).

  (c) <> A motion that the House suspend the rules is debatable for 
40 minutes, one-half in favor of the motion and one-half in opposition 
thereto.

  This provision (formerly clause 2 of rule XXVII) was adopted in 1880 
(V, 6821). It was amended and redesignated from clause 3 to clause 2 of 
rule XXVII in the 102d Congress to conform to the repeal of the former 
clause 2, relating to the requirement of a second (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1991, p. 39). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2 of rule XXVII. 
Former clause 2 consisted of paragraph (b) and another provision 
currently found in clause 1(a) of rule XIX permitting 40 minutes debate 
on an otherwise debatable question on which the previous question has 
been ordered without debate (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Before the 
adoption of this provision in 1880 (V, 6821) the motion to suspend the 
rules was not debatable (V, 5405, 6820). The 40 minutes of debate is 
divided between the mover and a Member opposed to the bill, unless it 
develops that the mover is opposed to the bill, in which event some 
Member in favor is recognized for debate (VIII, 3416; Oct. 5, 2004, pp. 
20850-52, 20862). When the mover and the opponent divide their time with 
others, the practice as to alternation of recognitions is not insisted 
on so rigidly as in other debate (II, 1442). Debate should be confined 
to the object of the motion and may not range to the merits of a bill 
not scheduled for suspension on that day (Nov. 23, 1991, p. 34189).
  Where recognition for the 20 minutes in opposition is contested, the 
Speaker will accord priority first on the basis of true opposition, then 
on

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the basis of committee membership, and only then on the basis of party 
affiliation, the latter preference inuring to the minority party (VIII, 
3415; Nov. 18, 1991, p. 32510). The Chair will not examine the degree of 
opposition to the motion by a member of the committee who seeks the time 
in opposition (Aug. 3, 1999, p. 19275). Any challenge to the Member 
recognized to control the time in opposition to the motion must be made 
when the time is allocated by the Chair (May 15, 1984, p. 12215; Speaker 
Wright, June 2, 1987, p. 14223).
  This paragraph formerly included a provision dealing with the 
Speaker's authority to postpone further proceedings on motions to 
suspend the rules. It was added in the 93d Congress (H. Res. 998, Apr. 
9, 1974, pp. 10195-99), amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
1977, pp. 53-70), and amended further in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). It was deleted entirely in the 97th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113) when all of the Speaker's 
postponing authorities were consolidated into clause 5 of rule I 
(current clause 8 of rule XX).

Discharge motions, second and fourth Mondays
  2. (a) <> Motions to 
discharge committees shall be in order on the second and fourth Mondays 
of a month.
  (b)(1) A Member may present to the Clerk a motion in writing to 
discharge--
      (A) a committee from consideration of a public bill or public 
resolution that has been referred to it for 30 legislative days; or
      (B) the Committee on Rules from consideration of a resolution that 
has been referred to it for seven legislative days and that proposes a 
special order of business for the consideration of a public bill or 
public resolution that has been reported by a committee or has been 
referred to a committee for 30 legislative days.
  (2) Only one motion may be presented for a bill or resolution. A 
Member may not file a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules from 
consideration of a resolution providing for the

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consideration of more than one public bill or public resolution or 
admitting or effecting a nongermane amendment to a public bill or public 
resolution.
  (c) A motion presented under paragraph (b) shall be placed in the 
custody of the Clerk, who shall arrange a convenient place for the 
signatures of Members. A signature may be withdrawn by a Member in 
writing at any time before a motion is entered on the Journal. The Clerk 
shall make the signatories a matter of public record, causing the names 
of the Members who have signed a discharge motion during a week to be 
published in a portion of the Congressional Record designated for that 
purpose on the last legislative day of the week and making cumulative 
lists of such names available each day for public inspection in an 
appropriate office of the House. The Clerk shall devise a means for 
making such lists available to offices of the House and to the public in 
electronic form. When a majority of the total membership of the House 
shall have signed the motion, it shall be entered on the Journal, 
published with the signatories thereto in the Record, and referred to 
the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees.
  (d)(1) On the second and fourth Mondays of a month (except during the 
last six days of a session of Congress), immediately after the Pledge of 
Allegiance to the Flag, a motion to discharge that has been on the 
calendar for at least seven legislative days shall be privileged if 
called up

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by a Member whose signature appears thereon. When such a motion is 
called up, the House shall proceed to its consideration under this 
paragraph without intervening motion except one motion to adjourn. 
Privileged motions to discharge shall have precedence in the order of 
their entry on the Journal.
  (2) When a motion to discharge is called up, the bill or resolution to 
which it relates shall be read by title only. The motion is debatable 
for 20 minutes, one-half in favor of the motion and one-half in 
opposition thereto.
  (e)(1) If a motion prevails to discharge the Committee on Rules from 
consideration of a resolution, the House shall immediately consider the 
resolution, pending which the Speaker may entertain one motion that the 
House adjourn but may not entertain any other dilatory motion until the 
resolution has been disposed of. If the resolution is adopted, the House 
shall immediately proceed to its execution.
  (2) If a motion prevails to discharge a committee from consideration 
of a public bill or public resolution, a motion that the House proceed 
to the immediate consideration of such bill or resolution shall be 
privileged if offered by a Member whose signature appeared on the motion 
to discharge. The motion to proceed is not debatable. If the motion to 
proceed is adopted, the bill or resolution shall be considered 
immediately under the general rules of the House. If unfinished before 
adjournment of the day on which it is called up, the bill or resolution 
shall

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remain the unfinished business until it is disposed of. If the motion to 
proceed is rejected, the bill or resolution shall be referred to the 
appropriate calendar, where it shall have the same status as if the 
committee from which it was discharged had duly reported it to the 
House.
  (f)(1) When a motion to discharge originated under this clause has 
once been acted on by the House, it shall not be in order to entertain 
during the same session of Congress--
      (A) a motion to discharge a committee from consideration of that 
bill or resolution or of any other bill or resolution that, by relating 
in substance to or dealing with the same subject matter, is 
substantially the same; or
      (B) a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules from 
consideration of a resolution providing a special order of business for 
the consideration of that bill or resolution or of any other bill or 
resolution that, by relating in substance to or dealing with the same 
subject matter, is substantially the same.
  (2) A motion to discharge on the Calendar of Motions to Discharge 
Committees that is rendered out of order under subparagraph (1) shall be 
stricken from that calendar.

  This clause (formerly clause 3 of rule XXVII) was adopted December 8, 
1931, and amended January 3, 1935 (VII, 1007). It displaced a rule 
providing for a motion to instruct a committee to report a public bill 
or resolution. The first discharge rule was adopted in the 61st Congress 
(June 17, 1910, pp. 8439, 8445). It was amended during the 62d Congress 
(Apr. 4-5, 1911, pp. 18, 80). It was further amended in the 62d Congress 
(H. Res. 407, Feb. 3, 1912, p. 1685), the 68th Congress (H. Res. 146, 
Jan. 18, 1924, p. 1143), and the 69th Congress (H. Res. 6, Dec. 7, 1925, 
p. 383). This provision was redesignated from clause 4 to clause 3 in 
the

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102d Congress to conform to the repeal of the former clause 2 of rule 
XXVII, relating to the requirement of a second; it was at the same time 
amended to enable debate on a resolution discharged from the Committee 
on Rules (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). Under the previous form of 
the rule, where the Committee on Rules was discharged from further 
consideration of a resolution the House immediately voted on adoption of 
the resolution (Speaker Rayburn, Jan. 24, 1944, p. 631).
  In the 103d Congress, after a successful petition under this clause 
placed on the calendar a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules from 
further consideration of a resolution to require publication of the 
names of Members who had signed pending discharge petitions, the clause 
was so amended (H. Res. 134, Sept. 28, 1993, p. 22698). In the 104th 
Congress the clause was amended to ensure the periodic publication of 
such names (sec. 219, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Before the 103d 
Congress signatures on a motion to discharge a committee were not made 
public until the requisite number had signed the motion (VII, 1008; Apr. 
12, 1934, p. 6489). In the 105th Congress the clause was amended to 
clarify that, to be a proper object of a discharge petition, a 
resolution providing a special rule must address the consideration of 
only one measure and must not propose to admit or effect a nongermane 
amendment (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). A clerical correction was 
effected in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 
26) and a technical correction was effected in the 110th Congress (sec. 
505(d), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). The 
112th Congress clarified that paragraph (c) does not require the 
disclosure of actual signatures (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80). The 113th Congress removed several references to a ``standing'' 
committee (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  The phrase ``a majority of the total membership of the House'' was 
construed to mean 218 Members (Speaker Byrns, Apr. 15, 1936, p. 5509), 
not including Delegates or the Resident Commissioner; and a Delegate or 
the Resident Commissioner may not sign a discharge petition even by 
unanimous consent (Oct. 1, 2003, p. 23853). The rule does not authorize 
signature of discharge motions by proxy (VII, 1014). When a Member 
withdraws a signature from a discharge petition at any time before it 
garners 218 signatures and is entered on the Journal, the withdrawal is 
printed in the Record (Apr. 23, 1998, p. 6590).
  The rule does not apply to a bill that has been reported by a 
committee during the interval between the placing of a motion to 
discharge on the calendar and the day when such motion is called up for 
action in the House (Apr. 23, 1934, p. 7156). The Committee on Rules may 
not be discharged from further consideration of a resolution providing 
for an investigating committee (Apr. 23, 1934, p. 7161).
  The death or resignation of a Member who has signed a motion does not 
invalidate the signature (May 31, 1934, p. 10159). It may be withdrawn 
by the Member's successor (Dec. 7, 1943, p. 10388; Jan. 17, 1946, p. 96; 
Mar. 5, 1946, p. 1968; July 30, 1946, pp. 10464, 10491; Mar. 2, 1948, 
pp.

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1993, 2001; Jan. 16, 1950, p. 436). The seven days that the motion must 
be on the calendar before it may be called up begins to run as of the 
day the motion is placed on the calendar (Dec. 14, 1937, p. 1517). A 
discharge petition in the 102d Congress received the requisite number of 
signatures on the same day it was filed (May 20, 1992, p. 12222), and 
subsequently by unanimous consent the House dispensed with the motion to 
discharge and agreed to consider the object of the petition (a special 
order of business resolution) on a date certain under the same terms as 
if discharged by motion (June 4, 1992, p. 13618). In the 103d Congress a 
discharge petition also received the requisite number of signatures on 
the same day it was filed (Feb. 24, 1994, p. 2999). In the 103d Congress 
a petition received the requisite number of signatures to enable a 
motion to discharge a resolution amending this rule to require 
publication of Members signing a discharge petition (Sept. 8, 1993, p. 
20361). In the 107th Congress a petition received the requisite 
signatures to enable a motion to discharge a rule providing for the 
consideration of a measure to provide campaign finance reform (Jan. 24, 
2002, pp. 145-56).
  The right to close debate on a motion to discharge a committee is 
reserved to the proponent of the motion (VII, 1010a); and the chair of 
the committee being discharged, if opposed to the motion, has been 
recognized to control the 10 minutes in opposition (Aug. 10, 1970, p. 
27999).
  Where a measure not requiring consideration in the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union is brought before the House by a 
successful motion to discharge, the Member moving its consideration is 
recognized in the House under the hour rule (Aug. 10, 1970, p. 28004).
  The point of order provided in clause 4 of rule XXI (formerly clause 
5(a) of rule XXI) does not apply to an appropriation in a bill taken 
away from a committee by the motion to discharge (VII, 1019a).
  Under Jefferson's Manual (Sec. 364, supra) a line of Members waiting 
to sign a discharge petition should proceed to the rostrum from the far 
right-hand aisle and should not stand between the Chair and Members 
engaging in debate (Oct. 24, 1997, p. 23293).

Adverse report by the Committee on Rules, second and fourth Mondays
  3. An <> adverse 
report by the Committee on Rules on a resolution proposing a special 
order of business for the consideration of a public bill or public joint 
resolution may be called up under clause 6(e) of rule XIII as a 
privileged question by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner on a 
day when

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it is in order to consider a motion to discharge committees under clause 
2.

  This provision was initially adopted January 18, 1924, amended 
December 8, 1931 (VIII, 2268), January 3, 1949 (p. 16), January 3, 1951 
(p. 18), January 4, 1965 (p. 24) (inserting the so-called ``21-day 
rule''), January 10, 1967 (H. Res. 7, p. 28) (deleting the ``21-day 
rule'' in effect in the 89th Congress), and January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found only in former 
clause 4(c) of rule XI. It is currently found in both this provision and 
clause 6(e) of rule XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

District of Columbia business, second and fourth Mondays
  4. <> The second and fourth Mondays 
of a month shall be set apart for the consideration of such District of 
Columbia business as may be called up by the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform after the disposition of motions to discharge 
committees and after the disposal of such business on the Speaker's 
table as requires reference only.

  The first rule allocating a fixed day for District of Columbia 
business was adopted in 1870. In 1890 the rule (formerly clause 8 of 
rule XXIV) was amended (IV, 3304). It was again amended December 8, 1931 
(VII, 872). In the 104th Congress it was amended to reflect that the 
jurisdiction of the former Committee on the District of Columbia had 
been subsumed within the amalgamated jurisdiction of the newly 
designated Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (and in the 
106th and 110th Congresses to reflect a change in the name of a 
committee) (sec. 202, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 465; H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47; sec. 215(f), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). Before the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 8 of rule XXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now Oversight and 
Government Reform) may not, on a District day, call up a bill reported 
from another committee (IV, 3311). If certain of the committee's bills 
are on one of the calendars of the Committees of the Whole, a motion to 
go into committee to consider them is in order (IV, 3310). Bills 
reported from the District Committee (now Oversight and Government 
Reform) are not so privileged as to prevent their being taken up under 
call of committees

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on Wednesday (VII, 937). Business unfinished on one District day does 
not come up on the next unless called up (IV, 3307; VII, 879, 880). The 
question of consideration may not be demanded against District business 
generally, but may be demanded against any bill as it is presented (IV, 
3308, 3309).
  On District days it is in order to go into the Committee of the Whole 
to consider revenue or general appropriation bills (VI, 716-718; VII, 
876, 1123). Consideration of conference reports is in order on District 
Monday (VIII, 3202). District of Columbia business is in order on the 
second and fourth Mondays of the month before or after other business 
(such as motions to suspend the rules), and the fact that the House has 
considered some District of Columbia business before motions to suspend 
the rules does not affect the eligibility of further such business after 
suspensions have been completed (Sept. 17, 1984, p. 25523).

Private Calendar, first and third Tuesdays
  5. (a) <> On the first Tuesday of a 
month, the Speaker shall direct the Clerk to call the bills and 
resolutions on the Private Calendar after disposal of such business on 
the Speaker's table as requires reference only. If two or more Members, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner object to the consideration of a 
bill or resolution so called, it shall be recommitted to the committee 
that reported it. No other business shall be in order before completion 
of the call of the Private Calendar on this day unless two-thirds of the 
Members voting, a quorum being present, agree to a motion that the House 
dispense with the call.
  (b)(1) On the third Tuesday of a month, after the disposal of such 
business on the Speaker's table as requires reference only, the Speaker 
may direct the Clerk to call the bills and resolutions on the Private 
Calendar. Preference shall be given to omnibus bills containing the 
texts of

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bills or resolutions that have previously been objected to on a call of 
the Private Calendar. If two or more Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
Commissioner object to the consideration of a bill or resolution so 
called (other than an omnibus bill), it shall be recommitted to the 
committee that reported it. Two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum 
being present, may adopt a motion that the House dispense with the call 
on this day.
  (2) Omnibus bills shall be read for amendment by paragraph. No 
amendment shall be in order except to strike or to reduce amounts of 
money or to provide limitations. An item or matter stricken from an 
omnibus bill may not thereafter during the same session of Congress be 
included in an omnibus bill. Upon passage such an omnibus bill shall be 
resolved into the several bills and resolutions of which it is composed. 
The several bills and resolutions, with any amendments adopted by the 
House, shall be engrossed, when necessary, and otherwise considered as 
passed severally by the House as distinct bills and resolutions.
  (c) The Speaker may not entertain a reservation of the right to object 
to the consideration of a bill or resolution under this clause. A bill 
or resolution considered under this clause shall be considered in the 
House as in the Committee of the Whole. A motion to dispense with the 
call of the Private Calendar under this clause shall be privileged. 
Debate on such a motion shall be lim

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ited to five minutes in support and five minutes in opposition.

  This <> provision (formerly clause 6 of rule XXIV) was adopted in 
the 62d Congress in lieu of special orders under which pension and 
private business formerly had been considered. The rule was amended on 
April 23, 1932 (VII, 846) and was adopted in its present form on March 
27, 1935 (pp. 4480-89, 4538). When the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was transferred from former clause 6 of 
rule XXIV and the archaic reference to the ``Calendar of the Committee 
of the Whole House'' was changed to the ``Private Calendar'' (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A Member serving as an ``official objector'' for 
the Private Calendar has periodically included in the Record an 
explanation of how bills on the Private Calendar are considered (see, 
e.g., Dec. 5, 1995, p. 35354; June 17, 1997, p. 11015; Nov. 17, 2003, p. 
29279). Clause 4 of rule XII prohibits consideration of certain private 
bills. Under former clause 6(e)(2) of rule XV (current clause 7(b) of 
rule XX), the Speaker has discretion to recognize a Member to move a 
call of the House before the call of the Private Calendar (July 8, 1987, 
p. 18972). Unanimous consent is required to place the call at another 
time during the day (July 16, 1996, p. 17224; Apr. 21, 1998, p. 6184), 
including after one-minute speeches (Dec. 18, 2012, p. _).
  During the <> consideration of omnibus bills the Chair declines to recognize 
Members for unanimous-consent requests to address the House (May 7, 
1935, p. 7100); motions to strike the last word are not in order, and 
requests for extension of time under the five-minute rule are not 
entertained (Speaker Byrns, Mar. 17, 1936, pp. 3890, 3894).
  An omnibus private bill is normally passed over by the Clerk when the 
Private Calendar is called on the first Tuesday of the month, but the 
House may prescribe, by special order, that such omnibus bills shall be 
passed over (June 27, 1968, p. 19106). During the consideration of the 
First Omnibus Bill of 1968, seven roll calls occurred and seven of the 
15 bills carried therein were stricken by motion (Sept. 17, 1968, pp. 
27165-84). Amendments to the bill were strictly limited by the rule to 
those striking or reducing amounts of money carried in the bill or to 
provide limitations, and debate on those permissible motions was under 
the five-minute rule. After the passage of an omnibus bill, it is 
resolved into the various private bills of which it is composed and each 
is engrossed and messaged to the Senate as if individually passed; thus 
it is possible, after passage of the omnibus bill, to lay on the table a 
private House or Senate bill that was included therein (by unanimous 
consent) (Sept. 17, 1968, p. 27184).
  On the third Tuesday of the month, the calendar is not called unless 
the Speaker so directs (Oct. 16, 1990, p. 29646); and in those cases, 
omnibus bills on the Calendar are called before individual bills thereon 
(Feb. 17, 1970, pp. 3605-13). A motion to dispense with the call of the 
Private Cal

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endar on the third Tuesday of each month is likewise in order (provided 
that the Chair has not exercised discretionary authority (Nov. 17, 1981, 
p. 27770 (sustained by tabling of appeal)) to dispense with the call).

  For the <> former 
Corrections Calendar rule, see Sec. 898 of the House Rules and Manual 
for the 111th Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).

  For the <> former Consent 
Calendar rule, see Sec. 899 of the House Rules and Manual for the 111th 
Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).

Calendar Call of Committees, Wednesdays
  6. (a) <> On Wednesday of 
each week, business shall not be in order before completion of the call 
of those committees (except as provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) whose 
chair, or other member authorized by the committee, has announced to the 
House a request for such call on the preceding legislative day.
  (b) A bill or resolution on either the House or the Union Calendar, 
except bills or resolutions that are privileged under the Rules of the 
House, may be called under this clause. A bill or resolution called up 
from the Union Calendar shall be considered in the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union without motion, subject to clause 
3 of rule XVI. General debate on a measure considered under this clause 
shall be confined to the measure and may not exceed two hours equally 
divided between a proponent and an opponent.
  (c) This clause does not apply during the last two weeks of a session 
of Congress.
  (d) Precedents, rulings, or procedures in effect before the One 
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garding the priority of business and the availability of other business 
on Wednesday shall be applied only to the extent consistent with this 
clause.

  This clause (formerly clause 7 of rule XXIV), was adopted March 1, 
1909, and amended March 15, 1909. The last sentence of paragraph (b) 
(first proviso of former clause 7 of rule XXIV) was adopted January 18, 
1916. The clause was rewritten in the 111th Congress to provide for 
Calendar Wednesday business from a committee only upon its request (sec. 
2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). For a history of the clause as it 
existed before that Congress, and related precedents, see Sec. Sec. 900, 
901 of the House Rules and Manual for the 110th Congress (H. Doc. 109-
157). Paragraph (d) was added in the 113th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  The rule <> applies 
to unprivileged bills only, and when a bill otherwise unprivileged is 
given a privileged status by unanimous consent or by rule it is 
automatically rendered ineligible for consideration on Calendar 
Wednesday (VII, 932-935). The rule does not apply to amendments between 
the Houses, unreported bills, or Senate bills being held at the 
Speaker's desk (Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3854). House Calendar bills have no 
preference over Union Calendar bills (VII, 938).
  When a bill on the Union Calendar is called up on Calendar Wednesday 
the House automatically resolves itself into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union (VII, 939; Jan. 25, 1984, p. 358), and 
when a Union Calendar bill is the unfinished business the Speaker 
declares the House in Committee of the Whole without motion (VII, 940, 
942).
  The question of consideration may be raised on a bill on the House 
Calendar on Calendar Wednesday, even after one Wednesday has been 
devoted to its consideration (VIII, 2447), and the question of 
consideration is properly raised on Union Calendar bills before 
automatically resolving into Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union (VII, 952).
  During the 61st and 62d Congresses it was held that the call of 
committees rested where the call left off on the preceding day, whether 
the last call was on a Wednesday or during the morning hour on another 
day, thus making but one committee call under the two rules. But under 
the later practice there have been two distinct calls of committees, one 
under clause 4 of rule XIV (formerly clause 4 of rule XXIV), the morning 
hour, and another under Calendar Wednesday (VII, 944) when committees 
are called twice (VII, 924; Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3853).
  The same rule of debate applies to House Calendar bills called up on 
Calendar Wednesday as on other days, and the Member in charge of the 
bill may move the previous question at any time (VII, 955).

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  The previous question having been ordered on a bill on Calendar 
Wednesday, the bill becomes the unfinished business on Thursday (VII, 
895, 967).
  It is in order to consider a vetoed bill on Calendar Wednesday, 
because such a question is privileged under the Constitution (VII, 912), 
but a bill privileged by reason of the Rules of the House cannot be 
called up on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 932); for example, a general 
appropriation bill (VII, 904), or a bill under consideration by reason 
of a special order, unless the special order expressly sets aside 
Calendar Wednesday (VII, 773), or a conference report (VII, 899). A 
motion to reconsider an action taken on a bill on Tuesday may be 
entered, but may not be considered on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 905). 
Privileged bills may be reported but not considered on Calendar 
Wednesday (VII, 907), except by unanimous consent (Jan. 25, 1984, p. 
357). The Speaker has entertained a unanimous-consent request for 
business (to send a bill to conference) (Mar. 28, 1984, p. 6869) and for 
one-minute speeches (Mar. 21, 1984, pp. 6187, 6188; May 7, 2008, p. 
7993) before the call of committees on Calendar Wednesday. District of 
Columbia business is eligible for consideration on Calendar Wednesday 
(VII, 937). A motion to adjourn (May 7, 2008, pp. 7996, 8000) and the 
administration of the oath (May 7, 2008, p. 7997; VI, 22) may interrupt 
the call of committees. Once Calendar Wednesday proceedings are 
completed, other business may be conducted (VII, 921).
  It has been held that if no Member opposed to the bill desires to 
claim the hour specified in the rule for general debate against the 
bill, the time may be claimed by a Member who is in favor of the bill 
(VII, 962), but this principle has been questioned (VII, 961).
  Clause 2(b) of rule XIII (formerly clause 2(l)(1) of rule XI), 
requiring the chair of each committee to report or cause to be reported 
promptly measures approved by the committee and to take such necessary 
steps to bring the matter to a vote, is sufficient authority for the 
chair to call up a properly-noticed bill on Calendar Wednesday, but any 
other committee member must obtain specific authority of the committee 
to call up a reported bill on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 928, 929; Feb. 
22, 1950, p. 2162; Feb. 1, 1984, p. 1193; Sept. 12, 1984, p. 25100; Apr. 
18, 2007, p. 9201). Before the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 
and the subsequent adoption of former clause 2(l)(1)(A) of rule XI, 
authority to call up a bill on Calendar Wednesday must have been given 
to its chair by a committee (IV, 3127).


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                                Rule XVI

                         motions and amendments

Motions
  1. <> Every motion entertained by the Speaker shall be reduced to 
writing on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
and, unless it is withdrawn the same day, shall be entered on the 
Journal with the name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
offering it. A dilatory motion may not be entertained by the Speaker.

  In 1880 the first sentence of this clause was composed of language 
adopted in 1789 and 1806 (V, 5300). The last sentence of this clause 
(formerly clause 10 of rule XVI) was adopted in 1890 (V, 5706) to make 
permanent a principle already enunciated in a ruling of the Speaker, who 
had declared that the ``object of a parliamentary body is action, and 
not stoppage of action'' (V, 5713). When the House recodified its rules, 
it consolidated clause 1 and former clause 10 of rule XVI under this 
clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Because of this provision it has been held not in order to amend or 
strike a Journal entry setting forth a motion exactly as made (IV, 2783, 
2789). A motion not entertained is not entered on the Journal (IV, 2813, 
2844-2846). See Sec. 71, supra, for discussion of Journal entries. Any 
Member may demand that a motion, including the motion to adjourn, be 
reduced to writing and in the proper form (Sept. 27, 1993, p. 22608; 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 509), and the demand may be initiated by the Chair 
(July 24, 1986, p. 17641). Consistent with this clause, the chair of the 
Committee of the Whole requires that each amendment be reduced to 
writing (July 22, 1994, p. 17617). Although a motion to recommit is 
properly presented in writing, no rule requires that the proponent 
distribute copies on the floor (June 28, 2000, p. 12749).
  The <> Speaker has declined to 
entertain debate or appeal on a question as to the dilatoriness of a 
motion, because doing so would nullify the rule (V, 5731); but has 
recognized that the authority conferred by the rule should not be 
exercised until the object of the dilatory motion ``becomes apparent to 
the House'' (V, 5713, 5714). For example, the Chair has held that a 
virtually consecutive invocation of former rule XXX (current clause 6 of 
rule XVII), resulting in a second pair of votes on use of a chart and on 
reconsideration

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thereof, was not dilatory under this provision (or former clause 4(b) of 
rule XI (current clause 6(b) of rule XIII)) (July 31, 1996, p. 20700). 
Usually, but not always, the Speaker awaits a point of order from the 
floor before acting (V, 5715-5722). The rule has been applied to the 
motions to adjourn (V, 5721, 5731-5733; VIII, 2796, 2813), to reconsider 
(V, 5735; VIII, 2797, 2815, 2822), to fix the time of five-minute debate 
in Committee of the Whole (V, 5734; VIII, 2817), and to lay on the table 
(VIII, 2816), and to the question of consideration (V, 5731-5733). The 
point of no quorum also has been ruled out (V, 5724-5730; VIII, 2801, 
2808), and former clause 6 of rule XV (current clause 7 of rule XX) as 
adopted in the 93d Congress and as amended in the 95th Congress prevents 
the making of a point of no quorum under certain circumstances. A demand 
for tellers has been held dilatory (V, 5735, 5736; VIII, 2436, 2818-
2821), but the constitutional right of the Member to demand the yeas and 
nays may not be overruled (V, 5737; VIII, 3107). For a ruling by Speaker 
Gillett construing dilatory motions, see VIII, 2804. For discussion of 
dilatory motions pending consideration of a report from the Committee on 
Rules, see Sec. Sec. 857-858, supra.

Withdrawal
  2. <> When a motion 
is entertained, the Speaker shall state it or cause it to be read aloud 
by the Clerk before it is debated. The motion then shall be in the 
possession of the House but may be withdrawn at any time before a 
decision or amendment thereon.

  The provisions of this clause were adopted first in 1789. At that time 
a second was required for every motion, but in practice this requirement 
became obsolete very early, and it was dropped from the rule in 1880 (V, 
5304). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The House always insists that the motion be stated or read before 
debate shall begin (V, 4937, 4983) and the Clerk's reading may be 
dispensed with only by unanimous consent (Dec. 15, 1975, p. 40671; see 
also Sec. 432, supra). It is the duty of the Speaker to put the question 
on a motion in order under the rules and practice without passing on its 
constitutional effect (IV, 3550; VIII, 2225, 3031, 3071, 3427). In a 
case wherein a clerk presiding during organization of the House declined 
to put a question, a Member-elect put the question from the floor (I, 
67).
  Under certain circumstances (such as the practice of extinguishing 
reconsideration by laying a motion to reconsider on the table), a Member 
may offer a double motion (V, 5637).

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  A motion <> may 
be withdrawn at any time before a decision thereon, including a motion 
to instruct conferees (Oct. 31, 2000, p. 25737) and a contempt 
resolution (Oct. 27, 2000, p. 25200). Unanimous consent is not required 
to withdraw a pending unanimous-consent request (Dec. 16, 1985, p. 
36575).
  While the House was dividing on a second of the previous question 
(this second is no longer required) on a motion to refer a resolution, 
the proponent was permitted to withdraw the resolution (V, 5350). A 
motion was withdrawn after the previous question had been ordered on an 
appeal from a decision on a point of order as to the motion (V, 5356).
  A motion to suspend the rules could be withdrawn at any time before a 
second was ordered (a second is no longer required) (V, 6844; VIII, 
3405, 3419), even on another suspension day (V, 6844). However, the 
motion could not be withdrawn if a second were ordered, except by 
unanimous consent (VIII, 3420). In the modern practice, in which a 
second is not required on a motion to suspend the rules, the motion may 
be withdrawn at any time before action is taken thereon (July 27, 1981, 
p. 17563) including pending the resumption of postponed proceedings de 
novo pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX (Sept. 29, 2010, pp. 17119, 17120).
  A motion may be withdrawn although an amendment has been offered and 
is pending (V, 5347; VI, 373; VIII, 2639). In the House an amendment, 
whether simple or in the nature of a substitute, may be withdrawn at any 
time before an amendment is adopted thereto or a decision is had thereon 
(VI, 587; VIII, 2332, 2764). The same right to withdraw an amendment 
exists ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' (IV, 4935; June 26, 
1973, p. 21315) and in standing committees where general procedures of 
the House as in the Committee of the Whole apply (Sec. 427, supra). 
However, unanimous consent to withdraw an amendment is required in 
Committee of the Whole (V, 5221, 5753; VI, 570; VIII, 2465, 2859, 3405), 
unless withdrawal authority has been conferred by the House (July 22, 
1999, p. 17291; Apr. 3, 2003, pp. 8490, 8491; Nov. 7, 2007, p. 30353). 
An amendment disposed of in the Committee of the Whole by voice vote may 
not be withdrawn (June 17, 2004, pp. 12944, 12945).
  A motion may be withdrawn after the affirmative side has been taken on 
a division (V, 5348). Withdrawal of a pending resolution is not in order 
when the absence of a quorum has been announced by the Chair (Oct. 14, 
1970, pp. 36665-69). A motion that the House resolve into the Committee 
of the Whole for the consideration of a bill may be withdrawn pending a 
point of order against consideration of the bill. If the motion is 
withdrawn, the Chair is not obligated to rule on the point of order 
(VIII, 3405; Dec. 3, 1979, p. 34385).
  A decision that prevents withdrawal may consist of the following: (1) 
the ordering of the yeas and nays (V, 5353), either directly on the 
motion or on a motion to lay it on the table (V, 5354); (2) the ordering 
of the previous question (V, 5355; June 29, 1995, p. 17967), or the 
demand there

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for (V, 5489), or (3) the refusal to lay on the table (V, 5351, 5352; 
VIII, 2640).
  If the Speaker has put the question on adoption of a resolution to a 
voice vote without the ordering of the previous question, and the yeas 
and nays have not been ordered (V, 5349; Feb. 26, 1985, p. 3501) or if a 
voice vote (and the record vote on the associated motion for the 
previous question) has been vacated (Sept. 25, 2008, pp. 21820, 21821), 
the resolution may be withdrawn. A privileged resolution called up in 
the House is debated under the hour rule; and the Member calling up such 
a resolution is recognized for an hour notwithstanding the fact that the 
resolution has been previously considered, debated, and then withdrawn 
before action thereon (Apr. 8, 1964, pp. 7303-08).
  Where proceedings are postponed on a motion for the previous question 
pending a point of no quorum against a voice vote thereon (pursuant to 
former clause 5 of rule I (current clause 8 of rule XX)), the manager 
may withdraw such motion when it is again before the House as unfinished 
business (July 24, 1989, p. 15818).
  A Member having the right to withdraw a motion before a decision 
thereon has the resulting power to modify the motion (V, 5358; Oct. 23, 
1990, p. 32667), and a Member having the right to withdraw a motion to 
instruct conferees before a decision thereon has the resulting power to 
modify the motion by offering a different motion at the same stage of 
proceedings (July 14, 1993, p. 15661). A motion being withdrawn, all 
proceedings on an appeal arising from a point of order related to it 
fell thereby (V, 5356).

Question of consideration
  3. <> When a motion or 
proposition is entertained, the question, ``Will the House now consider 
it?'' may not be put unless demanded by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner.

  The question of consideration is an outgrowth of the practice of the 
House, and was in use as early as 1808. The rule was adopted in 1817 in 
order to limit its use. Clerical and stylistic changes were effected 
when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It is the means by which the House protects itself 
from business that it does not wish to consider (V, 4936; VIII, 2436). 
The refusal to consider does not amount to the rejection of a bill or 
prevent its being brought before the House again (V, 4940), and an 
affirmative vote does not prevent the question of consideration from 
being raised on a subsequent day when the bill is again called up as 
unfinished business (VIII, 2438). It has once been held that a question 
of privilege that the House has refused to consider may be brought up 
again on the same day (V, 4942). The question of consideration is not 
debatable (VIII, 2447), and thus not subject

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to the motion to lay on the table (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 27643). See also 
clause 6 of rule XIV (Sec. 884, supra), which provides that questions 
relating to the priority of business are not debatable.
  A <> Member 
may demand the question of consideration, although the Member in charge 
of the bill may claim the floor for debate (V, 4944, 4945; VI, 404); but 
after debate has begun the demand may not be made (V, 4937-4939). It has 
been admitted, however, after the offering of a motion to lay on the 
table but before its disposition (V, 4943). The demand for the question 
of consideration may not be prevented by a motion for the previous 
question (V, 5478), but after the previous question is ordered it may 
not be demanded (V, 4965, 4966), even on another day, unless other 
business has intervened (V, 4967, 4968). The question of consideration 
pending, a motion to refer is not in order (V, 5554).
  The intervention of an adjournment does not destroy the right to raise 
the question of consideration (V, 4946), but this right did not hold 
true in a case in which the yeas and nays had been ordered and the House 
had adjourned pending the failure of a quorum on the roll call (V, 
4949). A question of consideration undisposed of at an adjournment does 
not recur as unfinished business on a succeeding day (V, 4947, 4948). It 
is not in order to reconsider the vote whereby the House refuses to 
consider a bill (V, 5626, 5627), although it is in order to reconsider 
an affirmative vote on the question of consideration (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 
27644).
  The <> question of consideration may be demanded against a 
matter of the highest privilege, such as the right of a Member to a seat 
(V, 4941), a question involving the privilege of the House (VI, 560), 
against the motion to reconsider (VIII, 2437), but not against a bill 
returned with the President's objection (V, 4960, 4970). It may not be 
raised against a proposition before the House merely for reference, as a 
petition (V, 4964). It may not be demanded against a class of business 
in order under a special order or rule, but may be demanded against each 
bill individually (IV, 3308, 3309; V, 4958, 4959). It may be raised 
against a bill the consideration of which has been provided by a special 
order of business (IV, 3175; V, 4953-4957; June 22, 2006, p. 12280; Jan. 
24, 2007, p. 2140; Jan. 31, 2007, p. 2736), unless the order provides 
for immediate consideration (V, 4960) or provides for the Speaker's 
declaration that the House resolve into the Committee of the Whole under 
clause 2 of rule XVIII. The question may be raised against a bill on the 
Union Calendar on Calendar Wednesday before resolving into the Committee 
of the Whole even after one Wednesday has been devoted to it (VIII, 
2447); but it may not be raised against a report from the Committee on 
Rules relating to the order of considering individual bills (V, 4961-
4963; VIII, 2440, 2441, see Sec. 858, supra).
  The question of consideration may not be raised on a motion relating 
to the order of business (V, 4971-4976; VIII, 2442; May 21, 1958, p. 
9216);

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to a motion to discharge a committee (V, 4977); or against a motion to 
take from the Speaker's table Senate bills substantially the same as 
House bills already favorably reported and on the House Calendar (VIII, 
2443). On a motion to go into Committee of the Whole to consider a bill 
the House expresses its wish as to consideration by its vote on this 
motion (V, 4973-4976; VI, 51; VIII, 2442; May 21, 1958, p. 9216), and 
the question of consideration is not available after the House has 
resolved into the Committee of the Whole (May 10, 2007, p. 12191).
  A <> point of order against consideration of a bill should be made 
and decided before the question of consideration is put (V, 4950, 4951; 
VII, 2439), but if the point relates merely to the manner of 
considering, it should be passed on afterwards (V, 4950). In general, 
after the House has decided to consider, a point of order raised with 
the object of preventing consideration, in whole or part, comes too late 
(IV, 4598; V, 4952, 6912-6914), but on a conference report the question 
of consideration may be demanded before points of order are raised 
against the substance of the report (VIII, 2439; Speaker Albert, Sept. 
28, 1976, p. 33019).
  The <> Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 48) 
added a new part B to title IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(2 U.S.C. 658-658g) that imposes several requirements on committees with 
respect to ``Federal mandates'' (secs. 423-424; 2 U.S.C. 658b-c), 
establishes points of order to permit votes on whether to enforce those 
requirements (sec. 425; 2 U.S.C. 658d), and permits a vote on the 
question of consideration of a rule or order waiving such points of 
order in the House (sec. 426(a); 2 U.S.C. 658e(a)). The latter provision 
also prescribes that such points of order be disposed of by the question 
of consideration with respect to the proposition against which they are 
lodged (after 20 minutes of debate) (sec. 426(b); 2 U.S.C. 658e(b)). See 
Sec. 1127, infra.
  Clause 9 of rule XXI establishes a point of order against 
consideration of certain measures for failure to disclose (or disclaim 
the presence of) certain earmarks, tax benefits, and tariff benefits 
(paragraphs (a) and (b)), and permits a vote on the question of 
consideration of a rule or order waiving such points of order (paragraph 
(c)). Certain cognizability thresholds are established for points of 
order under the rule (paragraph (d)). See Sec. 1068d, infra.
  Both points of order may be raised against the same special order of 
business (May 14, 2008, pp. 9050, 9052).
  Former clause 10(c)(3) of rule XXI required the Chair to put the 
question of consideration with regard to measures that included an 
emergency designation for pay-as-you-go principles. See Sec. 1068i, 
infra.

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  The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (tit. I, P.L. 111-139) 
requires the Chair to put the question of consideration with regard to 
measures that include a pay-as-you-go emergency designation:

Sec. 4. Paygo Estimates and Paygo Scorecards.

                                  * * *

  (g) Emergency Legislation.--
          (1) Designation in Statute.--If a provision of direct spending 
        or revenue legislation in a PAYGO Act is enacted as an emergency 
        requirement that the Congress so designates in statute pursuant 
        to this section, the amounts of new budget authority, outlays, 
        and revenue in all fiscal years resulting from that provision 
        shall be treated as an emergency requirement for the purposes of 
        this Act.
          (2) Designation in the House of Representatives.--If a PAYGO 
        Act includes a provision expressly designated as an emergency 
        for the purposes of this title, the Chair shall put the question 
        of consideration with respect thereto.

  The question of consideration applies to an emergency designation 
contained in an amendment between the Houses (in addition to a bill or 
joint resolution) (e.g., May 28, 2010, p. 9882; July 22, 2010, p. 13735) 
but not to a measure considered under suspension of the rules (e.g., 
Feb. 25, 2010, p. 1924; July 30, 2014, p. _). Failure of the Chair to 
put the question of consideration of a measure under this provision may 
be overtaken by subsequent action of the House on the measure (July 1, 
2010, p. 12558). Where a measure contained an emergency designation 
under section 4(g)(1) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and an 
emergency designation for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles under 
former clause 10(c) of rule XXI, the Chair put a single question of 
consideration with respect thereto pending consideration of the measure 
(e.g., May 28, 2010, p. 9882).

Precedence of motions
  4. <> (a) When a 
question is under debate, only the following motions may be entertained 
(which shall have precedence in the following order):
      (1) To adjourn.
      (2) To lay on the table.
      (3) For the previous question.
      (4) To postpone to a day certain.
      (5) To refer.
      (6) To amend.

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      (7) To postpone indefinitely.
  (b) A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, or for the previous 
question shall be decided without debate. A motion to postpone to a day 
certain, to refer, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, may not 
be allowed again on the same day at the same stage of the question.
  (c)(1) It shall be in order at any time for the Speaker, in the 
discretion of the Speaker, to entertain a motion--
      (A) that the Speaker be authorized to declare a recess; or
      (B) that when the House adjourns it stand adjourned to a day and 
time certain.
  (2) Either motion shall be of equal privilege with the motion to 
adjourn and shall be decided without debate.

  The first form of this clause appeared in 1789, but amendments have 
been made at various times (V, 5301; VIII, 2757). Paragraph (c) (former 
final two sentences of the clause) was added in the 93d Congress to 
enable a privileged, nondebatable motion to fix the adjournment (H. Res. 
6, Jan. 3, 1973, pp. 26-27), and amended in the 102d Congress to enable 
a privileged, nondebatable motion for recess authority (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 1991, p. 39). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). When the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, the provision of this clause 
addressing the motion for the previous question was transferred to 
clause 2 of rule XIX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The application of the first sentence of the clause is confined to 
cases wherein a question is ``under debate'' (V, 5379). It has been held 
that a question ceases to be ``under debate'' after the previous 
question has been ordered (V, 5415). For a discussion of the motion for 
the previous question, see Sec. Sec. 994-1000, infra.
  The <> motion to adjourn not 
only has the highest precedence when a question is under debate, but, 
with certain restrictions, it has the highest privilege under all other 
conditions. Even the following yield to it: (1) a question of privilege 
(III, 2521), including a resolution considered to be a ``question of 
high constitutional privilege'' such as one declaring the Office of 
Speaker vacant

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and to direct the House to proceed at once to the election of a new 
Speaker (VIII, 2641); (2) the filing of a privileged report pursuant to 
former clause 4(a) of rule XI (current clause 5 of rule XIII) (Apr. 29, 
1985, p. 9699); (3) a motion to suspend the rules (Aug. 11, 1992, p. 
23086); (4) a motion to reconsider (V, 5605; see also clause 3 of rule 
XIX); (5) in the absence of a quorum, the motion for a call of the House 
(VIII, 2642); (6) a motion to dispense with further proceedings under 
the call (VIII, 2643); (7) a motion directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to 
arrest absentees during a call of the House (June 6, 1973, p. 18403). A 
conference report may defer it only until the report is before the House 
(V, 6451-6453).
  Pursuant to clause 6(b) of rule XIII or clause 1(b) of rule XV, only 
one motion to adjourn is in order pending consideration of a privileged 
report from the Committee on Rules or a motion that the House suspend 
the rules, respectively. The motion may be made: (1) after the yeas and 
nays are ordered and before the roll call has begun (V, 5366); (2) 
before the reading of the Journal (IV, 2757) or the Speaker's approval 
thereof (Speaker Wright, Nov. 2, 1987, p. 30386); (3) pending a motion 
to reconsider (Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512); (4) after the House rejects a 
motion to table a motion to instruct conferees and before the vote 
occurs on the motion to instruct (May 29, 1980, pp. 12717-19); (5) when 
the Speaker is absent and the Clerk is presiding (I, 228). The motion to 
adjourn may not interrupt a Member who has the floor (V, 5369, 5370; 
VIII, 2646; Mar. 25, 1993, p. 6373; Oct. 1, 1997, p. 20902) including, 
for example, by virtue of unanimous-consent permission to announce to 
the House the legislative program (Dec. 14, 1982, p. 30549). It may not: 
(1) interrupt a call of the yeas and nays (V, 6053) or the actual act of 
voting by other means (V, 5360); (2) be made after the House has voted 
to go into Committee of the Whole (IV, 4728; V, 5367, 5368); (3) defer 
the right of a Member to take the oath (I, 622); (4) be repeated in the 
absence of intervening business (Speaker Albert, July 31, 1975, p. 
26243). When no question is under debate it may not displace a motion to 
fix the day to which the House shall adjourn (V, 5381). The motion to 
adjourn is not available when the previous question has been ordered by 
special rule to final passage without intervening motion (IV, 3211-3213, 
June 14, 2001, p. 10725; Apr. 18, 2002, p. 4969). A Member's mere 
revelation that the Member seeks to offer a motion to adjourn does not 
suffice to make that motion ``pending,'' and thus the Chair remains able 
to declare a recess under clause 12(a) of rule I (Oct. 28, 1997, p. 
23524; June 25, 2003, p. 16241; July 13, 2009, p. 17493).
  When the House has fixed the hour of daily meeting, the simple motion 
to adjourn may not be amended (V, 5754), whether by specifying a 
particular day (V, 5360) or hour (V, 5364) (but see Sec. 913, infra, for 
a discussion of the equally privileged motion to fix the day and time to 
which the House shall adjourn); or by stating the purposes of 
adjournment (V, 5371, 5372; VIII, 2647). However, when the hour of daily 
meeting is not fixed, the motion to adjourn may fix it (V, 5362, 5363). 
A motion to adjourn is in order in simple form only (VIII, 2647), is not 
debatable (V, 5359; Feb.

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13, 2002, p. 1291), may not be laid on the table (Aug. 3, 1990, p. 
22195), is not in order in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4716), and is not 
entertained when the Committee of the Whole rises to report proceedings 
incident to securing a quorum (VI, 673; VIII, 2436). After the motion is 
made neither another motion nor an appeal may intervene before the 
taking of the vote (V, 5361). When the House adopts the motion to 
adjourn, it must adjourn immediately; and a unanimous-consent request 
that the House proceed to the calling of special-order speeches is not 
in order (Sept. 27, 1993, p. 22608).
  The <> motion to fix the day and time to which the House shall 
adjourn, in its present form, was included in this clause and given 
privileged status in the 93d Congress (H. Res. 6, Jan. 3, 1973, p. 26). 
At several times during the 19th century, the motion to fix the day to 
which the House should adjourn was included within the rule as to the 
precedence of motions but was dropped because of its use in obstructive 
tactics (V, 5301, 5379). The following precedent relates to the use of 
the motion in its earlier form: No question being under debate, a motion 
to fix the day to which the House should adjourn, already made, was held 
not to give way to a motion to adjourn (V, 5381). But if the motion to 
adjourn be made first, the motion to fix the day or for a recess is not 
entertained (V, 5302). The motion to fix the day is not debatable (V, 
5379, 5380; VIII, 2648, 3367), requires a quorum for adoption (IV, 2954; 
June 19, 1975, p. 19789; June 22, 1976, p. 19755), and is only in order 
if offered on the day on which the adjournment applies (Sept. 23, 1976, 
p. 32104). The House may convene and adjourn twice on the same calendar 
day pursuant to a motion under this clause that when the House adjourn 
it adjourn to a time certain later in the day, thereby meeting for two 
legislative days on the same calendar day (Nov. 17, 1981, p. 27771; Oct. 
29, 1987, p. 29933; June 29, 1995, p. 17716). When the Speaker exercises 
discretion to entertain at any time a motion that when the House adjourn 
it stand adjourned to a day and time certain, the motion is of equal 
privilege with the simple motion to adjourn and takes precedence over a 
pending question on which the vote has been objected to for lack of a 
quorum (Nov. 17, 1981, p. 27770). The motion is not subject to the 
motion to lay on the table because it is not debatable and the 
precedence conferred on the motion to table only applies to a question 
that is ``under debate'' (Nov. 17, 1981, p. 27770).
  Under the express terms of clause 4, the motion to authorize the 
Speaker to declare a recess is nondebatable and has equal privilege with 
the motion to adjourn. The House (without the consent of the Senate) may 
authorize the Speaker to declare a recess for up to three days (Dec. 15, 
1995, p. 37102).

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  The <> motion to lay on 
the table is used in the House for a final, adverse disposition of a 
matter without debate (V, 5389), and is in order before the Member 
entitled to prior recognition for debate has begun remarks (V, 5391-
5395; VIII, 2649, 2650). Under the explicit terms of this clause, the 
motion is not debatable (Oct. 17, 1991, p. 26749). The motion is 
applicable to a motion to reconsider (VIII, 2652, 2659), a motion to 
postpone to a day certain (VIII, 2654, 2657), a resolution presenting a 
question of privilege (VI, 560), a privileged resolution offered at the 
direction of a party caucus electing Members to committees (Feb. 5, 
1997, p. 1541), an appeal from a decision of the Chair (VIII, 3453; June 
22, 2006, p. 12299), a motion to discharge a committee from a resolution 
of inquiry (VI, 415), a proposal to investigate with a view to 
impeachment (VI, 541), a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die (Mar. 
27, 1936, p. 4512), and a resolution to expel a Member (Oct. 1, 1976, p. 
35111). But a question of privilege (affecting the right of a Member to 
a seat) that has been laid on the table may be taken therefrom on motion 
made and agreed to by the House (V, 5438). The motion to lay on the 
table has the precedence given it by the rule, but may not be made after 
the previous question is ordered (V, 5415-5422; VIII, 2655), or even 
after the yeas and nays have been ordered on the demand for the previous 
question (V, 5408, 5409); but pending the demand for the previous 
question on a motion that is under debate, the motion to lay the primary 
motion on the table is preferential and is voted on first (Speaker 
Albert, Sept. 22, 1976, pp. 31876-82; Speaker O'Neill, July 10, 1985, 
pp. 18397-18400). The previous question having been ordered on a bill to 
final passage, the motion to lay the bill on the table may not then be 
offered pending a motion to reconsider the vote whereby the bill had 
been passed or rejected (Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512).
  When a bill is laid on the table, pending motions connected therewith 
go to the table also (V, 5426, 5427); and when a proposed amendment is 
laid on the table the pending bill goes there also (V, 5423; VIII, 
2656), and if a pending amendment to a special order reported from the 
Committee on Rules were tabled, it would carry the resolution with it 
and is thus considered dilatory under former clause 4(b) of rule XI 
(current clause 6(b) of rule XIII) (Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575). This rule 
holds true as to a House bill with Senate amendments (V, 5424, 6201-
6203; Sept. 28, 1978, p. 32334), but laying on the table the motion to 
postpone consideration of Senate amendments was held not to carry to the 
table pending motions for their disposition (VIII, 2657). The Journal 
does not accompany a proposed amendment to the table (V, 5435, 5436); 
the original question does not accompany an appeal (V, 5434); a 
resolution does not accompany a preamble or another resolution with 
which it is connected (V, 5428, 5430); a petition does not accompany the 
motion to receive it when the latter is laid on the table (V, 5431-
5433); and a bill does not accompany a motion to instruct conferees that 
is laid on the table (VIII, 2658).

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  A motion to lay on the table a motion to reconsider the vote by which 
an amendment to a resolution had been agreed to would not carry the 
resolution to the table (VIII, 2652).
  The motion is not in order in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4719, 4720; 
VIII, 2330, 2556a, 3455; Mar. 16, 1995, p. 8112; July 21, 1999, p. 
17054) and does not apply to motions to resolve into the Committee of 
the Whole (VI, 726). It may not be amended (V, 5754), for example, to 
operate for a specified time (Oct. 17, 1991, p. 26749).
  The motion to lay on the table generally is not applicable to motions 
that are neither debatable nor amendable. As such, it is not applicable 
to the following motions: (1) to adjourn (Aug. 3, 1990, p. 22195); (2) 
that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned to a day and time certain 
(Nov. 17, 1981, p. 27770); (3) to dispense with further proceedings 
under a call of the House (Speaker McCormack, Aug. 27, 1962, pp. 17651-
54); (4) to order the previous question (V, 5410, 5411; Oct. 4, 1994, p. 
27649). Furthermore, the motion may not be applied to: (1) a motion to 
suspend the rules (V, 5405); (2) a motion to commit after the previous 
question is ordered (V, 5412-5414; VIII, 2653, 2655); (3) any motion 
relating to the order of business (V, 5403, 5404). It may not be applied 
to a motion to discharge a committee under former clause 3 of rule XXVII 
(current clause 2 of rule XV) (June 11, 1945, p. 5892) but may be 
applied to the motion to discharge a committee from consideration of a 
resolution of inquiry (V, 5407).
  The motion to lay on the table is applicable to debatable secondary or 
privileged motions for disposal of another matter; thus a motion to 
refer (V, 5433; Aug. 13, 1982, pp. 20969, 20975-78) or a motion to 
recede and concur in a Senate amendment in disagreement may be laid on 
the table (Speaker O'Neill, Feb. 22, 1978, p. 4072) without carrying the 
pending matter to the table. The motion is not applicable to a 
conference report (V, 6540).
   <> The 
precedents relating to the motion for the previous question are 
annotated in Sec. Sec. 994-1000.
  As <> indicated in the rule, 
the motions to postpone are two in number and distinct. The first one is 
to postpone to a day certain, and the second one is to postpone 
indefinitely. Each must apply to the whole and not a part of the pending 
proposition (V, 5306). Neither may be entertained after the previous 
question is ordered (V, 5319-5321; VIII, 2616, 2617), or be applied to a 
special order providing for the consideration of a class of bills (V, 
4958); but when a bill comes before the House under the terms of a 
special order that assigns a day merely, a motion to postpone may be 
applied to the bill (IV, 3177-3182). Business postponed to a day certain 
is in order on that day immediately after the approval of the Journal 
and disposition of business on the Speaker's table, unless displaced by 
more highly privileged business (VIII, 2614). If consideration of a 
measure postponed to

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a day certain resumes as unfinished business in the House, recognition 
for debate does not begin anew but recommences from the point where it 
was interrupted (June 10, 1980, p. 13801). It is not in order to move to 
postpone pending business to Calendar Wednesday (VIII, 2614), but if so 
postponed by consent, when consideration is concluded on that Wednesday, 
proceedings under the Calendar Wednesday rule are in order (VII, 970). 
The motion is not available in Committee of the Whole (July 14, 1998, p. 
15305), but a motion that a bill be reported with the recommendation 
that it be postponed is in order in Committee of the Whole proceeding 
under the general rules of the House (IV, 4765; VIII, 2372), is 
debatable (VIII, 2372), and is a preferential motion (VIII, 2372, 2615), 
but debate is confined to the advisability of postponement only (VIII, 
2372). The House has postponed, along with the underlying matter, an 
appeal from a decision of the Chair thereon (VIII, 2613). A bill under 
consideration in the morning hour may not be made a special order by a 
motion to postpone to a day certain (IV, 3164).
  The motion to postpone to a day certain may not specify the hour (V, 
5307). The motion may be amended (V, 5754; VIII, 2824). It is debatable 
only within narrow limits (V, 5309, 5310), the merits of the bill to 
which it is applied not being within those limits (V, 5311-5315; VIII, 
2372, 2616, 2640).
  The motion to postpone indefinitely opens to debate all the merits of 
the proposition to which it is applied (V, 5316). It may not be applied 
to the motion to refer (V, 5317), the motion to suspend the rules (V, 
5322), or the motion to resolve into the Committee of the Whole (VI, 
726), and it is reasonable to infer that it is equally inapplicable to 
the other motions enumerated in the rule and to motions relating to the 
order of business. However, the motion to postpone indefinitely may be 
applied to the motion that the House resolve itself into the Committee 
of the Whole pursuant to the provisions of a statute, enacted under the 
rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, that specifically 
allows such a motion in the consideration of a resolution disapproving a 
certain executive action (Mar. 10, 1977, p. 7021; Aug. 3, 1977, p. 
26528).
  The <> parliamentary motion to 
refer is explicitly recognized and given status in four different 
situations under House rules: the ordinary motion provided for in this 
clause; the motion to recommit (or commit, as the case may be), with or 
without instructions, pending the motion for or after ordering of the 
previous question as provided in clause 2(a) of rule XIX (V, 5569); the 
motion to recommit (or commit, as the case may be), with or without 
instructions, after the previous question has been ordered on a bill or 
joint resolution to final passage, provided in clause 2(b) of rule XIX; 
and the motion to refer, with or without instructions, pending a vote in 
the House to strike the enacting clause as provided in clause 9 of rule 
XVIII. The terms ``refer,'' ``commit,'' and ``recommit'' are sometimes 
used interchangeably (V, 5521; VIII, 2736), but when used in the precise 
manner and situation con

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templated in each rule reflect certain differences based upon whether 
the question to which applied is ``under debate,'' whether the motion 
itself is debatable, whether a minority Member or a Member opposed to 
the question to which the motion is applied is entitled to a priority of 
recognition, and whether the prohibition against a special order 
reported from the Committee on Rules denying a motion to recommit a bill 
or joint resolution pending final passage is applicable. For a 
discussion of the motion to recommit, see the annotations under clause 2 
of rule XIX. The motion may not be used in direct form in Committee of 
the Whole (IV, 4721; VIII, 2326); and if a bill is being considered 
under the provisions of a resolution stating that ``at the conclusion of 
the consideration of the bill for amendment under the five-minute rule 
the Committee shall rise and report the bill back to the House with such 
amendments as may have been adopted,'' a motion that the Committee rise 
and report to the House with the recommendation that the bill be 
recommitted to the legislative committee reporting it is not in order 
(Aug. 10, 1950, p. 12219). It may be made after the engrossment and 
third reading of a bill, even though the previous question may not have 
been ordered (V, 5562, 5563).
  If the previous question is rejected on a preferential motion to 
dispose of Senate amendments in disagreement, the preferential motion 
remains ``under debate'' and the motion to refer may be offered under 
this clause (Speaker Albert, Sept. 16, 1976, p. 30887). Where a motion 
for the previous question on a resolution has preempted a pending motion 
to refer such resolution, the motion to refer remains pending and 
debatable under the hour rule upon rejection of the motion for the 
previous question (Apr. 22, 2010, p. 6084). A motion to refer takes 
precedence over a motion to amend when a question is under debate (such 
as where the previous question has been rejected), and the Chair 
recognizes the Member seeking to offer the preferential motion before 
the less preferential motion is read (Aug. 13, 1982, pp. 20969, 20975-
78).
  The simple motion to refer under the first sentence of this clause is 
debatable within narrow limits (V, 5054) and may be offered by any 
Member (who need not qualify as being in opposition to the pending 
question) when that question is ``under debate,'' i.e., when the 
previous question has not been moved or ordered, but the merits of the 
proposition sought to be referred may not be brought into the debate (V, 
5564-5568; VI, 65, 549; VIII, 2740). The motion to refer with 
instructions is also debatable (V, 5561); but the previous question is 
preferential (Mar. 22, 1990, p. 4997).
  The <> motion 
to refer may specify that the reference shall be to a select as well as 
a standing committee (IV, 4401) without regard for rules of jurisdiction 
(IV, 4375; V, 5527) and may provide for reference to another committee 
than that reporting the bill (VIII, 2696, 2736), or to the Committee of 
the Whole (V, 5552, 5553), and even that the committee be endowed with 
power to send for persons and papers (IV, 4402). Unless the previous 
question is ordered the motion may be amended (VIII, 2712, 2738)

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in part (V, 5754); by substitute (VIII, 2698, 2738, 2759); or by adding 
instructions (V, 5521, 5570, 5582-5584; VIII, 2695, 2762; Aug. 13, 1982, 
pp. 20969, 20975-78).
  The <> rule specifies that the 
motions to postpone and refer shall not be repeated on the same day at 
the same stage of the question (V, 5301, 5591; VIII, 2738, 2760). As a 
matter of practice, a motion to adjourn may be repeated only after 
intervening business (V, 5373; VIII, 2814), debate (V, 5374), the 
ordering of the yeas and nays (V, 5376, 5377), decision of the Chair on 
a question of order (V, 5378), or reception of a message (V, 5375). The 
motion to lay on the table may also be repeated after intervening 
business (V, 5398-5400); but the ordering of the previous question (V, 
5709), a call of the House (V, 5401), or decision of a question of order 
have been held not to be such intervening business, it being essential 
that the pending matter be carried to a new stage in order to permit a 
repetition of the motion (V, 5709).

Divisibility
  5. <> (a) Except as provided in 
paragraph (b), a question shall be divided on the demand of a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner before the question is put if it 
includes propositions so distinct in substance that, one being taken 
away, a substantive proposition remains.
  (b)(1) A motion or resolution to elect members to a standing committee 
of the House, or to a joint standing committee, is not divisible.
  (2) A resolution or order reported by the Committee on Rules providing 
a special order of business is not divisible.
  (c) <> A 
motion to strike and insert is not divisible, but rejection of a motion 
to strike does not preclude another motion to amend.

  Paragraphs (a) and (b) (former clause 6) were first adopted in 1789, 
and were amended in 1837 (V, 6107). Paragraph (b)(1) (first part of the 
former proviso) was adopted April 2, 1917 (VIII, 2175), and paragraph 
(b)(2) (last part of the former proviso) was adopted May 3, 1933 (VIII,

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3164). Paragraph (c) (first part of former clause 7) was adopted in 
1811, and amended in 1822 (V, 5767). When the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, former clause 5 of this rule (requiring time of 
adjournment to be entered on the Journal) was transferred to clause 
2(c)(2) of rule II, paragraphs (a) and (b) were found in former clause 
6, and paragraph (c) was found in the first part of former clause 7 (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The House may by adoption of a resolution reported from the Committee 
on Rules suspend the rule providing for the division of a question (VII, 
775).
  The <> principle that there must be at least two substantive 
propositions in order to justify division is insisted on rigidly (V, 
6108-6113), because failure to do so produces difficulties (III, 1725). 
The question may not be divided after it has been put (V, 6162), or 
after the yeas and nays have been ordered (V, 6160, 6161); but division 
of the question may be demanded after the previous question is ordered 
(V, 5468, 6149; VIII, 3173). In passing on a demand for division the 
Chair considers only substantive propositions and not the merits of the 
question presented (V, 6122). It seems to be most proper, also, that the 
division should depend on grammatical structure rather than on the 
legislative propositions involved (I, 394; V, 6119), but a question 
presenting two propositions grammatically is not divisible if either 
does not constitute a substantive proposition when considered alone 
(VII, 3165). Thus a resolution censuring a Member and adopting a report 
of a committee thereon, which recommends censure on the basis of the 
committee's findings, is not divisible because those questions are 
substantially equivalent (Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 13, 1978, p. 37016); and 
an adjournment resolution that also authorizes the receipt of veto 
messages from the President during the adjournment is not subject to a 
division of the question, because the receipt authority would be 
nonsensical standing alone (June 30, 1976, p. 21702). However, a 
concurrent resolution on the budget is subject to a demand for a 
division of the question if, for example, the resolution grammatically 
and substantively relates to different fiscal years (May 7, 1980, pp. 
10185-87), or includes a separate, hortatory section having its own 
grammatical and substantive meaning (Speaker Foley, Mar. 5, 1992, p. 
4657).
  Decisions have been made that a resolution affecting two individuals 
may be divided, although such division may involve a reconstruction of 
the text (I, 623; V, 6119-6121). The better practice seems to be, 
however, that this reconstruction of the text should be made by the 
adoption of a substitute amendment of two branches, rather than by 
interpretation of the Chair (II, 1621). But merely formal words, such as 
``resolved,'' may be supplied by interpretation of the Chair (V, 6114-
6118). A resolution with two resolving clauses separately certifying the 
contemptuous conduct of two individuals is divisible (Feb. 27, 1986, p. 
3040); as is a resolution with one resolving clause certifying 
contemptuous conduct of several indi

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viduals (Oct. 27, 2000, p. 25200; contrast, Deschler-Brown, ch. 30, 
Sec. 49.1). A measure containing a series of simple resolutions (V, 
6149), and a resolution confirming several nominations (Speaker Albert, 
Mar. 19, 1975, p. 7344) may be divided. A resolution of impeachment 
presenting discrete articles may be divided (VI, 545; Dec. 18, 1998, p. 
11064; June 19, 2009, pp. 15754, 15759-61; Mar. 11, 2010, p. 3153).
  Except on resolutions to elect Members to committees or on resolutions 
reported from the Committee on Rules providing a special order of 
business, where division of the question is prohibited by this clause, a 
resolution reported from the Committee on Rules may be divided if 
otherwise appropriate. Thus a resolution reported from that committee 
establishing several select committees in grammatically divisible 
titles, not being a special order of business, is subject to a demand 
for a division of the question (Jan. 8, 1987, p. 1036). However, it is 
not in order to demand a division of a subject incorporated by reference 
in the pending text, as when a resolution to adopt a series of rules, 
not made a part of the resolution, was before the House, it was held not 
in order to demand a separate vote on each rule (V, 6159).
  The question on engrossment and third reading under former clause 1 of 
rule XXI (current clause 8(c) of rule XVI) is not divisible (Speaker 
Foley, Aug. 3, 1989, p. 18544); and in voting on the engrossment or 
passage of a bill or joint resolution, a separate vote may not be 
demanded on the various portions (V, 6144-6146; VIII, 3172), or on the 
preamble (V, 6147).
  Where an amendment is offered to an appropriation bill providing that 
no part of the appropriation may be paid to named individuals, the 
amendment may be divided for a separate vote on each name (Feb. 5, 1943, 
p. 645). An amendment (to a joint resolution making continuing 
appropriations) containing separate paragraphs appropriating funds for 
different programs may be substantively and grammatically divisible 
although preceded by the same prefatory language applicable to all the 
paragraphs, and the Clerk will read each paragraph as including the 
prefatory language before the Chair puts the question thereon (Nov. 8, 
1983, p. 31495). A division may be demanded on an amendment to strike 
various unrelated phrases (VIII, 3166; Mar. 28, 1984, p. 6898). An 
amendment proposing to change a figure in one paragraph of an 
appropriation bill and also to insert a new (``fetch-back'') paragraph 
at another point in the bill is divisible (July 15, 1993, p. 15843). 
Absent a contrary order, the question may be divided on amendments en 
bloc comprising discrete instructions to amend, even though unanimous 
consent has just been granted for the en bloc consideration (July 25, 
1990, p. 19174; July 18, 1991, p. 18851).
  A division of the question may not be demanded on a motion to strike 
and insert (V, 5767, 6123; VIII, 3169), including substitutes for 
pending amendments (V, 6127; VIII, 3168; Aug. 17, 1972, pp. 28887-90; 
July 2, 1980, pp. 18288-92), although an amendment comprising two 
discrete instructions to strike and insert may be divided (June 4, 1998, 
p. 5418) and a perfecting amendment to an amendment may be divided if 
not in the

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form of a motion to strike and insert (V, 6131). When it is proposed to 
strike and insert not one but several connected matters, it is not in 
order to demand a separate vote on each of those matters (V, 6124, 
6125), as when an amendment in the nature of a substitute containing 
several resolutions is proposed; but after this amendment has been 
agreed to, it is in order to demand a division of the original 
resolution as amended (V, 6127, 6128). When, however, an amendment 
simply adding or inserting is proposed, it is in order to divide the 
amendment (V, 6129-6133). To a motion to strike certain words and insert 
others, a simple motion to strike the words may not be offered as a 
substitute, because it would have the effect of dividing the motion to 
strike and insert (June 29, 1939, pp. 8282, 8284; June 19, 1979, pp. 
15566-68).
  A division may be demanded on the motion to recede from disagreement 
to a Senate amendment and concur therein (see Sec. 525, supra; V, 6209; 
VIII, 3197-3199, 3203), but may not be demanded on Senate amendments 
when sending to conference (V, 6151-6156; VIII, 3175). A division of the 
question may not be demanded, with respect to a motion to concur in a 
Senate amendment with an amendment, between concurring and amending 
(VIII, 3176), and may not be demanded on separate parts of the proposed 
amendment if it is not properly divisible under the same tests that 
apply to any other amendment (Aug. 3, 1973, pp. 28124-26; Oct. 11, 1984, 
p. 32188). Thus a proposed amendment to a Senate amendment is not 
divisible if in the form of a motion to strike and insert (Oct. 15, 
1986, p. 32135). Each Senate amendment must be voted on as a whole 
(VIII, 3175) but the Committee of the Whole having reported a Senate 
amendment with the recommendation that it be agreed to with an 
amendment, a separate vote was had on the amendment to the Senate 
amendment (VIII, 2420). When Senate amendments to a House bill are 
considered in the House, a separate vote may be had on each amendment 
(VIII, 2383, 2400, 3191), and separate votes may be had on nongermane 
portions of Senate amendments as provided in clause 10 of rule XXII.
  It is not in order to divide a motion to lay several connected 
propositions on the table (V, 6138-6140). Similarly, it is not in order 
to divide a motion for the previous question on two related 
propositions, as on a special order reported from the Committee on Rules 
and a pending amendment thereto (Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575). An appeal 
from a decision of the Speaker involving two distinct questions may be 
divided (V, 6157).
  On a motion to commit with instructions it is not in order to demand a 
separate vote on the instructions or various branches thereof (V, 6134-
6137; VIII, 2737, 3170; Speaker Rayburn, Apr. 11, 1956, p. 6157; June 
29, 1993, p. 14618). However, an amendment reported forthwith pursuant 
to instructions contained in a successful motion to recommit may be 
divided on the question of its adoption if composed of substantively and 
grammatically distinct propositions (June 29, 1993, p. 14618; May 28, 
2010, p. 9946). A motion to recommit a bill to conference with various 
instructions may not be divided (Sept. 29, 1994, p. 27681). However, a 
motion to instruct

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conferees under clause 7(c) of rule XXII (when multiple motions are in 
order) may be divided (Speaker Byrns, May 26, 1936, p. 7951; Sept. 20, 
2000, p. 18622), provided that separate substantive propositions are 
presented (Speaker Rayburn, May 9, 1946, p. 4750). A conference report 
is considered as a whole (Oct. 8, 2009, p. 24376).
  A division of the question may not be demanded on bills or joint 
resolutions for reference (IV, 4376) or change of reference (VII, 2125), 
a motion to elect Members to committees of the House (VIII, 2175, 3164), 
a question against which a point of order is pending (VIII, 3432), or a 
proposition under a motion to suspend the rules (V, 6141-6143; VIII, 
3171). A proposition reported from the Committee of the Whole as an 
entire and distinct amendment may not be divided (IV, 4883-4892). A 
separate vote may not be demanded in the House on an amendment adopted 
in the Committee of the Whole to an amendment (VIII, 2422, 2426, 2427).
  After the vote on the first portion of the question, the second is 
open to debate and amendment, unless the previous question is ordered 
(see Sec. 482, supra). If a motion to concur in a Senate amendment is 
divided pursuant to a special rule, the Chair puts the question first on 
the first portion of the Senate amendment, and then on the remaining 
portion (Mar. 4, 1993, p. 4163). If a division of the question is 
demanded on a portion of an amendment, the Chair puts the question first 
on the remaining portions of the amendment, and that portion on which 
the division is demanded remains open for further debate and amendment 
(Oct. 21, 1981, pp. 24785-89). However, if no further debate or 
amendment is in order on the divided portion, the Chair may put the 
question first on the divided portion(s) and then immediately on the 
remaining portion (Aug. 17, 1972, Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 22.14; June 8, 
1995, p. 15302). If a division of the question is demanded on more than 
one portion of an amendment, the Chair may put the question first on the 
remaining portions of the amendment (if any), then (after further 
debate) on the first part on which a division is demanded, and then 
(after further debate) on the last part on which a division is demanded 
(Oct. 21, 1981, pp. 24785-89). If the question on adopting an amendment 
is divided by special rule (rather than on demand from the floor), the 
Chair puts the question on each divided portion of the amendment in the 
order in which it appears (May 23, 1996, p. 12316).
  A demand for a division of the question on a separate portion of an 
amendment may be withdrawn before the question is put on the first 
portion thereof (July 15, 1993, p. 15843), but once the Chair has put 
the question on the first portion of the amendment, a demand for a 
division may be withdrawn only by unanimous consent (Sept. 9, 1976, pp. 
29538-40).

Amendments
  6. <> When an amendable 
proposition is under consideration, a motion to amend and a motion to 
amend that amend

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ment shall be in order, and it also shall be in order to offer a further 
amendment by way of substitute for the original motion to amend, to 
which one amendment may be offered but which may not be voted on until 
the original amendment is perfected. An amendment may be withdrawn in 
the House at any time before a decision or amendment thereon. An 
amendment to the title of a bill or resolution shall not be in order 
until after its passage or adoption and shall be decided without debate.

  This provision (formerly rule XIX) was adopted in 1880, with an 
amendment adding the portion in relation to the title in 1893. The rule 
of 1880, however, merely stated in form of rule what had been the 
practice of the House for many years (V, 5753). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former rule XIX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). For further discussion 
see Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. Sec. 15-19.
  It <> is not in 
order to offer more than one motion to amend of the same nature at a 
time (V, 5755; VIII, 2831), but the four motions specified by the rule 
may be pending at the same time (V, 5793; VIII, 2883, 2887). Where, 
pursuant to a special rule, a committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute is being read as original text for purpose of amendment, 
there may be pending to that text the four stages of amendment permitted 
by this rule (Apr. 23, 1969, p. 10066). When a request for a recorded 
vote in the Committee of the Whole is postponed under authority of a 
special order of the House (such authority now found in clause 6(g) of 
rule XVIII), the amendment becomes unfinished business and is no longer 
pending, thereby permitting the offering of another amendment (May 10, 
2000, p. 7513). An amendment in the third degree is not specified by the 
rule and is not permissible (V, 5754; VIII, 2580, 2888, 2891), even when 
the third degree is in the nature of a substitute for an amendment to a 
substitute (V, 5791; VIII, 2889).
  An amendment must contain instructions to the Clerk as to the portion 
of the bill it seeks to amend and is subject to a point of order if not 
in proper form (Oct. 3, 1985, p. 25970). An amendment may not propose to 
change portions of a measure not yet read for amendment (Mar. 24, 1999, 
p. 5418). Under a ``modified-closed'' rule permitting only amendments 
printed in the report accompanying the rule, the Chair will permit an 
amendment to be offered in the form actually submitted for printing 
rather than requiring that it be offered in the erroneous form printed 
(Mar. 10, 1994, p. 4405). The Chair does not entertain a unanimous-
consent request

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to add a co-offeror of an amendment (May 20, 2004, p. 10631; Sept. 14, 
2004, p. 18429; Apr. 29, 2015, p. _) or to change the offeror of a 
pending amendment (Apr. 29, 2015, p. _).
  A Member may not amend or modify his or her own amendment except by 
unanimous consent (Oct. 1, 1985, p. 25453); and if the Chair recognizes 
the proponent of an amendment to propound such a unanimous-consent 
request before commencing debate, the Chair does not charge time 
consumed under a reservation of objection against the proponent's time 
for debate on the amendment (Feb. 3, 1993, p. 1978; May 27, 1993, p. 
11849). Under the five-minute rule, the proponent of an amendment may 
not yield to another to offer an amendment to the amendment; rather an 
amendment to the amendment may be offered after the proponent of the 
pending amendment has explained it (Sept. 7, 1995, p. 24071).
  Two independent amendments may be voted on at once only by unanimous 
consent of the House (V, 5979). Amendments en bloc, once pending, are 
open to perfecting amendment at any point (June 12, 1991, p. 14337). If 
a point of order is sustained against a discrete portion of an en bloc 
amendment, the entire en bloc amendment may not be considered; however, 
each constituent amendment may be offered separately if otherwise in 
order (Sept. 16, 1981, pp. 20735-38). An amendment considered with 
others en bloc and rejected may be offered separately at a subsequent 
time (Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 35.15; Nov. 4, 1991, p. 29932).
  The substitute provided for in this rule has been construed as a 
substitute for the amendment and not as a substitute for the original 
text (VIII, 2883). A substitute amendment may be amended by striking all 
after its first word and inserting a new text (V, 5793, 5794). Although 
this is in effect a substitute, it is not technically so. A substitute 
always proposes to replace all the words of a pending amendment. The 
amendatory instructions contained in a substitute direct changes to be 
made in the original language rather than to the pending amendment. 
Although a substitute may change parts of a bill not changed by the 
pending amendment, the substitute must be germane to the pending 
amendment (VIII, 2879, 2880; Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 18.6). A substitute 
may result in similar language to the original text proposed to be 
changed by the pending amendment, but may not result in identical 
language (Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 18.15). To an amendment adding a new 
section, an amendment making perfecting changes in the bill rather than 
in the amendment is not a proper perfecting amendment, but may, if 
germane, be offered as a substitute for the amendment (Deschler, ch. 27, 
Sec. 18.7). The Chair will not look behind the form of the amendment in 
determining whether it is perfecting or a substitute (June 13, 1994, p. 
12731). Once a perfecting amendment to an amendment is disposed of, the 
original amendment, as amended or not, remains open to further 
perfecting amendment (June 20, 1991, p. 15610); and all such amendments 
are disposed of before voting on substitutes for the original amendment 
and amendments thereto (July 26, 1984, p. 21253).

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  An amendment offered as a substitute and rejected may again be offered 
as an original amendment without presenting an equivalent question. In 
the first case the question is the relationship between the substitute 
and the amendment to which offered, and in the second case the question 
is the relationship between the original amendment and the text of the 
bill (V, 5797; VIII, 2843). An amendment that is adopted as amended by a 
substitute may not be reoffered in its original form if it would 
directly change the amended portion of the bill. However, it may be 
reoffered if the original amendment amends a different part of the bill 
(as in the case in which the amendatory instructions of the substitute 
displace the language of the original amendment). In such a case the 
vote on the amendment as amended by the substitute is not equivalent to 
a direct vote on the original amendment (June 25, 1987, p. 17416). An 
amendment considered with others en bloc and rejected may be offered 
separately at a subsequent time (Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 35.15; Nov. 4, 
1991, p. 29932).
  An amendment in the nature of a substitute always proposes to strike 
all after the enacting or resolving words in order to insert a new text 
(V, 5785, footnote). An amendment in the nature of a substitute may be 
proposed before amendments to the pending portion of original text have 
been acted on, but may not be voted on until such amendments have been 
disposed of (V, 5787). When a bill is considered by sections or 
paragraphs an amendment in the nature of a substitute is properly 
offered after the reading for amendment is concluded (V, 5788). However, 
when it is proposed to offer a single substitute for several paragraphs 
of a bill that is being considered by paragraph, the substitute may be 
moved to the first paragraph, with notice that, if agreed to, motions 
will be made to strike the remaining paragraphs (V, 5795; VIII, 2898, 
2900-2903; July 29, 1969, p. 21218). An amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, as well as the original proposition, may be perfected by 
amendments before the vote on it is taken (V, 5786). If there is pending 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, it is in order to offer a 
perfecting amendment to the pending portion of original text (VIII, 
2861; Apr. 27, 1976, p. 11411; see also Deschler, ch. 27, Sec. 5.34). An 
amendment in the nature of a substitute having been agreed to, the vote 
is then taken on the original proposition as amended (II, 983; V, 5799, 
5800), and no further amendment is in order (Speaker O'Neill, Mar. 26, 
1985, p. 6274). If a perfecting amendment to an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute, striking all after the short title and inserting a new 
text, is agreed to, further amendments to the text so perfected are not 
in order, but amendments are in order to add new language at the end of 
the amendment in the nature of a substitute as amended (May 16, 1979, p. 
11420).
  Except <> as provided in clauses 4 and 5(a) of rule XXI, a point of order 
against an amendment is timely if made or reserved before formal 
recognition of the proponent to commence debate thereon (July 16, 1991, 
p. 18391; July 15, 1997, pp. 14492, 14493), but thereafter comes too 
late (V,

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6894, 6898-6899) unless the Member was on his or her feet seeking 
recognition for that purpose at the time the amendment was offered (July 
28, 1995, p. 20897; May 25, 2006, p. 9823). To preclude a point of 
order, debate should be on the merits of the proposition (V, 6901). The 
mere making of a unanimous-consent request to dispense with the reading 
of an amendment and to revise and extend remarks thereon is not such 
intervening business as would render a point of order untimely under 
this clause, if the Member making the point of order is on his or her 
feet seeking recognition (July 16, 1991, p. 18391; see Deschler-Brown, 
ch. 31, Sec. Sec. 6.39, 6.41). When enough of an amendment has been read 
to show that it is out of order, a point of order may be raised without 
waiting for the reading to be completed (V, 6886-6887; VIII, 2912, 3437; 
July 9, 2009, p. 17310), though the Chair may decline to rule until the 
entire proposition has been read (Dec. 14, 1973, pp. 41716-18). A timely 
reservation of a point of order by one Member inures to the benefit of 
any other Member who desires to raise a point of order (V, 6906; July 
18, 1990, p. 17930).
  Although <> the 
rule provides that either an ordinary or substitute amendment may be 
withdrawn in the House (V, 5753) or ``in the House as in Committee of 
the Whole'' (IV, 4935; June 26, 1973, p. 21315), it may not be withdrawn 
or modified in Committee of the Whole except by unanimous consent 
(clause 5 of rule XVIII; V, 5221; VIII, 2564, 2859) unless withdrawal 
authority has been conferred by the House (July 22, 1999, p. 17291; Apr. 
3, 2003, pp. 8490, 8491; Nov. 7, 2007, p. 30353).
  Pursuant <> to 
clause 4 of rule XVI, the motion for the previous question takes 
precedence over a motion to amend (Nov. 8, 1971, p. 39944); and if the 
previous question is not ordered, the motion to refer also has 
precedence over the motion to amend (V, 5555; VI, 373). Amendments 
reported by a committee are acted on before those offered from the floor 
(V, 5773; VIII, 2862, 2863), but a floor amendment to the text of a 
pending section is considered before a committee amendment adding a new 
section at the end of the pending section (Oct. 4, 1972, pp. 33779-82), 
and there is a question as to the extent to which the chair of the 
committee reporting a bill should be recognized preferentially to offer 
amendments to perfect it over other Members (II, 1450). Amendments may 
not be offered by proxy (VIII, 2830). The motion to strike the enacting 
clause has precedence over the motion to amend, and may be offered while 
an amendment is pending (V, 5328-5331; VIII, 2622-2624); but the motion 
to amend takes precedence over a motion that the Committee of the Whole 
rise and report the bill with the recommendation that it pass (July 27, 
1937, p. 7699).
  With <> some exceptions an amendment may attach itself to secondary 
or privileged motions (V, 5754). Thus, the motions to postpone, refer, 
amend, for a recess, and to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn 
may be amended (V, 5754; VIII, 2824). But the motions for the previous

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question, to lay on the table, to adjourn (V, 5754) and to go into 
Committee of the Whole to consider a privileged bill may not be amended 
(IV, 3078, 3079; VI, 723-725).
  An amendment to the title of a bill is not in order in Committee of 
the Whole (Jan. 29, 1986, p. 682).

Germaneness
  7. <> No motion or proposition on a 
subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under 
color of amendment.

  This clause was adopted in 1789, and amended in 1822 (V, 5767, 5825). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this clause 
and clause 5(c) occupied a single former clause 7 (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  It introduced a principle not then known to the general parliamentary 
law (V, 5825), but of high value in the procedure of the House (V, 
5866). Before the adoption of rules, when the House is operating under 
general parliamentary law, as modified by the usage and practice of the 
House, an amendment may be subject to the point of order that it is not 
germane to the proposition to which offered (Jan. 3, 1969, p. 23). The 
principle of the rule applies to a proposition by which it is proposed 
to modify the pending bill, and not to a portion of the bill itself (V, 
6929); thus a point of order will not lie that an appropriation in a 
general appropriation bill is not germane to the rest of the bill (Dec. 
16, 1963, p. 24753). In general, an amendment simply striking words 
already in a bill may not be ruled out as not germane (V, 5805; VIII, 
2918) unless such action would expand the scope and meaning of the text 
(VIII, 2917-2921; Mar. 23, 1960, p. 6381); and a pro forma amendment 
``to strike the last word'' has been considered germane (July 28, 1965, 
p. 18639). Although a committee may report a bill or resolution 
embracing different subjects, it is not in order during consideration in 
the House to introduce a new subject by way of amendment (V, 5825). The 
rule that amendments should be germane applies to amendments reported by 
committees (V, 5806), but a resolution providing for consideration of 
the bill with committee amendments may waive points of order (Oct. 10, 
1967, p. 28406), and the point of order under this rule does not apply 
to a special order reported from the Committee on Rules ``self-
executing'' the adoption in the House of a nongermane amendment to a 
bill, because the amendment is not separately before the House during 
consideration of the special order (Feb. 24, 1993, p. 3542; July 27, 
1993, p. 17117). A resolution reported from the Committee on Rules 
providing for the consideration of a bill relating to a certain subject 
may be amended neither by an amendment that would substitute the 
consideration of a different proposition (V, 5834-5836; VIII, 2956; 
Sept. 14,

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1950, p. 14844) nor by an amendment that would permit the additional 
consideration of a nongermane amendment to the bill (May 29, 1980, pp. 
12667-73; Aug. 13, 1982, p. 20972). The Chair will not interpret as a 
point of order under a specific rule of the House an objection to a 
substitute as narrowing the scope of a pending amendment, absent some 
stated or necessarily implied reference to germaneness or other rule 
(June 25, 1987, p. 17415). The burden of proof is on the proponent of an 
amendment to establish its germaneness (VIII, 2995; July 10, 2000, p. 
13605), and if an amendment is equally susceptible to more than one 
interpretation, one of which will render it not germane, the Chair will 
rule it out of order (June 20, 1975, p. 19967). The Chair will not 
render an advisory opinion on whether a pending amendment is germane, 
there being no occasion for a ruling (Apr. 6, 2011, p. 5321).
  Under <> the later practice an amendment should be germane to the 
particular paragraph or section to which it is offered (V, 5811-5820; 
VIII, 2922, 2936; Oct. 14, 1971, pp. 36194, 36211; Sept. 19, 1986, p. 
24729), without reference to subject matter of other titles not yet read 
(July 31, 1990, p. 20816), and an amendment inserting an additional 
section should be germane to the portion of the bill to which it is 
offered (V, 5822; VIII, 2927, 2931; July 14, 1970, pp. 24033-35), though 
it may be germane to more than one portion of a bill (Mar. 27, 1974, p. 
8508), and when offered as a separate paragraph is not required to be 
germane to the paragraph immediately preceding or following it (VII, 
1162; VIII, 2932-2935).
  The test of germaneness in the case of a motion to recommit with 
instructions is the relationship of the instructions to the bill taken 
as a whole (and not merely to the separate portion of the bill 
specifically proposed to be amended in the instructions) (Mar. 28, 1996, 
p. 6932). A special order of business directing that certain matter be 
added to the engrossment of a bill does not operate until passage of 
that bill (Mar. 5, 2008, p. 3296).
  Subject to clause 2(c) of rule XXI (requiring that limitation 
amendments to general appropriation bills be offered at the end of the 
reading of the bill for amendment), an amendment limiting the use of 
funds by a particular agency funded in a general appropriation bill may 
be germane to the paragraph carrying the funds, or to any general 
provisions portion of the bill affecting that agency or all agencies 
funded by the bill (July 16, 1979, p. 18807). However, to a paragraph 
containing funds for an agency but not transferring funds to that 
account from other paragraphs in the bill, an amendment increasing that 
amount by transfer from an account in another paragraph is not germane, 
because affecting budget authority for a different agency not the 
subject of the pending paragraph (July 17, 1985, p. 19436). Similarly, 
an amendment to a general appropriation bill in the form of a limitation 
on funds therein but extending to activities prescribed by laws 
unrelated to the functions of departments and agencies addressed by the 
bill is not germane (July 10, 2000, p. 13605).

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  In passing on the germaneness of an amendment, the Chair considers the 
relationship between the amendment and the bill as modified by the 
Committee of the Whole (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11545; July 8, 1987, p. 
19013).
  An amendment adding a new section to a bill being read by titles must 
be germane to the pending title (Sept. 17, 1975, p. 28925), but if a 
bill is considered as read and open to amendment at any point, an 
amendment must be germane to the bill as a whole and not to a particular 
section (Sept. 29, 1975, p. 30761; Jan. 30, 1986, p. 1052). If a title 
of a bill is open to amendment at any point, the germaneness of an 
amendment perfecting one section therein depends on its relationship to 
the title as a whole and not merely on its relationship to the one 
section (June 25, 1991, p. 16152). An amendment in the form of a new 
title, when offered at the end of a bill containing several diverse 
titles on a general subject, need not be germane to the portion of the 
bill to which offered, it being sufficient that the amendment be germane 
to the bill as a whole in its modified form (Nov. 4, 1971, p. 39267; 
July 2, 1974, p. 22029; Sept. 18, 1975, p. 29322; July 11, 1985, p. 
18601; Oct. 8, 1985, pp. 26548-51). Although the heading of the final 
title of a bill as ``miscellaneous'' does not thereby permit amendments 
to that title that are not germane thereto, the inclusion of 
sufficiently diverse provisions in such title affecting various 
provisions in the bill may permit further amendments that need only be 
germane to the bill as a whole (Apr. 10, 1979, pp. 8034-37).
  Under clause 10 of rule XXII, a portion of a conference report 
incorporating part of a Senate amendment in the nature of a substitute 
to a House bill, or incorporating part of a Senate bill that the House 
has amended, must be germane to the bill in the form passed by the 
House; thus where a House-passed bill contained several sections and 
titles amending diverse portions of the Internal Revenue Code relating 
to tax credits, a modified Senate provision adding a new section dealing 
with another tax credit was held germane to the House-passed measure as 
a whole (Speaker Albert, Mar. 26, 1975, p. 8900); but a Senate provision 
in a conference report on a Senate bill with a House amendment in the 
nature of a substitute which authorized appointment of a special 
prosecutor for any criminal offenses committed by certain Federal 
officials was held not germane to the House-passed bill, which related 
to offenses directly related to official duties and responsibilities of 
Federal officials (Oct. 12, 1978, pp. 36459-61).
  The test of germaneness of an amendment to or a substitute for an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute is its relationship to the 
substitute and not its relationship to the bill to which the amendment 
in the nature of a substitute has been offered (July 19, 1973, p. 24958; 
July 22, 1975, p. 23990; June 1, 1976, pp. 16051-56; July 28, 1982, pp. 
18355-58, 18361), and an amendment to a substitute is not required to 
affect the same page and line numbers as the substitute in order to be 
germane, it being sufficient that the amendment is germane to the 
subject matter of the substitute (Aug. 1, 1979, pp. 21944-47). When an 
amendment in the nature of a

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substitute is offered at the end of the first section of a bill, the 
test of germaneness is the relationship between the amendment and the 
entire bill, and the germaneness of an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute for a bill is not necessarily determined by an incidental 
portion of the amendment that, if offered separately, might not be 
germane to the portion of the bill to which offered (July 8, 1975, p. 
21633).
  The test of germaneness of an amendment offered as a substitute for a 
pending amendment is its relationship to the pending amendment and not 
its relationship to the underlying bill (Feb. 14, 1995, p. 4714).
  An amendment germane to the bill as a whole, but hardly germane to any 
one section, may be offered at an appropriate place with notice of 
motions to strike the following sections that it would supersede (V, 
5823; July 29, 1969, p. 21221). If a perfecting amendment to the text is 
offered pending a vote on a motion to strike the same text, the 
perfecting amendment must be germane to the text to which offered, not 
to the motion to strike (Oct. 3, 1969, p. 28454).
  The <> rule that amendments must be germane applies to amendments to 
the instructions in a motion to instruct conferees (VIII, 3230, 3235), 
and the test of germaneness of an amendment to a motion to instruct 
conferees, in addition to the measurement of scope of conference, is the 
relationship of the amendment to the subject matter of the House or 
Senate version of the bill (Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 28.2). The rule 
of germaneness similarly applies to the instructions in a motion to 
recommit a bill to a committee of the House, because it is not in order 
to propose as part of a motion to recommit any proposition that would 
not have been germane if proposed as an amendment to the bill in the 
House (V, 5529-5541; VIII, 2708-2712; Mar. 2, 1967, p. 5155), and the 
instructions must be germane to the bill as perfected in the House (Nov. 
19, 1993, p. 30513), even if the instructions do not propose a direct 
amendment to the bill but merely direct the committee to pursue an 
unrelated approach (Speaker O'Neill, Mar. 2, 1978, p. 5272; July 16, 
1991, p. 18397) or direct the committee not to report the bill back to 
the House until an unrelated contingency occurs (VIII, 2704). Under the 
same rationale as amendments to a motion to instruct conferees, 
amendments to a motion to recommit to a standing committee with 
instructions must be germane to the subject matter of the bill (see V, 
6888; VIII, 2711).
  The fact that an amendment is offered in conjunction with a motion to 
recommit a bill with instructions to a standing committee does not 
affect the requirement that the subject matter of the amendment be 
germane and within the jurisdiction of the committee reporting the bill 
(Mar. 2, 1967, p. 5155; July 16, 1991, p. 18397).

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  In <> the consideration of Senate amendments to a House 
bill an amendment must be germane to the particular Senate amendment to 
which it is offered (V, 6188-6191; VIII, 2936; May 14, 1963, p. 8506; 
Dec. 13, 1980, p. 34097), and it is not sufficient that an amendment to 
a Senate amendment is germane to the original House bill if it is not 
germane to the subject matter of a Senate amendment that merely inserts 
new matter and does not strike House provisions (V, 6188; VIII, 2936). 
But if a Senate amendment proposes to strike language in a House bill, 
the test of the germaneness of a motion to recede and concur with an 
amendment is the relationship between the language in the motion and the 
provisions in the House bill proposed to be stricken, as well as those 
to be inserted, by the Senate amendment (June 8, 1943, p. 5511; June 15, 
1943, p. 5899; Dec. 12, 1974, p. 39272). The test of the germaneness of 
an amendment to a motion to concur in a Senate amendment with an 
amendment is the relationship between the amendment and the motion, and 
not between the amendment and the Senate amendment to which the motion 
has been offered (Aug. 3, 1973, Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 27.6). 
Formerly, a Senate amendment was not subject to the point of order that 
it was not germane to the House bill (VIII, 3425), but under changes in 
the rules points of order may be made and separate votes demanded on 
portions of Senate amendments and conference reports containing language 
that would not have been germane if offered in the House. Clause 10 of 
rule XXII permits points of order against language in a conference 
report that was originally in the Senate bill or amendment and that 
would not have been germane if offered to the House-passed version, and 
permits a separate motion to reject such portion of the conference 
report if found nongermane (Oct. 15, 1986, p. 31498). For purposes of 
that rule, the House-passed version, against which Senate provisions are 
compared, is that finally committed to conference, taking into 
consideration all amendments adopted by the House, including House 
amendments to Senate amendments (July 28, 1983, p. 21401). Clause 10 of 
rule XXII permits points of order against motions to concur or concur 
with amendment in nongermane Senate amendments, the stage of 
disagreement having been reached, and, if such points of order are 
sustained, permits separate motions to reject such nongermane matter. 
Clause 10 of rule XXII is not applicable to a provision contained in a 
motion to recede and concur with an amendment (the stage of disagreement 
having been reached) that is not contained in any form in the Senate 
version, the only requirement in such circumstances being that the 
motion as a whole be germane to the Senate amendment as a whole under 
clause 7 of rule XVI (Oct. 4, 1978, pp. 33502-06; June 30, 1987, p. 
18294).

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  An <> amendment must relate to the subject matter under 
consideration. Thus, the following are not germane: to a bill seeking to 
eliminate wage discrimination based on the sex of the employee, an 
amendment to make the provisions of the bill applicable to 
discrimination based on race (July 25, 1962, p. 14778); to a bill 
establishing an office in the Department of the Interior to manage 
biological information, an amendment addressing socioeconomic matters 
(Oct. 26, 1993, p. 26082); to a bill authorizing military assistance to 
Israel and funds for the United Nations emergency force in the Middle 
East, an amendment expressing the sense of Congress that the President 
conduct negotiations to obtain a peace treaty in the Middle East and the 
resumption of diplomatic and trade relations between Arab nations and 
the United States and Israel (Dec. 11, 1973, p. 40842); to a concurrent 
resolution expressing congressional concern over certain domestic 
policies of a foreign government and urging that government to improve 
those internal problems in order to enhance better relations with the 
United States, amendments expressing the necessity for United States 
diplomatic initiatives as a consequence of that foreign government's 
policies (July 12, 1978, pp. 20500-05); to a resolution amending several 
clauses of a rule of the House but confined in its scope to the issue of 
access to committee hearings and meetings, an amendment to another 
clause of that rule relating to committee staffing (Mar. 7, 1973, p. 
6714); to a title of a bill that only addresses the administrative 
structure of a new department and not its authority to carry out 
transferred programs, an amendment prohibiting the department from 
withholding funds to carry out certain objectives (June 12, 1979, p. 
14485); to an amendment authorizing the use of funds for a specific 
study, an amendment naming any program established in the bill for an 
unrelated purpose for a specified Senator (Aug. 15, 1986, p. 22075); to 
one of two reconciliation bills reported by the Committee on the Budget, 
an amendment making a prospective indirect change to the other 
reconciliation bill not then pending before the House (June 25, 1997, p. 
12488); to a joint resolution continuing appropriations for the current 
fiscal year, a motion to recommit with instructions to revise the 
reconciliation instructions in the concurrent resolution on the budget 
(Sept. 29, 2005, p. 21795); to a general appropriation bill, an 
amendment in the form of a limitation on funds therein for activities 
unrelated to the functions of departments and agencies addressed by the 
bill (July 10, 2000, p. 13605); to a bill reauthorizing the National Sea 
Grant College Program, a proposal to amend existing law to provide for 
automatic continuation of appropriations in the absence of timely 
enactment of a regular appropriation bill (June 18, 1997, p. 11333); to 
a bill regulating immigration, an amendment reaffirming an agreement 
with Japan (VIII, 3050); to a bill opposing concessional loans to a 
country and outlining principles governing the conduct of industrial 
cooperation projects of U.S. nationals in that country, an amendment 
waiving provisions of other law by requiring changes in tariff schedules 
to achieve overall trade reciprocity between that country

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and the United States (Nov. 6, 1997, p. 24824); to a resolution 
authorizing the deployment of troops to implement a peace agreement, an 
amendment expressing support for the armed forces in carrying out such 
mission (Mar. 11, 1999, p. 4301); to a bill addressing enforcement of 
State liquor laws, an amendment addressing enforcement of State firearm 
laws (Aug. 3, 1999, p. 19213); to a bill addressing taxation under the 
Internal Revenue Code, a motion to recommit with instructions extending 
unemployment insurance benefits (May 9, 2003, p. 11110 (sustained by 
tabling of appeal)); to a bill reauthorizing the National Transportation 
Safety Board, an amendment extending unemployment insurance benefits 
(May 15, 2003, p. 11955 (sustained on appeal)); to an immigration bill 
addressing (1) issues of admissibility, detention, removal, and 
deportation of various classes of aliens (Sept. 21, 2006, pp. 18860-62 
(sustained by tabling of appeal)) or (2) improvements in enforcement and 
judicial proceedings (Sept. 21, 2006, p. 18876-78), a motion to recommit 
with instructions proposing an increase in the number of U.S. Marshals; 
to a bill confined to housing-related matters, an amendment providing 
funding for various infrastructure projects (May 17, 2007, pp. 13224, 
13225); to a bill settling land claims of two tribal communities in a 
state, a motion to recommit with instructions broaching fuel procurement 
by federal agencies (June 25, 2008, pp. 13754, 13755 (sustained by 
tabling of appeal)); to a bill addressing economic stabilization and 
assistance funds and housing matters, a motion to recommit with 
instructions addressing the solvency of various Social Security trust 
funds (Jan. 21, 2009, pp. 1212, 1213 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); 
to a bill addressing small business investment programs, a motion to 
recommit with instructions expressing the sense of the House on the 
consideration of appropriation bills (July 8, 2009, p. 17083 (sustained 
by tabling of appeal)); to a bill addressing water recycling projects in 
one geographic area, a motion to recommit with instructions addressing 
water availability under a project in a different geographic area (Oct. 
15, 2009, pp. 25006, 25007 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill 
confined to one mortgage refinancing program, an amendment (1) adding 
findings regarding mortgages more broadly (Mar. 10, 2011, pp. 3756, 
3757), (2) establishing a new mortgage refinancing program (Mar. 10, 
2011, pp. 3762, 3763), (3) requiring a study of mortgages more broadly 
(Mar. 10, 2011, pp. 3764, 3765), (4) addressing foreclosure generally 
(Mar. 10, 2011, pp. 3765, 3766), and (5) addressing compensation within 
the financial services industry (Mar. 10, 2011, pp. 3767, 3768); to a 
joint resolution disapproving a Federal Communications Commission 
regulation, a motion to recommit with instructions further continuing 
appropriations for the current fiscal year (Apr. 8, 2011, pp. 5689-91 
(sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill proposing a bicameral order 
in the form of a joint rule, a motion to recommit with instructions 
proposing a special order of business of the House (Oct. 8, 2013, p. _ 
(sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill extending the authority to 
offer certain health insurance coverage, a motion to recommit with in

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structions addressing health insurance generally (Nov. 15, 2013, p. _ 
(sustained by tabling of appeal)).
  An amendment that is germane, not being ``on a subject different from 
that under consideration,'' belongs to a class illustrated by the 
following: to a bill providing for an interoceanic canal by one route, 
an amendment providing for a different route (V, 5909); to a bill 
providing for the reorganization of the Army, an amendment providing for 
the encouragement of marksmanship by enlisted personnel (V, 5910); to a 
proposition to create a board of inquiry, an amendment specifying when 
it shall report (V, 5915); to a bill relating to ``oleomargarine and 
other imitation dairy products,'' an amendment on the subject of 
``renovated butter'' (V, 5919); to a resolution rescinding an order for 
final adjournment, an amendment fixing a new date therefor (V, 5920); to 
a proposition directing a feasibility investigation, an amendment 
requiring the submission of legislation to implement that investigation 
(Dec. 14, 1973, p. 41747); and to a section of a bill prescribing the 
functions of a new Federal Energy Administration by conferring wide 
discretionary powers upon the Administrator, an amendment directing the 
Administrator to issue preliminary summer guidelines for citizen fuel 
use (as a further delineation of those functions) (Mar. 6, 1974, p. 
5436).
  A bill comprehensively addressing a subject requires careful analysis 
to determine whether an amendment addresses a different subject. For 
example, to an amendment in the nature of a substitute comprehensively 
amending several sections of the Clean Air Act with respect to the 
impact of shortages of energy resources on standards imposed under that 
Act, an amendment to another section of the Act suspending temporarily 
the authority of the Administrator of the EPA to control automobile 
emissions was held germane (Dec. 14, 1973, p. 41688). On the other hand, 
to a bill comprehensively restructuring the production and distribution 
of food, a motion to recommit with instructions providing nutrition 
assistance, including food stamps and soup kitchen programs, was held 
not germane (Feb. 29, 1996, p. 3257).
  The <> fundamental purpose of an amendment must be germane to 
the fundamental purpose of the bill (VIII, 2911). The Chair discerns the 
fundamental purpose of a bill by examining the text of the bill and its 
report language (Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 5.6; Aug. 3, 1999, p. 
19213), rather than the motives that circumstances may suggest (V, 5783, 
5803; Dec. 13, 1973, pp. 41267-69; Aug. 15, 1974, p. 28438). To a bill 
that comprehensively addresses a subject, an amendment that relates to 
that subject matter may not be ruled out as nongermane merely because 
the amendment may be characterized as private legislation benefitting 
certain individuals offered to a public bill (May 30, 1984, p. 14495). 
Similarly, to a bill proposing to accomplish a result by methods 
comprehensive in scope, an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
seeking to achieve the same result was held germane where it was shown 
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tained in the original bill were merely incidental conditions or 
exceptions that were related to the fundamental purpose of the bill 
(Aug. 2, 1973, pp. 27673-75; July 8, 1975, p. 21633; Sept. 29, 1980, pp. 
27832-52). On the other hand, an amendment may relate to the same 
subject matter yet still stray from adherence to a common fundamental 
purpose. For example, an amendment singling out one constituent element 
of a larger subject for specific and unrelated scrutiny is not germane. 
Thus, to a bill authorizing a State attorney general to bring a civil 
action in Federal court against a person who has violated a State law 
regulating intoxicating liquor, an amendment singling out certain 
violations of liquor laws on the basis of their regard for any and all 
firearms issues is not germane (Aug. 3, 1999, p. 19213). Similarly, to a 
bill appropriating for only one fiscal year (and containing no 
provisions extending beyond that fiscal year), an amendment to extend an 
appropriation to another fiscal year is not germane (June 20, 2001, pp. 
11233, 11234).
  In order to be germane, an amendment must not only have the same end 
as the matter sought to be amended, but must contemplate a method of 
achieving that end that is closely allied to the method encompassed in 
the bill or other matter sought to be amended (Aug. 11, 1970, p. 28165). 
Thus the following are germane: to a bill raising revenue by several 
methods of taxation, an amendment proposing a tax on undistributed 
profits (the Committee of the Whole overruling the Chair) (VII, 3042); 
to a proposition to accomplish a result through regulation by a 
governmental agency, an amendment to accomplish the same fundamental 
purpose through regulation by another governmental agency (Dec. 15, 
1937, pp. 1572-89; June 9, 1941, p. 4905; Dec. 19, 1973, p. 42618); to a 
bill to achieve a certain purpose by conferring discretionary authority 
to set fair labor standards upon an independent agency, an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute to attain that purpose by a more inflexible 
method (prescribing fair labor standards) (Dec. 15, 1937, pp. 1590-94; 
Oct. 14, 1987, p. 27885); to a proposition to accomplish the broad 
purpose of settling land claims of Alaska natives by a method general in 
scope, an amendment accomplishing the same purpose by a method more 
detailed in its provisions (Oct. 20, 1971, p. 37079); to an amendment 
comprehensively amending the Natural Gas Act to deregulate interstate 
sales of new natural gas and regulate aspects of intrastate gas use, a 
substitute providing regulatory authority for interstate and intrastate 
gas sales of large producers (Feb. 4, 1976, p. 2387); to a bill 
providing a temporary extension of existing authority, an amendment 
achieving the same purpose by providing a nominally permanent authority 
was held germane where both the bill and the amendment were based on 
reported economic projections under which either would achieve the same, 
necessarily temporary result by method of direct or indirect amendment 
to the same existing law (May 13, 1987, p. 12344); to a bill subjecting 
employers who fail to apprise their workers of health risks to penalties 
under other laws and regulations, a substitute subjecting such employers 
to penalties prescribed in the substitute itself (Oct. 14, 1987,

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p. 27885); to an amendment freezing the obligation of funds for fiscal 
year 1996 for missile defense until the Secretary of Defense rendered a 
specified readiness certification, an amendment permitting an increase 
in the obligation of such funds on the basis of legislative findings 
concerning readiness, because each proposition addressed the 
relationship between 1996 funding levels for missile defense and 
readiness (Feb. 15, 1995, p. 5026); to a bill improving food safety 
through a myriad of methods including the tracing of food origins, 
recalls of food, and quarantine of food, a motion to recommit with 
instructions allowing the preemptive purchase of food related to 
activities in the bill (July 30, 2009, pp. 20201, 20202).
  However, an amendment to accomplish a similar purpose by an unrelated 
method not contemplated by the bill is not germane. Thus, the following 
are not germane: to a bill providing relief to foreign countries through 
government agencies, an amendment providing for relief to be made 
through the International Red Cross (Dec. 10, 1947, pp. 11242-44); to a 
bill to aid in the control of crime through research and training, an 
amendment to accomplish that result through regulation of the sale of 
firearms (Aug. 8, 1967, pp. 21846-50); to a bill providing assistance to 
Vietnam war victims, amendments containing foreign policy declarations 
as to culpability in the war (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11510); to a bill 
conserving energy by civil penalties on manufacturers of autos with low 
gas mileage, an amendment conserving energy by tax rebates to purchasers 
of high-mileage autos (June 12, 1975, p. 18695); to a proposition whose 
fundamental purpose was registration and public disclosure by, but not 
regulation of the activities of, lobbyists, amendments prohibiting 
lobbying in certain places, restricting monetary contributions by 
lobbyists, and providing civil penalties for violating Rules of the 
House in relation to floor privileges (Sept. 28, 1976, p. 33070) (but to 
a similar bill, an amendment requiring disclosure of any lobbying 
communication made on the floor of the House or Senate or in adjoining 
rooms, but not regulating such conduct, was held germane (Apr. 26, 1978, 
p. 11641)); to a bill seeking to accomplish a purpose by one method 
(creation of an executive branch agency), an amendment accomplishing 
that result by a method not contemplated in the bill (creation of office 
within legislative branch as function of committee oversight) (Nov. 5, 
1975, p. 35041); to a bill authorizing foreign military assistance 
programs, an amendment authorizing contributions to an international 
agency for nuclear missile inspections (Mar. 3, 1976, p. 5226); to a 
joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for representation 
of the District of Columbia in Congress, a motion to recommit with 
instructions that the Committee on the Judiciary consider a resolution 
retroceding populated portions of the District to Maryland (Speaker 
O'Neill, Mar. 2, 1978, p. 5272, implicitly overruling V, 5582); to a 
bill prohibiting poll taxes, a motion to recommit the bill with 
instructions that the committee report it back in the form of a joint 
resolution amending the Constitution to accomplish the purpose of the 
bill (Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 23.8); to an amendment to achieve a 
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defense needs by loans and grants and development of demonstration 
synthetic fuel plants, a substitute to require by regulation that any 
fuel sold in commerce require a certain percentage of synthetic fuels 
(also broader in scope) (June 26, 1979, pp. 16663-74); to a bill to 
provide financial assistance to domestic agriculture through price 
support payments, an amendment to protect domestic agriculture by 
restricting imports in competition therewith (also within the 
jurisdiction of another committee) (Oct. 14, 1981, p. 23899); to a bill 
authorizing financial assistance to unemployed individuals for 
employment opportunities, an amendment providing instead for tax 
incentives to stimulate employment (also within the jurisdiction of a 
different committee) (Sept. 21, 1983, p. 25145); to a bill relating to 
one government agency, an amendment having as its fundamental purpose a 
change in the law relating to another agency, even though it 
contemplated a consultative role for the agency covered by the bill 
(July 8, 1987, p. 19014); to a proposition changing congressional budget 
procedures to require consideration of balanced budgets, an amendment 
changing concurrent resolutions on the budget to joint resolutions, 
thereby bringing executive enforcement mechanisms into play (July 18, 
1990, p. 17920); to a bill to promote technological advancement by 
fostering Federal research and development, and amendment exhorting to 
do so by changes in tax and antitrust laws (July 16, 1991, p. 18397); to 
a bill extending unemployment compensation benefits during a period of 
economic recession, an amendment to stimulate economic growth by tax 
incentives and regulatory reform (Sept. 17, 1991, p. 23156); to a bill 
providing new budget authority, a motion to recommit with instructions 
to change a direct appropriation of new budget authority from the 
general fund into a reappropriation (in effect a rescission) of funds 
previously appropriated for an entirely different purpose in a special 
reserve account (Feb. 28, 1985, p. 4146); to a bill addressing substance 
abuse through prevention and treatment, an amendment imposing civil 
penalties on drug dealers (Sept. 16, 1998, p. 20587); to a resolution 
impeaching the President, an amendment censuring the President (Dec. 19, 
1998, p. 28107); to a bill authorizing a State attorney general to bring 
a civil action in Federal court against a person who has violated a 
State law regulating intoxicating liquor, an amendment creating new 
Federal laws to regulate intoxicating liquor (Aug. 3, 1999, p. 19216); 
to a bill addressing persons convicted of sex offenses against children 
with criminal punishment, an amendment addressing such perpetrators by 
treatment and rehabilitation (Mar. 14, 2002, p. 3203).
  An <> amendment when considered as a whole should be within the 
jurisdiction of the committee reporting the bill (Jan. 29, 1976, p. 
1582; July 25, 1979, pp. 20601-03; June 27, 1985, pp. 17417-19), 
although committee jurisdiction over the subject of an amendment and of 
the original bill is not the exclusive test of germaneness (Aug. 2, 
1973, pp. 27673-75), and the Chair relates the amendment to the bill in 
its perfected form (Aug. 17, 1972, p. 28913). Thus, the following are 
not germane: to a bill reported

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from the Committee on Agriculture providing price support programs for 
various agricultural commodities, an amendment repealing price control 
authority for all commodities under an act reported from the Committee 
on Banking and Currency (July 19, 1973, p. 24950); to a bill reported 
from the Committee on Ways and Means providing for a temporary increase 
in the public debt ceiling for the current fiscal year (not directly 
amending the Second Liberty Bond Act), an amendment proposing permanent 
changes in that Act and also affecting budget and appropriation 
procedures (matters within the jurisdiction of other House committees) 
(Nov. 7, 1973, p. 36240); to a bill relating to intelligence activities 
of the executive branch, an amendment effecting a change in the Rules of 
the House by directing a committee to impose an oath of secrecy on its 
members and staff (May 1, 1991, p. 9669); to a bill reported by the 
Committee on Government Operations creating an executive agency to 
protect consumers, an amendment conferring on congressional committees 
with oversight over consumer protection the authority to intervene in 
judicial or administrative proceedings (a rulemaking provision within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules) (Nov. 6, 1975, p. 35373); to 
a proposition reported from the Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation authorizing funds for local public works employment, an 
amendment to mandate expenditure of already appropriated funds (as a 
purported disapproval of deferral of such funds under the Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974) and to set discount rates for reclamation and 
public works projects, subjects within the jurisdictions of the 
Committees on Appropriations and Interior and Insular Affairs (May 3, 
1977, p. 13242); to a bill reported from the Committee on Armed Services 
authorizing military procurement and personnel strengths for one fiscal 
year, an amendment imposing permanent prohibitions and conditions on 
troop withdrawals from the Republic of Korea because including 
statements of policy within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs (May 24, 1978, pp. 15293-95); to a bill reported from the 
Committee on Government Operations creating a new department, 
transferring the administration of existing laws to it, and authorizing 
appropriations to carry out the Act subject to provisions in existing 
law, an amendment prohibiting the use of funds so authorized to carry 
out a designated funding program transferred to the department, where 
the purpose of the authorization is to allow appropriations in general 
appropriation bills for the department to carry out its functions but 
where changes in the laws to be administered by the department remain 
within the jurisdiction of other committees of the House (June 19, 1979, 
p. 15570); to a bill reported by the Committee on Public Works 
authorizing funds for highway construction and mass transportation 
systems using motor vehicles, an amendment relating to urban mass 
transit (then within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Banking and 
Currency) and the railroad industry (then within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) (Oct. 5, 1972, p. 34115); 
to a bill reported from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 
designating certain areas in a State as wilderness, an amendment

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providing unemployment benefits to workers displaced by the designation 
(Mar. 21, 1983, p. 6347); to a bill reported from the Committee on 
Science and Technology authorizing environmental research and 
development activities of an agency, an amendment expressing the sense 
of Congress with respect to that agency's regulatory and enforcement 
authority, within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce (Feb. 9, 1984, p. 2423); to a bill authorizing environmental 
research and development activities of an agency for two years, an 
amendment adding permanent regulatory authority for that agency by 
amending a law not within the jurisdiction of the committee reporting 
the bill (June 4, 1987, p. 14757); to a bill reported from the Committee 
on Education and Labor dealing with education, an amendment regulating 
telephone communications (a matter within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce) (Apr. 19, 1988, p. 7355); to a bill 
addressing various research programs and authorities, an amendment 
addressing matters of fiscal and economic policy and regulation (July 
16, 1991, p. 18391; Sept. 22, 1992, pp. 26734, 26741); to a bill 
reported from the Committee on Ways and Means addressing unemployment 
compensation, an amendment addressing stimuli for economic growth 
involving the jurisdictions of the Committees on Banking, Finance, and 
Urban Affairs and the Judiciary (Sept. 17, 1991, p. 23177); to a bill 
reported from the Committee on Armed Services amending several laws 
within that committee's jurisdiction on military procurement and policy, 
an amendment to the Renegotiation Act, a matter within the jurisdiction 
of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and not solely 
related to military contracts (June 26, 1985, pp. 17417-19) and an 
amendment requiring reports on Soviet Union compliance with arms control 
commitments, a matter exclusively within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs (Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. 4.26); to a 
bill reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce relating to 
mentally ill individuals, an amendment prohibiting the use of general 
revenue sharing funds (within the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Government Operations) (Jan. 30, 1986, p. 1053); to a bill reported from 
the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries authorizing various 
activities of the Coast Guard, an amendment urging the Secretary of 
State in consultation with the Coast Guard to elicit cooperation from 
other nations concerning certain Coast Guard and military operations (a 
matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Affairs) 
(July 8, 1987, p. 19013); to a bill reported by the Committee on 
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs dealing with housing and community 
development grant and credit programs, an amendment expressing the sense 
of Congress on tax policy (the deductibility of mortgage interest), a 
matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (Aug. 
1, 1990, p. 21256); to a bill reported from the Committee on Education 
and Labor authorizing a variety of civilian national service programs, 
an amendment establishing a contingent military service obligation (a 
matter within the selective service jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Armed Services) (July 28, 1993, p. 17398); to a bill reauthorizing

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programs administered by two agencies within one committee's 
jurisdiction, an amendment more general in scope affecting agencies 
within the jurisdiction of other committees (May 12, 1994, p. 10024); to 
a bill reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
reforming and privatizing Amtrak, an amendment rescinding previously 
appropriated funds for certain administrative expenses, a matter within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations (Nov. 30, 1995, p. 
35071); to a measure expressing a sense of Congress with respect to the 
availability of public funds for expenses incurred in the evaluation of 
a problem, an amendment addressing legislative responses to that 
problem, within the jurisdiction of other committees (Feb. 4, 1998, p. 
794); to a bill reported from Government Reform and Oversight proposing 
to alter responsibilities of executive branch agencies under an existing 
law, an amendment proposing to extend the application of that law to 
entities of the legislative branch, a matter within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee on House Administration (Mar. 12, 1998, p. 3389); to a 
resolution authorizing the deployment of troops to implement a peace 
agreement within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
an amendment expressing support for the armed forces carrying such 
mission within the jurisdiction of both the Committees on Armed Services 
and Foreign Affairs (Mar. 11, 1999, p. 4301); to a bill addressing 
certain diplomatic efforts to curb alleged price-fixing in the global 
oil market within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
an amendment proposing to suspend oil exportation through changes to the 
Mineral Leasing Act within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Natural 
Resources and an amendment proposing to change the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act to reauthorize Presidential authority to draw down the 
strategic petroleum reserve, a matter within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce (Mar. 22, 2000, p. 3281); to several 
individual bills on various topics within the jurisdiction of various 
other committees, an amendment addressing the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978, a matter within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on the Judiciary and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence (July 12, 2007, pp. 18843, 18844; Feb. 26, 2008, p. 2482; 
Feb. 27, 2008, pp. 2627, 2637, 2638; Mar. 5, 2008, pp. 3295, 3296; Mar. 
6, 2008, pp. 3402, 3403 (in each case sustained by tabling of appeal); 
Apr. 16, 2008, pp. 6208, 6219 (sustained on appeal)); to a bill 
addressing a mortgage refinancing program within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Financial Services, an amendment modifying an income tax 
deduction within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means 
(Mar. 10, 2011, p. 3767).
  Committee jurisdiction is not the sole test of germaneness where: (1) 
the proposition to which the amendment is offered is so comprehensive 
(overlapping several committees' jurisdictions) as to diminish the 
pertinency of that test; (2) the amendment does not demonstrably affect 
a law within another committee's jurisdiction (July 21, 1976, p. 23167; 
Oct. 8, 1985, pp. 26548-51); (3) the portion of the bill also contains 
language, related to the amendment, not within the jurisdiction of the 
com

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mittee reporting the bill (Apr. 2, 1976, p. 9254; Aug. 10, 1984, p. 
23975); or (4) the bill has been amended to include matter within the 
jurisdiction of another committee thus rendering further similar 
amendments germane (July 11, 1985, p. 18601; Sept. 19, 1986, p. 24769). 
Thus, to a bill reported from the Committee on Agriculture relating to 
the food stamp program, an amendment requiring the Secretary of the 
Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to 
collect from certain recipients the monetary value of food stamps 
received was held germane because the performance of new duties by the 
Secretary of the Treasury and by the Internal Revenue Service not 
affecting the application of the Internal Revenue Code is not a matter 
solely within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (July 
27, 1977, pp. 25249-52). On the other hand, to a comprehensive farm bill 
authorizing a variety of programs within the jurisdiction of the 
Committees on Agriculture and Foreign Affairs, and amended to include 
matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
(but not amending laws within the jurisdiction of other committees), an 
amendment proposing to alter an existing interstate dairy compact and 
grant consent to additional compacts, matters within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee on the Judiciary, is not germane (Oct. 4, 2001, pp. 18797, 
18809).
  To a bill amending an existing law to grant to merchant mariners 
benefits substantially equivalent to those granted to veterans in a 
separate law in the jurisdiction of another committee, an amendment 
directly changing the separate law to extend its benefits to merchant 
mariners was held not germane (Sept. 9, 1992, p. 23951); but if the 
pending bill incorporates by reference provisions of a law from another 
committee and conditions the bill's effectiveness upon actions taken 
pursuant to a section of that law, an amendment to alter that section of 
the law may be germane (Apr. 8, 1974, pp. 10108-10).
  The test of the germaneness of an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute for a bill is its relationship to the bill as a whole, and is 
not necessarily determined by the content of an incidental portion of 
the amendment that, if considered separately, might be within the 
jurisdiction of another committee (Aug. 2, 1973, p. 27673; June 1, 1976, 
pp. 16021-25). However, the House may by adopting a special rule allow a 
point of order that a section of a committee amendment in the nature of 
a substitute would not have been germane if offered separately to the 
bill as introduced (May 23, 1978, pp. 15094-96; May 24, 1978, pp. 15293-
95; Aug. 11, 1978, p. 25705).
  The fact that an amendment is offered in conjunction with a motion to 
recommit a bill with instructions does not affect the requirement that 
the subject matter of the amendment be germane and within the 
jurisdiction of the committee reporting the bill (Mar. 2, 1967, p. 
5155). Thus the following are not germane: to a bill reported from the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs addressing U.S. claims against Iraq, a 
motion to recommit with instructions to prohibit the admission of former 
members of Iraq's armed

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forces to the United States as refugees (a matter within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary) (Apr. 28, 1994, p. 
8803); to a bill amending a law reported by the Committee on Banking and 
Financial Services opposing concessional loans to a country and 
outlining principles governing the conduct of industrial cooperation 
projects of U.S. nationals in that country, a motion to recommit with 
instrustions to waive provisions of other law by requiring changes in 
tariff schedules to achieve overall trade reciprocity between that 
country and the United States (a subject within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Ways and Means) (Nov. 6, 1997, p. 24824); to a joint 
resolution continuing appropriations for the current fiscal year, a 
motion to recommit with instructions to revise the reconciliation 
instructions in the concurrent resolution on the budget (Sept. 29, 2005, 
p. 21795); to a bill confined to tax issues within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Ways and Means, a motion to recommit with instructions 
to report an amendment addressing the minimum wage, a matter within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and the Workforce (June 22, 
2006, p. 12298 (sustained by tabling of appeal)), or vice versa (Jan. 
10, 2007, p. 787 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill studying 
two rivers under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and issues related 
thereto, within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Natural Resources, 
a motion to recommit with instructions addressing comprehensive energy 
legislation touching several other committees' jurisdictions (Sept. 10, 
2008, pp. 18416, 18417 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill 
confined to taxation issues within the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Ways and Means, a motion to recommit with instructions addressing laws 
within the jurisdiction of the Committees on Agriculture, Natural 
Resources, and Education and Labor (Sept. 26, 2008, pp. 22060, 22061 
(sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a bill addressing payments to 
physicians under the Medicare program and confined to the jurisdiction 
of the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means, a motion to 
recommit with instructions addressing medical malpractice reform within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary (Nov. 19, 2009, p. 
28243 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a defense authorization bill 
addressing subjects in the jurisdiction of the Committee on Armed 
Services and several other committees, a motion to recommit with 
instructions broaching benefits of legislative branch employees within 
the jurisdiction of another committee (the Committee on House 
Administration) (May 28, 2010, pp. 9952, 9953 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)); to a bill addressing various benefits in the jurisdiction of 
committees other than the Committee on Appropriations, a motion to 
recommit with instructions to rescind appropriations carried in a prior 
appropriation Act (July 1, 2010, pp. 12556, 12557 (sustained by tabling 
of appeal)); to various joint resolutions and a bill continuing 
appropriations for specified government entities and programs within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations, a motion to recommit 
with instructions proposing a special order of business within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules (Oct. 2, 2013, p. _ ; Oct. 3, 
2013, p. _, p. _; Oct. 4, 2013, p. _, p. _; Oct. 7, 2013,

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p. _; Oct. 8, 2013, p. _; Oct. 9, 2013, p. _; Oct. 10, 2013, p. _; Oct. 
11, 2013, p. _; Oct. 14, 2013, p. _ (each sustained by tabling of 
appeal)).
  The <> standards by which the germaneness of an amendment may be 
measured, as set forth in Sec. Sec. 932-934, supra, are not exclusive; 
an amendment and the matter to which offered may be related to some 
degree under the tests of subject matter, purpose, and jurisdiction, and 
still not be considered germane under the precedents. Thus, the 
following have been held not to be germane: to a proposition relating to 
terms of Senators, an amendment changing the manner of their election 
(V, 5882); to a bill relating to commerce between the States, an 
amendment relating to commerce within the several States (V, 5841); to a 
proposition to relieve destitute citizens of the United States in Cuba, 
a proposition declaring a state of war in Cuba and proclaiming 
neutrality (V, 5897); to a proposition for the appointment of a select 
committee to investigate a certain subject, an amendment proposing an 
inquiry of the executive on that subject (V, 5891); to a bill granting a 
right of way to a railroad, an amendment providing for the purchase of 
the railroad by the Government (V, 5887); to a provision for the 
erection of a building for a mint, an amendment to change the coinage 
laws (V, 5884); to a resolution proposing expulsion, an amendment 
proposing censure (VI, 236); to a resolution authorizing the 
administration of the oath to a Member-elect, an amendment authorizing 
such oath administration but adding several conditions of punishment 
predicated on acts committed in a prior Congress (Jan. 3, 1969, pp. 23-
25); to a general tariff bill, an amendment creating a tariff board (May 
6, 1913, p. 1234; Speaker Clark, May 8, 1913, p. 1381); to a proposition 
to sell two battleships and build a new battleship with the proceeds, a 
proposition to devote the proceeds to building wagon roads (VIII, 2973); 
to a bill authorizing a State attorney general to bring a civil action 
in Federal court against a person who has violated a State law 
regulating intoxicating liquor, an amendment singling out certain 
violations of liquor laws on the basis of their regard for any and all 
firearms issues (Aug. 3, 1999, p. 19213).
  One <> individual proposition may not be amended by another 
individual proposition even though the two belong to the same class 
(VIII, 2951-2953, 2963-2966, 3047; Jan. 29, 1986, p. 684; Oct. 22, 1990, 
p. 32346; Oct. 24, 1991, p. 28561). Thus, the following are not germane: 
to a bill proposing the admission of one territory into the Union, an 
amendment for admission of another territory (V, 5529); to a bill 
amending a law in one particular, amending the law in another particular 
(VIII, 2949); to a proposition to appropriate or to authorize 
appropriations for only one year (and containing no provisions extending 
beyond that year), an amendment to extend the authorization or 
appropriation to another year (VIII, 2913; Nov. 13, 1980, pp. 29523-28; 
see also May 2, 1979, p. 9564; Oct. 12, 1979, pp. 28097-99; June 20, 
2001, pp. 11233, 11234); to a measure continuing appropria

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tions for the current fiscal year for a specified period, a motion to 
recommit with instructions making certain funds available beyond such 
time (Dec. 13, 2007, p. 34138 (sustained by tabling of appeal)); to a 
measure earmarking funds in an appropriation bill, an amendment 
authorizing the program for which the appropriation is made (Nov. 15, 
1989, p. 29019); to a bill for the relief of one individual, an 
amendment proposing similar relief for another (V, 5826-5829); to a 
resolution providing a special order for one bill, an amendment to 
include another bill (V, 5834-5836); to a provision for extermination of 
the cotton-boll weevil, an amendment including the gypsy moth (V, 5832); 
to a provision for a clerk for one committee, an amendment for a clerk 
to another committee (V, 5833); to a Senate amendment dealing with use 
of its contingent fund for art restoration in that body, a proposed 
House amendment for use of the House contingent fund for a similar but 
broader purpose (May 24, 1990, p. 12203); to a bill prohibiting 
transportation of messages relative to dealing in cotton futures, an 
amendment adding wheat, corn, etc. (VIII, 3001); to a bill prohibiting 
cotton futures, an amendment prohibiting wheat futures (VIII, 3001); to 
a bill for the relief of certain aliens, an amendment for the relief of 
other persons who are not aliens (May 14, 1975, p. 14360); to a bill 
providing relief for agricultural producers, an amendment extending such 
relief to commercial fishermen (also in the jurisdiction of another 
committee) (Apr. 24, 1978, p. 11080); to a bill governing the political 
activities of Federal civilian employees, an amendment to cover members 
of the uniformed services (June 7, 1977, p. 17713); to a bill covering 
the civil service system for Federal civilian employees, an amendment 
bringing other classes of employees (postal and District of Columbia 
employees) within the scope of the bill (Sept. 7, 1978, pp. 28437-39; 
Oct. 9, 1985, pp. 26951-54); to a portion of an appropriation bill 
containing funds for a certain purpose to be expended by one agency, an 
amendment containing funds for another agency for the same purpose (July 
24, 1981, p. 17226); to an amendment exempting national defense budget 
authority from the reach of a proposed Presidential rescission 
authority, an amendment exempting social security (Feb. 2, 1995, p. 
5501); to a Senate amendment striking an earmark from an appropriation 
bill, a House amendment reinserting part of the amount but adding other 
earmarks for unrelated programs (Nov. 15, 1989, p. 29019); to a Senate 
amendment relating to a feasibility study of a land transfer in one 
State, a House amendment requiring an environmental study of land in 
another State (Nov. 15, 1989, p. 29035); to a bill prohibiting certain 
uses of polygraphy in the private sector, an amendment applying the 
terms of the bill to the Congress (Nov. 4, 1987, p. 30870); to a bill to 
determine the equitability of Federal pay practices under statutory 
systems applicable to agencies of the executive branch, an amendment to 
extend the scope of the determination to pay practices in the 
legislative branch (ruling sustained by Committee of Whole, Sept. 28, 
1988, p. 26422); to a special appropriation bill providing funds and 
authority for agricultural credit programs but containing no transfers 
of funds, reappropri

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ations, or rescissions, an amendment (contained in a motion to recommit) 
deriving funds for the bill by transfer of unobligated balances in the 
Energy Security Reserve and thus decreasing and transferring funds 
provided for a program unrelated to the subject matter or method of 
funding provided in the bill (Feb. 28, 1985, p. 4146); to a bill 
prohibiting importation of goods made in whole or in part by convict, 
pauper, or detained labor, or made in whole or in part from materials 
that have been made in whole or in part in any manner manipulated by 
convict or prison labor, an amendment prohibiting importation of goods 
produced by child labor, a second discrete class (VIII, 2963); 
similarly, to an amendment authorizing grants to States for purchase of 
one class of equipment (photographic and fingerprint equipment) for law 
enforcement purposes, an amendment including assistance for the purchase 
of a different class of equipment (bulletproof vests) (Oct. 12, 1979, 
pp. 28121-24); to a bill repealing section 14(b) of the National Labor 
Relations Act and making conforming changes in two related sections of 
labor law, all pertaining solely to the so-called ``right-to-work'' 
issue, an amendment excluding from the applicability of certain labor-
management agreements members of religious groups (July 28, 1965, p. 
18633); to a bill relating to the design of certain coin currency, an 
amendment specifying the metal content of other coin currency (Sept. 12, 
1973, p. 29376); to a proposition to accomplish a single purpose without 
amending a certain law, an amendment to accomplish another purpose by 
amending that law (Dec. 14, 1973, pp. 41723-25); to a bill regulating 
poll closing time in Presidential general elections, an amendment 
extending its provisions to Presidential primary elections (Jan. 29, 
1986, p. 684); to a bill authorizing grants to private entities 
furnishing health care to underserved populations, an amendment 
authorizing grants to States to control a public health hazard (a 
different category of recipient) (Mar. 5, 1986, p. 3604); to a bill 
siting a certain type of repository for a specified kind of nuclear 
waste, an amendment prohibiting the construction at another site of 
another type of repository for another kind of nuclear waste (July 21, 
1992, p. 18718); to a bill addressing violent crimes, an amendment 
addressing nonviolent crimes, such as crimes of fraud and deception or 
crimes against the environment (May 7, 1996, pp. 10342, 10343); to a 
bill naming a facility after a specific person, an amendment proposing 
to substitute the name of a different person (VIII, 2955) where it could 
not be shown that the amendment intended a return to the facility's 
existing designation (Feb. 4, 1998, p. 792); to a joint resolution 
addressing whether public funds should be available for specified 
endeavors of one group, an amendment addressing the same question for 
unrelated endeavors of another group (Feb. 4, 1998, p. 819); to a bill 
proposing to alter responsibilities of executive branch agencies under 
an existing law, an amendment proposing to extend the application of 
that law to entities of the legislative branch (Mar. 12, 1998, p. 3389); 
to a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
authorizing Congress to prohibit physical desecration of the flag, a 
motion to recommit with instructions proposing an amendment to the

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Constitution requiring a balanced budget (June 22, 2005, pp. 13539, 
13540 (sustained by tabling of appeal)) or requiring that Social 
Security receipts and outlays be counted as receipts or outlays of the 
United States (June 22, 2005, pp. 13540, 13541 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)); to a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution to afford equal rights on the basis of sex, an amendment to 
add ``race, creed, or color'' (Oct. 12, 1971, pp. 35813, 35814).
  A <> specific subject may not be amended by a provision general in 
nature, even when of the class of the specific subject (V, 5843-5846; 
VIII, 2997, 2998; July 31, 1985, pp. 21832-34; see also Deschler-Brown, 
ch. 28, Sec. 9). Thus the following are not germane: to a bill for the 
admission of one territory into the Union, an amendment providing for 
the admission of several other territories (V, 5837); to a bill relating 
to all corporations engaged in interstate commerce, an amendment 
relating to all corporations (V, 5842); to a bill proscribing certain 
picketing in the District of Columbia, an amendment making the 
provisions thereof applicable throughout the United States (Aug. 22, 
1966, p. 20113); to a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution prohibiting the United States or any State from denying 
persons 18 years of age or older the right to vote, an amendment 
requiring the United States and all States to treat persons 18 years and 
older as having reached the age of majority for all purposes under the 
law (Mar. 23, 1971, p. 7567); to a bill dealing with enforcement of 
United Nations sanctions against one country in relation to a specific 
trade commodity, an amendment imposing United States sanctions against 
all countries for all commodities and communications (Mar. 14, 1977, p. 
7446); to a bill to enable a department to investigate and prosecute 
fraud and abuse in medicare and medicaid health programs, an amendment 
to prohibit any officer or employee from disclosing any identifiable 
medical record absent patient approval (Sept. 23, 1977, pp. 30534-35); 
to an amendment to a budget resolution changing one functional category 
only, an amendment changing several other categories and covering an 
additional fiscal year (May 2, 1979, pp. 9556-64); to a bill authorizing 
funds for radio broadcasting to Cuba, an amendment to include 
broadcasting to all dictatorships in the Caribbean Basin (Aug. 10, 1982, 
p. 20256); to a bill relating to aircraft altitude over units of the 
National Park System, an amendment relating to aircraft collision 
avoidance generally (Sept. 18, 1986, p. 24084); to a proposition 
prohibiting the use of funds appropriated for a fiscal year for a 
specified purpose, an amendment prohibiting the use of funds 
appropriated for that or any prior fiscal year for an unrelated purpose 
(June 30, 1987, p. 18294); to a proposition providing for a training 
vessel for one state maritime academy, an amendment relating to training 
vessels for all state maritime academies (June 30, 1987, p. 18296); to a 
proposition waiving a requirement in existing law that an authorizing 
law be enacted before the obligation of certain funds, an amendment 
affirmatively enacting bills containing not only that authorization but 
also other policy mat

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ters (Sept. 28, 1988, p. 26108); to a proposition pertaining only to a 
certain appropriation account in a bill, an amendment relating not only 
to that account but also to funds in other acts (Sept. 30, 1988, p. 
27148); to a proposition raising an employment ceiling for one year, an 
amendment addressing in permanent law a hiring preference system for 
such employees (Oct. 11, 1989, p. 24089); to an omnibus farm bill with 
myriad programs to improve agricultural economy, an amendment to the 
Animal Welfare Act not limited to agricultural pursuits (Aug. 1, 1990, 
p. 21573); to a bill authorizing Federal funding for qualifying State 
national service programs, an amendment conditioning a portion of such 
funding on the enactment of State laws immunizing volunteers in 
nonprofit or public programs, generally, from certain legal liabilities 
(July 28, 1993, p. 17401); to an amendment addressing particular 
educational requirements imposed on educational agencies by the 
underlying bill, an amendment addressing any requirements imposed on 
educational agencies by the underlying bill (Mar. 21, 1994, p. 5771); to 
a bill reauthorizing programs administered by the Economic Development 
Administration and the Appalachian Regional Commission, an amendment 
providing for the waiver of any Federal regulation that would interfere 
with economic development (May 12, 1994, p. 10024); to a bill 
prohibiting a certain class of abortion procedures, an amendment 
prohibiting any or all abortion procedures (Mar. 20, 1997, p. 4425); to 
a bill addressing one class of imported goods (those produced by forced 
labor), an amendment addressing all imported goods from a specified 
country (Nov. 5, 1997, p. 24643); to a bill confined to a single 
national historic trail designation, a motion to recommit with 
instructions extending to all trails addressed by the National Trails 
System Act (July 10, 2008, pp. 14583, 14584).
  To a bill limited in its applicability to certain departments and 
agencies of government, an amendment applicable to all departments and 
agencies is not germane (Sept. 27, 1967, p. 26957). Thus, the following 
are not germane: to a bill establishing an office without regulatory 
authority in the Department of the Interior to manage biological 
information, an amendment addressing requirements of compensation for 
constitutional takings by other regulatory agencies (Oct. 26, 1993, p. 
26076); to a bill amending an authority of an agency under an existing 
law, an amendment independently expressing the sense of Congress on 
regulatory agencies generally (May 14, 1992, p. 11287); to a proposition 
authorizing activities of certain government agencies for a temporary 
period, an amendment permanently changing existing law to cover a 
broader range of government activities (May 5, 1988, p. 9938); and to a 
joint resolution continuing funding within one executive department, an 
amendment addressing funding for other departments as well as one 
addressing the compensation of Federal employees on a government-wide 
basis (Dec. 20, 1995, pp. 37886, 37888).
  To a bill modifying an existing law as to one specific particular, an 
amendment relating to the terms of the law other than those dealt with 
by the bill is not germane (V, 5806-5808). Thus, the following are not

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germane: to a bill amending the war-time prohibition act in one 
particular, an amendment repealing that act (VIII, 2949); to a 
proposition temporarily suspending certain requirements of the Clean Air 
Act, an amendment temporarily suspending other requirements of all other 
environmental protection laws (Dec. 14, 1973, p. 41751); to an amendment 
striking from a bill one activity from those covered by the law being 
amended, a substitute striking the entire subsection of the bill, 
thereby eliminating the applicability of existing law to a number of 
activities (Sept. 23, 1982, p. 24963); to a bill amending an existing 
law to authorize a program, an amendment restricting authorizations 
under that or any other act (Dec. 10, 1987, p. 34676); to a bill 
proposing a temporary change in law, an amendment making permanent 
changes in that law (Nov. 19, 1991, p. 32893); and to a bill amending an 
existing law in one particular, an amendment amending other laws and 
more comprehensive in scope (Nov. 19, 1993, pp. 30513, 30515, 30517).
  A bill dealing with an individual proposition but rendered general in 
its scope by amendment is then subject to further amendment by 
propositions of the same class (VIII, 3003). Although a specific 
proposition covering a defined class may not be amended by a proposition 
more general in scope, the Chair may consider all pending provisions 
being read for amendment in determining the generality of the class 
covered by that proposition (Jan. 30, 1986, p. 1051).
  A <> general subject may be amended by specific propositions 
of the same class (VIII, 3002, 3009, 3012; see also Deschler-Brown, ch. 
28, Sec. 11). Thus, the following have been held to be germane: to a 
bill admitting several territories into the Union, an amendment adding 
another territory (V, 5838); to a bill providing for the construction of 
buildings in each of two cities, an amendment providing for similar 
buildings in several other cities (V, 5840); to a resolution embodying 
two distinct phases of international relationship, an amendment 
embodying a third (V, 5839); to an amendment prohibiting indirect 
assistance to several countries, an amendment to include additional 
countries within that prohibition (Aug. 3, 1978, p. 24244); to a portion 
of a bill providing two categories of economic assistance to foreign 
countries, an amendment adding a further specific category (Apr. 9, 
1979, pp. 7755-57); to a bill bringing two new categories within the 
coverage of existing law, an amendment to include a third category of 
the same class (Nov. 27, 1967, p. 33769); to a proposition providing for 
prepayment of loans by those within a certain class of borrowers who 
meet a specified criterion, a proposed House amendment eliminating the 
criterion to broaden the applicability of the Senate amendment to 
additional borrowers within the same class (June 30, 1987, p. 18308); to 
an amendment addressing a range of criminal prohibitions, an amendment 
addressing another criminal prohibition within that range (Oct. 17, 
1991, p. 26767); to a bill addressing violent crimes, an amendment 
addressing violent crimes involving the environment (May 7, 1996, p. 
10344).

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  Where a bill seeks to accomplish a general purpose (support of arts 
and humanities) by diverse methods, an amendment that adds a specific 
method to accomplish that result (artist employment through the National 
Endowment for the Arts) may be germane (Apr. 26, 1976, p. 11101; see 
also June 12, 1979, p. 14460). However, to a resolution authorizing a 
class of employees in the service of the House, an amendment providing 
for the employment of a specified individual was held not to be germane 
(V, 5848-5849). Other examples of amendments that have been held to be 
germane under this theory include: to a proposition relating in many 
diverse respects to the political rights of the people of the District 
of Columbia, an amendment conferring upon that electorate the additional 
right of electing a nonvoting Delegate to the Senate (Oct. 10, 1973, p. 
33656); to a bill containing definitions of several of the terms used 
therein, an amendment modifying one of the definitions and adding 
another (Sept. 26, 1967, p. 26878); to a bill authorizing a broad 
program of research and development, an amendment directing specific 
emphasis in the administration of the program (Dec. 19, 1973, p. 42607); 
to a bill providing for investigation of relationships between 
environmental pollution and cancer, an amendment to investigate the 
impact of personal health habits, such as cigarette smoking, on that 
relationship (Sept. 15, 1976, pp. 30496-98); to a supplemental 
appropriation bill containing funds for several departments and 
agencies, an amendment in the form of a new chapter providing funds for 
capital outlays for subway construction in the District of Columbia (May 
11, 1971, p. 14437); to a proposal authorizing military procurement, 
including purchase of food supplies, an amendment authorizing 
establishment that fiscal year of a military preparedness grain reserve 
(July 20, 1982, pp. 17073, 17074, 17092, 17093).
  To <> a 
bill amending a general law on a specific point an amendment relating to 
the terms of the law rather than to those of the bill was ruled not to 
be germane (V, 5808; VIII, 2707, 2708). Thus a bill amending several 
sections of one title of the United States Code does not necessarily 
bring the entire title under consideration so as to permit an amendment 
to any portion thereof (Oct. 11, 1967, p. 28649), and if a bill amends 
existing law in one narrow particular, an amendment proposing to modify 
such existing law in other particulars will generally be ruled out as 
not germane (Aug. 16, 1967, p. 22768; VIII, 2709, 2839, 3013, 3031; May 
12, 1976, p. 13532). To a bill narrowly amending an anti-discrimination 
provision in the Education Amendments of 1972 only to clarify the 
definition of a discriminating entity subject to denial of Federal 
funding, amendments re-defining a class of discrimination (sex), 
expanding the definition of persons who are the subject of 
discrimination (to include the unborn), and deeming a new entity 
(Congress) to be a recipient of Federal assistance (a class not 
necessarily included in the class covered by the bill), were ruled not 
to be germane (June 26, 1984, pp. 18847, 18857, 18861). But to the same 
bill, an amendment merely defining a word used in the bill was held ger

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mane (June 26, 1984, p. 18865). Unless a bill so extensively amends 
existing law as to open up the entire law to amendment, the germaneness 
of an amendment to the bill depends on its relationship to the subject 
of the bill and not to the entire law being amended (Oct. 28, 1975, p. 
34031). But a bill amending several sections of an existing law may be 
sufficiently broad to permit amendments to other sections of that law 
not mentioned in the bill (Feb. 19, 1975, p. 3596; Sept. 14, 1978, p. 
29487). To a bill continuing and re-enacting an existing law, amendments 
germane to the existing act sought to be continued have been held 
germane to the pending bill (VIII, 2940, 2941, 2950, 3028; Oct. 31, 
1963, p. 20728; June 1, 1976, p. 16045); but if a bill merely extends an 
official's authority under existing law, an amendment permanently 
amending that law has been held not in order (Sept. 29, 1969, pp. 27341-
43). Thus where a bill authorized appropriations to an agency for one 
year but did not amend the organic law by extending the existence of 
that agency, an amendment extending the life of another entity mentioned 
in the organic law was held not germane (May 20, 1976, p. 14912). An 
amendment making permanent changes in the law relating to organization 
of an agency is not germane to a title of a bill only authorizing 
appropriations for such agency for one fiscal year (Nov. 29, 1979, p. 
34090). To a general appropriation bill providing funds for one fiscal 
year, an amendment changing a permanent appropriation in existing law 
and changing congressional procedures for consideration of that general 
appropriation bill in future years is more general in scope (and in part 
within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules) and therefore is not 
germane (June 29, 1987, p. 18083); and to a temporary authorization bill 
prescribing the use of an agency's funds for two years but not amending 
permanent law, an amendment permanently changing the organic law 
governing that agency's operations is not germane (Dec. 2, 1982, p. 
28537, concerning Sept. 28, 1982, p. 25465; Feb. 13, 2008, pp. 2115, 
2116 (sustained by tabling of appeal)). However, to a bill authorizing 
appropriations for a department for one fiscal year, where the effect of 
the department's activities pursuant to that authorization may extend 
beyond such year, an amendment directing a specific use of those funds 
to perform an activity that may not be completed within the fiscal year 
was nevertheless germane, because limited to funds in the bill (Oct. 18, 
1979, p. 28763). Similarly, to a one-year authorization bill containing 
diverse limitations and directions to the agency in question during such 
year, an amendment further directing the agency to obtain information 
from the private sector, and to make such information public during such 
year, was held germane (Oct. 18, 1979, pp. 28815-17). Although an 
amendment making a permanent change in existing law has been held not 
germane to a bill proposing a temporary change in that law, if it is 
apparent that the fundamental purpose of the amendment is to have only 
temporary effect and to accomplish the same result as the bill, it may 
be germane. Thus to a bill providing a temporary extension of existing 
authority, an amendment achieving the same purpose by providing a 
nominally permanent authority was held ger

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mane where both the bill and the amendment were based on reported 
economic projections under which either would achieve the same, 
necessarily temporary result by method of direct or indirect amendment 
to the same existing law (May 13, 1987, p. 12344). However, to a 
proposal continuing the availability of appropriated funds and imposing 
diverse legislative conditions upon the availability of appropriations, 
an amendment directly and permanently changing existing law as to the 
eligibility of recipients of funds was held to be nongermane (Dec. 10, 
1981, pp. 30536-38). To a bill extending an existing law in modified 
form, an amendment proposing further modification of that law may be 
germane (Apr. 23, 1969, p. 10067; Feb. 19, 1975, p. 3596). But to a bill 
amending a law in one particular, an amendment repealing the law is not 
germane (Jan. 14, 1964, p. 423). To a bill amending a general law in 
several particulars, an amendment providing for the repeal of the whole 
law may be germane (V, 5824), but the bill amending the law must so 
vitally affect the whole law as to bring the entire act under 
consideration before the Chair will hold an amendment repealing the law 
or amending any section of the law germane to the bill (VIII, 2944; Apr. 
2, 1924, p. 5437). If a bill repeals a provision of law, an amendment 
modifying that provision rather than repealing it may be germane (Oct. 
30, 1969, p. 32466); but the modification must relate to the provision 
of law being repealed (July 28, 1965, p. 18636). Generally to a bill 
amending one law, an amendment changing the provisions of another law or 
prohibiting assistance under any other law is not germane (May 11, 1976, 
p. 13419; Aug. 12, 1992, p. 23238). To a bill amending the Bretton Woods 
Act in relation to the International Monetary Fund, an amendment 
prohibiting the alienation of gold to the IMF or to any other 
international organization or its agents was held not germane (July 27, 
1976, p. 24040). However, to a bill comprehensively amending several 
laws within the same class, an amendment further amending one of those 
laws on a subject within that class is germane (May 12, 1976, p. 13530); 
and to a bill authorizing funding for the intelligence community for one 
fiscal year and making diverse changes in permanent laws relating 
thereto, an amendment changing another permanent law to address 
accountability for intelligence activities was held germane (Oct. 17, 
1990, p. 30171). To a title of a bill dealing with a number of unrelated 
authorities of the Secretary of Agriculture, an amendment amending 
another act within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Agriculture to 
require the adoption of a minimum standard for the contents of ice cream 
was held germane, because it was restricted to the authority of the 
Secretary of Agriculture (July 22, 1977, pp. 24558-70). But to a section 
of a bill amending a section of the National Labor Relations Act dealing 
with procedural rules governing labor elections and organizations, an 
amendment changing the same section of law to require promulgation of 
rules defining certain conduct as an unfair labor practice was held not 
germane, where neither the pending section nor the bill itself addressed 
the subject of unfair labor practices dealt with in another section of 
the law (Oct. 5, 1977, p. 32507).

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To a bill narrowly amending one subsection of existing law dealing with 
one specific criminal activity, an amendment postponing the effective 
date of the entire section, affecting other criminal provisions and 
classes of persons as well as the one amended by the bill, or an 
amendment to another subsection of the law dealing with a related but 
separate prohibition, was held not germane (May 16, 1979, pp. 11470-72), 
but to an amendment adding sundry punitive sections to the Federal 
criminal code, an amendment creating an exception to the prohibition of 
another such section was held germane (Oct. 17, 1991, p. 26767).
  Restrictions, <> qualifications, and limitations 
sought to be added by way of amendment must be germane to the provisions 
of the bill. Conditioning the availability of funds may be germane if 
the condition is related to the general purpose and within the scope of 
the pending proposition (Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, Sec. Sec. 29-34). Thus, 
the following are germane: to a bill authorizing the funding of a 
variety of programs that satisfy several stated requirements in order to 
accomplish a general purpose, an amendment conditioning the availability 
of those funds upon implementation by their recipients of another 
program related to that general purpose (June 18, 1973, p. 20100); to a 
bill authorizing funds for military procurement and construction, an 
amendment declaring that none of the funds be used to carry out military 
operations in North Vietnam (Mar. 2, 1967, p. 5143); to a proposition 
reducing the line-item authorization for certain missiles and 
prohibiting procurement of certain other missiles, an amendment 
proposing a conditional restriction on the availability of funds for 
such procurement that merely requires observation of activities of 
another country, which activities already constitute the policy basis 
for the funding of that governmental activity (missile procurement) (May 
16, 1984, p. 12510); to a bill authorizing federal funding of certain 
qualifying state programs, an amendment restricting the payment of 
Federal funds in a bill to States that enact certain laws relating to 
the activities being funded (July 28, 1993, p. 17403); to an 
authorization bill, an amendment that conditions the availability of 
such funds by adopting as a measure of their availability the 
expenditure during the fiscal year of a comparable percentage of funds 
authorized by other acts as long as the amendment does not directly 
affect the use of other funds (July 26, 1973, p. 26210); to a bill 
authorizing certain housing programs, an amendment restricting the 
amounts of direct spending in the bill to the levels set in the 
concurrent resolution on the budget as merely a measure of availability 
of funds in the bill and not a provision directly affecting the 
congressional budget process (June 11, 1987, p. 15540); to a proposition 
restricting the availability of funds to a certain category of 
recipients, an amendment further restricting the availability of funds 
to a subcategory of the same recipients (Sept. 25, 1979, pp. 26135-43); 
to a bill authorizing appropriations for an agency, an amendment 
prohibiting the use of funds for any purpose to which the funds may 
otherwise be applied (Nov. 5, 1981, p. 26716); an amendment

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that conditions the availability of funds covered by a bill by adopting 
as a measure of their availability the monthly increases in the public 
debt (as long as the amendment does not directly affect other provisions 
of law or impose contingencies textually predicated upon other unrelated 
actions of Congress) (Sept. 25, 1979, pp. 26150-52); to a bill 
authorizing defense assistance to a foreign nation, an amendment 
delaying the availability of that assistance until that nation's former 
ambassador testified before a House committee, which had been directed 
by the House to investigate gifts by that nation's representatives to 
influence Members and employees, as a contingency that sought to compel 
the furnishing of information related to efforts to induce defense 
assistance to that nation (Aug. 2, 1978, p. 23932); to a provision 
authorizing funds for a fiscal year, an amendment restricting the 
availability of funds appropriated pursuant thereto for a specified 
purpose until enactment of a subsequent law authorizing that purpose 
(July 21, 1983, p. 20198); to a bill authorizing humanitarian and 
evacuation assistance to war refugees, an amendment making such 
authorization contingent on a report to Congress on costs of a portion 
of the evacuation program (but not requiring implementation of any new 
program) (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11529); and to an amendment precluding the 
availability of an authorization for part of a fiscal year and then 
permitting availability for the remainder of the year based upon a 
contingency, an amendment constituting a prohibition on the availability 
of the same funds for the entire fiscal year (May 16, 1984, p. 12567).
  On the other hand, the following conditions on the availability of 
funds are not germane: an amendment conditioning the use of funds on the 
conduct of congressional hearings addressing an unrelated subject (July 
22, 1994, p. 17613); to a proposition conditioning the availability of 
funds upon the enactment of an authorizing statute for the enforcing 
agency, a substitute conditioning the availability of some of those 
funds upon a prohibition of certain imports into the United States (Nov. 
7, 1985, p. 30984); to a bill authorizing funds for military assistance 
to certain foreign countries, an amendment to make the availability of 
those funds contingent upon efforts by those countries to control 
narcotic traffic to the United States, and to authorize the President to 
offer the assistance of Federal agencies for that purpose, where the 
subjects of narcotics and the accessibility of Federal agencies are not 
contained in the bill (June 17, 1971, p. 20589); to a bill authorizing 
funds for foreign assistance, an amendment placing restrictions on funds 
authorized or appropriated in prior years (Aug. 24, 1967, p. 24002); to 
an amendment changing a dollar amount in a bill, a substitute therefor 
not only changing the figure but also restricting the use of any funds 
in furtherance of a certain activity (June 7, 1972, p. 19920); to a 
proposal to restrict availability of agency funds for a year and 
amending the organic law as it relates to the internal functions 
thereof, an amendment further restricting funding but also applying with 
respect to the use of funds in the bill provisions of criminal and other 
laws not applicable thereto (Oct. 26, 1989, p. 26269); to a provision 
prohibiting aid

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to a certain country unless certain conditions were met, an amendment 
prohibiting aid to another country until that nation took certain acts, 
and referring to funds provided in other acts (Nov. 17, 1967, p. 32968); 
an amendment conditioning the availability of defense funds to foreign 
contractors based upon their compliance with Federal law regarding 
discrimination not otherwise applicable to them (and within the 
jurisdiction of other committees) (June 16, 1983, p. 16060); and an 
amendment conditioning the availability of grants to states and 
localities based upon their compliance with Federal immigration law 
regarding employment eligibility verification not otherwise applicable 
to them (and within the jurisdiction of other committees) (Mar. 7, 2007, 
pp. 5618, 5619).
  An amendment to a general appropriation bill in the form of a 
limitation on funds therein for activities unrelated to the functions of 
departments and agencies addressed by the bill is not germane (July 10, 
2000, p. 13605).
  An amendment delaying the availability of authorizations pending 
unrelated determinations involving agencies and committee jurisdictions 
not within the purview of the bill is also not germane (Feb. 7, 1973, p. 
3708; July 8, 1981, p. 15010; July 9, 1981, p. 15218). Thus, the 
following are not germane: to a bill authorizing military assistance to 
Israel and funds for a U.N. emergency force in the Middle East, an 
amendment postponing the availability of funds to Israel until the 
President certifies the existence of a designated level of domestic 
energy supplies (Dec. 11, 1973, p. 40837); an amendment delaying the 
availability of an appropriation pending the enactment of certain 
revenue legislation (Oct. 25, 1979, p. 29639); to a bill authorizing 
radio broadcasting to Cuba, an amendment prohibiting the use of those 
funds until Congress has considered a constitutional amendment mandating 
a balanced budget (Aug. 10, 1982, p. 20250).
  Similarly, although it may be in order on a general appropriation bill 
to delay the availability of certain funds therein if the contingency 
does not impose new duties on executive officials, the contingency must 
be related to the funds being withheld and cannot affect other funds in 
the bill not related to that factual situation (VII, 1596, 1600), may 
not be made applicable to a trust fund provided (IV, 4017), and may not 
be made applicable to money appropriated in other acts (IV, 3927; VII, 
1495, 1597-1599). Thus, to a general appropriation bill containing funds 
not only for a former President but also for other departments and 
agencies, an amendment delaying the availability of all funds in the 
bill until the former President has made restitution of a designated 
amount of money is not germane (Oct. 2, 1974, p. 33620). On the other 
hand, to a general appropriation bill providing funds for the Department 
of Agriculture and including specific allocation of funds for pest 
control, an amendment was germane that prohibited the use of funds for 
use of pesticides prohibited by State or local law (May 26, 1969, p. 
13753).
  It is not in order to amend a bill to delay the effectiveness of the 
legislation pending an unrelated contingency (VIII, 3035, 3037). Thus 
the following are not germane: an amendment delaying the bill's 
effectiveness

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pending unrelated determinations involving agencies and committee 
jurisdictions not within the purview of the bill (Feb. 7, 1973, p. 3708; 
July 8, 1981, p. 15010; July 9, 1981, p. 15218); an amendment delaying 
the bill's effectiveness pending enactment of unrelated State 
legislation (June 29, 1967, p. 17921; July 28, 1993, p. 17401); an 
amendment conditioning authorization for one agency (National Science 
Foundation) on appropriations for another (National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration) (May 2, 2007, pp. 11093-95); to a bill proposing 
relief for women and children in Germany, an amendment delaying the 
effectiveness of such relief until a soldier's compensation act shall 
have been enacted (VIII, 3035); and to a bill naming an airport, an 
amendment conditioning the naming on approval by an entity without 
jurisdiction over the administration of the airport (Feb. 4, 1998, p. 
794). On the other hand, the following are germane: an amendment 
delaying operation of a proposed enactment pending an ascertainment of a 
fact when the fact to be ascertained relates to the subject matter of 
the bill (VIII, 3029; Dec. 15, 1982, pp. 30957-61); an amendment 
postponing the effective date of a title of a bill to a date certain 
(July 25, 1973, p. 25828); to a provision to become effective 
immediately, an amendment deferring the time at which it shall become 
effective, without involving affirmative legislation (VIII, 3030).
  Where a proposition confers broad discretionary power on an executive 
official, an amendment is germane that directs that official to take 
certain actions in the exercise of the authority or proposes to limit 
such authority (VIII, 3022). Thus the following are germane: to an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute authorizing the Federal Energy 
Administrator to restrict exports of certain energy resources, an 
amendment directing that official to prohibit the exportation of 
petroleum products for use in Indochina military operations (Dec. 14, 
1973, p. 41753); to a provision conferring Presidential authority to 
establish priorities among users of petroleum products and requiring 
priority to education and transportation users, an amendment restricting 
such regulatory authority by requiring that petroleum products allocated 
for public school transportation be used only between the student's home 
and the closest school (Dec. 13, 1973, pp. 41267-69); to a bill 
extending the authorities of one government agency, including 
requirements for consultation with several other agencies, an amendment 
requiring that agency to perform a function based upon an analysis 
furnished by yet another agency, as an additional limitation on the 
authority of the agency being extended that did not separately mandate 
the performance of an unrelated function by another entity (July 27, 
1978, p. 23107); to a proposition authorizing a program to be 
undertaken, a substitute providing for a study to determine the 
feasibility of undertaking the same type of program, as a more limited 
approach involving the same agency (June 26, 1985, pp. 17453, 17458, 
17460) (in effect overruling VIII, 2989); and to a bill limiting an 
official's authority to construe legal authorities transferred to the 
official in the bill, an amendment further restricting such official's 
authority to construe under any circumstances certain other

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laws to be administered by that official (as an additional, although 
more restrictive, curtailment of existing authorities transferred by the 
bill) (June 11, 1979, pp. 14226-38).
  An amendment providing a privileged procedure for expedited review of 
an agency's regulations is not germane if the bill does not contain such 
procedures (Aug. 13, 1982, pp. 20969, 20975-78). On the other hand, to a 
bill authorizing an agency to undertake certain activities, an amendment 
allowing Congress to disapprove regulations issued pursuant thereto if 
the disapproval mechanism does not amend the rules or procedures of the 
House is germane (May 4, 1976, p. 12348); and to a bill directing the 
furnishing of certain intelligence information to the House without 
amending any House procedure, an amendment imposing relevant conditions 
of security on the handling of such information in committee (also 
without amending any House procedure) for the period covered by the bill 
is also germane (June 11, 1991, p. 14204).
  It is germane to condition or restrict assistance to a particular 
class of recipient covered by the underlying measure. Thus, the 
following are germane: to a bill providing aid to shipping, an amendment 
to limit such aid to ships equipped with saving devices (VIII, 3027); to 
a bill authorizing the insurance of vessels, an amendment denying such 
insurance to vessels charging exorbitant rates (VIII, 3023); to a 
proposition denying benefits to recipients failing to meet a certain 
qualification, a substitute denying the same benefits to some recipients 
but excepting others (July 28, 1982, pp. 18355-58, 18361). Although a 
bill relating to benefits based on indemnification of liability arising 
out of an activity does not ordinarily admit as germane amendments 
relating to regulation of that activity, an amendment conditioning 
benefits upon agreement by its recipient to be governed by certain 
safety regulations may be germane if related to the activity giving rise 
to the liability (July 29, 1987, p. 21448). On the other hand, it is not 
germane to condition or restrict assistance to a particular class of 
recipient upon an unrelated contingency such as action or inaction by 
another class of recipient or agent not covered by the bill (Mar. 5, 
1986, p. 3613).
  To a bill not only granting consent of Congress to an interstate 
compact but also imposing conditions on the granting of that consent, an 
amendment stating an additional related condition to that consent and 
not directly changing the compact may be germane (Oct. 7, 1997, p. 
21475). To a bill regulating immigration, an amendment providing that 
the operation of the act should not conflict with an agreement with 
Japan is not germane (VIII, 3050).
  Amendments providing exceptions or exemptions must also be within the 
scope of the proposition. Thus, to a bill requiring that a certain 
percentage of autos sold in the United States be manufactured 
domestically, and imposing an import restriction on autos for persons 
violating that requirement, an amendment waiving those restrictions with 
respect to a foreign nation where the President has issued a 
proclamation that that nation

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is not imposing unfair import restrictions on any United States product 
was held not germane, because it dealt with overall trade issues rather 
than domestic content requirement for autos sold in the United States 
(Nov. 2, 1983, p. 30542). However, an amendment to the same bill 
prohibiting its implementation if resulting in the violation of an 
international agreement was held germane because the bill already 
comprehensively addressed those subject matters by disclaiming any 
purpose to amend international agreements or to confer court 
jurisdiction relative thereto and by conferring court jurisdiction over 
adjudication of penalties assessed under the bill (Nov. 2, 1983, pp. 
30546, 30547). Similarly, the following are germane: to a bill providing 
for the deportation of aliens, an amendment to exempt a portion of such 
aliens from deportation (VIII, 3029); to a bill prohibiting the issuance 
of injunctions by the courts in labor disputes, an amendment to except 
labor disputes affecting public utilities (VIII, 3024).

Readings
  8. <> Bills 
and joint resolutions are subject to readings as follows:
      (a) A first reading is in full when the bill or joint resolution 
is first considered.
      (b) A second reading occurs only when the bill or joint resolution 
is read for amendment in a Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union under clause 5 of rule XVIII.
      (c) A third reading precedes passage when the Speaker states the 
question: ``Shall the bill [or joint resolution] be engrossed [when 
applicable] and read a third time?'' If that question is decided in the 
affirmative, then the bill or joint resolution shall be read the final 
time by title and then the question shall be put on its passage.

  This provision (formerly clause 1 of rule XXI) was adopted in 1789, 
amended in 1794, 1880 (IV, 3391), and on Jan. 4, 1965 (H. Res. 8, 89th 
Cong., p. 21). This latest amendment eliminated the provision that 
permitted a Member to demand the reading in full of the engrossed copy 
of

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a House bill. Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXI. The 
recodification also clarified paragraphs (a) and (b) to reflect the 
modern practice of first and second readings (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47).
  Formerly a <> bill was 
read for the first time by title at the time of its introduction, but 
since 1890 all bills have been introduced by filing them with the Clerk, 
thus rendering a reading by title impossible at that time (IV, 3391). 
But the titles of all bills introduced are printed in the Journal and 
Record, thereby carrying out the real purpose of the rule.
  Under paragraph (a), the first reading of a bill is in full and occurs 
when a bill is called up in the House (IV, 3391), although when called 
up pursuant to a unanimous-consent request, it is reported by title only 
(Dec. 18, 2005, p. 30269). The initial step of consideration in the 
Committee of the Whole is sometimes referred to as the ``first 
reading.'' Under clause 5 of rule XVIII that reading is in full and 
occurs before general debate commences. However, it customarily is 
dispensed with by unanimous consent or special rule, although a motion 
to dispense with the first reading is not in order (VIII, 2335, 2436). 
The Speaker may object to a request for unanimous consent to dispense 
with the first reading (IV, 3390; VII, 1054).
  Under paragraph (b), the second reading of a bill comprises its 
reading for amendment in the Committee of the Whole (Apr. 28, 1977, p. 
12635).
  The right to <> demand the reading in full of the engrossed copy of a 
bill formerly guaranteed by the rule existed immediately after it had 
been ordered to be engrossed and before it had been read a third time by 
title (IV, 3400, 3403, 3404; VII, 1061); and before the yeas and nays 
had been ordered on passage (IV, 3402). The right to demand the reading 
in full caused the bill to be laid aside until engrossed even though the 
previous question had been ordered (IV, 3395-3399; VII, 1062). A 
privileged motion may not intervene before the third reading (IV, 3405), 
and the question on engrossment and third reading is not subject to a 
demand for division of the question (Aug. 3, 1989, p. 18544). A vote on 
passage must first be reconsidered to remedy the omission to read a bill 
a third time (IV, 3406). Senate bills are not engrossed in the House; 
but are ordered to a third reading. The demand for the reading of the 
engrossed copy of a Senate bill cannot be made in the House (VIII, 
2426).
  A bill in <> the House (as 
distinguished from the Committee of the Whole) is amended pending the 
engrossment and third reading (V, 5781; VI, 1051, 1052). The question on 
engrossment and third reading being decided in the negative the bill is 
rejected (IV, 3420, 3421). A bill must be considered and voted on by 
itself (IV, 3408). If the two Houses pass similar but distinct bills on 
the same subject it is necessary that one or the other House act again 
on the subject (IV, 3386). The requirement of a two-thirds vote for 
proposed constitutional

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amendments has been construed in the later practice to apply only to the 
vote on the final passage (V, 7029, 7030; VIII, 3504). A bill having 
been rejected by the House, consideration of a similar but not identical 
bill on the same subject was afterwards held to be in order (IV, 3384).




                                Rule XVII

                           decorum and debate

Decorum
  1. (a) <> A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
desires to speak or deliver a matter to the House shall rise and 
respectfully address the Speaker and, on being recognized, may address 
the House from any place on the floor. When invited by the Chair, a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may speak from the Clerk's 
desk.
  (b) Remarks in debate (which may include references to the Senate or 
its Members) shall be confined to the question under debate, avoiding 
personality.

  This clause (formerly clause 1 of rule XIV) was adopted in 1880, but 
was made up, in its main provisions, of older rules, which dated from 
1789 and 1811 (V, 4979). A rule of comity prohibiting most references in 
debate to the Senate was first enunciated in Jefferson's Manual and was 
strictly enforced in the House through the 108th Congress (albeit with 
certain exceptions adopted in the 100th and 101st Congresses outlined in 
former paragraph (b)) (Sec. 371, supra; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6; 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). In the 109th Congress the exceptions 
were deleted and the parenthetical in paragraph (b) was inserted (sec. 
2(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). A gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). This clause, and rulings of the Chair with respect to 
references in debate to the Senate, are discussed in Sec. Sec. 361, 371, 
supra.
  The Speaker, who has a responsibility under rule I to maintain and 
enforce decorum in debate, and the chair of the Committee of the Whole,

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who enforces decorum in debate under rule XVIII, have reminded and 
advised Members of the following: (1) clause 1 requires Members seeking 
recognition to rise and to address themselves to the question under 
debate, avoiding personality; (2) Members should address their remarks 
to the Chair only and not to other entities such as the press or the 
viewing audience, and the Chair takes the initiative to enforce this 
rule (see, e.g., Nov. 8, 1979, p. 31519; Sept. 29, 1983, p. 26501; Dec. 
17, 1987, p. 36139; Oct. 17, 2005, p. 22907); (3) Members should not 
refer to or address any occupant of the galleries; (4) Members should 
refer to other Members in debate only in the third person, by State 
designation (Speaker O'Neill, June 14, 1978, p. 17615; Oct. 2, 1984, p. 
28520; Mar. 7, 1985, p. 5028) and may not direct remarks to a former 
Member present on the floor (Apr. 9, 2014, p. _); (5) Members should 
refrain from using profanity or vulgarity in debate (Mar. 5, 1991, p. 
5036; Feb. 18, 1993, p. 2973; Nov. 17, 1995, p. 33744; July 23, 1998, p. 
17032; Oct. 11, 2000, p. 22189; Oct. 2, 2003, pp. 23949, 23950; Mar. 10, 
2004, p. 3849; May 21, 2014, p. _); (6) the Chair may interrupt a Member 
engaging in personalities with respect to another Member of the House, 
as the Chair does with respect to such references to the Senate or the 
President (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551); (7) Members should refrain from 
discussing the President's personal character (May 10, 1994, p. 9697); 
(8) Members should heed the gavel (see, e.g., Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4081; 
Oct. 2, 2003, p. 23950; May 19, 2004, pp. 10107, 10108) because ignoring 
the gavel is not an act of civil disobedience but rather an act of stark 
incivility (July 28, 2009, p. 19565), and remarks uttered in debate 
while not under recognition do not appear in the Congressional Record 
(e.g., May 22, 2003, p. 12965; Oct. 2, 2003, p. 23950; May 19, 2004, pp. 
10107, 10108); (9) Members may not use audio devices during debate (May 
24, 2005, p. 11008). The Speaker has deplored the tendency to address 
remarks directly to the President (or others not in the Chamber) in the 
second person, and cautions Members on the Chair's own initiative (see, 
e.g., Oct. 16, 1989, p. 24715; Oct. 17, 1989, p. 24764; Jan. 24, 1990, 
p. 426; Oct. 9, 1991, p. 25999; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 2012, p. _; 
Speaker Boehner, Feb. 26, 2013, p. _; Oct. 8, 2013, p. _; Speaker 
Boehner, Mar. 25, 2014, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, p. _). 
Even when referring in debate to the Speaker, Members direct their 
remarks to the occupant of the Chair (Nov. 1, 1983, p. 30267).
  Members should refrain from speaking disrespectfully of the Speaker or 
arraigning the personal conduct of the Speaker, and under the precedents 
the sanctions for such violations transcend the ordinary requirements 
for timeliness of challenges (II, 1248; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551; Jan. 18, 
1995, p. 1441; Jan. 19, 1995, p. 1599). Engaging in personalities with 
respect to the Speaker's conduct is not in order even though possibly 
relevant to a pending resolution granting him certain authority (Sept. 
24, 1996, p. 24485).
  This clause also has been interpreted to proscribe the wearing of 
badges by Members to communicate a message, because Members must rise 
and

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address the Speaker to deliver any matter to the House (Speaker O'Neill, 
Apr. 15, 1986, p. 7525; Feb. 22, 1995, p. 5435; Mar. 29, 1995, p. 9662; 
Oct. 19, 1995, pp. 28522, 28540, 28646; Nov. 17, 1995, p. 5435; Mar. 7, 
1996, p. 4083; Sept. 26, 1996, p. 25117; July 24, 1998, p. 17157; Sept. 
28, 2000, p. 19940; Sept. 22, 2004, p. 18967; May 22, 2013, p. _). A 
Member's comportment may constitute a breach of decorum even though the 
content of that Member's speech is not, itself, unparliamentary (July 
29, 1994, p. 18609). Under this standard the Chair may deny recognition 
to a Member who has engaged in unparliamentary debate and ignored 
repeated admonitions by the Chair to proceed in order, subject to the 
will of the House on the question of proceeding in order (Sept. 18, 
1996, p. 23535).
  For further discussion of personalities in debate with respect to 
references to the official conduct of a Member, see Sec. Sec. 361-363, 
supra; with respect to references to the President, see Sec. 370, supra; 
and with respect to references to the Senate, see Sec. Sec. 371-374, 
supra.
  Aside from ``special-order,'' ``morning-hour,'' or ``one-minute'' 
debate, where no question is pending and recognition is by unanimous 
consent or leadership listings, it is a general rule that a motion must 
be made before a Member may proceed in debate (V, 4984, 4985), and this 
motion must be reduced to writing upon demand (V, 4986). A motion must 
also be stated by the Speaker or read by the Clerk before debate may 
begin (V, 4982, 4983, 5304). The withdrawal of a motion precludes 
further debate on it (V, 4989). But sometimes when a communication or a 
report has been before the House it has been debated before any specific 
motion has been made in relation to it (V, 4987, 4988). In a few cases, 
such as conference reports and reports from the Committee of the Whole, 
the motion to agree is considered as pending without being offered from 
the floor (IV, 4896; V, 6517).
  A <> Member 
having the floor may not be deprived of it by an ordinary motion, even 
the highly privileged motion to adjourn (V, 5369, 5370; VIII, 2646), or 
the motion to table (Mar. 18, 1992, p. 6022), a parliamentary inquiry 
(VIII, 2455-2458), a question of privilege (V, 5002; VIII, 2459), a 
motion that the Committee rise (VIII, 2325), or a demand for the 
previous question (VIII, 2609; Mar. 18, 1992, p. 6022), but may be 
interrupted for a conference report (V, 6451; VIII, 3294) or by a point 
of order (e.g., June 24, 2008, pp. 13499, 13500). It is a custom also 
for the Speaker to request a Member to yield for the reception of a 
message. A Member may yield the floor for a motion to adjourn or that 
the Committee of the Whole rise without losing the right to continue 
when the subject is again continued (V, 5009-5013), but if the House has 
by resolution vested control of general debate in the Committee of the 
Whole in designated Members, their control of general debate may not be 
abrogated by another Member moving to rise, unless they yield for that 
purpose (May 25, 1967, p. 14121; June 10, 1999, p. 12471). A Member may 
also be seated while a paper is being read on the Member's

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time without losing the right to the floor (V, 5015). A Member who, 
having the floor, moved the previous question was permitted to resume 
the floor on withdrawing the motion (V, 5474). But a Member may not 
yield to another Member to offer an amendment without losing the floor 
(V, 5021, 5030, 5031; VIII, 2476), and a Member may not offer an 
amendment in time secured for debate only (VIII, 2474), or request 
unanimous consent to offer an amendment unless yielded to for that 
purpose by the Member controlling the floor (Sept. 24, 1986, p. 25589; 
May 11, 2006, p. 7877). A Member recognized under the five-minute rule 
in the Committee of the Whole may not yield to another Member to offer 
an amendment, because it is within the power of the Chair to recognize 
Members to offer amendments (Apr. 19, 1973, p. 13240; Dec. 12, 1973, p. 
41171). A Member desiring to interrupt another in debate should address 
the Chair for permission of the Member speaking (V, 5006; VI, 193), but 
the latter may exercise discretion as to whether or not to yield (V, 
5007, 5008; VI, 193; VIII, 2463, 2465). It is not in order to disrupt a 
Member's remarks in debate by repeatedly interrupting to ask whether the 
Member will yield after having declined to do so (Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040; 
Nov. 13, 1997, p. 26533; Apr. 2, 2009, pp. 9692, 9693). If a Member 
interrupts another during debate without being yielded to or otherwise 
recognized (as on a point of order), such remarks are not printed in the 
Record (Speaker O'Neill, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2229; July 21, 1993, p. 16545; 
July 29, 1994, p. 18609). Members should not engage in disruption while 
another is speaking (Dec. 20, 1995, p. 37878; June 27, 1996, p. 15915).
  The <> Speaker may of right speak 
from the Chair on questions of order and be first heard (II, 1367), but 
with this exception may speak from the Chair only by leave of the House 
and on questions of fact (II, 1367-1372). On occasions comparatively 
rare Speakers have called Members to the Chair and participated in 
debate on questions of order or matters relating to their own conduct or 
rights, usually without asking consent of the House (II, 1367, 1368, 
1371; III, 1950; V, 6097). In more recent years, Speakers have 
frequently entered into debate from the floor on substantive legislative 
issues before the House for decision, and the right to participate in 
debate in the Committee of the Whole is without question (see, e.g., 
Apr. 30, 1987, p. 10811).
  It <> has 
always been held, and generally quite strictly, that in the House 
remarks must be confined to the subject under debate (V, 5043-5048; VI, 
576; VIII, 2481, 2534). The Chair normally does not take initiative but 
waits for the question of relevancy of debate to be raised (Sept. 27, 
1990, p. 26226; Mar. 23, 1995, p. 8986; Nov. 14, 1995, pp. 32354-57, 
32374; Dec. 15, 1995, p. 37118; Mar. 12, 1996, p. 4149; Mar. 20, 2002, 
p. 3663), which is untimely after intervening debate (July 31, 2007, p. 
21963).
  During debate on a bill, a Member under recognition must confine 
remarks to the pending legislation; that is, remarks must not dwell on 
an

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other measure not before the House (Nov. 4, 1999, p. 28524; July 31, p. 
21970), but rather must maintain a constant nexus between debate and the 
subject of the bill (Nov. 14, 1995, pp. 32354-57; Mar. 12, 1996, p. 
4450; Mar. 20, 2002, pp. 3663-64; June 3, 2003, p. 13483, p. 13486). 
Although remarks comparing a pending question to a broader policy 
concern may be relevant, discussion of the broader policy concern may 
not stray from its nexus to the pending question (July 31, 2007, p. 
21965, p. 21966, p. 21967). Debate on a motion to amend must be confined 
to the amendment (or the second-degree amendment, as the case may be 
(July 31, 2007, p. 21966, p. 21969)), and may neither include the 
general merits of the bill (V, 5049-5051), nor range to the merits of a 
proposition not included in the underlying resolution (Jan. 31, 1995, p. 
3032). Similarly, debate on a motion to recommit with instructions 
should be confined to the subject of the motion rather than dwelling on 
the general merits of the bill (Mar. 7, 1996, p. 4092). However, the 
Chair has accorded Members latitude in debating a series of amendments 
in the nature of a substitute to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
(Mar. 25, 1999, p. 5734). On a motion to suspend the rules, debate is 
confined to the object of the motion and may not range to the merits of 
a bill not scheduled for such consideration (Nov. 23, 1991, p. 34189; 
June 11, 2002, p. 9997). Debate on a special order providing for the 
consideration of a bill may range to the merits of the bill to be made 
in order (Sept. 26, 1989, p. 21532; Oct. 16, 1990, p. 29668; Oct. 1, 
1991, p. 24836), because the question of consideration of the bill is 
involved, but should not range to the merits of a measure not to be 
considered under that special order (Sept. 27, 1990, p. 26226; July 25, 
1995, p. 20323; Sept. 20, 1995, p. 15838; Dec. 15, 1995, p. 37118; May 
1, 1996, p. 9888; May 8, 1996, p. 10511; May 15, 1996, p. 1131; Mar. 13, 
1997, p. 3833; Mar. 20, 2002, p. 3664) or to the Rules of the House in 
general (July 9, 2004, pp. 14971, 14972, 14976 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)). Debate on a resolution providing authorities to expedite the 
consideration of end-of-session legislation may neither range to the 
merits of a measure that might or might not be considered under such 
authorities nor engage in personalities with respect to the official 
conduct of the Speaker, even as asserted to relate to the question of 
granting the authorities proposed (Sept. 24, 1996, pp. 24485, 24486). If 
a unanimous-consent request for a Member to address the House for one 
hour specifies the subject of the address, the occupant of the Chair 
during that speech may enforce the rule of relevancy in debate by 
requiring that the remarks be confined to the subject so specified (Jan. 
23, 1984, p. 93). Debate on a question of personal privilege must be 
confined to the statements or issue that gave rise to the question of 
privilege (V, 5075-5077; VI, 576, 608; VIII, 2448, 2481; May 31, 1984, 
p. 14623). Debate on a privileged resolution recommending disciplinary 
action against a Member, although it may include comparisons with other 
such actions taken by or reported to the House for purposes of measuring 
severity of punishment, may not extend to the conduct of another sitting 
Member not the subject of a committee report

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(Dec. 18, 1987, p. 36271). The question whether a Member should be 
relieved from committee service is debatable only within very narrow 
limits (IV, 4510; June 16, 1975, p. 19056). Debate on a resolution 
electing a Member to a committee is confined to the election of that 
Member and should not extend to that committee's agenda (July 10, 1995, 
p. 18258).
  Although Speakers have entertained appeals from decisions as to 
irrelevancy, they have held such appeals not debatable (V, 5056-5063).
  Under prior practice in Committee of the Whole, remarks did not have 
to be confined to the subject during general debate (V, 5233-5238; VIII, 
2590; June 28, 1974, p. 21743); but under modern practice a special 
order providing for consideration of a measure in the Committee of the 
Whole typically does require such relevance in debate. All five-minute 
debate in Committee of the Whole is confined to the subject (V, 5240-
5256; July 31, 2007, p. 21969 (sustained on appeal)), even on a pro 
forma amendment (VIII, 2591), in which case debate must relate to an 
issue in the pending portion of the bill (VIII, 2592, 2593); thus, if a 
general provisions title is pending debate may relate to any agency 
funded by the bill (June 13, 1991, p. 14692).

Recognition
<>   2. When two or more 
Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner rise at once, the 
Speaker shall name the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is 
first to speak. * * *

  This provision was adopted in 1789 (V, 4978). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 2 of rule XIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  In the early history of the House, when business proceeded on 
presentation by individual Members, the Speaker recognized the Member 
who arose first; and in case of doubt there was an appeal from such 
recognition (II, 1429-1434). But as the membership and business of the 
House increased it became necessary to establish and adhere to a fixed 
order of business, and recognitions, instead of pertaining to the 
individual Member, necessarily came to pertain to the bill or other 
business that would be before the House under the rule regulating the 
order of business. Hence the necessity that the Speaker should not be 
compelled to heed the claims of Members as individuals was expressed in 
1879 in a report from the Committee on Rules, which declared that ``in 
the nature of the case discretion must be lodged with the presiding 
officer'' (II, 1424). And in 1881 the Speaker declined to entertain an 
appeal from his decision on a question of recognition (II, 1425-1428), 
establishing thereby a line of precedent that continues (VI, 292; VIII, 
2429, 2646, 2762). It also has been determined that a Member may not 
invoke clause 6 of rule XIV (formerly rule XXV)

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(Sec. 884, supra), providing that questions relating to the priority of 
business shall be decided by a majority without debate, to inhibit the 
Speaker's power of recognition under this clause (Speaker Albert, July 
31, 1975, p. 26249). A Member desiring to be recognized should take the 
time to do so properly (Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 2012, p. _; Speaker 
Boehner, Feb. 26, 2013, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Mar. 25, 2014, p. _; 
Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, p. _).--
  Recognition <> for one-minute speeches by unanimous consent and the order 
of recognition therefor are entirely within the discretion of the 
Speaker (Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32657; Mar. 7, 2001, p. 3027; Sept. 28, 2012, 
p. _), who may refuse to recognize for them until the completion of 
legislative business (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 73; July 24, 1980, p. 
19386) or decline a unanimous-consent request to increase the number 
(Mar. 7, 2001, p. 3027; Sept. 16, 2008, p. 19204; Mar. 21, 2010, p. 
4092; Feb. 27, 2015, p. _). It is not in order to raise as a question of 
the privileges of the House a resolution directing the Speaker to 
recognize for such speeches, because a question of privilege cannot 
amend or interpret the Rules of the House (July 25, 1980, pp. 19762-64). 
The modern practice of limiting recognition before legislative business 
to one minute began August 2, 1937 (p. 8004) and was reiterated by 
Speaker Rayburn on March 6, 1945 (Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 6.1). Although 
the Chair's calculation of time consumed under one-minute speeches is 
not subject to challenge, the Chair endeavors to recognize majority and 
then minority Members by allocating time in a nonpartisan manner (Aug. 
4, 1982, p. 19319). The Speaker will traditionally recognize a Member 
only once per day by unanimous consent for a one-minute speech, and will 
not entertain a second request (Speaker McCormack, June 11, 1963, p. 
10634; May 1, 1985, p. 9995; July 21, 2009, pp. 18493, 18494) or a 
request to extend recognition beyond one minute (Speaker McCormack, June 
11, 1963, p. 10633; Jan. 7, 2014, p. _).
  Since the 98th Congress the Speaker has followed announced policies of 
alternating recognition for one-minute speeches and special-order 
speeches between majority and minority Members (Speaker O'Neill, Aug. 8, 
1984, p. 22963; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551). In the 101st Congress, the Chair 
continued the practice of alternating recognition for one-minute 
speeches but began a practice of recognizing Members suggested by their 
party leadership before others in the well (Apr. 19, 1990, p. 7406). 
From August 8, 1984, through February 23, 1994, the Speaker also 
followed an announced policy of recognizing Members of the same party 
within a given category in the order in which their unanimous-consent 
requests for special orders were granted (Speaker O'Neill, Aug. 8, 1984, 
p. 22963; Jan. 5, 1993, p. 106). On February 24, 1994, the Speaker 
announced a new policy governing recognition for special-order speeches. 
The Speaker announced that the Chair would recognize for speeches of 
five minutes or less before longer speeches, and that Members may not 
enter requests for five-minute special orders earlier than one week in 
advance. With respect to recognition for

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longer special orders, the Speaker announced a policy of recognition 
that would depend not on orders by unanimous consent but, rather, on 
lists submitted by the respective party Leaders. This policy, the result 
of bipartisan negotiations, was a departure from the modern practice as 
described in Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 7.1 (special-order speeches 
following legislative business are enabled only by unanimous consent). 
In the 112th Congress, the Speaker announced a new policy (effective 
February 1, 2011) of recognizing only for longer speeches following 
legislative business (Speaker Boehner, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 105). Under the 
Speaker's policy: (1) recognition does not extend beyond 10 p.m.; (2) 
recognition is limited to four hours equally divided between the 
majority and minority; (3) the first hour for each party is reserved to 
its respective Leader or designee; (4) the second hour for each party is 
divided into two 30-minute periods; (5) time within each party is 
allotted in accord with a list submitted to the Chair by the respective 
Leader, and time not claimed at the appropriate point is considered to 
have expired; (6) recognition for the first hour alternates between the 
parties from day to day; (7) the respective Leaders may establish 
additional guidelines for entering requests; and (8) the Speaker may 
withdraw recognition should circumstances warrant (Feb. 11, 1994, p. 
2244; May 23, 1994, pp. 11459; June 10, 1994, p. 12684; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
551; Feb. 16, 1995, p. 5096; May 12, 1995, p. 12765; Jan. 21, 1997, p. 
460; Jan. 31, 2001, p. 1078; Jan. 5, 2011, p. 105; Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  The Chair will recognize for subdivisions of the first hour for each 
party only on designations (and reallocations) by the leadership 
concerned (Oct. 2, 1998, p. 23151; Dec. 12, 2001, p. 25605; June 21, 
2012, p. _; Feb. 14, 2013, p. _). A Member who is recognized to control 
time during special orders may yield to colleagues for such amounts of 
time as the Member may deem appropriate but may not yield blocks of time 
to be enforced by the Chair. Members regulate the duration of their 
yielding by reclaiming the time when appropriate (Jan. 31, 2001, p. 
1078). Neither a one-hour (Mar. 6, 2012, p. _) nor 30-minute (Mar. 6, 
2012, p. _) special order may be extended, even by unanimous consent. 
Under a former stricture, the Chair did not entertain a unanimous-
consent request to extend a five-minute special-order speech (Mar. 7, 
1995, p. 7152; Sept. 29, 2009, pp. 22877, 22878), to recognize for a 
special-order speech after midnight (May 10, 2007, p. 12222), or to 
extend a special-order speech beyond midnight (Oct. 7, 1998, p. 24394).
  The Chair may withdraw recognition during a special-order speech, 
declare a recess under clause 12 of rule I, and following the recess 
confer recognition for the remainder of the speech (Nov. 4, 2009, p. 
26795).-
  Beginning <> in the second 
session of the 103d Congress, the House has by unanimous consent agreed 
(without prejudice to the Speaker's ultimate power of recognition under 
this rule) to convene early on certain days for morning-hour debate 
(e.g., Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2244; May 23, 1994, p. 11458; June 8, 1994,

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p. 12305; June 10, 1994, p. 12684; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551; Feb. 16, 1995, 
p. 5096). On May 12, 1995 (p. 12765), the House extended and modified 
the above order to accommodate earlier convening times after mid-May of 
each year. Through the 111th Congress, the order applied only to Mondays 
and Tuesdays. Beginning on February 1, 2011, the House expanded the 
order to include Wednesdays and Thursdays. The above-cited orders of the 
House: (1) postpone the Prayer, approval of the Journal, and the Pledge 
of Allegiance during morning-hour debate; and (2) require the Chair to 
recognize Members for not more than five minutes each, alternating 
between the majority and minority parties in accord with lists supplied 
by their respective Leaders. Beginning in the 112th Congress, the order 
was altered to allow the filing of privileged reports during morning-
hour debate (Jan. 5, 2011, p. 104; see, e.g., June 20, 2012, p. _; Aug. 
1, 2012, p. _). Beginning in the second session of the 113th Congress, 
the order was altered to allow the Speaker to dispense with morning-hour 
debate upon receipt of a notification of an impairment at the place of 
reconvening under clause 12(c) of rule I (Jan. 7, 2014, p. _; Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _; see Sec. 639, supra). Under the customary order of the House 
establishing morning-hour debate, the Chair does not entertain a 
unanimous-consent request to extend a five-minute period of recognition 
(Apr. 28, 1998, p. 6924; Nov. 12, 2002, p. 21327) or to extend 
recognition beyond the specified termination (10 minutes before 
convening) (Jan. 2, 2013, p. _). The Chair may not recognize a request 
for legislative business (Feb. 27, 2013, p. _; Feb. 26, 2015, p. _) or 
that a name be removed from a list of cosponsors of a bill (Apr. 26, 
1994, p. 8544). The Chair may withdraw recognition during morning-hour 
debate (Mar. 28, 2012, p. _).-
  In <> the 103d Congress the 
House agreed by unanimous consent to conduct at a time designated by the 
Speaker structured debate on a mutually agreeable topic announced by the 
Speaker, with four participants from each party in a format announced by 
the Speaker (Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2244; Mar. 11, 1994, p. 4772; May 23, 
1994, p. 11458; June 8, 1994, p. 12305; June 10, 1994, p. 12648). 
Pursuant to that authority the House conducted three ``Oxford-style'' 
debates (Mar. 16, 1994, p. 5088; May 4, 1994, p. 9300; July 20, 1994, p. 
17245). As a precursor to those structured debates, special-order time 
was used for a ``Lincoln-Douglas-style'' debate involving five Members, 
with one Member acting as ``moderator'' by controlling the hour under 
this clause (Nov. 3, 1993, p. 27312).
  Although <> there is no appeal from the Speaker's recognition, the 
Speaker is not a free agent in determining who is to have the floor. The 
practice of the House establishes rules from which the Speaker should 
not depart. For example, when the order of business brings before the 
House a certain bill the Speaker must first recognize, for motions for 
its disposition, the Member who represents the committee that has 
reported it (II, 1447; VI, 306, 514). This is not necessarily the chair 
of the committee, for a

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chair who, in committee, has opposed the bill, must yield the prior 
recognition to a member of the committee who has favored the bill (II, 
1449). Usually, however, the chair has charge of the bill and is 
entitled at all stages to prior recognition for allowable motions 
intended to expedite it (II, 1452, 1457; VI, 296, 300). This principle 
does not, however, apply to the chair of the Committee of the Whole (II, 
1453). Once the proponent of a pending motion has been recognized for 
debate thereon, a unanimous-consent request to modify the motion may be 
entertained only if the proponent yields for that purpose (Jan. 5, 1996, 
p. 348). The Chair will entertain a unanimous-consent request regarding 
the disposition of the measure only if the majority manager yields for 
that purpose in the case of a motion to instruct conferees (Mar. 29, 
2006, p. 4377); a measure on which the previous question has been 
ordered without intervening motion (Feb. 10, 2000, p. 1019; Feb. 13, 
2007, p. 3877, p. 3878; Mar. 4, 2010, pp. 2608, 2609; July 1, 2010, pp. 
12633, 12634 (Chair corrected himself); Feb. 10, 2011, p. 1497, p. 1509, 
p. 1521; July 11, 2013, p. _); or a measure on which time has been 
yielded under the hour rule solely for the purpose of debate (Dec. 16, 
2005, p. 29061; Nov. 7, 2007, p. 30354; May 25, 2011, p. 7881; Feb. 14, 
2013, p. _; Apr. 8, 2014, p. _, p. _; May 21, 2014, p. _; July 30, 2014, 
p. _; Jan. 21, 2015, p. _), even if the Chair has not yet conferred 
recognition for debate (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 30.5; May 17, 2012, 
p. _). Where time has been yielded under the hour rule solely for the 
purpose of debate, the Chair may take cognizance of the majority 
manager's refusal to yield for a unanimous-consent request for the 
consideration or disposition of another measure, and need not verify 
such refusal in each instance (Mar. 26, 2014, p. _; Aug. 1, 2014, p. _). 
Even if a request is not entertained under these strictures, a 
unanimous-consent request embellished with oratory constitutes debate 
and can become an imposition on the time of the manager who yielded 
(Oct. 2, 2013, p. _; Jan. 15, 2014, p. _; Mar. 26, 2014, p. _; Aug. 1, 
2014, p. _).
  The Member who introduces a bill has no claim to recognition as 
opposed to members of the reporting committee, but in cases in which a 
proposition is brought directly before the House the mover is entitled 
to prior recognition for motions and debate (II, 1446, 1454; VI, 302-
305, 417; VIII, 2454, 3231). This principle applies to the makers of 
certain motions. Thus, the Member on whose motion the enacting clause of 
a bill is stricken in Committee of the Whole is entitled to prior 
recognition when the bill is reported to the House (V, 5337; VIII, 
2629). Where a Member raises an objection in a joint session to count 
the electoral vote, and the Houses separate to consider the objection, 
the Chair first recognizes that Member (III, 1956; Jan. 6, 2005, p. 199) 
or a co-signer of the objection (Jan. 6, 1969, pp. 145-7). But a Member 
may not, by offering a debatable motion of higher privilege than the 
pending motion, deprive the Member in charge of the bill of possession 
of the floor for debate (II, 1460-1463; VI, 290, 297-299; VIII, 2454, 
3193, 3197, 3259). The Member in charge of the bill and having the floor 
may demand the previous question, although another Member

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may propose to offer a motion of higher privilege (VIII, 2684); but the 
motion of higher privilege must be put before the previous question (V, 
5480; VIII, 2684). When the House establishes a special order for 
consideration of a measure, only a manager identified by the terms of 
that order is recognized to call up the measure (Deschler, ch. 21, 
Sec. 1.25; Jan. 18, 2007, p. 1624). The Member who has been recognized 
to call up a measure in the House has priority of recognition to move 
the previous question thereon, even over the chair of the committee 
reporting that measure (Oct. 1, 1986, p. 27468).
  The fact that a Member has the floor on one matter does not 
necessarily entitle the Member to prior recognition on a motion relating 
to another matter (II, 1464). It is because the Speaker is governed by 
these usages that the Speaker often asks a Member seeking recognition, 
``For what purpose does the gentleman (or gentlewoman) seek 
recognition?''. By this question the Speaker determines whether the 
Member proposes business or a motion that is entitled to precedence, and 
may deny recognition (VI, 289-291, 293; Aug. 13, 1982, pp. 20969, 20975-
78; Speaker Wright, Feb. 17, 1988, p. 1583; Feb. 27, 1992, p. 3656). For 
example, a Member's mere revelation that the Member seeks to offer a 
motion to adjourn does not suffice to render that motion ``pending,'' 
and thus the Chair remains able to declare a short recess under clause 
12 of rule I (Oct. 28, 1997, p. 23524; June 25, 2003, p. 16241; July 13, 
2009, p. 17493). There is no appeal from such denial of recognition (II, 
1425; VI, 292; VIII, 2429, 2646, 2762; Feb. 27, 1992, p. 3656). Where 
the Chair confers recognition solely for the reading of a matter and not 
for debate, the Member so recognized may not yield to another for debate 
(Jan. 6, 2011, p. 140). Recognition for parliamentary inquiry lies in 
the discretion of the Chair (VI, 541; Mar. 23, 2007, p. 7420, p. 7423), 
who may take a parliamentary inquiry under advisement (VIII, 2174), 
especially if not related to the pending proceedings (Apr. 7, 1992, p. 
8273).
  The Chair may follow a tradition of the House to allow the highest 
ranking party leaders (Speaker, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader) 
additional time to make their remarks in debate (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 
27834; May 18, 2004, pp. 9944, 9945) and only the nominal time yielded 
for such debate is charged to the manager (June 26, 2009, p. 16703; June 
24, 2010, pp. 11703, 11704). With regard to recognition for such 
additional time, the Chair has refused to espouse a hypothetical outer 
limit (June 26, 2009, p. 16734) and to announce the amount of time 
consumed (June 26, 2009, p. 16738; May 27, 2010, p. 9686).
  When <> an essential motion made by the Member in charge of a bill is 
decided adversely, the right to prior recognition passes to the Member 
whom the Speaker perceives to be leading the opposition to the motion 
(II, 1465-1468; VI, 308). Under this principle control of a measure 
passes when the House disagrees to a recommendation of the committee 
reporting the measure (II, 1469-1472) or when the Committee of the Whole 
reports

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the measure adversely (IV, 4897; VIII, 2430). Similarly, this principle 
applies when a motion for the previous question is rejected (VI, 308). 
However, a Member who led the opposition to ordering the previous 
question may be preempted by a motion of higher precedence (Aug. 13, 
1982, pp. 20969, 20975-78). On the other hand, the mere defeat of an 
amendment proposed by the Member in charge does not cause the right to 
prior recognition to pass to an opponent (II, 1478, 1479).
  Rejection of a conference report after the previous question has been 
ordered thereon does not cause recognition to pass to a Member opposed 
to the report, and the manager retains control to offer the initial 
motion to dispose of amendments in disagreement (Speaker Albert, May 1, 
1975, p. 12761). Similarly, the invalidation of a conference report on a 
point of order, which is equivalent to its rejection by the House, does 
not give the Member raising the question of order the right to the floor 
(VIII, 3284) and exerts no effect on the right to recognition (VI, 313). 
In most cases, when the House refuses to order the previous question on 
a conference report, it then rejects the report (II, 1473-1477; V, 
6396). However, control of a Senate amendment reported from conference 
in disagreement passes to an opponent when the House rejects a motion to 
dispose thereof (Aug. 6, 1993, p. 19582).
  In <> debate the members of the committee--except the Committee of 
the Whole (II, 1453)--are entitled to priority of recognition for debate 
(II, 1438, 1448; VI, 306, 307), but a motion to lay a proposition on the 
table is in order before the Member entitled to prior recognition for 
debate has begun remarks (V, 5391-5395; VI, 412; VIII, 2649, 2650).
  In recognizing for debate under general House rules the Chair 
alternates between those favoring and those opposing the pending matter, 
preferring members of the committee reporting the bill (II, 1439-1444). 
When a member of a committee has occupied the floor in favor of a 
measure the Chair attempts to recognize a Member opposing next, even 
though not a member of the committee (II, 1445). The principle of 
alternation is not insisted on rigidly where a limited time is 
controlled by Members, as in the 40 minutes of debate on motions for 
suspension of the rules and the previous question (II, 1442).
  As <> to motions to suspend the rules, which are in 
order on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, the Speaker exercises 
discretion in recognition (V, 6791-6794, 6845; VIII, 3402-3404). The 
Speaker also may decline to recognize a Member who desires to ask 
unanimous consent to set aside the rules in order to consider a bill not 
otherwise in order, this being the way of signifying objection to the 
request. But this authority did not extend to the former Consent 
Calendar. The Chair has declined to entertain a unanimous-consent 
request to print a separate volume of tributes given in memory of a 
deceased former Member absent

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concurrence of the Joint Committee on Printing (Aug. 1, 1996, p. 21247). 
The Speaker has announced and enforced a policy of conferring 
recognition for unanimous-consent requests for the consideration of 
certain legislation only when assured that the majority and minority 
floor and committee leaderships have no objection. This policy includes: 
(1) requests relating to reported measures (July 23, 1993, p. 16820; 
Feb. 10, 2011, p. 1476) and unreported measures (see, e.g., Dec. 15, 
1981, p. 31590; Nov. 16, 1983, p. 33138; Jan. 25, 1984, p. 354; Jan. 26, 
1984, p. 449; Jan. 31, 1984, p. 1063; Feb. 4, 1987, p. 2675; Jan. 3, 
1989, p. 89; Jan. 3, 1991, p. 64; Jan. 5, 1993, p. 106; Apr. 4, 1995, p. 
10297; Mar. 20, 2010, p. 4033; Mar. 5, 2013, p. _); (2) requests for 
immediate consideration of matters (separately unreported) comprising a 
portion of a measure already passed by the House (Dec. 19, 1985, p. 
38356); (3) requests to consider a motion to suspend the rules and pass 
an unreported bill on a nonsuspension day (Aug. 12, 1986, p. 21126) or a 
suspension day (Feb. 1, 2012, p. _; Mar. 30, 1998, p. 5153); (4) 
requests to permit consideration of (nongermane) amendments to bills 
(Nov. 14, 1991, p. 32083; Dec. 20, 1995, p. 37877; June 27, 2002, p. 
11838); (5) requests to permit expedited consideration of measures on 
subsequent days, as by waiving the requirement that a bill be referred 
to committee for 30 legislative days before a motion to discharge may be 
presented under clause 2 of rule XV (formerly clause 3 of rule XXVII) 
(June 9, 1992, p. 13900); (6) requests relating to Senate-passed bills 
on the Speaker's table (Oct. 25, 1995, p. 29347; Jan. 3, 1996, p. 58; 
Aug. 2, 1999, p. 18942), including one identical to a House-passed bill 
(Feb. 4, 1998, p. 799) and a Senate concurrent resolution to correct an 
enrollment (Oct. 20, 1998, p. 27358); (7) requests to dispose of Senate 
amendments to House bills on the Speaker's table (Jan. 4, 1996, pp. 200, 
210; Nov. 22, 2002, p. 23510; Oct. 1, 2013, p. _; Oct. 4, 2013, p. _, p. 
_; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _). The Speaker will recognize for an ``omnibus'' 
unanimous-consent request (one request disposing of various measures) 
only when assured that the request, and each constituent part of the 
request, has been cleared under this policy (Oct. 10, 2002, p. 20339; 
Oct. 16, 2002, p. 20765; Nov. 14, 2002, p. 22513). The Speaker's 
enforcement of this policy is not subject to appeal (Apr. 4, 1995, p. 
10298) and is a matter of discretionary recognition in the first 
instance (Sept. 27, 2006, p. 20065). ``Floor leadership'' in this 
context has been construed to apply only to the Minority Leader and not 
to the entire hierarchy of minority leadership, where the Chair had been 
assured that the Minority Leader had been consulted (Apr. 25, 1985, p. 
9415). It is not a proper parliamentary inquiry to ask the Chair to 
indicate which side of the aisle has failed under the Speaker's 
guidelines to clear a unanimous-consent request (Feb. 1, 1996, p. 2260; 
Nov. 22, 2002, p. 23510; Oct. 11, 2013, p. _; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _), but 
the Chair may indicate cognizance of a source of objection for the 
Record (Feb. 4, 1998, p. 799). The Chair will not issue an advisory 
opinion on whether an amendment would be germane to a given proposition 
for purposes of obtaining clearances under this policy (Mar. 21, 2010, 
p. 4172). With respect to unani

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mous-consent requests to dispose of Senate amendments to House bills on 
the Speaker's table, the Chair will entertain such a request only if 
made by the chair of the committee with jurisdiction, or by another 
committee member authorized to make the request (Apr. 26, 1984, p. 
10194; Feb. 4, 1987, p. 2675; Jan. 3, 1996, p. 86; Jan. 4, 1996, pp. 
200, 210; Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 1.23). For a discussion of recognition 
for unanimous-consent requests to vary procedures in the Committee of 
the Whole governed by a special order adopted by the House, see 
Sec. 993, infra.

  2. <> * * * A Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not occupy more than one hour in 
debate on a question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union except as otherwise provided in this rule.

  This provision (formerly clause 2 of rule XIV) dates from 1841, when 
the increase of membership had made it necessary to prevent the making 
of long speeches that sometimes occupied three or four hours each (V, 
4978). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2 of rule XIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  This provision applies to debate on a question of privilege, as well 
as to debate on other questions (V, 4990; VIII, 2448). When the time for 
debate has been placed within the control of those representing the two 
sides of a question, it must be assigned to Members in accordance with 
this rule (V, 5004, 5005; VIII, 2462). A Member recognized to call up a 
privileged resolution may yield the floor upon expiration of the hour 
without moving the previous question, thereby permitting another Member 
to be recognized for a successive hour (Dec. 18, 1998, p. 27838). Under 
this clause a Member recognized for one hour for a ``special-order'' 
speech in the House may not extend that time, even by unanimous consent 
(Feb. 9, 1966, p. 2794; July 12, 1971, pp. 24594, 24603; Oct. 23, 1997, 
p. 23254). The Chair has advised that the Member in charge of measure 
would be recognized for unanimous-consent requests to enlarge the time 
for debate (Feb. 4, 2009, p. 2698; Feb. 13, 2009, p. 4140). In the 104th 
Congress the Speaker announced the intention to strictly enforce time 
limitations on debate (Jan. 4, 1995, pp. 457-552). The Chair has 
announced that the Chair would accommodate as many unanimous-consent 
requests to insert remarks in debate as necessary provided they comprise 
a simple, declarative statement (not multiple statements (July 11, 2013, 
p. _)) of the Member's attitude toward the pending measure; however, any 
embellishment of such a request with other oratory may become an 
imposition on the time of the Member who yielded for that purpose (see, 
e.g., Mar. 24, 1995, p. 9215; June 27, 2002, p. 11849; May 9, 2003, p. 
11039; Nov. 21, 2003, p. 30793; Nov. 7, 2009, p. 27192; Mar. 21, 2010, 
pp. 4113, 4114; Oct. 13, 2011, p. _; July 11,

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2013, p. _). The Chair evaluates each request individually to determine 
whether it constitutes debate (July 11, 2013, p. _) and the decision of 
the Chair is subject to appeal (July 11, 2013, p. _, p. _, p. _). The 
Chair exercises discretion in determining whether to deduct time from 
the yielding manager (July 31, 2014, p. _) and it is not a proper motion 
that the time deducted for such debate be restored to the yielding 
Member (July 11, 2013, p. _, p. _). Similarly, a unanimous-consent 
request for the consideration or disposition of a measure that is 
embellished with oratory constitutes debate and may become an imposition 
on the time of the manager who yielded for that purpose (Oct. 2, 2013, 
p. _; Jan. 15, 2014, p. _; Mar. 26, 2014, p. _; Aug. 1, 2014, p. _).

Managing debate
  3. (a) <> The 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who calls up a measure may 
open and close debate thereon. When general debate extends beyond one 
day, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall be entitled 
to one hour to close without regard to the time used in opening.
  (b) <> Except as provided in paragraph (a), 
a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not speak more than 
once to the same question without leave of the House.
  (c) A manager of a measure who opposes an amendment thereto is 
entitled to close controlled debate thereon.

  Paragraphs (a) and (c) (formerly clause 3 of rule XIV) were adopted in 
1847 and perfected in 1880 (V, 4996). Paragraph (b) (formerly clause 6 
of rule XIV) was adopted in 1789, and amended in 1840 (V, 4991). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraphs (a) and 
(c) were found in former clause 3 of rule XIV and paragraph (b) was 
found in former clause 6 of rule XIV. The recodification also added 
paragraph (c) to codify modern practice (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  Where a special order of business allocates control of debate to 
specified Members, another may not separately claim time on the basis of 
opposition (Dec. 16, 2010, p. 22417).

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  In the later practice this right to close may not be exercised after 
the previous question is ordered (V, 4997-5000). This clause applies to 
general debate in Committee of the Whole (Mar. 26, 1985, p. 6283). A 
majority manager of the bill who represents the primary committee of 
jurisdiction is entitled to close general debate; for example, as 
against another manager representing an additional committee of 
jurisdiction (May 13, 1998, p. 9042, 9050); or as against the subject of 
a disciplinary resolution (July 24, 2002, p. 14313). If an order of the 
House divides debate on an unreported measure among four Members, the 
Chair will recognize for closing speeches in the reverse order of the 
original allocation (Mar. 24, 1999, p. 5454). If a special order of the 
House allocates time for debate, which is further fractionalized under a 
later order by unanimous consent, the Chair recognizes for closing 
speeches in the reverse order of their original recognitions, concluding 
with the Member who opened the debate (e.g., Mar. 17, 2011, p. 4399). 
This is true even when the manager who opened debate is opposed, as in 
the case of a measure reported adversely (July 22, 1998, p. 16726; July 
27, 1999, p. 18012; June 21, 2000, pp. 11704, 11721; July 26, 2000, p. 
16437). In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair advised that 
time unused by a minority manager in general debate is considered as 
yielded back upon recognition of the majority manager to close general 
debate (Feb. 27, 2002, p. 2059). A Member may yield a final amount of 
time to another for purposes of closing (Mar. 17, 2011, p. 4399). For 
further discussion of management of time for general debate and for 
debate on amendments in the Committee of the Whole, see Sec. 978, infra.
  A Member who has spoken once to the main question may speak again to 
an amendment (V, 4993, 4994). It is too late to make the point of order 
that a Member has spoken already after that Member has begun speaking 
(V, 4992). Paragraph (b) is often circumscribed by modern practice and 
by special orders of business that vest control of debate in designated 
Members and permit them to yield more than once to other Members (Apr. 
5, 2000, p. 4497). For a discussion of the right of a Member to speak 
more than once under the five-minute rule, see Sec. 981, infra. The 
right to close may not be exercised after the previous question has been 
ordered (V, 4997-5000). The right to close does not belong to a Member 
who has merely moved to reconsider the vote on a bill where not a member 
of the reporting committee (V, 4995). The right of a contestant in an 
election case to close when permitted to speak in the contest has been a 
matter of discussion (V, 5001).
  As codified in paragraph (c), the manager of a bill or other 
representative of the committee and not the proponent of an amendment 
has the right to close controlled debate on an amendment (VIII, 2581; 
July 16, 1981, p. 16043; Apr. 4, 1984, p. 7841; June 5, 1985, p. 14302; 
July 10, 1985, p. 18496; Oct. 24, 1985, p. 28824; May 2, 1988, p. 9638; 
May 5, 1988, p. 9961), including the minority manager (June 29, 1984, p. 
20253; Aug. 14, 1986, p. 21660; July 26, 1989, p. 16403; Oct. 27, 1997, 
p. 23212; July 26, 2002, p. 14972) and including the manager of a 
measure that was

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reported adversely (Feb. 13, 2002, p. 1355). This is so even if the 
manager is also the proponent of a pending amendment to the amendment 
(Mar. 16, 1983, p. 5792). The Chair will assume that the manager of a 
measure is representing the committee of jurisdiction even if the 
measure called up is unreported (Apr. 15, 1996, p. 7421; July 24, 1998, 
p. 17263), if an unreported compromise text is made in order as original 
text in lieu of committee amendments (Oct. 19, 1995, p. 28650), or if 
the committee reported the measure without recommendation (Feb. 12, 
1997, pp. 2108, 2109). If the pending text includes a provision 
recommended by a committee of sequential referral, a member of that 
committee is entitled to close debate in opposition to an amendment 
thereto (June 15, 1989, pp. 12084-87). If the rule providing for the 
consideration of a measure assigns a managerial role by vesting control 
of debate: (1) in named Members who do not serve on a committee of 
jurisdiction of an unreported measure (Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19325)`; or 
(2) of a reported measure, in a committee other than one of referral 
(Feb. 15, 2012, p. _), those managers are entitled to close controlled 
debate in opposition to an amendment thereto. The majority manager of 
the bill will be recognized to control time in opposition to an 
amendment thereto, without regard to the party affiliation of the 
proponent, where the special order allocated control to ``a Member 
opposed'' (May 13, 1998, p. 9110). The right to close debate in 
opposition to an amendment devolves to a member of the committee of 
jurisdiction who derived debate time by unanimous consent from a manager 
who originally had the right to close debate (Sept. 10, 1998, pp. 19961-
63). Such right to close may not devolve to the manager of a bill who 
derived debate time by unanimous consent from a non-committee Member 
controlling time in opposition because that right may be transferred 
only where there has been an unbroken line of committee affiliation in 
opposition to the amendment (July 17, 2003, pp. 18585-87). The proponent 
of a first-degree amendment who controls time in opposition to a second-
degree amendment that favors the original bill over the first-degree 
amendment does not qualify as a ``manager'' within the meaning of 
paragraph (c) (June 15, 2000, pp. 11040, 11047).
  The proponent of an amendment may close controlled debate if: neither 
a committee representative nor a Member assigned a managerial role by 
the governing special order oppose the amendment (Aug. 15, 1986, p. 
22057; May 6, 1998, pp. 8307, 8316; May 13, 1998, p. 9092; July 14, 
1998, p. 15321; July 17, 2003, pp. 18585-87); a committee representative 
is allocated control of time in opposition to an amendment not by 
recognition from the Chair but by unanimous-consent request of a third 
Member who was allocated the time by the Chair (July 24, 1997, pp. 
15684, 15685, 15689); no representative from the reporting committee 
opposes an amendment to a multijurisdictional bill (Mar. 9, 1995, p. 
7467); the measure is unreported and has no ``manager'' under the terms 
of a special rule (Apr. 24, 1985, p. 9206); a measure is being managed 
by a single reporting committee and the Member controlling time in 
opposition, though a member

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of the committee having jurisdiction over the amendment, does not 
represent the reporting committee (Nov. 9, 1995, p. 31964); a Member is 
recognized by unanimous consent to control time otherwise reserved for 
an opponent (e.g., Mar. 8, 2012, p. _; July 23, 2014, p. _).

Call to order
  4. (a) <> If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, in speaking 
or otherwise, transgresses the Rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or 
a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may, call to order the 
offending Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, who shall 
immediately sit down unless permitted on motion of another Member, 
Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner to explain. If a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is called to order, the Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making the call to order shall 
indicate the words excepted to, which shall be taken down in writing at 
the Clerk's desk and read aloud to the House.
  (b) The Speaker shall decide the validity of a call to order. The 
House, if appealed to, shall decide the question without debate. If the 
decision is in favor of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
called to order, the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall be 
at liberty to proceed, but not otherwise. If the case requires it, an 
offending Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall be liable to 
censure or such other punishment as the House may consider proper. A 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not be held to answer a

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call to order, and may not be subject to the censure of the House 
therefor, if further debate or other business has intervened.

  The first sentence of paragraph (a) and all but the last sentence of 
paragraph (b) (formerly clause 4 of rule XIV) were adopted in 1789 and 
amended in 1822 and 1880 (V, 5175). The last sentence of paragraph (a) 
and the last sentence of paragraph (b) (formerly clause 5 of rule XIV) 
were adopted in 1837 and amended in 1880, although the practice of 
writing down objectionable words had been established in 1808. When the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, it consolidated former 
clauses 4 and 5 of rule XIV into a single clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Members <> transgressing the rules of debate and 
decorum may be called to order by the Speaker (VIII, 2481, 2521, 3479), 
a Member (II, 1344; V, 5154, 5161-5163, 5175, 5192), or a Delegate (II, 
1295). A Member may initiate a call to order either by making a point of 
order that a Member is transgressing the rules or by formally demanding 
that words be taken down under this clause (Sept. 12, 1996, pp. 22897, 
22899; Sept. 17, 1996, p. 23426; Sept. 18, 1996, p. 23535; Sept. 25, 
1996, p. 24759). A Member's comportment in debate may constitute a 
breach of decorum even though the content of the Member's speech is not, 
itself, unparliamentary (July 29, 1994, p. 18609). Except for naming the 
offending Member, the Speaker may not otherwise censure or punish the 
Member (II, 1345; VI, 237; Sept. 18, 1996, p. 23535; see also Sec. 366, 
supra). The House may by proper motions under this clause dictate the 
consequences of a ruling by the Chair that a Member was out of order 
(May 26, 1983, p. 14048). As an exercise of recognition, the Chair's 
determination that a Member's time in debate has expired is not subject 
to appeal (Mar. 22, 1996 p. 6086; see also Sec. Sec. 622, 629, supra). 
Furthermore, a Member speaking while not under recognition (as when 
speaking beyond the allotted time) is not entitled to in-House 
amplification (Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4081; see also Sec. 684, supra).
  As discussed in Sec. 374, supra, it is customary for the Chair to 
initiate the call to order of a Member who engages in personality in 
debate with respect to Members of the Senate, including an insertion in 
the Record (Speaker Albert, Apr. 17, 1975, p. 10458; Oct. 7, 1975, p. 
32055; Feb. 27, 1997, pp. 2784, 2785). On the other hand, it is 
customary for the Chair to await an initiative from the floor to call to 
order a Member who engages in personality in debate with respect to 
another Member of the House (June 29, 1987, p. 18072; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
551; Feb. 27, 1997, pp. 2784, 2785). The Chair may take initiative to 
call to order a Member engaging in verbal outburst either following 
expiration of recognition for debate (Mar. 16, 1988, p. 4081) or during 
recognition of another Member (June 5, 2003, p. 13884). The Chair may 
order the offending Member to be seated (June 5, 2003, p. 13884) or may 
deny further recognition, subject to the

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will of the House on the question of proceeding in order (Speaker 
O'Neill, June 16, 1982, p. 13843; July 29, 1994, p. 18609; Sept. 18, 
1996, p. 23535). The Chair may admonish a Member for words spoken in 
debate and request that they be removed from the Record even before a 
demand that the words be taken down (Sept. 24, 1992, p. 27345).
  This clause (formerly clause 5) prohibits the taking down of words 
after intervening business (V, 5177; VIII, 2536; Sept. 16, 1991, p. 
23032; Mar. 28, 1996, p. 6934) and the Chair's ruling in that regard is 
subject to appeal (Jan. 22, 2007, p. 1899). However, a Member standing 
and seeking recognition at the appropriate time may yet be recognized to 
demand that words be taken down even though brief debate may have 
intervened, and a request that a Member uttering objectionable words 
yield does not forfeit the right to demand that the words be taken down 
(VIII, 2528). Action taken by the Chair to determine whether a point of 
order from the floor is intended as a demand that words be taken down is 
not such intervening debate or business as would render the demand 
untimely (Oct. 2, 1984, p. 28522). Similarly, a parliamentary inquiry 
concerning the propriety of words just spoken in debate does not render 
untimely a demand that the words be taken down as unparliamentary (May 
6, 2004, p. 8554). However, an improper parliamentary inquiry concerning 
the substantive content of the words does render untimely such demand 
(July 20, 2005, pp. 16653, 16654). Although under this clause a Member 
may not be held to answer a call to order if further debate or business 
has intervened, the Chair may under clause 2 of rule I generally 
admonish Members to preserve proper decorum even after intervening 
debate (Dec. 5, 2001, p. 24002). For instances in which the Chair 
admonished Members for improper references to the Senate after brief 
intervening debate, see Sec. 371, supra.
  While a demand that a Member's words be taken down is pending, that 
Member should be seated immediately (July 29, 1994, p. 18609; Jan. 25, 
1995, p. 2352; Mar. 7, 2012, p. _), and no Member may engage the Chair 
until the demand has been disposed of (Nov. 9, 1995, p. 31913; Nov. 14, 
1995, p. 32472). If two Members consecutively demand that each others' 
words be taken down as unparliamentary, the Chair advises both Members 
to be seated and then directs the Clerk to report the first words 
objected to (June 19, 1996, p. 14655). An offending Member may be 
directed by the Chair to be seated even if a formal demand that the 
Member's words be taken down is not pending; for example, if a Member 
declines to proceed in order at the directive of the Chair after points 
of order have been sustained against unparliamentary references in 
debate, the Chair may, under rule I and this rule, deny the Member 
further recognition as a disposition of the question of order, subject 
to the will of the House on the question of proceeding in order (Sept. 
12, 1996, p. 22900; Sept. 17, 1996, p. 23427; Sept. 18, 1996, p. 23535; 
see also Sec. 366, supra).
  The Chair may entertain a unanimous-consent request to withdraw or 
modify words taken down either before (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, 
Sec. 51.1) or after (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 51.2) the words have 
been reported to

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the House (VIII, 2528, 2538, 2540, 2543, 2544; July 16, 1998, p. 15827; 
June 28, 2000, pp. 12771, 12776). Unanimous consent is not required for 
a Member to withdraw a demand that words be taken down before a ruling 
by the Chair (June 18, 1986, p. 14232).
  The words having been read from the desk, the Chair decides whether 
they are in order (II, 1249; V, 5163, 5169, 5187) as read by the Clerk 
and not as otherwise alleged to have been uttered (June 9, 1992, p. 
13902). When a Member denies that the words taken down are the exact 
words used, the question as to the words is put to the House for 
decision (V, 5179, 5180). Where demands are made to take down words both 
as spoken in a one-minute speech and as reiterated when the offending 
Member is permitted by unanimous consent to explain, the Chair may rule 
simultaneously on both (July 25, 1996, p. 19170). A decision of the 
Chair on words taken down is subject to appeal (Sept. 28, 1996, p. 
25780; Apr. 9, 2003, p. 9005).
  The rule permits a motion that an offending Member be permitted to 
explain before the Chair rules on the words taken down, and the Chair 
has discretion to ask for explanation before ruling on the words (Feb. 
1, 1940, p. 954). The Chair also may recognize an offending Member, 
permitted by unanimous consent, to explain words ruled out of order 
(Nov. 10, 1971, p. 40442).
  If words taken down are ruled out of order, the Member loses the floor 
(V, 5196-5199; Jan. 25, 1995, p. 2352; Apr. 17, 1997, p. 5832; Mar. 7, 
2012, p. _) and may not proceed on the same day without the permission 
of the House (Jan. 29, 1946, p. 533; Aug. 21, 1974, p. 29652; Jan. 25, 
1995, p. 2352), even on yielded time (V, 5147), and may not insert 
unspoken remarks in the Record (Jan. 25, 1995, p. 2352), but still may 
exercise the right to vote or to demand the yeas and nays (VIII, 2546). 
The ruling does not take the issue off the floor, and other Members may 
proceed to debate the same subject (July 25, 1996, p. 19170; Mar. 7, 
2012, p. _). The offending Member will not lose the floor if the House 
permits the Member to proceed in order (see, e.g., May 10, 1990, p. 
9992), which motion may be stated on the initiative of the Chair (Oct. 
8, 1991, p. 25757; Mar. 29, 1995, p. 9676; July 25, 1996, p. 1970; June 
13, 2002, p. 10232) or offered by any Member (July 25, 1996, p. 1970; 
Mar. 21, 2007, p. 7074). The motion is not inconsistent with the 
immediate consequence of the call to order because this clause (formerly 
clause 4) also permits the House to determine the extent of the sanction 
for a given breach (Oct. 10, 1991, p. 26102). The motion is debatable 
within narrow limits of relevance under the hour rule, and consequently 
also is subject to the motion to lay on the table (Speaker Foley, Oct. 
8, 1991, p. 25757).
  Where a Member has been called to order not in response to a formal 
demand that words be taken down but in response to a point of order, the 
former practice was to test the opinion of the House by a motion ``that 
the gentleman be allowed to proceed in order'' (V, 5188, 5189; VIII, 
2534). Under the modern practice the Chair either may invite the 
offending Mem

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ber to proceed in order (see, e.g., Sept. 12, 1996, p. 22898) or, 
particularly if admonitions have been ignored, may deny the Member 
recognition for the balance of the time for which recognized, subject to 
the will of the House, as by a vote on the question whether the Member 
should be permitted to proceed in order (Sept. 12, 1996, p. 22899; Sept. 
17, 1996, p. 23426; Sept. 18, 1996, p. 23535; Sept. 25, 1996, p. 24759).
  Words taken down and ruled out of order by the Chair are subject to a 
motion that they be stricken or expunged from the Record. This motion 
has precedence (VIII, 2538-2541; Aug. 21, 1974, p. 29652). Unanimous 
consent to expunge such words often is granted upon the initiative of 
the Chair (May 10, 1990, p. 9992; June 13, 2002, p. 10232), and is 
debatable within narrow limits (VIII, 2539; Speaker Martin, June 12, 
1947, p. 6896). However, the motion may not be entertained in the 
Committee of the Whole (Feb. 18, 1941, p. 1126) or offered by the Member 
called to order (Feb. 11, 1941, pp. 894, 899).
  When disorderly words are spoken in the Committee of the Whole, they 
are taken down and read at the Clerk's desk, and the Committee rises 
automatically (VIII, 2533, 2538, 2539) and reports them to the House 
(II, 1257-1259, 1348). Action in the House on words reported from the 
Committee of the Whole is limited to the words reported (VIII, 2528), 
and it is not in order as a question of privilege in the House to 
propose censure of a Member for disorderly words spoken in Committee of 
the Whole but not reported therefrom (V, 5202). After words reported to 
the House from Committee of the Whole have been disposed of (by decision 
of the Chair and any associated action by the House), the Committee 
resumes its sitting without motion (VIII, 2539, 2541).
  The House has censured a Member for disorderly words (II, 1253, 1254, 
1259, 1305; VI, 236). The House has proceeded to consider censure or 
other action although business may have intervened in certain 
exceptional cases, such as when disorderly words are part of an 
occurrence constituting a breach of privilege (II, 1657), when a 
Member's language has been investigated by a committee (II, 1655), when 
a Member has reiterated on the floor certain published charges (III, 
2637), when a Member has uttered words alleged to be treasonable (II, 
1252), or when a Member has uttered an attack on the Speaker (II, 1248; 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551; Jan. 19, 1995, p. 1599).
  For a discussion of resolving the use of objectional exhibits that are 
a breach of decorum, see Sec. 622, supra; and for a discussion of 
resolving the use of objectional exhibits that are not necessarily a 
breach of decorum, see clause 6, Sec. 963, infra.

Comportment
  5. <> When the Speaker is 
putting a question or addressing the House, a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner

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may not walk out of or across the Hall. When a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner is speaking, a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner may not pass between the person speaking and the Chair. 
During the session of the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner may not wear a hat or remain by the Clerk's desk during the 
call of the roll or the counting of ballots. A person on the floor of 
the House may not smoke or use a mobile electronic device that impairs 
decorum. The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged with the strict enforcement of 
this clause.

  Until the 104th Congress this clause (formerly clause 7 of rule XIV) 
was made up of provisions adopted in 1789, 1837, 1871, and 1896. In the 
104th Congress a reference to the former Doorkeeper was deleted and a 
prohibition against using any personal electronic office equipment was 
added (secs. 201, 223, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, pp. 463, 469). However, 
that prohibition was modified in the 108th Congress to cover only a 
wireless telephone or personal computer (sec. 2(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 7) and again in the 112th Congress to cover any mobile 
electronic device that impairs decorum (sec. 2(e)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 7 of rule XIV (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Chair may enlist the Sergeant-at-Arms 
to enforce a breach of this clause (Sept. 17, 1997, p. 19027; Mar. 28, 
2012, p. _).
  Originally Members wore their hats during sessions, as in Parliament, 
and the custom was not abolished until 1837 (II, 1136). The prohibition 
against Members wearing hats in the Chamber while the House is in 
session includes doffing a hat in tribute to a group (Speaker Foley, 
June 22, 1993, p. 13569; June 10, 1996, p. 13560) and the donning of a 
hood (Mar. 28, 2012, p. _). In the 96th Congress the Speaker announced 
that he considered as proper the customary and traditional attire for 
Members, including a coat and tie for male Members and appropriate 
attire for female Members (where thermostat controls had been raised in 
the summer to conserve energy); the House then adopted a resolution, 
offered as a question of the privileges of the House, requiring Members 
to wear proper attire as determined by the Speaker, and denying 
noncomplying Members the privilege of the floor (July 17, 1979, pp. 
19008, 19073). In the 106th, 109th, 112th, 113th, and 114th Congresses 
Members were reminded of the need to be in proper attire in the Chamber 
(June 28, 2000, p. 12654; June 20,

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2006, p. 11895; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 2012, p. _; Speaker Boehner, 
Feb. 26, 2013, p. _; July 31, 2013, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Mar. 25, 
2014, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, p. _), and the Chair has so 
admonished a Member speaking in debate without a jacket (Apr. 3, 2001, 
p. 5361) and has withdrawn recognition of a Member not wearing proper 
attire (Mar. 28, 2012, p. _). The donning of a distinctive uniform of 
another occupation is not proper (Oct. 20, 2009, p. 25164). In the 97th 
Congress, the Speaker announced during a vote by electronic device that 
Members were not permitted under the traditions of the House to wear 
overcoats on the House floor (Dec. 16, 1981, p. 31847).
  Pursuant to the modification of this clause in the 112th Congress, the 
Speaker has announced that mobile electronic devices that impair decorum 
include wireless telephones and personal computers, but that electronic 
tablet devices may be used unobtrusively in the Chamber (Speaker 
Boehner, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 106), although no device may be used for still 
photography or for audio or video recording (Speaker Boehner, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 106; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 2015, p. _). The display of an 
image on an electronic device while not under recognition impairs 
decorum (Mar. 13, 2014, p. _). The Chair has also announced that Members 
should disable wireless telephones on entering the Chamber (e.g., June 
12, 2000, p. 10369).
  Smoking is not permitted in the Hall during sessions of the House 
(Oct. 15, 1990, p. 29248), nor during sittings of the Committee of the 
Whole (Aug. 14, 1986, p. 21707); and the prohibition extends to smoking 
behind the rail (Feb. 23, 1995, p. 5640).
  On the opening day of the 101st Congress, the Speaker prefaced his 
customary announcement of policies concerning such aspects of the 
legislative process as recognition for unanimous-consent requests and 
privileges of the floor with a general statement concerning decorum in 
the House, including particular adjurations against engaging in 
personalities, addressing remarks to spectators, and passing in front of 
the Member addressing the Chair (Jan. 3, 1989, p. 88; see also Jan. 5, 
1993, p. 105; Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551). The Chair has announced: (1) that 
Members should not traffic, or linger in, the well of the House while 
another Member is speaking (Feb. 3, 1995, p. 3541; Mar. 3, 1995, p. 
6721; Dec. 15, 1995, p. 37111; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 23, 2012, p. _), 
including Members who may have been invited to the well by the Member 
speaking (June 12, 2003, p. 14627); (2) that Members should not engage 
in disruption while another Member is speaking (Dec. 20, 1995, p. 
37878), including shouting interjections during debate (Feb. 28, 1995, 
p. 6259; Feb. 13, 2009, p. 4136; Nov. 7, 2009, p. 27447; Oct. 11, 2011, 
p. _). Under this provision the Chair may require a line of Members 
waiting to sign a discharge petition to proceed to the rostrum from the 
far right-hand aisle and require the line not to stand between the Chair 
and Members engaging in debate (Oct. 24, 1997, p. 23293).

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  Hissing and jeering is not proper decorum in the House (May 21, 1998, 
p. 10282).
  A former Member must observe proper decorum under this clause, and the 
Chair may direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to assist the Chair in maintaining 
such decorum (Sept. 17, 1997, p. 19027). In the 105th Congress the House 
adopted a resolution offered as a question of the privileges of the 
House alleging indecorous behavior of a former Member and instructing 
the Sergeant-at-Arms to ban the former Member from the floor, and rooms 
leading thereto, until the resolution of a contested election to which 
he was party (H. Res. 233, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 19340).

Exhibits
  6. <> When the use of an 
exhibit in debate is objected to by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner, the Chair, in the discretion of the Chair, may submit the 
question of its use to the House without debate.

  This provision was rewritten in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1993, p. 49) to address the use of exhibits in debate rather than the 
reading from papers. As rewritten in the 103d Congress, an objection to 
the use of an exhibit automatically triggered a vote by the House on its 
use. The clause was amended in the 107th Congress to give the Chair the 
discretion to submit the question of its use to the House (sec. 2(o), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). A gender-based reference was eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former rule XXX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  When the use of an exhibit in debate was objected to before the clause 
was rewritten in the 107th Congress, the Chair immediately put the 
question on whether use of the exhibit would be permitted (the Chair was 
not determining a breach of decorum under clause 2 of rule I) (Nov. 1, 
1995, p. 31154; Nov. 10, 1995, p. 20689; July 31, 1996, p. 20689). The 
Chair put the question without debate, and without requiring the 
objecting Member to state the basis for the objection (Nov. 10, 1995, p. 
20689). As such, an objection under this rule was not a point of order: 
it could have been resolved by withdrawal of the exhibit; that failing, 
it amounted to a demand that the Chair put to the House the question 
whether the exhibit may be used (July 31, 1996, p. 20700).
  It is not a proper parliamentary inquiry to ask the Chair to judge the 
accuracy or authenticity of the content of an exhibit (Nov. 10, 1995, p. 
32142; July 11, 2001, p. 12977). The Chair has held that a second 
virtually consecutive invocation of this provision, resulting in a 
second pair of votes on use of a chart and on reconsideration thereof, 
was not dilatory under former clause 10 of rule XVI (current clause 1 of 
rule XVI) or former clause

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4(b) of rule XI (current clause 6(b) of rule XIII) (July 31, 1996, p. 
20700). It is not in order to request that the voting display be turned 
on during debate as an exhibit to accompany a Member's debate (Oct. 12, 
1998, p. 25770). A Member under recognition to notice a question of the 
privileges of the House is not recognized for debate and thus may not 
display an exhibit (Mar. 13, 2014, p. _). For a discussion of the 
Speaker's responsibility to preserve decorum that may require the 
disallowance of exhibits in debate that would be demeaning to the House, 
or to any Member of the House, or that would be disruptive of the 
decorum thereof, see Sec. 622, supra.
  The earlier <> form of the rule (formerly rule XXX), originally adopted in 
1794 and amended in 1802 and 1880 (V, 5257), addressed reading from 
papers. It recognized the right of a Member under the general 
parliamentary law to have read the paper on which the House is to vote 
(V, 5258), but when that paper had been read once, the reading could not 
be repeated unless by order of the House (V, 5260). The right could be 
abrogated by suspension of the rules (V, 5278-5284; VIII, 3400); but was 
not abrogated simply by the fact that the current procedure was taking 
place under the rule for suspension (V, 5273-5277). On a motion to refer 
a report, the reading of it could be demanded as a matter of right, but 
the latest ruling left to the House to determine whether or not an 
accompanying record of testimony should be read (V, 5261, 5262). In 
general the reading of a report was held to be in the nature of debate 
(V, 5292); but where a report presented facts and conclusions but no 
legislative proposition, it was read if submitted for action (IV, 4663). 
Where a paper is offered as involving a matter of privilege it may be 
read to the House (III, 2597; VI, 606; VIII, 2599), rather than by the 
Speaker privately (III, 2546), but a Member may not, as a matter of 
right, require the reading of a book or paper on suggestion that it 
contains matter infringing on the privileges of the House (V, 5258).
  The former rule XXX prohibiting the reading of papers in debate was 
held to apply to the exhibition of articles as evidence or in 
exemplification in debate (VIII, 2452, 2453; June 2, 1937, p. 6104; Aug. 
5, 1949, p. 10859), and the new form of the rule adopted in the 103d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49) marks the modern relevance of 
that application. Although Members may use exhibits such as charts 
during debate subject to this rule, the Speaker may, pursuant to the 
authority to preserve order and decorum under rule I (see Sec. 622, 
supra), direct the removal from the well of the House of a chart that is 
not being utilized during debate (Apr. 1, 1982, p. 6304), or that is 
otherwise disruptive of decorum.
  The reading <> of papers other than 
those on which the vote was about to be taken was usually permitted 
without question (V, 5258). However, this privilege was subject to the 
authority of the House if another Member objected (V, 5285-5291; VIII, 
2597, 2602; Dec. 19, 1974, p. 41425; Dec. 10, 1987, p. 34669). This 
principle

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applied even to the Member's own written speech (V, 5258; VIII, 2598), 
to a report that the Member proposed to have read in his or her own time 
or to read in his or her place (V, 5293), and to excerpts from the 
Congressional Record (VIII, 2597). After the previous question was 
ordered, a Member could not ask the decision of the House on a request 
for the reading of a paper not before the House for action (V, 5296), 
even though it be the report of the committee (V, 5294, 5295). For 
further discussion, see Sec. Sec. 432-436, supra. Pursuant to the former 
form of this rule, the consent of the House for a Member to read a paper 
in debate only permitted the Member seeking such permission to read as 
much of the paper as possible in the time yielded or allotted to that 
Member, and did not necessarily grant permission to read or to insert 
the entire document (Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3748). Where a Member objected to 
another's reading from a paper, the Chair put the question without 
debate. It was not in order under the guise of parliamentary inquiry to 
debate that question by indicating that the objection was a dilatory 
tactic (Dec. 10, 1987, p. 34672).

Galleries
  7. <> During a 
session of the House, it shall not be in order for a Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner to introduce to or to bring to the attention of 
the House an occupant in the galleries of the House. The Speaker may not 
entertain a request for the suspension of this rule by unanimous consent 
or otherwise.

  This clause was adopted April 10, 1933 (VI, 197). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 8 of rule XIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Chair 
takes the initiative to enforce this clause (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, 
Sec. Sec. 45.4, 45.7).

Congressional Record
  8. (a) <> The 
Congressional Record shall be a substantially verbatim account of 
remarks made during the proceedings of the House, subject only to 
technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections authorized by the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making the remarks.

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  (b) Unparliamentary remarks may be deleted only by permission or order 
of the House.
  (c) <> This clause establishes a 
standard of conduct within the meaning of clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI.

  This clause was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 213, H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 9 of rule XIV 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Under paragraph (a) a unanimous-
consent request to revise and extend remarks permits a Member (1) to 
make technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections to remarks 
uttered and (2) to include in the Record additional remarks not uttered 
to appear in a distinctive typeface; however, such a unanimous-consent 
request does not permit a Member to remove remarks actually uttered 
(Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541). For example, remarks held irrelevant by the 
Chair may be removed from the Record by unanimous consent only (Mar. 20, 
2002, p. 3663). Remarks uttered while not under recognition (such as 
when a Member fails to heed the gavel at the expiration of debate time 
or when a Member attempts to interject remarks in debate where the 
Member under recognition has refused to yield) do not appear in the 
Record (e.g., May 22, 2003, p. 12965; Oct. 2, 2003, p. 23950; May 19, 
2004, pp. 10107, 10108; Feb. 15, 2012, p. _). Paragraph (a) also applies 
to statements and rulings of the Chair (Jan. 20, 1995, p. 1866). For a 
discussion of rules relating to the Congressional Record, see 
Sec. Sec. 685-692, supra.

Secret sessions
  9. <> When confidential 
communications are received from the President, or when the Speaker or a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner informs the House that such 
individual has communications that such individual believes ought to be 
kept secret for the present, the House shall be cleared of all persons 
except the Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, and officers of 
the House for the reading of such communications, and debates and 
proceedings thereon, unless otherwise ordered by the House.


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  This provision (formerly rule XXIX), in a somewhat different form, was 
adopted in 1792, although secret sessions had been held by the House 
before that date. They continued to be held at times with considerable 
frequency until 1830. In 1880, at the time of the general revision of 
the rules, the House concluded to retain the rule, although it had been 
long in disuse (V, 7247; VI, 434). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former rule XXIX (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  The two Houses have legislated in secret session, transmitting their 
messages also in secrecy (V, 7250); but the House has declined to be 
bound to secrecy by act of the Senate (V, 7249). Motions to remove the 
injunction of secrecy should be made with closed doors (V, 7254). In 
1843 a confidential message from the President was referred without 
reading; but no motion was made for a secret session (V, 7255).
  The House and not the Committee of the Whole determines whether the 
Committee may sit in executive session, and an inquiry relative to 
whether the Committee of the Whole should sit in secret session is 
properly addressed to the Speaker and not to the chair of the Committee 
of the Whole (May 9, 1950, p. 6746; June 6, 1978, p. 16376; June 20, 
1979, p. 15710). A Member seeking to offer the motion that the House 
resolve itself into secret session must qualify, as provided by the 
rule, by asserting that the Member has a secret communication to make to 
the House (June 6, 1978, p. 16376). A motion having been defeated, a 
Member may offer a second motion on the same legislative day if having 
additional communications to make (May 10, 2007, p. 12114, 12177). The 
motion for a secret session is not debatable (June 20, 1979, p. 15711; 
Mar. 31, 1998, p. 5229; Sept. 26, 2006, p. 19781) but is subject to the 
motion to lay on the table (May 10, 2007, p. 12177).
  The following procedures apply during a secret session. The Member who 
offers the motion may be recognized for one hour of debate after the 
House resolves into secret session, and the normal rules of debate, 
including the principle that no motions would be in order unless the 
manager yields for that purpose, apply. The Speaker having found that a 
Member has qualified to make the motion for a secret session, having 
confidential communications to make, no point of order lies that the 
material in question must be submitted to the Members to make that 
determination (the motion for a secret session having been adopted by 
the House). No point of order lies in secret session that employees 
designated by the Speaker as essential to the proceedings, who have 
signed an oath of secrecy, may not be present. A motion in secret 
session to make public the proceedings therein is debatable for one 
hour, within narrow limits of relevancy. At the conclusion of debate in 
secret session, a Member may be recognized to offer a motion that the 
session be dissolved (July 17, 1979, pp. 19057-59).

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  Where the House has concluded a secret session and has not voted to 
release the transcripts of that session, the injunction of secrecy 
remains and the Speaker may informally refer the transcripts to 
appropriate committees for their evaluation and report to the House as 
to ultimate disposition to be made (June 20, 1979, pp. 15711-13). The 
House may subsequently by unanimous consent order printed in the 
Congressional Record such proceedings, with appropriate deletions and 
revisions agreeable to the committees (July 17, 1979, p. 19049).
  On June 20, 1979, the House adopted by voice vote a motion that the 
House resolve itself into secret session pursuant to this rule (the 
first such occasion since 1830), where the Member offering the motion 
had assured the Speaker that he had confidential communications to make 
to the House as required by the rule (pp. 15711-13). The Speaker pro 
tempore announced on that occasion before the commencement of the secret 
session that the galleries would be cleared of all persons, that the 
Chamber would be cleared of all persons except Members and those 
officers and employees specified by the Speaker whose attendance was 
essential to the functioning of the secret session, who would be 
required to sign an oath of secrecy, and that all proceedings in the 
secret session must be kept secret until otherwise ordered by the House 
(June 20, 1979, pp. 15711-13).
  On March 13, 2008, the House by unanimous consent authorized the Chair 
to resolve the House into secret session pursuant to this rule, that 
debate therein proceed without intervening motion for one hour equally 
divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Whip, and 
that at the conclusion of debate the secret session be dissolved and the 
House stand adjourned (p. 4145). Before commencement of that secret 
session, the Speaker pro tempore (1) read to the House the contents of 
clause 9; (2) announced a recess to clear the galleries and floor of all 
persons except Members and necessary staff, to permit staff to sign a 
notarized oath of secrecy, and to conduct a security sweep of the 
Chamber; (3) reminded Members of clause 13 of the Code of Official 
Conduct; (4) announced that all proceedings in secret session would 
remain secret unless otherwise ordered by the House; (5) announced that 
three bells would be rung approximately 15 minutes before the House 
reconvened for the secret session (Mar. 13, 2008, pp. 4154, 4155).
  The House conducted a secret session in the 96th Congress to receive 
confidential communications consisting of classified information in the 
possession of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, which those committees had authorized to be 
used in a secret session of the House if ordered. On that occasion the 
Speaker overruled a point of order against the motion for a secret 
session because the Speaker must rely on the assurance of a Member 
claiming to have confidential communications to make to the House, and 
because the Speaker was aware that the committee with possession of the 
materials had authorized those materials to be used in a secret session 
(Feb. 25, 1980, p. 3618). Another secret session was held in the 98th 
Congress pending

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consideration of a bill amending the Intelligence Authorization Act to 
prohibit United States support for military or paramilitary operations 
in Nicaragua (July 19, 1983, p. 19776).
  Under the authority in clause 3 of rule I, the Speaker may convene a 
classified briefing for Members on the House floor when the House is not 
in session (e.g., Mar. 18, 1999, p. 4863).

 end segment .010  deg. segment .011 -- rule XVIII 
through XXI  deg.


                               Rule XVIII

       the committee of the whole house on the state of the union

Resolving into the Committee of the Whole
  1. <> Whenever the House resolves into the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, the Speaker 
shall leave the chair after appointing a Member as Chair to preside. In 
case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or lobby, the 
Chair may cause the same to be cleared.

  This provision (formerly clause 1(a) of rule XXIII), adopted in 1880, 
was made from two older rules dating from 1789 and modified in 1794 to 
provide for the appointment of the Chair instead of the inconvenient 
method of election by the Committee (IV, 4704). It was amended in the 
103d Congress to permit Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to 
preside in the Committee of the Whole (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). 
That authority was repealed in the 104th Congress (sec. 212(b), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468), reinstated in the 110th Congress (H. Res. 78, 
Jan. 24, 2007, p. 2140), and repealed in the 112th Congress (sec. 
2(e)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A Delegate first presided 
under the former authority on October 6, 1994 (p. 28533). Gender-based 
references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1(a) of rule XXIII 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The <> Sergeant-at-Arms attends the sittings of the Committee of the 
Whole and, under direction of the Chair, maintains order (I, 257). After 
repeated disturbances in the gallery, the Chair warned its occupants of 
possible prosecution (under 40 U.S.C. 5104) and, in response to a 
parliamentary inquiry, affirmed his authority to have the gallery 
cleared (Apr. 15, 2011, p. 6296). The Chair recognizes for debate (V, 
5003).

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Like the Speaker, the Chair is forbidden to recognize for requests to 
suspend the rule of admission to the floor (V, 7285).
  The Chair decides questions of order arising in the Committee 
independently of the Speaker (V, 6927, 6928) but has declined to 
consider a question that had arisen in the House just before the 
Committee began to sit (IV, 4725, 4726) or a question that may arise in 
the House in the future (June 21, 1995, p. 16682). For example, the 
Chair does not respond to a parliamentary inquiry relating to possible 
proceedings in the House on a motion to recommit (Feb. 27, 2002, p. 
2079). The Chair does not take cognizance of a ``point of order'' 
against the legislative schedule, its announcement being the prerogative 
of the Leadership (Nov. 10, 1999, p. 29537).
  Decisions of the Chair on questions of order may be appealed. In 
stating the appeal the question is put as in the House: ``Shall the 
decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Committee?'' The 
Committee of the Whole may not postpone a vote on an appeal of a ruling 
of the Chair (even by unanimous consent); and an appeal of a ruling of 
the Chair may be withdrawn in the Committee of the Whole as a matter of 
right (June 8, 2000, p. 9954). An appeal is debatable in the Committee 
of the Whole under the five-minute rule (June 24, 2003, pp. 15854-56). A 
majority vote sustains the ruling (Aug. 1, 1989, p. 17159).
  The Chair may direct the Committee to rise when the hour previously 
fixed for adjournment of the House arrives, or when the hour previously 
fixed by the House for consideration of other business arrives, in which 
case the Chair reports in the regular way (IV, 4785; VIII, 2376; Aug. 
22, 1974, p. 30077). However, if the Committee happens to be in session 
at the hour fixed for the meeting of the House on a new legislative day, 
it rests with the Committee and not with the Chair to determine whether 
or not the Committee shall rise (V, 6736, 6737). The Chair may declare 
an emergency recess under clause 12 of rule I. In rare cases wherein the 
Chair has been defied or insulted, the Chair has directed the Committee 
to rise, left the chair and, on the chair being taken by the Speaker, 
has reported the facts to the House (II, 1350, 1651, 1653).
  Although the Committee of the Whole does not control the Congressional 
Record, the Chair may direct the exclusion of disorderly words spoken by 
a Member after having been called to order (V, 6987), but may not 
determine the privileges of a Member under general ``leave to print'' 
(V, 6988). Although arguments on a point of order may not be revised, 
extended, or inserted, the Committee of the Whole by unanimous consent 
has allowed a Member to insert remarks about a point of order to follow 
the ruling thereon (July 13, 2000, p. 14095).


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  2. (a) <> Except as provided in paragraph (b) 
and in clause 6 of rule XV, the House resolves into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union by motion. When such a motion is 
entertained, the Speaker shall put the question without debate: ``Shall 
the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the 
state of the Union for consideration of this matter?'', naming it.
  (b) After the House has adopted a resolution reported by the Committee 
on Rules providing a special order of business for the consideration of 
a measure in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 
the Speaker may at any time, when no question is pending before the 
House, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole for 
the consideration of that measure without intervening motion, unless the 
special order of business provides otherwise.

  Paragraph (a) was adopted when the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress to codify the form of the motion to resolve into the 
Committee of the Whole (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A conforming 
change to paragraph (a) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(f), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Paragraph (b) was added in the 98th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph (b) was found in former 
clause 1(b) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).


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Measures requiring initial consideration in the Committee of the Whole
  3. <> All public bills, resolutions, or Senate amendments (as 
provided in clause 3 of rule XXII) involving a tax or charge on the 
people, raising revenue, directly or indirectly making appropriations of 
money or property or requiring such appropriations to be made, 
authorizing payments out of appropriations already made, releasing any 
liability to the United States for money or property, or referring a 
claim to the Court of Claims, shall be first considered in the Committee 
of the Whole House on the state of the Union. A bill, resolution, or 
Senate amendment that fails to comply with this clause is subject to a 
point of order against its consideration.

  The first form of this rule was adopted in 1794 and was perfected by 
amendments in 1874 and 1896 (IV, 4792). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 3 
of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A technical correction 
to this clause was effected in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).
  To require consideration in Committee of the Whole, a bill must show 
on its face that it falls within the requirements of the rule (IV, 4811-
4817; VIII, 2391). If the expenditure is a mere matter of speculation 
(IV, 4818-4821; VIII, 2388), or if the bill might involve a charge but 
does not necessarily do so (IV, 4809, 4810), the rule does not apply. 
However, if a bill sets in motion a train of circumstances destined 
ultimately to involve certain expenditures, it must be considered in 
Committee of the Whole (IV, 4827; VIII, 2399), as must bills ultimately 
authorizing officials in certain contingencies to part with property 
belonging to the United States (VIII, 2399). In passing upon the 
question as to whether a proposition involves a charge upon the 
Treasury, the Speaker is confined to the provisions of the text and may 
not take into consideration personal knowledge not directly deducible 
therefrom (VIII, 2386, 2391). The requirements of the rule apply to 
amendments as well as to bills (IV, 4793, 4794; VIII, 2331), and also to 
any portion of a bill requiring an appropriation, even though it be 
merely incidental to the bill's main purpose (IV, 4825).

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  The House may consider in Committee of the Whole subjects not 
specified in the rule (IV, 4822); for example, major amendments to the 
Rules of the House have been considered in Committee of the Whole 
pursuant to special orders (H. Res. 988, Committee Reform Amendments of 
1974, considered in Committee of the Whole pursuant to H. Res. 1395, 
Sept. 30, 1974, p. 32953; H.R. 17654, Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1970, considered in Committee of the Whole pursuant to H. Res. 1093, 
July 13, 1970, p. 23901). Although conference reports were formerly 
considered in Committee of the Whole, they may not be sent there as a 
result of a point of order that they contain matter ordinarily requiring 
consideration therein (V, 6559-6561).
  When a bill is granted a special order for its consideration in the 
House by special rule (IV, 3216-3224) or by unanimous consent (IV, 4823; 
VIII, 2393), the effect is to discharge the Committee of the Whole. If 
the special order so dictates, the bill is before the full House for 
consideration (IV, 3216; VII, 788). Otherwise, the bill is considered in 
the House as in the Committee of the Whole (VIII, 2393). In the modern 
practice of the House, a special order reported from the Committee on 
Rules that makes in order no amendments, or only one amendment, normally 
provides for consideration of a measure on the Union Calendar in the 
House (see, e.g., Apr. 26, 2001, p. 6299).
  When a bill once considered in Committee of the Whole is recommitted, 
it is not, when again reported, necessarily subject to the point of 
order that it must be considered in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4828, 
4829; V, 5545, 5546, 5591).
  Resolutions reported by the Committee on House Administration 
appropriating from the contingent fund (now referred to as ``applicable 
accounts of the House described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X'') of the 
House are considered in the House (VIII, 2415, 2416). Authorizations of 
expenditures from the contingent fund, under the later ruling (IV, 4862-
4867), do not fall within the specifications of the rule (IV, 4868). A 
bill providing for an expenditure that is to be borne other than by the 
Government (IV, 4831; VIII, 2400), or relating to money held in the 
Treasury in trust for a nongovernmental entity (IV, 4835, 4836, 4853; 
VIII, 2413), is not governed by the rule.
  Provisions placing liability jointly on the United States and the 
District of Columbia (IV, 4833), granting an easement on public lands or 
streets belonging to the United States (IV, 4840-4842), dedicating 
public land to be forever used as a public park (IV, 4837, 4838), 
providing site for a statue (VIII, 2405), confirming grants of public 
lands (IV, 4843) and creating new offices (IV, 4824, 4846), have been 
held to require consideration in Committee of the Whole. Indian lands 
have not been considered property of the Government within the meaning 
of the rule (IV, 4844, 4845; VIII, 2413). Although a bill removing the 
rate of postage has been held to be within the rule as affecting 
revenues (IV, 4861), a bill relating to taxes on bank circulation have 
not been so considered (IV, 4854, 4855).


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Order of business
  4. (a) <> Subject to subparagraph (b) business on the calendar of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union may be taken up 
in regular order, or in such order as the Committee may determine, 
unless the measure to be considered was determined by the House at the 
time of resolving into the Committee of the Whole.
  (b) Motions to resolve into the Committee of the Whole for 
consideration of bills and joint resolutions making general 
appropriations have precedence under this clause.

  The early practice left the order of taking up bills to be determined 
entirely by the Committee, but in 1844 the House began by rule to 
regulate the order, and in 1880 adopted the present rule (IV, 4729). 
When the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was transferred from former clause 4 of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). At that time references in this provision to 
revenue bills and rivers and harbors bills were deleted to conform to 
changes made to the rules by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. 
Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), which revoked the 
privilege to report such bills at any time.
  The power of the Committee to determine the order of considering bills 
on its calendar is construed to authorize a motion to establish an order 
(IV, 4730) or a motion to take up a specified bill out of its order (IV, 
4731, 4732; VIII, 2333). Except in cases in which the rules make 
specific provisions therefor, a motion is not in order in the House to 
fix the order in which business on the calendars of the Committee of the 
Whole shall be taken up (IV, 4733). The Committee of the Whole having 
voted to consider a particular bill, and consideration having begun, a 
motion to reconsider or change that vote is not in order (IV, 4765). 
When there is unfinished business in Committee of the Whole, it is 
usually first in order (IV, 4735; VIII, 2334). An amendment pending when 
the Committee rises remains pending when the Committee next considers 
that measure (July 27, 2011, p. 12252).


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Reading for amendment-
  5. (a) <> Before general debate commences on a 
measure in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 
it shall be read in full. When general debate is concluded or closed by 
order of the House, the measure under consideration shall be read for 
amendment. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who offers an 
amendment shall be allowed five minutes to explain it, after which the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who shall first obtain the 
floor shall be allowed five minutes to speak in opposition to it. There 
shall be no further debate thereon, but the same privilege of debate 
shall be allowed in favor of and against any amendment that may be 
offered to an amendment. An amendment, or an amendment to an amendment, 
may be withdrawn by its proponent only by the unanimous consent of the 
Committee of the Whole.
  (b) When a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner offers an 
amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 
the Clerk shall promptly transmit five copies of the amendment to the 
majority committee table and five copies to the minority committee 
table. The Clerk also shall deliver at least one copy of the amendment 
to the majority cloakroom and at least one copy to the minority 
cloakroom.

  A rule of 1789 provided that bills should be read and debated in 
Committee of the Whole and in the House by clauses. Although that rule 
has

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disappeared, the practice continues in Committee of the Whole but not in 
the House. Originally there was unlimited debate in Committee of the 
Whole both as to the bill generally and also as to any amendment. 
However, in 1841 the rule that no Member should speak more than an hour 
was applied both to the Committee of the Whole and to the House. At the 
same time another rule was adopted to prevent indefinite prolongation of 
debate in Committee of the Whole by permitting the House by majority 
vote to order the discharge of the Committee of the Whole from the 
consideration of a bill after acting, without debate, on pending 
amendments and any other amendments that might be offered. The effect of 
this was to empower the House to close general debate at any time after 
it had actually begun in the Committee and thereby require amendments to 
be voted on without debate. In 1847 a rule provided that any Member 
proposing an amendment should have five minutes in which to explain it, 
and in 1850 an amendment to the rule also permitted five minutes in 
opposition and guarded against abuse by forbidding the withdrawal of an 
amendment once offered (V, 5221). Paragraph (b), placing the 
responsibility for providing copies of amendments on the Clerk, was part 
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (sec. 124; 84 Stat. 1140) 
and was added to the rule in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, 
p. 144). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former clause 5(a) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The recodification also conformed paragraph (a) to 
the recodified clause 8 of rule XVI to reflect the modern practice of 
first and second readings (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  General debate must close before amendments, or motions for 
disposition of the bill, may be offered (IV, 4744, 4778; V, 5221). 
General debate is closed by the fact that no Member desires to 
participate further (IV, 4745). If no member of a committee designated 
to control time is present at the appropriate time during general debate 
in Committee of the Whole, the Chair may presume the time to have been 
yielded back (June 11, 1984, p. 15744). Time unused by a minority 
manager in general debate will be considered as yielded back upon 
recognition of the majority manager to close general debate (Feb. 27, 
2002, p. 2059). In the 104th Congress the Speaker announced his 
intention to strictly enforce time limitations on debate (Jan. 4, 1995, 
p. 457). The Chair manages the sequence in which committees use their 
time for general debate under a special rule as a matter of recognition 
and may recognize any member of the committee who is filling the role of 
chair or ranking minority member under the governing special rule (Mar. 
9, 2005, pp. 3928, 3932). For a further discussion of management of time 
for general debate and debate on amendments in the Committee of the 
Whole, see Sec. 959, supra.
  A simple motion to rise is in order during general debate if offered 
by a Member managing time or a Member to whom a manager yields for that 
purpose (June 10, 1999, p. 12522; Sept. 4, 2003, p. 21155, p. 21157, p. 
21158). However, a Member may not, in time yielded for general debate,

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move that the Committee rise (May 25, 1967, p. 14121) or further yield 
to another for such motion (Feb. 22, 1950, p. 2178; May 17, 2000, p. 
8200).
  The motion <> to close general debate in Committee of the 
Whole, successor in practice to the motion to discharge provided by the 
rule of 1841, is made in the House pending the motion that the House 
resolve itself into Committee, and not after the House has voted to go 
into Committee (V, 5208). Though the motion is not debatable, the 
previous question is sometimes ordered on it to prevent amendment (V, 
5203). If the previous question is ordered, the 40 minutes of debate 
under clause 1(a) of rule XIX (formerly clause 2 of rule XXVII) are not 
allowed (VIII, 2555, 2690). General debate must have already begun in 
Committee of the Whole before the motion to limit debate it is in order 
in the House (V, 5204-5206). The motion may not apply to a series of 
bills (V, 5209) and must be offered to apply to the whole and not to a 
part of a bill (V, 5207). A proposition for a division of time may not 
be made as a part of it (V, 5210, 5211). The motion may not be made in 
Committee of the Whole (V, 5217; VIII, 2548); but, in the absence of an 
order by the House, the Committee of the Whole may by unanimous consent 
determine general debate (V, 5232; VIII, 2553). If the House has fixed 
the time, the Committee may not, even by unanimous consent, extend it 
(V, 5212-5216; VIII, 2321, 2550; Mar. 27, 1984, p. 6599; June 17, 1999, 
pp. 13437, 13442).-
  The <> second reading was originally instituted by the rule of 1789 and 
has continued, although the rule was eliminated, undoubtedly by 
inadvertence, in the codification of 1880 (V, 5221). The recodification 
of the 106th Congress conformed paragraph (a) to reflect the modern 
practice of first and second readings (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Revenue, general appropriation, lighthouse, and river and harbor bills 
are generally read by paragraphs. Other bills are read by sections (IV, 
4738, 4740). Absent an order of the House to the contrary, the matter is 
in the discretion of the Chair (VIII, 2341, 2344, 2346), although the 
Committee of the Whole has overruled a decision (VIII, 2347). A Senate 
amendment, however, is read in its entirety, and not by paragraphs or 
sections (V, 6194). An amendment in the nature of a substitute offered 
from the floor also must be read in its entirety and is then open to 
amendment at any point. If a special order of business provides that an 
amendment inserting a provision in a bill be considered as adopted in 
the House and in the Committee of the Whole, the text thereby inserted 
in the bill is not read for amendment in the Committee of the Whole (May 
23, 2002, pp. 8923, 8924).
  A bill (or the remainder of a bill) may be considered as having been 
read and open to amendment by unanimous consent but not by motion (June 
18, 1976, p. 19296). A unanimous-consent request in Committee of the 
Whole that an amendment in the nature of a substitute offered from the 
floor be read for amendment by sections is not in order (Mar. 25, 1975,

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p. 8490). The chair of the Committee of the Whole normally looks to the 
manager of a general appropriation bill for any request to accelerate 
the reading by paragraph, although the Chair may recognize a Member 
seeking unanimous consent to offer an amendment to a portion of a bill 
not yet read (July 26, 2001, p. 14733).
  To a bill read by paragraph, a motion to strike an entire title, 
encompassing multiple paragraphs, is not in order (Aug. 5, 1998, p. 
18928; Apr. 29, 2015, p. _ ). If a bill is considered as read and open 
to amendment at any point, adoption of an amendment adding a new section 
at the end of the bill does not preclude subsequent amendments to 
previous sections of the bill (Apr. 17, 1986, p. 7861). If a bill is 
considered by title, the adoption of an amendment inserting a new title 
precludes subsequent amendment to the previous title (Sept. 14, 2005, p. 
20220; see also Deschler-Brown, ch. 27, Sec. 10.13).
  When a paragraph or section has been passed, it is not in order to 
return thereto (IV, 4742, 4743) except by unanimous consent (IV, 4746, 
4747; Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 2.26) or when, the reading of the bill 
being concluded and a motion to rise being decided in the negative, the 
Committee on motion votes to return (IV, 4748). By unanimous consent, 
the Committee of the Whole permitted a Member to withdraw an amendment 
and to reserve her right to reoffer it at a later time, even though that 
portion of the bill would have been passed in the reading (June 28, 
2001, p. 12262). The Chair may direct a return to a section whereon, by 
error, no action was had on a pending amendment (IV, 4750).
  Points of order against a paragraph (or other portion of the bill then 
open to amendment) should be made before the next paragraph (or portion 
of the bill) is read or before an amendment is offered thereto (V, 6931; 
VIII, 2351; June 16, 2004, p. 12565). The paragraph or section having 
been read, and an amendment offered, the right to explain or oppose that 
amendment has precedence of a motion to amend the amendment (IV, 4751).
  The Member recognized during five-minute debate may not yield time (V, 
5035-5037; May 8, 1987, p. 11832; Dec. 10, 1987, p. 34686) unless 
remaining standing (June 10, 1998, p. 11976); must confine remarks to 
the subject (V, 5240-5256; VIII, 2591); may not yield to another Member 
to offer an amendment (Dec. 12, 14, 1973, pp. 41171, 41716; Sept. 8, 
1976, p. 29243; Mar. 7, 1995, p. 7107); or yield blocks of time (June 
14, 2006, p. 11199). If debate on an amendment is limited or allocated 
by special order to a proponent and an opponent, the Members controlling 
the debate may yield and reserve time, whereas debate time on amendments 
under the five-minute rule cannot be reserved (Aug. 1, 1990, p. 21425). 
A Member may extend beyond five minutes by unanimous consent (Feb. 1, 
2012, p. _). The offeror of an amendment is not recognized to commence 
debate under the five-minute rule during the pendency of a point of 
order against it (July 6, 2011, p. 10476). For a further discussion of 
management of

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time for debate on amendments in the Committee of the Whole, see 
Sec. 959, supra.
  Where the Chair recognizes the proponent of an amendment to propound a 
unanimous-consent request to modify the text of the amendment before 
commencing debate thereon, the Chair does not charge time consumed under 
a reservation of objection against the proponent's time for debate on 
the amendment (Feb. 3, 1993, p. 1978; May 27, 1993, p. 11931).
  The Chair endeavors to alternate recognition to offer amendments 
between majority and minority Members (giving priority to committee 
members) (July 20, 2000, p. 15735). Recognition of Members to offer 
amendments in the Committee of the Whole under the five-minute rule is 
within the discretion of the Chair and cannot be challenged on a point 
of order (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 9.6). The Chair does not 
anticipate the order in which amendments may be offered nor declare in 
advance the order in which Members proposing amendments will be 
recognized (Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 21.3).
  The Committee of the Whole may not, even by unanimous consent, 
prohibit the offering of an amendment otherwise in order under the five-
minute rule (July 31, 1984, p. 21701; Mar. 7, 1995, p. 11931). The fact 
that copies of an amendment have not been made available as required in 
this clause is not grounds for a point of order against the amendment 
(June 21, 1974, p. 20609; Mar. 25, 1976, p. 7997; June 1, 2011, p. 
8521). An amendment that has been disposed of in the Committee of the 
Whole may not be withdrawn (June 17, 2004, pp. 12944, 12945). Debate may 
continue, and the Chair puts the question, on an amendment 
notwithstanding the manager's ``acceptance'' of it (July 31, 2007, p. 
21953; June 14, 2011, p. 9179).-
  The pro <> forma amendment to ``strike the last word'' has long been used 
for purposes of debate or explanation where an actual amendment is not 
contemplated (V, 5778; VIII, 2591). Unless a special rule precludes any 
amendment except pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate, a pro 
forma amendment may be voted on unless withdrawn (VIII, 2874) but the 
Chair does not as a matter of course put the question on a pro forma 
amendment. A special rule that precludes amendments to an amendment also 
precludes pro forma amendments thereto (Aug. 1, 2001, p. 15559; July 21, 
2011, p. 11751). A Member who has occupied five minutes on a pro forma 
amendment to debate a pending substantive amendment may not lengthen 
this time by making another pro forma amendment (V, 5222; VIII, 2560), 
may not offer another pro forma amendment after intervening debate on a 
pending amendment or proposition, even on a subsequent day (July 14, 
1998, p. 15298; May 23, 2002, p. 8913 (see May 22, 2002, p. 8707)), and 
may not extend debate time by offering a substantive amendment while 
other Members are seeking recognition (July 28, 1965, p. 18631). A 
Member recognized to offer a pro forma amendment under the five-minute 
rule may not during that time offer a substantive amendment

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but must be separately recognized for that purpose (Nov. 19, 1987, p. 
32880). A Member may speak in opposition to a pending amendment and 
subsequently offer a pro forma amendment and debate that (June 30, 1955, 
p. 9614; Oct. 11, 2011, p. _); a Member may offer a second degree 
amendment and then offer a pro forma amendment to debate the underlying 
first-degree amendment (June 28, 1995, p. 17633); a Member who has 
debated a substantive amendment may thereafter rise in opposition to a 
pro forma amendment thereto (July 20, 1951, p. 8566); and a Member may 
offer a pro forma amendment each to a pending amendment and a second-
degree amendment thereto (June 12, 2007, p. 15525; July 31, 2007, pp. 
21962, 21963), but not more than one (July 31, 2007, p. 21967). A Member 
who has offered a substantive amendment and then debated it for five 
minutes may not extend that time by offering a pro forma amendment, 
because it is not in order for the offeror of an amendment to amend his 
or her own amendment except by unanimous consent (Oct. 14, 1987, p. 
27898). A pro forma amendment may be offered after a substitute has been 
adopted and before the vote on the amendment, as amended, by unanimous 
consent only, because the amendment has been amended in its entirety and 
no further amendments, including pro forma amendments, are in order 
(Oct. 18, 1983, p. 28185; June 28, 1995, p. 17633). A Member recognized 
on a pro forma amendment may not allocate or reserve time, but may in 
yielding indicate to the Chair when the Member intends to reclaim time 
(May 19, 1987, p. 12811; July 13, 1994, p. 16438). The Chair endeavors 
to alternate recognition to offer pro forma amendments between majority 
and minority Members (giving priority to committee members) rather than 
between sides of the question (Mar. 21, 1994, p. 5730). A pro forma 
amendment may not be offered while a point of order is pending (Feb. 16, 
2011, p. 2174).

Quorum and voting
  6. (a) <> A quorum of a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union is 100 Members. The first time that a Committee of the Whole finds 
itself without a quorum during a day, the Chair shall invoke the 
procedure for a quorum call set forth in clause 2 of rule XX, unless the 
Chair elects to invoke an alternate procedure set forth in clause 3 or 
clause 4(a) of rule XX. If a quorum appears, the Committee of the Whole 
shall continue its business. If a quorum does not appear, the Com

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mittee of the Whole shall rise, and the Chair shall report the names of 
absentees to the House.
  (b)(1) The Chair may refuse to entertain a point of order that a 
quorum is not present during general debate.
  (2) After a quorum has once been established on a day, the Chair may 
entertain a point of order that a quorum is not present only when the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union is operating 
under the five-minute rule and the Chair has put the pending proposition 
to a vote.
  (3) Upon sustaining a point of order that a quorum is not present, the 
Chair may announce that, following a regular quorum call under paragraph 
(a), the minimum time for electronic voting on the pending question 
shall be not less than two minutes.
  (c) When ordering a quorum call in the Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union, the Chair may announce an intention to declare 
that a quorum is constituted at any time during the quorum call when the 
Chair determines that a quorum has appeared. If the Chair interrupts the 
quorum call by declaring that a quorum is constituted, proceedings under 
the quorum call shall be considered as vacated, and the Committee of the 
Whole shall continue its sitting and resume its business.
  (d) A quorum is not required in the Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union for adoption of a motion that the Committee rise.


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  It was the early practice for the Committee of the Whole to rise on 
finding itself without a quorum (IV, 2977), and it was not until 1847 
that a rule (formerly clause 2(a) of rule XXIII) was adopted. The rule 
was amended in 1880, again in 1890 (which included the concept that a 
quorum in the Committee should be 100 rather than a quorum of the House 
(IV, 2966)), and in 1971 (Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). On October 13, 1972 
(H. Res. 1123, p. 36012) the rule was amended to reflect the 
installation of the electronic voting system in the House Chamber. The 
clause was amended in the 93d Congress to give the Chair discretion to 
vacate proceedings under the call when a quorum appears (H. Res. 998, 
Apr. 9, 1974, pp. 10195-99). In the 95th Congress the clause was 
substantially changed to allow quorum calls only under the five-minute 
rule where the Chair has put the question on a pending proposition, 
after a quorum of the Committee of the Whole has been once established 
on that day (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). The clause was amended 
again in the 96th Congress to permit the Committee to continue its 
business following the appearance of a quorum so that the Speaker need 
not take the chair to receive the Committee's report of absentees as in 
previous practice, and to enable the Chair to reduce to five minutes the 
period for a recorded vote immediately following a regular quorum call 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16), which time was reduced to not less 
than two minutes in the 113th Congress (sec. 2(b)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2013, p. _). In the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, p. 98) the 
clause was amended to allow the Chair the discretion whether or not to 
entertain a point of order of no quorum during general debate only. 
Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
2(a) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The chair of the Committee of the Whole must entertain a point of 
order of no quorum during consideration under the five-minute rule if a 
quorum has not yet been established in the Committee on the bill then 
pending (and the fact that a quorum of the Committee has previously been 
established on another bill on that day is irrelevant during 
consideration (Sept. 19, 1984, p. 26082)). If a recorded vote on a prior 
amendment or motion during consideration under the five-minute rule on 
that bill on that day has established a quorum, a subsequent point of no 
quorum during debate is precluded (June 3, 1992, p. 13336), although a 
subsequent call of the Committee may be ordered by unanimous consent 
(May 10, 1984, p. 11869; Dec. 17, 1985, p. 37469; June 25, 1986, p. 
15551). A vote by division is not such intervening business as would 
preclude a reduced-time vote under clause 6(b)(3) (July 22, 1994, p. 
17609).
  Clause 6(c) permits the chair of the Committee of the Whole to 
announce in advance, at the time that the absence of a quorum is 
ascertained, an intention to vacate proceedings when a quorum appears, 
and to convert to a regular quorum call if a quorum does not appear at 
any time during the call (May 13, 1974, p. 14148). The Chair need not 
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quorum call precisely at the expiration of 15 minutes if 100 Members 
have not responded on a ``notice'' quorum call but may continue to 
exercise discretion to vacate proceedings at any time during the entire 
period permitted for the conduct of the call by clause 2 of rule XX 
(July 17, 1974, p. 23673).
  Before the installation of the electronic system, a quorum in the 
Committee was established by a call of the roll. At one time the roll 
was called but once (IV, 2967); but in the later practice it was called 
twice as on other roll calls (VI, 668). Under the modern practice the 
Chair normally directs that Members record their presence by electronic 
device. The Chair may, however, in the Chair's discretion, order that 
Members respond by the alternative procedures in clause 3 of rule XX 
(alphabetical call of the roll) or clause 4(a) of rule XX (clerk 
tellers) (for the use of clerk tellers for a ``notice'' quorum call in 
Committee of the Whole, see July 13, 1983, p. 18858).
  Where the Committee has risen to report the absence of a quorum, it 
resumes its session by direction of the Speaker on the appearance of a 
quorum (IV, 2968; VI, 674). The quorum that must appear to permit the 
Committee to continue its business is a quorum of the Committee and not 
of the House (IV, 2970, 2971). However, if such quorum fails to appear, 
a quorum of the House is required for the Committee to resume its 
sitting (VI, 674). It was formerly held that after the Committee has 
risen and reported its roll call, a motion to adjourn was in order 
before direction as to resumption of the session (IV, 2969); but under 
the later practice the Committee immediately resumed its session without 
intervening motion or unanimous-consent requests (VI, 672, 673; VIII, 
2377, 2379, 2436). The failure of a quorum of the House to answer on 
this roll call does not interfere with the authority of the Speaker to 
direct the Committee to resume its session (IV, 2969). The Chair's count 
of a quorum is not subject to verification by tellers (VIII, 2369, 
2436), may not be challenged by an appeal (July 24, 1974, p. 25012), and 
may include those present and not voting (VI, 641). On a division vote 
totaling less than 100, the Chair has relied on an immediately prior 
count on a point of no quorum and on the Chair's observation of several 
Members present but not voting on the division vote in finding the 
presence of a quorum of the Committee of the Whole (June 29, 1988, p. 
16504). No quorum being present when a vote is taken in Committee of the 
Whole, and the Committee having risen before a quorum appeared, such 
vote is invalid, and the question is put de novo when the Committee 
resumes its business (VI, 676, 677). Although an ``automatic'' roll call 
(under clause 6(a) of rule XX) is not in order in Committee of the 
Whole, a point of order of no quorum may intervene between the 
announcement of a division vote result and the transaction of further 
business, and a demand for a recorded vote following the quorum call is 
not thereby precluded (Oct. 9, 1975, p. 32598). Where a recorded vote is 
refused but the Chair has not announced the result of a voice vote on an 
amendment, and the demand for a division vote remains possible, the

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question remains pending and the Chair is obligated to entertain a point 
of order of no quorum under this provision (June 6, 1979, p. 13648).
  Under <> clause 6(d), the presence of a quorum is not necessary for 
adoption of a motion that the Committee of the Whole rise (IV, 2975, 
2976, 4914; Mar. 5, 1980, p. 4801; Oct. 3, 1985, p. 26096; May 21, 1992, 
p. 12394; July 21, 2004, p. 16849).
  A simple motion that the Committee of the Whole rise is privileged 
(VIII, 2369), takes precedence over a motion to amend (May 21, 1992, p. 
12394; June 12, 2007, p. 15522), and is not debatable (May 17, 2000, p. 
8203). However, the motion cannot interrupt a Member who has the floor 
(VIII, 2370, 2371; June 12, 2007, p. 15527, pp. 15689, 15690) and may be 
ruled out when dilatory (VIII, 2800). For a further discussion of the 
motion to rise, see Sec. 334, supra. For a point of order against the 
motion to rise and report an appropriation bill to the House where the 
bill, as proposed to be amended, exceeds an applicable allocation of new 
budget authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, and setting forth procedures in the Committee of the Whole in the 
event that the point of order is sustained, see Sec. 1044b, infra.
  A point of order of no quorum may not be entertained, on a day on 
which a quorum has been established, during the period after the 
Committee of the Whole has risen after completing its consideration of a 
bill or resolution and before the Chair has reported the bill or 
resolution back to the House. The Chair having announced the absence of 
a quorum in Committee of the Whole, a motion to rise is in order and, if 
a quorum develops on the vote by which the motion is rejected, the roll 
is not called and the Committee proceeds with its business (VIII, 2369). 
The passage of a bill by the House is not invalidated by the fact that 
the Committee of the Whole reported it on an erroneous supposition that 
a recorded vote had disclosed a quorum (IV, 2972).
  Under the modern practice, the Committee of the Whole may rise 
informally without motion to enable the House to transact certain 
administrative business (see Sec. 330, supra).

  (e) <> In 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, the Chair 
shall order a recorded vote on a request supported by at least 25 
Members.

  This provision was adopted in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 
1979, pp. 7-16). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 2(b) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A 
demand for a recorded vote on an amendment is untimely where the Chair 
has recognized for

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the next amendment (Dec. 15, 2005, p. 28739; May 28, 2014, p. _) or put 
the question on the next amendment pending on the tree (Procedure, ch. 
30, Sec. 12.5), or where considerable time has elapsed after the Chair's 
announcement of the voice vote (June 13, 2006, p. 11037), but not when a 
Member is seeking recognition for that purpose when the Chair announces 
the result of the voice vote (June 27, 2012, p. _; Sept. 20, 2012, p. 
_). The Committee may vacate a pending vote by electronic device by 
unanimous consent (see Sec. 993, infra) but not by motion (May 8, 2008, 
p. 8148).

-  (f) <> In the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 
the Chair may reduce to not less than two minutes the minimum time for 
electronic voting without any intervening business or debate on any or 
all pending amendments after a record vote has been taken on the first 
pending amendment.
  (g) The Chair may postpone a request for a recorded vote on any 
amendment. The Chair may resume proceedings on a postponed request at 
any time. The Chair may reduce to not less than two minutes the minimum 
time for electronic voting--
      (1) on any postponed question that follows another electronic vote 
without intervening business, provided that the minimum time for 
electronic voting on the first in any series of questions shall be 15 
minutes; or
      (2) on any postponed question taken without intervening debate or 
motion after the Committee of the Whole resumes its sitting if in the 
discretion of the Chair Members would be afforded an adequate 
opportunity to vote.

  Paragraph (f) was added in the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, 
p. 39). Paragraph (g)(1) was added in the 107th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). Gender-based references were eliminated from both 
in the

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111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Both were 
amended in the 112th Congress to permit the Chair to reduce the minimum 
time for voting to not less than two minutes (instead of five minutes) 
(sec. 2(e)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). Such two-minute voting 
had previously been granted ad hoc by unanimous consent in the House 
(e.g., Mar. 16, 2006, p. 3767). Paragraph (g)(2) was added in the 113th 
Congress (sec. 2(b)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph (f) was found in 
former clause 2(c) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A 
vote by division is not such intervening business as would preclude a 
reduced-time vote under paragraph (f) (July 22, 1994, p. 17609). 
Pursuant to paragraph (g), the Chair may resume proceedings on a 
postponed question at any time, even while an amendment is pending (May 
24, 2011, p. 7740; July 30, 2013, p. _).
  Before the adoption of paragraph (g), the chair of the Committee of 
the Whole could not entertain a unanimous-consent request to reduce to 
fewer than 15 minutes the minimum time for recorded votes (June 18, 
1987, p. 16764) or to postpone and cluster votes on amendments (July 13, 
1995, p. 18871; Sept. 27, 1995, p. 26611; July 14, 1998, p. 15305). An 
amendment pending as unfinished business where proceedings on a request 
for a recorded vote have been postponed can be modified by unanimous 
consent on the initiative of its proponent (July 19, 2005, pp. 16487, 
16488; see also Mar. 30, 2000, p. 4037). Special rules of the House 
before adoption of paragraph (g) commonly provided the chair of the 
Committee of the Whole authority to postpone and cluster requests for 
recorded votes. Where a special rule provided such authority: (1) use of 
that authority, and the order of clustering, was entirely within the 
discretion of the Chair (e.g., Aug. 5, 1998, p. 18950); (2) a request 
for a recorded vote on an amendment on which proceedings had been 
postponed could be withdrawn by unanimous consent before proceedings 
resumed on the request as unfinished business, in which case the 
amendment stood disposed of by the voice vote thereon (May 16, 2000, p. 
7994); (3) it did not permit the Chair to postpone a vote on an appeal 
of a ruling of the Chair (even by unanimous consent) (June 8, 2000, p. 
9954); (4) the Committee of the Whole by unanimous consent could vacate 
postponed proceedings, thereby permitting the Chair to put the question 
de novo (June 20, 2000, p. 11526); and (5) the Chair could resume 
proceedings on unfinished business consisting of a ``stack'' of 
amendments even while an amendment was pending (July 10, 2000, p. 
13615).
  Pursuant to this clause, where the Chair has announced that the Chair 
will postpone a request for a recorded vote that was made pending a 
point of order of no quorum, the point of order is considered as 
withdrawn because the question is no longer pending after the Chair's 
announcement (see Sec. 1026, infra). The offering of a pro forma 
amendment to discuss the legislative program, or an extended one-minute 
speech by a Member to express gratitude to the Members on a personal 
matter, is considered intervening business such as to preclude a 
reduced-time vote under this author

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ity except by unanimous consent (June 22, 2000, p. 12087; June 27, 2000, 
p. 12586). A request for a record vote under this paragraph may be 
withdrawn by unanimous consent before proceedings resume on the request 
as unfinished business, in which case the amendment stands disposed of 
by the voice vote thereon (e.g., Sept. 17, 1998, p. 20845; June 25, 
2004, pp. 14173-75) unless the request proposes that the Chair put the 
question de novo (e.g.,, Sept. 22, 2004, pp. 18957, 18958, 18962; July 
18, 2013, p. _).
  When <> the 103d Congress enabled voting by the Delegates 
and Resident Commissioner in the Committee of the Whole (see Sec. 675, 
supra), it also added a new paragraph (h) to clause 6 (former clause 
2(d) of rule XXIII) to provide for immediate reconsideration in the 
House of questions resolved in the Committee of the Whole by a margin 
within which the votes of Delegates and the Resident Commissioner were 
decisive (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). Such voting and 
reconsideration thereof was repealed in the 104th Congress (sec. 212(c), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468), reinstated in the 110th Congress (H. 
Res. 78, Jan. 24, 2007, p. 2140), and repealed in the 112th Congress 
(sec. 2(e)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  Under the former paragraph (h), whether the votes cast by the 
delegates were decisive was determined by a ``but for'' test, the 
question being whether the result would be different if their votes were 
not counted (May 19, 1993, p. 10409; Feb. 8, 2007, p. 3550). The Chair's 
count in such matter was not subject to appeal (Feb. 8, 2007, p. 3550). 
The Chair did not differentiate between Members and Delegates and the 
Resident Commissioner in announcing the result of a record vote in the 
Committee of the Whole (Feb. 8, 2007, p. 3579). An amendment adopted by 
immediate proceedings de novo in the House did not disturb the sequence 
of a ``king-of-the-hill'' procedure established by a special rule 
waiving all points of order against subsequent amendments (Mar. 17, 
1994, p. 5388). Former paragraph (h) was applicable only to votes taken 
in the Committee of the Whole (Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3740).

Dispensing with the reading of an amendment
  7. <> It shall be in 
order in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to 
move that the Committee of the Whole dispense with the reading of an 
amendment that has been printed in the bill or resolution as reported by 
a committee, or an amendment that a Member, Delegate, or Resi

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dent Commissioner has caused to be printed in the Congressional Record. 
Such a motion shall be decided without debate.

  This provision was added in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1981, pp. 98-113) to permit a motion to dispense with the reading of 
certain amendments in the Committee of the Whole. Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 5(b) of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Closing debate-
  8. (a) <> Subject to paragraph (b) at any time after the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union has begun five-minute debate on 
amendments to any portion of a bill or resolution, it shall be in order 
to move that the Committee of the Whole close all debate on that portion 
of the bill or resolution or on the pending amendments only. Such a 
motion shall be decided without debate. The adoption of such a motion 
does not preclude further amendment, to be decided without debate.
  (b) If the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union 
closes debate on any portion of a bill or resolution before there has 
been debate on an amendment that a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner has caused to be printed in the Congressional Record at 
least one day before its consideration, the Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner who caused the amendment to be printed in the 
Record shall be allowed five minutes to explain it, after which the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who shall first obtain the 
floor shall be al

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lowed five minutes to speak in opposition to it. There shall be no 
further debate thereon.
  (c) Material submitted for printing in the Congressional Record under 
this clause shall indicate the full text of the proposed amendment, the 
name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner proposing it, the 
number of the bill or resolution to which it will be offered, and the 
point in the bill or resolution or amendment thereto where the amendment 
is intended to be offered. The amendment shall appear in a portion of 
the Record designated for that purpose. Amendments to a specified 
measure submitted for printing in that portion of the Record shall be 
numbered in the order printed.

  This clause (formerly clause 6 of rule XXIII) was adopted in 1860, 
with amendments in 1880 and 1885 (V, 5221, 5224). Paragraph (b), 
permitting 10 minutes for debate on an amendment that has been printed 
in the Record even after the Committee of the Whole closes debate, was 
inserted in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144) 
following the enactment of an identical provision in section 119 of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140). In the 105th 
Congress that provision was amended to accommodate the printing of 
amendments to measures not yet reported (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 
121). The third sentence, relating to the procedure for submitting and 
printing of amendments, was added in the 93d Congress (H. Res. 1387, 
Nov. 25, 1974, p. 37270). The last sentence, relating to the numbering 
of printed amendments, was added in the 104th Congress (sec. 217, H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6 of rule 
XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A clerical correction was 
effected to paragraph (c) in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26).
  The Speaker announced that amendments to be printed in the Record 
pursuant to this clause must be deposited in a separate box at the 
Rostrum or with the Official Reporters of Debates within 15 minutes 
following adjournment, and must bear the Member's original signature 
(Nov. 25, 1974, p. 37270). Although ordinarily the expiration of time 
for debate on a bill and all amendments thereto precludes debate on 
amendments offered thereafter (July 18, 1968, p. 22110), debate on an 
amendment printed in the Record may nevertheless proceed for 10 minutes 
under this clause

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(Aug. 2, 1973, p. 27715). Printing an amendment in the Record under this 
clause permits debate notwithstanding a limitation of debate only if the 
amendment has been properly offered, and does not permit the offering of 
an amendment not otherwise in order under the rules (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 
11491); and the guaranteed five minutes may be claimed only if the 
offeror of the amendment is the Member who caused it to be printed under 
the rule (June 1, 1976, p. 16044; June 29, 1989, p. 13928; June 19, 
1991, p. 15473). The guaranteed time applies to an amendment offered as 
a substitute for another amendment, rather than as a primary amendment, 
if offered in the precise form printed (June 26, 1979, p. 16682), but 
where such a substitute amendment has not been printed in the Record it 
may not be debated unless time is yielded within the original 10 minutes 
(Dec. 10, 1987, p. 34710). Where a special order requires amendments to 
be printed in the Record to qualify during the consideration of a bill 
under the five-minute rule, but makes no designation concerning 
offerors, any printed amendment may be offered by any Member (Mar. 22, 
1990, p. 5017); but only the Member causing the amendment to be printed 
is entitled to the time for debate guaranteed by this clause.
  The motion to close five-minute debate is not in order until such 
debate has begun (V, 5225; VIII, 2567), which means after one five-
minute speech (V, 5226; VIII, 2573). The motion to strike the enacting 
clause under clause 9 (formerly clause 7) is preferential to the motion 
to close debate (June 28, 1995, p. 17647; July 13, 1995, p. 18872). 
Although any Member may move, or request unanimous consent, to limit 
debate under the five-minute rule, the manager of the bill has priority 
in recognition for such purpose (June 19, 1984, p. 17055). The House, as 
well as the Committee of the Whole, may close five-minute debate after 
it has begun (V, 5229, 5231), but rarely exercises this right. The 
motion to close debate, although not debatable (Apr. 23, 1975, p. 11534; 
June 5, 1975, p. 17187, July 14, 1998, p. 15304), may be amended (V, 
5227; VIII, 2578). A time limitation imposed by the Committee of the 
Whole under this clause may be rescinded or modified only by unanimous 
consent (Sept. 17, 1975, p. 28904). Although the Committee of the Whole 
may limit debate on amendments, it may not restrict the offering of 
amendments in contravention of a special order adopted by the House 
(June 25, 1985, p. 17201). The Committee of the Whole by unanimous 
consent may limit and allocate control of time for debate on amendments 
not yet offered (May 6, 1998, p. 8348). The motion may be ruled out when 
dilatory (V, 5734).
  The closing of debate on the last section of a bill does not preclude 
debate on a substitute for the whole text (V, 5228). Where there is a 
time limitation on debate on a pending amendment in the nature of a 
substitute and all amendments thereto, but not on the underlying 
original text, debate on perfecting amendments to the original text 
proceeds under the five-minute rule absent another time limitation (Apr. 
13, 1983, p. 8402). Where the time for debate on a pending amendment in 
the form of a motion to strike (and all amendments thereto) has been 
limited, a subsequently offered

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perfecting amendment considered as preferential to (rather than as an 
amendment to) the motion to strike remains separately debatable outside 
the limitation (July 20, 1995, p. 19788). Where five-minute debate has 
been limited to a certain number of minutes without reference to a time 
certain, the time consumed by reading of amendments, quorum calls, 
points of order and votes does not reduce the amount of time remaining 
for debate (Oct. 3, 1969, p. 28459; Nov. 9, 1971, p. 40060). However, 
where debate has been limited to a time certain, such activities as 
reading and voting consume time otherwise available for debate (May 6, 
1970, p. 14452; Aug. 2, 1984, 22180). Unlike time placed under a 
Member's control, five-minute debate (or time derived therefrom under a 
limitation) may not be reserved or yielded in blocks except by unanimous 
consent (Mar. 2, 1976, p. 4992; May 11, 1976, p. 13416). A motion to 
limit debate on a pending amendment may neither allocate the time 
proposed to remain nor vary the order of recognition to close debate, 
though the Committee of the Whole may do either separately by unanimous 
consent (July 12, 1988, p. 17767). The Committee of the Whole may by 
motion: (1) limit debate on a pending committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute (considered as read) and on all amendments thereto to a 
time certain; and then (2) separately limit debate on each perfecting 
amendment as it is offered (Mar. 16, 1983, p. 5794).
  Under a limitation on debate the Chair may, in the Chair's discretion, 
choose among the following: (1) permit continued debate under the five-
minute rule; (2) divide the remaining time among those desiring to 
speak; or (3) divide the remaining time between a proponent and an 
opponent to be yielded by them to other Members (June 14, 1977, p. 
18833; May 25, 1982, p. 11672; May 10, 2000, p. 7515). The Chair also 
may, in the Chair's discretion, give priority in recognition under a 
limitation to those Members seeking to offer amendments, over other 
Members standing at the time the limitation was agreed to (May 26, 1977, 
pp. 16950-52). Where time for debate has been limited on a bill and all 
amendments thereto to a time certain several hours away, the Chair may, 
in the Chair's discretion, continue to proceed under the five-minute 
rule until desiring to allocate remaining time on possible amendments, 
and may then divide that time among proponents of anticipated amendments 
and committee members opposing those amendments (e.g., July 16, 1981, p. 
16044; Feb. 28, 1995, pp. 6306-08). The Chair has discretion to 
reallocate time to conform to the limit set by unanimous consent of the 
Committee of the Whole (Mar. 16, 1995, p. 8115).
  As codified in clause 3(c) of rule XVII (and except as indicated in 
Sec. 959, supra) a manager of the bill controlling time in opposition to 
an amendment, and not the proponent of the pending amendment, has the 
right to close debate on the amendment (July 16, 1981, p. 16043), even 
where the manager is the proponent of a pending amendment to the 
amendment (Mar. 16, 1983, p. 5792).


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Striking the enacting clause
  9. <> A motion that the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union rise and report a bill or resolution to the House with the 
recommendation that the enacting or resolving clause be stricken shall 
have precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried in the House, 
shall constitute a rejection of the bill or resolution. Whenever a bill 
or resolution is reported from the Committee of the Whole with such 
adverse recommendation and the recommendation is rejected by the House, 
the bill or resolution shall stand recommitted to the Committee of the 
Whole without further action by the House. Before the question of 
concurrence is submitted, it shall be in order to move that the House 
refer the bill or resolution to a committee, with or without 
instructions. If a bill or resolution is so referred, then when it is 
again reported to the House it shall be referred to the Committee of the 
Whole without debate.

  The practice of rejecting a bill by striking the enacting clause dates 
from a time as early as 1812, but the first rule on the subject was not 
adopted until 1822. By amendments in 1860, 1870, and 1880 the rule has 
been brought into its present form (V, 5326). The rule before 1880 
applied in the House as well as in Committee of the Whole. In the 
revision of 1880, it was classified among the rules relating to the 
Committee of the Whole, but there is nothing to indicate that this 
change was intended to limit the scope of the motion. It was probably a 
recognition merely of the fact that the motion was used most frequently 
in Committee of the Whole (V, 5326, 5332). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, at which time the rule was also 
expanded to include resolutions and resolving clauses, it was found in 
former clause 7 of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The 
motion must be in writing and in the proper form (July 24, 1986, p. 
17641; Aug. 15, 1986, p. 22071; Sept. 12, 1986, p. 23178).

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  The motion <> may not be made until the first section of 
the bill has been read (V, 5327; VIII, 2619), and may be offered while 
an amendment is pending (V, 5328-5331; VIII, 2622, 2624, 2627). The 
motion takes precedence over the motion to amend and therefore over the 
motion to rise and report at the end of the reading of a general 
appropriation bill for amendment under clause 2(d) of rule XXI (July 24, 
1986, p. 17641). The motion also takes precedence over a motion to limit 
debate on pending amendments (June 28, 1995, p. 17647; July 13, 1995, p. 
18874). If a special order provides that a bill shall be open to 
amendment in Committee of the Whole, the motion is in order (VII, 787); 
contra (IV, 3215), but after the stage of amendment has been passed the 
motion is not in order (IV, 4782; VIII, 2368). Where a bill is being 
considered under a special order that permits only committee amendments 
and no amendments thereto, the motion is not in order if no committee 
amendments are in fact offered (Apr. 16, 1970, p. 12092). Where a bill 
is being considered under a special order that permits only specified 
amendments to an amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order 
as original text, the motion is in order even after disposition of the 
specified amendments (Nov. 30, 2011, p. _).
  The motion is debatable as to the merits of the bill, but may not go 
beyond its provisions (V, 5336). The debate on the motion is governed by 
the five-minute rule (V, 5333-5335; VIII, 2618, 2628-2631); only two 
five-minute speeches are in order (V, 5335; VIII, 2629), and time may 
not be reserved (May 22, 1991, p. 11830); thus where a Member recognized 
for five minutes in opposition to the motion yields back the time, 
another Member may not claim the unused portion thereof (Mar. 3, 1988, 
p. 3241). Members of the committee managing the bill have priority in 
recognition for debate in opposition to the motion (May 5, 1988, p. 
9955; June 26, 1991, p. 16436). The Chair will not announce in advance 
the Member to be recognized in opposition to the motion (July 17, 1996, 
p. 17543). The motion is not debatable after the expiration of time for 
debate on the pending bill and all amendments thereto (July 9, 1965, p. 
16280; July 19, 1973, p. 24961; June 19, 1975, p. 19785). However, it is 
debatable where the limitation is only on an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute being read as an original bill for the purpose of amendment 
under a special order and not on the bill itself (June 20, 1975, p. 
19966). For more concerning debate on the motion, see Deschler, ch. 19, 
Sec. 13.
  A second motion to strike the enacting clause is not entertained on 
the same legislative day in the absence of any material modification of 
the bill (VIII, 2636), but the motion may be repeated on a subsequent 
legislative day without change in the bill (May 6, 1950, p. 6571). The 
rejection of a proposed amendment to the bill does not qualify as a 
modification of the bill (June 21, 1962, p. 11369), nor does the 
adoption of an amendment to a proposed amendment to the bill. However, 
adoption of an amendment to an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
read as an original bill

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pursuant to a special order does qualify as a modification of the bill 
(June 20, 1975, p. 19970). A motion that is withdrawn by unanimous 
consent rather than voted on by the Committee does not preclude the 
offering of another motion on the same day without a material 
modification of the bill (May 9, 1996, p. 10758).
  A point of order against the motion should be made before debate 
thereon has begun (V, 6902; VIII, 3442; May 6, 1950, p. 6571), and when 
challenged the Member offering the motion must qualify as being opposed 
to the bill (Mar. 13, 1942, p. 2439; May 6, 1950, p. 6571; June 14, 
1979, p. 14995; Jan. 26, 1995, p. 2521). When a bill is reported from 
the Committee of the Whole with the recommendation that the enacting 
words be stricken, the motion to strike is debatable (V, 5337-5340), but 
a motion to lay on the table is not in order (V, 5337). The previous 
question may be moved on the motion to concur without applying to 
further action on the bill (V, 5342). When the House disagrees to the 
action of the Committee in striking the enacting words and does not 
refer it under the provisions of the rule, it goes back to the Committee 
of the Whole, where it becomes unfinished business (V, 5326, 5345, 5346; 
VIII, 2633). Notwithstanding that consideration of the pending bill was 
governed by a ``modified-closed'' rule permitting only specified 
amendments, pending the concurrence of the House with a recommendation 
of the Committee of the Whole that the enacting clause be stricken, the 
House could by instructions in a motion to refer under this clause 
direct the Committee of the Whole to consider additional germane 
amendments (Apr. 14, 1994, p. 7452). When the enacting words of a bill 
are stricken, the bill is rejected (V, 5326). When the enacting clause 
of a Senate measure is stricken, the bill is rejected (V, 5326); and the 
Senate is so informed (IV, 3423; VIII, 2638; June 20, 1946, p. 7211; 
Oct. 4, 1972, p. 33787).
  When, on Calendar Wednesday, the House disagrees to the recommendation 
of the Committee of the Whole that the enacting words be stricken, the 
House automatically resolves into Committee of the Whole for further 
consideration (VII, 943).

Concurrent resolution on the budget
  10. (a) <> At the conclusion of general debate in the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union on a concurrent resolution on the 
budget under section 305(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 
concurrent resolution shall be considered as read for amendment.

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  (b) It shall not be in order in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union to consider an amendment to a 
concurrent resolution on the budget, or an amendment thereto, unless the 
concurrent resolution, as amended by such amendment or amendments--
      (1) would be mathematically consistent except as limited by 
paragraph (c); and
      (2) would contain all the matter set forth in paragraphs (1) 
through (5) of section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
  (c)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it shall not be in 
order in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union to consider an amendment to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget, or an amendment thereto, that proposes to change the amount of 
the appropriate level of the public debt set forth in the concurrent 
resolution, as reported.
  (2) Amendments to achieve mathematical consistency under section 
305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, if offered by 
direction of the Committee on the Budget, may propose to adjust the 
amount of the appropriate level of the public debt set forth in the 
concurrent resolution, as reported, to reflect changes made in other 
figures contained in the concurrent resolution.

  Paragraph (a) (first sentence of former clause 8 of rule XXIII) was 
added on January 4, 1977 (H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., pp. 53-70). Paragraph 
(b) (second sentence of former clause 8 of rule XXIII) was adopted in 
the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). In the 96th 
Congress para

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graph (b) was amended further and paragraph (c) (third sentence of 
former clause 8 of rule XXIII) was added by Public Law 96-78 (93 Stat. 
589) and was originally intended to apply to concurrent resolutions on 
the budget for fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 1980. 
However, in the 96th Congress the provisions of that public law amending 
the Rules of the House were made applicable to the third concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1980 as well as the first 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 (H. Res. 642, 
Apr. 23, 1980, p. 8789). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 8 of rule 
XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  A <> prior clause 11 (formerly clause 5(c) of rule XXIII) provided 
that an amendment in the Committee of the Whole proposing only to strike 
an unfunded mandate from a portion of the bill could be precluded only 
by specific terms of a special order of business. It was repealed in the 
112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). For the 
text of the former rule and its history, see Sec. 991 of the House Rules 
and Manual for the 111th Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).

Applicability of Rules of the House
  11. <> The Rules of the House are the rules of the Committee of 
the Whole House on the state of the Union so far as applicable.

  This clause was adopted in 1789 (IV, 4737). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 9 of rule XXIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). It was 
redesignated as clause 11 when a prior clause 11 was repealed in the 
112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  The Chair may not entertain a unanimous-consent <> request in the Committee of the Whole 
if its effect is to materially modify procedures required by a special 
rule or order adopted by the House. For example, the following 
unanimous-consent requests may not be entertained in the Committee of 
the Whole: (1) to permit a perfecting amendment to be offered to the 
underlying bill where a special rule permitted its consideration only as 
a perfecting amendment to a committee amendment (Aug. 2, 1977, p. 
26161); (2) to permit a substitute to be read by section for amendment 
where the special rule did not so provide (Dec. 12, 1973, p. 41153); (3) 
to extend the time limitation for consideration of amendments beyond 
that set by a special order requiring the Chair to put the question on 
the pending amendments at the expiration of certain hours of 
consideration (Apr. 10, 1986, p. 7079; Oct. 30, 1991, p. 29213; Aug. 3, 
1999, p. 19218; Oct. 21, 1999, p. 26492); (4) to restrict ``en 
blocking'' authority granted in a special order (Sept. 11, 1986, p. 
22871;

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June 21, 1989, p. 12744); (5) to change the scheme for control (other 
than among committees controlling time) (Oct. 9, 1986, p. 29984; Jan. 
26, 2011, p. 910) or duration (Aug. 1, 1989, p. 17143; Mar. 12, 1991, p. 
5799; Mar. 17, 1993, p. 5385; June 17, 1999, pp. 13437, 13442; Feb. 9, 
2005, pp. 1923, 1925 (Chair corrected himself)) of general debate 
specified by the House, including a ``wrap up'' debate following the 
amendment process (Mar. 25, 2004, pp. 5318-20) but the allotment of time 
to a chair or ranking minority member inures to all members of the 
committee (Nov. 5, 2009, p. 26948); (6) to preempt the Chair's 
discretion (granted by a special order) to postpone and cluster votes or 
to schedule further consideration of a pending measure to a subsequent 
day (June 4, 1992, p. 13625; July 13, 1995, p. 18872); (7) to postpone a 
vote on an appeal of a ruling of the Chair (June 8, 2000, p. 9954); (8) 
to permit an amendment offered by another Member to an amendment 
rendered unamendable by a special order or to permit a subsequent 
amendment changing such unamendable amendment already adopted (Nov. 18, 
1987, p. 32643; July 26, 1989, p. 16411; July 24, 1996, p. 18907); (9) 
to permit consideration of an amendment out of the order specified in a 
special rule (May 25, 1988, p. 12275; Oct. 3, 1990, p. 27354; Oct. 31, 
1991, p. 29359; Nov. 19, 1993, p. 30472; June 10, 1998, p. 11914; July 
29, 1999, p. 18735; May 3, 2007, p. 11198; Feb. 28, 2012, p. _; July 23, 
2014, p. _); (10) to permit consideration of an additional amendment 
(July 28, 1988, p. 19491; June 10, 1998, p. 11914; June 24, 2005, p. 
14215; Mar. 15, 2006, p. 3702); (11) to authorize a supplemental report 
from the Committee on Rules in lieu of the original report referred to 
in the special order (Speaker Wright, Aug. 11, 1988, p. 22105); (12) to 
permit another to offer an amendment vested in a specified Member (May 
1, 1990, p. 9030); (13) to permit a division of the question on an 
amendment rendered indivisible by a special order (July 16, 1996, p. 
17318); (14) to preclude procedural votes (where the order of the House 
refrained from precluding any form of motion to rise) (July 26, 2001, p. 
14754); (15) to preclude further amendment except as specified (Apr. 3, 
2003, p. 8490); (16) to permit the offering of a pro forma amendment to 
an amendment when the special order governing consideration occupied the 
field by permitting pro forma amendments to the bill only (July 7, 2004, 
pp. 14678, 14692).
  Unanimous-consent requests have been entertained in Committee of the 
Whole: (1) to permit the modification of a designated amendment made in 
order by a special rule, once offered, if the request is propounded by 
the proponent of the amendment (see, e.g., June 10, 1993, p. 12486; July 
24, 1996, p. 18906; May 6, 1998, p. 8332; Mar. 29, 2000, p. 4017; Mar. 
13, 2002, p. 3127), including as unfinished business where proceedings 
on a request for a recorded vote have been postponed (Mar. 30, 2000, p. 
4037); (2) to permit a page reference to be included in a designated 
amendment made in order as printed where the printed amendment did not 
include that reference (Apr. 1, 1976, p. 9091); (3) to permit a 
supporter of an amendment to claim debate time allocated by special 
order to an opponent, where no opponent seeks recognition (May 23, 1990, 
p. 11988); (4)

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to shorten the time set by special order for debate on a particular 
amendment (Aug. 1, 1990, p. 21510; Mar. 29, 1995, p. 9742); (5) to 
lengthen the time set by special order for debate on a particular 
amendment under terms of control congruent with those set by the order 
of the House (May 11, 1988, p. 10495; May 21, 1991, p. 11646; Mar. 22, 
1995, p. 8769; June 27, 1995, p. 17329; Nov. 2, 1995, p. 31376; Mar. 25, 
2004, pp. 5318-20) but not for an unspecified amount, such as the ``time 
that the Speaker may claim to speak on her side of this issue'' (May 27, 
2010, p. 9686); (6) to permit en bloc consideration of several 
amendments under a ``modified-closed'' special order providing for the 
sequential consideration of designated separate amendments (Aug. 10, 
1994, p. 20768); (7) to permit one of two committees controlling time 
for general debate pursuant to a special order to yield control of its 
time to the other (Aug. 18, 1994, p. 23118); (8) to permit the proponent 
(or opponent) of an amendment to yield control of time in support (or in 
opposition) to another (Mar. 9, 2006, p. 3144; Mar. 28, 2012, p. _); (9) 
to permit the offering of pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate 
under a ``modified-closed'' special order limiting both amendments and 
debate thereon (July 17, 1996, p. 17563; July 24, 1996, p. 18896); (10) 
to reach ahead in the reading of a general appropriation bill to 
consider one amendment without prejudice to others earlier in the bill 
under a special order of the House contemplating that each remaining 
amendment be offered only at the ``appropriate point in the reading of 
the bill'' (Mar. 29, 2000, p. 3980); (11) to permit the reading of an 
amendment that already was considered as read under the special order of 
the House (June 13, 2000, p. 10546; July 10, 2002, p. 12441; June 24, 
2009. p. 16124; May 29, 2014, p. _, p. _) or that had been read when 
offered (June 20, 1991, pp. 15610, 15611; May 31, 2012, p. _); (12) to 
permit a request for a recorded vote even though untimely (June 24, 
2005, p. 14182; Mar. 28, 2007, p. 8168; July 18, 2012, p. _); (13) to 
vacate a pending recorded vote in favor of taking the question de novo 
(although a motion to that effect is not available) (May 8, 2008, p. 
8148) or to vacate a prior recorded vote to the end that the request for 
a recorded vote remain pending as unfinished business, such that it 
could be added to the end of a current vote ``stack'' (where it was 
alleged that Members were improperly prevented from being recorded) 
(June 6, 2012, p. _).
  By unanimous consent the House may delegate to the Committee of the 
Whole authority to entertain unanimous-consent requests to change 
procedures contained in an adopted special order (Aug. 11, 1986, p. 
20633). The Member offering an amendment in the Committee of the Whole 
pursuant to a special order of the House has the burden of proving that 
it meets the description of the amendment made in order (July 17, 1996, 
p. 17553). The Chair advised the Committee that an amendment made in 
order was described by subject matter rather than by prescribed text and 
that the pending amendment fit such description (July 20, 2000, p. 
15751). For a description of the authority under clause 6(g) for the 
chair of the Committee of the Whole to postpone and cluster requests for 
recorded votes

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on amendments (which, before the adoption of that clause, was commonly 
provided by special orders of the House), and the Chair's interpretation 
thereof, see Sec. 984, supra.




                                Rule XIX

                  motions following the amendment stage

Previous question
  1. (a) <> There shall be a motion 
for the previous question, which, being ordered, shall have the effect 
of cutting off all debate and bringing the House to a direct vote on the 
immediate question or questions on which it has been ordered. Whenever 
the previous question has been ordered on an otherwise debatable 
question on which there has been no debate, it shall be in order to 
debate that question for 40 minutes, equally divided and controlled by a 
proponent of the question and an opponent. The previous question may be 
moved and ordered on a single question, on a series of questions 
allowable under the rules, or on an amendment or amendments, or may 
embrace all authorized motions or amendments and include the bill or 
resolution to its passage, adoption, or rejection.

  The House adopted a rule for the previous question in 1789, but did 
not turn it into an instrument for closing debate until 1811. The 
history of the motion for the previous question is discussed in V, 5443, 
5446; VIII, 2661. In 1880 the previous question rule was amended to 
apply to single motions or a series of motions as well as to amendments, 
and the motion to commit pending the motion for the previous question or 
after the previous question is ordered to passage was added (V, 5443). 
From 1880 to 1890, the previous question could only be ordered to the 
engrossment and third reading, and then again ordered on passage, but in 
1890 the rule was changed to permit ordering the previous question to 
final passage (V, 5443). When the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, it

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consolidated former clause 1 of rule XVII and a provision included in 
former clause 2 of rule XXVII, permitting 40 minutes debate on which the 
previous question has been ordered without there having been debate 
under this clause. The 106th Congress also transferred the provision 
addressing the motion to commit from clause 1 of rule XVII to clause 2 
of this rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The previous question is the only motion used for closing debate in 
the House itself (V, 5456; VIII, 2662). It is not in order in Committee 
of the Whole (IV, 4716; Apr. 25, 1990, p. 8257) but is in order ``in the 
House as in Committee of the Whole'' (VI, 639). The motion may not 
include a provision that it shall take effect at a certain time (V, 
5457).
  The <> provisions of the rule define the application of the 
previous question with considerable accuracy. It may not be moved on 
more than one bill, or on motions to agree to a conference report and to 
dispose of differences not included in the report, except by unanimous 
consent (V, 5461-5465). When ordered on a motion to send to conference, 
it applies to that motion alone and does not extend to a subsequent 
motion to instruct conferees (VIII, 2675). It may apply to the main 
question and a pending motion to refer (V, 5466; VI, 373; VIII, 2678), 
or to a pending resolution and a pending amendment thereto (Sept. 25, 
1990, p. 25575; July 16, 1998, p. 15793). When a bill is reported from 
the Committee of the Whole with the recommendation that the enacting 
words be stricken, it may be applied to the motion to concur without 
covering further action on the bill (V, 5342). During consideration ``in 
the House as in Committee of the Whole'' it may be demanded while 
Members still desire to offer amendments (IV, 4926-4929; VI, 639), but 
it may not be moved on a single section of a bill (IV, 4930). When 
ordered on a resolution with a preamble there is doubt of its 
application to the preamble, unless the motion so specifies (V, 5469, 
5470). Thus, the practice of the House is for special rules to order the 
previous question on a resolution and on its preamble. It may be moved 
on a series of resolutions, but this does not preclude a division of the 
resolutions on the vote (V, 5468), although where two propositions on 
which the previous question is moved are related, as in the case of a 
special order reported from the Committee on Rules and a pending 
amendment thereto, a division is not in order (Sept. 25, 1990, p. 
25575). The previous question is often ordered on nondebatable 
propositions to prevent amendment (V, 5473, 5490), but may not be moved 
on a motion that is both nondebatable and unamendable (IV, 3077). It 
applies to questions of privilege as to other questions (II, 1256; V, 
5459, 5460; VIII, 2672).
  The <> Member in charge of the bill and having the floor may demand 
the previous question, although another Member may propose a motion of 
higher privilege (VIII, 2684), which must be put first (V, 5480; VIII, 
2609, 2684). If the Member in charge of the bill claims the floor in 
debate another Member may not demand the previous question (II, 1458); 
but

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having the floor, unless yielded to for debate only, any Member may make 
the motion although the effect may be to deprive the Member in charge of 
the bill of the floor (V, 5476; VIII, 2685). The Member who has called 
up a measure in the House has priority of recognition to move the 
previous question thereon, even over the chair of the reporting 
committee (Oct. 1, 1986, p. 27468). If, after debate, the Member in 
charge of the bill does not move the previous question, another Member 
may (V, 5475); but where a Member intervenes on a pending proceeding to 
make a preferential motion, such as the motion to recede from a 
disagreement with the Senate, that Member may not move the previous 
question on that motion as against the rights of the Member in charge 
(II, 1459), and the Member in charge is entitled to recognition to move 
the previous question even after surrendering the floor in debate (VIII, 
2682, 3231). Where a Member controlling the time on a bill or resolution 
in the House yields for the purpose of amendment (or offers an 
amendment), another Member may move the previous question on the bill or 
resolution before the Member offering the amendment is recognized to 
debate it (Deschler, ch. 23, Sec. 18.3; July 24, 1979, p. 20385). Where 
under a rule of the House debate time on a motion or proposition is 
equally divided and controlled by the majority and the minority, or 
between those in favor and those opposed (see, e.g., clauses 2 and 6 of 
rule XV), the previous question may not be moved until the other side 
has used or yielded back its time; and the Chair may vacate the adoption 
of the previous question where it was improperly moved while the other 
side was still seeking time (Oct. 3, 1989, p. 22842). The previous 
question may not be demanded on a proposition against which a point of 
order is pending (VIII, 3433).
  The <> motion to lay on the table may not be applied to the previous 
question (V, 5410, 5411); and it may not be applied to the main question 
after the previous question has been ordered (V, 5415-5422; VIII, 2655), 
or after the yeas and nays have been ordered on the demand for the 
previous question (V, 5408, 5409).
  The motion to postpone may not be applied to the main question after 
the previous question has been ordered (V, 5319-5321; VIII, 2617). The 
previous question may be applied both to the main question and a pending 
motion to refer (V, 5342; VI, 373). The motion to adjourn is not 
available when the previous question has been ordered by special rule 
from the beginning of debate to final passage without intervening motion 
(IV, 3211-3213, June 14, 2001, p. 10725; Apr. 18, 2002, p. 4969).
  This <> clause allows 40 minutes of debate when the previous 
question is ordered on an otherwise debatable proposition on which there 
has been no debate (V, 6821; VIII, 2689; Sept. 13, 1965, p. 23602; Mar. 
22, 1990, p. 4996) but not before it is ordered (Nov. 6, 2007, p. 
29820). However, any previous debate on the merits of the main 
proposition precludes the 40 minutes (V, 5499-5502). The demand for 40

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minutes of debate must come before the vote is taken on the main 
question (V, 5496). It is not available: (1) when the question on which 
the previous question is ordered is otherwise nondebatable, such as the 
motion to close debate (VIII, 2555, 2690); (2) on an undebated amendment 
where the motion for the previous question covers both the amendment and 
the original proposition, which has been debated (V, 5504) (although 
when the previous question is ordered merely on an amendment that has 
not been debated, the 40 minutes are allowed (V, 5503)); (3) on 
incidental motions (V, 5497-5498); (4) on propositions previously 
debated in Committee of the Whole (V, 5505); (5) on conference reports 
accompanying measures that were debated before being sent to conference 
(V, 5506-5507); (6) on ancillary measures, such as a concurrent 
resolution to correct an enrolled bill (V, 5508). Debate allowed under 
this provision is equally divided and controlled between the person 
demanding the time and a Member representing the opposition (V, 5495; 
Sept. 13, 1965, pp. 23602-06; May 8, 1985, p. 11073). Priority in 
recognition for time in opposition is accorded to a Member truly opposed 
(VIII, 2689).

  (b) <> Incidental questions of order arising during the 
pendency of a motion for the previous question shall be decided, whether 
on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

  This provision was adopted in 1837 to prevent delay by debate on 
points of order after the demand for the previous question (V, 5448). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XVII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). The Chair may recognize and respond to a parliamentary 
inquiry although the previous question may have been demanded (Mar. 27, 
1926, p. 6469).
  A question of privilege relating to the integrity of action of the 
House itself has been distinguished from ordinary questions of order and 
has been debated after the ordering of the previous question (III, 
2532).

  (c) <> Notwithstanding paragraph (a), 
when the previous question is operating to adoption or passage of a 
measure pursuant to a special order of business, the Chair may postpone 
further consideration of such measure in the House to such time as may 
be designated by the Speaker.

  This provision was adopted in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). This authority has been exercised with regard to 
a

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motion to dispose of amendments between the Houses (e.g., Nov. 18, 2010, 
p. 17856).

Recommit
  2. (a) <> After the previous question has been 
ordered on passage or adoption of a measure, or pending a motion to that 
end, it shall be in order to move that the House recommit (or commit, as 
the case may be) the measure, with or without instructions, to a 
standing or select committee. For such a motion to recommit, the Speaker 
shall give preference in recognition to a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner who is opposed to the measure.
  (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (c), a motion that the House 
recommit a bill or joint resolution on which the previous question has 
been ordered to passage shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally 
divided between the proponent and an opponent.
  (2) A motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution may include 
instructions only in the form of a direction to report an amendment or 
amendments back to the House forthwith.
  (c) On demand of the floor manager for the majority, it shall be in 
order to debate the motion for one hour equally divided and controlled 
by the proponent and an opponent.

  The motion to commit or recommit described in paragraph (a) was added 
to the previous question rule (formerly clause 1 of rule XVII) in 1880 
(V, 5443). The portion of paragraph (a) that gives preference in 
recognition to one opposed to the measure was added to former clause 4 
of rule XVI in the 61st Congress (Mar. 15, 1909, pp. 22-34). Paragraph 
(c) and an earlier form of paragraph (b), relating to debate on the 
motion to recommit with instructions, were added to former clause 4 of 
rule XVI by section

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123 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and made a part of the 
standing rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 21, 1971, p. 14). 
Paragraph (b) was amended in the 111th Congress to allow for debate on 
the straight motion, and subparagraph (2) was added to restrict the 
range of permissible instructions to those ``forthwith'' (sec. 2(g), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). That provision was also amended in the 99th 
Congress to provide that on the demand of the majority floor manager of 
a bill or joint resolution, the 10 minutes of debate on a motion to 
recommit with instructions, the previous question having been ordered, 
may be extended to one hour, equally divided and controlled (H. Res. 7, 
Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393). When the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, it consolidated the last sentence of former clause 1 of rule 
XVII and provisions of former clause 4 of rule XVI, addressing the 
motion to recommit, under this clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
For a general discussion of the motion to refer, see Sec. 916, supra.
  The <> motion to commit under 
this rule applies to resolutions of the House alone as well as to bills 
(V, 5572, 5573; VIII, 2742), and to a motion to amend the Journal (V, 
5574). It does not apply to a report from the Committee on Rules 
providing a special order of business (V, 5593-5601; VIII, 2270, 2750), 
or to a pending amendment to a proposition in the House (V, 5573). A 
motion to commit under this clause, with instructions to report 
forthwith with an amendment, has been allowed after the previous 
question has been ordered on a motion to dispose of Senate amendments 
before the stage of disagreement (V, 5575; VIII, 2744, 2745). However, a 
motion to commit under this clause does not apply to a motion disposing 
of Senate amendments after the stage of disagreement where utilized to 
displace a pending preferential motion (Speaker Albert, Sept. 16, 1976, 
p. 30887).
  The motion to commit may be made pending the demand for the previous 
question on passage (or adoption), whether a bill or resolution is under 
consideration (V, 5576). However, when the demand covers all stages of 
the bill to passage, the motion to commit is made only after the third 
reading and is not in order pending the demand or before the third 
reading (V, 5578-5581). When separate motions for the previous question 
are made, respectively, on the third reading and on passage of a bill, 
the motion to commit should be made only after the previous question is 
ordered on passage (V, 5577). When the House refuses to order a bill to 
be engrossed and read a third time, the motion to commit may not be made 
(V, 5602, 5603). When the previous question has been ordered on a simple 
resolution (as distinguished from a joint resolution) and a pending 
amendment, the motion to commit should be made after the vote on the 
amendment (V, 5585-5588). A motion to commit has been entertained after 
ordering of the previous question even before the adoption of rules at 
the beginning of a Congress (VIII, 2755; Jan. 5, 1981, p. 111).
  When a special order declares that at a certain time the previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on a bill to final passage, it 
has usually,

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but not always, been held that a motion to commit is precluded (IV, 
3207-3209). Under clause 6(c) of rule XIII (formerly clause 4(b) of rule 
XI) the Committee on Rules is prohibited from reporting a special order 
that precludes the motion to recommit as provided in clause 2 of rule 
XIX (VIII, 2260, 2262-2264; see also Sec. 1001, supra). That provision 
was amended in the 104th Congress to further prohibit the Committee on 
Rules from denying the Minority Leader or a designee the right to 
include proper amendatory instructions in a motion to recommit except 
with respect to a Senate measure for which the text of a House-passed 
measure has been substituted (sec. 210, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
460). Where a special order providing for consideration of a matter in 
the House provides that the previous question shall be considered as 
ordered thereon without intervening motion and does not simply state 
that the previous question be considered as ordered after debate, the 
previous question is considered as ordered from the beginning of the 
debate, precluding the consideration of any intervening motion (Mar. 12, 
1980, pp. 5387-93; June 14, 2001, p. 10725).
  Where a bill is recommitted under this motion, the previous question 
being pending but not ordered on final passage and, having been reported 
again, is again amended and subjected to the previous question, another 
motion to commit is in order after the engrossment and third reading (V, 
5591).
  Before <>  the amendment 
of this clause in the 92d Congress, no debate was permitted on a motion 
to recommit with instructions after the previous question was ordered 
(V, 5561, 5582-5584; VIII, 2741). The 10 minutes of debate provided 
under this clause does not apply to a motion to recommit a simple or 
concurrent resolution or a conference report, because the clause limits 
its applicability to bills and joint resolutions (Nov. 15, 1973, p. 
37151; Mar. 29, 1976, p. 8444; Speaker O'Neill, June 19, 1986, p. 14698; 
June 30, 2010, p. 12462). The manager of a bill or joint resolution, if 
opposed, and not the proponent of a motion to recommit with 
instructions, has the right to close controlled debate on a motion to 
recommit (Speaker Wright, Dec. 3, 1987, p. 34066). The Member recognized 
for five minutes in favor of the motion may not reserve time (Speaker 
Wright, June 29, 1988, p. 16510; June 29, 1989, p. 13938). Although time 
for debate on a motion to recommit is not ``controlled,'' and therefore 
Members may not reserve or yield blocks of time (July 26, 2006, p. 
16072), a Member under recognition may yield to another while remaining 
standing (Feb. 27, 2002, p. 2081).
  Although the ordering of the previous question on a bill and all 
amendments to final passage precludes debate (other than that specified 
in clause 2 of rule XIX) on a motion to recommit, it does not exclude 
amendments to such motion (V, 5582; VIII, 2741); and, unless the 
previous question is ordered on a motion to recommit with instructions, 
the motion is open to amendment germane to the bill (see V, 6888; VIII, 
2711). An amendment to a motion to recommit is read in full (unless the 
reading is dispensed

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with by unanimous consent) (Feb. 27, 2002, p. 2084). An amendment to a 
motion to recommit is not debatable (Feb. 27, 2002, p. 2084). An 
amendment striking all of the proposed instructions and substituting 
others cannot be ruled out as interfering with the right of the minority 
to move recommittal (VIII, 2698, 2759). The Member offering a motion to 
recommit a bill with instructions may, at the conclusion of the 10 
minutes of debate thereon, yield to another Member to offer an amendment 
to the motion if the previous question has not been ordered on the 
motion to recommit (Speaker Albert, July 19, 1973, p. 24967).
  The motion may be withdrawn in the House at any time before action or 
decision thereon (VIII, 2764). The motion may not be laid on the table 
after the previous question has been ordered (V, 5412-5414).
  The <> simple motion to 
recommit and the motion to recommit with instructions are of equal 
privilege and have no relative precedence (VIII, 2714, 2758, 2762; Nov. 
25, 1970, p. 38997). If the House adopts a motion to recommit with 
instructions that the committee report ``forthwith,'' the chair reports 
at once without awaiting action by the committee (V, 5545-5547; VIII, 
2730), the bill is before the House for immediate consideration (V, 
5550; VIII, 2735), the amendment(s) must be adopted by the House (VIII, 
2734), and an amendment may be divided if otherwise divisible (June 29, 
1993, p. 14618; May 28, 2010, p. 9946). When recommitted without such 
instructions, the measure is before the committee anew (IV, 4557; V, 
5558).
  It is not in order to propose as instructions anything that might not 
be proposed directly as an amendment such as: (1) an amendment that is 
not germane (V, 5529-5541, 5834, 5889; VIII, 2705, 2707, 2708); (2) to 
amend or eliminate an amendment adopted by the House (unless permitted 
by special order) (V, 5531; VIII, 2712, 2714, 2715, 2720-2724); (3) an 
amendment in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI (V, 5533-5540; Sept. 1, 
1976, p. 28883; Sept. 19, 1983, p. 24646; Speaker Foley, Aug. 1, 1989, 
p. 17159, and Aug. 3, 1989, p. 18546, each time sustained by tabling of 
appeal; July 1, 1992, p. 17294; June 22, 1995, p. 16844). However, it 
has been held in order to reoffer an amendment rejected by the House 
(VIII, 2728). A waiver of all points of order against consideration of a 
bill does not inure to the motion to recommit (May 9, 2003, p. 11072).
  Where a special rule providing for the consideration of a bill 
prohibited the offering of amendments to a certain title of the bill (at 
any point during consideration), it was held not in order to offer a 
motion to recommit with instructions to amend the restricted title (Jan. 
11, 1934, pp. 479-83). However, that precedent should be read in light 
of clause 6(c) of rule XIII, which precludes the Committee on Rules from 
reporting a rule that would prevent a motion to recommit from including 
amendatory instructions (see Sec. 857, supra).
  The motion to recommit may not be accompanied by preamble or otherwise 
include argument, explanation, or other matter in the nature of debate 
(V, 5589; VIII, 2749).

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  Only one motion to commit is in order (V, 5577, 5582, 5585; VIII, 
2763). If a motion to recommit is ruled out, a proper motion is 
admissible (VIII, 2736, 2760, 2761, 2763; June 22, 2005, p. 13540). 
Similarly, if the House votes pursuant to section 426(b)(3) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 not to consider a motion to recommit 
against which a Member has made a point of order under section 425(a) of 
that Act, a proper motion to recommit remains available (Mar. 28, 1996, 
p. 6932).
  A motion to recommit with instructions was ruled out of order before 
the entire motion had been read as a matter of form where a special 
order of business precluded instructions (May 6, 2004, pp. 8590, 8591). 
A point of order against a motion to recommit that initially is reserved 
pending its reading may be insisted upon before commencement of debate 
thereon (July 12, 2007, p. 18843) but not after (Mar. 5, 2008, p. 3296).
  Before the adoption of paragraph (b)(2) in the 111th Congress, it was 
permissible to direct a committee to study an issue (with or without 
amendatory instructions) and to report ``promptly'' its recommendations 
(Mar. 29, 1990, p. 1834) as long as they were germane and not 
argumentative (Sept. 23, 1992, p. 27178). Such motions sent the bill or 
joint resolution to committee, whose eventual report (if any) would not 
be immediately before the House (Deschler, ch. 23, Sec. 32.25; May 24, 
2000, p. 9151; May 3, 2007, p. 11187). When a bill was so recommitted, 
the committee had to confine itself to the instructions (IV, 4404; V, 
5526).
  Before <> former 
clause 4 of rule XVI was amended in 1909 to give priority in recognition 
for the motion to recommit to an opponent of a bill or joint resolution 
pending final passage, it was held that the opponents of a bill had no 
claim to prior recognition (II, 1456). Although the provision as amended 
in 1909 applied only to bills and joint resolutions, the principle 
embodied in that provision was applied also to motions to recommit 
simple or concurrent resolutions or conference reports under former 
clause 1 of rule XVII (VIII, 2764; Nov. 28, 1979, p. 33914). When the 
House consolidated the last sentence of former clause 1 of rule XVII and 
provisions of former clause 4 of rule XVI, addressing the motion to 
recommit, under this clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), the 
sentence conferring prior recognition to the opposition was formally 
applied to all measures. However, precedents under former clause 1 of 
rule XVII still dictate that recognition to offer a motion to commit a 
resolution offered from the floor as a privileged matter without having 
been referred to committee does not depend on opposition to the 
resolution or on party affiliation (Speaker Albert, Feb. 19, 1976, p. 
3920).
  When applying this rule the Speaker looks first to the Minority Leader 
or a designee (as imputed by the form of former clause 4(b) of rule XI 
adopted in the 104th Congress (current clause 6(c) of rule XIII)). If 
the Minority Leader is not seeking recognition, the Speaker looks to 
minority members of the committee reporting the bill, in order of their 
rank on the committee (Speaker Garner, Jan. 6, 1932, p. 1396; Speaker 
Byrns,

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July 2, 1935, p. 10638), then to other Members on the minority side 
(Speaker Rayburn, Aug. 16, 1950, p. 12608). Until a qualifying minority 
Member has had the motion read by the Clerk, that Member is not entitled 
to the floor so as to prevent a senior qualifying minority member from 
the reporting committee from seeking recognition to offer the motion to 
recommit (Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 24, 1979, p. 8360). If no Member of the 
minority qualifies, a majority Member who is opposed to the bill may be 
recognized (Speaker Garner, Apr. 1, 1932, p. 7327). The Chair does not 
assess the degree of a Member's opposition (Oct. 23, 1991, p. 28258) and 
accepts a Member's averment of opposition (Nov. 9, 2005, pp. 25640, 
25643; Apr. 26, 2006, pp. 6196, 6197; May 4, 2006, pp. 7031, 7032). A 
Member who is opposed to the bill ``in its present form'' (i.e., in the 
form before the House when the motion is made) qualifies to offer the 
motion (Speaker Martin, Apr. 15, 1948, p. 4547; Speaker McCormack, Mar. 
12, 1964, p. 5147). In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair 
requested all Members to reflect on the importance of the Chair's being 
able to rely on the veracity of a Member's assertion, when qualifying to 
offer a motion to recommit, of opposition to the bill; and the Chair 
recited to the Members the following apology by the ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Appropriations in 1979: ``The honorable, if 
not technical, duty of a Member offering a motion to recommit is to vote 
against the bill on final passage'' (Speaker Hastert, June 23, 2005, p. 
13845, quoting from Deschler-Brown, ch. 29, Sec. 23.49). The Chair also 
advised that it is not a violation of the rules for a Member to vote for 
passage after asserting opposition to a measure in order to qualify to 
offer a motion to recommit, and it is not the province of the Chair to 
instruct a Member how to vote (Apr. 26, 2006, p. 6197).
  The priority in recognition of a Member of the minority who is opposed 
is not diminished by the fact that the minority party may have 
successfully led the opposition to the previous question on the special 
order governing consideration of the bill and offered a ``modified-
closed'' rule permitting only minority Members to offer perfecting 
amendments to the majority text (June 26, 1981, p. 14740). However, 
although the motion to recommit is the prerogative of the minority if 
opposed, a Member who in the Speaker's determination led the opposition 
to the previous question on the motion to recommit is entitled to offer 
an amendment to the motion to recommit, regardless of party affiliation, 
such as the chair (June 26, 1981, pp. 14791-93) or another majority-
party member (Feb. 27, 2002, pp. 2080-85) of the committee reporting the 
bill. The right to offer a motion to recommit a House bill with a Senate 
amendment belongs to a Member who is opposed to the whole bill in 
preference to a Member who is merely opposed to the Senate amendment 
(VIII, 2772). Where the previous question has been ordered on both the 
pending resolution and its preamble, a Member may qualify to offer a 
motion to recommit on the basis of opposition to the preamble, even 
though it is not otherwise subject to separate vote or amendment (Feb. 
12, 1998, p. 1333). A Member rising in opposition to

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a motion to recommit must likewise qualify as opposed to the motion 
(Apr. 29, 1998, p. 7156) or obtain unanimous consent if not (e.g., Mar. 
14, 2007, p. 6386).

Reconsideration
  3. <> When a motion has been 
carried or lost, it shall be in order on the same or succeeding day for 
a Member on the prevailing side of the question to enter a motion for 
the reconsideration thereof. The entry of such a motion shall take 
precedence over all other questions except the consideration of a 
conference report or a motion to adjourn, and may not be withdrawn after 
such succeeding day without the consent of the House. Once entered, a 
motion may be called up for consideration by any Member. During the last 
six days of a session of Congress, such a motion shall be disposed of 
when entered.

  The motion to reconsider used in the Continental Congress and in the 
House of Representatives from its first organization, in 1789, was first 
made the subject of a rule in 1802; and at various times this rule has 
been perfected by amendments (V, 5605). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1 
of rule XVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The motion is not used in Committee of the Whole (IV, 4716-4718; VIII, 
2324, 2325; June 23, 2011, p. 9954), but is in order ``in the House as 
in Committee of the Whole'' (VIII, 2793). It is not in order in the 
House during the absence of a quorum when the vote proposed to be 
reconsidered requires a quorum (V, 5606). However, on votes incident to 
a call of the House the motion to reconsider may be entertained and also 
laid on the table, although a quorum may not be present (V, 5607, 5608).
  The <> mover of a 
proposition is entitled to prior recognition to move to reconsider (II, 
1454). A Member may make the motion at any time without thereby 
abandoning a prior motion made by such Member and pending (V, 5610). A 
Delegate or the Resident Commissioner may not make the motion in the 
House (rule III; II, 1292; VI, 240). The provision of the rule that the 
motion may be made by any Member of the majority is construed, in case 
of a tie vote, to mean any Member of the prevailing side (V, 5615, 
5616), and the same

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construction applies in case of a two-thirds vote (II, 1656; V, 5617, 
5618; VIII, 2778-2780). Where the yeas and nays have not been ordered, 
any Member, irrespective of whether voting with the majority or not, may 
make the motion to reconsider (V, 5611-5613, 5689; VIII, 2775, 2785; 
Sept. 23, 1992, p. 27196); but a Member who was absent (V, 5619), or who 
was paired in favor of the majority contention and did not vote, may not 
make the motion (V, 5614; VIII, 2774). Any Member may object to the 
Chair's statement that by unanimous consent the motion to reconsider a 
vote is laid on the table, and the objecting Member need not have voted 
on the prevailing side, but if objection is made, the Chair's statement 
is ineffective and only a Member who voted on the prevailing side may 
offer the motion to reconsider the vote (Aug. 15, 1986, p. 22139). The 
Chair, having voted on the prevailing side, may offer the motion to 
reconsider by stating the pendency of the motion (Oct. 9, 1997, p. 
22017).
  The <> precedence given the motion by the rule permits it to be 
made even after the previous question has been demanded (V, 5656) or 
while it is operating (V, 5657-5662; VIII, 2784). The motion to 
reconsider the vote on the engrossment of a bill may be admitted after 
the previous question has been moved on a motion to postpone (V, 5663), 
and a motion to reconsider the vote on the third reading may be made and 
acted on after a motion for the previous question on the passage has 
been made (V, 5656). It also takes precedence of the motion to resolve 
into Committee of the Whole to consider an appropriation bill (VIII, 
2785), or even of a demand that the House return to Committee after the 
appearance of a quorum (IV, 3087). However, in a case wherein the House 
had passed a bill and disposed of a motion to reconsider the vote on its 
passage, it was held to be too late to reconsider the vote sustaining 
the decision of the Chair that brought the bill before the House (V, 
5652), and that a motion to vacate those proceedings was not in order 
(Speaker O'Neill, Dec. 17, 1985, pp. 37472-74). After a conference has 
been agreed to and the managers for the House appointed, it is too late 
to move to reconsider the vote whereby the House acted on the amendments 
in disagreement (V, 5664). Although the motion has high privilege for 
entry, it may not be considered while another question is before the 
House (V, 5673-5676; July 2, 1980, p. 18354), or while the House is 
dividing (VIII, 2791). A motion to reconsider a secondary motion to 
postpone that has previously been offered and rejected is highly 
privileged, even after the manager of the main proposition has yielded 
time to another Member and before that Member has begun his or her 
remarks (May 29, 1980, p. 12663). When it relates to a bill belonging to 
a particular class of business, consideration of the motion is in order 
only when that class of business is in order (V, 5677-5681; VIII, 2786). 
It may then be called up at any time; but is not the regular order until 
called up (V, 5682; VIII, 2785, 2786). When once entered it may remain 
pending indefinitely, even until a succeeding session of the same 
Congress (V, 5684). The motion to reconsider is subject to

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the question of consideration (VIII, 2437), and may be laid on the table 
(VIII, 2652, 2659). The motion to reconsider an action taken on a bill 
on Tuesday may be entered but may not be considered on Calendar 
Wednesday (VII, 905).
  The motion to reconsider is in order in standing committees and may be 
made on the same day on which the action is taken to which it is 
proposed to be applied, or on the next day thereafter on which the 
committee convenes with a quorum present at a properly scheduled meeting 
at which business of that class is in order (VIII, 2213). In practice in 
the standing committees, reconsideration of an amendment may require 
that the motion to report first be reconsidered, and then the ordering 
of the previous question on the measure, before a motion can be offered 
to reconsider the amendment (cf. VIII, 2789).
  A <> motion 
to reconsider may be entertained, although the bill or resolution to 
which it applies may have gone to the other House or the President (V, 
5666-5668). However, unanimous consent is required to initiate 
reconsideration of a measure passed by both Houses (IV, 3466-3469). The 
Senate may not reconsider the confirmation of a nomination after a 
commission has been issued by the President to a nominee and the latter 
has taken the oath and entered upon the duties of the office. U.S. v. 
Smith, 286 U.S. 6 (1932). The fact that the House had informed the 
Senate that it had agreed to a Senate amendment to a House bill was held 
not to prevent a motion to reconsider the vote on agreeing (V, 5672). 
When a motion is made to reconsider a vote on a bill that has gone to 
the Senate, a motion to recall the bill is privileged (V, 5669-5671). 
The motion to reconsider may be applied once only to a vote ordering the 
previous question (V, 5655; VIII, 2790), and may not be applied to a 
vote ordering the previous question that has been partially executed (V, 
5653, 5654); but a vote agreeing to an order of the House has been 
reconsidered, although the execution of the order had begun (III, 2028; 
V, 5665). The vote ordering the previous question on a special order 
reported from the Committee on Rules may be reconsidered and is not 
dilatory under clause 6(b) of rule XIII (formerly clause 4(b) of rule 
XI) (Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575).
  The motion may not be applied to negative votes on motions to adjourn 
(V, 5620-5622), or for a recess (V, 5625), or to resolve into Committee 
of the Whole (V, 5641). The motion to reconsider may be applied however 
to an affirmative vote on the motion to resolve into the Committee of 
the Whole while the Speaker is still in the chair (V, 5368; Apr. 20, 
1978, p. 10990). A motion to reconsider the vote by which the House had 
decided a question of parliamentary procedure was held not to be in 
order (VIII, 2776). Motions to reconsider negative votes on motions to 
fix the day to which the House shall adjourn have been the subject of 
conflicting rulings (V, 5623, 5624), but recent practice does not admit 
the motion (House Practice, ch. 43, Sec. 12). It is in order to 
reconsider a vote postponing a bill to a day certain (V, 5643; May 29, 
1980, p. 12663). It is not in order to recon

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sider a negative decision of the question of consideration (V, 5626, 
5627), although it is in order to reconsider an affirmative vote on the 
question of consideration (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 27644). It is not in order 
to reconsider a negative vote on the motion to suspend the rules (V, 
5645, 5646; VIII, 2781; Sept. 28, 1996, p. 25796), although it is in 
order to reconsider an affirmative vote on that motion (Sept. 28, 1996, 
p. 25795). It is not in order to reconsider a vote on reconsideration of 
a bill returned with the objections of the President (VIII, 2778). A 
vote whereby a second is ordered may be reconsidered (V, 5642). The 
motion to reconsider a vote on a proposition having been once agreed to, 
and said vote having again been taken, a second motion to reconsider may 
not be made unless the nature of the proposition has been changed by 
amendment (V, 5685-5688; VIII, 2788; Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512). After 
disposition of a conference report and amendments reported from 
conference in disagreement, it is in order on the same day to move to 
reconsider the vote on a motion disposing of one of the amendments; but 
laying on the table a motion to reconsider the vote whereby the House 
has amended a Senate amendment does not preclude the House from acting 
on a subsequent Senate amendment to that House amendment, or considering 
any other proper motion to dispose of an amendment that might remain in 
disagreement after further Senate action (Oct. 5, 1983, p. 27323). For a 
discussion of the application of the motion to reconsider in committees, 
see Sec. 416, supra.
  A <> bill is not 
considered passed or an amendment agreed to if a motion to reconsider is 
pending, the effect of the motion being to suspend the original 
proposition (V, 5704); and the Speaker declines to sign an enrolled bill 
until a pending motion to reconsider has been disposed of (V, 5705). 
However, when the Congress expires leaving undisposed a motion to 
reconsider the vote whereby a simple resolution of the House has been 
agreed to, it is probable that the resolution would be operative; and 
where a bill has been enrolled, signed by the Speaker, and approved by 
the President, it is undoubtedly a law, even though a motion to 
reconsider may not have been disposed of (V, 5704, note). A Member-elect 
may not take the oath until a motion to reconsider the vote determining 
the title is disposed of (I, 335); but when, in such a case, the motion 
is disposed of, the right to be sworn is complete (I, 622). When the 
motion to reconsider is decided in the affirmative the question 
immediately recurs on the question reconsidered (V, 5703). When a vote 
whereby an amendment has been agreed to is reconsidered the amendment 
becomes simply a pending amendment (V, 5704). When the vote ordering the 
previous question is reconsidered, it is in order to withdraw the motion 
for the previous question, the ``decision'' having been nullified (V, 
5357). When the previous question has been ordered on a series of 
motions and its force has not been exhausted, the reconsideration of the 
vote on one of the motions does not throw it open to debate (V, 5493). 
Under the earlier practice, when a vote taken under the operation of the 
previous question was reconsidered, the main question stood

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divested of the previous question, and was debatable and amendable 
without reconsideration separately of the motion for the previous 
question (V, 5491-5492, 5700). However, under the modern practice, where 
the House adopts a motion to reconsider a vote on a question on which 
the previous question has been ordered, the question to be reconsidered 
is neither debatable nor amendable (unless the vote on the previous 
question is separately reconsidered) (July 2, 1980, p. 18355). It is in 
order to move to reconsider the ordering of the yeas and nays on a 
question before the question has been finally decided (V, 5689-5691, 
6029; VIII, 2790; Sept. 24, 1997, p. 19946); but where the House had 
voted to reconsider the vote whereby it had rejected a bill but had not 
separately reconsidered the ordering of a record vote, the Speaker put 
the question de novo and entertained a new demand for a record vote 
(Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512).
  The <> motion 
to reconsider is agreed to by majority vote, even when the vote 
reconsidered requires two thirds for affirmative action (II, 1656; V, 
5617, 5618; VIII, 2795), or when only one fifth is required for 
affirmative action, as in votes ordering the yeas and nays (V, 5689-
5692, 6029; VIII, 2790). However, one motion to reconsider the yeas and 
nays having been acted on, another motion to reconsider is not in order 
(V, 6037).
  A <> vote on the motion to lay on the table may 
be reconsidered whether the decision be in the affirmative (V, 5628, 
5695, 6288; VIII, 2785) or in the negative (V, 5629). It is in order to 
reconsider the vote laying an appeal on the table (V, 5630), although 
during proceedings under a call of the House this motion was once ruled 
out (V, 5631). The motion to reconsider may not be applied to the vote 
whereby the House has laid another motion to reconsider on the table (V, 
5632-5640; June 20, 1967, p. 16497); and a motion to reconsider may be 
laid on the table only before the Chair has put the question on the 
motion to a vote (Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512).
  A <> motion to 
reconsider is debatable only if the proposition proposed to be 
reconsidered was debatable (V, 5694-5699; VIII, 2437, 2792; Sept. 13, 
1965, p. 23608); so the motion to reconsider a vote ordering the 
previous question is not debatable (Sept. 25, 1990, p. 25575) and the 
application of the previous question makes a motion to reconsider 
nondebatable (V, 5701; VIII, 2792; Sept. 20, 1979, p. 25512; July 2, 
1980, p. 18355). Where a resolution providing for the order of business 
was agreed to without adoption of the previous question, the Speaker 
advised that a motion to reconsider would be debatable and that the 
Member moving the reconsideration would be recognized to control the one 
hour of debate (Speaker McCormack, Sept. 13, 1965, p. 23608).


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  4. <> A bill, petition, memorial, or resolution referred to a 
committee, or reported therefrom for printing and recommitment, may not 
be brought back to the House on a motion to reconsider.

  This clause (formerly clause 2 of rule XVIII) was first adopted in 
1860, and amended in 1872, to prevent a practice of using the privilege 
of the motion to reconsider to secure consideration of bills otherwise 
not in order (V, 5647). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2 of rule 
XVIII, and in recodification a provision requiring written reports was 
deleted as redundant of the requirement contained in clause 2 of rule 
XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). There is a question as to whether 
or not the rule applies to a case wherein the House, after considering a 
bill, recommits it (V, 5648-5650). After a committee has reported a bill 
it is too late to reconsider the vote by which it was referred (V, 
5651).




                                 Rule XX

                         voting and quorum calls

  1. (a) <> The House shall divide after the Speaker has put a question to 
a vote by voice as provided in clause 6 of rule I if the Speaker is in 
doubt or division is demanded. Those in favor of the question shall 
first rise from their seats to be counted, and then those opposed.
  (b) If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner requests a 
recorded vote, and that request is supported by at least one-fifth of a 
quorum, the vote shall be taken by electronic device unless the Speaker 
invokes another procedure for recording votes provided in this rule. A 
recorded vote taken in the House under this paragraph shall be 
considered a vote by the yeas and nays.


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  This provision (formerly clause 5(a) of rule I) was adopted in 1789 
and its present form reflects the revisions and amendments of 1860, 1880 
(II, 1311), 1972 (H. Res. 1123, Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 36005-08), and 1993 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). From January 22, 1971 (when H. Res. 5 
of the 92d Congress was adopted incorporating provisions in the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, 84 Stat. 1140), until October 
13, 1972, this rule provided a two-step procedure for ordering ``tellers 
with clerks'' before installation of the electronic voting system, and 
for the first time permitted Members to be recorded on votes in 
Committee of the Whole. The last two sentences of this paragraph 
permitting a single-step ``recorded vote'' and voting by means of 
electronic device installed in the Chamber in 1972, were contained in a 
House resolution adopted on October 13, 1972, and were made effective by 
adoption of the rules of the 93d Congress (H. Res. 6, Jan. 3, 1973, p. 
26). The general provision for demanding a vote by tellers was repealed 
in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). The provision 
providing that a recorded vote taken pursuant thereto shall be 
considered a vote by the yeas and nays was added in the 105th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Before the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(a) of 
rule I (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The former right to demand tellers was not precluded by the fact that 
the yeas and nays had been refused (V, 5998; VIII, 3103), by a point of 
no quorum against a division vote on the question on which tellers were 
requested (VIII, 3104), by a point of no quorum and a call of the House 
following a division vote on the question on which tellers were demanded 
(Sept. 25, 1969, p. 27041), or by the intervention of a quorum call 
following the refusal of the Committee of the Whole to order a recorded 
vote (Feb. 27, 1974, p. 4447).
  One of the suppositions on which parliamentary law is founded is that 
the Speaker will not betray the duty to make an honest count on a 
division (V, 6002) and the integrity of the Chair in counting a vote 
should not be questioned in the House (VIII, 3115; July 11, 1985, p. 
18550). A vote by division takes no cognizance of Members present but 
not voting, and consequently the number of votes counted by division has 
no tendency to establish a lack of a quorum (June 29, 1988, p. 16504). 
Only one demand for a vote by division on a pending question is in order 
(July 26, 1984, p. 21259; June 29, 1994, p. 15206). However, where a 
division vote is demanded on a proposition in the House and the vote 
thereon is then postponed pursuant to clause 8, a division may again be 
demanded when the question is put de novo on the proposition as 
unfinished business (since a demand for a division may be made by any 
Member) (Mar. 18, 1980, p. 5739).
  In a full House (total membership of 435), a recorded vote is ordered 
by one-fifth of a quorum (44), but in Committee of the Whole a recorded 
vote is ordered by 25 (clause 6(e) of rule XVIII), rather than 20 in 
both cases as in prior practice (V, 5986; Dec. 20, 1974, p. 41793). The 
Chair's

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count of Members demanding a recorded vote is not appealable (June 24, 
1976, p. 20390).
  Only one request for a recorded vote on a pending question is in order 
(Jan. 21, 1976, p. 508). The request may not be renewed where the 
absence of a quorum is disclosed immediately following the refusal to 
order a recorded vote (June 6, 1979, p. 13648; Oct. 25, 1983, p. 29227). 
However, although a request for a recorded vote once denied may not be 
renewed, the request remains pending where the Chair interrupts the 
count of Members standing in favor of the request in order to count for 
a quorum pursuant to a point of order that a quorum is not present (Aug. 
5, 1982, pp. 19658, 19659; July 22, 2003, p. 18993). A recorded vote may 
be had in the House on a separate vote on an amendment adopted in the 
Committee of the Whole on which a recorded vote had been refused (May 
13, 1998, p. 9134). A demand for the yeas and nays if refused by the 
House may not be renewed, even when the question is put de novo as 
unfinished business (Deschler-Brown, ch. 30, Sec. 55.5).
  A demand for a record vote cannot interrupt a vote by division that is 
in progress (June 10, 1975, p. 18048). Where both a division vote and a 
recorded vote are requested, the Chair will count for a recorded vote 
(July 22, 2003, p. 18993). A parliamentary inquiry, or remarks uttered 
without recognition, immediately following the Chair's announcement of a 
voice vote on an amendment is not such intervening business as to 
prevent a demand for a recorded vote thereon where the Chair has not 
announced the final disposition of the amendment (May 23, 1984, p. 
13928; July 26, 1984, p. 21249; June 10, 1998, p. 11856). A demand for a 
recorded vote may be untimely even if the body has not moved on to other 
business (June 26, 2007, p. 7148; July 23, 2014, p. _).
  The ordering of a recorded vote may be vacated by unanimous consent 
(May 28, 2010, pp. 9947, 9948).
  Under <> the precedents recorded before the abolition of tellers, it was 
the duty of the Member to serve as teller when appointed by the Chair 
(V, 5987); but when Members of one side had declined, the second teller 
was appointed from the other side (V, 5988) or the position was left 
vacant (V, 5989). A Delegate could have been appointed teller (II, 
1302). Where there was doubt as to the count by tellers, the Chair could 
have ordered the vote taken again (V, 5991; July 19, 1946, p. 9466), but 
this must have been done before the result was announced (V, 5993-5995; 
VIII, 3098). The Chair could have been counted without passing between 
the tellers (V, 5996, 5997; VIII, 3100, 3101).

  (c) In case of a tie vote, a question shall be lost.

  This provision was adopted in 1789. Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, it was found in former clause 6 of rule I 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).


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  2. (a) <> Unless the Speaker directs otherwise, the Clerk shall 
conduct a record vote or quorum call by electronic device. In such a 
case the Clerk shall enter on the Journal and publish in the 
Congressional Record, in alphabetical order in each category, the names 
of Members recorded as voting in the affirmative, the names of Members 
recorded as voting in the negative, and the names of Members answering 
present as if they had been called in the manner provided in clause 3. 
Except as otherwise permitted under clause 8 or 9 of this rule or under 
clause 6 of rule XVIII, the minimum time for a record vote or quorum 
call by electronic device shall be 15 minutes.

  The permissive use of an electronic voting system was incorporated in 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (sec. 121; 84 Stat. 1140) and 
was made a part of the standing rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). The clause in its essential form was adopted the 
next year (formerly clause 5(a) of rule XV) (H. Res. 1123, Oct. 13, 
1972, p. 36012). A technical correction to paragraph (a) was effected in 
the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). The 
electronic system was first utilized in the House on January 23, 1973 
(p. 1793). Under paragraph (a), a record vote is conducted by electronic 
device unless the Speaker directs otherwise (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4175, p. 
4444; Oct. 11, 2013, p. _).
  A provision regarding holding a vote open for the sole purpose of 
reversing its outcome was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 302, H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). A select committee to 
investigate certain voting irregularities recommended its repeal (H. 
Rept. 110-885), and the 111th Congress did so (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). That provision did not establish a point of order 
(Apr. 15, 2008, p. 6045; May 8, 2008, pp. 8147, 8148) but a vote could 
have been subject to collateral challenge as a question of the 
privileges of the House (Mar. 12, 2008, p. 3856; Apr. 15, 2008, p. 
6054).
  The Speaker inserted in the Record a detailed statement describing 
procedures to be followed during votes and quorum calls by electronic 
device and by the backup procedures therefor (Jan. 15, 1973, pp. 1054-
57). The Speaker may direct that a call of the House be conducted by an 
alphabetical

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call of the roll by the Clerk in lieu of utilizing the electronic voting 
device (Mar. 7, 1973, p. 6699), and pursuant to this clause and clause 6 
(formerly clause 4 of rule XV) the Speaker may direct the Clerk to call 
the roll, in lieu of taking the vote by electronic device, where a 
quorum fails to vote on any question and objection is made for that 
reason (May 16, 1973, p. 15850).
  A request that the voting display be turned on during debate is not in 
order (Oct. 12, 1998, p. 25770).
  At the end of a 15-minute vote, after the electronic voting stations 
are closed but before the Speaker's announcement of the result, a Member 
may cast an initial vote or change a vote by ballot card in the well 
(Speaker Albert, Sept. 23, 1975, p. 29850; Speaker Wright, Oct. 29, 
1987, p. 30239). In 1975 Speaker Albert announced that changes could no 
longer be made at the electronic stations but would have to be made by 
ballot card in the well (Speaker Albert, Sept. 17, 1975, p. 28903). In 
1976 Speaker Albert announced that changes could be made electronically 
during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute voting period, but changes 
during the last 5 minutes would have to be made by ballot card in the 
well (Speaker Albert, Mar. 22, 1976, p. 7394). In 1977 Speaker O'Neill 
announced that changes could be made electronically at any time during a 
vote reduced to five minutes under the rules (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 4, 
1977, pp. 53-70) and the electronic voting system now is programmed to 
accommodate changes at the stations throughout any electronic vote of a 
minimum duration of less than 15 minutes. Once the Clerk has announced 
changes, the voting stations close and further changes must be made in 
the well (Nov. 17, 2005, p. 26580).
  The Speaker declines to entertain unanimous-consent requests to 
correct the Journal and Record on votes taken by electronic device (Apr. 
18, 1973, p. 13081; May 10, 1973, p. 15282; June 17, 1986, p. 14038), 
unless the request is to delete a vote that was not actually cast (June 
26, 2000, p. 12371). A recorded vote or quorum call may not be reopened 
once the Chair has announced the result (June 15, 2000, p. 11098). 
However, the Speaker may announce a change in the result of a vote taken 
by electronic device where required to correct an error in identifying a 
signature on a voting card submitted in the well (Speaker O'Neill, June 
11, 1981) or as a result of an untabulated voting card (Sept. 25, 2008, 
p. 21960).
  On a call of the House, or a vote, conducted by electronic device, 
Members are permitted a minimum of 15 minutes to respond, but it is 
within the discretion of the Chair, following the expiration of 15 
minutes, to allow additional time for Members to record their presence, 
or vote, before announcing the result (June 6, 1973, p. 18403; Oct. 9, 
1997, p. 22016; Sept. 9, 2003, p. 21558; Mar. 30, 2004, pp. 5577, 5578; 
July 8, 2004, pp. 14781-83; July 9, 2004, p. 14972). When an emergency 
recess under clause 12(b) of rule I occurred during an electronic vote, 
the Chair extended the period of time in which to cast a vote by 15 
additional minutes (May 11, 2005, p. 9164; June 29, 2005, p. 14835). A 
resolution alleging intentional misuse

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of House practices and customs in holding a vote open for approximately 
three hours for the sole purpose of circumventing the will of the House, 
and directing the Speaker to take such steps as necessary to prevent 
further abuse, constitutes a question of the privileges of the House 
(Dec. 8, 2003, pp. 32099, 32100; Dec. 8, 2005, pp. 27811, 27812). 
Similarly, resolutions directing the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct (now Ethics) to review irregularities in the conduct of a vote 
in the House (Aug. 3, 2007, p. 22746) or alleging irregularities in the 
conduct of a vote, directing House officers to preserve all records 
relating thereto, and establishing a select committee of investigation 
thereof (Aug. 3, 2007, pp. 22768, 22769) constitute questions of the 
privileges of the House.
  Where the Chair attempted to prematurely close a vote by electronic 
device while voting cards submitted in the well were still being 
tabulated, he allowed such tabulation to conclude before announcing the 
outcome of the vote (Aug. 2, 2007, p. 22545). The ``scoreboard'' 
components of the electronic voting system are for display only, such 
that when the former clock-setting on the board read ``final'' the Chair 
continued to allow Members in the well to cast votes or enter changes 
(Sept. 18, 2007, p. 24524).
  Because this clause is incorporated by reference into clause 6 of rule 
XVIII (formerly clause 2 of rule XXIII), the chair of the Committee of 
the Whole need not convert to a regular quorum call precisely at the 
expiration of 15 minutes if 100 Members have not appeared on a notice 
quorum call, but may continue to exercise discretion under that clause 
at any time during the conduct of the call (July 17, 1974, p. 23673).
  Because the Chair has the discretion to close the vote and to announce 
the result at any time after 15 minutes have elapsed, those precedents 
guaranteeing Members in the Chamber the right to have their votes 
recorded even if the Chair has announced the result (e.g., V, 6064, 
6065; VIII, 2143), which predate the use of an electronic voting system, 
do not require the Chair to hold open indefinitely a vote taken by 
electronic device (Mar. 14, 1978, p. 6838). In the 103d Congress the 
Speaker inserted in the Record his announcement that, in order to 
expedite the conduct of votes by electronic device, the Cloakrooms were 
directed not to forward to the Chair individual requests to hold a vote 
open (Speaker Foley, Jan. 6, 1993, p. 106). Starting in the 104th 
Congress, the Speaker has announced that each occupant of the Chair 
would have the Speaker's full support in striving to close each 
electronic vote at the earliest opportunity and that Members should not 
rely on signals relayed from outside the Chamber to assume that votes 
will be held open until they arrive (Speaker Gingrich, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
552; June 10, 1998, p. 11849; Speaker Hastert, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 249; 
Speaker Hastert, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 41; Speaker Hastert, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 
24; Jan. 8, 2003, p. 172; Speaker Hastert, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 70; Speaker 
Pelosi, Jan. 5, 2007, p. 273; Speaker Pelosi, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 24; 
Speaker Boehner, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_; Speaker Boehner, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _); however, the Chair will not 
close a vote while a Member is in the well attempting to vote

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(Feb. 10, 1995, p. 4385; June 22, 1995, p. 16814). In the 113th and 
114th Congresses, the Speaker reiterated the need for Members to come to 
the floor in a timely manner to vote but that the Chair would endeavor 
to preserve the entitlement to vote for a Member attempting to be 
recorded while in the aisle or Chamber (Speaker Boehner, Feb. 26, 2013, 
p. _; Speaker Boehner, Mar. 25, 2014, p. _; Speaker Boehner, Feb. 25, 
2015, p. _).
  (b) When <> the electronic voting system is inoperable or is not used, 
the Speaker or Chair may direct the Clerk to conduct a record vote or 
quorum call as provided in clause 3 or 4.

  When the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was added as a cross reference to the backup procedures found 
in clauses 3 and 4(a) and to clarify the Chair's discretion to choose 
either backup procedure (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  In the event of a malfunction in the electronic voting system during a 
record vote, the Chair may vacate the results of the electronic vote and 
direct that the record vote be conducted by call of the roll under 
clause 3 of rule XX (May 4, 1988, pp. 9846, 9847; Oct. 6, 1999, p. 
24198) or may direct a new electronic vote with a new 15-minute voting 
period (July 13, 2004, p. 15214). The determination that the electronic 
voting system is functioning reliably is in the discretion of the Chair, 
who may base a judgment on certification by the Clerk (Oct. 6, 1999, p. 
24198). For example, the Speaker continued to use the electronic system, 
even though the electronic display panels or certain voting stations 
were temporarily inoperative, while urging Members to verify their votes 
(Sept. 19, 1985, p. 24245; Feb. 9, 1994, p. 1633; Feb. 10, 2000, p. 
1021; Apr. 9, 2002, p. 4054; Sept. 19, 2002, p. 17237; Sept. 4, 2003, 
pp. 21151, 21152). Similarly, where the electronic voting system 
malfunctioned only temporarily, the Chair continued an electronic vote 
but advised Members to verify that they were recorded correctly (Mar. 
25, 2004, p. 5262). On the other hand, the Chair vacated the results of 
an electronic vote and directed that the record vote be taken by call of 
the roll where there was a malfunction in the electronic display panel 
and the Chair could not obtain from the Clerk verification that the vote 
would be recorded with 100 percent accuracy (Oct. 6, 1999, p. 24198). On 
one occasion, when the electronic voting system became inoperative 
during a vote, the Chair announced that (1) the vote would be held open 
until all Members were recorded; (2) the Clerk would retrieve the names 
of Members already recorded from the electronic display board; (3) the 
Clerk would combine the names of Members voting electronically and those 
who signed tally cards to form a valid vote; and (4) the vote

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would remain open until Members had returned from a memorial service at 
the National Cathedral (Sept. 14, 2001, p. 17103).

--  3. <> The 
Speaker may direct the Clerk to conduct a record vote or quorum call by 
call of the roll. In such a case the Clerk shall call the names of 
Members, alphabetically by surname. When two or more have the same 
surname, the name of the State (and, if necessary to distinguish among 
Members from the same State, the given names of the Members) shall be 
added. After the roll has been called once, the Clerk shall call the 
names of those not recorded, alphabetically by surname. Members 
appearing after the second call, but before the result is announced, may 
vote or announce a pair.

  The first form of this clause (formerly clause 1 of rule XV) was 
adopted in 1789, and amendments were added in 1870, 1880, 1890 (V, 
6046), 1969 (H. Res. 7, 91st Cong., Jan. 3, 1969, p. 35), and 1972 (H. 
Res. 1123, 92d Cong., Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 36005-012). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 1 of rule XV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Although 
this clause permits the announcement of a ``live'' pair, the practice of 
general pairs found in former clause 2 of rule VIII was deleted in the 
106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; see Sec. 1031, infra).
  The names of Members who have not been sworn are not entered on the 
roll from which the yeas and nays are called for entry on the Journal 
(V, 6048; VI, 638; VIII, 3122).
  Commencing in 1879 the Clerk, in calling the roll, called Members by 
the surnames with the prefix ``Mr.'' instead of calling the full names 
(V, 6047), but since the 62d Congress the practice has been discontinued 
in the interest of brevity (VIII, 3121). The Speaker's name is not on 
the voting roll and is not ordinarily called (V, 5970). When voting, the 
Speaker's name is called at the close of the roll (V, 5965). In case of 
a tie that is revealed by a correction of the roll, the Speaker has 
voted after intervening business or even on another day (V, 5969, 6061-
6063; VIII, 3075). Where the Speaker through an error of the Clerk in 
reporting the yeas and nays announces a result different from that 
actually had, the status of the question is governed by the vote as 
recorded and subsequent announcement by the Speaker of the changed 
result is authoritative, or the Speaker may entertain

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a motion for correction of the Journal in accordance with the vote as 
finally ascertained (VIII, 3162).
  Under this clause, as under clause 6, the roll is called twice, and 
those Members appearing after their names are called but before the 
announcement of the result may vote or announce a ``live'' pair. Under 
the former practice, before the amendment adopted on January 3, 1969, a 
Member who had failed to respond on either the first or second call of 
the roll could not be recorded before the announcement of the result (V, 
6066-6070; VIII, 3134-3150) unless the Member qualified by declaring 
that the Member had been within the Hall, listening, when the name 
should have been called and failed to hear it (V, 6071-6072; VIII, 3144-
3150), and then only on the theory that the name may have been 
inadvertently omitted by the Clerk (VIII, 3137). Under the former 
practice in which the roll was called by the Clerk, either before 
announcement of the result (V, 6064) or after such announcement (VIII, 
3125), the Speaker could order the vote recapitulated (V, 6049, 6050; 
VIII, 3128). A Member may not change a vote on recapitulation if the 
result has been announced (VIII, 3124), but errors in the record of such 
votes may be corrected (VIII, 3125). A motion that a vote be 
recapitulated is not privileged (VIII, 3126). The Speaker has declined 
to order a recapitulation of a vote taken by electronic device (Speaker 
Albert, July 30, 1975, p. 25841). The decision to conduct a record vote 
by call of the roll is entirely within the discretion of the Speaker, 
who may refuse to speculate whether he would exercise such discretion on 
a future vote (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4175).
  The <> legislative call system was 
designed to alert Members to certain occurrences on the floor of the 
House. The Speaker has directed that the bells and lights comprising the 
system be utilized as follows (Jan. 23, 1979, p. 701):
  Tellers--one ring and one light on left. Because the demand for teller 
votes was discontinued at the beginning of the 103d Congress, this 
signal is no longer utilized.
  Recorded vote, yeas and nays, or automatic record vote taken either by 
electronic system or by use of tellers with ballot cards--two bells and 
two lights on left indicate a vote by which Members are recorded by 
name. Bells are repeated five minutes after the first ring. When by 
unanimous consent waiving the five-minute minimum set by clause 9 
(formerly clause 5(b)(3) of rule I) the House authorized the Speaker to 
put remaining postponed questions (Oct. 4, 1988, pp. 28126, 28148) or 
any question following another vote by electronic device (e.g., May 23, 
2006, p. 9274) to two-minute electronic votes, two bells were rung.
  Recorded vote, yeas and nays, or automatic record electronic vote to 
be followed immediately by possible five-minute vote under clauses 8(c) 
or 9 of rule XX or clauses 6(f) or 6(g) of rule XVIII--two bells rung at 
beginning of first vote, followed by five bells, indicate that Chair 
will order five-minute votes if recorded vote, yeas and nays, or 
automatic vote is ordered imme

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diately thereafter. Two bells repeated five minutes after first ring. 
Five bells on each subsequent electronic vote.
  Recorded vote in the Committee of the Whole to be followed immediately 
by possible two-minute vote under clauses 6(f) or 6(g) of rule XVIII--
two bells rung at beginning of first vote, followed by two bells, 
indicate that Chair will order two-minute votes if recorded vote is 
ordered immediately thereafter. Two bells repeated five minutes after 
first ring. Two bells on each subsequent electronic vote.
  Recorded vote, yeas and nays, or automatic roll call by call of the 
roll--two bells, followed by a brief pause, then two bells indicate such 
a vote taken by a call of the roll in the House. The bells are repeated 
when the Clerk reaches the ``R's'' in the first call of the roll.
  Regular quorum call--three bells and three lights on left indicate a 
quorum call either in the House or in Committee of the Whole by 
electronic system or by clerks. The bells are repeated five minutes 
after the first ring. Where quorum call is by call of the roll, three 
bells followed by a brief pause, then three more bells, with the process 
repeated when the Clerk reaches the ``R's'' in the first call of the 
roll, are used.
  Regular quorum call in Committee of the Whole, which may be followed 
immediately by five-minute electronic recorded vote--three bells rung at 
beginning of quorum call, followed by five bells, indicate that Chair 
will order five-minute vote if recorded vote is ordered on pending 
question. Three bells repeated five minutes after first ring. Five bells 
for recorded vote on pending question if ordered.
  Notice or short quorum call in Committee of the Whole--one long bell 
followed by three regular bells, and three lights on left, indicate that 
the Chair has exercised discretion under clause 6 of rule XVIII and will 
vacate proceedings when a quorum of the Committee appears. Bells are 
repeated every five minutes unless (a) the call is vacated by ringing of 
one long bell and extinguishing of three lights, or (b) the call is 
converted into a regular quorum call and three regular bells are rung.
  Adjournment--four bells and four lights on left.
  Any two-minute vote--two bells and two lights on left.
  Any five-minute vote--five bells and five lights on left.
  Recess of the House--six bells and six lights on left.
  Civil Defense Warning--twelve bells, sounded at two-second intervals, 
with six lights illuminated.
  The light on the far right--seven--indicates that the House is in 
session.
  Failure of the signal bells to announce a vote does not warrant 
repetition of the roll call (VIII, 3153-3155, 3157) nor does such a 
failure permit a Member to be recorded following the conclusion of the 
call (June 9, 1938, p. 8662).
  Before <> the 
result of a vote has been finally and conclusively pronounced by the 
Chair, but not thereafter, a Member may change a vote (V, 5931-5933, 
6093, 6094; VIII, 3070, 3123, 3124, 3160), and a Member who has answered 
``present''

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may change it to ``yea'' or ``nay'' (V, 6060). However, a vote given by 
a Member may not be withdrawn without leave of the House (V, 5930).
  When a vote actually cast fails to be recorded during a call of the 
roll (V, 6061-6063) the Member may, before the approval of the Journal, 
demand as a matter of right that correction be made (V, 5969; VIII, 
3143). However, statements of other Members as to alleged errors in a 
recorded vote must be very definite and positive to justify the Speaker 
in ordering a change of the roll (V, 6064, 6099). The Speaker declines 
to entertain requests to correct the Journal and Record on votes taken 
by electronic device, based upon the technical accuracy of the 
electronic system if properly utilized and upon the responsibility of 
each Member to correctly cast and verify his or her vote (Apr. 18, 1973, 
p. 13081; May 10, 1973, p. 15282). By unanimous consent the House may 
vacate proceedings on a recorded vote conducted in the Committee of the 
Whole and require a vote de novo where it is alleged that Members were 
improperly prevented from being recorded (June 22, 1995, p. 16815; see 
June 6, 2012, p. _, for similar order in the Committee of the Whole).
  Once <> begun the 
roll call may not be interrupted even by a motion to adjourn (V, 6053; 
VIII, 3133), a parliamentary inquiry (VIII, 3132) except in the 
discretion of the Chair and if related to the call (Deschler-Brown, ch. 
31, Sec. Sec.  15.14, 15.15), a question of personal privilege (V, 6058, 
6059; VI, 554, 564), the arrival of the time fixed for another order of 
business (V, 6056) or for a recess (V, 6054, 6055; VIII, 3133), or the 
presentation of a conference report (V, 6443). However, it is 
interrupted for the reception of messages and by the arrival of the hour 
fixed for adjournment sine die (V, 6715-6718). A Member-elect may be 
sworn during a record vote (e.g., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 46; Jan. 6, 2005, p. 
242). Incidental questions arising during the roll call, such as the 
refusal of a Member to vote (V, 5946-5948), are considered after the 
completion of the call and the announcement of the vote (V, 5947). The 
rules do not preclude a Member from announcing after a recorded vote how 
the Member would have voted if present (Speaker Rayburn, June 27, 1957, 
p. 10521; contra VIII, 3151), but neither the rules nor practice permit 
a Member to announce after a recorded vote how absent colleagues would 
have voted if present (VI, 200; Apr. 3, 1933, p. 1139; Apr. 28, 1933, p. 
2587; May 20, 1933, p. 3834; Mar. 16, 1934, pp. 4691, 4700; Apr. 14, 
1937, pp. 3489, 3490; Apr. 15, 1937, p. 3563).

  4. (a) <> The Speaker may 
direct a record vote or quorum call to be conducted by tellers. In such 
a case the tellers named by the Speaker shall record the names of the 
Members voting on each side of the question or record their presence, as 
the case may be,

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which the Clerk shall enter on the Journal and publish in the 
Congressional Record. Absentees shall be noted, but the doors may not be 
closed except when ordered by the Speaker. The minimum time for a record 
vote or quorum call by tellers shall be 15 minutes.

  This paragraph was adopted as part of the general revision of this 
rule (formerly rule XV) that was required by the implementation of the 
electronic voting system (H. Res. 1123, 92d Cong., Oct. 13, 1972, p. 
36012). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former clause 2(b) of rule XV (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Speaker has discretion to direct that the 
presence of Members be recorded by this procedure in lieu of using the 
electronic system, or the Chair may direct that a quorum call be taken 
by an alphabetical call of the roll (Mar. 7, 1973, p. 6699). The chair 
of the Committee of the Whole also may direct that a quorum call be 
conducted by depositing quorum tally cards with clerk tellers, rather 
than by electronic device or a call of the roll (July 13, 1983, p. 
18858).
  Exercising authority under this paragraph, the Speaker ordered the 
doors to the Chamber closed and locked during a call of the House and 
instructed the Doorkeeper to enforce the rule and let no Members leave 
the Hall (Deschler, ch. 20, Sec. 6.3). This clause does not give the 
Speaker the authority to lock the doors during a recorded vote (June 11, 
1997, p. 10665). For a discussion of the count to determine a quorum, 
see House Practice, ch. 43, Sec. 5.

  (b) <> On the demand of a Member, or at the suggestion 
of the Speaker, the names of Members sufficient to make a quorum in the 
Hall of the House who do not vote shall be noted by the Clerk, entered 
on the Journal, reported to the Speaker with the names of the Members 
voting, and be counted and announced in determining the presence of a 
quorum to do business.

  This clause was adopted in 1890 (IV, 2905), but it merely formalized a 
principle already established by a decision of the Chair (IV, 2895). It 
was much in use in the first years after its adoption (III, 2620; IV, 
2905-2907); but with the decline of obstruction in the House and the 
adoption of clause 6 (formerly clause 4 of rule XV) of this rule the 
necessity for

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its use has disappeared to a large extent. Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former 
clause 3 of rule XV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Speaker may 
direct the Clerk to note names of Members under this rule even on a vote 
for which a quorum is not necessary (VIII, 3152). For a discussion of 
the count to determine a quorum, see House Practice, ch. 43, Sec. 5.

  5. (a) <> In the absence of a 
quorum, a majority comprising at least 15 Members, which may include the 
Speaker, may compel the attendance of absent Members.
  (b) Subject to clause 7(b) a majority described in paragraph (a) may 
order the Sergeant-at-Arms to send officers appointed by the Sergeant-
at-Arms to arrest those Members for whom no sufficient excuse is made 
and shall secure and retain their attendance. The House shall determine 
on what condition they shall be discharged. Unless the House otherwise 
directs, the Members who voluntarily appear shall be admitted 
immediately to the Hall of the House and shall report their names to the 
Clerk to be entered on the Journal as present.

  The essential portions of this provision were adopted in 1789 and 
1795, with minor amendments in 1888, 1890 (IV, 2982), and 1971 (H. Res. 
5, 92d Cong., Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Later in the 92d Congress several 
provisions of this rule, including this clause, were amended to reflect 
the implementation of the electronic voting system (H. Res. 1123, Oct. 
13, 1972, pp. 36005-12). The provisions relating to the call of the roll 
by the Clerk were deleted. Calls of the House are now taken by 
electronic device unless the Speaker orders the use of the alternative 
procedure in clause 2(b). Together with clause 7 (formerly clause 
6(e)(2) of rule XV) this provision was further amended in the 96th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16) to conform to the 
requirement in that provision that further proceedings under the call 
shall be dispensed with unless the Speaker chooses to recognize for a 
call of the House or a motion to compel attendance under this paragraph. 
This clause must be read in light of clause 7 (formerly clause 6(e) of 
rule XV), which prohibits the point of order that a quorum is not 
present unless the Speaker has put a question to a vote. A technical 
correction to paragraph (b) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 
2(l),

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H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44). A gender-based reference was eliminated 
in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 2(a) of rule XV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Under <> this rule 
a call may not be ordered by less than 15, and without that number 
present the motion for a call is not entertained (IV, 2983). It must be 
ordered by majority vote, and a minority of 15 or more favoring a call 
on such vote is not sufficient (IV, 2984). A quorum not being present no 
motion is in order but for a call of the House or to adjourn (IV, 2950, 
2988; VI, 680), and at this stage the motion to adjourn has precedence 
over the motion for a call of the House (VIII, 2642).
  Although the following precedents predate the use of the electronic 
voting and recording system, they are retained in the Manual because of 
their general applicability with respect to calls of the House. A roll 
call under paragraph (a) may not be interrupted by a motion to dispense 
with further proceedings under the call (IV, 2992), and a recapitulation 
of the names of those who appear after their names have been called may 
not be demanded (IV, 2933). However, during proceedings under the call 
the roll may be ordered to be called again by those present (IV, 2991).
  During a call less than a quorum may revoke leaves of absence (IV, 
3003, 3004) and excuse a Member from attendance (IV, 3000, 3001), but 
may not grant leaves of absence (IV, 3002). The roll is sometimes called 
for excuses, and motions to excuse are in order during this call (IV, 
2997), but neither the motion to excuse nor an incidental appeal are 
debatable (IV, 2999). After the roll has been called for excuses, and 
the House has ordered the arrest of those who are unexcused, a motion to 
excuse an absentee is in order when brought to the bar (IV, 3012).
  An <> order of arrest for absent 
Members may be made after a single calling of the roll (IV, 3015, 3016), 
and a warrant issued on direction of those present, such motion having 
precedence of a motion to dispense with proceedings under the call (IV, 
3036). The Sergeant-at-Arms is required to arrest Members wherever they 
may be found (IV, 3017), and the former leave for a committee to sit 
during sessions did not release its members from liability to arrest 
(IV, 3020). A motion to require the Sergeant-at-Arms to report progress 
in securing a quorum is in order during a call of the House (VI, 687). A 
Member who appears and answers is not subject to arrest (IV, 3019), and 
in a case in which a Member complained of wrongful arrest the House 
ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to investigate and amend the return of his 
warrant (IV, 3021). A Member once arrested having escaped it was held 
that he might not be brought back on the same warrant (IV, 3022). A 
privileged motion to compel the attendance of absent Members is in order 
after the Chair has announced that a quorum has not responded on a 
negative recorded vote on a motion to adjourn (Nov. 2, 1987, p. 30386).

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  The former practice of presenting Members at the bar during a call of 
the House (IV, 3030-3035) is obsolete, and Members now report to the 
Clerk and are recorded without being formally excused unless brought in 
under compulsion (VI, 684). Those present on a call may prescribe a fine 
as a condition of discharge, and the House has by resolution revoked all 
leaves of absence and directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to deduct from the 
salary of Members compensation for days absent without leave (VI, 30, 
198), but this penalty has been of rare occurrence (IV, 3013, 3014, 
3025). Having rejected a motion to adjourn, less than a quorum of the 
House rejected a motion directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent 
Members, rejected a second motion to adjourn, and then adopted a motion 
authorizing the Speaker to compel the attendance of absent Members (Nov. 
2, 1987, p. 30387).
  The motion to dispense with further proceedings under the call of the 
House is not in order when a motion to arrest absent Members is pending 
(IV, 3029, 3037); is not entertained until a quorum responds on the 
call, but may be agreed to by less than a quorum thereafter (IV, 3038, 
3040; VI, 689; Sept. 11, 1968, p. 26453; Dec. 22, 1970, p. 43311); and 
is neither debatable nor subject to amendment, thus the motion to lay it 
on the table is not in order (Aug. 27, 1962, p. 17653; Dec. 18, 1970, p. 
42504).
  Form of resolution for the arrest of Members absent without leave (VI, 
686).
  During <> the call, which in 
later practice has been invoked only in the absence of a quorum, 
incidental motions may be agreed to by less than a quorum (IV, 2994, 
3029; VI, 681), and under clause 7 (formerly clause 6(a)(4) of rule XV) 
a point of order of no quorum may not be made during the offering, 
consideration, and disposition of any motion incidental to a call of the 
House. This includes motions for the previous question (V, 5458); to 
reconsider and to lay the motion to reconsider on the table (V, 5607, 
5608); to adjourn, which is in order even in the midst of the call of 
the roll for excuses (IV, 2998) or while the House is dividing on a 
motion for a call of the House (VIII, 2644), and which takes precedence 
over a motion to dispense with further proceedings under the call (VIII, 
2643); and an appeal from a decision of the Chair (IV, 3010, 3037; VI, 
681). The yeas and nays may also be ordered (IV, 3010), but a question 
of privilege may not be raised unless connected immediately with the 
proceedings (III, 2545). Motions not strictly incidental to the call are 
not admitted, as for a recess (IV, 2995, 2996), to excuse a Member from 
voting even when otherwise in order (IV, 3007), to enforce the statute 
relating to deductions of pay of Members for absence (IV, 3011; VI, 
682), to construe a rule or make a new rule (IV, 3008), or to order a 
change of a Journal record (IV, 3009). An appeal also may not be 
entertained during a call of the yeas and nays (V, 6051). A motion for a 
call of the House is not debatable (VI, 683, 688). The motion to compel 
the attendance of absent Members, being neither debatable nor amendable,

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is not subject to a motion to lay on the table (Speaker Wright, Nov. 2, 
1987, p. 30389).

  (c)(1) If <> the House 
should be without a quorum due to catastrophic circumstances, then--
      (A) until there appear in the House a sufficient number of 
Representatives to constitute a quorum among the whole number of the 
House, a quorum in the House shall be determined based upon the 
provisional number of the House; and
      (B) the provisional number of the House, as of the close of the 
call of the House described in subparagraph (3)(C), shall be the number 
of Representatives responding to that call of the House.
  (2) If a Representative counted in determining the provisional number 
of the House thereafter ceases to be a Representative, or if a 
Representative not counted in determining the provisional number of the 
House thereafter appears in the House, the provisional number of the 
House shall be adjusted accordingly.
  (3) For the purposes of subparagraph (1), the House shall be 
considered to be without a quorum due to catastrophic circumstances if, 
after a motion under paragraph (a) has been disposed of and without 
intervening adjournment, each of the following occurs in the stated 
sequence:
      (A) A call of the House (or a series of calls of the House) is 
closed after aggregating a period in excess of 72 hours (excluding time 
the

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House is in recess) without producing a quorum.
      (B) The Speaker--
          (i) with the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader (or their 
respective designees), receives from the Sergeant-at-Arms (or a 
designee) a catastrophic quorum failure report, as described in 
subparagraph (4);
          (ii) consults with the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader 
(or their respective designees) on the content of that report; and
          (iii) announces the content of that report to the House.
      (C) A further call of the House (or a series of calls of the 
House) is closed after aggregating a period in excess of 24 hours 
(excluding time the House is in recess) without producing a quorum.
  (4)(A) For purposes of subparagraph (3), a catastrophic quorum failure 
report is a report advising that the inability of the House to establish 
a quorum is attributable to catastrophic circumstances involving natural 
disaster, attack, contagion, or similar calamity rendering 
Representatives incapable of attending the proceedings of the House.
  (B) Such report shall specify the following:
      (i) The number of vacancies in the House and the names of former 
Representatives whose seats are vacant.
      (ii) The names of Representatives considered incapacitated.

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      (iii) The names of Representatives not incapacitated but otherwise 
incapable of attending the proceedings of the House.
      (iv) The names of Representatives unaccounted for.
  (C) Such report shall be prepared on the basis of the most 
authoritative information available after consultation with the 
Attending Physician to the Congress and the Clerk (or their respective 
designees) and pertinent public health and law enforcement officials.
  (D) Such report shall be updated every legislative day for the 
duration of any proceedings under or in reliance on this paragraph. The 
Speaker shall make such updates available to the House.
  (5) An announcement by the Speaker under subparagraph (3)(B)(iii) 
shall not be subject to appeal.
  (6) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to a proposal to create a vacancy 
in the representation from any State in respect of a Representative not 
incapacitated but otherwise incapable of attending the proceedings of 
the House.
  (7) For purposes of this paragraph:
      (A) The term ``provisional number of the House'' means the number 
of Representatives upon which a quorum will be computed in the House 
until Representatives sufficient in number to constitute a quorum among 
the whole number of the House appear in the House.
      (B) The term ``whole number of the House'' means the number of 
Representatives chosen,

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sworn, and living whose membership in the House has not been terminated 
by resignation or by the action of the House.

  This paragraph was added in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). It was amended in the 111th Congress to correct a 
cross-reference and to eliminate a gender-based reference (secs. 2(l), 
2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7) and in the 113th Congress to add 
designees to subparagraph (3)(B) (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_). In extraordinary circumstances, section 8 of title 2, United States 
Code, prescribes special election rules to expedite the filling of 
vacancies in representation of the House.
  (d) <> Upon the death, 
resignation, expulsion, disqualification, removal, or swearing of a 
Member, the whole number of the House shall be adjusted accordingly. The 
Speaker shall announce the adjustment to the House. Such an announcement 
shall not be subject to appeal. In the case of a death, the Speaker may 
lay before the House such documentation from Federal, State, or local 
officials as the Speaker deems pertinent.

  This paragraph was added in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). In the 109th Congress it was redesignated from 
paragraph (c) to paragraph (d) and the Speaker's responsibility to 
announce an adjustment was extended to the swearing of a Member (sec. 
2(h), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). A gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
7).
  6. (a) <> When a quorum fails to vote on a question, a quorum is not 
present, and objection is made for that cause (unless the House shall 
adjourn)--
      (1) there shall be a call of the House;
      (2) the Sergeant-at-Arms shall proceed forthwith to bring in 
absent Members; and

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      (3) the yeas and nays on the pending question shall at the same 
time be considered as ordered.
  (b) The Clerk shall record Members by the yeas and nays on the pending 
question, using such procedure as the Speaker may invoke under clause 2, 
3, or 4. Each Member arrested under this clause shall be brought by the 
Sergeant-at-Arms before the House, whereupon the Member shall be noted 
as present, discharged from arrest, and given an opportunity to vote; 
and such vote shall be recorded. If those voting on the question and 
those who are present and decline to vote together make a majority of 
the House, the Speaker shall declare that a quorum is constituted, and 
the pending question shall be decided as the requisite majority of those 
voting shall have determined. Thereupon further proceedings under the 
call shall be considered as dispensed with.
  (c) At any time after Members have had the requisite opportunity to 
respond by the yeas and nays ordered under this clause, but before a 
result has been announced, a motion that the House adjourn shall be in 
order if seconded by a majority of those present, to be ascertained by 
actual count by the Speaker. If the House adjourns on such a motion, all 
proceedings under this clause shall be considered as vacated.

  This clause (formerly clause 4 of rule XV) was adopted in 1896 (IV, 
3041; VI, 690); and amended in 1972 to make its provisions subject to 
clause 2 (formerly clause 5) of this rule (H. Res. 1123, 92d Cong., p. 
36012). Paragraph (c) was amended to clarify the privileged nature of 
the motion to adjourn during the call in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(m), 
H. Res. 5, Jan.

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7, 2003, p. 7) and the 111th Congress (sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. 9), when gender-based references were also eliminated (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 4 
of rule XV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Where objection is raised to a vote in the House on the ground that a 
quorum is not present, and a quorum is in fact not present, the Speaker 
may direct that the call of the House be taken by electronic device 
under clause 2 (formerly clause 5), or may direct the Clerk to call the 
roll pursuant to this clause (May 16, 1973, p. 15860).
  It applies only to votes in which a quorum is required, and hence does 
not apply to an affirmative vote on a motion to adjourn (July 25, 1949, 
p. 10092; Nov. 4, 1983, p. 30946; Aug. 4, 2007, p. 22990), or motions 
incidental to a call of the House that may be agreed to by less than a 
quorum (IV, 2994, 3029; VI, 681), or to a call when there is no question 
pending (IV, 2990). Although a quorum is not required to adjourn, a 
point of no quorum on a negative vote on adjournment, if sustained, 
precipitates a call of the House under the rule (VI, 700; June 4, 1951, 
pp. 6097, 6098; June 15, 1951, p. 6621). Where less than a quorum 
rejects a motion to adjourn, the House may not consider business but may 
dispose of motions to compel the attendance of absent Members (Nov. 2, 
1987, p. 30387).
  When a Member objects to a vote on the ground that a quorum is not 
present and makes the point of order under this clause, the Speaker may 
count the House and determine the presence of a quorum and is not 
required to announce the actual count under the first sentence of this 
clause (Sept. 30, 1981, p. 22456). Where the Speaker ascertains the 
presence of a quorum by actual count following an objection to a vote 
under this clause, or on a rejected demand for the yeas and nays and a 
division vote is then taken on the pending question, the division vote 
is intervening business (see VIII, 2804) permitting another objection to 
the lack of a quorum, and the Speaker must again count the House (Mar. 
17, 1976, p. 6792; Aug. 2, 1979, p. 22006). However, where the announced 
absence of a quorum has resulted in a record vote under this clause (on 
the Speaker's approval of the Journal), the House may not, even by 
unanimous consent, vacate the vote in order to conduct another voice 
vote in lieu of the record vote, because no business, including a 
unanimous-consent agreement, is in order in the announced absence of a 
quorum (July 13, 1983, p. 18844; Feb. 24, 1988, p. 2450). The House 
having authorized the Speaker to compel the attendance of absent 
Members, the Speaker announced that the Sergeant-at-Arms would proceed 
with necessary and efficacious steps, and that pending the establishment 
of a quorum no further business, including unanimous-consent requests 
for recess authority, could be entertained (Nov. 2, 1987, p. 30389).

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  Under <> this 
clause the roll is called twice, and those appearing after their names 
are called may vote (IV, 3052). A motion to adjourn may be made before 
the call begins (IV, 3050). After the roll has been called, and while 
the proceedings to obtain a quorum are going on, motions to excuse 
Members are in order (IV, 3051).
  The Sergeant-at-Arms is required to detain those who are present and 
bring in absentees (IV, 3045-3048), and does this without the authority 
of a resolution adopted by those present (IV, 3049). There is doubt as 
to whether or not a warrant is necessary but it is customary for the 
Speaker to issue one on the authority of the rule (IV, 3043; VI, 702). 
When arrested, Members are arraigned at the bar, and either vote or are 
noted as present, after which they are discharged (IV, 3044).
  When a quorum fails to vote on a yea-and-nay vote on a motion that 
requires a quorum to be present, and a quorum is not present, the Chair 
takes notice of the fact, and unless the House adjourns, a call of the 
House is ordered by the Chair under this rule, and the vote is taken on 
the question de novo (IV, 3045, 3052; VI, 679). If the House does 
adjourn, the question is put de novo the next meeting day (Oct. 10, 
1940, p. 13535).
  An automatic roll call results under this rule when the objection that 
a quorum is not present and voting is made after a viva voce vote (VI, 
697). An automatic roll call under this rule is not in order in 
Committee of the Whole (Aug. 2, 1966, p. 17844). Pursuant to clause 8, 
if a vote is objected to under this clause, further proceedings may be 
postponed, in which case the question is put de novo when that vote 
recurs as unfinished business. Furthermore, when such proceedings are 
postponed, the point of order that a quorum is not present is considered 
as withdrawn because no longer in order (a question not being put after 
the Speaker's announcement of postponement) (see clause 7, infra).

  7. (a) <> The Speaker may 
not entertain a point of order that a quorum is not present unless a 
question has been put to a vote.
  (b) <> Subject to paragraph (c) the Speaker may recognize 
a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to move a call of the House 
at any time. When a quorum is established pursuant to a call of the 
House, further proceedings under the call shall be considered as 
dispensed with unless the

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Speaker recognizes for a motion to compel attendance of Members under 
clause 5(b).
  (c) <> A call of the House shall not be in order after the previous 
question is ordered unless the Speaker determines by actual count that a 
quorum is not present.

  Paragraphs (a) and (b) were adopted in the 93d Congress (H. Res. 998, 
Apr. 9, 1974, pp. 10195-99) and amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) and in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 
1979, pp. 7-16) to dispense with further proceedings under any call of 
the House when a quorum appears unless the Speaker chooses to recognize 
for a motion. Paragraph (c) (formerly clause 2 of rule XVII) was adopted 
in 1860 (V, 5447). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, paragraphs (a) and (b) were found in former clause 6 of rule 
XV and paragraph (c) was found in former clause 2 of rule XVII. The 
106th Congress also transferred former clause 6(b) of rule XV to clause 
6(d) of rule XVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Under this clause the Speaker may not entertain a point of order of no 
quorum when the Speaker has not put a question to a vote in the House 
(Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 11, 1977, p. 891; Jan. 31, 1977, p. 2640; Sept. 
30, 1997, p. 20837; July 21, 1998, p. 16342; June 14, 2001, p. 10725). 
The Chair may not entertain a point of order of no quorum pending a 
request that a committee be permitted to sit under the five-minute rule, 
because the Chair has not put the question on a pending proposition to a 
vote (June 18, 1980, p. 15316). However, under this clause the Speaker 
may at any time choose to recognize a Member to move a call of the House 
(Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 19, 1977, p. 1719; Jan. 31, 1977, p. 2640; Aug. 
6, 1986, p. 19370), or may choose not to do so (Sept. 30, 1997, p. 
20837), or by unanimous consent may initiate a call of the House without 
motion (Speaker Foley, Mar. 14, 1990, p. 4324) even, for example, before 
the call of the Private Calendar, which is in order after approval of 
the Journal and disposition of business on the Speaker's table (July 8, 
1987, p. 18972). When one Member is already under recognition for 
debate, however, another Member may be recognized to move a call of the 
House only if the first Member yields for that purpose (July 23, 1998, 
p. 16989). For precedents addressing timeliness in raising a point of 
order of no quorum, see Deschler, ch. 20, Sec. 13.
  The Speaker's refusal to entertain a point of order of no quorum when 
a pending question has not been put to a vote is not subject to an 
appeal, because the clause contains an absolute and unambiguous 
prohibition against entertaining such a point of order (Sept. 16, 1977, 
p. 29562). During debate on a measure in the House the Speaker will not 
respond to an

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inquiry as to the number of Members present in the Chamber, because a 
point of no quorum is not admissible unless the Speaker has put the 
pending question to a vote (Oct. 28, 1987, p. 29682).
  In adopting this rule, the House has manifested a determination that 
the mere conduct of debate in the House, where the Chair has not put the 
pending motion or proposition to a vote, is not such business as 
requires a quorum under the Constitution (art. I, sec. 5, cl. 1), and 
neither a point of order of no quorum during debate only nor a point of 
order against the enforcement of this clause lies independently under 
the Constitution (Sept. 8, 1977, p. 28114; Sept. 12, 1977, p. 28800; 
Feb. 27, 1986, p. 3060).

Postponement of proceedings
  8. (a)(1) <> When a 
recorded vote is ordered, or the yeas and nays are ordered, or a vote is 
objected to under clause 6--
      (A) on any of the questions specified in subparagraph (2), the 
Speaker may postpone further proceedings to a designated place in the 
legislative schedule within two additional legislative days; and
      (B) on the question of agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the 
Journal, the Speaker may postpone further proceedings to a designated 
place in the legislative schedule on that legislative day.
  (2) The questions described in subparagraph (1) are as follows:
      (A) The question of passing a bill or joint resolution.
      (B) The question of adopting a resolution or concurrent 
resolution.
      (C) The question of agreeing to a motion to instruct managers on 
the part of the House (except that proceedings may not resume on such a 
motion under clause 7(c) of rule XXII

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if the managers have filed a report in the House).
      (D) The question of agreeing to a conference report.
      (E) The question of ordering the previous question on a question 
described in subdivision (A), (B), (C), or (D).
      (F) The question of agreeing to a motion to suspend the rules.
      (G) The question of agreeing to a motion to reconsider or the 
question of agreeing to a motion to lay on the table a motion to 
reconsider.
      (H) The question of agreeing to an amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole.
  (b) At the time designated by the Speaker for further proceedings on 
questions postponed under paragraph (a), the Speaker shall resume 
proceedings on each postponed question.
  (c) The Speaker may reduce to five minutes the minimum time for 
electronic voting on a question postponed under this clause, or on a 
question incidental thereto, that--
      (1) follows another electronic vote without intervening business, 
so long as the minimum time for electronic voting on the first in any 
series of questions is 15 minutes; or
      (2) follows a report from the Committee of the Whole without 
intervening debate or motion if in the discretion of the Speaker Members 
would be afforded an adequate opportunity to vote.

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  (d) If the House adjourns on a legislative day designated for further 
proceedings on questions postponed under this clause without disposing 
of such questions, then on the next legislative day the unfinished 
business is the disposition of such questions.

  This provision (formerly clause 5(b) of rule I) was added in the 96th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 7), and paragraph (a) was amended 
in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113) to 
consolidate most authority for the postponing of further proceedings on 
certain questions into this paragraph. This consolidation was 
accomplished with the addition of the authority to postpone further 
proceedings on reports from the Committee on Rules and motions to 
suspend the rules. The Speaker was granted additional authority to 
postpone further proceedings as follows: (1) the Speaker's approval of 
the Journal until later that legislative day in the 98th Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34); (2) motions to instruct conferees under 
clause 7(c) of rule XXII in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, 
p. 72); (3) the original motion to instruct conferees in the 106th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); (4) ordering the previous 
question on another question that is, itself, susceptible of 
postponement (and the list was reordered) in the 104th Congress (sec. 
223(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469); (5) certain questions during 
consideration of bills called from the Corrections Calendar in the 105th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), but that provision was 
stricken in the 109th Congress when the Corrections Calendar was 
repealed (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43); (6) questions 
incidental to a postponed question (and to permit the first postponed 
vote in a series to be a five-minute vote if it immediately follows a 
15-minute vote (now paragraph (c)(1)) in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); (7) the question of agreeing to the motion to 
reconsider, the question of agreeing to the motion to lay on the table a 
motion to reconsider, and the question of agreeing to an amendment 
reported from the Committee of the Whole in the 109th Congress (sec. 
2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Paragraph (c)(2) was added in the 
113th Congress to grant the Chair discretion to conduct a five-minute 
vote in the House following a report of the Committee of the Whole in 
certain circumstances (sec. 2(b)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 5(b) of rule I (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). Technical corrections to paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) of 
clause 8 were effected in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
7, 2003, p. 7).
  The Speaker first exercised the authority to postpone a record vote on 
the approval of the Journal on November 10, 1983 (p. 32097). That 
authority includes the power to postpone a division vote on the approval 
of the Journal that is objected to under clause 6 of rule XX (formerly 
clause 4

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of rule XV) (Sept. 21, 1993, p. 21820). On questions not enumerated in 
this paragraph, such as the initial motion to instruct conferees before 
the 106th Congress (Oct. 6, 1986, p. 28704), a motion to concur in a 
Senate amendment (e.g., Oct. 12, 2011, p. _), or a motion to recommit 
(e.g., June 12, 2014, p. _) unanimous consent is required to permit the 
Speaker to postpone such record votes. The House by unanimous consent 
has authorized the Speaker to postpone further proceedings on a 
specified class of record votes to a date certain beyond the two 
legislative days permitted under this clause (e.g., Sept. 17, 2003, p. 
22272).
  Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XX (formerly clause 6(e) of rule XV), 
prohibiting a point of order of no quorum unless the Speaker has put the 
pending proposition to a vote, the Speaker announces, after postponing a 
vote on a motion to suspend the rules where objection has been made to 
the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present, that the point of 
order is considered as withdrawn, because the Chair is no longer putting 
the question (May 16, 1977, p. 14785). Clause 8(a) of rule XX (formerly 
clause 5(b) of rule I) does not require the Chair's customary 
announcement at the beginning of consideration of motions to suspend the 
rules that the Chair intends to postpone possible record votes (Feb. 23, 
1993, p. 3281; Nov. 14, 1995, p. 32385).
  Under the authority to postpone further proceedings on a specified 
question to a designated time within two legislative days, the Speaker 
may simultaneously designate separate times for the resumption of 
proceedings on separate postponed questions (Mar. 3, 1992, p. 4072). 
Once the Speaker has postponed record votes to a designated place in the 
legislative schedule, the Speaker may subsequently redesignate the time 
when the votes will be taken within the appropriate period (June 6, 
1984, p. 15080; Oct. 3, 1988, pp. 27782, 27878). When the House adjourns 
on the second legislative day after postponement of a question under 
this clause without resuming proceedings thereon, the question remains 
unfinished business on the next legislative day (Oct. 1, 1997, p. 
20922).
  Having clustered record votes on motions to suspend the rules and then 
having clustered record votes on passage of other measures considered 
immediately after debate on the suspension motions, the Speaker may, 
pursuant to this clause, conduct all the postponed votes in one sequence 
and reduce to five minutes the time for all electronic votes after the 
first suspension vote (May 17, 1983, p. 12508; Oct. 2, 1989, p. 22724). 
However, the Chair may decline to recognize for a unanimous-consent 
request to reduce to five minutes the first vote in the series, because 
the bell and light system would not give adequate notice of the initial 
five-minute vote (Oct. 8, 1985, p. 26666; see also Sec. 1032, infra). 
Before the 106th Congress, where a series of votes had been postponed 
pursuant to this clause to occur following a 15-minute vote on another 
measure not a part of that series, the vote on the first postponed 
measure could have been reduced to five minutes only by unanimous 
consent (May 24, 1983, p. 13595; July 22, 1996, p. 18410). By unanimous 
consent waiving the five-minute min

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imum set by paragraph (c) (formerly clause 5(b)(3) of rule I), the House 
has authorized the Speaker to put remaining postponed questions to two-
minute electronic votes (Oct. 4, 1988, pp. 28126, 28148). The Speaker 
may entertain a unanimous-consent request for the consideration of a 
similar Senate measure following passage of a House bill and before the 
next postponed vote (Feb. 15, 1983, p. 2175). Because a resolution 
raising a question of the privileges of the House takes precedence over 
a motion to suspend the rules, it may be offered and voted on between 
motions to suspend the rules on which the Speaker has postponed record 
votes (May 17, 1983, p. 12486). Proceedings may not resume on a 
postponed question of agreeing to a motion to instruct offered pursuant 
to clause 7(c) of rule XXII after the managers have filed a conference 
report in the House (e.g., Oct. 19, 1999, p. 25961).
  For several years before the 107th Congress, special rules adopted by 
the House commonly provided the chair of the Committee of the Whole 
authority to postpone and cluster requests for recorded votes on 
amendments. In the 107th Congress that authority was given to the chair 
in the standing rules by adoption of a new clause 6(g) of rule XVIII. 
For a discussion of such authority, see Sec. 984, supra.

  Former <> clause 2 of rule VIII was 
adopted in 1880, although the practice of pairing had then existed in 
the House for many years (V, 5981). The language of the clause was 
slightly altered by amendment in 1972 to reflect the installation of 
electronic voting in the 93d Congress (H. Res. 1123, Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 
36005-12). It was amended in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 
1975, p. 20) to permit pairs to be announced in the Committee of the 
Whole. Former clause 2 of rule VIII was deleted in the 106th Congress 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). ``Live'' pairs still may be announced 
under clause 3 of rule XX (Sec. 1015, supra).
  Before the 106th Congress, pairs were not announced at a time other 
than that prescribed by the former rule (V, 6046), and the voting 
intentions of an absent Member were not otherwise announced by a 
colleague (VIII, 3151). Before the 94th Congress pairs were not 
permitted in Committee of the Whole (V, 5984; Speaker Albert, Jan. 15, 
1973, p. 1054). The House did not consider questions arising out of the 
breaking of a pair (V, 5982, 5983, 6095; VIII, 3082, 3085, 3087-3089, 
3093), or permit a Member to vote after the call on the plea that he had 
refrained because of misunderstanding as to a pair (V, 6080, 6081). 
Discussion of the origin of the practice of pairing in the House and 
Senate (VIII, 3076). On questions requiring a two-thirds majority 
Members were paired two in the affirmative against one in the negative 
(VIII, 3088; Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32685). For Speaker Clark's 
interpretation of the rule and practice regarding pairs, see VIII, 3089.


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Five-minute votes-
  9. <> The Speaker may reduce to five 
minutes the minimum time for electronic voting--
      (a) on any question arising without intervening business after an 
electronic vote on another question if notice of possible five-minute 
voting for a given series of votes was issued before the preceding 
electronic vote;
      (b) on any question arising after a report from the Committee of 
the Whole without debate or intervening motion; or
      (c) on the question of adoption of a motion to recommit (or 
ordering the previous question thereon) arising without intervening 
motion or debate other than debate on the motion.

  The Speaker's authority to reduce record votes to five minutes 
gradually expanded over the years as follows: (1) on a bill, resolution, 
or conference report following a vote on a motion to recommit as first 
added in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16); (2) on 
amendments reported from the Committee of the Whole following a vote on 
the first such amendment, as added in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72); (3) on adoption of a special order of business 
following a vote on ordering the previous question thereon as added in 
the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49), and expanded to any 
underlying question following a vote on ordering the previous question 
in the 104th Congress (sec. 223(e), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469); 
(4) on any incidental question under this clause as added in the 106th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); and (5) on any question 
arising without intervening business after an electronic vote on another 
question in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(n), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 
7), in each instance provided the first vote in any series was a 15-
minute vote. In the 113th Congress, paragraphs (b) and (c) were added to 
allow five-minute voting in certain circumstances not immediately 
preceded by a 15-minute vote (sec. 2(b)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_). Previously, this clause did not give the Chair the authority to 
reduce to five minutes the vote on a motion to recommit occurring 
immediately after a recorded vote on an amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole (June 29, 1994, p. 15107). Before the House 
recodified its rules in

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the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(b) of 
rule XV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The Chair does not entertain a unanimous-consent request to reduce a 
vote below the minimum if Members have not been given sufficient notice 
(e.g., July 14, 1999, p. 16008; June 23, 2004, p. 13734; Sept. 15, 2005, 
p. 20442; July 19, 2007, p. 19838). However, the Chair may entertain 
such a request when circumstances ensure sufficient notice (June 24, 
2005, pp. 14220, 14232; June 15, 2007, pp. 15971, 15999). The House has 
by unanimous consent authorized the Speaker to reduce to two minutes 
electronic votes conducted under this clause (e.g., July 23, 2007, p. 
20108).
  Where five-minute voting is interrupted by a one-minute speech, 
unanimous consent is required to continue five-minute voting (June 25, 
2002, p. 11211). A voice vote on the question of adoption of a 
resolution following a 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question 
is not construed as ``intervening business'' such as would preclude 
five-minute votes on certain postponed questions (Sept. 26, 2002, pp. 
18096, 18097). In the 95th Congress, the Speaker announced that changes 
could be made electronically at any time during a vote reduced to five 
minutes under the rules (Speaker O'Neill, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) and 
changes may now be made electronically on a vote of a minimum duration 
of less than 15 minutes. Once the Clerk has announced changes, the 
voting stations close and further changes must be made in the well (Nov. 
17, 2005, p. 26580).

Automatic yeas and nays
  10. <> The 
yeas and nays shall be considered as ordered when the Speaker puts the 
question on passage of a bill or joint resolution, or on adoption of a 
conference report, making general appropriations, or increasing Federal 
income tax rates (within the meaning of clause 5 of rule XXI), or on 
final adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget or conference 
report thereon.

  This clause was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 214, H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 7 of rule XV 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The Chair announced the ordering of 
the yeas and nays under this clause on passage of a measure not only 
further continuing appropriations for the current fiscal year but also: 
(1) enacting by reference six general appropriation bills (Oct. 21, 
2003, pp. 25314, 25315); (2) including the texts of two general 
appropriation bills (Mar. 6, 2013, p. _).


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Ballot votes
  11. <> In a case of ballot for 
election, a majority of the votes shall be necessary to an election. 
When there is not such a majority on the first ballot, the process shall 
be repeated until a majority is obtained. In all balloting blanks shall 
be rejected, may not be counted in the enumeration of votes, and may not 
be reported by the tellers.

  This rule was first adopted in 1789 and was amended in 1837 (V, 6003). 
It was renumbered January 3, 1953 (p. 24). The last election by ballot 
seems to have occurred in 1868 (V, 6003).




                                Rule XXI

                      restrictions on certain bills

Reservation of certain points of order
  1. <> At the time a 
general appropriation bill is reported, all points of order against 
provisions therein shall be considered as reserved.

  This clause was added in the 104th Congress (sec. 215(e), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468), rendering unnecessary the former practice that a 
Member reserve points of order when a general appropriation bill was 
referred to the calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the 
state of the Union, in order that provisions in violation of rule XXI 
could be stricken in the Committee of the Whole (see Sec. 1044, infra). 
Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 8 of rule XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).


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General appropriation bills and amendments
  2. (a)(1) <> An appropriation 
may not be reported in a general appropriation bill, and may not be in 
order as an amendment thereto, for an expenditure not previously 
authorized by law, except to continue appropriations for public works 
and objects that are already in progress.
  (2) <> A 
reappropriation of unexpended balances of appropriations may not be 
reported in a general appropriation bill, and may not be in order as an 
amendment thereto, except to continue appropriations for public works 
and objects that are already in progress. This subparagraph does not 
apply to transfers of unexpended balances within the department or 
agency for which they were originally appropriated that are reported by 
the Committee on Appropriations.
  (b) <> A provision changing existing law may not be 
reported in a general appropriation bill, including a provision making 
the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or possession of 
information not required by existing law for the period of the 
appropriation, except germane provisions that retrench expenditures by 
the reduction of amounts of money covered by the bill (which may include 
those recommended to the Committee on Appropriations by direction of a 
legislative committee having jurisdiction over the

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subject matter) and except rescissions of appropriations contained in 
appropriation Acts.
  (c) <> An amendment to a general appropriation 
bill shall not be in order if changing existing law, including an 
amendment making the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or 
possession of information not required by existing law for the period of 
the appropriation. Except as provided in paragraph (d), an amendment 
proposing a limitation not specifically contained or authorized in 
existing law for the period of the limitation shall not be in order 
during consideration of a general appropriation bill.
  (d) <> After a general appropriation bill has been read for 
amendment, a motion that the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
of the Union rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments 
as may have been adopted shall, if offered by the Majority Leader or a 
designee, have precedence over motions to amend the bill. If such a 
motion to rise and report is rejected or not offered, amendments 
proposing limitations not specifically contained or authorized in 
existing law for the period of the limitation or proposing germane 
amendments that retrench expenditures by reductions of amounts of money 
covered by the bill may be considered.
  (e) <> A provision other than an appropriation 
designated an emergency under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emer

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gency Deficit Control Act, a rescission of budget authority, or a 
reduction in direct spending or an amount for a designated emergency may 
not be reported in an appropriation bill or joint resolution containing 
an emergency designation under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of 
such Act and may not be in order as an amendment thereto.
  (f) <> During the reading of an appropriation bill for amendment in 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, it shall be 
in order to consider en bloc amendments proposing only to transfer 
appropriations among objects in the bill without increasing the levels 
of budget authority or outlays in the bill. When considered en bloc 
under this paragraph, such amendments may amend portions of the bill not 
yet read for amendment (following disposition of any points of order 
against such portions) and are not subject to a demand for division of 
the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.

  The <> 25th 
Congress in 1837 was the first to adopt a rule prohibiting 
appropriations in a general appropriation bill or amendment thereto not 
previously authorized by law, in order to prevent delay of appropriation 
bills because of contention over propositions of legislation. In 1838 
that Congress added the exception to permit unauthorized appropriations 
for continuation of works in progress and for contingencies for carrying 
on departments of the Government. The rule remained in that form until 
the 44th Congress in 1876, when William S. Holman of Indiana persuaded 
the House to amend the rule to permit germane legislative retrenchments. 
In 1880, the 46th Congress dropped the exception that permitted 
unauthorized appropriations for contingencies of Government departments, 
and modified the ``Holman Rule'' to define retrenchments as the 
reduction of the number and salary of officers of the United States, the 
reduction of compensation of any person paid out of the Treasury of the 
United States, or the reduction

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of the amounts of money covered by the bill. That form of the 
retrenchment exception remained in place until the 49th Congress in 
1885, when it was dropped until the 52d Congress in 1891, and then 
reinserted through the 53d Congress until 1894. It was again dropped in 
the 54th Congress from 1895 until reinserted in the 62d Congress in 1911 
(IV, 3578; VII, 1125).
  The clause remained unamended until January 3, 1983, when the 98th 
Congress restructured it in the basic form of paragraphs (a)-(d). 
Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, including a change to clause 2(a)(2) to 
clarify that the point of order lies against the offending provision in 
the text and not against consideration of the entire bill. At that time 
former clause 6 was transferred to clause 2(a)(2) and former clause 2(a) 
became clause 2(a)(1) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Paragraph (a)(1) (formerly paragraph (a)) retained the prohibition 
against unauthorized appropriations in general appropriation bills and 
amendments thereto except in continuation of works in progress.
  Paragraph (a)(2) (formerly clause 6), from section 139(c) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190f(c)), was made part 
of the standing rules in the 83d Congress (Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24). 
Previously, a reappropriation of an unexpended balance for an object 
authorized by law was in order on a general appropriation bill (IV, 
3591, 3592; VII, 1156, 1158). This provision was amended in the 99th 
Congress by section 228(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177) to permit the Committee on 
Appropriations to report transfers of unexpended balances within the 
department or agency for which originally appropriated.
  Paragraph (b) narrowed the ``Holman Rule'' exception from the 
prohibition against legislation to cover only retrenchments reducing 
amounts of money included in the bill as reported, and permitted 
legislative committees with proper jurisdiction to recommend such 
retrenchments to the Appropriations Committee for discretionary 
inclusion in the reported bill. The last exception in paragraph (b), 
permitting the inclusion of legislation rescinding appropriations in 
appropriation Acts, was added in the 99th Congress by the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (sec. 228(a), P.L. 99-
177). The latter feature of the paragraph does not extend to a 
rescission of budget authority provided by a law other than an 
appropriation Act (see, Sec. 1052, infra). In the 105th Congress 
paragraph (b) was amended to treat as legislation a provision reported 
in a general appropriation bill that makes funding contingent on whether 
circumstances not made determinative by existing law are ``known'' (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121).
  Paragraph (c) retained the prohibition against amendments changing 
existing law but permitted limitation amendments during the reading of 
the bill by paragraph only if specifically authorized by existing law 
for the period of the limitation. In the 105th Congress paragraph (c) 
was amended to treat as legislation an amendment to a general 
appropriation

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bill that makes funding contingent on whether circumstances not made 
determinative by existing law are ``known'' (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 
121).
  Paragraph (d) provided a new procedure for consideration of 
retrenchment and other limitation amendments only when the reading of a 
general appropriation bill has been completed and only if the Committee 
of the Whole does not adopt a motion to rise and report the bill back to 
the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). In the 104th Congress 
paragraph (d) was amended to limit the availability of the preferential 
motion to rise and report to the Majority Leader or a designee (sec. 
215(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). In the 105th Congress it was 
further amended to make the motion preferential to any motion to amend 
at that stage (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121).
  Paragraphs (e) and (f) were added in the 104th Congress (sec. 215, H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Paragraph (e) was not effective with 
respect to discretionary spending from 2002 to 2011 (from the expiration 
of section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
by operation of section 275 of that Act until its revival by the Budget 
Control Act of 2011) (sec. 104, P.L. 112-25). A technical correction to 
paragraph (f) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44).

  As the rule <> applies only to general appropriation 
bills, which are not enumerated or defined in the rules (VII, 1116), 
bills appropriating only for one purpose have been held not to be 
``general'' within the meaning of this clause (VII, 1122). The following 
have been held not to be ``general appropriation bills'' within the 
purview of this clause: (1) a joint resolution providing an 
appropriation for a single Government agency (Jan. 31, 1962, p. 1352); 
(2) a joint resolution only containing continuing appropriations for 
diverse agencies to provide funds until regular appropriation bills are 
enacted (Sept. 21, 1967, p. 26370); (3) a joint resolution providing an 
appropriation for a single Government agency and permitting a transfer 
of a portion of those funds to another agency (Oct. 25, 1979, p. 29627); 
(4) a joint resolution transferring funds already appropriated from one 
specific agency to another (Mar. 26, 1980, p. 6716); (5) a joint 
resolution transferring unobligated balances to the President to be 
available for specified purposes but containing no new budget authority 
(Mar. 3, 1988, p. 3239).
  A point of order under this rule does not apply to a special order 
reported from the Committee on Rules ``self-executing'' the adoption in 
the House of an amendment changing existing law (July 27, 1993, p. 
17117). By unanimous consent the Committee of the Whole may vacate 
proceedings under specified points of order (June 7, 1991, p. 13973). A 
point of order may be withdrawn as a matter of right (in the Committee 
of the Whole as well as in the House) before action thereon (May 19, 
2000, p. 8600).

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  As all bills making or authorizing appropriations require 
consideration in Committee of the Whole, it follows that the enforcement 
of the rule must ordinarily occur during consideration in Committee of 
the Whole, where the Chair, in response to a point of order, may rule 
out any portion of the bill in conflict with the rule (IV, 3811; Sept. 
8, 1965, pp. 23140, 23182). Portions of the bill thus stricken are not 
reported back to the House. Before the adoption of clause 1 (formerly 
clause 8) in the 104th Congress (see Sec. 1035, supra), it was necessary 
that a Member reserve points of order when a general appropriation bill 
was referred to the Union Calendar, in order that provisions in 
violation of the rule could be stricken in the Committee (V, 6921-6925; 
VIII, 3450; Feb. 6, 1926, p. 3456). Where points of order had been 
reserved pending a unanimous-consent request that the committee be 
permitted to file its report when the House would not be in session, it 
was not necessary that they be reserved again when the report ultimately 
was presented as privileged when the House was in session, because the 
initial reservation carried over to the subsequent filing (Mar. 1, 1983, 
p. 3241). In an instance in which points of order were not reserved 
against an appropriation bill when it was reported, points of order in 
the Committee against a proposition in violation of this clause were 
overruled on the ground that the chair of the Committee lacked authority 
to pass upon the question (Apr. 8, 1943, p. 3150, 3153).
  The enforcement of the rule also occurs in the House in that a motion 
to recommit a general appropriation bill may not propose an amendment 
containing legislation (Sept. 1, 1976, p. 28883; Aug. 1, 2008, pp. 
17890, 17891). Clause 2(c) provides that a limitation not specifically 
contained in existing law or authorized for the period of the limitation 
shall not be in order during consideration of a general appropriation 
bill except as contemplated by clause 2(d), including a requirement that 
it come at the end of the reading (Speaker Foley, Aug. 1, 1989, p. 
17159; Aug. 3, 1989, p. 18546; June 18, 2009, pp. 15655, 15656); and 
such amendment is precluded whether the Committee of the Whole has risen 
and reported automatically pursuant to a special rule or, instead, by a 
motion at the end of the reading for amendment (June 22, 1995, p. 
16844).
  Points of order against unauthorized appropriations or legislation on 
general appropriation bills may be made as to the whole or only a 
portion of a paragraph (IV, 3652; V, 6881). The fact that a point of 
order is made against a portion of a paragraph does not prevent another 
point of order against the whole paragraph (V, 6882; July 31, 1985, p. 
21895), nor does it prevent another Member from demanding that the 
original point of order be extended to the entire paragraph (e.g., July 
16, 1998, p. 15806; Sept. 4, 2003, pp. 21164, 21167, pp. 21169, 21170; 
Sept. 14, 2004, p. 18384; June 29, 2005, p. 14804). If a portion of a 
proposed amendment is out of order, it is sufficient for the rejection 
of the whole amendment (V, 6878-6880). If a point of order is sustained 
against any portion of a package of amendments considered en bloc, all 
the amendments are ruled out of order and must be reoffered separately, 
or those that are not subject to

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a point of order may be considered en bloc by unanimous consent (Sept. 
16, 1981, pp. 20735-38; June 21, 1984, p. 17687; July 26, 2001, pp. 
14716, 14721). Where a point of order is sustained against the whole of 
a paragraph the whole must be stricken, but it is otherwise when the 
point of order is made only against a portion (V, 6884, 6885).
  General appropriation bills are read ``scientifically'' only by 
paragraph headings and appropriation amounts, and points of order 
against a paragraph must be made before an amendment is offered thereto 
or before the Clerk reads the next paragraph heading and amount 
(Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 2.26). A point of order against a paragraph 
under this clause may be made only after that paragraph has been read by 
the Clerk, and not before its reading pending consideration of an 
amendment inserting language immediately prior thereto (June 6, 1985, 
pp. 14605, 14609). Where the reading of a paragraph of a general 
appropriation bill has been dispensed with by unanimous consent, the 
Chair inquires whether there are points of order against the paragraph 
before entertaining amendments or directing the Clerk to read further, 
but does not make such an inquiry where the Clerk has actually read the 
paragraph (May 31, 1984, p. 14608). Where a portion of the bill is 
considered as having been read and open to amendment by unanimous 
consent, points of order against provisions in that portion must be made 
before amendments are offered, and may not be reserved (Dec. 1, 1982, p. 
28175; May 19, 2000, p. 8595; July 22, 2003, p. 18984). Where a chapter 
is considered as read by unanimous consent and open to amendment at any 
point, no amendments are offered, and the Clerk begins to read the next 
chapter, it is too late to make a point of order against a paragraph in 
the preceding chapter (June 11, 1985, p. 15181). It is too late to rule 
out the entire paragraph after points of order against specific portions 
have been sustained and an amendment to the paragraph has been offered 
(June 27, 1974, pp. 21670-72).
  The fact that legislative jurisdiction over the subject matter of an 
amendment may rest with the Committee on Appropriations does not 
immunize the amendment from the application of clause 2(c) of rule XXI 
(July 17, 1996, p. 17550; July 24, 1996, p. 18898). The ``works in 
progress'' exception under clause 2(a) of rule XXI is a defense to a 
point of order against an unauthorized appropriation reported in a 
general appropriation bill and is not a defense to a point of order 
under clause 2(c) of rule XXI that an amendment to an appropriation bill 
constitutes legislation (July 24, 1996, p. 18898).
  For a discussion of perfecting amendments to unauthorized 
appropriations or legislation permitted to remain in a general 
appropriation bill by failure to raise or by waiver of a point of order, 
see Sec. 1058, infra. 


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  To <> resolve an ambiguity when ruling on a point of order, 
the Chair may: (1) examine legislative history established during debate 
on an amendment against which a point of order has been reserved (June 
14, 1978, p. 17651); (2) inquire after its author's intent (Oct. 29, 
1991, p. 28818); or (3) examine the accompanying report to determine the 
intent of the section (June 25, 2004, p. 14181).
  In the administration of the rule, it is the practice that those 
upholding an item of appropriation should have the burden of showing the 
law authorizing it (IV, 3597; VII, 1179, 1233, 1276; June 23, 2000, p. 
12123). Thus, the burden of proving the authorization for appropriations 
carried in a bill, or that the language in the bill constitutes a valid 
limitation that does not change existing law, falls on the proponents 
and managers of the bill (May 28, 1968, p. 15357; Nov. 30, 1982, p. 
28062; June 25, 2004, p. 14181). By the same token, the proponent of an 
amendment has the burden of proof to show that an appropriation 
contained in an amendment is authorized by law (e.g., May 11, 1971, p. 
14471; Oct. 29, 1991, p. 28791; July 26, 1995, p. 20567; July 27, 1995, 
pp. 20808, 20811; July 31, 1995, p. 21207; May 29, 2014, p. _) or that 
the amendment constitutes a valid limitation (July 17, 1975, p. 23239; 
June 16, 1976, p. 18666; July 18, 1995, p. 19357; June 24, 2003, pp. 
15858, 15859). For example, the proponent of a provision in the bill or 
of an amendment, as the case may be, has the burden to show the 
following: (1) that any duties imposed by a limitation are merely 
ministerial or already required under existing law (July 16, 1998, p. 
15829); (2) in the case of language proposing a double-negative, that 
the object of the double-negative is specifically contemplated by 
existing law (July 23, 2003, pp. 19250-51, pp. 19251-53; see Sec. 1053, 
infra); (3) that the amendment does not increase levels of budget 
authority or outlays within the meaning of clause 2(f) (e.g., Oct. 11, 
2001, pp. 19368, 19369; see also July 13, 2004, pp. 15193, 15194, p. 
15199 and May 25, 2006, p. 9790, where the Chair sustained the point of 
order in part because the manager's averment that the amendment 
increased outlays went unchallenged); (4) if the language is susceptible 
to more than one interpretation, that it merits the construction that it 
does not violate the rule (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 22.26), although that 
burden may be met by a showing that only the requirements of existing 
law, and not any new requirements, are recited in the language (Sept. 
23, 1993, p. 22206).
  The mere recitation in an amendment that a determination is to be made 
pursuant to existing laws and regulations, absent a citation to the law 
imposing such responsibility, is not sufficient proof by the proponent 
of an amendment to overcome a point of order that the amendment 
constitutes legislation (Sept. 16, 1980, p. 25606).
  The Chair may overrule a point of order that appropriations for a 
certain agency are unauthorized upon citation to an organic statute 
creating the agency, absent any showing that the organic law has been 
overtaken by a scheme of periodic reauthorization; the Chair may hear 
further argument

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and reverse a ruling, however, where existing law not previously called 
to the Chair's attention would require the ruling to be reversed (VIII, 
3435; June 8, 1983, p. 14854, where a law amending the statute creating 
the Bureau of the Mint with the express purpose of requiring annual 
authorizations was subsequently called to the Chair's attention). 
Reported provisions in a general appropriation bill described in the 
accompanying report as directly or indirectly changing the application 
of existing law are presumably legislation, absent rebuttal by the 
committee (May 31, 1984, p. 14591).
  A point of order under this clause against an amendment must be raised 
(or reserved) before commencement of debate on the measure (e.g., May 
29, 2014, p. _).

  Where <> the reading of 
a general appropriation bill for amendment has been completed (or 
dispensed with), including the last paragraph of the bill containing the 
citation to the short title (July 30, 1986, p. 18214), the Chair (under 
the former form of the rule, which made the preferential motion to rise 
and report available to any Member) might first inquire whether any 
Member sought to offer an amendment (formerly, one not prohibited by 
clauses 2(a) or (c)) before recognizing Members to offer limitation or 
retrenchment amendments (June 2, 1983, p. 14317; Sept. 22, 1983, p. 
25406; Oct. 27, 1983, p. 29630), including pro forma amendments (Aug. 2, 
1989, p. 18126). Pursuant to clause 2(d), a motion that the Committee of 
the Whole rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as 
may have been adopted is not debatable (Apr. 23, 1987, p. 9613) and 
takes precedence over any amendment (formerly only over a limitation or 
retrenchment amendment) (July 30, 1985, p. 21534; July 23, 1986, p. 
17431; Apr. 23, 1987, p. 9613), but only after completion of the reading 
and disposition of amendments not otherwise precluded (June 30, 1992, p. 
17135). Thus a motion that the Committee rise and report the bill to the 
House with the recommendation that it be recommitted, with instructions 
to report back to the House with an amendment proposing a limitation, 
does not take precedence over the motion to rise and report the bill to 
the House with such amendments as may have been adopted (Sept. 19, 1983, 
p. 24647 (sustained on appeal)). An amendment not only reducing an 
amount in a paragraph of an appropriation bill but also limiting 
expenditure of those funds on a particular project (i.e., a limitation 
not contained in existing law) was held not in order during the reading 
of that paragraph but only at the end of the bill under clause 2(d) 
(July 23, 1986, p. 17431; June 15, 1988, p. 14719). Where language of 
limitation was stricken from a general appropriation bill on a point of 
order that it changed existing law, an amendment proposing to reinsert 
the limitation without its former legislative content was held not in 
order before completion of the reading for amendment (June 18, 1991, p. 
15214; Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22214). A motion that the Committee rise and 
report to the House with the recommendation that the enacting clause be 
stricken takes precedence over the motion to amend under clause 9 of 
rule XVIII (formerly clause 7 of rule XXIII) and

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also over the motion to rise and report under clause 2(d) (July 24, 
1986, p. 17641).
  The 109th Congress adopted a resolution creating a point of order 
against the motion to rise and report an appropriation bill to the House 
where the bill, as proposed to be amended, exceeded an applicable 
allocation of new budget authority under section 302(b) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and setting forth procedures in the 
Committee of the Whole in the event that the point of order was 
sustained (sec. 2, H. Res. 248, Apr. 28, 2005, p. 8309). The 110th 
through 114th Congresses adopted the same procedure (sec. 511(a)(5), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 3(a)(4), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80; sec. 3(b)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(e)(2), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _), to wit:

  Sec. 3. (e)(2)(A) During the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, except 
as provided in subparagraph (C), a motion that the Committee of the 
Whole rise and report a bill to the House shall not be in order if the 
bill, as amended, exceeds an applicable allocation of new budget 
authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
as estimated by the Committee on the Budget.
  (B) If a point of order under subparagraph (A) is sustained, the Chair 
shall put the question: `Shall the Committee of the Whole rise and 
report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been 
adopted notwithstanding that the bill exceeds its allocation of new 
budget authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974?'. Such question shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally divided 
and controlled by a proponent of the question and an opponent but shall 
be decided without intervening motion.
  (C) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply--
          (i) to a motion offered under clause 2(d) of rule XXI; or
          (ii) after disposition of a question under subparagraph (B) on 
        a given bill.
  (D) If a question under subparagraph (B) is decided in the negative, 
no further amendment shall be in order except--
          (i) one proper amendment, which shall be debatable for 10 
        minutes equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
        opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
        subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
        in the Committee of the Whole; and
          (ii) pro forma amendments, if offered by the chair or ranking 
        minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their 
        designees, for the purpose of debate.

  A treaty <> may provide the authorization by existing law required 
in the rule to justify appropriations if it has been ratified by the 
contracting parties (IV, 3587); however, where existing law authorizes 
appropriations for the U.S. share of facilities to be recommended in an 
agreement with

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another country containing specified elements, an agreement in principle 
with that country predating the authorization law and lacking the 
required elements is insufficient authorization (June 28, 1993, p. 
14421). An Executive Order does not constitute sufficient authorization 
in law absent proof of its derivation from a statute enacted by Congress 
authorizing the order and expenditure of funds (June 15, 1973, p. 19855; 
June 25, 1974, p. 21036). Thus a Reorganization Plan submitted by the 
President pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 906 has the status of statutory law when 
it becomes effective and is sufficient authorization to support an 
appropriation for an office created by Executive Order issued pursuant 
to the Reorganization Plan (June 21, 1974, p. 20595). A constitutional 
guarantee of just compensation for a governmental taking of private 
property for public use does not itself constitute sufficient 
authorization by law for appropriations in a general appropriation bill 
for compensation of particular private property owners (July 18, 2001, 
pp. 13662-65; cf. VII, 1144).
  A resolution of the House has been held sufficient authorization for 
an appropriation for the salary of an employee of the House (IV, 3656-
3658) even though the resolution may have been agreed to only by a 
preceding House (IV, 3660). Previous enactment of items of appropriation 
unauthorized by law does not justify similar appropriations in 
subsequent bills (VII, 1145, 1150, 1151) unless, if through 
appropriations previously made, a function of the Government has been 
established that would bring it into the category of continuation of 
works in progress (VII, 1280), or unless legislation in a previous 
appropriation act has become permanent law (May 20, 1964, p. 11422). The 
omission to appropriate during a series of years for an object 
authorized by law does not repeal the law, and consequently an 
appropriation when proposed is not subject to the point of order (IV, 
3595). A lapsed authorization is not ``previously authorized'' within 
the meaning of that phrase in paragraph (a)(1) (June 27, 2012, p. _).
  The law authorizing each head of a department to employ such numbers 
of clerks, messengers, copyists, watchmen, laborers, and other employees 
as may be appropriated for by Congress from year to year is held to 
authorize appropriations for those positions not otherwise authorized by 
law (IV, 3669, 3675, 4739); but this law does not apply to offices not 
within departments or not at the seat of Government (IV, 3670-3674). A 
permanent law authorizing the President to appoint certain staff, 
together with legislative provisions authorizing additional employment 
contained in an appropriation bill enacted for that fiscal year, 
constituted sufficient authorization for a lump sum supplemental 
appropriation for the White House for the same fiscal year (Nov. 30, 
1973, p. 38854). By a general provision of law, appropriations for 
investigations and the acquisition and diffusion of information by the 
Agriculture Department on subjects related to agriculture are generally 
in order in the agricultural appropriation bill (IV, 3649). It has once 
been held that this law would also authorize appropriations for the 
instrumentalities of such investigations (IV, 3615); but these would not 
include the organization of a bureau to conduct the work (IV, 3651).

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The law does not authorize general investigations by the department (IV, 
3652), cooperation with State investigations (IV, 3650; VII, 1301, 
1302), the investigation of foods in relation to commerce (IV, 3647, 
3648; VII, 1298), or the compiling of tests at an exposition (IV, 3653).
  A paragraph appropriating funds for matching grants to States was held 
unauthorized where the authorizing law did not require State matching 
funds (June 28, 1993, p. 14418). A paragraph funding a project from the 
Highway Trust Fund (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22175; June 26, 2001, p. 11936; 
Nov. 28, 2001, pp. 23239, 23240) or from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund (e.g., Sept. 14, 2004, p. 18384; June 29, 2005, p. 14798) was held 
unauthorized where such funding was authorized only from the general 
fund. A paragraph providing funds for the President to meet 
``unanticipated needs'' was held unauthorized (July 16, 1998, p. 15808). 
The authorization must be enacted before the appropriation may be 
included in an appropriation bill; thus delaying the availability of an 
appropriation pending enactment of an authorization does not protect the 
item of appropriation against a point of order under this clause (Apr. 
26, 1972, p. 14455). Similarly, an amendment limiting funds to the 
extent provided in authorizing legislation on or after the date of 
enactment of the pending appropriation bill is not in order (May 19, 
2005, pp. 10376, 10377).
  The failure of Congress to enact into law separate legislation 
specifically modifying eligibility requirements for grant programs under 
existing law does not necessarily render appropriations for those 
programs subject to a point of order, where more general existing law 
authorizes appropriations for all of the programs proposed to be 
modified by new legislation pending before Congress (June 8, 1978, p. 
16778). However, whether organic statutes or general grants of authority 
in law constitute sufficient authorization to support appropriations 
depends on whether the general laws applicable to the function or 
department in question require specific or annual authorizations (June 
14, 1978, pp. 17616, 17622, 17626, 17630) or on whether a periodic 
authorization scheme has subsequently occupied the field (Sept. 9, 1997, 
p. 18197). An authorization of ``such sums as may be necessary'' is 
sufficient to support any dollar amount, but has no tendency to relieve 
other conditions of the authorization law (June 28, 1993, p. 1442). 
Where existing law authorizes certain appropriations from a particular 
trust fund without fiscal year limitation, language that such an 
appropriation remain available until expended does not constitute 
legislation (July 15, 1993, p. 15848).
  An amendment to a general appropriation bill providing that ``not less 
than'' (or ``not to exceed'') a certain amount be made available to a 
program requires an authorization (June 21, 1988, p. 15440; July 12, 
2000, p. 14070; July 13, 2000, p. 14084; July 25, 2007, pp. 20597, 
20598).
  Pursuant to clause 11(i) of rule X (formerly clause 9 of rule XLVIII), 
no funds may be appropriated to certain agencies carrying out 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities, unless such funds have 
been authorized by law for the fiscal year in question.


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  Judgments of <> courts certified to Congress in accordance with law or 
authorized by treaty (IV, 3634, 3635, 3644) and audited under authority 
of law have been held to be authorizations for appropriations for the 
payment of claims (IV, 3634, 3635). However, unadjudicated claims (IV, 
3628), even though ascertained and transmitted by an executive officer 
(IV, 3625-3640), and findings filed under the Bowman Act do not 
constitute authorization (IV, 3643).
  An appropriation for an object not otherwise authorized does not 
constitute authorization to justify a continuance of the appropriation 
another year (IV, 3588, 3589; VII, 1128, 1145, 1149, 1191), and the mere 
appropriation for a salary does not create an office so as to justify 
appropriations in succeeding years (IV, 3590, 3672, 3697), it being a 
general rule that propositions to appropriate for salaries not 
established by law or to increase salaries fixed by law are out of order 
(IV, 3664-3667, 3676-3679). An exception to these general principles is 
found in the established practice that in the absence of a general law 
fixing a salary the amount appropriated in the last appropriation bill 
has been held to be the legal salary (IV, 3687-3696). A law having 
established an office and fixed a salary, it is not in order to provide 
for an unauthorized office and salary in lieu of it (IV, 3680).
  An <> appropriation 
for a public work in excess of a fixed limit of cost (IV, 3583, 3584; 
VII, 1133), or for extending a service beyond the limits assigned by an 
executive officer exercising a lawful discretion (IV, 3598), or by 
actual law (IV, 3582, 3585), or for purposes prohibited by law are out 
of order (IV, 3580, 3581, 3702), as is an appropriation from the Highway 
Trust Fund where the project is specifically authorized from the general 
fund (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22175). However, the mere appropriation of a 
sum to complete a work does not fix a limit of cost such as would 
exclude future appropriations (IV, 3761). A declaration of policy in an 
act followed by specific provisions conferring authority upon a 
governmental agency to perform certain functions was construed not to 
authorize appropriations for purposes germane to the policy but not 
specifically authorized by the act (VII, 1200). A point of order will 
not lie against an amendment proposing to increase a lump sum for public 
works projects where language in the bill limits use of the lump sum 
appropriation to projects as authorized by law (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. 19.6), but where language in the bill limits use of the lump sum 
both to projects ``authorized by law'' and ``subject, where appropriate, 
to enactment of authorizing legislation,'' that paragraph constitutes an 
appropriation in part for some unauthorized projects and is not in order 
(June 6, 1985, p. 14617). Language in an appropriation bill precluding 
funds for projects not authorized by law or beyond the amount authorized 
was held to limit expenditures to authorized projects and was not 
legislation (Deschler, ch. 25, Sec. 2.18).


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  The provision <> excepting public works and objects that are already in 
progress from the requirement that appropriations be authorized by 
existing law (IV, 3578) has historically been applied only in cases of 
general revenue funding (Sept. 22, 1993, p. 22140; Sept. 23, 1993, p. 
22173). An appropriation in violation of existing law or to extend a 
service beyond a fixed limit is not in order as the continuance of a 
public work (IV, 3585, 3702-3724; VII, 1332; Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22173; 
Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 8.9). The ``works in progress'' exception may not 
be invoked to fund a project governed by a lapsed authorization (June 
27, 2012, p. _) and may not be invoked to fund a project that is not yet 
under construction (July 31, 1995, p. 21207). Where existing law (40 
U.S.C. 3307) specifically prohibits the making of an appropriation to 
construct or alter any public building involving more than a certain 
amount of money unless approved by the House and Senate Public Works 
Committees, an appropriation for such purposes not authorized by both 
committees is out of order notwithstanding the ``works in progress'' 
exemption, because the law specifically precludes the appropriation from 
being made (June 8, 1983, p. 14855). An appropriation from the Highway 
Trust Fund for an ongoing project was held not in order under the 
``works in progress'' exception where the Internal Revenue Code 
``occupied the field'' with a comprehensive authorization scheme not 
embracing the specified project (Sept. 22, 1993, p. 22140; Sept. 23, 
1993, p. 22173). Interruption of a work does not necessarily remove it 
from the privileges of the rule (IV, 3705-3708); but the continuation of 
the work must not be so conditioned in relation to place as to become a 
new work (IV, 3704). It has been held that a work has not begun within 
the meaning of the rule when an appropriation has been made for a site 
for a public building (IV, 3785), or when a commission has been created 
to select a site or when a site has actually been selected for a work 
(IV, 3762, 3763), or when a survey has been made (IV, 3782-3784). 
``Public works and objects already in progress'' include tangible 
matters like buildings, roads, etc., but not duties of officials in 
executive departments (IV, 3709-3713), or the continuance of a work 
indefinite as to completion and intangible in nature like the gauging of 
streams (IV, 3714, 3715). A general system of roads on which some work 
has been done, or an extension of an existing road (Sept. 22, 1993, p. 
22140), may not be admitted as a work in progress (VII, 1333). 
Concerning reappropriation for continuation of public works in progress, 
see Sec. 1031, supra.

  Thus the <> continuation of the following works has been admitted: 
a topographical survey (IV, 3796, 3797; VII, 1382), a geological map 
(IV, 3795), marking of a boundary line (IV, 3717), marking graves of 
soldiers (IV, 3788), a list of claims (IV, 3717), and recoinage of coins 
in the Treasury (IV, 3807); but the following works have not been 
admitted: investigation of materials, like coal (IV, 3721), scientific 
investigations (IV, 3719; VII, 1345), duties of a commission (IV, 3720; 
VII, 1344),

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extension of foreign markets for goods (IV, 3722), printing of a series 
of opinions indefinite in continuance (IV, 3718), free evening lectures 
in the District of Columbia (IV, 3789), certain ongoing projects from 
the Highway Trust Fund (Sept. 22, 1993, pp. 22140; Sept. 23, 1993, p. 
22173), extension of an existing road (Sept. 22, 1993, p. 22140), 
continuation of an extra compensation for ordinary facility for carrying 
the mails (IV, 3808), although the continuation of certain special mail 
facilities has been admitted (IV, 3804-3806). However, appropriations 
for rent and repairs of buildings or Government roads (IV, 3793, 3798) 
and bridges (IV, 3803) have been admitted as in continuation of a work 
(IV, 3777, 3778), although it is not in order as such to provide for a 
new building in place of one destroyed (IV, 3606). It is not in order to 
repair paving adjacent to a public building but in a city street, 
although it may have been laid originally by the Government (IV, 3779). 
The purchase of adjoining land for a work already established has been 
admitted under this principle (IV, 3766-3773) as have additions to 
existing buildings in cases in which no limits of cost have been shown 
(IV, 3774, 3775). However, the purchase of a separate and detached lot 
of land is not admitted (IV, 3776). The continuation of construction at 
the Kennedy Library, a project owned by the United States and funded by 
a prior year's appropriation, has been admitted notwithstanding the 
absence of any current authorization (June 14, 1988, p. 14335). A 
provision of law authorizing Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
to take over and operate the fish wharves of the city of Washington was 
held insufficient authority to admit an appropriation for reconstructing 
the fish wharf (VII, 1187).

  Appropriations for <> new buildings at 
Government institutions have sometimes been admitted (IV, 3741-3750) 
when intended for the purposes of the institution (IV, 3747); but later 
decisions, in view of the indefinite extent of the practice made 
possible by the early decisions, have ruled out propositions to 
appropriate for new buildings in navy yards (IV, 3755-3759) and other 
establishments (IV, 3751-3754). Appropriations for new schoolhouses in 
the District of Columbia (IV, 3750; VII, 1358), for new Army hospitals 
(IV, 3740), for new lighthouses (IV, 3728), armor-plate factories (IV, 
3737-3739), and for additional playgrounds for children in the District 
of Columbia (IV, 3792) have also been held not to be in continuation of 
a public work.

  By a former <> broad construction of the rule an 
appropriation of a new and not otherwise authorized vessel of the Navy 
had been held to be a continuance of a public work (IV, 3723, 3724); but 
this line of decisions has been overruled (VII, 1351; Jan. 22, 1926, p. 
2621). Although appropriations for new construction and procurement of 
aircraft and equipment for the Navy are not in order, appropriations for 
continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft are 
in order (Jan. 22, 1926, p. 2623). This former interpretation was 
confined to naval

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vessels, and did not apply to vessels in other services, like the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey or Lighthouse Service (IV, 3725, 3726), or to 
floating or stationary drydocks (IV, 3729-3736). The construction of a 
submarine cable in extension of one already laid was held not to be the 
continuation of a public work (IV, 3716), but an appropriation for the 
Washington-Alaska military cable has been held in order (VII, 1348).

  A <> provision changing 
existing law is construed to mean the enactment of law where none exists 
(IV, 3812, 3813). For example, the following provisions have been held 
out of order: (1) permitting funds to remain available until expended or 
beyond the fiscal year covered by the bill where existing law does not 
permit such availability (Aug. 1, 1973, p. 27288; June 9, 2006, p. 
10671); (2) permitting funds to be available immediately upon enactment 
before the fiscal year covered by the bill (July 29, 1986, p. 17981; 
June 28, 1988, p. 16255); (3) permitting funds to be available to the 
extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts but not explicitly 
beyond the fiscal year in question (July 21, 1981, p. 16687); (4) 
setting a floor on spending that is not established by existing law 
(July 23, 2003, pp. 19228, 19229); (5) establishing a legislative 
formula for funding (Feb. 18, 2011, pp. 2509, 2510).
  Although clause 2(b) permits the Committee on Appropriations to report 
rescissions of appropriations, an amendment proposing a rescission 
constitutes legislation under clause 2(c) (May 26, 1993, p. 11326; Mar. 
24, 2010, pp. 4779, 4780), as does a provision proposing a rescission of 
budget authority provided in law other than appropriations acts, such as 
contract authority (e.g., Sept. 22, 1993, p. 22138; May 15, 1997, p. 
8510; July 23, 1997, p. 15353; July 29, 1998, p. 17956) or a loan 
guarantee program (July 13, 2004, pp. 15212, 15213). Similarly, a 
provision canceling funds under the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 was held to be legislation (June 16, 2004, p. 12554). A 
provision constituting congressional disapproval of a deferral of budget 
authority proposed by the President pursuant to the Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 is not in order if included in a general appropriation bill 
rather than in a separate resolution of disapproval under that Act (July 
29, 1982, pp. 18625, 18626).
  A proposal to amend existing law to provide for automatic continuation 
of appropriations in the absence of timely enactment of a regular 
appropriation bill constitutes legislation in contravention of clause 
2(c) (July 17, 1996, p. 17550; July 24, 1996, p. 18898). A proposal to 
designate an appropriation as ``emergency spending'' within the meaning 
of the budget-enforcement laws (or so designated under provisions of a 
budget resolution) is fundamentally legislative in character (e.g., 
Sept. 8, 1999, pp. 20900; June 19, 2000, pp. 11294-97 (sustained on 
appeal); June 20, 2001, p. 11224; Oct. 16, 2003, pp. 24962, 24963; Mar. 
15, 2005, pp. 4700-02 (sustained on appeal)). Similarly, a provision 
containing an averment necessary to qualify for certain scorekeeping 
under the Budget Act was conceded to be legislation (July 20, 1989, p. 
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templates that expenditures may be mandated to occur before or following 
a fiscal period if the law making those expenditures specifies that the 
timing is the result of a ``significant'' policy change (July 20, 1989, 
p. 15374).
  Language in an appropriation bill precluding funds for projects not 
authorized by law or beyond the amount authorized has been held in order 
as simply limiting expenditures to authorized projects (Deschler, ch. 
25, Sec. 2.18). However, an amendment limiting funds to the extent 
provided for in authorizing legislation on or after the date of 
enactment of the pending appropriation bill is not in order (May 19, 
2005, pp. 10376, 10377).
  Although the object to be appropriated for may be described without 
violating the rule (IV, 3864), an amendment proposing an appropriation 
under a heading that indicates an unauthorized purpose as its object has 
been ruled out (Oct. 29, 1991, p. 28814). For example, an amendment 
proposing to make certain funds available for a specified report not 
contemplated by existing law was held to constitute legislation in 
violation of clause 2(c) (June 13, 2000, p. 10509). The fact that a 
legislative item has been carried in appropriation bills for many years 
does not exempt it from a point of order (VII, 1445, 1656). The 
reenactment from year to year of a law intended to apply during the year 
of its enactment only is not relieved, however, from the point that it 
is legislation (IV, 3822). Limits of cost for public works may not be 
made or changed (IV, 3761, 3865-3867; VII, 1446), nor contracts 
authorized (IV, 3868-3870; May 14, 1937, p. 4595).
  An amendment to a general appropriation bill stating a legislative 
position constitutes legislation (July 24, 2001, pp. 14349, 14351; July 
9, 2009, pp. 17242, 17243 (sustained by tabling of appeal), pp. 17309, 
17310 (sustained by tabling of appeal)) as does one establishing a 
select committee (Mar. 16, 2006, pp. 3793, 3794) or a trust fund in the 
Treasury (June 9, 2006, p. 10680). An amendment proposed in a motion to 
recommit incorporating by reference amendments that changed existing law 
constitutes legislation (July 24, 2009, p. 19225).

  Although the <> rule forbids a provision ``changing existing law,'' the 
House, by practice, has established the principle that certain 
``limitations'' may be admitted. Just as the House may decline to 
appropriate for a purpose authorized by law, so may it by limitation 
prohibit the use of the money for part of the purpose while 
appropriating for the remainder of it (IV, 3936; VII, 1595). Paragraph 
(c) prohibits consideration of limitation amendments during the reading 
of the bill by paragraph unless specifically authorized by existing law 
for the period of the limitation, even if the amendment is expanding a 
limitation already in the bill (July 23, 2003, p. 19238).
  A limitation may provide that some or all of the appropriation under 
consideration may not be used for a certain designated purpose (IV, 
3917-3926; VII, 1580). This designated purpose may reach the question of 
qualifications, for although it is not in order to legislate as to the 
qualifications of the recipients of an appropriation (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. Sec. 53, 57.15), the

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House may specify that no part of the appropriation may go to recipients 
lacking certain qualifications (IV, 3942-3952; VII, 1655; June 4, 1970, 
p. 18412; June 27, 1974, p. 21662; Oct. 9, 1974, p. 34712; June 9, 1978, 
p. 16990).
  A limitation amendment prohibiting the use of funds for the 
construction of certain facilities unless such construction were subject 
to a project agreement was held not in order during the reading of the 
bill, even though existing law directed Federal officials to enter into 
such project agreements, on the ground that limitation amendments are in 
order during the reading only where existing law requires or permits the 
inclusion of limiting language in an appropriation Act, and not merely 
where the limitation is alleged to be ``consistent with existing law'' 
(June 28, 1988, p. 16267).
  A limitation may place some minimal, incidental duties on Federal 
officials, who must determine the effect of such a limitation on 
appropriated funds. However, a provision may not impose additional 
duties not required by law, either explicitly or implicitly, or make the 
appropriation contingent upon the performance of such duties (VII, 1676; 
June 11, 1968, p. 16712; July 31, 1969, pp. 21631-33; May 28, 1968, p. 
15350; July 26, 1985, p. 20807; see Sec. 1054, infra). A duty imposed by 
a provision in the pending bill does not qualify as a duty required by 
law for purposes of a limitation amendment (June 9, 2014, p. _). The 
fact that a limitation may indirectly interfere with an executive 
official's discretionary authority by denying the use of funds (June 24, 
1976, p. 20408) or may impose certain incidental burdens on executive 
officials (Aug. 25, 1976, p. 27737) does not destroy the character of 
the limitation as long as it does not otherwise amend existing law and 
is descriptive of functions and findings already required to be 
undertaken by existing law. For example, a limitation precluding funds 
for specified Federal departments to file certain motions in specified 
civil actions (all matters of public record in the litigation and 
therefore available to responsible intervening Federal officials) was 
held to be a proper limitation (July 18, 2001, pp. 13683, 13684).
  The limitation must apply solely to the money of the appropriation 
under consideration (VII, 1597, 1600, 1720; Feb. 26, 1958, p. 2895). For 
example, a limitation on funds: (1) may not apply to money appropriated 
in other Acts (IV, 3927, 3928; VII, 1495, 1525; June 28, 1971, p. 22442; 
June 27, 1974, pp. 21670-72; May 13, 1981, p. 9663); (2) may not require 
funds available to an agency in any future fiscal year for a certain 
purpose to be subject to limitations specified in advance in 
appropriations Acts (May 8, 1986, p. 10156). The tendency of a 
limitation to change existing law is measured against the state of 
existing law ``for the period of the limitation,'' such that the 
presence of the same limitation in the annual bill for the previous 
fiscal year does not justify its inclusion in the pending annual bill 
(Sept. 22, 1983, p. 25406, June 26, 2000, p. 12355).
  A restriction on authority to incur obligations is legislative in 
nature and not a limitation on funds (July 13, 1987, p. 19507; Sept. 23, 
1993, p. 22204; July 15, 2004, pp. 15838, 15839). For example, a 
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the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase sugar is 
legislative in nature and not a limitation on funds (June 29, 2000, p. 
13109).
  In construing a proposed limitation, the Chair may examine whether the 
purpose of the limitation is legislative. For example, a limitation 
accompanied by language stating a legislative motive or purpose is not 
in order (Aug. 8, 1978, p. 24969; July 22, 1980, p. 19087; Sept. 16, 
1980, p. 25604; Sept. 22, 1981, p. 21577). Similarly, where existing law 
and the Constitution require a census to be taken of all persons, an 
amendment that seeks to preclude the use of funds to exclude another 
class ``known'' to the Secretary is not in order (Aug. 1, 1989, p. 
17156). However, language may, by negatively refusing to include funds 
for all or part of an authorized executive function, thereby affect 
policy and restrict executive discretion to the extent of its denial of 
availability of funds (IV, 3968-3972; VII, 1583, 1653, 1694; Sept. 14, 
1972, p. 30749; June 21, 1974, p. 20601; Oct. 9, 1974, p. 34716). For 
example, an appropriation may be withheld from a designated object by a 
negative limitation on the use of funds, notwithstanding that contracts 
may be left unsatisfied thereby (IV, 3987; July 10, 1975, pp. 22006, 
22007).
  The Chair has stated that a limitation amendment that comprises a 
textual ``double-negative'' (the coupling of a denial of an 
appropriation with a negative restriction on official duties) is suspect 
and may result in an affirmative direction or an affirmative statement 
of intent that constitutes legislation and is therefore not in order 
(VII, 1690-1692; Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 51.15 (note); July 23, 2003, pp. 
19250-53). In order to carry the burden of proof on an amendment 
proposing a double-negative, a Member must be able to show that the 
object of the double-negative is specifically contemplated by existing 
law (July 23, 2003, pp. 19250-51, pp. 19251-53). For example, the 
following have been held out of order for using a double-negative: (1) a 
provision to limit funds to prohibit the obligation of funds up to a 
specified amount for an unauthorized transportation project (effectively 
authorizing an unauthorized project) (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22209); (2) an 
amendment to limit funds to prohibit projects that promote the 
participation of women in international peace efforts, such promotion 
not specifically contemplated by law (July 23, 2003, pp. 19250-51); (3) 
an amendment to limit funds to prohibit the establishment of an 
independent commission not contemplated by existing law (July 23, 2003, 
pp. 19251-53).
  It is not in order, even by language in the form of a limitation, to 
restrict the discretionary authority conferred by law to administer the 
expenditure of appropriated funds, such as by limiting the percentage of 
funds that may be apportioned for expenditure within a certain period of 
time (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 51.23), or by precluding the obligation of 
certain funds until funds provided by another Act have been obligated 
(Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 48.8). The burden is on the proponent to show 
that such a proposal does not change existing law by restricting the 
timing of the expenditure of funds rather than their availability for 
specified objects (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. Sec. 64.23, 80.5).

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  As long as a limitation merely restricts the expenditure of Federal 
funds carried in the bill without changing existing law, the limitation 
is in order, even if the Federal funds in question are commingled with 
non-Federal funds that would have to be accounted for separately in 
carrying out the limitation (Aug. 20, 1980, p. 22171).
  The fact that existing law authorizes funds to be available until 
expended or without regard to fiscal year limitation does not prevent 
the Committee on Appropriations from limiting their availability to the 
fiscal year covered by the bill unless existing law mandates 
availability beyond the fiscal year (June 25, 1974, p. 21040; see also 
Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 32). The fact that a provision would constitute 
legislation for only a year does not make it a limitation in order under 
the rule (IV, 3936).
  A proposition to construe a law may not be admitted (IV, 3936-3938, 
see Sec. 1055, infra). Care also should be taken that the language of 
limitation be not such as, when fairly construed, would change existing 
law (IV, 3976-3983) or justify an executive officer in assuming an 
intent to change existing law (IV, 3984; VII, 1706).
  Although the Committee on Appropriations may include in a general 
appropriation bill language not in existing law limiting the use of 
funds in the bill, if such language also constitutes an appropriation it 
must be authorized by law (June 21, 1988, p. 15439). An amendment 
placing a limitation on funds for activities unrelated to the functions 
of departments and agencies addressed by the bill is not germane under 
clause 7 of rule XVI (July 10, 2000, p. 13605).

  Propositions to <> establish affirmative directions for executive 
officers (IV, 3854-3859; VII, 1443; July 31, 1969, p. 21675; June 18, 
1979, p. 15286; July 1, 1987, pp. 18654, 18655; June 27, 1994, p. 
14572), even in cases in which they may have discretion under the law so 
to do (IV, 3853; June 4, 1970, p. 18401; Aug. 8, 1978, p. 24959), or to 
affirmatively take away an authority or discretion conferred by law (IV, 
3862, 3863; VII, 1975; Mar. 30, 1955, p. 4065; June 21, 1974, p. 20600; 
July 31, 1985, p. 21909), are subject to a point of order.
  A limitation may not: (1) be applied directly to the official 
functions of executive officers (IV, 3957-3966; VII, 1673, 1678, 1685); 
(2) directly interfere with discretionary authority in law by 
establishing a level of funding below which expenditures may not be made 
(VII, 1704; July 20, 1978, p. 21856); (3) require a judgment as to 
whether racial imbalance had been overcome (July 31, 1969, pp. 21653, 
21675); (4) condition the availability of funds or the exercise of 
contract authority upon an interpretation of local law where that 
interpretation is not required by existing law (July 17, 1981, p. 
16327); (5) require new determinations of full Federal compliance with 
mandates imposed upon States (July 22, 1981, p. 16829); (6) require the 
evaluation of the theoretical basis of a program (July 22, 1981, p. 
16822); (7) require new determinations of propriety or effectiveness 
(Oct. 6, 1981, p. 23361; May 25, 1988, p. 12275), or satisfactory 
quality (Aug.

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1, 1986, p. 18647); (8) incorporate by reference determinations already 
made in administrative processes not affecting programs funded by the 
bill (Oct. 6, 1981, p. 23361); (9) require new determinations of rates 
of interest payable (July 29, 1982, p. 18624; Dec. 9, 1982, p. 29691); 
(10) require a determination of whether the Office of Management and 
Budget interfered with the rulemaking authority of a regulatory agency 
(Nov. 30, 1982, p. 28062); (11) authorize the President to reduce each 
appropriation in the bill by not more than 10 percent (May 31, 1984, p. 
14617; June 6, 1984, p. 15120); (12) apply standards of conduct to 
foreign entities where existing law requires such conduct only by 
domestic entities (July 17, 1986, p. 16951); (13) require the 
enforcement of a standard where existing law only requires inspection of 
an area (July 30, 1986, p. 18189); (14) prohibit the availability of 
funds for the purchase of goods and services that are ``nondomestic'' 
(Sept. 12, 1986, p. 23178), not ``produced'' domestically (June 1, 2011, 
p. 8517), not ``100 percent domestic in origin'' (June 2, 2011, pp. 
8558, 8559), not ``substantially manufactured'' domestically (July 7, 
2011, pp. 10638, 10639), not manufactured by a ``domestically operated 
entity'' (June 2, 2011, pp. 8557, 8558), not procured in a manner 
consistent with a law not otherwise applicable (the Buy America Act) 
(June 9, 2014, p. _), or that contain components produced in specified 
countries (June 20, 2014, p. _); (15) mandate contractual provisions 
(May 18, 1988, p. 11389); (16) authorize the adjustment of wages of 
Government employees (June 21, 1988, p. 15451; Apr. 26, 1989, p. 7525) 
or permit an increase in Members' office allowances only ``if requested 
in writing'' (Oct. 21, 1990, p. 31708); (17) convert an existing legal 
prerequisite for the issuance of a regulatory permit into a prerequisite 
for even the preliminary processing of such a permit (July 22, 1992, p. 
18825); (18) mandate reductions in various appropriations by a variable 
percentage calculated in relation to ``overhead'' (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. 5.6; June 24, 1992, p. 16110); (19) require an agency to 
investigate and determine whether private airports are collecting 
certain fees for each enplaning passenger (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22213); 
(20) require an agency to investigate and determine whether a person or 
entity entering into a contract with funds under the pending bill is 
subject to a legal proceeding commenced by the Federal Government and 
alleging fraud (Sept. 17, 1997, p. 19045); (21) require an agency to 
determine whether building services are ``usually'' provided through the 
Federal Building Fund to an agency not paying a level of assessment 
specified elsewhere (and not necessarily applicable) (July 16, 1998, p. 
15816); (22) require a determination of ``successor agency'' status 
(Sept. 26, 1997, p. 20347); (23) require a determination whether a 
delegate or envoy to the United Nations has ``advocated'' the adoption 
of a certain convention (June 26, 2000, p. 12355) or whether an activity 
would grant ``de jure or de facto support'' of another country's 
territorial claims (June 20, 2014, p. _); (24) require tests or reports 
not required under existing law (May 19, 2000, p. 8616) or require all 
quarterly and annual reports required by law in accordance with 
standards for reports under a specified law not otherwise applicable

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(Sept. 9, 2003, pp. 21548, 21549); (25) impose a new duty to tally 
violations of law by contractors where existing law required information 
on violations but not on the number thereof (June 7, 2000, p. 9849); 
(26) require an investigation of the conscription requirements of other 
nations (July 13, 2000, p. 14121); (27) require a determination whether 
``efforts'' have been made to change any nation's laws regarding 
abortion, family planning, or population control (July 13, 2000, p. 
14130); (28) impose a new duty to calculate the ``total amount'' of 
payments under a Federal program paid to a husband and wife (to 
determine whether an exception to an otherwise valid limitation would 
apply) (July 11, 2001, pp. 13001-03); (29) require an investigation into 
the extent to which World Trade Organization challenges against foreign 
laws and policies promote access to certain pharmaceuticals (July 18, 
2001, pp. 13693, 13694); (30) require an investigation into whether an 
applicant for immigration has been involved in the harvesting of organs 
(July 18, 2001, pp. 13702-05); (31) require the Inspector General to 
opine on audited financial statements of certain components of the 
Department of Defense where the issuance of such opinion was not shown 
to be required by existing law (June 27, 2002, pp. 11788, 11789); (32) 
require the examination of certain legislative reports to determine 
whether an entity is specifically identified by name (July 17, 2002, pp. 
13365, 13366); (33) require several agencies to process certain 
information where current law required only one specific agency to 
process that information (June 24, 2003, pp. 15860, 15861); (34) in the 
case of a limitation with respect to certain roads on public land, 
require a determination of the precise nature of those roads including 
their ownership and the types of vehicles allowed to travel on them 
(July 17, 2003, pp. 18628-31); (35) require a determination that certain 
trade agreements achieved generic undefined policy goals that were not 
set forth in existing law (July 23, 2003, pp. 19156-58); (36) require a 
determination that a drug has been prescribed ``for the purpose of 
relieving or managing pain'' (July 7, 2004, pp. 14679, 14682); (37) 
require a determination as to the date on which various road 
construction projects in a National Forest were commenced within the 
periods in which they were authorized to commence (May 19, 2005, pp. 
10364, 10365); (38) require the Food and Drug Administration to examine 
a registry of clinical trials maintained by the National Institutes of 
Health, a different entity (June 8, 2005, pp. 11945, 11946) or require 
the administrator of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to 
determine whether a federal prohibition on certain mineral exploration 
(administered by a different federal entity) remained in effect (Mar. 
15, 2006, p. 3722); (39) require a determination regarding a specific 
type of employment behavior before initiating an employment 
investigation (June 8, 2005, pp. 11948-50); (40) require a determination 
as to whether a local educational agency had obtained parental consent 
before providing military recruiters student information (June 24, 2005, 
pp. 14185, 14186); (41) in the case of a limitation on the enforcement 
of a regulation against a specified class, require a determination as to 
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ber of that class (June 30, 2005, pp. 14891-93); (42) prescribe a policy 
for an agency in the distribution of grants (June 6, 2006, pp. 10105, 
10106); (43) require a determination of citizenship based on birth (June 
6, 2006, pp. 10108, 10109); (44) require a determination of what 
activities amount to ``continuation'' of specified litigation (Feb. 18, 
2011, pp. 2520, 2521) or what decision of a court constitutes 
``resolution'' of a case (July 10, 2014, p. _); (45) require a 
determination by the executive branch regarding the composition of the 
legislative branch (June 13, 2011, p. 9014; Apr. 29, 2015, p. _); (46) 
require a determination of the end use of unmanned aircraft authorized 
by the Secretary (June 27, 2012, p. _; June 9, 2014, p. _); (47) require 
a determination of whether education programs qualify students for 
certain occupational exams or licenses (Apr. 30, 2014, p. _); (48) 
require an agency to track the legislative action of whether a contempt 
of Congress had been certified (Apr. 30, 2014, p. _); (49) require a 
determination by all contracting agencies of whether any aspect of a 
project is behind schedule or over budget (June 9, 2014, p. _); (50) 
require a determination of whether an agency action would ``subvert'' or 
``interfere'' with the integrity of a given standard (June 18, 2014, p. 
_); (51) require a determination of whether an entity had commenced a 
bankruptcy action (July 10, 2014, p. _); (52) require a determination of 
the flag status of vessels on pending export applications (July 10, 
2014, p. _); (53) require a determination of whether a rule would 
increase electricity prices or reduce electricity reliability (July 10, 
2014, p. _); (54) require a determination of the reason a financial 
institution provides services to an entity (July 15, 2014, p. _); (55) 
require the District of Columbia to ascertain the state of federal 
firearms law (July 15, 2014, p. _ (sustained on appeal)); (56) require a 
determination of the meaning of ``anytime, anywhere'' inspections of 
civil and military sites in another country (Apr. 30, 2015, p. _).
  The fact that an executive official may have been directed by an 
Executive Order to consult another executive official before taking an 
action does not permit inclusion of language directing the official 
being consulted to make determinations not specifically required by law 
(July 22, 1980, p. 19087).
  On the other hand, the following limitations have been held in order 
as not placing new duties on Federal officials: (1) denying the use of 
funds to pay the salaries of Federal officials who perform certain 
functions under existing law if the description of those duties 
precisely follows existing law and does not require them to perform new 
duties (June 24, 1976, p. 20373); (2) denying the use of funds to a 
Federal official not in compliance with an existing law that such 
official is charged with enforcing (Sept. 10, 1981, p. 20110); (3) 
reducing the availability of funds for trade adjustment assistance by 
amounts of unemployment insurance entitlements where the law 
establishing trade adjustment assistance already required the disbursing 
agency to take into consideration levels of unemployment insurance in 
determining payment levels (June 18, 1980, p. 15355); (4) denying the 
use of funds to carry out (or pay the salaries of persons who

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carry out) tobacco crop and insurance programs (July 20, 1995, p. 
19798); (5) denying the use of funds for any transit project exceeding a 
specified cost-effectiveness index where the Chair was persuaded that 
the limitation applied to projects for which indexes were already 
required by law (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22206); (6) denying the use of funds 
to enforce FAA regulations to require domestic air carriers to surrender 
more than a specified number of ``slots'' at a given airport in 
preference of international air carriers where the Chair was persuaded 
that existing regulations already required the FAA to determine the 
origin of withdrawn slots (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22212); (7) denying the 
use of funds for troops ``except in time of war'' (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. 70.1) or ``except in time of emergency'' (VII, 1657, which was the 
basis for the preceding ruling); (8) denying the use of funds to 
implement any sanction imposed by the United States on private 
commercial sales of agricultural commodities, medicine, or medical 
supplies to Cuba except for a sanction imposed pursuant to agreement 
with one or more other countries (July 20, 2000, p. 15751); (9) denying 
the use of funds by the Forest Service to construct roads or prepare 
timber sales in certain roadless areas where the executive was already 
charged by law with ongoing responsibility to maintain a comprehensive 
and detailed inventory of all land and renewable resources of the 
National Forest System (July 18, 1995, p. 19357) or for the plan, 
design, study, or construction of roads in a specified forest for the 
purpose of private timber harvest (June 26, 2007, p. 17521-23) unless 
also requiring a determination of the date a given road project 
commenced (May 19, 2005, pp. 10364, 10365); (10) denying the use of 
funds to eliminate an existing legal requirement for sureties on custom 
bonds (June 27, 1984, p. 19101); (11) denying the use of funds by any 
Federal official in any manner that would prevent a provision of 
existing law (relating to import restrictions) from being enforced (June 
27, 1984, p. 19101); (12) denying the use of funds for any reduction in 
the number of Customs Service regions or for any consolidation of 
Customs Service offices (June 27, 1984, p. 19102); (13) denying the use 
of funds for specified Federal departments to file certain motions in 
specified civil actions (all matters of public record in the litigation 
and therefore available to responsible intervening Federal officials) 
(July 18, 2001, pp. 13683, 13684); (14) denying the use of funds in 
contravention of a cited statute (May 17, 2005, pp. 9993, 9994; June 6, 
2006, pp. 10106, 10107).
  A paragraph prohibiting the use of funds to perform abortions except 
where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to 
term (or where the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest) is 
legislation, because requiring Federal officials to make new 
determinations and judgments not required of them by law, regardless of 
whether private or State officials administering the funds in question 
commonly make such determinations (June 17, 1977, p. 19699; June 30, 
1993, p. 14871; July 16, 1998, p. 15828). The fact that such a provision 
relating to abortion funding may have been included in appropriation 
Acts in prior years applicable to funds in those laws does not permit 
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such determinations, not required by law, with respect to funds for the 
fiscal year in question (Sept. 22, 1983, p. 25406); and where the 
provision, applicable to Federal funds, was permitted to remain in a 
bill (no point of order having been made), an amendment striking the 
word ``Federal,'' and thereby broadening the provision to include 
District of Columbia funds as well, was ruled out (Nov. 15, 1989, p. 
29004; July 16, 2009, pp. 18124, 18125). However, to such a provision 
permitted to remain in a general appropriation bill, an amendment 
``merely perfecting'' the exemption to address cases in which the health 
of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term was 
held not to constitute further legislation by requiring a different or 
more onerous determinations (June 27, 1984, p. 19113). But where the 
exception applies only in the case of rape, adding ``or incest'' 
requires additional determinations and is therefore not ``merely 
perfecting'' (May 29, 2014, p. _). An amendment providing that no 
Federal funds provided in the District of Columbia general appropriation 
bill be used to perform abortions is not legislation, because Federal 
officials have the responsibility to account for all appropriations for 
the annual Federal payment and for disbursement of all taxes collected 
by the District of Columbia, pursuant to the D.C. Code (July 17, 1979, 
p. 19066).
  An exception to a limitation on funds for the Office of Personnel 
Management to enter contracts for health benefit plans that required 
determinations of ``equivalence'' of benefits was held to impose new 
duties (July 16, 1998, p. 15829). However, an exception to a similar 
limitation that merely excepted certain specified coverage and plans was 
held not to impose new duties (July 16, 1998, p. 15841). Similarly, a 
limitation denying the use of funds in an appropriation bill for the 
General Services Administration to dispose of Federally owned 
``agricultural'' land declared surplus was held to impose new duties 
because the determination whether surplus lands are ``agricultural'' was 
not required by law (Aug. 20, 1980, pp. 22156-58), the same result 
adhering in the case of a limitation on funds for ``semi-professional 
motorsports,'' ``mixed martial arts,'' and ``sporting events'' (July 18, 
2012, p. _), ``marketing activities'' (Apr. 30, 2014, p. _), regulations 
not based on ``hard science'' (June 15, 2011, p. 9342); and ``local law 
enforcement agencies'' (where the program authorized assistance merely 
to states) (June 18, 2014, p. _). However, a limitation denying the use 
of funds for any transit project exceeding a specified cost-
effectiveness index was held not to impose new duties where the Chair 
was persuaded that the limitation applied to projects for which indexes 
were already required by law (Sept. 23, 1993, p. 22206).
  Over a period dating from 1908, the House had developed a line of 
precedent to the effect that language restricting the availability of 
funds in a general appropriation bill could be a valid limitation if, 
rather than imposing new duties on a disbursing official or requiring 
new determinations of that official, it passively addressed the state of 
knowledge of the official (VII, 1695; cf. Aug. 1, 1989, p. 17156, and 
June 22, 1995, p. 16844 (limita

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tions in recommittal ruled out on basis of form rather than of 
legislative content)). This reasoning culminated in a ruling in the 
104th Congress admitting as a valid limitation an amendment prohibiting 
the use of funds in the bill to execute certain accounting transactions 
when specified conditions were ``made known'' to the disbursing official 
(July 17, 1996, p. 17542). In the 105th Congress this entire line of 
precedent was overtaken by changes in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this 
clause that treat as legislation a provision that makes funding 
contingent on whether circumstances not determinative under existing law 
are ``known'' (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; July 15, 1997, p. 14493; 
July 24, 1997, p. 15758).

  An amendment <> making an appropriation contingent upon a recommendation 
(June 27, 1979, p. 17054) or action not specifically required by law is 
legislation; such as a provision limiting the use of funds in a bill 
``unless'' or ``until'' an action contrary to existing law is taken 
(Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 47.1; July 24, 1996, p. 18888). Where existing 
law requires an agency to furnish certain information to congressional 
committees upon request, without a subpoena, it is not in order to make 
funding for that agency contingent upon its furnishing information to 
subcommittees upon request (July 30, 1980, p. 20475), or contingent upon 
submission of an agreement by a Federal official to Congress and 
congressional review thereof (July 31, 1986, p. 18370). Similarly, it is 
not in order to condition funds on legal determinations to be made by a 
Federal court and an executive department (June 28, 1988, p. 16261; see 
Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 47.2).
  Provisions making the availability of funds contingent upon subsequent 
congressional action have, under the most recent precedents, been ruled 
out as legislation (June 30, 1942, p. 5826; May 15, 1947, p. 5378; June 
27, 1994, p. 14613). However, a limitation on the use of funds to buy 
real estate or establish new offices except where Congress had approved 
and funded such activity (June 18, 1991, p. 15218) was held in order.
  The following provisions have been ruled out as legislation: (1) 
making the availability of certain funds contingent upon subsequent 
congressional action on legislative proposals resolving the policy issue 
(Nov. 18, 1981, p. 28064); (2) making the availability of funds 
contingent upon subsequent enactment of legislation containing specified 
findings (Nov. 2, 1983, p. 30503); (3) making the availability of 
funding in the bill contingent on the funding of a separate provision of 
law (Mar. 15, 2006, p. 3713); and (4) changing a permanent appropriation 
in existing law to restrict its availability until all general 
appropriation bills are presented to the President (June 29, 1987, p. 
18083). A section in a general appropriation bill directly contravening 
existing law to subject the use of local funds to congressional approval 
was held to constitute legislation where it was shown that some local 
(District of Columbia) funds deriving from interest accounts were 
available to the Financial Control Board without subsequent 
congressional approval (Aug. 6, 1998, p. 19079).

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  Two rulings upholding the admissibility of amendments making the 
availability of funds contingent upon subsequent congressional action 
have been superseded by the precedents cited above (June 11, 1968, p. 
16692; Sept. 6, 1979, p. 23360).
  The following provisions also have been held to be legislation as they 
required: (1) a congressional committee to promulgate regulations to 
limit the use of an appropriation (June 13, 1979, p. 14670), or 
otherwise to direct the activities of a committee (June 24, 1992, p. 
16087); (2) a substantive determination by a State or local government 
official or agency that is not otherwise required by existing law (July 
25, 1985, p. 20569); (3) the Selective Service Administration to issue 
regulations to bring its classifications into conformance with a Supreme 
Court decision (July 20, 1989, p. 15405); (4) a change in a rule of the 
House (IV, 3819); (5) an agency to submit all quarterly and annual 
reports required by law in accordance with standards for reports under a 
specified law not otherwise applicable (Sept. 9, 2003, p. 21548); (6) 
compliance (Sept. 4, 2003, p. 21213; June 9, 2014, p. _) or consistency 
(June 9, 2014, p. _) with a law not otherwise applicable.

  A provision <> proposing to construe existing law is itself legislative and 
therefore not in order (IV, 3936-3938; May 2, 1951, p. 4747; July 26, 
1951, p. 8982). However, an official's general responsibility to 
construe the language of a limitation on the use of funds, absent 
imposition of an affirmative direction not required by law, does not 
destroy the validity of a limitation (June 27, 1974, pp. 21687-94).
  Where it is asserted that duties ostensibly occasioned by a limitation 
are already imposed by existing law, the Chair may take cognizance of 
judicial decisions and rule the limitation out on the basis that the 
case law is not uniform, current, or finally dispositive (June 16, 1977, 
pp. 19365-74; June 7, 1978, p. 16676). For example, a limitation 
prohibiting the use of funds for an inspection conducted by a regulatory 
agency without a search warrant has been held out of order as imposing a 
new duty not uniformly required by case law (June 16, 1977, pp. 19365-
74). Similarly, an amendment denying the use of funds for an agency to 
apply certain provisions of law under court decisions in effect on a 
prior date has been held out of order as requiring the official to apply 
noncurrent case law (June 7, 1978, p. 16655).
  A provision prescribing a rule of construction is legislation 
(Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 25.15). For example, a provision prescribing a 
prospective rule of construction for possible (future) tax enactments 
was held to constitute legislation (June 21, 2000, p. 11773). Similarly, 
a provision construing a limitation in a bill by affirmatively declaring 
the meaning of the prohibition is legislation (May 17, 1988, p. 11305); 
and a provision prescribing definitions for terms contained in a 
limitation may be legislation (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. Sec. 25.7, 25.11). 
Language excepting certain appropriations from the sweep of a broader 
limitation may be in order (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 25.2).

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It also has been held in order to except from the operation of a 
specific limitation on expenditures certain of those expenditures that 
are authorized by law by prohibiting a construction of the limitation in 
a way that would prevent compliance with that law (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. 25.10; June 18, 1991, p. 15218). Similarly, a limitation on certain 
payments to persons in ``excess of $500,'' but stating that the 
limitation would not be ``construed to deprive any share renter of 
payments'' to which the renter might otherwise be entitled was held in 
order (Deschler, ch. 26, Sec. 66.1).
  The mere recitation in an amendment that a determination is to be made 
pursuant to existing laws and regulations, absent a citation to the law 
imposing such responsibility, is not sufficient proof by the proponent 
of an amendment to overcome a point of order that the amendment 
constitutes legislation (Sept. 16, 1980, p. 25606; May 8, 1986, p. 
10156). A limitation denying the use of funds to apply certain 
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code other than under regulations in 
effect on a prior date is legislation as it would require an official to 
apply regulations no longer current in order to render an appropriation 
available (June 7, 1978, p. 16655; Aug. 19, 1980, pp. 21978-80). 
Similarly, a limitation on funds to implement any ``change'' to a 
requirement in a regulation no longer in effect was held to impose a 
determination not required by current law (June 6, 2012, p. _). However, 
an exception to a limitation on the use of funds for designated Federal 
activities that were already authorized by law in more general terms, 
was held in order as not containing legislation (June 27, 1979, pp. 
17033-35).
  Language waiving provisions of an existing law that did not 
specifically permit inclusion of such a waiver in an appropriation bill 
has been ruled out (e.g., Nov. 13, 1975, p. 36271; June 20, 1996, p. 
14847; May 19, 2000, p. 8600), as has language identical to that 
contained in an authorization bill previously passed by the House but 
not yet signed into law (Aug. 4, 1978, p. 24436), or a proposition for 
repeal of existing law (VII, 1403; Mar. 16, 2006, pp. 3786-88 (sustained 
on appeal)).
  Existing law may be repeated verbatim without violating the rule (IV, 
3814, 3815), but the slightest change of the text renders it liable to a 
point of order (IV, 3817; VII, 1391, 1394; June 4, 1970, p. 18405). It 
is in order to include language descriptive of authority provided in law 
for the operation of Government agencies and corporations so long as the 
description is precise and does not change that authority in any respect 
(June 15, 1973, p. 19843; Aug. 3, 1978, p. 24249); although language 
merely reciting the applicability of current law to the use of earmarked 
funds is permitted, a provision that elevates existing guidelines to 
mandates for spending has been ruled out (July 12, 1989, p. 14432).
  It is in order by way of limitation to deny the use of funds for 
implementation of the following: (1) an Executive Order, which was 
precisely described in the amendment (Mar. 16, 1977, p. 7748); (2) a 
regulation, which was promulgated pursuant to court order and 
constitutional provisions--the authority for the regulation being an 
argument on the merits of the amend

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ment and not rendering it legislative in nature (Aug. 19, 1980, pp. 
21981-84); (3) a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service that taxpayers 
are not entitled to certain charitable deductions because merely 
descriptive of an existing ruling already promulgated and not requiring 
any new determinations as to the applicability of the limitation to 
other categories of taxpayers (July 16, 1979, pp. 18808-10); (4) changes 
to a set of overtime compensation regulations in existence on a given 
date (with a certain nonlegislative exception) because they did not 
require the Department to administer superseded regulations (Sept. 9, 
2004, pp. 17853, 17854).
  An amendment proposing to increase budget authority and to offset that 
increase by proposing a change in the application of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 was held to constitute legislation (see, e.g., 
Sept. 8, 1999, pp. 20896-98; June 24, 2003, p. 15831 (sustained on 
appeal); July 10, 2003, p. 17535, p. 17576).

  A provision <> that mandates 
a distribution of funds in contravention of an allocation formula in 
existing law is legislation (July 29, 1982, pp. 18637, 18638; Oct. 5, 
1983, p. 27335; Aug. 2, 1989, p. 18123; July 24, 1995, p. 20141), as is 
an amendment that by such a mandate interferes with an executive 
official's discretionary authority (Mar. 12, 1975, p. 6338), or requires 
not less than a certain sum to be used for a particular purpose where 
existing law does not mandate such expenditure (June 18, 1976, p. 19297; 
July 29, 1982, p. 18623) (including by stating that not less than a 
certain sum ``should be allocated'' (June 9, 2006, p. 10673)), or 
earmarks appropriated funds to the arts and requires their expenditure 
pursuant to standards otherwise applicable only as guidelines (July 12, 
1989, p. 14432). Where existing law directed a Federal official to 
provide for sale of certain Government property to a private 
organization in ``necessary'' amounts, an amendment providing that no 
such property be withheld from distribution from qualifying purchasers 
was legislation, because requiring disposal of all property and 
restricting discretionary authority to determine ``necessary'' amounts 
(Aug. 7, 1978, p. 24707). An amendment directing the use of funds to 
assure compliance with an existing law, where existing law does not so 
mandate, also is legislation (June 24, 1976, p. 20370). So-called 
``hold-harmless'' provisions that mandate a certain level of expenditure 
for certain purposes or recipients, where existing law confers 
discretion or makes ratable reductions in such expenditures, also 
constitute legislation (Apr. 16, 1975, p. 10357; June 25, 1976, p. 
20557). A transfer of available funds from one department to another 
with directions as to the use to which those funds must be put is 
legislation (and also a reappropriation in violation of clause 2(a)(2) 
of this rule) (Dec. 8, 1982, p. 29449). A provision requiring States to 
match funds provided in an appropriation bill was held to constitute 
legislation where existing law contained no such requirement (June 28, 
1993, p. 14418). Where existing law prescribes a formula for the 
allocation of funds among several categories, an amendment merely 
reducing the

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amount earmarked for one of the categories is not legislation, so long 
as it does not textually change the statutory formula (July 24, 1995, p. 
20133).

  The House <> may, by agreeing to a report from the Committee on Rules or 
by adopting an order under suspension of the rules, allow legislation on 
general appropriation bills (IV, 3260-3263, 3839-3845). Where an 
unauthorized appropriation or legislation is permitted to remain in a 
general appropriation bill by waiver or by failure to raise a point of 
order, an amendment merely changing that amount and not adding 
legislative language or earmarking separate funds for another 
unauthorized purpose is in order (IV, 3823-3835, 3838; VII, 1405, 1413-
1415; June 9, 1954, p. 5963; July 27, 1954, p. 12287; Oct. 1, 1975, p. 
31058; June 8, 1977, p. 17941; July 17, 1985, p. 19435; Sept. 11, 1985, 
p. 23398; June 14, 1988, p. 14341). However, this does not permit an 
amendment that adds additional legislation (IV, 3836, 3837, 3862; VII, 
1402-1436; Dec. 9, 1971, p. 4595; Aug. 1, 1973, p. 27291; June 10, 1977, 
p. 18402; July 30, 1985, p. 21532; July 23, 1986, p. 17446; June 26, 
1987, p. 17655; June 28, 1988, pp. 16203, 16213; Aug. 2, 1989, p. 18172; 
Nov. 15, 1989, p. 29004; June 23, 1998, p. 13475; July 13, 2000, p. 
14093; June 26, 2007, pp. 17485, 17486), proposes a new unauthorized 
purpose (Dec. 8, 1971, p. 45487; Aug. 7, 1978, pp. 24710-12; May 25, 
1988, p. 12256), earmarks for unauthorized purposes (July 17, 1985, p. 
19435; July 17, 1986, p. 16918; July 26, 1995, p. 20528; June 5, 1996, 
p. 13120), earmarks by directing a new use of funds not required by law 
(July 26, 1985, pp. 20811, 20813), or increases an authorized amount 
above the authorized ceiling (Aug. 4, 1999, p. 19513).
  An amendment adding a new paragraph indirectly increasing an 
unauthorized amount contained in a prior paragraph permitted to remain 
is subject to a point of order because the new paragraph is adding a 
further unauthorized amount not merely perfecting (July 12, 1995, p. 
18628; July 16, 1997, p. 14746; Sept. 17, 1998, p. 20818; June 27, 2007, 
pp. 17715, 17716; June 5, 2012, p. _). However, a new paragraph 
indirectly reducing an unauthorized amount permitted to remain in a 
prior paragraph passed in the reading is not subject to a point of order 
because it is not adding a further unauthorized amount (July 16, 1997, 
p. 14747). Where by unanimous consent an amendment is offered en bloc to 
a paragraph containing an unauthorized amount not yet read for 
amendment, the amendment increasing that unauthorized figure is subject 
to a point of order because at that point it is not being offered to a 
paragraph that has been read and permitted to remain (June 21, 1984, p. 
17687). As required by clause 2(f), the Chair will query for points of 
order against the provisions of an appropriation bill not yet reached in 
the reading but addressed by an amendment offered en bloc under that 
clause as budget authority and outlay neutral (July 22, 1997, p. 15250).
  The Chair examined an entire legislative provision permitted to remain 
when ruling that an amendment to a portion of the provision was merely 
perfecting (July 15, 1999, pp. 16284, 16291). An amendment to a general

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appropriation bill is not subject to a point of order as adding 
legislation for restating, verbatim, a legislative provision already 
contained in the bill and permitted to remain (Aug. 27, 1980, p. 23519).
  The following amendments to legislative provisions permitted to remain 
have been held to propose additional legislation: (1) adding another 
class to those on which assistance is conferred (June 22, 1983, p. 
16851); (2) adding an additional nation to a legislative provision 
addressing sanctions against one nation (July 13, 2000, p. 14092); (3) 
adding an additional item to a reporting requirement (July 6, 2011, pp. 
10423, 10424; July 9, 2014, p. _); (4) striking text that resulted in 
extending the legislative reach of the pending bill (July 17, 1996, p. 
17533); (5) extending a legislative provision that placed certain 
restrictions on recipients of a defined set of Federal payments and 
benefits to persons benefiting from a certain tax status determined on 
wholly unrelated criteria (Aug. 3, 1995, p. 21967); (6) extending the 
availability of certain housing assistance to certain recipients (June 
13, 2006, pp. 11041, 11042); (7) specifying a different regulation 
required to be reissued by an agency (Feb. 16, 2011, p. 2130); (8) 
adding a rule of construction regarding the implementation of a 
provision of law (as opposed to merely excepting that provision from the 
coverage of a legislative limitation on funds) (Feb. 16, 2011, pp. 2138, 
2140); (9) expanding a requirement for compliance with the Buy America 
Act to include specified domestic content for certain items (June 27, 
2012, p. _).
  On the other hand, to a legislative provision permitted to remain, an 
amendment particularizing a definition in the language was held not to 
constitute additional legislation where it was shown that the definition 
being amended already contemplated inclusion of the covered class (Aug. 
5, 1998, p. 18934). To a legislative provision permitted to remain that 
excepted from a denial of funds for abortions cases in which the life of 
the mother would be endangered if a fetus were carried to term, an 
amendment excepting instead cases in which the health of the mother 
would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term was held not to 
constitute further legislation, because determinations on the 
endangerment of life necessarily subsume determinations on the 
endangerment of health; and the amendment did not therefore require any 
different or more onerous determinations (June 27, 1984, p. 19113).
  To a paragraph permitted to remain despite containing a legislative 
proviso restricting the obligation of funds until a date within the 
fiscal year, an amendment striking the delimiting date, thus applying 
the restriction for the entire year, was held to be perfecting (July 30, 
1990, p. 20442); but striking the date and inserting a new trigger (the 
enactment of other legislation), was held to be additional legislation 
(July 30, 1990, p. 20442).

  The principle <> seems to be 
generally well accepted that the House proposing legislation on a 
general appropriation bill should recede if the other House persists in 
its objection (IV, 3904-3908), and clause 5 of rule XXII (Sec. 1076, 
infra) prohibits House conferees from agreeing to a Senate amendment 
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poses legislation on an appropriation bill without specific authority 
from the House. However, where a Senate amendment proposing legislation 
on a general appropriation bill is, pursuant to the edict of clause 5 of 
rule XXII, reported back from conference in disagreement, a motion to 
concur in the Senate amendment with a further amendment is in order, 
even if the proposed amendment adds legislation to that contained in the 
Senate amendment, and the only test is whether the proposed amendment is 
germane to the Senate amendment reported in disagreement (IV, 3909; 
VIII, 3188, 3189; Speaker McCormack, Dec. 15, 1970, p. 41504; Aug. 1, 
1979, pp. 22007-11; Speaker O'Neill, Dec. 12, 1979, p. 35520; June 30, 
1987, p. 18308).

               ``holman rule'' on retrenching expenditures

  Decisions under <> the so-called ``Holman Rule'' in clause 2 of rule XXI 
have been rare in the modern practice of the House. The trend in 
construing language in general appropriation bills or amendments thereto 
has been to minimize the importance of the ``Holman Rule'' in those 
cases in which the decision can be made on other grounds. The practice 
of using limitations in appropriation bills has been perfected in recent 
years so that most modern decisions by the Chair deal with distinctions 
between such limitations and matters that are considered to be 
legislation (see Sec. Sec. 1053-1057, supra). Under the modern practice, 
the ``Holman Rule'' only applies where an obvious reduction is achieved 
by the provision in question and does not apply to limiting language 
unaccompanied by a reduction of funds in the bill (July 16, 1979, pp. 
18808-10). It has no application to an amendment to an appropriation 
bill that does not legislate but is merely a negative limitation citing 
but not changing existing law (June 18, 1980, p. 15355).
  A paragraph containing legislation reported in an appropriation bill 
to be in order must on its face show a retrenchment of a type that 
conforms to the requirements of the rule (Mar. 17, 1926, p. 5804).
  The reduction of expenditure must appear as a necessary result, in 
order to bring an amendment or provision within the exception to the 
rule. It is not sufficient that such reduction would probably, or would 
in the opinion of the Chair, result therefrom (IV, 3887; VII, 1530-
1534). Thus, an amendment to a general appropriation bill providing that 
appropriations made in that act are hereby reduced by $7 billion, though 
legislative in form, was held in order under the ``Holman Rule'' 
exception (Apr. 5, 1966, p. 7689), but an amendment providing for 
certain reductions of appropriations carried in the bill based on the 
President's budget estimates was held not to show a reduction on its 
face and to provide merely speculative reductions (Deschler, ch. 26, 
Sec. 5.6; June 24, 1992, p. 16110). An amendment authorizing the 
President to reduce each appropriation in the bill by not more than 10 
percent was ruled out as legislation conferring new authority on the 
President (May 31, 1984, p. 14617; June 6, 1984, p. 15120). An amend

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ment reducing an unauthorized amount permitted to remain in a general 
appropriation bill is in order as a retrenchment under this clause (Oct. 
1, 1975, p. 31058). An amendment to a general appropriation bill denying 
the availability of funds to certain recipients but requiring Federal 
officials to make additional determinations as to the qualifications of 
recipients is legislation and is not a retrenchment of expenditures 
where it is not apparent that the prohibition will reduce the amounts 
covered by the bill (June 26, 1973, p. 21389).
  The amendment must not only show on its face an attempt to retrench 
but also must be germane to some provision in the bill even though 
offered by direction of the committee having jurisdiction over the 
subject matter of the amendment (VII, 1549; Dec. 16, 1911, p. 442). An 
amendment providing that appropriations ``herein and heretofore made'' 
shall be reduced by $70 million through the reduction of Federal 
employees as the President determines was held to be legislative and not 
germane to the bill, because it went to funds other than those carried 
therein, and was therefore not within the ``Holman Rule'' exception 
(Oct. 18, 1966, p. 27425).
  An amendment reducing an amount in an appropriation bill for the 
Postal Service and prohibiting the use of funds therein to implement 
special bulk third-class rates for political committees was held in 
order because not specifically requiring a new determination and because 
constituting a retrenchment of expenditures even if assumed to be 
legislative (July 13, 1979, pp. 18453-55).
  As long as an amendment calls for an obvious reduction at some point 
in time during the fiscal year, the amendment is in order under the 
``Holman Rule'' even if the reduction takes place in the future in an 
amount actually determined when the reduction takes place (for example, 
by formula) (VII, 1491, 1505; July 30, 1980, pp. 20499-20503). To an 
amendment that is in order under the ``Holman Rule,'' containing 
legislation but retrenching expenditures by formula for every agency 
funded by the bill, an amendment exempting from that reduction several 
specific programs does not add further legislation and is in order (July 
30, 1980, pp. 20499-20503).
  A motion to recommit the District of Columbia appropriation bill with 
instructions to reduce the proportion of the fund appropriated from the 
Federal Treasury from one-half, as provided in the bill, to one-fourth 
of the entire appropriation is in order, because the effect of the 
amendment if adopted would reduce the expenditure of public money 
although not reducing the amount of the appropriation (VII, 1518).
  The term ``retrenchment'' means the reduction of the amount of money 
to be taken out of the Federal Treasury by the bill, and therefore a 
reduction of the amount of money to be contributed toward the expenses 
of the District of Columbia is in order as a retrenchment (VII, 1502).
  An amendment proposed to an item for the recoinage of uncurrent 
fractional silver, which amendment struck out the amount appropriated 
and added a provision for the coinage of all the bullion in the Treasury 
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standard silver dollars, the cost of such coinage and recoinage to be 
paid out of the Government's seigniorage, was held not to be in order 
under the rule; first, because not germane to the subject matter of the 
bill (the sundry civil); second, because it did not appear that any 
retrenchment of expenditure would result, the seigniorage being the 
property of the Government as other funds in the Treasury (VII, 1547).
  To an item of appropriation for inland transportation of mails by star 
routes an amendment was offered requiring the Postmaster General to 
provide routes and make contracts in certain cases, with the further 
provision ``and the amount of appropriation herein for star routes is 
hereby reduced to $500.'' A point of order made against the first or 
legislative part of the amendment was sustained, which decision was, on 
appeal, affirmed by the committee (VII, 1555).
  To a clause appropriating for the foreign mail service an amendment 
reducing the appropriation, and in addition repealing the act known as 
the ``subsidy act,'' was held not in order because the repealing of this 
act was not germane to the appropriation bill; and that to be in order 
both branches of the amendment must be germane to the bill (VII, 1548).
  A provision in the agricultural appropriation bill transferring the 
supervision of the importation of animals from the Treasury to the 
Department of Agriculture is out of order, being a provision changing 
law and not retrenching expenditure (IV, 3886).
  Where a paragraph containing new legislation provides in one part for 
a discharge of employees, which means a retrenchment, and in another 
part embodies legislation to bring about the particular retrenchment 
that in turn shows on its face an expenditure the amount of which is not 
apparent, the Chair is unable to hold that the net result will retrench 
expenditures. However, where the additional legislation does not show on 
its face an additional expenditure, the Chair will not speculate as to a 
possible expenditure under the additional legislation (VII, 1500).
  As explained in the annotation in Sec. 1043, supra, the amendment of 
clause 2(b) in the 98th Congress narrowed the ``Holman Rule'' exception 
to the general prohibition against legislation to cover only 
retrenchments reducing amounts of money covered by the bill, and not 
retrenchments resulting from reduction of the number and salary of 
officers of the United States or of the compensation of any person paid 
out of the U.S. Treasury. Accordingly, the Chair held out of order an 
amendment mandating the reduction of certain Federal salaries and 
expenses as not confined to a reduction of funds in the bill (June 17, 
1994, p. 13422). Paragraph (b) also eliminated separate authority 
conferred upon legislative committees or commissions with proper 
jurisdiction to report amendments retrenching expenditures, and 
permitted legislative committees to recommend such retrenchments by 
reduction of amounts covered by the bill to the Appropriations Committee 
for discretionary inclusion in the reported bill. Paragraph (d) as added 
in the 98th Congress provides a new procedure for consideration of all 
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completed and only if the Committee of the Whole does not adopt a motion 
to rise and report the bill back to the House. Other decisions that 
involved interpretation of the ``Holman Rule,'' but which do not reflect 
the current form or interpretation of that rule, are found in IV, 3846, 
3885-3892; VII, 1484, 1486-1492, 1498, 1500, 1515, 1563, 1564, 1569; 
June 1, 1892, p. 4920.

  This <> provision from section 
139(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190f(c)) 
was made part of the standing rules in the 83d Congress (Jan. 3, 1953, 
p. 24). Previously, a reappropriation of an unexpended balance for an 
object authorized by law was in order on a general appropriation bill 
(IV, 3591, 3592; VII, 1156, 1158). This clause was amended in the 99th 
Congress by section 228(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177) to permit the Committee on 
Appropriations to report certain transfers of unexpended balances. 
Consistent with clause 2 of rule XXI, and as codified in the 106th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), violations of this clause are 
enforced only against specific provisions in general appropriation bills 
containing reappropriations rather than against consideration of the 
bill (see Deschler, ch. 25, Sec. 3).
  A provision in a general appropriation bill, or an amendment thereto, 
providing that funds for a certain purpose are to be derived by 
continuing the availability of funds previously appropriated for a prior 
fiscal year is in violation of clause 2(a)(2) (formerly clause 6 of rule 
XXI) (Aug. 20, 1951, p. 10393; Mar. 29, 1960, p. 6862; June 17, 1960, p. 
13138; June 20, 1973, p. 20530; July 29, 1982, p. 18625; June 28, 1988, 
p. 16255), and a reappropriation of unexpended prior year balances 
prohibited by this clause is not in order under the guise of a ``Holman 
Rule'' exception to clause 2 of rule XXI (Oct. 18, 1966, p. 27424). An 
amendment to a general appropriation bill making any appropriations that 
are available for the current fiscal year available for certain new 
purposes was held out of order under clause 2(a)(2) because it was not 
confined to the funds in the bill and would permit reappropriation of 
unexpended balances (Oct. 1, 1975, p. 31090). That appropriations may be 
authorized in law for a specified object does not permit an amendment to 
a general appropriation bill to include legislative language mandating 
the reappropriation of funds from other Acts (July 28, 1992, p. 19652).
  This rule, however, is not applicable when the reappropriation 
language is identical to legislative authorization language enacted 
subsequent to the adoption of the rule, because the law is a more recent 
expression of the will of the House (Sept. 5, 1961, p. 18133), nor when 
a measure transferring unobligated balances of previously appropriated 
funds contains legislative provisions and rules changes but no 
appropriation of new budget authority and is neither in the form of an 
appropriation bill nor the subject of a privileged report by the 
Committee on Appropriations under rule XIII (Mar. 3, 1988, p. 3239).

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  The return of an unexpended balance to the Treasury is in order (IV, 
3594).
  A provision in a general appropriation bill that authorizes an 
official to transfer funds among appropriation accounts in the bill 
changes existing law in violation of clause 2 of rule XXI by including 
language conferring new authority (Deschler, ch 26, Sec. 29.2; June 9, 
2006, pp. 10681, 10682). However, direct transfers of appropriations 
within the confines of the same bill normally are considered in order 
(VII, 1468) as a ``within-bill'' transfer rather than a transfer of 
unexpended balances of the kind addressed by clause 2(a)(2).

  To <> invoke the 
protection of clause 2(f), an amendment must not (1) propose a change 
other than a transfer of appropriations among objects in the bill, such 
as increasing the amount of a deferral (June 15, 2000, p. 11064), 
rescission (Feb. 16, 2011, pp. 2136, 2137), or limitation on obligations 
from a trust fund (June 26, 2012, p. _), or striking sections of the 
bill (Apr. 29, 2015, p. _ (sustained on appeal)); (2) reach back in the 
reading (Feb. 15, 2011, pp. 1965, 1966); or (3) increase the levels of 
budget authority or outlays carried in the bill (July 12, 2000, p. 
14071; July 13, 2004, pp. 15193, 15194, pp. 15198, 15199; June 6, 2012, 
p. _), and the proponent of an amendment carries the burden of so 
proving (see Sec. 1044a, supra). An amendment otherwise in order under 
this paragraph may nevertheless be in violation of clause 2(a)(1) if 
increasing an appropriation above the authorized amount contained in the 
bill (Aug. 4, 1999, p. 19513). The Chair will query for points of order 
against provisions of a bill not yet read when they are addressed by an 
offsetting amendment under this paragraph (e.g., May 17, 2005, p. 9975). 
On one occasion, the House adopted an order rendering clause 2(f) 
unavailable during consideration of a bill in the case of an amendment 
transferring appropriations among objects falling within more than one 
suballocation under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (Feb. 15, 2011, p. 1823), and an amendment to such bill proposing 
such a transfer was ruled out as impermissibly addressing portions of 
the bill not yet read (Feb. 15, 2011, p. 1971).

  The <> 112th through 
114th Congresses (sec. 3(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(d), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _) 
established (1) a procedure for reducing an amount in a general 
appropriation bill and displaying that reduction in a spending reduction 
account in the bill, and (2) a point of order against an amendment 
increasing the level of budget authority in a general appropriation 
bill, as follows:

(d) Spending Reduction Amendments in Appropriations Bills.
          (1) During the reading of a general appropriation bill for 
        amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
        the Union, it shall be in order to consider en bloc amendments 
        proposing only to transfer appropriations from an object or 
        objects in the bill

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        to a spending reduction account. When considered en bloc under 
        this clause, such amendments may amend portions of the bill not 
        yet read for amendment (following disposition of any points of 
        order against such portions) and are not subject to a demand for 
        division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
        Whole.
          (2) Except as provided in paragraph (1), it shall not be in 
        order to consider an amendment to a spending reduction account 
        in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the state 
        of the Union.
          (3) It shall not be in order to consider an amendment to a 
        general appropriation bill proposing a net increase in budget 
        authority in the bill (unless considered en bloc with another 
        amendment or amendments proposing an equal or greater decrease 
        in such budget authority pursuant to clause 2(f) of rule XXI).
          (4) A point of order under clause 2(b) of rule XXI shall not 
        apply to a spending reduction account.
          (5) A general appropriation bill may not be considered in the 
        Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union unless it 
        includes a spending reduction account as the last section of the 
        bill. An order to report a general appropriation bill to the 
        House shall constitute authority for the chair of the Committee 
        on Appropriations to add such a section to the bill or modify 
        the figure contained therein.
          (6) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``spending 
        reduction account'' means an account in a general appropriation 
        bill that bears that caption and contains only a recitation of 
        the amount by which an applicable allocation of new budget 
        authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act 
        of 1974 exceeds the amount of new budget authority proposed by 
        the bill.

  The Chair is persuasively guided by an estimate from the chair of the 
Committee on the Budget as to whether an amendment proposes a net 
increase in budget authority in the bill under paragraph (3) (e.g., Feb. 
15, 2011, p. 1987; Apr. 7, 2011, pp. 5337, 5338 (sustained by tabling of 
appeal)). An amendment to a general appropriation bill proposing a 
limitation on funds in the bill for the instant fiscal year was held not 
to propose a net increase in budget authority within the meaning of this 
provision (Feb. 18, 2011, pp. 2490, 2491). An amendment to a general 
appropriation bill that proposed to do more than merely transfer 
appropriations from objects in the bill to a spending reduction account 
(July 6, 2011, pp. 10466, 10467) or proposed to increase the figure in 
the spending reduction account by greater than the amount of reductions 
in earlier accounts (June 1, 2012, p. _) was ineligible to avail itself 
of the protection of paragraph (1) to reach ahead to text not yet read 
for amendment.


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  3. <> It shall not be in order to 
consider a general appropriation bill or joint resolution, or conference 
report thereon, that--
      (a) provides spending authority derived from receipts deposited in 
the Highway Trust Fund (excluding any transfers from the General Fund of 
the Treasury); or
      (b) reduces or otherwise limits the accruing balances of the 
Highway Trust Fund,
for any purpose other than for those activities authorized for the 
highway or mass transit categories.

  This clause was rewritten entirely in the 112th Congress (sec. 
2(d)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). For its predecessor, which 
enforced specified minimum levels of surface transportation obligation 
limitations, see Sec. 1064 of the House Rules and Manual for the 111th 
Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).
  Section 48114 <> of 
title 49 (a provision first added by the Wendell H. Ford Aviation 
Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (sec. 106, P.L. 106-181), 
extended to 2007 by its reenactment in title 49 (sec. 104, P.L. 108-
176), and extended to 2015 by the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 
2012 (sec. 104, P.L. 112-95)) provides a point of order to enforce 
guarantees of total budget resources in a fiscal year for certain 
aviation investment programs as follows:

Sec. 48114. Funding for Aviation Programs.
  (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--
          (1) Airport and airway trust fund guarantee.--
                  (A) In general.--The total budget resources made 
                available from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund each 
                fiscal year pursuant to sections 48101, 48102, 48103, 
                and 106(k) shall--
  (i) in fiscal year 2013, be equal to 90 percent of the estimated level 
of receipts plus interest credited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund 
for that fiscal year; and
  (ii) in fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal year thereafter, be equal to 
the sum of--

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                  (B) Guarantee.--No funds may be appropriated or 
                limited for aviation investment programs listed in 
                subsection (b)(1) unless the amount described in 
                subparagraph (A) has been provided.
          (2) Additional authorizations of appropriations from the 
        general fund.--In any fiscal year through fiscal year 2015, if 
        the amount described in paragraph (1) is appropriated, there is 
        further authorized to be appropriated from the general fund of 
        the Treasury such sums as may be necessary for the Federal 
        Aviation Administration Operations account.
  (b) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
          (1) Total budget resources.--The term ``total budget 
        resources'' means the total amount made available from the 
        Airport and Airway Trust Fund for the sum of obligation 
        limitations and budget authority made available for a fiscal 
        year for the following budget accounts that are subject to the 
        obligation limitation on contract authority provided in this 
        title and for which appropriations are provided pursuant to 
        authorizations contained in this title:
                  (A) 69-8106-0-7-402 (Grants in Aid for Airports).
                  (B) 69-8107-0-7-402 (Facilities and Equipment).
                  (C) 69-8108-0-7-402 (Research and Development).
                  (D) 69-8104-0-7-402 (Trust Fund Share of Operations).
          (2) Estimated level of receipts plus interest.--The term 
        ``estimated level of receipts plus interest'' means the level of 
        excise taxes and interest credited to the Airport and Airway 
        Trust Fund under section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 for a fiscal year as set forth in the President's budget 
        baseline projection as defined in section 257 of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-
        177) (Treasury identification code 20-8103-0-7-402) for that 
        fiscal year submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, 
        United States Code.
  (c) Enforcement of Guarantees.--
          (1) Total airport and airway trust fund funding.--It shall not 
        be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to 
        consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
        conference report that would cause total budget resources in a 
        fiscal year for aviation investment programs described in 
        subsection (b) to be less than the amount required by subsection 
        (a)(1)(A) for such fiscal year.
          (2) Capital priority.--It shall not be in order in the House 
        of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
        resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
        provides an appropriation (or any amendment thereto) for any 
        fiscal year through fiscal

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        year 2015 for Research and Development or Operations if the sum 
        of the obligation limitation for Grants-in-Aid for Airports and 
        the appropriation for Facilities and Equipment for such fiscal 
        year is below the sum of the authorized levels for Grants-in-Aid 
        for Airports and for Facilities and Equipment for such fiscal 
        year.

  The chairs of the Committee on Rules and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure inserted in the Record correspondence 
concerning points of order established in this section (Mar. 15, 2000, 
p. 2805).

Appropriations on legislative bills
  4. <> A 
bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation may not be reported 
by a committee not having jurisdiction to report appropriations, and an 
amendment proposing an appropriation shall not be in order during the 
consideration of a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not 
having that jurisdiction. A point of order against an appropriation in 
such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto may be raised at any 
time during pendency of that measure for amendment.

  This portion of the rule was adopted June 1, 1920 (VII, 2133). When 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47), this clause was returned to clause 4 where it had been 
until moved to former clause 5(a) of rule XXI in the 93d Congress (H. 
Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).
  A point of order under this clause cannot be raised against a motion 
to suspend the rules (VIII, 3426), against a motion to discharge a 
nonappropriating committee from consideration of a bill carrying an 
appropriation (VII, 2144), or against a Senate amendment (except as 
applied through clause 5 of rule XXII) (VII, 1572). However, it may be 
directed against an amendment proposed to a Senate amendment to a House 
bill not reported from the Committee on Appropriations (Oct. 1, 1980, 
pp. 28638-42) or against an item of appropriation in a Senate bill (VII, 
2136, 2147; July 30, 1957, pp. 13056, 13181). If the House deletes a 
provision in a Senate bill under this clause, the bill is messaged to 
the Senate with the deletion in the form of an amendment. The point of 
order may be made against an appropriation in a Senate bill that, 
although not reported in the House, is considered in lieu of a reported 
House ``companion bill'' (VII,

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2137; Mar. 29, 1933, p. 988). The clause does not apply to private bills 
because the committees having jurisdiction over bills for the payment of 
private claims may report bills making appropriations within the limits 
of their jurisdiction (VII, 2135; Dec. 12, 1924, p. 538). The point of 
order under this clause does not apply to an appropriation in a bill 
that has been taken away from a nonappropriating committee by a motion 
to discharge (VII, 1019a). The point of order under this clause does not 
apply to a special order reported from the Committee on Rules ``self-
executing'' the adoption in the House of an amendment containing an 
appropriation, because the amendment is not separately before the House 
during consideration of the special order (Feb. 24, 1993, p. 3542).
  The provision in this clause that a point of order against an 
amendment containing an appropriation to a legislative bill may be made 
``at any time'' has been interpreted to require that the point of order 
be raised during the pendency of the amendment under the five-minute 
rule (Mar. 18, 1946, p. 2365; Apr. 28, 1975, p. 12043), and a point of 
order will lie against an amendment during its pendency, even in its 
amended form, although the point of order is against the amendment as 
amended by a substitute and no point of order was raised against the 
substitute before its adoption (Apr. 23, 1975, pp. 11512-13). However, 
the point of order must be raised during the initial consideration of 
the bill or amendment under the five-minute rule, and a point of order 
against similar language permitted to remain in the House version and 
included in a conference report on a bill will not lie, because the only 
rule prohibiting such inclusion (clause 5 of rule XXII) is limited to 
language originally contained in a Senate amendment where the House 
conferees have not been specifically authorized to agree thereto (May 1, 
1975, p. 12752). Where the House has adopted a resolution waiving points 
of order against certain appropriations in a legislative bill, a point 
of order may nevertheless be raised against an amendment to the bill 
containing an identical provision, because under this rule a point of 
order may be raised against the amendment ``at any time'' (Apr. 23, 
1975, p. 11512). A point of order against a direct appropriation in a 
bill initially reported from a legislative committee and then 
sequentially referred to and reported adversely by the Committee on 
Appropriations was conceded and sustained as in violation of this clause 
(Nov. 10, 1975, p. 35611). The point of order should be directed to the 
item of appropriation in the bill and not to the act of reporting the 
bill (VII, 2143), and cannot be directed to the entire bill (VII, 2142; 
Apr. 28, 1975, p. 12043).
  The term ``appropriation'' in the rule means the payment of funds from 
the Treasury, and the words ``warranted and make available for 
expenditure for payments'' are equivalent to ``is hereby appropriated'' 
and therefore not in order (VII, 2150). The words ``available until 
expended,'' making an appropriation already made for one year available 
for ensuing years, are not in order (VII, 2145).
  The point of order provided for in this clause is not applicable to 
the following provisions: (1) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury 
to use

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proceeds from the sale of bonds under the Second Liberty Bond Act 
(public debt transactions) for the purpose of making loans, because such 
loans do not constitute ``appropriations'' within the purview of the 
rule (June 28, 1949, pp. 8536-38; Aug. 2, 1950, p. 11599); (2) exempting 
loan guarantees in a legislative bill from statutory limitations on 
expenditures (July 16, 1974, p. 23344); (3) authorizing the availability 
of certain loan receipts where it can be shown that the actual 
availability of those receipts remains contingent upon subsequent 
enactment of an appropriation act (Sept. 10, 1975, p. 28300); (4) 
increasing the duties of a commission (VII, 1578); (5) authorizing 
payment from an appropriation to be made (Jan. 31, 1923, p. 2794).
  Language reappropriating, making available, or diverting an 
appropriation or a portion of an appropriation already made for one 
purpose to another (VII, 2146; Mar. 29, 1933, p. 988; Aug. 10, 1988, p. 
21719), or for one fiscal year to another (Mar. 26, 1992, p. 7223), is 
not in order. For example, the following provisions have been held out 
of order: (1) expanding the definition in existing law of recipients 
under a Federal subsidy program as permitting a new use of funds already 
appropriated (May 11, 1976, pp. 13409-11); (2) authorizing the use, 
without a subsequent appropriation, of funds directly appropriated by a 
previous statute for a new purpose (Oct. 1, 1980, pp. 28637-40). 
However, a modification of such a provision making payments for such new 
purposes ``effective only to the extent and in such amounts as are 
provided in advance in appropriation acts'' does not violate this clause 
(Oct. 1, 1980, pp. 28638-42).
  The following provisions have also been held to be in violation of 
this clause: (1) directing a departmental officer to pay a certain sum 
out of unexpended balances (VII, 2154); (2) authorizing the use of funds 
of the Shipping Board (VII, 2147); (3) directing payments out of Indian 
trust funds (VII, 2149); (4) making excess foreign currencies 
immediately available for a new purpose (Aug. 3, 1971, p. 29109); (5) 
authorizing the collection of fees or user charges by Federal agencies 
and making the revenues collected therefrom available without further 
appropriation (June 17, 1937, pp. 5915-18; Mar. 29, 1972, pp. 10749-51); 
(6) transferring existing Federal funds into a new Treasury trust fund 
to be immediately available for a new purpose (June 20, 1974, pp. 20273-
75); (7) transferring unexpended balances of appropriations from an 
existing agency to a new agency created therein (Apr. 9, 1979, p. 7774); 
(8) making a direct appropriation to carry out a part of the Energy 
Security Act (Oct. 24, 1985, p. 28812); (9) requiring the diversion of 
previously appropriated funds in lieu of the enactment of new budget 
authority if a maximum deficit amount under the Deficit Control Act of 
1985 is exceeded, though its stated purpose may be to avoid the 
sequestration of funds (Aug. 10, 1988, p. 21719).
  Section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 317) 
prohibits consideration in the House of any bill, resolution, or 
amendment that provides new spending authority (as that term is defined 
in that section) unless that measure also provides that such new 
spending authority

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is to be available only to the extent provided in appropriation acts 
(see Sec. 1127, supra). See also Deschler, ch. 25, Sec. 4 for a 
discussion of appropriations on legislative bills generally.

Tax and tariff measures and amendments
  5. (a)(1) <> A bill or joint resolution carrying a tax or tariff 
measure may not be reported by a committee not having jurisdiction to 
report tax or tariff measures, and an amendment in the House or proposed 
by the Senate carrying a tax or tariff measure shall not be in order 
during the consideration of a bill or joint resolution reported by a 
committee not having that jurisdiction. A point of order against a tax 
or tariff measure in such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto 
may be raised at any time during pendency of that measure for amendment.
  (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a tax or tariff measure includes an 
amendment proposing a limitation on funds in a general appropriation 
bill for the administration of a tax or tariff.

  Subparagraph (1) was added in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1983, p. 34). Subparagraph (2) was added in the 108th Congress (sec. 
2(o), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Before the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 
5(b) of rule XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  A point of order under this paragraph against a provision in a bill is 
in order at any time during consideration of the bill for amendment in 
Committee of the Whole (Aug. 1, 1986, p. 18649). On October 4, 1989, the 
chair of the Committee of the Whole, before ruling on several points of 
order under this paragraph, enunciated several guidelines to distinguish 
taxes and tariffs on the one hand and user or regulatory fees and other 
forms of revenue on the other (p. 23260). On the opening day of the 102d 
Congress, Speaker Foley inserted in the Congressional Record the 
following statement of jurisdictional concepts underlying those same 
distinctions and indicated his intention to exercise his referral 
authority under rule X in a manner consistent with this paragraph (Jan. 
3, 1991, p. 64 (reiterated

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at the beginning of each Congress, e.g., Jan. 4, 1995, p. 551; Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 39)):
          Clause 5(b) (current clause 5(a)) of rule XXI prohibits the 
        reporting of a tax or tariff matter by any committee not having 
        that jurisdiction. Most of the questions of order arising under 
        this clause since its adoption in 1983 have related to 
        provisions that clearly affected the operation of the Internal 
        Revenue Code or the customs laws. From time to time, however, 
        such a question has related to a provision drafted as a user or 
        regulatory fee levied on members of a class that occasions or 
        avails itself of a particular governmental activity, typically 
        to generate revenue in support of that activity. In order to 
        provide guidance concerning the referral of bills, to assist 
        committees in staying within their appropriate jurisdictions 
        under rule X, to assist committees without jurisdiction over tax 
        or tariff measures in complying with clause 5(b) of rule XXI, 
        and to protect the constitutional prerogative of the House to 
        originate revenue bills, the Speaker will make the following 
        statement: Standing committees of the House (other than the 
        Committees on Appropriations and Budget) have jurisdiction to 
        consider user, regulatory and other fees, charges, and 
        assessments levied on a class directly availing itself of, or 
        directly subject to, a governmental service, program, or 
        activity, but not on the general public, as measures to be 
        utilized solely to support, subject to annual appropriations, 
        the service, program, or activity (including agency functions 
        associated therewith) for which such fees, charges, and 
        assessments are established and collected and not to finance the 
        costs of Government generally. The fee must be paid by a class 
        benefiting from the service, program or activity, or being 
        regulated by the agency; in short, there must be a reasonable 
        connection between the payors and the agency or function 
        receiving the fee. The fund that receives the amounts collected 
        is not itself determinative of the existence of a fee or a tax. 
        The Committee on Ways and Means has jurisdiction over ``revenue 
        measures generally'' under rule X. That committee is entitled to 
        an appropriate referral of broad-based fees and could choose to 
        recast such fees as excise taxes. A provision only reauthorizing 
        or amending an existing fee without fundamental change, or 
        creating a new fee generating only a de minimis  aggregate 
        amount of revenues, does not necessarily require a sequential 
        referral to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Chair intends 
        to coordinate these principles with the Committee on the Budget 
        and the Congressional Budget Office, especially in the 
        reconciliation process, so that budget scorekeeping does not 
        determine, and reconciliation directives and their 
        implementation will not be inconsistent with, committee 
        jurisdiction. Further, it should be emphasized that the 
        constitutional prerogative of the House to originate revenue 
        measures will continue to be viewed broadly to include

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        any meaningful revenue proposal that the Senate may attempt to 
        originate.
  The adoption of subparagraph (2) in the 108th Congress established a 
different standard for determining a violation of this clause by an 
amendment to a reported general appropriation bill than for a provision 
in the appropriation bill itself. Before its adoption, a Member raising 
a point of order under this paragraph against a provision in, or an 
amendment to, a general appropriation bill affecting the use of funds 
therein (otherwise traditionally in order if admissible under clause 2 
of rule XXI), carried the burden of showing a necessary, certain, and 
inevitable change in revenue collections or tax statuses or liabilities 
(Sept. 12, 1984, pp. 25108, 25109, 25120; July 26, 1985, p. 20806; Aug. 
1, 1986, p. 18649; July 13, 1990, p. 17473; June 18, 1991, p. 15189). 
The intent of the rules change, as expressed during debate on the 
change, was ``to ease the burden on the maker of a point of order 
[against an amendment] from having to show a necessary, certain and 
inevitable change in revenue collections, tax statuses, or liability as 
previous precedents required, to one of showing a textual relationship 
between the amendment and the administration of the Internal Revenue or 
tariff laws'' (Jan. 7, 2003, p. 12). Under that standard the following 
amendments to a general appropriation bill have been held to impose a 
limitation on funds in violation of this clause: (1) to assess or 
collect any tax liability attributable to the inclusion of certain 
economic assistance in the taxpayer's gross income (Sept. 9, 2003, p. 
21531); (2) to process the importation of any product from Iran (June 
18, 2004, pp. 13041, 13042); (3) for the accession of the Russian 
Federation into the World Trade Organization, thereby effecting changes 
to that country's products under domestic tariff law (June 28, 2006, p. 
12958); (4) to carry out various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 (June 1, 2011, pp. 8520, 8521).
  The precedents developed under this clause before its change in the 
108th Congress still apply to the Chair's determination whether a 
limitation in a general appropriation bill (rather than an amendment 
thereto) constitutes a tax or tariff measure proscribed by this 
paragraph. Prior precedents addressing amendments are still viable for 
that determination. The Chair will consider argument as to whether the 
limitation effectively and inevitably changes revenue collections and 
tax status or liability (Aug. 1, 1986, p. 18649). For example, in 
determining whether an amendment to a general appropriation bill 
proposing a change in IRS funding priorities constituted a tax measure 
proscribed by this paragraph, the Chair considered argument as to 
whether the change would necessarily or inevitably result in a loss or 
gain in tax liability and in tax collection (June 18, 1991, p. 15189).
  A limitation on the use of funds contained in a general appropriation 
bill was held to violate this paragraph by denying the use of funds by 
the Customs Service to enforce duty-free entry laws with respect to 
certain imported commodities, thereby requiring the collection of 
revenues not oth

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erwise provided for by law (Oct. 27, 1983, p. 29611). Similar rulings 
were issued: (1) where it was shown that the imposition of the 
restriction on IRS funding for the fiscal year would effectively and 
inevitably preclude the IRS or the Customs Service from collecting 
revenues otherwise due and owing by law or require collection of revenue 
not legally due or owing (July 26, 1985, p. 20806; Aug. 1, 1986, pp. 
18649, 18650; July 17, 1996, p. 17563); and (2) where a provision in a 
general appropriation bill prohibited the use of funds to impose or 
assess certain taxes due under specified portions of the Internal 
Revenue Code (July 13, 1990, p. 17473). In the 98th Congress, the Chair 
sustained points of order under this paragraph against motions to concur 
in three Senate amendments to a general appropriation bill (not reported 
by the Committee on Ways and Means): (1) an amendment denying the use of 
funds in that or any other Act by the IRS to impose or assess any tax 
due under a designated provision of the Internal Revenue Code, thereby 
rendering the tax uncollectable through the use of any funds available 
to the agency (Sept. 12, 1984, p. 25108); (2) an amendment directing the 
Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty certain articles 
imported by a designated organization (Sept. 12, 1984, p. 25109); and 
(3) an amendment to the Tariff Act of 1930 to expand the authority of 
the Customs Service to seize and use the proceeds from the sale of 
contraband imports to defray operational expenses, and to offset owed 
customs duties under one section of that law (Sept. 12, 1984, p. 25120). 
A limitation on funds (above a specified amount) in any Act for the 
Internal Revenue Service to administer any tax collection contract was 
conceded to inevitably constrain the collection of revenues and was 
stricken from the bill (June 28, 2007, p. 17932). An amendment to a 
general appropriation bill proposing to divert an increase in funding 
for the IRS from spot-checks to targeted audits was held not to 
constitute a tax within the meaning of this paragraph because it did not 
necessarily affect revenue collection levels or tax liabilities (June 
18, 1991, p. 15189).
  In the 99th Congress, the following provisions in a reconciliation 
bill reported from the Committee on the Budget were ruled out as tax 
measures not reported from the Committee on Ways and Means: (1) a 
recommendation from the Committee on Education and Labor excluding 
certain interest on obligations from the Student Loan Marketing 
Association from application of the Internal Revenue Code, affecting 
interest deductions against income taxes (Oct. 24, 1985, pp. 28776, 
28827); and (2) a recommendation from the Committee on Merchant Marine 
and Fisheries expanding tax benefits available to shipowners through a 
capital construction fund (Oct. 24, 1985, pp. 28802, 28827). In the 
101st Congress, the following provisions in an omnibus budget 
reconciliation bill were ruled out: (1) a fee per passenger on cruise 
vessels, with revenues credited as proprietary receipts of the Coast 
Guard to be used for port safety, security, navigation, and 
antiterrorism activities (Oct. 4, 1989, p. 23260); (2) a per acre 
``ocean protection fee'' on oil and gas leaseholdings in the Outer 
Continental Shelf, with receipts to be used to offset costs of various 
ocean protection programs

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(Oct. 4, 1989, p. 23261); (3) an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code 
relating to the tax deductibility of pension fund contributions (Oct. 4, 
1989, p. 23262); (4) a fee incident to termination of employee benefit 
plans, with receipts to be applied to enforcement and administration of 
plans remaining with the system (Oct. 4, 1989, p. 23262); and (5) a fee 
incident to the filing of various pension benefit plan reports required 
by law, with revenues to be transferred to the Department of Labor for 
the enforcement of that law (Oct. 5, 1989, p. 23328).
  To a bill reported from the Committee on Education and Labor 
authorizing financial assistance to unemployed individuals for 
employment opportunities, an amendment providing instead for tax 
incentives to stimulate employment was held to be a tax measure in 
violation of this paragraph (Sept. 21, 1983, p. 25145). A provision in a 
bill reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs imposing a uniform 
fee at ports of entry to be collected by the Customs Service as a 
condition of importation of a commodity was held to constitute a tariff 
within the meaning of this paragraph (June 4, 1985, p. 14009), as was an 
amendment to a bill reported from that committee amending the tariff 
schedules to deny ``most favored nation'' trade treatment to a certain 
nation (July 11, 1985, p. 18590). A provision in a general appropriation 
bill creating a new tariff classification was held to constitute a 
tariff under this paragraph (June 15, 1994, p. 13103). A motion to 
concur in a Senate amendment constituting a tariff measure (imposing an 
import ban on certain dutiable goods) to a bill reported by a committee 
not having tariff jurisdiction was ruled out under this paragraph (Sept. 
30, 1988, p. 27316). A proposal to increase a fee incident to the filing 
of a securities registration statement, with the proceeds to be 
deposited in the general fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts, 
was held to constitute a tax within the meaning of this paragraph 
because the amount of revenue derived and the manner of its deposit 
indicated a purpose to defray costs of Government, generally (Oct. 23, 
1990, p. 32650). To a bill reported by the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, an amendment increasing a user fee was ruled out as 
a tax measure where the fee overcollected to offset a reduction in 
another fee, thus attenuating the relationship between the amount of the 
fee and the cost of the Government activity for which it was assessed 
(May 9, 1995, p. 12180). To a bill reported by the Committee on Science, 
Space, and Technology, an amendment proposing sundry changes in the 
Federal income tax by direct amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 was ruled out of order as carrying a tax measure in violation of 
this paragraph (Sept. 16, 1992, p. 25205), as were amendments to a 
general appropriation bill proposing in part to temper recently enacted 
reductions in rates of tax on income (July 10, 2003, p. 17535, p. 
17576).


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Passage of tax rate increases-
  (b) <> A 
bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference report carrying a 
Federal income tax rate increase may not be considered as passed or 
agreed to unless so determined by a vote of not less than three-fifths 
of the Members voting, a quorum being present. In this paragraph the 
term ``Federal income tax rate increase'' means any amendment to 
subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to section 11(b) 
or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new 
percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax 
imposed by any such section.

  This provision was added in the 104th Congress (sec. 106(a), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463), and in the 105th Congress it was amended to 
clarify the definition of ``Federal income tax rate increase'' as 
limited to a specific amendment to one of the named subsections (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(c) of rule 
XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). On one occasion the Chair held 
that a provision repealing a ceiling on total tax liability attributable 
to a net capital gain was not subject to the original version of this 
paragraph (Apr. 5, 1995, p. 10614). The modified version of this 
paragraph comprises three elements (an amendment to a pertinent section 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the imposition of a new rate of 
tax thereunder, and an increase in the amount of tax thereby imposed) 
and a measure that does not fulfill even the first element does not 
carry a Federal income tax rate increase (Jan. 18, 2007, pp. 1621, 1622 
(sustained by tabling of appeal); Mar. 3, 2011, pp. 3173, 3174). This 
paragraph does not apply to a concurrent resolution (Speaker Gingrich, 
May 18, 1995, p. 13499). A resolution reported from the Committee on 
Rules rendering this paragraph inapplicable may be adopted by majority 
vote (Oct. 26, 1995, p. 29477). The Speaker rules on the applicability 
of this paragraph only pending the question of final passage of a 
measure alleged to carry a Federal income tax rate increase, and not in 
advance upon adoption of a special order rendering this paragraph 
inapplicable (Oct. 26, 1995, p. 29477).


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Consideration of retroactive tax rate increases
  (c) <> It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report carrying a retroactive 
Federal income tax rate increase. In this paragraph--
      (1) the term ``Federal income tax rate increase'' means any 
amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to 
section 11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that 
imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the 
amount of tax imposed by any such section; and
      (2) a Federal income tax rate increase is retroactive if it 
applies to a period beginning before the enactment of the provision.

  This paragraph was added in the 104th Congress (sec. 106(b), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463), and it was amended in the 105th Congress to 
clarify the definition of ``Federal income tax rate increase'' (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(d) of rule 
XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

Designation of public works
  6. <> It 
shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
or conference report that provides for the designation or redesignation 
of a public work in honor of an individual then serving as a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator.

  This clause was adopted in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(q), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).


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   <> 7. It 
shall not be in order to consider a concurrent resolution on the budget, 
or an amendment thereto, or a conference report thereon that contains 
reconciliation directives under section 310 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 that specify changes in law such that the reconciliation 
legislation reported pursuant to such directives would cause an increase 
in net direct spending (as such term is defined in clause 10) for the 
period covered by such concurrent resolution.

  This clause was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 402, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)), amended in the 111th Congress to 
reflect a change in the time periods in clause 10(a)(1) (sec. 2(j), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7), and rewritten in the 112th Congress to 
focus on an increase in direct spending instead of a reduction in the 
surplus or an increase in the deficit (sec. 2(d)(5), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80).

   <> 8. With respect to 
measures considered pursuant to a special order of business, points of 
order under title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall 
operate without regard to whether the measure concerned has been 
reported from committee. Such points of order shall operate with respect 
to (as the case may be)--
      (a) the form of a measure recommended by the reporting committee 
where the statute uses the term ``as reported'' (in the case of a 
measure that has been so reported);
      (b) the form of the measure made in order as an original bill or 
joint resolution for the purpose of amendment; or

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      (c) the form of the measure on which the previous question is 
ordered directly to passage.

  This clause was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 403, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)).

  9. (a) It shall not be in order to consider--
      (1) a <> bill or joint 
resolution reported by a committee unless the report includes a list of 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff 
benefits in the bill or in the report (and the name of any Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the 
committee for each respective item included in such list) or a statement 
that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax 
benefits, or limited tariff benefits;
      (2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by a committee unless 
the chair of each committee of initial referral has caused a list of 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff 
benefits in the bill (and the name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner who submitted a request to the committee for each 
respective item included in such list) or a statement that the 
proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or 
limited tariff benefits to be printed in the Congressional Record prior 
to its consideration;
      (3) an amendment to a bill or joint resolution to be offered at 
the outset of its consideration for amendment by a member of a com

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mittee of initial referral as designated in a report of the Committee on 
Rules to accompany a resolution prescribing a special order of business 
unless the proponent has caused a list of congressional earmarks, 
limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the amendment (and 
the name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted 
a request to the proponent for each respective item included in such 
list) or a statement that the proposition contains no congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits to be printed 
in the Congressional Record prior to its consideration; or
      (4) a conference report to accompany a bill or joint resolution 
unless the joint explanatory statement prepared by the managers on the 
part of the House and the managers on the part of the Senate includes a 
list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff 
benefits in the conference report or joint statement (and the name of 
any Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator who submitted a 
request to the House or Senate committees of jurisdiction for each 
respective item included in such list) or a statement that the 
proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or 
limited tariff benefits.
  (b) It shall not be in order to consider a conference report to 
accompany a regular general appropriation bill unless the joint 
explanatory statement prepared by the managers on the part

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of the House and the managers on the part of the Senate includes--
      (1) a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and 
limited tariff benefits in the conference report or joint statement (and 
the name of any Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator who 
submitted a request to the House or Senate committees of jurisdiction 
for each respective item included in such list) that were neither 
committed to the conference committee by either House nor in a report of 
a committee of either House on such bill or on a companion measure; or
      (2) a statement that the proposition contains no such 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
benefits.
  (c) It shall not be in order to consider a rule or order that waives 
the application of paragraph (a) or (b). As disposition of a point of 
order under this paragraph or paragraph (b), the Chair shall put the 
question of consideration with respect to the rule or order or 
conference report, as applicable. The question of consideration shall be 
debatable for 10 minutes by the Member initiating the point of order and 
for 10 minutes by an opponent, but shall otherwise be decided without 
intervening motion except one that the House adjourn.
  (d) In order to be cognizable by the Chair, a point of order raised 
under paragraph (a) may be based only on the failure of a report, 
submission to the Congressional Record, or joint explanatory statement 
to include a list required by

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paragraph (a) or a statement that the proposition contains no 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
benefits.
  (e) For the purpose of this clause, the term ``congressional earmark'' 
means a provision or report language included primarily at the request 
of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator providing, 
authorizing or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget 
authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, 
loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with 
or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or 
Congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative 
formula-driven or competitive award process.
  (f) For the purpose of this clause, the term ``limited tax benefit'' 
means--
      (1) any revenue-losing provision that--
          (A) provides a Federal tax deduction, credit, exclusion, or 
preference to 10 or fewer beneficiaries under the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986, and
          (B) contains eligibility criteria that are not uniform in 
application with respect to potential beneficiaries of such provision; 
or
      (2) any Federal tax provision which provides one beneficiary 
temporary or permanent transition relief from a change to the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986.
  (g) For the purpose of this clause, the term ``limited tariff 
benefit'' means a provision modifying the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the

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United States in a manner that benefits 10 or fewer entities.

  This clause was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 404, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)), a similar point of order having 
operated during part of the 109th Congress (H. Res. 1000, Sept. 14, 
2006, p. 18316). Paragraph (b) was added in the 111th Congress (and 
subsequent paragraphs redesignated) (sec. 2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, 
p. 7), a similar point of order having operated during part of the 110th 
Congress (H. Res. 491, June 18, 2007, p. 16163). A clarifying change to 
paragraph (b)(2) was made during the 111th Congress (sec. 2, H. Res. 
544, June 16, 2009, p. 15281). A gender-based reference was eliminated 
in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  A point of order under this clause does not lie against an unreported 
measure where the chair of the committee of initial referral has printed 
in the Record a statement that the measure contains no congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits (Jan. 31, 
2007, pp. 2737, 2738 (sustained by tabling of appeal)), or against a 
reported measure where the committee report contains such a statement 
(May 10, 2007, pp. 12190, 12191; May 23, 2007, p. 13686). Paragraph (d) 
requires that a point of order under this clause be predicated only on 
the absence of a complying statement, and does not contemplate a 
question of order relating to the content of such statement (May 10, 
2007, p. 12191). A point of order under this clause is untimely after 
consideration has begun (Mar. 23, 2007, pp. 7420, 7423). Because 
paragraph (a) does not apply to a Senate amendment or an amendment 
considered as adopted pursuant to a special order of business, a rule 
waiving all points of order against a motion to dispose of a Senate 
amendment (Sept. 25, 2007, p. 25434 (sustained by tabling of appeal)) or 
a rule effecting a ``self-executing'' amendment (Sept. 27, 2007, p. 
25723) has no tendency to waive the applicability of paragraph (a) 
within the meaning of paragraph (c). After a point of order under 
paragraph (a)(1) is sustained against consideration of a bill, a 
committee may file a supplemental report pursuant to clause 3(a)(2) of 
rule XIII to correct a technical error in the depiction of a bill number 
in the portion of a committee report regarding disclosure under this 
clause (July 30, 2010, p. 14834).
  Debate on the point of order is on the question of considering the 
measure that is the subject of the point of order (May 14, 2008, p. 
9053). A point of order under both this clause and section 426 of the 
Congressional Budget Act, respectively, may be raised against a special 
order of business (May 14, 2008, pp. 9050, 9052; Jan. 28, 2014, p. _; 
May 21, 2014, p. _). A manager of a measure who controls time for debate 
against the point of order that is to be resolved by a question of 
consideration is entitled to close debate (Mar. 21, 2010, p. 4105).

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   <> 10. (a)(1) Except as 
provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), it shall not be in order to consider 
a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or a conference 
report thereon, if the provisions of such measure have the net effect of 
increasing mandatory spending for the period of either--
      (A) the current year, the budget year, and the four fiscal years 
following that budget year; or
      (B) the current year, the budget year, and the nine fiscal years 
following that budget year.
  (2) For the purpose of this clause, the terms ``budget year'' and 
``current year'' have the meanings specified in section 250 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the term 
``mandatory spending'' has the meaning of ``direct spending'' specified 
in such section 250 except that such term shall also include provisions 
in appropriation Acts that make outyear modifications to substantive law 
as described in section 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010.
  (b) If a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto, is 
considered pursuant to a special order of the House directing the Clerk 
to add as new matter at the end of such bill or joint resolution the 
entire text of a separate measure or measures as passed by the House, 
the new matter proposed to be added shall be included in the evaluation 
under paragraph (a) of the bill, joint resolution, or amendment.

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  (c)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), the evaluation under 
paragraph (a) shall exclude a provision expressly designated as an 
emergency for the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, in the case of a 
point of order under this clause against consideration of--
      (A) a bill or joint resolution;
      (B) an amendment made in order as original text by a special order 
of business;
      (C) a conference report; or
      (D) an amendment between the Houses.
  (2) In the case of an amendment (other than one specified in 
subparagraph (1)) to a bill or joint resolution, the evaluation under 
paragraph (a) shall give no cognizance to any designation of emergency.

  Clause 10 was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 405, H. Res. 6, Jan. 
4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)) and amended in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7; sec. 5, H. Res. 1500, July 1, 
2010, p. 12572). In its original form it addressed increases in the 
deficit or surplus caused by changes in revenue and direct spending. It 
was changed to its present form in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(d), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The Chair is authoritatively guided by 
estimates from the chair of the Committee on the Budget whether the net 
effect of an amendment increases mandatory spending as compared to the 
proposition to which offered (e.g., Jan. 26, 2011, p. 920; Mar. 3, 2011, 
pp. 3171, 3172 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Mar. 10, 2011, p. 3765; 
Mar. 11, 2011, p. 3829). A point of order against a bill under this 
clause is not timely pending the question of engrossment and third 
reading (Mar. 30, 2011, pp. 4715, 4716).

-  For the <> 112th 
Congress, the House established a point of order against consideration 
of a measure increasing mandatory spending above a certain threshold 
over four 10-fiscal-year periods (sec. 3(g) of H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 
p. 80). A similar provision has been carried in concurrent resolutions 
on the budget (e.g., sec. 3101, S. Con. Res. 11, 114th Cong.).

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  Under the <> former clause 10, the Chair was authoritatively guided by 
estimates from the Committee on the Budget as to the net effect of a 
provision on the relevant surplus or deficit (Dec. 12, 2007, p. 34065). 
Spending provided by appropriation acts did not constitute ``direct 
spending'' (May 15, 2008, p. 9229). For a complete recitation of 
precedents under the former clause, see Sec. 1068e of the House Rules 
and Manual for the 111th Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).

   <> 11. It 
shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution which has 
not been reported by a committee until the third calendar day (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in 
session on such a day) on which such measure has been available to 
Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.

  This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). It applies to bills and joint resolutions only 
(Jan. 7, 2011, p. 228) and is predicated on a number of days (not hours) 
of availability, including electronic availability in consonance with 
clause 3 of rule XXIX (Mar. 17, 2011, pp. 4373, 4374). A point of order 
under this clause is not ripe until the measure in question is called up 
for consideration (Mar. 17, 2011, p. 4373).

 segment .012 -- rule XXII  deg.


                                Rule XXII

                       house and senate relations

Senate amendments
  1. <> A motion to disagree to 
Senate amendments to a House proposition and to request or agree to a 
conference with the Senate, or a motion to insist on House amendments to 
a Senate proposition and to request or agree to a conference with the 
Senate, shall be privileged in the discretion of the Speaker if offered 
by direction of the primary

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committee and of all reporting committees that had initial referral of 
the proposition.

  This provision (proviso in former clause 1 of rule XX), added by the 
89th Congress (H. Res. 8, Jan. 4, 1965, p. 21), provides a method 
whereby bills can be sent to conference by majority vote. As contained 
in section 126(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 
Stat. 1140) and adopted as part of the Rules of the House in the 92d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144), this clause included 
language relating to separate votes on nongermane Senate amendments that 
was, in the 93d Congress, modified and transferred to former clause 5 of 
rule XXVIII (current clause 10 of rule XXII) (H. Res. 998, Apr. 9, 1974, 
pp. 10195-99). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, clauses 1 and 3 of this rule occupied a single clause 
(formerly clause 1 of rule XX) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 
Technical changes were effected in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).
  The motion to <> send a bill 
to conference under this clause is in order notwithstanding the fact 
that the stage of disagreement has not been reached (Aug. 1, 1972, p. 
26153). On a bill that has been initially referred and reported in the 
House, the motion must be authorized by all committees reporting thereon 
(Sept. 26, 1978, p. 31623). However, a committee receiving sequential 
referral of a bill or not reporting thereon need not authorize the 
motion (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 27643). This clause was recodified in the 106th 
Congress to reflect this practice (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). On a 
Senate bill with a House amendment consisting of the text of two 
corresponding House bills that were previously reported to the House, 
the motion must be authorized by the committees reporting those 
corresponding bills (Oct. 1, 1998, p. 22944). Where such a motion has 
been rejected by the House, it may be repeated if the committee having 
jurisdiction over the subject matter again authorizes its chair to make 
the motion (Deschler-Brown, ch. 33, Sec. 2.13). The motion to send to 
conference is in order only if the Speaker chooses to recognize for that 
purpose, and the Speaker will not recognize for the motion where there 
has been referred a nongermane Senate amendment to a House committee 
with jurisdiction and they have not yet had the opportunity to consider 
the amendment (June 28, 1984, p. 19770). Under clause 2(a)(3) of rule 
XI, a committee may adopt a rule providing that the chair be directed to 
offer a motion under this clause whenever the chair considers it 
appropriate (Sec. 791, supra).

  2. <> A 
motion to dispose of House bills with Senate amendments not requiring 
consideration in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union shall be privileged.


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  This provision was adopted in 1890 (IV, 3089) as part of the rule 
governing disposal of business on the Speaker's table (formerly clause 2 
of rule XXIV). When the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, all provisions of former clause 2 of rule XXIV except this one 
were transferred to clause 2 of rule XIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). For a discussion of referral of Senate amendments at the Speaker's 
table, see Sec. 873, supra.

  3. <> Except as permitted by clause 1, before the stage of 
disagreement, a Senate amendment to a House bill or resolution shall be 
subject to the point of order that it must first be considered in the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union if, originating 
in the House, it would be subject to such a point under clause 3 of rule 
XVIII.

  This provision was adopted in 1880 to prevent Senate amendments of the 
class described from escaping consideration in Committee of the Whole 
(IV, 4796). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
clauses 1 and 3 of this rule occupied a single clause (formerly clause 1 
of rule XX) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Although <> a Senate amendment that is merely a 
modification of a House proposition, such as the increase or decrease of 
the amount of an appropriation, and does not involve new and distinct 
expenditure, may not be required to be considered in Committee of the 
Whole (IV, 4797-4806; VIII, 2382-2385), where the question was raised 
against a Senate amendment that on its face apparently placed a charge 
upon the Treasury, the Speaker held it devolved upon those opposing the 
point of order to cite proof to the contrary (VIII, 2387). When an 
amendment is offered in the House to provide an appropriation for 
another purpose than that of the Senate amendment, the House resolves 
into Committee of the Whole to consider it (IV, 4795). When an amendment 
is referred, the entire bill goes to the Committee of the Whole (IV, 
4808), but the Committee considers only the Senate amendment (V, 6192). 
It usually considers all the amendments, although they may not all be 
within the rule requiring such consideration (V, 6195). In Committee of 
the Whole a Senate amendment, even though it be very long, is considered 
as an entirety and not by paragraphs or sections (V, 6194). When 
reported from the Committee of the Whole, Senate amendments are voted on 
en bloc and only those amendments on which a separate vote is demanded 
are voted on severally (VIII, 3191). It has been held that each 
amendment is subject to general debate and amendment under the five-
minute rule

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(V, 6193, 6196). The requirement of this clause that certain Senate 
amendments be considered in Committee of the Whole applies only before 
the stage of disagreement has been reached on the Senate amendment, and 
it is too late after the House has disagreed thereto and the amendments 
have been reported from conference in disagreement to raise a point of 
order that Senate amendments should have been considered in Committee of 
the Whole (Oct. 20, 1966, p. 28240; Dec. 4, 1975, p. 38714). The 
Committee on Rules may recommend a special order of business providing 
that a Senate amendment pending at the Speaker's table and otherwise 
requiring consideration in Committee of the Whole under this clause be 
``hereby'' adopted, which special order, if adopted, would obviate the 
requirement of this clause (Deschler, ch. 21, Sec. 16.11; Feb. 4, 1993, 
p. 2500).
  When <> the 
stage of disagreement has been reached on a bill with amendments of the 
other House, motions to dispose of said amendments are privileged in the 
House (clause 4 of rule XXII). See Sec. Sec. 528-528d, supra.

  4. <> When the stage of disagreement has been reached on a bill or 
resolution with House or Senate amendments, a motion to dispose of any 
amendment shall be privileged.

  This provision was adopted when the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress to codify current practice, which is described in 
Sec. Sec. 528c, 528d, supra (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The House 
has by special order of business limited the availability of this motion 
to the Majority Leader or a designee (Sept. 30, 2013, p. _; July 31, 
2014, p. _) and the Chair declined to recognize another Member for such 
a motion (Oct. 2, 2013, p. _; Oct. 12, 2013, p. _, p. _). The ordinary 
motion to table under clause 4 of rule XVI may be applied to a Senate 
amendment and is preferential to a motion to recede and concur in the 
Senate amendment offered under this clause (Mar. 3, 2015, p. _).

  5. (a) <> Managers on the part of the House may not agree to a 
Senate amendment described in paragraph (b) unless specific authority to 
agree to the amendment first is given by the House by a separate vote 
with respect thereto. If specific authority is not granted, the Senate 
amendment shall be reported in disagreement by the con

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ference committee back to the two Houses for disposition by separate 
motion.
  (b) The managers on the part of the House may not agree to a Senate 
amendment described in paragraph (a) that--
      (1) would violate clause 2(a)(1) or (c) of rule XXI if originating 
in the House; or
      (2) proposes an appropriation on a bill other than a general 
appropriation bill.

  This clause was adopted on June 1, 1920 (pp. 8109, 8120). Before the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 2 of rule XX. The recodification also extended 
the rule to Senate amendments containing reappropriations of unexpended 
balances now referenced in clause 2(c) of rule XXI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).
  Although the rule provides for a motion authorizing the managers on 
the part of the House to agree to amendments of the Senate in violation 
of clause 2 of rule XXI, such as a motion to recommit a conference 
report on a general appropriation bill with instructions to agree to a 
legislative Senate amendment (Speaker Albert, Dec. 19, 1973, p. 42565), 
it does not permit a motion to recommit a conference report on a general 
appropriation bill to include instructions to add legislation to that 
contained in a Senate amendment (Nov. 13, 1973, p. 36847). It had been 
customary after a conference on a general appropriation bill with 
numbered Senate amendments for the managers to report certain Senate 
amendments in technical disagreement, and after the partial conference 
report (consisting of agreement on those Senate amendments not in 
violation of clause 2 of rule XXI) is disposed of, the remaining 
amendments are taken up in order and disposed of directly in the House 
by separate motion. When Senate amendments in disagreement are 
considered in this fashion, they are not subject to a point of order 
under this clause (Dec. 4, 1975, p. 38714); and a motion to (recede and) 
concur in the Senate amendment with a further amendment is also in 
order, even if the proposed amendment is also legislation on an 
appropriation bill. The only test is whether the proposed amendment is 
germane to the Senate amendment reported in disagreement (IV, 3909; 
VIII, 3188, 3189; Speaker McCormack, Dec. 15, 1970, p. 41504; Aug. 1, 
1979, pp. 22007-11; Speaker O'Neill, Dec. 12, 1979, p. 35520; June 30, 
1987, p. 18308). In recent years Senate amendments to House-passed 
general appropriation bills have been in the nature of a substitute, 
which are not divided for separate disposition in conference.
  In the event an appropriation bill with Senate amendments in violation 
of clause 2 of rule XXI is sent to conference by unanimous consent, such

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procedure does not thereby prevent a point of order from being sustained 
against the conference report should the managers on the part of the 
House violate the provisions of this clause (VII, 1574). But where a 
special rule in the House waives points of order against portions of an 
appropriation bill that are unauthorized by law, and the bill passes the 
House with those provisions included therein and goes to conference, the 
conferees may report back their agreement to those provisions even 
though they remain unauthorized, because the waiver in the House of 
points of order under this clause carries over to the consideration of 
the same provisions when the conference report is before the House (Dec. 
20, 1969, pp. 40445-48, consideration of conference report; Dec. 9, 
1969, p. 37948, adoption of special rule waiving points of order against 
the bill in the House). The rule is a restriction upon the managers on 
the part of the House only, and does not provide for a point of order 
against a Senate amendment when it comes up for action by the House 
(VII, 1572). Managers may be authorized to agree to an appropriation by 
a resolution reported from the Committee on Rules (VII, 1577). House 
managers may include in their report a modification of a Senate 
amendment that eliminates the appropriation in that amendment (June 8, 
1972, p. 20280); and the prohibition in this clause applies only to 
language in Senate amendments. Thus the conferees may without violating 
this clause agree to language in a Senate bill that was sent to 
conference (Speaker Albert, Jan. 25, 1972, pp. 1076, 1077; June 30, 
1976, pp. 21632-34) or agree to language in a House bill that was 
permitted to remain and that constitutes an appropriation on a 
legislative bill (Speaker Albert, May 1, 1975, p. 12752).
  A provision in a Senate amendment included in a conference report on 
an authorization bill considered after the relevant appropriation has 
been enacted into law, directing that funds appropriated pursuant to the 
authorization be obligated and expended on a project not specifically 
funded in the appropriation, is itself an appropriation and may not be 
agreed to by House conferees (Nov. 29, 1979, pp. 34113-15); and House 
conferees were held to have violated this clause when they had agreed to 
a provision in a Senate amendment not only authorizing appropriations to 
pay judgments against the United States for the award of attorney fees 
and other court costs, but also requiring that where such payments were 
not paid out of appropriated funds, payment be made in the same manner 
as judgments under 28 U.S.C. 2414 and 2517 (payable directly out of the 
Treasury pursuant to a direct appropriation previously provided by law 
in 31 U.S.C. 1304) (Oct. 1, 1980, pp. 28637-40).

  6. A Senate amendment carrying a tax or tariff measure in violation of 
clause 5(a) of rule XXI may not be agreed to.

  This provision was adopted when the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress to reiterate the prohibition found in clause 5(a) of rule

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XXI against a bill or joint resolution carrying a tax or tariff measure 
not reported by the Committee on Ways and Means (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

Conference reports; amendments reported in disagreement
  7. (a) <> The presentation of a conference report 
shall be in order at any time except during a reading of the Journal or 
the conduct of a record vote, a vote by division, or a quorum call.

  The practice of giving conference reports privilege dates from 1850, 
having had its origin in a temporary rule. This practice was continued 
by rulings of the Chair until this rule was adopted in 1880 (V, 6443-
6446, 6454). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1(a) of rule XXVIII 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). For the requirement of a tax 
complexity analysis in either the joint statement or the Record, see 
clause 11 of this rule.
  Under the language of the rule, a conference report may be presented: 
(1) while a Member is occupying the floor in debate (V, 6451; VIII 
3294); (2) while a bill is being read (V, 6448); (3) after the yeas and 
nays have been ordered (V, 6457); (4) after a vote by tellers and 
pending the question of ordering the yeas and nays, although it may not 
be presented while the House is dividing (V, 6447); (5) after the 
previous question has been demanded or ordered (V, 6449, 6450); (6) 
during a call of the House if a quorum be present (V, 6456); (7) pending 
the forthwith report of a committee following adoption of a motion to 
recommit while the previous question is operating (e.g., Apr. 24, 2007, 
pp. 9923-25); (8) on Calendar Wednesday (VII, 907), but consideration of 
such reports yields to Calendar Wednesday business (VII, 899). It takes 
precedence over: (1) a motion to adjourn (V, 6451-6453), although as 
soon as the report is presented the motion to adjourn may be put (V, 
6451-6453); (2) a report from the Committee on Rules (V, 6449); (3) the 
motion to reconsider (V, 5605); (4) the motion to resolve into the 
Committee of the Whole for consideration of general appropriation bills 
(VIII, 3291); (5) consideration of District of Columbia business on 
Monday (VIII, 3292); (6) unfinished business (Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 4, 
1978, p. 33473). It has been permitted to intervene when a special order 
provides that the House shall consider a certain bill ``until the same 
is disposed of'' (V, 6454). The consideration of a conference report may 
be interrupted, even in the midst of the reading of the statement, by 
the arrival of the hour previously fixed for a recess (V, 6524). Of 
course, a question of privilege that relates to the integrity of the 
House as an agency

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for action may not be required to yield precedence to a matter entitled 
to priority merely by the rules relating to the order of business (V, 
6454).
  The question of consideration under clause 3 of rule XVI may be 
demanded against a conference report before points of order against the 
report are raised (VIII, 2439; Speaker Albert, Sept. 28, 1976, p. 
33019). The motion to lay on the table may not be applied to a 
conference report (V, 6540). The Chair will not recognize for a 
unanimous-consent request to correct a conference report, including the 
joint statement of managers, because it is a joint report to the two 
Houses (Oct. 3, 2000, p. 20560).
  Although the rule provides that the managers of the House asking for 
conference shall leave the papers with the managers of the other 
(Sec. Sec. 555, 556, supra), if the managers on the part of the House 
agreeing to a conference surrender the papers to the House asking the 
conference, the report may be received first by the House asking the 
conference (VIII, 3330).
  For further discussion of conference reports, see provisions of 
Jefferson's Manual at Sec. Sec. 527-559, supra.

  (b)(1) <> Subject to subparagraph (2) the time allotted for debate on 
a motion to instruct managers on the part of the House shall be equally 
divided between the majority and minority parties.
  (2) If the proponent of a motion to instruct managers on the part of 
the House and the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the 
other party identified under subparagraph (1) both support the motion, 
one-third of the time for debate thereon shall be allotted to a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who opposes the motion on demand of 
that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

  This paragraph was added in the 101st Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
1989, p. 72). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, it was found in former clause 1(b) of rule XXVIII (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The division of debate time specified in this 
clause does not apply to an amendment to a motion after defeat of the 
previous question thereon, and the proponent of such an amendment is 
recognized for one hour under clause 2 of rule XVII (formerly clause 2 
of rule XIV) (Oct. 3, 1989, p. 22863; July 14, 1993, p. 15668; Aug. 1, 
1994, p. 18868). The proponent of a motion to instruct conferees has the 
right to close debate (July 28, 1994, p. 18405; July 26, 1996, p. 
19450).


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  (c)(1) <> A motion to instruct managers 
on the part of the House, or a motion to discharge all managers on the 
part of the House and to appoint new conferees, shall be privileged 
after a conference committee has been appointed for 45 calendar days and 
25 legislative days without making a report, but only on the day after 
the calendar day on which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
offering the motion announces to the House intention to do so and the 
form of the motion.
  (2) The Speaker may designate a time in the legislative schedule on 
that legislative day for consideration of a motion described in 
subparagraph (1).
  (3) During the last six days of a session of Congress, a motion under 
subparagraph (1) shall be privileged after a conference committee has 
been appointed for 36 hours without making a report and the proponent 
meets the notice requirement in subparagraph (1).
  (d) Instructions to conferees in a motion to instruct or in a motion 
to recommit to conference may not include argument.

  Paragraph (c) (formerly clause 1(c) of rule XXVIII) was adopted 
December 8, 1931 (VIII, 3225). The notice requirement was added on 
January 3, 1989 (H. Res. 5, 101st Cong., p. 72), and amended on January 
5, 1993 (H. Res. 5, 103d Cong., p. 49) to clarify that both the motion 
to discharge conferees and appoint new conferees and the motion to 
instruct conferees after the requisite time in conference are subject to 
one day's notice, and to authorize the Speaker to designate a time in 
that day's legislative schedule for the consideration of a noticed 
motion to discharge or instruct conferees. Paragraph (c) was amended in 
the 108th Congress to permit the motion to be offered after not only 20 
calendar days but also after 10 legislative days, measured concurrently 
(sec. 2(p), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p.

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7), and such time periods were increased in the 114th Congress to 45 and 
25 days, respectively (sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). 
Technical amendments to paragraph (c)(3) were effected in the 109th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44) and 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9). Paragraph (d) was added in 
the 107th Congress (sec. 2(r), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). A 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress, paragraph (c) was found in former clause 1(c) of 
rule XXVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Recodification resulted in 
certain unintended changes to paragraph (c), and the paragraph was 
restored to its original intent in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(r), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  The motion to instruct conferees under this clause may be repeated 
notwithstanding prior disposition of an identical motion to instruct, 
because any number of proper motions to instruct are in order after 
conferees have failed to report within the requisite time (Speaker 
Albert, July 22, 1974, p. 24448; July 10, 1985, p. 18440), and the 
motion remains available when a conference report, filed after the 
requisite time, is recommitted by the first House to act thereon, 
because the conferees are not discharged and the original conference 
remains in being (June 28, 1990, p. 16156). A motion under this clause 
may instruct House conferees to insist on holding conference sessions 
under just and fair conditions, and in executive session if desirable 
(Aug. 1, 1935, p. 12272), and may instruct House conferees to meet with 
Senate conferees (May 2, 1984, p. 10732). The motion to instruct 
conferees under this clause is of equal privilege with the motion to 
suspend the rules on a suspension day (Mar. 1, 1988, pp. 2749, 2751, 
2754). The motion to adjourn is in order while a motion to instruct 
under this paragraph is pending (Sept. 30, 1997, p. 20886), and, if such 
a motion to adjourn is adopted, the motion to instruct is rendered 
unfinished business on the next day without need for further notice 
under this paragraph (Oct. 1, 1997, p. 20894). Under clause 8(a)(2)(C) 
of rule XX, proceedings may not resume on a postponed question of 
agreeing to a motion to instruct offered pursuant to paragraph (c) after 
the managers have filed a conference report in the House (Oct. 19, 1999, 
p. 25961; Nov. 21, 2003, p. 30780; May 19, 2004, p. 10129; June 28, 
2012, p. _; July 28, 2014, p. _). The House has by unanimous consent 
disabled motions under this paragraph for a specified conference (Oct. 
16, 2013, p. _) and has by special order of business tolled the ripening 
of such motions (e.g., Aug. 1, 2012, p. _).

  (e) <> Each conference report to the House shall be printed as a 
report of the House. Each such report shall be accompanied by a joint 
explanatory statement prepared jointly by the managers on the

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part of the House and the managers on the part of the Senate. The joint 
explanatory statement shall be sufficiently detailed and explicit to 
inform the House of the effects of the report on the matters committed 
to conference.

  The original rule requiring the submission of a statement was adopted 
in 1880 (V, 6443) and remained in effect through the 91st Congress. The 
precedents carried in this annotation interpret the earlier rule, which 
required only that the statement be signed by a majority of the House 
managers (V, 6505, 6506) and did not anticipate a statement jointly 
prepared by the managers on the part of the House and those on the part 
of the Senate. The rule was revised in the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1970 (sec. 125(b); 84 Stat. 1140) and made a part of the standing 
Rules of the House in its present form in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Before the House recodified its rules in the 
106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 1(d) of rule 
XXVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The Speaker may require the statement to be in proper form (V, 6513), 
but it is for the House and not the Speaker to determine whether or not 
it conforms to the rule in other respects (V, 6511, 6512). A report may 
not be received without the accompanying statement (V, 6505, 6507-6510). 
A quorum among the managers on the part of the House at a committee of 
conference is established by their signatures on the conference report 
and joint explanatory statement (Oct. 4, 1994, p. 27662). When the House 
by unanimous consent permitted the chair of a House committee to insert 
in the Record extraneous material to supplement a joint statement of 
managers, the Chair announced that the insertion did not constitute a 
revised joint statement of managers (Oct. 10, 1998, p. 25502).
  The <> Unfunded Mandates Reform 
Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 48) added a new part B to title IV of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 658-658g) that requires a 
committee of conference to ensure that the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office prepares a statement with respect to unfunded costs of any 
additional Federal mandate contained in the conference agreement. See 
Sec. 1127, infra.

  8. (a)(1) <> Except as 
specified in subparagraph (2), it shall not be in order to consider a 
conference report until--
      (A) the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such a day) on

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which the conference report and the accompanying joint explanatory 
statement have been available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident 
Commissioner in the Congressional Record or pursuant to clause 3 of rule 
XXIX; and
      (B) printed or electronic copies of the conference report and the 
accompanying joint explanatory statement have been available to Members, 
Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner for at least two hours.
  (2) Subparagraph (1)(A) does not apply during the last six days of a 
session of Congress.

  The original rule (formerly clause 2(a) of rule XXVIII) requiring that 
conference reports be printed in the Record was adopted in 1902 (V, 
6516). The three-day layover requirement, as well as the provisions 
relating to the availability of copies of the conference report and the 
division of time for debate, were added by section 125(b) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and made part of the rules in the 
92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). The paragraph was 
amended the next year to clarify the manner of counting the three days 
for the layover period (H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 1972, p. 36023) and in 
the 94th Congress (Feb. 26, 1976, p. 4625) to require copies of 
conference reports to be available for two hours before consideration 
and to allow for the immediate consideration of a resolution from the 
Committee on Rules waiving that requirement (clause 8(e)). In the 104th 
Congress it was amended to count as a ``calendar day'' any day on which 
the House is in session (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). In the 
113th Congress it was amended to accommodate electronic availability 
(sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _), similar authority having 
been granted in the 112th Congress by separate order (Dec. 6, 2011, p. 
_). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2(a) of rule XXVIII. At that time 
the portion of clause 2(a) permitting immediate consideration of a 
resolution reported by the Committee on Rules waiving only the layover 
requirement was transferred to clause 8(e), and the portion of clause 
2(a) addressing debate was transferred to clause 8(d) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47).
  For an example of a resolution reported by the Committee on Rules 
waiving only the availability requirement of this clause and called up 
the same day reported without a two-thirds vote, see August 10, 1984, p. 
23978. When managers report that they have been unable to agree, the 
report is not acted on by the House (V, 6562; VIII, 3329; Aug. 23, 1957, 
p. 15816).


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  (b)(1) <> Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it shall not be 
in order to consider a motion to dispose of a Senate amendment reported 
in disagreement by a conference committee until--
      (A) the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such a day) on which the 
report in disagreement and any accompanying statement have been 
available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner in the 
Congressional Record; and
      (B) copies of the report in disagreement and any accompanying 
statement, together with the text of the Senate amendment, have been 
available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner for at 
least two hours.
  (2) Subparagraph (1)(A) does not apply during the last six days of a 
session of Congress.

  This provision (formerly clause 2(b)(1) of rule XXVIII), relating to 
the consideration of amendments reported from conference in 
disagreement, was added in 1972 (H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 1972, p. 36023) 
and became effective at the end of the 92d Congress. In the 94th 
Congress the provision was amended to require copies of amendments 
reported from conference in disagreement to be available for two hours 
before consideration and to allow for the immediate consideration of a 
resolution from the Committee on Rules waiving that requirement (H. Res. 
868, Feb. 26, 1976, p. 4625). In the 104th Congress the provision was 
amended to count as a ``calendar day'' any day on which the House is in 
session (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Before the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in 
former clause 2(b)(1) of rule XXVIII. At that time the portion of clause 
2(b)(1) addressing debate was transferred to clause 8(d) of rule XXII, 
and the portion of clause 2(b)(1) permitting immediate consideration of 
a resolution reported by the Committee on Rules only waiving the layover 
requirement was transferred to clause 8(e) of this rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 
6, 1999, p. 47).

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  Until the adoption of paragraph (b), a report in total disagreement 
was not printed in the Record before the amendment in disagreement was 
again taken up in the House (VIII, 3299, 3332).

  (3) <> During consideration of a Senate amendment reported in 
disagreement by a conference committee on a general appropriation bill, 
a motion to insist on disagreement to the Senate amendment shall be 
preferential to any other motion to dispose of that amendment if the 
original motion offered by the floor manager proposes to change existing 
law and the motion to insist is offered before debate on the original 
motion by the chair of the committee having jurisdiction of the subject 
matter of the amendment or a designee. Such a preferential motion shall 
be separately debatable for one hour equally divided between its 
proponent and the proponent of the original motion. The previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the preferential motion to 
its adoption without intervening motion.

  This provision was added in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
1993, p. 49) to make preferential and separately debatable a motion to 
insist on disagreement to a Senate amendment to a general appropriation 
bill if: (1) the Senate amendment has been reported from conference in 
disagreement; (2) the original motion to dispose of the Senate amendment 
proposes to change existing law; and (3) the motion to insist is offered 
in a timely manner by the chair of a committee of jurisdiction or a 
designee. A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former 
clause 2(b)(2) of rule XXVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The 
Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (now Oversight and Government 
Reform) has jurisdiction under clause 1 of rule X over the subject of a 
Senate legislative amendment entitling Forest Service employees to 
separation pay, enabling the chair of that committee to offer a 
preferential motion to insist under this clause (Oct. 20, 1993, p. 
25589).


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  (c) <> A conference report or a Senate amendment reported in 
disagreement by a conference committee that has been available as 
provided in paragraph (a) or (b) shall be considered as read when called 
up.

  Paragraph (c) was added in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 
1979, pp. 7-16). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 2(c) of rule XXVIII 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  (d)(1) <> Subject to subparagraph (2), the 
time allotted for debate on a conference report or on a motion to 
dispose of a Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference 
committee shall be equally divided between the majority and minority 
parties.
  (2) If the floor manager for the majority and the floor manager for 
the minority both support the conference report or motion, one-third of 
the time for debate thereon shall be allotted to a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner who opposes the conference report or motion on 
demand of that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

  This provision was adopted in the 99th Congress as former clauses 2(a) 
and 2(b)(1) of rule XXVIII (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393). When the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, those provisions 
addressing debate in clause 2(a) and 2(b)(1) were consolidated into this 
provision (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  Recognition of one Member in opposition does not depend upon party 
affiliation and is within the discretion of the Speaker (Dec. 11, 1985, 
p. 36069; Dec. 16, 1985, p. 36716; Oct. 15, 1986, p. 32116), who accords 
priority in recognition to a member of the conference committee (Speaker 
Wright, Dec. 21, 1987, pp. 37093, 37516). Subparagraph (2) remains 
available where a special order of business orders the previous question 
to adoption of a conference report without intervening motion except one 
hour of debate (e.g., Dec. 14, 2011, p. _). The Chair will assume that 
the minor

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ity manager supports a conference report if the manager signed the 
report and is not immediately present to claim the contrary (Oct. 12, 
1995, p. 27795). Where the time is divided three ways, the right to 
close debate falls to the majority manager calling up the conference 
report (May 2, 2002, pp. 6624, 6634), preceded by the minority manager, 
preceded by the Member in opposition--i.e., the reverse order of the 
recognition to begin debate (Aug. 4, 1989, p. 19301; Jan. 29, 2014, p. 
_).
  The division of time for debate on a motion to dispose of a Senate 
amendment reported from conference in disagreement under this provision 
does not extend to separate debate on an amendment thereto, which is 
governed by the general hour rule (clause 2 of rule XVII) (Sept. 17, 
1992, p. 25437).
  The custom has developed of equally dividing between majority and 
minority parties the time on all motions to dispose of amendments 
emerging from conference in disagreement, whether reported in 
disagreement or before the House upon rejection of a conference report 
by a vote or a point of order (Speaker Albert, Sept. 27, 1976, pp. 
32719-26; Sept. 30, 1976, pp. 34074-34100; Nov. 14, 2002, pp. 22409, 
22460), upon rejection of an initial motion to dispose of the amendment 
(July 2, 1980, pp. 18357-59; Aug. 6, 1993, p. 19582), upon a motion to 
concur in a new Senate amendment where the Senate had receded with an 
amendment from one of its amendments reported from conference in 
disagreement (Mar. 24, 1983, p. 7301), or upon a motion to dispose of a 
further stage of amendment that is subsequently before the House (Aug. 
1, 1985, p. 22561; Dec. 19, 1985, p. 38360). In the modern practice, 
this paragraph has been interpreted to apply also to a motion to dispose 
of an amendment between the Houses after the stage of disagreement has 
been reached (Deschler-Brown, ch 32, Sec. 8.6; Mar. 3, 2015, p. _).
  A Member offering a preferential motion does not thereby control half 
of the time, because all debate is allotted under the original motion 
(May 14, 1975, p. 14385). The minority Member in charge controls 30 
minutes for debate only and can only yield to other Members for debate 
(Dec. 4, 1975, p. 38716). Where time for debate on such a motion is 
equally divided, the previous question may not be moved by the Member 
first recognized so as to prevent the Member from the other party from 
controlling half the debate and from offering a proper preferential 
motion to dispose of the Senate amendment (July 2, 1980, p. 18360). The 
right to close the debate on a motion to dispose of an amendment where 
the time is divided three ways falls to the manager offering the motion 
(Nov. 21, 1989, p. 30814).

  (e) <> Under clause 6(a)(2) of rule XIII, a 
resolution proposing only to waive a requirement of this clause 
concerning the availability of reports to Members, Delegates, and the 
Resident Commissioner may be

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considered by the House on the same day it is reported by the Committee 
on Rules.

  This provision was added in the 94th Congress to former clauses 2(a) 
and 2(b)(1) of rule XXVIII (Feb. 26, 1976, p. 4625). When the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, those provisions in former 
clauses 2(a) and 2(b)(1) permitting immediate consideration of a 
resolution from the Committee on Rules only waiving the layover 
requirement were consolidated into this provision (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47).

  9. <> Whenever a disagreement to an amendment has been 
committed to a conference committee, the managers on the part of the 
House may propose a substitute that is a germane modification of the 
matter in disagreement. The introduction of any language presenting 
specific additional matter not committed to the conference committee by 
either House does not constitute a germane modification of the matter in 
disagreement. Moreover, a conference report may not include matter not 
committed to the conference committee by either House and may not 
include a modification of specific matter committed to the conference 
committee by either or both Houses if that modification is beyond the 
scope of that specific matter as committed to the conference committee.

  This provision (formerly clause 3 of rule XXVIII) is derived from 
section 135(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 
812) and originally was made a part of the standing rules on January 3, 
1953 (p. 24). The clause was revised on January 22, 1971 (p. 144) 
following the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 
Stat. 1140), which carried a similar provision in section 125(b). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former clause 3 of rule XXVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).
  Where one House strikes out of a bill of the other all after the 
enacting clause and inserts a new text, House managers, under the 
restrictions of this clause, may not agree to the deletion of certain 
language committed

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to conference if the effect of such deletion results in broadening the 
scope of the matter in disagreement (Dec. 14, 1971, p. 46779). Where one 
House authorizes certain funds for a fiscal year and the other House 
authorizes a lesser amount for that year as well as additional funds for 
the subsequent year, and neither version contains an overall amount, 
House managers do not exceed their authority under this rule by 
including in the report the amount authorized by one House for the first 
year and the other House for the subsequent year, even though the total 
authorization resulting from this compromise exceeds that possible under 
either version (June 8, 1972, p. 20281). Where a House version 
authorized endowment payments for certain colleges and the Senate 
version conferred land-grant college status on those institutions and 
contained a higher endowment figure, House conferees remained within 
their authority under this clause by accepting the Senate provision on 
land-grant status and the lower House figure for endowment payments 
(Speaker Albert, June 8, 1972, p. 20280). Where the House version of a 
bill contained provisions for local funding of merit schools, but 
neither version contained a provision for State funding, a motion to 
recommit to conference with instructions to provide State funding for 
merit schools was held to exceed the scope of the differences committed 
to conference (Sept. 30, 1992, p. 29126). A conference report containing 
a provision that the joint statement of managers described as having no 
counterpart in either the House bill or Senate amendment was held to 
exceed scope (Nov. 14, 2002, pp. 22408, 22409).
  Although the scope of differences committed to conference--where one 
House has amended an existing law and the other House has implicitly 
taken the position of existing law by remaining silent on the subject--
may properly be measured between those issues presented in the amending 
language and comparable provisions of existing law, the inclusion in a 
conference report of new matter not specifically contained in the 
amending version and not demonstrably contained in existing law may be 
ruled out as an additional issue not committed to conference in 
violation of this clause (Speaker Albert, Dec. 20, 1974, p. 41849). Thus 
where one House has amended an existing law and the other House has 
implicitly taken the position of existing law by only authorizing sums 
for the purpose of existing law, the scope of differences committed to 
conference may be measured between issues presented in the amending 
language and relevant provisions of the existing law; but the inclusion 
in a conference report of requirements and issues incorporated into 
existing law that were not contained in either version and that are not 
repetitive of existing law may be ruled out in violation of this 
paragraph (Speaker O'Neill, Oct. 14, 1977, pp. 33770-73).
  A mere change in phraseology in a conference report (from language in 
either the House or Senate version) may be permitted to achieve 
legislative consistency where it is not shown that its effect is to 
broaden the scope of the language beyond the differences committed to 
conference, as where the report waives provisions of law for all 
programs in the bill and

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the House version waives those provisions for one section of the bill 
only (the Senate having no comparable provision) but the scope of 
programs covered by the report was coextensive with those in the 
designated section of the House version (Speaker Albert, May 1, 1975, p. 
12752). The conferees may include language clarifying and limiting the 
duties imposed on an official by one House's version where that 
modification does not expand the authority conferred in that version or 
contained in existing law (the position of the other House) (Speaker 
Albert, July 29, 1975, p. 25515) and may confer broader authority on an 
official than that contained in one House's version if such authority is 
coextensive with the authority contained in existing law that the other 
House has retained (Apr. 13, 1976, p. 10803). Where the Senate version 
authorized citizen suits to enforce existing law except where Federal 
officials were pursuing enforcement proceedings and the House version, 
with no comparable provision, retained existing law that did not permit 
such suits, the conferees exceeded the scope of the differences by 
further prohibiting citizen suits where State officials were pursuing 
enforcement proceedings--a new exception allowing State preemption of 
citizen suits (Sept. 27, 1976, p. 33019). A point of order was sustained 
against a motion to instruct conferees that directed them to agree to 
matter violating this clause: the House bill created an energy trust 
fund composed of certain revenues to be distributed by subsequent 
legislation; the Senate amendment created a similar trust fund with 
suggested but not mandated distribution, and the motion directed House 
conferees to insist on a mandatory allocation of revenues in question 
among specified purposes, some of which were not addressed in the Senate 
amendment (Feb. 28, 1980, p. 4304).
  Before the revision of this clause in 1971, where one House struck out 
of a bill of the other all after the enacting clause and inserted a new 
text, conferees could discard language occurring both in the bill and 
substitute (VIII, 3266) and exercise broad discretion in incorporating 
germane amendments (VIII, 3263-3265), even to the extent of reporting a 
new bill germane to the subject (V, 6421, 6423, 6424; VIII, 3248). 
However, the present language of the rule prohibits the inclusion in a 
conference report or in a motion to instruct House conferees of 
additional topics not committed to conference by either House or beyond 
the scope of the differences committed to conference; and the precedents 
predating the adoption of this clause in 1971 must be read in light of 
the explicit restrictions now contained in the clause (Sept. 27, 1976, 
p. 32719). As such, a conference report may not include a new topic or 
issue that, although germane, was not committed to conference by either 
House (Mar. 25, 1992, p. 6843; Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9022). For example, a 
motion to instruct conferees on a general appropriation bill may not 
instruct the conferees to include either a funding limitation (Sept. 13, 
1994, p. 24402) or a change in income tax law (Nov. 8, 2005, pp. 25322, 
25323 (sustained by tabling of appeal); Dec. 7, 2005, p. 27706) not 
contained in the House bill or Senate amendment. Such motion also may 
not instruct managers to include funding for a program above

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both of the respective amounts in the House bill and Senate amendment 
for that program (Dec. 7, 2005, pp. 27706, 27707 (sustained by tabling 
of appeal)). Similarly, a motion to recommit a conference report may not 
instruct conferees to expand definitions to include classes not covered 
under the House bill or Senate amendment (Sept. 29, 1994, p. 26781) or 
to include provisions not contained in the House bill or Senate 
amendment (Dec. 21, 1995, p. 38138). A waiver of all points of order 
against a conference report to accompany a measure and against its 
consideration does not inure to instructions contained in a motion to 
recommit such measure to conference (Sept. 29, 1994, p. 26781). Some 
latitude does remain with House managers to eliminate specific words or 
phrases contained in either version and add words or phrases not 
included in either version so long as they remain within the scope of 
the differences committed to conference and do not incorporate 
additional topics, issues, or propositions not committed to conference 
(Speaker Albert, Sept. 28, 1976, pp. 33020-23).
  For a discussion of the remedy where managers exceed their authority, 
see Sec. 547, supra.

  10. (a)(1) <> A Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner may raise a point of order against nongermane 
matter, as specified in subparagraph (2), before the commencement of 
debate on--
      (A) a conference report;
      (B) a motion that the House recede from its disagreement to a 
Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee and 
concur therein, with or without amendment; or
      (C) a motion that the House recede from its disagreement to a 
Senate amendment on which the stage of disagreement has been reached and 
concur therein, with or without amendment.
  (2) A point of order against nongermane matter is one asserting that a 
proposition described in subparagraph (1) contains specified matter

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that would violate clause 7 of rule XVI if it were offered in the House 
as an amendment to the underlying measure in the form it was passed by 
the House.
  (b) If a point of order under paragraph (a) is sustained, a motion 
that the House reject the nongermane matter identified by the point of 
order shall be privileged. Such a motion is debatable for 40 minutes, 
one-half in favor of the motion and one-half in opposition thereto.
  (c) After disposition of a point of order under paragraph (a) or a 
motion to reject under paragraph (b), any further points of order under 
paragraph (a) not covered by a previous point of order, and any 
consequent motions to reject under paragraph (b), shall be likewise 
disposed of.
  (d)(1) If a motion to reject under paragraph (b) is adopted, then 
after disposition of all points of order under paragraph (a) and any 
consequent motions to reject under paragraph (b), the conference report 
or motion, as the case may be, shall be considered as rejected and the 
matter remaining in disagreement shall be disposed of under subparagraph 
(2) or (3), as the case may be.
  (2) After the House has adopted one or more motions to reject 
nongermane matter contained in a conference report under the preceding 
provisions of this clause--
      (A) if the conference report accompanied a House measure amended 
by the Senate, the pending question shall be whether the House

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shall recede and concur in the Senate amendment with an amendment 
consisting of so much of the conference report as was not rejected; and
      (B) if the conference report accompanied a Senate measure amended 
by the House, the pending question shall be whether the House shall 
insist further on the House amendment.
  (3) After the House has adopted one or more motions to reject 
nongermane matter contained in a motion that the House recede and concur 
in a Senate amendment, with or without amendment, the following motions 
shall be privileged and shall have precedence in the order stated:
      (A) A motion that the House recede and concur in the Senate 
amendment with an amendment in writing then available on the floor.
      (B) A motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the 
Senate amendment and request a further conference with the Senate.
      (C) A motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the 
Senate amendment.
  (e) If, on a division of the question on a motion described in 
paragraph (a)(1)(B) or (C), the House agrees to recede, then a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may raise a point of order against 
nongermane matter, as specified in paragraph (a)(2), before the 
commencement of debate on concurring in the Senate amendment, with or 
without amendment. A point of order under this paragraph shall be 
disposed of according to the preceding provisions of

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this clause in the same manner as a point of order under paragraph (a).

  The provision (formerly clause 4 of rule XXVIII) addressing nongermane 
matter in conference reports was included as part of the revision of 
former rules XX and XXVIII that took place effective at the end of the 
92d Congress (H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 1972, p. 36023). The same 
resolution repealed the former clause 3 of rule XX, which had been 
enacted as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 to 
restrict the authority of House conferees to agree without prior 
permission of the House to Senate amendments that would violate clause 7 
of rule XVI if offered in the House. The provision (formerly clause 5 of 
rule XXVIII) addressing nongermane matter in amendments in disagreement 
was added on April 9, 1974 (H. Res. 998, 93d Cong., pp. 10195-99, which 
deleted from clause 1 of rule XX and transferred to former clause 5 of 
rule XXVIII the procedures concerning disposition of Senate nongermane 
amendments). The provision was amended on April 9, 1974 (H. Res. 998, 
93d Cong., pp. 10195-99) in order to make this clause applicable to 
matters originally contained in Senate bills sent to conference, and not 
merely to Senate amendments to House bills in conference. The provision 
was further amended in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 
7-16) to provide that if the conference report is considered read under 
this rule, a point of order under this clause must be made immediately 
upon consideration of the conference report. When the House recodified 
its rules, it consolidated former clauses 4 and 5 of rule XXVIII under 
this clause (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  The <> procedure provided in this clause for addressing 
nongermane matter in conference reports was first utilized on September 
11, 1973 (pp. 29243-46), when the Chair sustained two points of order 
against portions of a conference report that were modifications of 
portions of a Senate amendment in the nature of a substitute not germane 
to a House bill. If any motion to reject is adopted under this clause 
and the matter then pending before the House consists of numbered Senate 
amendments in disagreement, the pending question is whether to dispose 
of each Senate amendment not rejected as recommended in the conference 
report and to insist on disagreement to those amendments that have been 
rejected.
  Where a point of order against a portion of a conference report has 
been sustained under this clause, the Speaker will not entertain another 
point of order against the report or against another portion thereof 
until a motion to reject the portion held nongermane (if made) has been 
disposed of (Speaker Albert, Dec. 15, 1975, p. 40671). The Member 
representing the conference committee in opposition to a motion to 
reject under this clause, and not the proponent of the motion, has the 
right to close debate thereon (Oct. 15, 1986, p. 31502).
  Once a motion to reject a nongermane portion has been adopted by the 
House and the Speaker has recognized a Member to offer a motion com

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prising the pending question under this clause, the report is rejected 
and it is too late to make a point of order against the entire 
conference report under clause 9 (formerly clause 3) of this rule 
(Speaker Albert, Dec. 15, 1975, p. 40671).
  Where possible, the Speaker rules on points of order against 
conference reports that, if sustained, will vitiate the entire 
conference report (as under clause 9 of this rule or under the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974) before entertaining points of order 
under this clause (Speaker Albert, Sept. 23, 1976, p. 32099).
  The <> provisions of this clause addressing nongermane matter 
in amendments in disagreement was first utilized on July 31, 1974 (p. 
26083), when the Chair sustained a point of order against a portion of a 
motion to recede and concur in a Senate amendment (reported from 
conference in disagreement) with a further amendment, on the ground that 
that portion of the Senate amendment contained in the motion was not 
germane to the House-passed measure, and a motion rejecting that portion 
of the motion to recede and concur with an amendment was offered and 
defeated. This clause is not applicable to a provision contained in a 
motion to recede and concur with an amendment that was not contained in 
any form in the Senate version and that is not therefore a modification 
of the Senate provision, the only requirement in such circumstances 
being that the motion as a whole be germane to the Senate amendment as a 
whole under clause 7 of rule XVI (Oct. 4, 1978, p. 33502; June 30, 1987, 
p. 18294). A point of order under clause 4 (formerly clause 5(a)) of 
rule XXI (appropriations on a legislative bill) against a motion to 
dispose of a Senate amendment in disagreement (as by concurring therein 
with a House amendment carrying an appropriation) which, if sustained, 
would vitiate the entire motion, must be disposed of before a point of 
order against a nongermane amendment in disagreement under this clause 
which, if sustained, would merely permit a separate vote on rejection of 
that portion of the motion (Oct. 1, 1980, pp. 28638-42).

  11. <> It shall not be in 
order to consider a conference report to accompany a bill or joint 
resolution that proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
unless--
      (a) the joint explanatory statement of the managers includes a tax 
complexity analysis prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation in 
accordance with section 4022(b) of the In

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ternal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; or
      (b) the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means causes such a tax 
complexity analysis to be printed in the Congressional Record before 
consideration of the conference report.

  The Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 
(sec. 4022, P.L. 105-206) added this provision as a new clause 7 of rule 
XXVIII. A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress 
(sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). An archaic reference to the 
name of the joint committee was updated in the 114th Congress (sec. 
2(h), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). When the House recodified its 
rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was transferred to clause 11 
of rule XXII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  12. (a)(1) <> Subject to 
subparagraph (2), a meeting of each conference committee shall be open 
to the public.
  (2) In open session of the House, a motion that managers on the part 
of the House be permitted to close to the public a meeting or meetings 
of their conference committee shall be privileged, shall be decided 
without debate, and shall be decided by the yeas and nays.
  (3) In conducting conferences with the Senate, managers on the part of 
the House should endeavor to ensure--
      (A) that meetings for the resolution of differences between the 
two Houses occur only under circumstances in which every manager on the 
part of the House has notice of the meeting and a reasonable opportunity 
to attend;
      (B) that all provisions on which the two Houses disagree are 
considered as open to dis

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cussion at any meeting of a conference committee; and
      (C) that papers reflecting a conference agreement are held 
inviolate to change without renewal of the opportunity of all managers 
on the part of the House to reconsider their decisions to sign or not to 
sign the agreement.
  (4) Managers on the part of the House shall be provided a unitary time 
and place with access to at least one complete copy of the final 
conference agreement for the purpose of recording their approval (or 
not) of the final conference agreement by placing their signatures (or 
not) on the sheets prepared to accompany the conference report and joint 
explanatory statement of the managers.
  (b) A point of order that a conference committee failed to comply with 
paragraph (a) may be raised immediately after the conference report is 
read or considered as read. If such a point of order is sustained, the 
conference report shall be considered as rejected, the House shall be 
considered to have insisted on its amendments or on disagreement to the 
Senate amendments, as the case may be, and to have requested a further 
conference with the Senate, and the Speaker may appoint new conferees 
without intervening motion.

  This clause as originally added to former rule XXVIII on January 14, 
1975 (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20) provided that conference committee 
meetings be open except where a majority of the managers of the House or 
Senate voted to close the meeting, and provided that the clause not 
become effective until the Senate adopted a similar rule. The Senate 
adopted an identical rule on November 5, 1975 (p. 35203). The clause was 
substantially changed on January 4, 1977 (H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., pp. 53-

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70) to require that conference meetings be open except where the House 
by record vote determines that a meeting may be closed, to allow a point 
of order against a conference report where the conferees have violated 
this clause, and to provide for subsequent disposition of the matter 
reported from conference should such a point of order be sustained. It 
was further amended in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 
7-16) to provide that if the conference report is considered read under 
this rule, a point of order under this clause must be made immediately 
upon consideration of the conference report. Before the House recodified 
its rules in the 106th Congress, the former version of this provision 
was found in former clause 6 of rule XXVIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). In the 108th Congress the record vote by which the motion is to be 
decided was particularized to be by the yeas and nays (sec. 2(u), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Paragraphs (a)(3) and (4) were added in the 
110th Congress (sec. 303(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted 
Jan. 5, 2007)).
  At any time after a bill has been sent to conference, a motion 
pursuant to this clause authorizing a conference committee to close its 
meetings to the public is privileged for consideration in the House and 
must be voted on by a record vote (now the yeas and nays) (Speaker 
O'Neill, May 23, 1977, pp. 15880-84; Apr. 13, 1978, p. 10128). Although 
a motion to close a conference committee meeting ``to the public'' 
would, under the precedents (see V, 6254, fn. 1), exclude Members who 
were not conferees, a motion may be offered as privileged under this 
clause to authorize a conference committee to close its meetings to the 
public, except to Members of Congress (Speaker O'Neill, May 23, 1977, 
pp. 15880-84).
  In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair stated that, under 
the rules and precedents of the House, a conference report must be the 
product of an actual meeting of the managers appointed by the two Houses 
(Oct. 30, 2003, p. 26413, p. 26443). Although the Chair does not 
normally look behind signatures of conferees to determine the propriety 
of conference procedure, if proposed conferees have signed a conference 
report before they have been formally appointed in both Houses and do 
not meet formally in open session after such appointment, the conference 
report is subject to a point of order under this clause resulting in an 
automatic request for a further conference (Dec. 20, 1982, p. 32896). 
Also, conferees on the part of the House are entitled to reasonable 
notice of and opportunity to attend a meeting of the conference 
committee (July 20, 2000, p. 15657). The adoption of paragraphs (a)(3) 
and (a)(4) in the 110th Congress imposed additional considerations on 
conference committees. However, a point of order will not lie against a 
conference report called up under an order of the House that has waived 
all points of order against consideration of the conference report (July 
20, 2000, p. 15654; Oct. 30, 2003, p. 26452).
  Clause 11(k) of rule X provides that this provision does not apply to 
conference committee meetings respecting legislation (or any part 
thereof) reported by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

 end segment .012  deg.
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  13. <>  It shall not be 
in order to consider a conference report the text of which differs in 
any way, other than clerical, from the text that reflects the action of 
the conferees on all of the differences between the two Houses, as 
recorded by their placement of their signatures (or not) on the sheets 
prepared to accompany the conference report and joint explanatory 
statement of the managers.

  This clause was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 303(b), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)).

 segment .013 -- rule XXIII through rule XXIX  deg.


                               Rule XXIII

                        code of official conduct

  There is hereby established by and for the House the following code of 
conduct, to be known as the ``Code of Official Conduct'':
      1. <> A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner 
that shall reflect creditably on the House.
      2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House shall adhere to the spirit and the letter of the Rules of 
the House and to the rules of duly constituted committees thereof.
      3. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not receive compensation and may not permit 
compensation to accrue to the beneficial interest of such individual 
from any source, the re

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ceipt of which would occur by virtue of influence improperly exerted 
from the position of such individual in Congress.
      4. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not accept gifts except as provided by clause 5 of rule 
XXV.
      5. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not accept an honorarium for a speech, a writing for 
publication, or other similar activity, except as otherwise provided 
under rule XXV.
      6. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner--
          (a) shall keep the campaign funds of such individual separate 
from the personal funds of such individual;
          (b) may not convert campaign funds to personal use in excess 
of an amount representing reimbursement for legitimate and verifiable 
campaign expenditures; and
          (c) except as provided in clause 1(b) of rule XXIV, may not 
expend funds from a campaign account of such individual that are not 
attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.
      7. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall treat as 
campaign contributions all proceeds from testimonial dinners or other 
fund-raising events.
      8. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer of 
the House may not retain an employee who does not perform duties

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for the offices of the employing authority commensurate with the 
compensation such employee receives.
      (b) In the case of a committee employee who works under the direct 
supervision of a member of the committee other than a chair, the chair 
may require that such member affirm in writing that the employee has 
complied with clause 8(a) (subject to clause 9 of rule X) as evidence of 
compliance by the chair with this clause and with clause 9 of rule X.
      (c)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2)--
          (A) a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not 
retain the relative of such individual in a paid position; and
          (B) an employee of the House may not accept compensation for 
work for a committee on which the relative of such employee serves as a 
member.
      (2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a relative 
whose pertinent employment predates the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.
      (3) As used in this paragraph, the term ``relative'' means an 
individual who is related to the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, 
aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-
in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, 
stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister,

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half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter.
      9. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not discharge and may not refuse to hire an individual, 
or otherwise discriminate against an individual with respect to 
compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of 
the race, color, religion, sex (including marital or parental status), 
disability, age, or national origin of such individual, but may take 
into consideration the domicile or political affiliation of such 
individual.
      10. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who has been 
convicted by a court of record for the commission of a crime for which a 
sentence of two or more years' imprisonment may be imposed should 
refrain from participation in the business of each committee of which 
such individual is a member, and a Member should refrain from voting on 
any question at a meeting of the House or of the Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union, unless or until judicial or executive 
proceedings result in reinstatement of the presumption of the innocence 
of such Member or until the Member is reelected to the House after the 
date of such conviction.
      11. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not authorize 
or otherwise allow an individual, group, or organization not under the 
direction and control of the House to use the words ``Congress of the 
United

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States,'' ``House of Representatives,'' or ``Official Business,'' or any 
combination of words thereof, on any letterhead or envelope.
      12. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), an employee of the 
House who is required to file a report under rule XXVI may not 
participate personally and substantially as an employee of the House in 
a contact with an agency of the executive or judicial branches of 
Government with respect to nonlegislative matters affecting any 
nongovernmental person in which the employee has a significant financial 
interest.
      (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if an employee first advises the 
employing authority of such employee of a significant financial interest 
described in paragraph (a) and obtains from such employing authority a 
written waiver stating that the participation of the employee in the 
activity described in paragraph (a) is necessary. A copy of each such 
waiver shall be filed with the Committee on Ethics.
      13. Before a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House may have access to classified information, the 
following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:
          ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose any 
classified information received in the course of my service with the 
House of Representatives, except as authorized by the House of 
Representatives or in accordance with its Rules.''

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    Copies of the executed oath (or affirmation) shall be retained as 
part of the records of the House, in the case of a Member, Delegate, or 
the Resident Commissioner, by the Clerk, and in the case of an officer 
or employee of the House, by the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Clerk shall make 
the signatories a matter of public record, causing the names of each 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who has signed the oath 
during a week (if any) to be published in a portion of the Congressional 
Record designated for that purpose on the last legislative day of the 
week and making cumulative lists of such names available each day for 
public inspection in an appropriate office of the House.
      14. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not, with the 
intent to influence on the basis of partisan political affiliation an 
employment decision or employment practice of any private entity--
          (a) take or withhold, or offer or threaten to take or 
withhold, an official act; or
          (b) influence, or offer or threaten to influence, the official 
act of another.
      15. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not use personal funds, official 
funds, or campaign funds for a flight on an aircraft.
      (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if--
          (1) the aircraft is operated by an air carrier or commercial 
operator certificated by

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the Federal Aviation Administration and the flight is required to be 
conducted under air carrier safety rules, or, in the case of travel 
which is abroad, by an air carrier or commercial operator certificated 
by an appropriate foreign civil aviation authority and the flight is 
required to be conducted under air carrier safety rules;
          (2) the aircraft is owned or leased by a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner or a family member of a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner (including an aircraft owned by an entity that is 
not a public corporation in which the Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner or a family member of a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner has an ownership interest, provided that such Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner does not use the aircraft any more 
than the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or family member's 
proportionate share of ownership allows);
          (3) the flight consists of the personal use of an aircraft by 
a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner that is supplied by--
              (A) an individual on the basis of personal friendship; or
              (B) another Member, Delegate, or the Resident 
Commissioner;
          (4) the aircraft is operated by an entity of the Federal 
government or an entity of the government of any State; or

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          (5) the owner or operator of the aircraft is paid a pro rata 
share of the fair market value of the normal and usual charter fare or 
rental charge for a comparable plane of comparable size as determined by 
dividing such cost by the number of Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
Commissioner, officers, or employees of Congress on the flight.
      (c) An advance written request for a waiver of the restriction in 
paragraph (a) may be granted jointly by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Ethics, subject to such conditions as they 
may prescribe.
      (d) In this clause--
          (1) the term ``campaign funds'' includes funds of any 
political committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 
without regard to whether the committee is an authorized committee of 
the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner involved under such Act;
          (2) the term ``family member'' means an individual who is 
related to the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, as father, 
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, father-in-law, or 
mother-in-law; and
          (3) the term ``on the basis of personal friendship'' has the 
same meaning as in clause 5 of rule XXV and shall be determined as under 
clause 5(a)(3)(D)(ii) of rule XXV.

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      16. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not condition 
the inclusion of language to provide funding for a congressional 
earmark, a limited tax benefit, or a limited tariff benefit in any bill 
or joint resolution (or an accompanying report) or in any conference 
report on a bill or joint resolution (including an accompanying joint 
explanatory statement of managers) on any vote cast by another Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. For purposes of this clause and 
clause 17, the terms ``congressional earmark,'' ``limited tax benefit,'' 
and ``limited tariff benefit'' shall have the meanings given them in 
clause 9 of rule XXI.
      17. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who requests 
a congressional earmark, a limited tax benefit, or a limited tariff 
benefit in any bill or joint resolution (or an accompanying report) or 
in any conference report on a bill or joint resolution (or an 
accompanying joint statement of managers) shall provide a written 
statement to the chair and ranking minority member of the committee of 
jurisdiction, including--
          (1) the name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner;
          (2) in the case of a congressional earmark, the name and 
address of the intended recipient or, if there is no specifically 
intended recipient, the intended location of the activity;

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          (3) in the case of a limited tax or tariff benefit, 
identification of the individual or entities reasonably anticipated to 
benefit, to the extent known to the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner;
          (4) the purpose of such congressional earmark or limited tax 
or tariff benefit; and
          (5) a certification that the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner or spouse has no financial interest in such congressional 
earmark or limited tax or tariff benefit.
      (b) Each committee shall maintain the information transmitted 
under paragraph (a), and the written disclosures for any congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits included in 
any measure reported by the committee or conference report filed by the 
chair of the committee or any subcommittee thereof shall be open for 
public inspection.
      18. (a) In this Code of Official Conduct, the term ``officer or 
employee of the House'' means an individual whose compensation is 
disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer.
      (b) An individual whose services are compensated by the House 
pursuant to a consultant contract shall be considered an employee of the 
House for purposes of clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 13 of this rule. An 
individual whose services are compensated by the House pursuant to a 
consultant contract may not lobby the contracting committee or the 
members or staff

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of the contracting committee on any matter. Such an individual may lobby 
other Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner or staff of the 
House on matters outside the jurisdiction of the contracting committee. 
In the case of such an individual who is a member or employee of a firm, 
partnership, or other business organization, the other members and 
employees of the firm, partnership, or other business organization shall 
be subject to the same restrictions on lobbying that apply to the 
individual under this paragraph.

  This rule was transferred from rule XLIII to rule XXIV when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). It was redesignated as rule XXIII in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(s), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). The rule was originally adopted in the 
90th Congress (H. Res. 1099, Apr. 3, 1968, p. 8803). The jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) was 
redefined in the same resolution. Clause 4 was entirely rewritten (and 
definitions for the purpose of clause 4 were deleted) in the 104th 
Congress to reflect the adoption of a Gift Rule (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 
1995, p. 35077). Before the 104th Congress, clause 4 had been amended in 
the 95th Congress to change the prohibition against acceptance of gifts 
of ``substantial value'' (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1975, p. 20) and 
definitions for purposes of clause 4 were added in the 95th Congress (H. 
Res. 287, Mar. 2, 1977, pp. 5933-53). Those definitions were amended in 
the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to make conforming changes in the 
definition of ``relative'' (P.L. 101-194). Clause 4 was also amended: 
(1) in the 100th Congress to increase from $35 to $50 the value of 
personal hospitality of an individual that is not to be counted when 
computing the aggregate amount of gifts per calendar year (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6); and (2) in the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to revise 
the rules governing the acceptance of gifts, including value thresholds 
and waivers (P.L. 101-194). Those threshold and aggregate values were 
again adjusted by section 314(d) of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1992 (P.L. 102-90). The Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-194) amended clause 5 to prohibit the acceptance 
of honoraria. Clause 6 was amended in the 95th Congress to delete from 
the second sentence the exception ``unless specifically provided by 
law,'' which had been added in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
1975, p. 20) and was again amended in the 109th Congress to conform it 
to the change in clause 1 of rule XXIV to permit campaign funds to be 
used to defray certain official expenses

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(sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). Clause 6 was also amended 
by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-194) to specify that campaign 
funds be used only for bona fide campaign or political purposes. Clause 
7 was amended in the 95th Congress to eliminate an exception permitting 
sponsors to give notice of purpose (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1975, p. 20). The 
Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-194) amended clause 8 to broaden 
Members' accountability for the pay and performance of staff. Clause 8 
was again amended in the 106th Congress to permit telecommuting by House 
employees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Clause 8(c) was added in the 
107th Congress (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24) and expanded 
in the 113th Congress to apply to a defined group of relatives instead 
of just spouses (sec. 2(e)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Clause 9 
was added in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). Clause 
9 was amended in the 100th Congress to prohibit discrimination in 
employment based upon age (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6) and again in 
the 101st Congress to conform existing staff antidiscrimination rules to 
the Fair Employment Practices resolution adopted in the 100th Congress 
(now contained in the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (P.L. 
104-1; 2 U.S.C. 1301; see Sec. 1101, infra)). Clause 10 was added in the 
94th Congress (H. Res. 46, Apr. 16, 1975, p. 10340). Clause 11 was added 
in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). Clause 12 was 
added by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-194) to proscribe 
certain contacts as involving conflicts of interest. Clause 13 was added 
in the 104th Congress (sec. 220, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468), 
except the last sentence, which was added in the 107th Congress (sec. 
2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Clause 13 was amended in the 
112th Congress to clarify that it does not require the disclosure of 
actual signatures (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80) and in the 
113th Congress to shift from the Clerk to the Sergeant-at-Arms some 
responsibility for the oath (sec. 2(e)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_). Clause 18 (which was an undesignated paragraph at the end of the 
rule before being numbered as clause 14 when the rules were recodified 
in the 106th Congress) was amended in the 92d Congress to bring the 
Delegates and Resident Commissioner within the definition of ``Member'' 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 1972, pp. 
36021-23). It was again amended in the 106th Congress to include 
consultants among employees covered by certain provisions of the code of 
conduct (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47) and in the 107th Congress to 
add the last two sentences of paragraph (b) (sec. 2(v), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2001, p. 24). Paragraph (b) was amended during the 110th Congress 
with regard to firms, partnerships, and other business organizations 
(sec. 303, P.L. 110-81). In the 105th Congress the rule was amended to 
effect three clerical corrections (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121); in 
the 106th Congress clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
rules were recodified (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); in the 107th 
Congress conforming changes were made to reflect the redesignation of 
several rules (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24) and a clerical 
correction to a cross reference in clause 8(b)

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was effected (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26); and in the 
112th Congress a technical change was made (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
5, 2011, p. 80). Clauses 14 through 17 were added in the 110th Congress 
(secs. 202, 207, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19; sec. 404(b), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). Clause 15 was amended in 
its entirety during the 110th Congress (H. Res. 363, May 2, 2007, p. 
11119) and amended in the 113th Congress to expand paragraph (b) and add 
paragraph (c) (sec. 2(e)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). Gender-
based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). An amendment was effected in the 112th 
Congress to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual 
(110th Cong., 2d Sess.).
  It is not a proper parliamentary inquiry to ask the Chair to interpret 
the application of a criminal statute to a Member's conduct, because it 
is for the House and not the Chair to judge the conduct of Members (Nov. 
17, 1987, p. 32153). In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair 
advised that the operation of clause 16 was not affected by a special 
order of the House waiving various points of order against a measure and 
against its consideration (Mar. 23, 2007, p. 7457). The Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct opined that ``conviction'' in clause 10 
includes a plea of guilty or a certified finding of guilty even though 
sentencing may occur later (H. Rept. 94-76).




                                Rule XXIV

                  limitations on use of official funds

Limitations on use of official and unofficial accounts
  1. <> (a) Except as provided in 
paragraph (b), a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not 
maintain, or have maintained for the use of such individual, an 
unofficial office account. Funds may not be paid into an unofficial 
office account.
  (b)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner may defray official expenses with funds of the 
principal campaign committee of such individual

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under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.).
  (2) The funds specified in subparagraph (1) may not be used to defray 
official expenses for mail or other communications, compensation for 
services, office space, office furniture, office equipment, or any 
associated information technology services (excluding handheld 
communications devices).
  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, if an amount from 
the Official Expenses Allowance of a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner is paid into the House Recording Studio revolving fund for 
telecommunications satellite services, the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner may accept reimbursement from nonpolitical entities in that 
amount for transmission to the Chief Administrative Officer for credit 
to the Official Expenses Allowance.
  3. In this rule the term ``unofficial office account'' means an 
account or repository in which funds are received for the purpose of 
defraying otherwise unreimbursed expenses allowable under section 162(a) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as ordinary and necessary in the 
operation of a congressional office, and includes a newsletter fund 
referred to in section 527(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

  This provision (formerly rule XLV) was adopted in the 95th Congress 
(H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 1977, pp. 5933-53). It was amended in the 102d 
Congress to permit Members to receive reimbursements to their expense 
allowances for recording studio charges attributable to nonpolitical 
organizations receiving the transmissions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 
39). When the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, it 
consolidated former rules XLV and XLVI under clauses 1 through 9 of rule 
XXV and the second

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sentence of former clause 8 of rule I and former clauses 2(n)(5) and 
5(e) of rule XI under clause 10 of rule XXV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXIV in the 107th Congress (sec. 
2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). In the 109th Congress clause 1 
was amended to permit campaign funds to be used to defray certain 
official expenses (sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). In the 
111th Congress a technical correction to clause 1(b)(2) was effected and 
gender-based references in clause 1 were eliminated (secs. 2(l), 2(m), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, pp. 7, 9). In the 113th Congress clause 2 was 
amended to replace the Clerk with the Chief Administrative Officer (sec. 
2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual 
(110th Cong., 2d Sess.).

Limitations on use of the frank
  4. <> A Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner shall mail franked mail under section 3210(d) 
of title 39, United States Code at the most economical rate of postage 
practicable.
  5. Before making a mass mailing, a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner shall submit a sample or description of the mail matter 
involved to the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards for 
an advisory opinion as to whether the proposed mailing is in compliance 
with applicable provisions of law, rule, or regulation.
  6. A mass mailing that is otherwise frankable by a Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner under the provisions of section 3210(e) of 
title 39, United States Code, is not frankable unless the cost of 
preparing and printing it is defrayed exclusively from funds made 
available in an appropriation Act.

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  7. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not send a mass 
mailing outside the congressional district from which elected.
  8. In the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, a mass 
mailing is not frankable under section 3210 of title 39, United States 
Code, when it is postmarked less than 90 days before the date of a 
primary or general election (whether regular, special, or runoff) in 
which such individual is a candidate for public office. If the mail 
matter is of a type that is not customarily postmarked, the date on 
which it would have been postmarked, if it were of a type customarily 
postmarked, applies.
  9. In this rule the term ``mass mailing'' means, with respect to a 
session of Congress, a mailing of newsletters or other pieces of mail 
with substantially identical content (whether such pieces of mail are 
deposited singly or in bulk, or at the same time or different times), 
totaling more than 500 pieces of mail in that session, except that such 
term does not include a mailing--
      (a) of matter in direct response to a communication from a person 
to whom the matter is mailed;
      (b) from a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to other 
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, or Senators, or to 
Federal, State, or local government officials; or
      (c) of a news release to the communications media.

  This provision (formerly rule XLVI) was adopted in the 95th Congress 
(H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 1977, pp. 5933-53). In the 102d Congress it was

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extensively amended to conform to restrictions on franking and mass 
mailings included in the legislative branch appropriations acts for 
fiscal years 1990 and 1991 (P.L. 101-163 and 101-520, respectively) (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). Clause 7 (formerly clause 4) was rewritten 
in the 103d Congress to conform to the statutory prohibition against 
mass mailings outside the congressional district from which a Member was 
elected. Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former rule XLVI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). In the 109th Congress clause 8 was amended to expand the window 
during which a mass mailing is not frankable to 90 days before the date 
of an election (from 60 days), thereby conforming the rule to section 
3210 of title 39, United States Code (sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
2005, p. 43). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
  For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual 
(110th Cong., 2d Sess.).

Prohibition on use of funds by Members not elected to succeeding 
        Congress
  10. <> Funds from the 
applicable accounts described in clause 1(k)(1) of rule X, including 
funds from committee expense resolutions, and funds in any local 
currencies owned by the United States may not be made available for 
travel by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator after 
the date of a general election in which such individual was not elected 
to the succeeding Congress or, in the case of a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner who is not a candidate in a general election, 
after the earlier of the date of such general election or the 
adjournment sine die of the last regular session of the Congress.

  This provision was added in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 
1977, p. 5941). In the 105th and 106th Congresses this clause was 
amended to update archaic references to the ``contingent fund'' (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). When the House 
recodified

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its rules in the 106th Congress, it consolidated the second sentence of 
former clause 8 of rule I and former clauses 2(n)(5) and 5(e) of rule XI 
under clause 10 of former rule XXV (redesignated as rule XXIV in the 
107th Congress) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Conforming changes 
were effected in the 109th and 112th Congresses (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). A 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).




                                Rule XXV

      limitations on outside earned income and acceptance of gifts

Outside earned income; honoraria
  1. (a) <> Except as provided by 
paragraph (b), a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House may not--
      (1) have outside earned income attributable to a calendar year 
that exceeds 15 percent of the annual rate of basic pay for level II of 
the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States 
Code, as of January 1 of that calendar year; or
      (2) receive any honorarium, except that an officer or employee of 
the House who is paid at a rate less than 120 percent of the minimum 
rate of basic pay for GS-15 of the General Schedule may receive an 
honorarium unless the subject matter is directly related to the official 
duties of the individual, the payment is made because of the status of 
the individual with the House, or the person offering the honorarium has 
interests that may be substantially affected by the performance or non

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performance of the official duties of the individual.
  (b) In the case of an individual who becomes a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, such 
individual may not have outside earned income attributable to the 
portion of a calendar year that occurs after such individual becomes a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee that 
exceeds 15 percent of the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the 
Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, as 
of January 1 of that calendar year multiplied by a fraction, the 
numerator of which is the number of days the individual is a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee during that 
calendar year and the denominator of which is 365.
  (c) A payment in lieu of an honorarium that is made to a charitable 
organization on behalf of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House may not be received by that Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee. Such a payment 
may not exceed $2,000 or be made to a charitable organization from which 
the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee or a 
parent, sibling, spouse, child, or dependent relative of the Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, derives a 
financial benefit.

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  2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House may not--
      (a) receive compensation for affiliating with or being employed by 
a firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity that 
provides professional services involving a fiduciary relationship except 
for the practice of medicine;
      (b) permit the name of such individual to be used by such a firm, 
partnership, association, corporation, or other entity;
      (c) receive compensation for practicing a profession that involves 
a fiduciary relationship except for the practice of medicine;
      (d) serve for compensation as an officer or member of the board of 
an association, corporation, or other entity; or
      (e) receive compensation for teaching, without the prior 
notification and approval of the Committee on Ethics.
Copyright royalties
  3. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not receive an advance payment on copyright royalties. 
This paragraph does not prohibit a literary agent, researcher, or other 
individual (other than an individual employed by the House or a relative 
of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee) 
working on behalf of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
or employee with respect to a

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publication from receiving an advance payment of a copyright royalty 
directly from a publisher and solely for the benefit of that literary 
agent, researcher, or other individual.
  (b) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House may not receive copyright royalties under a contract entered 
into on or after January 1, 1996, unless that contract is first approved 
by the Committee on Ethics as complying with the requirement of clause 
4(d)(1)(E) (that royalties are received from an established publisher 
under usual and customary contractual terms).
Definitions
  4. (a)(1) In this rule, except as provided in subparagraph (2), the 
term ``officer or employee of the House'' means an individual (other 
than a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner) whose pay is 
disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer, who is paid at a rate 
equal to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay 
for GS-15 of the General Schedule, and who is so employed for more than 
90 days in a calendar year.
  (2)(A) When used with respect to an honorarium, the term ``officer or 
employee of the House'' means an individual (other than a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner) whose salary is disbursed by the 
Chief Administrative Officer.

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  (B) When used in clause 5 of this rule, the terms ``officer'' and 
``employee'' have the same meanings as in rule XXIII.
  (b) In this rule the term ``honorarium'' means a payment of money or a 
thing of value for an appearance, speech, or article (including a series 
of appearances, speeches, or articles) by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, excluding any actual 
and necessary travel expenses incurred by that Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee (and one relative) to the 
extent that such expenses are paid or reimbursed by any other person. 
The amount otherwise determined shall be reduced by the amount of any 
such expenses to the extent that such expenses are not so paid or 
reimbursed.
  (c) In this rule the term ``travel expenses'' means, with respect to a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House, or a relative of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee, the cost of transportation, and the cost of 
lodging and meals while away from the residence or principal place of 
employment of such individual.
  (d)(1) In this rule the term ``outside earned income'' means, with 
respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House, wages, salaries, fees, and other amounts received 
or to be received as compensation for personal services actually 
rendered, but does not include--

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      (A) the salary of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee;
      (B) any compensation derived by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for personal services 
actually rendered before the adoption of this rule or before such 
individual became a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee;
      (C) any amount paid by, or on behalf of, a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House to a tax-
qualified pension, profit-sharing, or stock bonus plan and received by 
such individual from such a plan;
      (D) in the case of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House engaged in a trade or business in 
which such individual or the family of such individual holds a 
controlling interest and in which both personal services and capital are 
income-producing factors, any amount received by the Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, so long as the personal 
services actually rendered by such individual in the trade or business 
do not generate a significant amount of income; or
      (E) copyright royalties received from established publishers under 
usual and customary contractual terms; and
  (2) outside earned income shall be determined without regard to 
community property law.

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  (e) In this rule the term ``charitable organization'' means an 
organization described in section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986.

  The rule on outside earned income (formerly rule XLVII) was adopted in 
the 95th Congress (H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 1977, pp. 5933-53). It was 
amended for the first time in the 96th Congress to increase the limit on 
a single honorarium from $750 to $1000 (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-
16). The rule was amended further in the 97th Congress to (1) increase 
the limitation on outside earned income for a calendar year from 15 to 
30 percent of a Member's salary; (2) strike the $1000 limitation on a 
single honorarium; and (3) provide that honoraria shall be attributable 
to the calendar year in which payment is received (H. Res. 305, Dec. 15, 
1981, p. 31529). In the 99th Congress, the rule was amended to delete 
the 30 percent of aggregate salary limitation on outside earned income 
and to conform the limitation to that contained in law (2 U.S.C. 31-1 
provides that a Member of Congress may not accept honoraria in excess of 
40 percent of a Member's aggregate salary) (H. Res. 427, Apr. 22, 1986, 
p. 8328). The next day, the House adopted a resolution vacating the 
proceedings by which that resolution had been adopted and laying that 
resolution on the table (H. Res. 432, Apr. 23, 1986, p. 8474). The 
Ethics Reform Act of 1989: (1) amended the title of the rule; (2) 
amended clause 1 to effect for 1991 and future years the elimination of 
honoraria not assigned to charity and closer restrictions on outside 
earned income (including limitation to 15 percent of Executive Level II 
pay); (3) amended clause 2 to effect for 1991 and future years new 
limits on outside employment; and (4) amended clause 3 to revise certain 
definitions (P.L. 101-194). That Act also established a civil cause of 
action against an individual who violates the limitations on outside 
earned income and employment (5 U.S.C. app. 504). In the 102d Congress 
clause 2 was further amended to specify that the ban on affiliation with 
a firm applies only if compensation is received and only with respect to 
a professional services firm, and clause 3 was further amended to 
specify the applicability of outside earned income restrictions to 
officers and employees of the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). In 
the 104th Congress a new clause was added to prohibit the receipt of 
advance payments on copyright royalties and the receipt of any payments 
on copyright royalties under future contracts unless approved in advance 
by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) (H. Res. 
299, Dec. 22, 1995, p. 38488). In the 106th Congress the rule was 
amended to permit certain House employees to receive honoraria; the 
parenthetical in clause 4(b) was adopted; and, when the House recodified 
its rules, it consolidated former rules XLI, XLVII, and LI under rule 
XXVI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This rule was redesignated as 
rule XXV in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 
24). Clause 4(a)(1) (and clause 5(e)) were amended in the 107th Congress 
to conform the definition of ``officer or employee'' to rule XXIII (sec. 
2(w), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3,

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2001, p. 26). Clause 2 was amended in the 108th Congress to except the 
practice of medicine from the restriction against outside earned income 
received from providing professional services that involve a fiduciary 
relationship (sec. 2(q), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). Gender-based 
references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Amendments were effected in the 112th Congress to 
reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80).
  For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual 
(110th Cong., 2d Sess.).
  Before its coverage was restricted to the Senate in the Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989 (sec. 601(b), P.L. 101-194), a separate provision of law (2 
U.S.C. 441i) provided criminal penalties for any elected or appointed 
Federal employee who accepts an honorarium of more than $2000 per 
speech. A statutory ceiling of $25,000 from honoraria in a calendar year 
was repealed in 1981 (P.L. 97-51). The Senate repealed its rule on 
outside earned income in the 97th Congress (S. Res. 512, Dec. 14, 1982, 
p. 30640) and reinstated it in the 102d Congress (S. Res. 192, Oct. 31, 
1991, p. 29567).
  For provisions of the Federal criminal code restricting postemployment 
activities, see 18 U.S.C. 207, which was originally enacted in title V 
of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521).

Gifts
  5. (a)(1)(A)(i) <> A Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not 
knowingly accept a gift except as provided in this clause.
  (ii) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may not knowingly accept a gift from a registered lobbyist 
or agent of a foreign principal or from a private entity that retains or 
employs registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal except as 
provided in subparagraph (3) of this paragraph.
  (B)(i) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may accept a gift (other than cash or cash equivalent) not 
prohibited by subdivision (A)(ii) that the

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Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee reasonably 
and in good faith believes to have a value of less than $50 and a 
cumulative value from one source during a calendar year of less than 
$100. A gift having a value of less than $10 does not count toward the 
$100 annual limit. The value of perishable food sent to an office shall 
be allocated among the individual recipients and not to the Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. Formal recordkeeping is not required 
by this subdivision, but a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House shall make a good faith effort to 
comply with this subdivision.
  (ii) A gift of a ticket to a sporting or entertainment event shall be 
valued at the face value of the ticket or, in the case of a ticket 
without a face value, at the highest cost of a ticket with a face value 
for the event. The price printed on a ticket to an event shall be deemed 
its face value only if it also is the price at which the issuer offers 
that ticket for sale to the public.
  (2)(A) In this clause the term ``gift'' means a gratuity, favor, 
discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item 
having monetary value. The term includes gifts of services, training, 
transportation, lodging, and meals, whether provided in kind, by 
purchase of a ticket, payment in advance, or reimbursement after the 
expense has been incurred.
  (B)(i) A gift to a family member of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, or a gift to any other 
indi

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vidual based on that individual's relationship with the Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, shall be 
considered a gift to the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee if it is given with the knowledge and acquiescence 
of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee and 
the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee has 
reason to believe the gift was given because of the official position of 
such individual.
  (ii) If food or refreshment is provided at the same time and place to 
both a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House and the spouse or dependent thereof, only the food or 
refreshment provided to the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee shall be treated as a gift for purposes of this 
clause.
  (3) The restrictions in subparagraph (1) do not apply to the 
following:
      (A) Anything for which the Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House pays the market value, 
or does not use and promptly returns to the donor.
      (B) A contribution, as defined in section 301(8) of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431) that is lawfully made under 
that Act, a lawful contribution for election to a State or local 
government office, or attendance at a fundraising event sponsored

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by a political organization described in section 527(e) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986.
      (C) A gift from a relative as described in section 109(16) of 
title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 109(16)).
      (D)(i) Anything provided by an individual on the basis of a 
personal friendship unless the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House has reason to believe that, under the 
circumstances, the gift was provided because of the official position of 
such individual and not because of the personal friendship.
      (ii) In determining whether a gift is provided on the basis of 
personal friendship, the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House shall consider the circumstances under 
which the gift was offered, such as:
          (I) The history of the relationship of such individual with 
the individual giving the gift, including any previous exchange of gifts 
between them.
          (II) Whether to the actual knowledge of such individual the 
individual who gave the gift personally paid for the gift or sought a 
tax deduction or business reimbursement for the gift.
          (III) Whether to the actual knowledge of such individual the 
individual who gave the gift also gave the same or similar gifts to 
other Members, Delegates, the Resident

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Commissioners, officers, or employees of the House.
      (E) Except as provided in paragraph (e)(3), a contribution or 
other payment to a legal expense fund established for the benefit of a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House that is otherwise lawfully made in accordance with the 
restrictions and disclosure requirements of the Committee on Ethics.
      (F) A gift from another Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House or Senate.
      (G) Food, refreshments, lodging, transportation, and other 
benefits--
          (i) resulting from the outside business or employment 
activities of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House (or other outside activities that are not 
connected to the duties of such individual as an officeholder), or of 
the spouse of such individual, if such benefits have not been offered or 
enhanced because of the official position of such individual and are 
customarily provided to others in similar circumstances;
          (ii) customarily provided by a prospective employer in 
connection with bona fide employment discussions; or
          (iii) provided by a political organization described in 
section 527(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in connection with a

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fundraising or campaign event sponsored by such organization.
      (H) Pension and other benefits resulting from continued 
participation in an employee welfare and benefits plan maintained by a 
former employer.
      (I) Informational materials that are sent to the office of the 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House in the form of books, articles, periodicals, other written 
materials, audiotapes, videotapes, or other forms of communication.
      (J) Awards or prizes that are given to competitors in contests or 
events open to the public, including random drawings.
      (K) Honorary degrees (and associated travel, food, refreshments, 
and entertainment) and other bona fide, nonmonetary awards presented in 
recognition of public service (and associated food, refreshments, and 
entertainment provided in the presentation of such degrees and awards).
      (L) Training (including food and refreshments furnished to all 
attendees as an integral part of the training) if such training is in 
the interest of the House.
      (M) Bequests, inheritances, and other transfers at death.
      (N) An item, the receipt of which is authorized by the Foreign 
Gifts and Decorations Act, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act, or any other statute.

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      (O) Anything that is paid for by the Federal Government, by a 
State or local government, or secured by the Government under a 
Government contract.
      (P) A gift of personal hospitality (as defined in section 109(14) 
of the Ethics in Government Act) of an individual other than a 
registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal.
      (Q) Free attendance at an event permitted under subparagraph (4).
      (R) Opportunities and benefits that are--
          (i) available to the public or to a class consisting of all 
Federal employees, whether or not restricted on the basis of geographic 
consideration;
          (ii) offered to members of a group or class in which 
membership is unrelated to congressional employment;
          (iii) offered to members of an organization, such as an 
employees' association or congressional credit union, in which 
membership is related to congressional employment and similar 
opportunities are available to large segments of the public through 
organizations of similar size;
          (iv) offered to a group or class that is not defined in a 
manner that specifically discriminates among Government employees on the 
basis of branch of Government or type of responsibility, or on a basis 
that favors those of higher rank or rate of pay;

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          (v) in the form of loans from banks and other financial 
institutions on terms generally available to the public; or
          (vi) in the form of reduced membership or other fees for 
participation in organization activities offered to all Government 
employees by professional organizations if the only restrictions on 
membership relate to professional qualifications.
      (S) A plaque, trophy, or other item that is substantially 
commemorative in nature and that is intended for presentation.
      (T) Anything for which, in an unusual case, a waiver is granted by 
the Committee on Ethics.
      (U) Food or refreshments of a nominal value offered other than as 
a part of a meal.
      (V) Donations of products from the district or State that the 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner represents that are intended 
primarily for promotional purposes, such as display or free 
distribution, and are of minimal value to any single recipient.
      (W) An item of nominal value such as a greeting card, baseball 
cap, or a T-shirt.
  (4)(A) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
of the House may accept an offer of free attendance at a widely attended 
convention, conference, symposium, forum, panel discussion, dinner, 
viewing, reception, or similar event, provided by the sponsor of the 
event, if--

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      (i) the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee of the House participates in the event as a speaker or a panel 
participant, by presenting information related to Congress or matters 
before Congress, or by performing a ceremonial function appropriate to 
the official position of such individual; or
      (ii) attendance at the event is appropriate to the performance of 
the official duties or representative function of the Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House.
  (B) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House who attends an event described in subdivision (A) may accept a 
sponsor's unsolicited offer of free attendance at the event for an 
accompanying individual.
  (C) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House, or the spouse or dependent thereof, may accept a sponsor's 
unsolicited offer of free attendance at a charity event, except that 
reimbursement for transportation and lodging may not be accepted in 
connection with the event unless--
      (i) all of the net proceeds of the event are for the benefit of an 
organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code;
      (ii) reimbursement for the transportation and lodging in 
connection with the event is paid by such organization; and

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      (iii) the offer of free attendance at the event is made by such 
organization.
  (D) In this paragraph the term ``free attendance'' may include waiver 
of all or part of a conference or other fee, the provision of local 
transportation, or the provision of food, refreshments, entertainment, 
and instructional materials furnished to all attendees as an integral 
part of the event. The term does not include entertainment collateral to 
the event, nor does it include food or refreshments taken other than in 
a group setting with all or substantially all other attendees.
  (5) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House may not accept a gift the value of which exceeds $250 on the 
basis of the personal friendship exception in subparagraph (3)(D) unless 
the Committee on Ethics issues a written determination that such 
exception applies. A determination under this subparagraph is not 
required for gifts given on the basis of the family relationship 
exception in subparagraph (3)(C).
  (6) When it is not practicable to return a tangible item because it is 
perishable, the item may, at the discretion of the recipient, be given 
to an appropriate charity or destroyed.
  (b)(1)(A) A reimbursement (including payment in kind) to a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for 
necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses for travel to a 
meeting, speaking engagement, factfinding trip, or similar event in 
connection with the duties of such individual as

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an officeholder shall be considered as a reimbursement to the House and 
not a gift prohibited by this clause when it is from a private source 
other than a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal or a 
private entity that retains or employs registered lobbyists or agents of 
a foreign principal (except as provided in subdivision (C)), if the 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee--
      (i) in the case of an employee, receives advance authorization, 
from the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer under whose 
direct supervision the employee works, to accept reimbursement; and
      (ii) discloses the expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed and the 
authorization to the Clerk within 15 days after the travel is completed.
  (B) For purposes of subdivision (A), events, the activities of which 
are substantially recreational in nature, are not considered to be in 
connection with the duties of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House as an officeholder.
  (C) A reimbursement (including payment in kind) to a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for any purpose 
described in subdivision (A) also shall be considered as a reimbursement 
to the House and not a gift prohibited by this clause (without regard to 
whether the source retains or employs registered lobbyists or agents of 
a foreign principal) if it is, under regulations prescribed by the

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Committee on Ethics to implement this provision--
      (i) directly from an institution of higher education within the 
meaning of section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965; or
      (ii) provided only for attendance at or participation in a one-day 
event (exclusive of travel time and an overnight stay).
Regulations prescribed to implement this provision may permit a two-
night stay when determined by the committee on a case-by-case basis to 
be practically required to participate in the one-day event.
  (2) Each advance authorization to accept reimbursement shall be signed 
by the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer of the House 
under whose direct supervision the employee works and shall include--
      (A) the name of the employee;
      (B) the name of the person who will make the reimbursement;
      (C) the time, place, and purpose of the travel; and
      (D) a determination that the travel is in connection with the 
duties of the employee as an officeholder and would not create the 
appearance that the employee is using public office for private gain.
  (3) Each disclosure made under subparagraph (1)(A) shall be signed by 
the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer (in the case of 
travel by that Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer) or 
by the Member, Dele

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gate, Resident Commissioner, or officer under whose direct supervision 
the employee works (in the case of travel by an employee) and shall 
include--
      (A) a good faith estimate of total transportation expenses 
reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
      (B) a good faith estimate of total lodging expenses reimbursed or 
to be reimbursed;
      (C) a good faith estimate of total meal expenses reimbursed or to 
be reimbursed;
      (D) a good faith estimate of the total of other expenses 
reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
      (E) a determination that all such expenses are necessary 
transportation, lodging, and related expenses as defined in subparagraph 
(4);
      (F) a description of meetings and events attended; and
      (G) in the case of a reimbursement to a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, or officer, a determination that the travel was in 
connection with the duties of such individual as an officeholder and 
would not create the appearance that the Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, or officer is using public office for private gain.
  (4) In this paragraph the term ``necessary transportation, lodging, 
and related expenses''--
      (A) includes reasonable expenses that are necessary for travel for 
a period not exceeding four days within the United States or seven days 
exclusive of travel time outside of the

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United States unless approved in advance by the Committee on Ethics;
      (B) is limited to reasonable expenditures for transportation, 
lodging, conference fees and materials, and food and refreshments, 
including reimbursement for necessary transportation, whether or not 
such transportation occurs within the periods described in subdivision 
(A);
      (C) does not include expenditures for recreational activities, nor 
does it include entertainment other than that provided to all attendees 
as an integral part of the event, except for activities or entertainment 
otherwise permissible under this clause; and
      (D) may include travel expenses incurred on behalf of a relative 
of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee.
  (5) The Clerk of the House shall make all advance authorizations, 
certifications, and disclosures filed pursuant to this paragraph 
available for public inspection as soon as possible after they are 
received.
  (c)(1)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not accept 
a reimbursement (including payment in kind) for transportation, lodging, 
or related expenses for a trip on which the traveler is accompanied on 
any segment by a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal.
  (B) Subdivision (A) does not apply to a trip for which the source of 
reimbursement is an institu

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tion of higher education within the meaning of section 101 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965.
  (2) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House may not accept a reimbursement (including payment in kind) for 
transportation, lodging, or related expenses under the exception in 
paragraph (b)(1)(C)(ii) of this clause for a trip that is financed in 
whole or in part by a private entity that retains or employs registered 
lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal unless any involvement of a 
registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal in the planning, 
organization, request, or arrangement of the trip is de minimis under 
rules prescribed by the Committee on Ethics to implement paragraph 
(b)(1)(C) of this clause.
  (3) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House may not accept a reimbursement (including payment in kind) for 
transportation, lodging, or related expenses for a trip (other than a 
trip permitted under paragraph (b)(1)(C) of this clause) if such trip is 
in any part planned, organized, requested, or arranged by a registered 
lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal.
  (d) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House shall, before accepting travel otherwise permissible under 
paragraph (b)(1) of this clause from any private source--
      (1) provide to the Committee on Ethics before such trip a written 
certification signed by

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the source or (in the case of a corporate person) by an officer of the 
source--
          (A) that the trip will not be financed in any part by a 
registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal;
          (B) that the source either--
              (i) does not retain or employ registered lobbyists or 
agents of a foreign principal; or
              (ii) is an institution of higher education within the 
meaning of section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965; or
              (iii) certifies that the trip meets the requirements 
specified in rules prescribed by the Committee on Ethics to implement 
paragraph (b)(1)(C)(ii) of this clause and specifically details the 
extent of any involvement of a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign 
principal in the planning, organization, request, or arrangement of the 
trip considered to qualify as de minimis under such rules;
          (C) that the source will not accept from another source any 
funds earmarked directly or indirectly for the purpose of financing any 
aspect of the trip;
          (D) that the traveler will not be accompanied on any segment 
of the trip by a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal 
(except in the case of a trip for which the source of reimbursement is 
an institution of higher education within the meaning

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of section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965); and
          (E) that (except as permitted in paragraph (b)(1)(C) of this 
clause) the trip will not in any part be planned, organized, requested, 
or arranged by a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal; 
and
      (2) after the Committee on Ethics has promulgated the regulations 
mandated in paragraph (i)(1)(B) of this clause, obtain the prior 
approval of the committee for such trip.
  (e) A gift prohibited by paragraph (a)(1) includes the following:
      (1) Anything provided by a registered lobbyist or an agent of a 
foreign principal to an entity that is maintained or controlled by a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House.
      (2) A charitable contribution (as defined in section 170(c) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a registered lobbyist or an agent 
of a foreign principal on the basis of a designation, recommendation, or 
other specification of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House (not including a mass mailing or other 
solicitation directed to a broad category of persons or entities), other 
than a charitable contribution permitted by paragraph (f).
      (3) A contribution or other payment by a registered lobbyist or an 
agent of a foreign principal to a legal expense fund established for the 
benefit of a Member, Delegate, Resi

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dent Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House.
      (4) A financial contribution or expenditure made by a registered 
lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal relating to a conference, 
retreat, or similar event, sponsored by or affiliated with an official 
congressional organization, for or on behalf of Members, Delegates, the 
Resident Commissioner, officers, or employees of the House.
  (f)(1) A charitable contribution (as defined in section 170(c) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a registered lobbyist or an agent 
of a foreign principal in lieu of an honorarium to a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House is not 
considered a gift under this clause if it is reported as provided in 
subparagraph (2).
  (2) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
who designates or recommends a contribution to a charitable organization 
in lieu of an honorarium described in subparagraph (1) shall report 
within 30 days after such designation or recommendation to the Clerk--
      (A) the name and address of the registered lobbyist who is making 
the contribution in lieu of an honorarium;
      (B) the date and amount of the contribution; and
      (C) the name and address of the charitable organization designated 
or recommended by

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the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.
The Clerk shall make public information received under this subparagraph 
as soon as possible after it is received.
  (g) In this clause--
      (1) the term ``registered lobbyist'' means a lobbyist registered 
under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act or any successor statute;
      (2) the term ``agent of a foreign principal'' means an agent of a 
foreign principal registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act; 
and
      (3) the terms ``officer'' and ``employee'' have the same meanings 
as in rule XXIII.
  (h) All the provisions of this clause shall be interpreted and 
enforced solely by the Committee on Ethics. The Committee on Ethics is 
authorized to issue guidance on any matter contained in this clause.
  (i)(1) Not later than 45 days after the date of adoption of this 
paragraph and at annual intervals thereafter, the Committee on Ethics 
shall develop and revise, as necessary--
      (A) guidelines on judging the reasonableness of an expense or 
expenditure for purposes of this clause, including the factors that tend 
to establish--
          (i) a connection between a trip and official duties;
          (ii) the reasonableness of an amount spent by a sponsor;

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          (iii) a relationship between an event and an officially 
connected purpose; and
          (iv) a direct and immediate relationship between a source of 
funding and an event; and
      (B) regulations describing the information it will require 
individuals subject to this clause to submit to the committee in order 
to obtain the prior approval of the committee for any travel covered by 
this clause, including any required certifications.
  (2) In developing and revising guidelines under subparagraph (1)(A), 
the committee shall take into account the maximum per diem rates for 
official Government travel published annually by the General Services 
Administration, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense.

  This provision originally was adopted in the 104th Congress as rule 
LII (H. Res. 250, Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33433). It was amended in the 106th 
Congress to permit acceptance of a gift having a value of less than $50 
and a cumulative value from any one source in the calendar year of less 
than $100 (H. Res. 9, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 237). In the 105th Congress it 
was redesignated as rule LI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), and when 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
consolidated with former rules XLI and XLVIII under former rule XXVI 
(redesignated as rule XXV in the 107th Congress) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). Clause 5(e) (now 5(g)) and clause 4(a)(1) were amended in 
the 107th Congress to conform the definition of ``officer or employee'' 
to rule XXIII (sec. 2(w), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26). In the 108th 
Congress clause 5(a)(1)(B) was amended to allocate the value of 
perishable food sent to an office among the individual recipients rather 
than to the Member (sec. 2(r), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7) and clause 
5(a)(4)(C) was amended to permit, under specified circumstances, a 
Member to be reimbursed for transportation and lodging to attend a 
charity event (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). In the 109th 
Congress, clause 5(b)(4)(D) was amended to expand the definition of 
``necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses'' to include 
travel expenses of a relative of a Member (rather than only a spouse or 
child) (sec. 2(j), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). In the 110th 
Congress,

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clause 5 was amended as follows: (1) to add subdivision (ii) to 
paragraph (a)(1)(A), with a corresponding cross reference in paragraph 
(a)(1)(B)(i); (2) to add subdivision (ii) to paragraph (a)(1)(B); (3) to 
include as gifts reimbursement for transportation and lodging expenses 
from entities that retain registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign 
principal in paragraph (b)(1)(A) with an exception in a new subdivision 
(C) for reimbursements from institutions of higher education or for 
participation in one-day events (effective March 1, 2007); (4) to 
shorten from 30 to 15 days the time in which disclosure is made to the 
Clerk under paragraph (b)(1)(A)(ii) (effective March 1, 2007); (5) to 
add subdivision (F) to paragraph (b)(3); (6) to make a conforming 
amendment to paragraph (b)(3) (effective March 1, 2007); (7) to include 
additional certifications and disclosures in paragraph (b)(5) (effective 
March 1, 2007); (8) to add paragraphs (c) and (d) (effective March 1, 
2007); and (9) to add paragraph (i) (effective March 1, 2007). 
Subdivision (Q) was amended during the 110th Congress to clarify the 
events for which a gift of free attendance is not prohibited (sec. 4, H. 
Res. 437, May 24, 2007, p. 14156). In the 111th Congress a technical 
correction to paragraph (i)(2) was effected and gender-based references 
were eliminated (secs. 2(l), 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, pp. 7, 9). 
Amendments were effected in the 112th Congress to reflect a change in 
committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).

  The earliest <> form of the rule on ``employment 
practices'' was designated as rule LI. It grew out of the Fair 
Employment Practices Resolution first adopted in the 100th Congress (H. 
Res. 558, Oct. 3, 1988, p. 27840) and renewed in the 101st Congress (H. 
Res. 15, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 85). The terms of that resolution were 
incorporated by reference in a standing rule LI in the 102d Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39), and were codified in full text, with 
certain amendments, in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 
49). The Employment Practices rule was overtaken by the earliest form of 
``application of certain laws,'' which was originally designated as LII 
in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 578, Oct. 7, 1994, p. 29326). The 
Application of Laws rule, in turn, was overtaken by the Congressional 
Accountability Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-1; 2 U.S.C. 1301). Certain savings 
provisions appear in section 506 of that Act (2 U.S.C. 1435). A later 
form of the rule designated as LII (gift rule) was adopted in the 104th 
Congress (H. Res. 250, Nov. 16, 1995, p. 33433). In the 105th Congress 
the Gift Rule was redesignated as rule LI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 
121).


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Claims against the Government
  6. <> A person may not be an officer or employee of the House, or 
continue in its employment, if acting as an agent for the prosecution of 
a claim against the Government or if interested in such claim, except as 
an original claimant or in the proper discharge of official duties.

  This provision was adopted in 1842 (V, 7227). It was renumbered 
January 3, 1953 (p. 24). It was amended by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 
to include employees in the prohibition against prosecuting or having an 
interest in any claim against the Government, to specify the 
inapplicability of that prohibition to the discharge of official duties, 
and to delete an obsolete reference to the Committee on House 
Administration (P.L. 101-194). Gender-based references were eliminated 
in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). Before 
the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was 
found in former rule XLI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  In addition to rules XXIII through XXVI, several provisions of the 
Federal criminal code also address the conduct of Members, officers, and 
employees with respect to bribery of public officials (18 U.S.C. 201-
203), claims against the Government (18 U.S.C. 204, 205, 207(e), 216), 
and public officials acting as agents of foreign principals (18 U.S.C. 
219).

  7. <> A 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall prohibit all staff 
employed by that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner (including 
staff in personal, committee, and leadership offices) from making any 
lobbying contact (as defined in section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act 
of 1995) with that individual's spouse if that spouse is a lobbyist 
under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 or is employed or retained by 
such a lobbyist for the purpose of influencing legislation.


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  This provision was adopted in the 110th Congress (sec. 302, P.L. 110-
81).

  8. <> During the dates on which the national political party to 
which a Member (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner) belongs 
holds its convention to nominate a candidate for the office of President 
or Vice President, the Member may not participate in an event honoring 
that Member, other than in the capacity as a candidate for such office, 
if such event is directly paid for by a registered lobbyist under the 
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 or a private entity that retains or 
employs such a registered lobbyist.

  This provision was adopted in the 110th Congress (sec. 305, P.L. 110-
81). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).




                                Rule XXVI

                          financial disclosure

  1. <> The Clerk shall send a copy of each report filed with the 
Clerk under title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 within the 
seven-day period beginning on the date on which the report is filed to 
the Committee on Ethics.
  2. For the purposes of this rule, the provisions of title I of the 
Ethics in Government Act of 1978 shall be considered Rules of the House 
as they pertain to Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, 
officers, and employees of the House.

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  3. Members of the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics shall 
file annual financial disclosure reports with the Clerk of the House on 
or before May 15 of each calendar year after any year in which they 
perform the duties of that position. Such reports shall be on a form 
prepared by the Clerk that is substantially similar to form 450 of the 
Office of Government Ethics. The Clerk shall send a copy of each such 
report filed with the Clerk within the seven-day period beginning on the 
date on which the report is filed to the Committee on Ethics and shall 
have them printed as a House document and made available to the public 
by August 1 of each year.

  The original version of this rule (formerly rule XLIV) was adopted in 
the 90th Congress, in the same resolution that redefined the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now 
Ethics) (H. Res. 1099, Apr. 3, 1968, p. 8803). In the 91st Congress the 
rule was amended, effective for years after 1970, to require public 
disclosure of: (1) honoraria from a single source totaling $300 or more; 
and (2) each creditor to whom was owed an unsecured loan or other 
indebtedness of $10,000 or more outstanding for at least 90 days in the 
preceding calendar year (H. Res. 796, May 26, 1970, p. 17019). It was 
further amended in the 92d Congress to bring the Delegates and Resident 
Commissioner within the definition of ``Members'' in the final sentence 
of the rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13, 
1972, pp. 36021-23), and was amended in the 95th Congress to delete an 
obsolete reference (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). The rule was 
completely amended in the 95th Congress, effective July 1, 1977, to: (1) 
broaden the sources and minimum amounts of income reported; (2) require 
reports to be filed with the Clerk as well as with the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct; and (3) make reports available to the 
public as printed House documents rather than having them maintained by 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 
1977, pp. 5933-53), but this last requirement was repealed in the 113th 
Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). The rule was again 
amended in the 96th Congress to incorporate by reference the relevant 
provisions of title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 as they 
pertain to Members, officers, and employees of the House (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). Clause 1 was amended by the Ethics Reform Act 
of 1989 to make conforming changes in certain dates (P.L.

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101-194). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
this provision was found in former rule XLIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVI in the 107th Congress 
(sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Clause 3 was added in the 
110th Congress (H. Res. 895, Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3743). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). This rule was amended in the 112th Congress to 
reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, p. 80). Clause 3 was amended in the 114th Congress to replace an 
archaic reference to clause 1 with an August 1 deadline (sec. 2(h), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual 
(110th Cong., 2d Sess.). For a requirement that the Clerk make financial 
disclosure reports available to the public in electronic form, see 
section 8 of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 
(P.L. 112-105, as amended by P.L. 113-7).

  Pertinent provisions of title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 
1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 101-111) follow:

     Title I--Financial Disclosure Requirements of Federal Personnel

                        persons required to file

  Sec. 101. (a) Within thirty days of assuming the position of an 
officer or employee described in subsection (f), an individual shall 
file a report containing the information described in section 102(b) 
unless the individual has left another position described in subsection 
(f) within thirty days prior to assuming such new position or has 
already filed a report under this title with respect to nomination for 
the new position or as a candidate for the position.

                                  * * *

  (c) Within thirty days of becoming a candidate as defined in section 
301 of the Federal Campaign Act of 1971, in a calendar year for 
nomination or election to the office of President, Vice President, or 
Member of Congress, or on or before May 15 of that calendar year, 
whichever is later, but in no event later than 30 days before the 
election, and on or before May 15 of each successive year an individual 
continues to be a candidate, an individual other than an incumbent 
President, Vice President, or Member of Congress shall file a report 
containing the information described in section 102(b). Notwithstanding 
the preceding sentence, in any calendar year in which an individual 
continues to be a candidate for any office but all elections for such 
office relating to such candidacy were held in prior calendar years, 
such individual need not file a report unless he becomes a candidate for 
another vacancy in that office or another office during that year.

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  (d) Any individual who is an officer or employee described in 
subsection (f) during any calendar year and performs the duties of his 
position or office for a period in excess of sixty days in that calendar 
year shall file on or before May 15 of the succeeding year a report 
containing the information described in section 102(a).
  (e) Any individual who occupies a position described in subsection (f) 
shall, on or before the thirtieth day after termination of employment in 
such position, file a report containing the information described in 
section 102(a) covering the preceding calendar year if the report 
required by subsection (d) has not been filed and covering the portion 
of the calendar year in which such termination occurs up to the date the 
individual left such office or position, unless such individual has 
accepted employment in another position described in subsection (f).
  (f) The officers and employees referred to in subsections (a), (d), 
and (e) are-- * * *
  (9) a Member of Congress as defined under section 109(12);
  (10) an officer or employee of the Congress as defined under section 
109(13);

                                  * * *

  (g)(1) Reasonable extensions of time for filing any report may be 
granted under procedures prescribed by the supervising ethics office for 
each branch, but the total of such extensions shall not exceed ninety 
days. * * *
  (h) The provisions of subsections (a), (b), and (e) shall not apply to 
an individual who, as determined by the designated agency ethics 
official or Secretary concerned (or in the case of a Presidential 
appointee under subsection (b), the Director of the Office of Government 
Ethics), the congressional ethics committees, or the Judicial 
Conference, is not reasonably expected to perform the duties of his 
office or position for more than sixty days in a calendar year, except 
that if such individual performs the duties of his office or position 
for more than sixty days in a calendar year--
          (1) the report required by subsections (a) and (b) shall be 
        filed within fifteen days of the sixtieth day, and
          (2) the report required by subsection (e) shall be filed as 
        provided in such subsection.
  (i) The supervising ethics office for each branch may grant a publicly 
available request for a waiver of any reporting requirement under this 
section for an individual who is expected to perform or has performed 
the duties of his office or position less than one hundred and thirty 
days in a calendar year, but only if the supervising ethics office 
determines that--
          (1) such individual is not a full-time employee of the 
        Government,
          (2) such individual is able to provide services specially 
        needed by the Government,
          (3) it is unlikely that the individual's outside employment or 
        financial interests will create a conflict of interest, and

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          (4) public financial disclosure by such individual is not 
        necessary in the circumstances.

                           contents of reports

  Sec. 102. (a) Each report filed pursuant to section 101 (d) and (e) 
shall include a full and complete statement with respect to the 
following:
  (1)(A) The source, type, and amount or value of income (other than 
income referred to in subparagraph (B)) from any source (other than from 
current employment by the United States Government), and the source, 
date, and amount of honoraria from any source, received during the 
preceding calendar year, aggregating $200 or more in value and, 
effective January 1, 1991, the source, date, and amount of payments made 
to charitable organizations in lieu of honoraria, and the reporting 
individual shall simultaneously file with the applicable supervising 
ethics office, on a confidential basis, a corresponding list of 
recipients of all such payments, together with the dates and amounts of 
such payments.
  (B) The source and type of income which consists of dividends, rents, 
interest, and capital gains, received during the preceding calendar year 
which exceeds $200 in amount or value, and an indication of which of the 
following categories the amount or value of such item of income is 
within:
          (i) not more than $1,000,
          (ii) greater than $1,000 but not more than $2,500,
          (iii) greater than $2,500 but not more than $5,000,
          (iv) greater than $5,000 but not more than $15,000,
          (v) greater than $15,000 but not more than $50,000,
          (vi) greater than $50,000 but not more than $100,000,
          (vii) greater than $100,000 but not more than $1,000,000,
          (viii) greater than $1,000,000 but not more than $5,000,000, 
        or
          (ix) greater than $5,000,000.
  (2)(A) The identity of the source, a brief description, and the value 
of all gifts aggregating more than the minimal value as established by 
section 7342(a)(5) of title 5, United States Code, or $250, whichever is 
greater, received from any source other than a relative of the reporting 
individual during the preceding calendar year, except that any food, 
lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality of an 
individual need not be reported, and any gift with a fair market value 
of $100 or less, as adjusted at the same time and by the same percentage 
as the minimal value is adjusted, need not be aggregated for purposes of 
this subparagraph.
  (B) The identity of the source and a brief description (including a 
travel itinerary, dates, and nature of expenses provided) of 
reimbursements received from any source aggregating more than the 
minimal value as established by section 7342(a)(5) of title 5, United 
States Code, or $250, whichever is greater, and received during the 
preceding calendar year.
  (C) In an unusual case, a gift need not be aggregated under 
subparagraph (A) if a publicly available request for a waiver is 
granted.

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  (3) The identity and category of value of any interest in property 
held during the preceding calendar year in a trade or business, or for 
investment or the production of income, which has a fair market value 
which exceeds $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year, 
excluding any personal liability owed to the reporting individual by a 
spouse, or by a parent, brother, sister, or child of the reporting 
individual or of the reporting individual's spouse, or any deposits 
aggregating $5,000 or less in a personal savings account. For purposes 
of this paragraph, a personal savings account shall include any 
certificate of deposit or any other form of deposit in a bank, savings 
and loan association, credit union, or similar financial institution.
  (4) The identity and category of value of the total liabilities owed 
to any creditor other than a spouse, or a parent, brother, sister, or 
child of the reporting individual or of the reporting individual's 
spouse which exceed $10,000 at any time during the preceding calendar 
year, excluding--
          (A) any mortgage secured by real property which is a personal 
        residence of the reporting individual or his spouse, except that 
        this exception shall not apply to a reporting individual--
                  (i) described in paragraph (1), (2), or (9) of section 
                101(f);
                  (ii) described in section 101(b) who has been 
                nominated for appointment as an officer or employee in 
                the executive branch described in subsection (f) of such 
                section, other than--
                    (I) an individual appointed to a position--
                    (II) a special government employee, as defined under 
                section 202 of title 18, United States Code; or
                  (iii) described in section 101(f) who is in a position 
                in the executive branch the appointment to which is made 
                by the President and requires advice and consent of the 
                Senate, other than--
                    (I) an individual appointed to a position--
                    (II) a special government employee, as defined under 
                section 202 of title 18, United States Code; and
          (B) any loan secured by a personal motor vehicle, household 
        furniture, or appliances, which loan does not exceed the 
        purchase price of the item which secures it.


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With respect to revolving charge accounts, only those with an 
outstanding liability which exceeds $10,000 as of the close of the 
preceding calendar year need be reported under this paragraph.
  (5) Except as provided in this paragraph, a brief description, the 
date, and category of value of any purchase, sale or exchange during the 
preceding calendar year exceeds $1,000--
          (A) in real property, other than property used solely as a 
        personal residence of the reporting individual or his spouse; or
          (B) in stocks, bonds, commodities futures, and other forms of 
        securities.

Reporting is not required under this paragraph of any transaction solely 
by and between the reporting individual, his spouse, or dependent 
children.
  (6)(A) The identity of all positions held on or before the date of 
filing during the current calendar year (and, for the first report filed 
by an individual, during the two-year period preceding such calendar 
year) as an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, 
representative, employee, or consultant of any corporation, company, 
firm, partnership, or other business enterprise, any nonprofit 
organization, any labor organization, or any educational or other 
institution other than the United States. This subparagraph shall not 
require the reporting of positions held in any religious, social, 
fraternal, or political entity and positions solely of an honorary 
nature.
  (B) If any person, other than the United States Government, paid a 
nonelected reporting individual compensation in excess of $5,000 in any 
of the two calendar years prior to the calendar year during which the 
individual files his first report under this title, the individual shall 
include in the report--
          (i) the identity of each source of such compensation; and
          (ii) a brief description of the nature of the duties performed 
        or services rendered by the reporting individual for each such 
        source.

The preceding sentence shall not require any individual to include in 
such report any information which is considered confidential as a result 
of a privileged relationship, established by law, between such 
individual and any person nor shall it require an individual to report 
any information with respect to any person for whom services were 
provided by any firm or association of which such individual was a 
member, partner, or employee unless such individual was directly 
involved in the provision of such services.
  (7) A description of the date, parties to, and terms of any agreement 
or arrangement with respect to (A) future employment; (B) a leave of 
absence during the period of the reporting individual's Government 
service; (C) continuation of payments by a former employer other than 
the United States Government; and (D) continuing participation in an 
employee welfare or benefit plan maintained by a former employer.
  (8) The category of the total cash value of any interest of the 
reporting individual in a qualified blind trust, unless the trust 
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cuted prior to July 24, 1995 and precludes the beneficiary from 
receiving information on the total cash value of any interest in the 
qualified blind trust.
  (b)(1) Each report filed pursuant to subsections (a), (b), and (c) of 
section 101 shall include a full and complete statement with respect to 
the information required by--
          (A) paragraph (1) of subsection (a) for the year of filing and 
        the preceding calendar year,
          (B) paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (a) as of the date 
        specified in the report but which is less than thirty-one days 
        before the filing date, and
          (C) paragraphs (6) and (7) of subsection (a) as of the filing 
        date but for periods described in such paragraphs.
  (2)(A) In lieu of filling out one or more schedules of a financial 
disclosure form, an individual may supply the required information in an 
alternative format, pursuant to either rules adopted by the supervising 
ethics office for the branch in which such individual serves or pursuant 
to a specific written determination by such office for a reporting 
individual.
  (B) In lieu of indicating the category of amount or value of any item 
contained in any report filed under this title, a reporting individual 
may indicate the exact dollar amount of such item.
  (c) In the case of any individual described in section 101(e), any 
reference to the preceding calendar year shall be considered also to 
include that part of the calendar year of filing up to the date of the 
termination of employment.
  (d)(1) The categories for reporting the amount or value of the items 
covered in paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (8) of subsection (a) are as 
follows:
          (A) not more than $15,000;
          (B) greater than $15,000 but not more than $50,000;
          (C) greater than $50,000 but not more than $100,000;
          (D) greater than $100,000 but not more than $250,000;
          (E) greater than $250,000 but not more than $500,000;
          (F) greater than $500,000 but not more than $1,000,000;
          (G) greater than $1,000,000 but not more than $5,000,000;
          (H) greater than $5,000,000 but not more than $25,000,000;
          (I) greater than $25,000,000 but not more than $50,000,000; 
        and
          (J) greater than $50,000,000.
  (2) For the purposes of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) if the current 
value of an interest in real property (or an interest in a real estate 
partnership) is not ascertainable without an appraisal, an individual 
may list (A) the date of purchase and the purchase price of the interest 
in the real property, or (B) the assessed value of the real property for 
tax purposes, adjusted to reflect the market value of the property used 
for the assessment if the assessed value is computed at less than 100 
percent of such market value, but such individual shall include in his 
report a full and complete description of the method used to determine 
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of specifying a category of value pursuant to paragraph (1) of this 
subsection. If the current value of any other item required to be 
reported under paragraph (3) of subsection (a) is not ascertainable 
without an appraisal, such individual may list the book value of a 
corporation whose stock is not publicly traded, the net worth of a 
business partnership, the equity value of an individually owned 
business, or with respect to other holdings, any recognized indication 
of value, but such individual shall include in his report a full and 
complete description of the method used in determining such value. In 
lieu of any value referred to in the preceding sentence, an individual 
may list the assessed value of the item for tax purposes, adjusted to 
reflect the market value of the item used for the assessment if the 
assessed value is computed at less than 100 percent of such market 
value, but a full and complete description of the method used in 
determining such assessed value shall be included in the report.
  (e)(1) Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, each 
report required by section 101 shall also contain information listed in 
paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (a) of this section respecting 
the spouse or dependent child of the reporting individual as follows:
          (A) The source of items of earned income earned by a spouse 
        from any person which exceed $1,000 and the source and amount of 
        any honoraria received by a spouse, except that, with respect to 
        earned income (other than honoraria), if the spouse is self-
        employed in business or a profession, only the nature of such 
        business or profession need be reported.
          (B) All information required to be reported in subsection 
        (a)(1)(B) with respect to income derived by a spouse or 
        dependent child from any asset held by the spouse or dependent 
        child and reported pursuant to subsection (a)(3).
          (C) In the case of any gifts received by a spouse or dependent 
        child which are not received totally independent of the 
        relationship of the spouse or dependent child to the reporting 
        individual, the identity of the source and a brief description 
        of gifts of transportation, lodging, food, or entertainment and 
        a brief description and the value of other gifts.
          (D) In the case of any reimbursements received by a spouse or 
        dependent child which are not received totally independent of 
        the relationship of the spouse or dependent child to the 
        reporting individual, the identity of the source and a brief 
        description of each such reimbursement.
          (E) In the case of items described in paragraphs (3) through 
        (5) of subsection (a), all information required to be reported 
        under these paragraphs other than items (i) which the reporting 
        individual certifies represent the spouse's or dependent child's 
        sole financial interest or responsibility and which the 
        reporting individual has no knowledge of, (ii) which are not in 
        any way, past or present, derived from the income, assets, or 
        activities of the reporting individual, and

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        (iii) from which the reporting individual neither derives, nor 
        expects to derive, any financial or economic benefit.
          (F) For purposes of this section, categories with amounts or 
        values greater than $1,000,000 set forth in sections 
        102(a)(1)(B) and 102(d)(1) shall apply to the income, assets, or 
        liabilities of spouses and dependent children only if the 
        income, assets, or liabilities are held jointly with the 
        reporting individual. All other income, assets, or liabilities 
        of the spouse or dependent children required to be reported 
        under this section in an amount or value greater than $1,000,000 
        shall be categorized only as an amount or value greater than 
        $1,000,000.

Reports required by subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 101 shall, 
with respect to the spouse and dependent child of the reporting 
individual, only contain information listed in paragraphs (1), (3), and 
(4) of subsection (a), as specified in this paragraph.
  (2) No report shall be required with respect to a spouse living 
separate and apart from the reporting individual with the intention of 
terminating the marriage or providing for permanent separation; or with 
respect to any income or obligations of an individual arising from the 
dissolution of his marriage or the permanent separation from his spouse.
  (f)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), each reporting individual 
shall report the information required to be reported pursuant to 
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section with respect to the 
holdings of and the income from a trust or other financial arrangement 
from which income is received by, or with respect to which a beneficial 
interest in principal or income is held by, such individual, his spouse, 
or any dependent child.
  (2) A reporting individual need not report the holdings of or the 
source of income from any of the holdings of--
          (A) any qualified blind trust (as defined in paragraph (3));
          (B) a trust--
                  (i) which was not created directly by such individual, 
                his spouse, or any dependent child, and
                  (ii) the holdings or sources of income of which such 
                individual, his spouse, and any dependent child have no 
                knowledge of; or
          (C) an entity described under the provisions of paragraph (8), 
        but such individual shall report the category of the amount of 
        income received by him, his spouse, or any dependent child from 
        the trust or other entity under subsection (a)(1)(B) of this 
        section.
  (3) For purpose of this subsection, the term ``qualified blind trust'' 
includes any trust in which a reporting individual, his spouse, or any 
minor or dependent child has a beneficial interest in the principal or 
income, and which meets the following requirements:
          (A)(i) The trustee of the trust and any other entity 
        designated in the trust instrument to perform fiduciary duties 
        is a financial institution, an attorney, a certified public 
        accountant, a broker, or an investment advisor who--

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                  (I) is independent of and not associated with any 
                interested party so that the trustee or other person 
                cannot be controlled or influenced in the administration 
                of the trust by any interested party;
                  (II) is not and has not been an employee of or 
                affiliated with any interested party and is not a 
                partner of, or involved in any joint venture or other 
                investment with, any interested party; and
                  (III) is not a relative of any interested party.
              (ii) Any officer or employee of a trustee or other entity 
            who is involved in the management or control of the trust--
                  (I) is independent of and not associated with any 
                interested party so that such officer or employee cannot 
                be controlled or influenced in the administration of the 
                trust by any interested party;
                  (II) is not a partner of, or involved in any joint 
                venture or other investment with, any interested party; 
                and
                  (III) is not a relative of any interested party.
          (B) Any asset transferred to the trust by an interested party 
        is free of any restriction with respect to its transfer or sale 
        unless such restriction is expressly approved by the supervising 
        ethics office of the reporting individual.
          (C) The trust instrument which establishes the trust provides 
        that--
                  (i) except to the extent provided in subparagraph (B) 
                of this paragraph, the trustee in the exercise of his 
                authority and discretion to manage and control the 
                assets of the trust shall not consult or notify any 
                interested party;
                  (ii) the trust shall not contain any asset the holding 
                of which by an interested party is prohibited by any law 
                or regulation;
                  (iii) the trustee shall promptly notify the reporting 
                individual and his supervising ethics office when the 
                holdings of any particular asset transferred to the 
                trust by any interested party are disposed of or when 
                the value of such holding is less than $1,000;
                  (iv) the trust tax return shall be prepared by the 
                trustee or his designee, and such return and any 
                information relating thereto (other than the trust 
                income summarized in appropriate categories necessary to 
                complete an interested party's tax return), shall not be 
                disclosed to any interested party;
                  (v) an interested party shall not receive any report 
                on the holdings and sources of income of the trust, 
                except a report at the end of each calendar quarter with 
                respect to the total cash value of the interest of the 
                interested party in the trust or the net income or loss 
                of the trust or any reports necessary to enable the 
                interested party to complete an individual tax return re

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                quired by law or to provide the information required by 
                subsection (a)(1) of this section, but such report shall 
                not identify any asset or holding;
                  (vi) except for communications which solely consist of 
                requests for distributions of cash or other unspecified 
                assets of the trust, there shall be no direct or 
                indirect communication between the trustee and an 
                interested party with respect to the trust unless such 
                communication is in writing and unless it relates only 
                (I) to the general financial interest and needs of the 
                interested party (including, but not limited to, an 
                interest in maximizing income or long-term capital 
                gain), (II) to the notification of the trustee of a law 
                or regulation subsequently applicable to the reporting 
                individual which prohibits the interested party from 
                holding an asset, which notification directs that the 
                asset not be held by the trust, or (III) to directions 
                to the trustee to sell all of an asset initially placed 
                in the trust by an interested party which in the 
                determination of the reporting individual creates a 
                conflict of interest or the appearance thereof due to 
                the subsequent assumption of duties by the reporting 
                individual (but nothing herein shall require any such 
                direction); and
                  (vii) the interested parties shall make no effort to 
                obtain information with respect to the holdings of the 
                trust, including obtaining a copy of any trust tax 
                return filed or any information relating thereto except 
                as otherwise provided in this subsection.
          (D) The proposed trust instrument and the proposed trustee is 
        approved by the reporting individual's supervising ethics 
        office.
          (E) For purposes of this subsection, ``interested party'' 
        means a reporting individual, his spouse, and any minor or 
        dependent child; ``broker'' has the meaning set forth in section 
        3(a)(4) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 
        78c(a)(4)); and ``investment adviser'' includes any investment 
        adviser who, as determined under regulations prescribed by the 
        supervising ethics office, is generally involved in his role as 
        such an adviser in the management or control of trusts.
          (F) Any trust qualified by a supervising ethics office before 
        the effective date of title II of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 
        shall continue to be governed by the law and regulations in 
        effect immediately before such effective date.
  (4)(A) An asset placed in a trust by an interested party shall be 
considered a financial interest of the reporting individual, for the 
purposes of any applicable conflict of interest statutes, regulations, 
or rules of the Federal Government (including section 208 of title 18, 
United States Code), until such time as the reporting individual is 
notified by the trustee that such asset has been disposed of, or has a 
value of less than $1,000.
  (B)(i) The provisions of subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect 
to a trust created for the benefit of a reporting individual, or the 
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dependent child, or minor child of such a person, if the supervising 
ethics office for such reporting individual finds that--
          (I) the assets placed in the trust consist of a well-
        diversified portfolio of readily marketable securities;
          (II) none of the assets consist of securities of entities 
        having substantial activities in the area of the reporting 
        individual's primary area of responsibility;
          (III) the trust instrument prohibits the trustee, 
        notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3)(C) (iii) and 
        (iv) of this subsection, from making public or informing any 
        interested party of the sale of any securities;
          (IV) the trustee is given power of attorney, notwithstanding 
        the provisions of paragraph (3)(C)(v) of this subsection, to 
        prepare on behalf of any interested party the personal income 
        tax returns and similar returns which may contain information 
        relating to the trust; and
          (V) except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the trust 
        instrument provides (or in the case of a trust established prior 
        to the effective date of this Act which by its terms does not 
        permit amendment, the trustee, the reporting individual, and any 
        other interested party agree in writing) that the trust shall be 
        administered in accordance with the requirements of this 
        subsection and the trustee of such trust meets the requirements 
        of paragraph (3)(A).

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  (5)(A) The reporting individual shall, within thirty days after a 
qualified blind trust is approved by his supervising ethics office, file 
with such office a copy of--
          (i) the executed trust instrument of such trust (other than 
        those provisions which relate to the testamentary disposition of 
        the trust assets), and
          (ii) a list of the assets which were transferred to such 
        trust, including the category of value of each asset as 
        determined under subsection (d) of this section.

This subparagraph shall not apply with respect to a trust meeting the 
requirements for being considered a qualified blind trust under 
paragraph (7) of this subsection.
  (B) The reporting individual shall, within thirty days of transferring 
an asset (other than cash) to a previously established qualified blind 
trust, notify his supervising ethics office of the identity of each such 
asset and the category of value of each asset as determined under 
subsection (d) of this section.
  (C) Within thirty days of the dissolution of a qualified blind trust, 
a reporting individual shall--
          (i) notify his supervising ethics office of such dissolution, 
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          (ii) file with such office a copy of a list of the assets of 
        the trust at the time of such dissolution and the category of 
        value under subsection (d) of this section of each such asset.
  (D) Documents filed under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of this 
paragraph and the lists provided by the trustee of assets placed in the 
trust by an interested party which have been sold shall be made 
available to the public in the same manner as a report is made available 
under section 105 and the provisions of that section shall apply with 
respect to such documents and lists.
  (E) A copy of each written communication with respect to the trust 
under paragraph (3)(C)(vi) shall be filed by the person initiating the 
communication with the reporting individual's supervising ethics office 
within five days of the date of the communication.
  (6)(A) A trustee of a qualified blind trust shall not knowingly and 
willfully, or negligently, (i) disclose any information to an interested 
party with respect to such trust that may not be disclosed under 
paragraph (3) of this subsection; (ii) acquire any holding the ownership 
of which is prohibited by the trust instrument; (iii) solicit advice 
from any interested party with respect to such trust, which solicitation 
is prohibited by paragraph (3) of this subsection or the trust 
agreement; or (iv) fail to file any document required by this 
subsection.
  (B) A reporting individual shall not knowingly and willfully, or 
negligently, (i) solicit or receive any information with respect to a 
qualified blind trust of which he is an interested party that may not be 
disclosed under paragraph (3)(C) of this subsection or (ii) fail to file 
any document required by this subsection.
  (C)(i) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any 
appropriate United States district court against any individual who 
knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of subparagraph (A) or 
(B) of this paragraph. The court in which such action is brought may 
assess against such individual a civil penalty in any amount not to 
exceed $10,000.
  (ii) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any appropriate 
United States district court against any individual who negligently 
violates the provisions of subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph. 
The court in which such action is brought may assess against such 
individual a civil penalty in any amount not to exceed $5,000.
  (7) Any trust may be considered to be a qualified blind trust if--
          (A) the trust instrument is amended to comply with the 
        requirements of paragraph (3) or, in the case of a trust 
        instrument which does not by its terms permit amendment, the 
        trustee, the reporting individual, and any other interested 
        party agree in writing that the trust shall be administered in 
        accordance with the requirements of this subsection and the 
        trustee of such trust meets the requirements of paragraph 
        (3)(A); except that in the case of any interested party who is a 
        dependent child, a parent or guardian of such child may execute 
        the agreement referred to in this subparagraph;

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          (B) a copy of the trust instrument (except testamentary 
        provisions) and a copy of the agreement referred to in 
        subparagraph (A), and a list of the assets held by the trust at 
        the time of approval by the supervising ethics office, including 
        the category of value of each asset as determined under 
        subsection (d) of this section, are filed with such office and 
        made available to the public as provided under paragraph (5)(D) 
        of this subsection; and
          (C) the supervising ethics office determines that approval of 
        the trust arrangement as a qualified blind trust is in the 
        particular case appropriate to assure compliance with applicable 
        laws and regulations.
  (8) A reporting individual shall not be required to report the 
financial interests held by a widely held investment fund (whether such 
fund is a mutual fund, regulated investment company, pension or deferred 
compensation plan, or other investment fund), if--
          (A)(i) the fund is publicly traded; or
          (ii) the assets of the fund are widely diversified; and
          (B) the reporting individual neither exercises control over 
        nor has the ability to exercise control over the financial 
        interests held by the fund.
  (g) Political campaign funds, including campaign receipts and 
expenditures, need not be included in any report filed pursuant to this 
title.
  (h) A report filed pursuant to subsection (a), (d), or (e) of section 
101 need not contain the information described in subparagraphs (A), 
(B), and (C) of subsection (a)(2) with respect to gifts and 
reimbursements received in a period when the reporting individual was 
not an officer or employee of the Federal Government.
  (i) A reporting individual shall not be required under this title to 
report--
          (1) financial interests in or income derived from--
                  (A) any retirement system under title 5, United States 
                Code (including the Thrift Savings Plan under subchapter 
                III of chapter 84 of such title); or
                  (B) any other retirement system maintained by the 
                United States for officers or employees of the United 
                States, including the President, or for members of the 
                uniformed services; or
          (2) benefits received under the Social Security Act.

                            filing of reports

  Sec. 103. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the 
reports required under this title shall be filed by the reporting 
individual with the designated agency ethics official at the agency by 
which he is employed (or in the case of an individual described in 
section 101(e), was employed) or in which he will serve. The date any 
report is received (and the date of receipt of any supplemental report) 
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                                  * * *

  (g) Each supervising Ethics Office shall develop and make available 
forms for reporting the information required by this title.
  (h)(1) The reports required under this title shall be filed by a 
reporting individual with--
          (A)(i)(I) the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in the 
        case of a Representative in Congress, a Delegate to Congress, 
        the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, an officer or 
        employee of the Congress whose compensation is disbursed by the 
        Clerk of the House of Representatives, an officer or employee of 
        the Architect of the Capitol, United States Capitol Police, the 
        United States Botanic Garden, the Congressional Budget Office, 
        the Government Publishing Office, the Library of Congress, or 
        the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (including any individual 
        terminating service, under section 101(e), in any office or 
        position referred to in this subclause), or an individual 
        described in section 101(c) who is a candidate for nomination or 
        election as a Representative in Congress, a Delegate to 
        Congress, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico;

                                  * * *

          (ii) in the case of an officer or employee of the Congress as 
        described under section 101(f)(10) who is employed by an agency 
        or commission established in the legislative branch after the 
        date of the enactment of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989--
                  (I) the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the 
                House of Representatives, as the case may be, as 
                designated in the statute establishing such agency or 
                commission; or
                  (II) if such statute does not designate such 
                committee, the Secretary of the Senate for agencies and 
                commissions established in even numbered calendar years, 
                and the Clerk of the House of Representatives for 
                agencies and commissions established in odd numbered 
                calendar years;

                                  * * *

          (2) The date any report is received (and the date of receipt 
        of any supplemental report) shall be noted on such report by 
        such committee.
  (i)(1) A copy of each report filed under this title by a Member or an 
individual who is a candidate for the office of Member shall be sent by 
the Clerk of the House of Representatives or Secretary of the Senate, as 
the case may be, to the appropriate State officer designated under 
section 316(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 of the State 
represented by the Member or in which the individual is a candidate, as 
the case may be, within the 30-day period beginning on the day the 
report is filed with the Clerk or Secretary.

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  (2) The requirements of paragraph (1) do not apply to any report filed 
under this title which is filed electronically and for which there is 
online public access, in accordance with the systems developed by the 
Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives under section 8(b) of the Stop Trading on 
Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012.
  (j)(1) A copy of each report filed under this title with the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives shall be sent by the Clerk to the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives within 
the 7-day period beginning on the day the report is filed.

                                  * * *

  (k) In carrying out their responsibilities under this title with 
respect to candidates for office, the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate shall avail themselves 
of the assistance of the Federal Election Commission. The Commission 
shall make available to the Clerk and the Secretary on a regular basis a 
complete list of names and addresses of all candidates registered with 
the Commission, and shall cooperate and coordinate its candidate 
information and notification program with the Clerk and the Secretary to 
the greatest extent possible.
  (l) Not later than 30 days after receiving notification of any 
transaction required to be reported under section 102(a)(5)(B), but in 
no case later than 45 days after such transaction, the following 
persons, if required to file a report under any subsection of section 
101, subject to any waivers and exclusions, shall file a report of the 
transaction:

                                  * * *

          (9) A Member of Congress, as defined under section 109(12).
          (10) An officer or employee of the Congress, as defined under 
        section 109(13).

                 failure to file or filing false reports

  Sec. 104. (a)(1) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any 
appropriate United States district court against any individual who 
knowingly and willfully falsifies or who knowingly and willfully fails 
to file or report any information that such individual is required to 
report pursuant to section 102. The court in which such action is 
brought may assess against such individual a civil penalty in any 
amount, not to exceed $50,000.
  (2)(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and 
willfully--
          (i) falsify any information that such person is required to 
        report under section 102; and
          (ii) fail to file or report any information that such person 
        is required to report under section 102.
  (B) Any person who--

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          (i) violates subparagraph (A)(i) shall be fined under title 
        18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or 
        both; and
          (ii) violates subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be fined under title 
        18, United States Code.
  (b) The head of each agency, each Secretary concerned, the Director of 
the Office of Government Ethics, each congressional ethics committee, or 
the Judicial Conference, as the case may be, shall refer to the Attorney 
General the name of any individual which such official or committee has 
reasonable cause to believe has willfully failed to file a report or has 
willfully falsified or willfully failed to file information required to 
be reported.
  (c) The President, the Vice President, the Secretary concerned, the 
head of each agency, the Office of Personnel Management, a congressional 
ethics committee, and the Judicial Conference of the United States, may 
take any appropriate personnel or other action in accordance with 
applicable law or regulation against any individual failing to file a 
report or falsifying or failing to report information required to be 
reported.
  (d)(1) Any individual who files a report required to be filed under 
this title more than 30 days after the later of--
          (A) the date such report is required to be filed pursuant to 
        the provisions of this title and the rules and regulations 
        promulgated thereunder; or
          (B) if a filing extension is granted to such individual under 
        section 101(g), the last day of the filing extension period, 
        shall, at the direction of and pursuant to regulations issued by 
        the supervising ethics office, pay a filing fee of $200. All 
        such fees shall be deposited in the miscellaneous receipts of 
        the Treasury. The authority under this paragraph to direct the 
        payment of a filing fee may be delegated by the supervising 
        ethics office in the executive branch to other agencies in the 
        executive branch.
  (2) The supervising ethics office may waive the filing fee under this 
subsection in extraordinary circumstances.

                 custody of and public access to reports

  Sec. 105. (a) Each agency, each supervising ethics office in the 
executive or judicial branch, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 
and the Secretary of the Senate shall make available to the public, in 
accordance with subsection (b), each report filed under this title with 
such agency or office or with the Clerk or the Secretary of the Senate.

                                  * * *

  (b)(1) Except as provided in the second sentence of this subsection, 
each agency, each supervising ethics office in the executive or judicial 
branch, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of 
the Senate shall, within thirty days after any report is received under 
this title by such agency or office or by the Clerk or the Secretary of 
the Senate, as

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the case may be, permit inspection of such report by or furnish a copy 
of such report to any person requesting such inspection or copy. With 
respect to any report required to be filed by May 15 of any year, such 
report shall be made available for public inspection within 30 calendar 
days after May 15 of such year or within 30 days of the date of filing 
of such a report for which an extension is granted pursuant to section 
101(g). The agency, office, Clerk, or Secretary of the Senate, as the 
case may be may require a reasonable fee to be paid in any amount which 
is found necessary to recover the cost of reproduction or mailing of 
such report excluding any salary of any employee involved in such 
reproduction or mailing. A copy of such report may be furnished without 
charge or at a reduced charge if it is determined that waiver or 
reduction of the fee is in the public interest.
  (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a report may not be made available 
under this section to any person nor may any copy thereof be provided 
under this section to any person except upon a written application by 
such person stating--
          (A) that person's name, occupation and address;
          (B) the name and address of any other person or organization 
        on whose behalf the inspection or copy is requested; and
          (C) that such person is aware of the prohibitions on the 
        obtaining or use of the report.

Any such application shall be made available to the public throughout 
the period during which the report is made available to the public.
  (3)(A) This section does not require the immediate and unconditional 
availability of reports filed by an individual described in section 
109(8) or 109(10) of this Act if a finding is made by the Judicial 
Conference, in consultation with United States Marshals Service, that 
revealing personal and sensitive information could endanger that 
individual.
  (B) A report may be redacted pursuant to this paragraph only--
          (i) to the extent necessary to protect the individual who 
        filed the report; and
          (ii) for as long as the danger to such individual exists.
  (C) The Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall submit 
to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and 
of the Senate and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform an annual report with respect to the operation of this paragraph 
including--
          (i) the total number of reports redacted pursuant to this 
        paragraph;
          (ii) the total number of individuals whose reports have been 
        redacted pursuant to this paragraph; and
          (iii) the types of threats against individuals whose reports 
        are redacted, if appropriate.

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  (D) The Judicial Conference, in consultation with the Department of 
Justice, shall issue regulations setting forth the circumstances under 
which redaction is appropriate under this paragraph and the procedures 
for redaction.
  (E) This paragraph shall expire on December 31, 2017, and apply to 
filings through calendar year 2017.
  (c)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain or use a report--
          (A) for any unlawful purpose;
          (B) for any commercial purpose, other than by news and 
        communications media for dissemination to the general public;
          (C) for determining or establishing the credit rating of any 
        individual; or
          (D) for use, directly or indirectly, in the solicitation of 
        money for any political, charitable, or other purpose.
  (2) The Attorney General may bring a civil action against any person 
who obtains or uses a report for any purpose prohibited in paragraph (1) 
of this subsection. The court in which such action is brought may assess 
against such person a penalty in any amount not to exceed $10,000. Such 
remedy shall be in addition to any other remedy available under 
statutory or common law.
  (d)(1) Any report filed with or transmitted to an agency or 
supervising ethics office or to the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate pursuant to this title 
shall be retained by such agency or office or by the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the case may be.
  (2) Such report shall be made available to the public--
          (A) in the case of a Member of Congress until a date that is 6 
        years from the date the individual ceases to be a Member of 
        Congress; and
          (B) in the case of all other reports filed pursuant to this 
        title, for a period of 6 years after receipt of the report.
  (3) After the relevant time period identified under paragraph (2), the 
report shall be destroyed unless needed in an ongoing investigation, 
except that in the case of an individual who filed the report pursuant 
to section 101(b) and was not subsequently confirmed by the Senate, or 
who filed the report pursuant to section 101(c) and was not subsequently 
elected, such reports shall be destroyed 1 year after the individual 
either is no longer under consideration by the Senate or is no longer a 
candidate for nomination or election to the Office of President, Vice 
President, or as a Member of Congress, unless needed in an ongoing 
investigation or inquiry.
  (d) Any report filed with or transmitted to an agency or supervising 
ethics office or to the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the 
Secretary of the Senate pursuant to this title shall be retained by such 
agency or office or by the Clerk or the Secretary of the Senate, as the 
case may be. Such report shall be made available to the public for a 
period of six

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years after receipt of the report. After such six-year period the report 
shall be destroyed unless needed in an ongoing investigation, except 
that in the case of an individual who filed the report pursuant to 
section 101(b) and was not subsequently confirmed by the Senate, or who 
filed the report pursuant to section 101(c) and was not subsequently 
elected, such reports shall be destroyed one year after the individual 
either is no longer under consideration by the Senate or is no longer a 
candidate for nomination or election to the Office of President, Vice 
President, or as a Member of Congress, unless needed in an ongoing 
investigation.

                            review of reports

  Sec. 106. (a)(1) Each designated agency ethics official or Secretary 
concerned shall make provisions to ensure that each report filed with 
him under this title is reviewed within sixty days after the date of 
such filing, except that the Director of the Office of Government Ethics 
shall review only those reports required to be transmitted to him under 
this title within sixty days after the date of transmittal.
  (2) Each congressional ethics committee and the Judicial Conference 
shall make provisions to ensure that each report filed under this title 
is reviewed within sixty days after the date of such filing.
  (b)(1) If after reviewing any report under subsection (a), the 
Director of the Office of Government Ethics, the Secretary concerned, 
the designated agency ethics official, a person designated by the 
congressional ethics committee, or a person designated by the Judicial 
Conference, as the case may be, is of the opinion that on the basis of 
information contained in such report the individual submitting such 
report is in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, he shall 
state such opinion on the report, and shall sign such report.
  (2) If the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, the Secretary 
concerned, the designated agency ethics official, a person designated by 
the congressional ethics committee, or a person designated by the 
Judicial Conference, after reviewing any report under subsection (a)--
          (A) believes additional information is required to be 
        submitted, he shall notify the individual submitting such report 
        what additional information is required and the time by which it 
        must be submitted, or
          (B) is of the opinion, on the basis of information submitted, 
        that the individual is not in compliance with applicable laws 
        and regulations, he shall notify the individual, afford a 
        reasonable opportunity for a written or oral response, and after 
        consideration of such response, reach an opinion as to whether 
        or not, on the basis of information submitted, the individual is 
        in compliance with such laws and regulations.
  (3) If the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, the Secretary 
concerned, the designated agency ethics official, a person designated by 
a congressional ethics committee, or a person designated by the Judicial

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Conference, reaches an opinion under paragraph (2)(B) that an individual 
is not in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the official 
or committee shall notify the individual of that opinion and, after an 
opportunity for personal consultation (if practicable), determine and 
notify the individual of which steps, if any, would in the opinion of 
such official or committee be appropriate for assuring compliance with 
such laws and regulations and the date by which such steps should be 
taken. Such steps may include, as appropriate--
          (A) divestiture,
          (B) restitution,
          (C) the establishment of a blind trust,
          (D) request for an exemption under section 208(b) of title 18, 
        United States Code, or
          (E) voluntary request for transfer, reassignment, limitation 
        of duties, or resignation.

The use of any such steps shall be in accordance with such rules or 
regulations as the supervising ethics office may prescribe.
  (4) If steps for assuring compliance with applicable laws and 
regulations are not taken by the date set under paragraph (3) by an 
individual in a position in the executive branch (other than in the 
Foreign Service or the uniformed services), appointment to which 
requires the advice and consent of the Senate, the matter shall be 
referred to the President for appropriate action.
  (5) If steps for assuring compliance with applicable laws and 
regulations are not taken by the date set under paragraph (3) by a 
member of the Foreign Service or the uniformed services, the Secretary 
concerned shall take appropriate action.
  (6) If steps for assuring compliance with applicable laws and 
regulations are not taken by the date set under paragraph (3) by any 
other officer or employee, the matter shall be referred to the head of 
the appropriate agency, the congressional ethics committee, or the 
Judicial Conference, for appropriate action; except that in the case of 
the Postmaster General or Deputy Postmaster General, the Director of the 
Office of Government Ethics shall recommend to the Governors of the 
Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service the action to be 
taken.
  (7) Each supervising ethics office may render advisory opinions 
interpreting this title within its respective jurisdiction. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the individual to whom a 
public advisory opinion is rendered in accordance with this paragraph, 
and any other individual covered by this title who is involved in a fact 
situation which is indistinguishable in all material aspects, and who 
acts in good faith in accordance with the provisions and findings of 
such advisory opinion shall not, as a result of such act, be subject to 
any penalty or sanction provided by this title.

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         confidential reports and other additional requirements

  Sec. 107. (a)(1) Each supervising ethics office may require officers 
and employees under its jurisdiction (including special Government 
employees as defined in section 202 of title 18, United States Code) to 
file confidential financial disclosure reports, in such form as the 
supervising ethics office may prescribe. The information required to be 
reported under this subsection by the officers and employees of any 
department or agency shall be set forth in rules or regulations 
prescribed by the supervising ethics office, and may be less extensive 
than otherwise required by this title, or more extensive when determined 
by the supervising ethics office to be necessary and appropriate in 
light of sections 202 through 209 of title 18, United States Code, 
regulations promulgated thereunder, or the authorized activities of such 
officers or employees. Any individual required to file a report pursuant 
to section 101 shall not be required to file a confidential report 
pursuant to this subsection, except with respect to information which is 
more extensive than information otherwise required by this title. 
Subsections (a), (b), and (d) of section 105 shall not apply with 
respect to any such report.
  (2) Any information required to be provided by an individual under 
this subsection shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed to the 
public.
  (3) Nothing in this subsection exempts any individual otherwise 
covered by the requirement to file a public financial disclosure report 
under this title from such requirement.
  (b) The provisions of this title requiring the reporting of 
information shall supersede any general requirement under any other 
provision of law or regulation with respect to the reporting of 
information required for purposes of preventing conflicts of interest or 
apparent conflicts of interest. Such provisions of this title shall not 
supersede the requirements of section 7342 of title 5, United States 
Code.
  (c) Nothing in this Act requiring reporting of information shall be 
deemed to authorize the receipt of income, gifts, or reimbursements; the 
holding of assets, liabilities, or positions; or the participation in 
transactions that are prohibited by law, Executive order, rule, or 
regulation.

                    authority of comptroller general

  Sec. 108. (a) The Comptroller General shall have access to financial 
disclosure reports filed under this title for the purposes of carrying 
out his statutory responsibilities.
  (b) No later than December 31, 1992, and regularly thereafter, the 
Comptroller General shall conduct a study to determine whether the 
provisions of this title are being carried out effectively.

                               definitions

  Sec. 109. For the purposes of this title, the term--

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  (1) ``congressional ethics committees'' means the Select Committee on 
Ethics of the Senate and the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
of the House of Representatives;
  (2) ``dependent child'' means, when used with respect to any reporting 
individual, any individual who is a son, daughter, stepson, or 
stepdaughter and who--
          (A) is unmarried and under age 21 and is living in the 
        household of such reporting individual; or
          (B) is a dependent of such reporting individual within the 
        meaning of section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
  (3) ``designated agency ethics official'' means an officer or employee 
who is designated to administer the provisions of this title within an 
agency;

                                  * * *

  (5) ``gift'' means a payment, advance, forbearance, rendering, or 
deposit of money, or any thing of value, unless consideration of equal 
or greater value is received by the donor, but does not include--
          (A) bequest and other forms of inheritance;
          (B) suitable mementos of a function honoring the reporting 
        individual;
          (C) food, lodging, transportation, and entertainment provided 
        by a foreign government within a foreign country or by the 
        United States Government, the District of Columbia, or a State 
        or local government or political subdivision thereof;
          (D) food and beverages which are not consumed in connection 
        with a gift of overnight lodging;
          (E) communications to the offices of a reporting individual, 
        including subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; or
          (F) consumable products provided by home-State businesses to 
        the offices of a reporting individual who is an elected 
        official, if those products are intended for consumption by 
        persons other than such reporting individual;
  (6) ``honoraria'' has the meaning given such term in section 505 of 
this Act;
  (7) ``income'' means all income from whatever source derived, 
including but not limited to the following items: compensation for 
services, including fees, commissions, and similar items; gross income 
derived from business (and net income if the individual elects to 
include it); gains derived from dealings in property; interest; rents; 
royalties; dividends; annuities; income from life insurance and 
endowment contracts; pensions; income from discharge of indebtedness; 
distributive share of partnership income; and income from an interest in 
an estate or trust;

                                  * * *

  (11) ``legislative branch'' includes--
          (A) the Architect of the Capitol;

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          (B) the Botanic Gardens;
          (C) the Congressional Budget Office;
          (D) the Government Accountability Office;
          (E) the Government Publishing Office;
          (F) the Library of Congress;
          (G) the United States Capitol Police;
          (H) the Office of Technology Assessment; and
          (I) any other agency, entity, office, or commission 
        established in the legislative branch;
  (12) ``Member of Congress'' means a United States Senator, a 
Representative in Congress, a Delegate to Congress, or the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico;
  (13) ``officer or employee of the Congress'' means--
          (A) any individual described under subparagraph (B), other 
        than a Member of Congress or the Vice President, whose 
        compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the 
        Clerk of the House of Representatives;
          (B)(i) each officer or employee of the legislative branch 
        (except any officer or employee of the Government Accountability 
        Office) who, for at least 60 days, occupies a position for which 
        the rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of 
        the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS-15 of the General 
        Schedule;
          (ii) each officer or employee of the Government Accountability 
        Office who, for at least 60 consecutive days, occupies a 
        position for which the rate of basic pay, minus the amount of 
        locality pay that would have been authorized under section 5304 
        of title 5, United States Code (had the officer or employee been 
        paid under the General Schedule) for the locality within which 
        the position of such officer or employee is located (as 
        determined by the Comptroller General), is equal to or greater 
        than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for 
        GS-15 of the General Schedule; and
          (iii) at least one principal assistant designated for purposes 
        of this paragraph by each Member who does not have an employee 
        who occupies a position for which the rate of basic pay is equal 
        to or greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay 
        payable for GS-15 of the General Schedule;
  (14) ``personal hospitality of any individual'' means hospitality 
extended for a nonbusiness purpose by an individual, not a corporation 
or organization, at the personal residence of that individual or his 
family or on property or facilities owned by that individual or his 
family;
  (15) ``reimbursement'' means any payment or other thing of value 
received by the reporting individual, other than gifts, to cover travel-
related expenses of such individual other than those which are--
          (A) provided by the United States Government, the District of 
        Columbia, or a State or local government or political 
        subdivision thereof;

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          (B) required to be reported by the reporting individual under 
        section 7342 of title 5, United States Code; or
          (C) required to be reported under section 304 of the Federal 
        Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434);
  (16) ``relative'' means an individual who is related to the reporting 
individual, as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, 
aunt, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, 
wife, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, 
mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-
law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, 
stepsister, half brother, half sister, or who is the grandfather or 
grandmother of the spouse of the reporting individual, and shall be 
deemed to include the fiance or fiancee of the reporting individual;

                                  * * *

  (18) ``supervising ethics office'' means--
          (A) the Senate Committee on Ethics of the Senate, for 
        Senators, officers and employees of the Senate, and other 
        officers or employees of the legislative branch required to file 
        financial disclosure reports with the Secretary of the Senate 
        pursuant to section 103(h) of this title;
          (B) the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the 
        House of Representatives, for Members, officers and employees of 
        the House of Representatives and other officers or employees of 
        the legislative branch required to file financial disclosure 
        reports with the Clerk of the House of Representatives pursuant 
        to section 103(h) of this title;
          (C) the Judicial Conference for judicial officers and judicial 
        employees; and
          (D) the Office of Government Ethics for all executive branch 
        officers and employees; and
  (19) ``value'' means a good faith estimate of the dollar value if the 
exact value is neither known nor easily obtainable by the reporting 
individual.

        notice of actions taken to comply with ethics agreements

  Sec. 110. (a) In any case in which an individual agrees with that 
individual's designated agency ethics official, the Office of Government 
Ethics, a Senate confirmation committee, a congressional ethics 
committee, or the Judicial Conference, to take any action to comply with 
this Act or any other law or regulation governing conflicts of interest 
of, or establishing standards of conduct applicable with respect to, 
officers or employees of the Government, that individual shall notify in 
writing the designated agency ethics official, the Office of Government 
Ethics, the appropriate committee of the Senate, the congressional 
ethics committee, or the Judicial Conference, as the case may be, of any 
action taken by the individual pursuant to that agreement. Such 
notification shall be made not later than the date specified in the 
agreement by which action by the individual must

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be taken, or not later than three months after the date of the 
agreement, if no date for action is so specified.
  (b) If an agreement described in subsection (a) requires that the 
individual recuse himself or herself from particular categories of 
agency or other official action, the individual shall reduce to writing 
those subjects regarding which the recusal agreement will apply and the 
process by which it will be determined whether the individual must 
recuse himself or herself in a specific instance. An individual shall be 
considered to have complied with the requirements of subsection (a) with 
respect to such recusal agreement if such individual files a copy of the 
document setting forth the information described in the preceding 
sentence with such individual's designated agency ethics official or the 
appropriate supervising ethics office within the time prescribed in the 
last sentence of subsection (a).

                      administration of provisions

  Sec. 111. The provisions of this title shall be administered by * * *

                                  * * *

  (2) the Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate and the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives, as 
appropriate, with regard to officers and employees described in 
paragraphs (9) and (10) of section 101(f).

                                  * * *




                               Rule XXVII

       Disclosure by Members and Staff of Employment Negotiations

  1. <> A Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall not directly negotiate or have 
any agreement of future employment or compensation, unless such Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, within 3 business days after the 
commencement of such negotiation or agreement of future employment or 
compensation, files with the Committee on Ethics a statement, which must 
be signed by the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, regarding 
such negotiations or agreement, in

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cluding the name of the private entity or entities involved in such 
negotiations or agreement, and the date such negotiations or agreement 
commenced.
  2. An officer or an employee of the House earning in excess of 75 
percent of the salary paid to a Member shall notify the Committee on 
Ethics that such individual is negotiating or has any agreement of 
future employment or compensation.
  3. The disclosure and notification under this rule shall be made 
within 3 business days after the commencement of such negotiation or 
agreement of future employment or compensation.
  4. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and an officer or 
employee to whom this rule applies, shall recuse himself or herself from 
any matter in which there is a conflict of interest or an appearance of 
a conflict for that Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee under this rule and shall notify the Committee on Ethics of 
such recusal. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such 
recusal shall, upon such recusal, submit to the Clerk for public 
disclosure the statement of disclosure under clause 1 with respect to 
which the recusal was made.

  This rule was added in the 110th Congress by Public Law 110-81 (121 
Stat. 751). In the 111th Congress clause 1 was amended to apply also to 
non-returning Members and a gender-based reference was eliminated (secs. 
2(k), 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). This rule was amended in the 
112th Congress to reflect a change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). See also section 17 of the Stop Trading on 
Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-105).


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                               Rule XXVIII

                               (Reserved.)

  The <> rule 
``Statutory Limit on Public Debt'' was repealed in the 112th Congress 
(sec. 2(d)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). For its text and 
history, see Sec. 1104 of the House Rules and Manual for the 111th 
Congress (H. Doc. 110-162).




                                Rule XXIX

                           general provisions

  1. <> The provisions of law that 
constituted the Rules of the House at the end of the previous Congress 
shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and 
the rules of parliamentary practice comprised by Jefferson's Manual 
shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable and in 
which they are not inconsistent with the Rules and orders of the House.
  2. In these rules words importing one gender include the other as 
well.

  Clause 1 was adopted in 1837 (V, 6757), and amended January 3, 1953, 
p. 24, when it was also renumbered. When the House recodified its rules 
in the 106th Congress, clause 1 was transferred from former rule XLII 
and was modified to reference all provisions of law comprising House 
rules at the end of the previous Congress (a compilation of which is 
included in Sec. Sec. 1127-1130, infra); and clause 2 was added (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVII in the 
107th Congress (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), redesignated 
as rule XXVIII in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 7), and redesignated as rule XXIX in the 110th Congress (sec. 
301, P.L. 110-81). Clause 2 was amended in the 111th Congress when 
gender-based references throughout the rules were eliminated (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). The importance of Jefferson's Manual as 
an authority in congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029, 
1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330). end segment .013  deg.


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  3. <> If a measure or matter is publicly available in 
electronic form at a location designated by the Committee on House 
Administration, it shall be considered as having been available to 
Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner for purposes of these 
rules.

  This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(2), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The 112th and 114th Congresses provided a 
transition rule pending the designation by the committee under this 
clause (sec. 3(n), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(o), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

  4. <> Authoritative guidance from the Committee on the Budget 
concerning the impact of a legislative proposition on the levels of new 
budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority 
and revenues may be provided by the chair of the committee.

  This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(d)(3), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). This authority elucidates the responsibilities of 
the Committee on the Budget under section 312 of the Congressional 
Budget Act (see Sec. 1127, infra). The 112th Congress authorized the 
chair of the committee to make specified adjustments under this clause 
pending the adoption of a certain budget resolution (sec. 3(h), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). segment .014 -- re-org, jt & select, 
offices, early org  deg.

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                     LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACTS
                       JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES
                              HOUSE OFFICES
                     EARLY ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE

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                     LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACTS

                               __________

 provisions of the legislative reorganization act of 1946 applicable to 
                               both houses

        section 132 of the legislative reorganization act of 1946

                             (2 U.S.C. 198)

Sec. 132. (a) <> Unless 
otherwise provided by the Congress, the two Houses shall--
          (1) adjourn sine die not later than July 31 of each year; or

          (2) in the case of an odd-numbered year, provide, not later 
        than July 31 of such year, by concurrent resolution adopted in 
        each House by rollcall vote, for the adjournment of the two 
        Houses from that Friday in August which occurs at least thirty 
        days before the first Monday in September (Labor Day) of such 
        year to the second day after Labor Day.

  (b) This section shall not be applicable in any year if on July 31 of 
such year a state of war exists pursuant to a declaration of war by the 
Congress.

  The present form of this section is derived from the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (sec. 461; 84 Stat. 1140). Before that 
revision, the 1946 Act (60 Stat. 812) provided for adjournment sine die 
of the two Houses not later than the last day of July each year except 
during time of war or a national emergency proclaimed by the President. 
Presidentially declared emergencies of May 8, 1939, May 27, 1941, and 
December 16, 1950, negated operation of the provision (see Speaker 
Rayburn, Aug. 1, 1949, p. 10486; Aug. 2, 1949, p. 10591; Aug. 4, 1949, 
p. 10778).
  The Committee on Rules has jurisdiction of matters relative to 
recesses and final adjournment of Congress (clause 1(n)(2) of rule X).

  Under <> this 
provision of law, a concurrent resolution providing in an odd-numbered 
year for an adjournment of the two Houses from the first Friday in 
August until the second day after Labor Day or until notified to 
reassemble pursuant to a joint agreement of the Leadership of the two

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Houses is called up as privileged, requires a yea and nay vote for 
adoption (July 30, 1973, p. 26657), and is not debatable (July 31, 1991, 
p. 20675); but the House may adjourn by simple motion on July 31 to meet 
on August 1 (July 31, 1991, p. 20677). In even-numbered years, and some 
odd-numbered years, the House has agreed to concurrent resolutions 
waiving the provisions of this law to provide that the two Houses shall 
not adjourn for more than three days or sine die until they have adopted 
a concurrent resolution to that effect (July 25, 1972, p. 25145; July 
24, 1974, p. 25008; July 29, 1982, pp. 18562, 18563; July 30, 1986, p. 
18146; July 29, 1994, p. 18615; July 30, 1999, p. 18763). To obviate the 
necessity to adopt a concurrent resolution waiving the requirement in 
section 132 of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the House has 
included the language ``in consonance with section 132(a)'' in its 
concurrent resolutions providing for an August recess (e.g., July 31, 
1997, p. 17018; July 25, 2003, p. 19752).

        section 141 of the legislative reorganization act of 1946

                             (2 U.S.C. 145a)

  Sec. 141. The <> Librarian of the Library of Congress is authorized and 
directed to have bound at the end of each session of Congress the 
printed hearings of testimony taken by each committee of the Congress at 
the preceding session.

  This provision became effective on August 2, 1946.

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                       JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES

                               __________

                            Joint Committees

  The Joint <> Economic 
Committee is composed of 10 Members of the Senate and 10 Members of the 
House, who are appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker, 
respectively. Each appoints six Members from the majority and four from 
the minority (15 U.S.C. 1024(a)). The committee conducts a continuing 
study of matters relating to the Economic Report made by the President 
and studies means of promoting the national policy on employment as 
outlined in the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021). The committee 
is required to file, not later than March 1 of each year, a report with 
the Senate and the House containing its findings and recommendations on 
each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic 
Report. It is authorized to hold hearings and make other reports to the 
Congress and to issue a monthly publication on economic conditions (15 
U.S.C. 1024, 1025). The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 
(sec. 302, P.L. 95-523) requires the joint committee to review and 
analyze the short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the Economic 
Report and to hold hearings on the report. Within 30 days after receipt 
of the report by the Congress, standing committees with legislative 
jurisdiction and joint committees may submit reports to the joint 
committee with views and recommendations on matters within their 
jurisdiction. On or before each March 15, a majority of the members of 
the joint committee are required to submit a report to the Senate and 
House Committees on the Budget, including findings, recommendations, and 
appropriate analyses with respect to each of the short-term and medium-
term goals set forth in the Economic Report.

  The Joint <> Committee 
on Taxation is composed of five Members of the Senate and five Members 
of the House. The House Members, three from the majority and two from 
the minority, are chosen by the Committee on Ways and Means from the 
membership of that committee. The joint committee investigates the 
operation and effects of the Federal system of internal revenue 
taxation. It is authorized to hold hearings at times and places it deems 
advisable, has subpoena power, and reports to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, and, in its discretion, directly to the House (26 U.S.C. 8001-
8023).


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  The Joint <> Committee of Congress on the Library is composed of five 
Members of the Senate (the chair and four members of the Committee on 
Rules and Administration) and five Members of the House. House 
membership consists of the chair and four members of the Committee on 
House Administration (2 U.S.C. 132b). The chair of the Subcommittee on 
the Legislative Branch of the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
also serves as a member (sec. 1(a)(4), P.L. 106-554).

  The Joint <> Committee 
on Printing is composed of five Members of the Senate (the chair and 
four members of the Committee on Rules and Administration) and five 
Members of the House (the chair and four members of the Committee on 
House Administration) (44 U.S.C. 101). The committee adopts and employs 
measures necessary to remedy inefficiencies or waste in the public 
printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications. It 
has control of the arrangement and style of the Congressional Record (44 
U.S.C. 901-910). The joint committee is directed to provide for printing 
in the Record the legislative program for the day, together with a list 
of congressional committee meetings and hearings and the place of 
meeting and subject matter; and to cause a brief resume of congressional 
activities for the previous day to be incorporated in the Record, 
together with an index of its contents. Such data is prepared under the 
supervision of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House.

  The <> Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is 
established by concurrent resolution in the second session of the 
Congress preceding a Presidential inauguration and is reestablished at 
the beginning of the next Congress. It is composed of three Members of 
the House and three Senators. The three House Members are appointed by 
the Speaker and are traditionally the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and 
the Minority Leader. The committee is authorized to make the necessary 
arrangements for the inauguration of the President-elect and Vice 
President-elect. (see, e.g., S. Con. Res. 35, 112th Cong., Mar. 5, 2012, 
p. _; S. Con. Res. 2, 113th Cong., Jan. 3, 2013, p. _).
  For <> a history of joint 
committees with the Senate, see House Practice, ch. 11, Sec. 14.

                            Select Committees

  The <> Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence is reestablished by the adoption of clause 11 of rule X 
each Congress.


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  In <> the 113th and 114th Congresses the 
House established the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 
2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi. The select committee had no 
legislative jurisdiction and was authorized to report its findings to 
the House (H. Res. 567, May 8, 2014, p. _; sec. 4(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2015, p. _).

  For <> a history of 
select committees in the House, see House Practice, ch. 11, 
Sec. Sec. 12, 13. For a discussion of the former Select Committees on 
Ethics, see Sec. 738, supra; and for a discussion of the two former 
Select Committees on Homeland Security, see Sec. 723b, supra.

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                     HOUSE AND CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES

                               __________

  Members may <> send through the mails, under their frank, certain 
documents and materials as provided by 39 U.S.C. 3210, subject to the 
limitations prescribed in rule XXIV, supra. The House Commission on 
Congressional Mailing Standards, composed of six Members, provides 
advice in connection with franking privileges (sec. 5, P.L. 93-191).

  Rooms in the <> House Office Buildings are assigned pursuant to the Act of 
May 28, 1908 (2 U.S.C. 2004-2011) and pursuant to regulations of the 
House Office Building Commission (see regulations promulgated Oct. 7, 
1996). The commission also issues regulations governing the House Office 
Buildings, House garages, and the Capitol Power Plant (see regulations 
promulgated December, 1995). The commission is composed of the Speaker 
and two Members of the House (traditionally the Majority and Minority 
Leaders) (2 U.S.C. 2001).

  The preparation, <> utilization, and distribution (to committees and Members) of 
reports by the Government Accountability Office, and its authority to 
assign its employees to duty with congressional committees, are 
regulated by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, Sec. Sec. 231-
236 (84 Stat. 1140; 31 U.S.C. 711-720). This office was formerly known 
as the General Accounting Office (31 U.S.C. 702 note).

  The Office <> of Compliance 
was established by the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 
U.S.C. 1381). The office is composed of five individuals appointed 
jointly by the Speaker, the Majority Leader of the Senate, and the 
Minority Leaders of the House and the Senate. The office has regulatory, 
enforcement, and educational responsibilities under the Act. The office 
replaced the Review Panel of the Office of Fair Employment Practices at 
the beginning of the 105th Congress (see Sec. 1101, supra). However, the 
review panel was reconstituted in the same form as at the end of the 
104th Congress to provide for the completion of ongoing proceedings in 
the 105th Congress (Feb. 25, 1997, p. 2439).


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  The organization <> of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of 
Congress and its responsibilities to assist Members and committees were 
provided in the Legislative Reorganization Acts of 1946 and 1970 (60 
Stat. 836; 84 Stat. 1140; 2 U.S.C. 166).

  The Office of <> the 
Legislative Counsel of the House of Representatives evolved from a 
Legislative Drafting Service established for the Congress by the Act of 
February 24, 1919 (40 Stat. 1057, 1141). The provisions of law setting 
forth the purpose and functions of the current office and providing for 
its administration are contained in title V of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-510; 2 U.S.C. 281) as amended by the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1972 (P.L. 92-51). As stated in 
section 502 of such title V, the purpose of the office is to advise and 
assist the House, and its committees and Members, in the achievement of 
a clear, faithful, and coherent expression of legislative policies.

  The Congressional <> Budget Office was established by the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601). The office is headed by a director, who is 
appointed by the Speaker and the President pro tempore. Section 202 of 
the Act (2 U.S.C. 602) outlines the functions of the office, which 
include providing assistance to the House and Senate Committees on the 
Budget and Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance in the 
discharge of matters within their jurisdiction and to other committees 
to assist them in complying with the provisions of the Act.

  The Office <> of the Law 
Revision Counsel, to develop a codification of the laws of the United 
States, was authorized in the 93d Congress by the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974 (sec. 205, H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470, made 
permanent law by P.L. 93-544 (2 U.S.C. 285)).

  The Office <> of Technology 
Assessment, to assist the Congress in indicating the beneficial and 
adverse impacts of the application of technology, was authorized by the 
Technology Assessment Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 472). The office received 
funding for 1996 to conduct an orderly shutdown (tit. I, P.L. 104-53) 
and has not received funding since then.

  A Parliamentarian <> has been appointed by the Speaker in every Congress 
since 1927. Before 1927 the ``Clerk at the Speaker's Table'' performed 
the function of the Parliamentarian. In the 95th Congress the House 
formally and permanently established an Office of the Parliamentarian to 
be managed, supervised, and administered by a nonpartisan 
Parliamentarian appointed by the Speaker (H. Res. 502, Apr. 20, 1977, p. 
11415, made permanent law by sec. 115 of P.L. 95-94; see 2 U.S.C. 287). 
The compilation and preparation of the precedents of the House of 
Representatives were authorized

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in the 93d Congress by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (sec. 
208, H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470, made permanent law by P.L. 93-
554, 2 U.S.C. 28a), and the printing and distribution of the precedents 
were authorized by Public Law 94-551 (2 U.S.C. 28b-e). See also 2 U.S.C. 
28, 29.

  In the 104th <> Congress 
the House established an office to assist the Speaker in the management 
of legislative activity on the floor (sec. 223(b), H. Res. 6, 104th 
Cong., Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469, enacted into law by the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 1996 (sec. 103, P.L. 104-53; 2 U.S.C. 5123)).

  This office <> is responsible for responding to inquiries from, and 
coordinating visits with, foreign legislative bodies; providing 
assistance to delegations of Members on official visits to foreign 
nations; coordinating the activities and responsibilities of the House 
in connection with participation in various interparliamentary exchanges 
and organizations; and enabling the House to host meetings with senior 
government officials and other dignitaries in order to discuss matters 
relevant to United States relations with other nations (2 U.S.C. 5582).

  The House <> Recording 
Studio was established by the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
1957 (2 U.S.C. 4131) and provides Members with audio and video recording 
services. The studio is under the direction and control of the Committee 
on the House Recording Studio, which consists of three Members appointed 
by the Speaker (2 U.S.C. 4131(c)).

  The United <> States Capitol Preservation Commission was established in 
1988 (2 U.S.C. 2081) to provide improvements in, preservation of, and 
acquisitions for the Capitol and to provide works of fine art and other 
property for display in the Capitol. In the 106th Congress the 
Commission was given responsibility for the planning, engineering, 
design, and construction of the Capitol Visitor Center (sec. 310, 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000). Membership on the 
Commission consists of the Speaker, the President pro tempore (co-
chairs), the chair and vice chair of the Joint Committee on the Library, 
the chairs and ranking minority members of the Committee on Rules and 
Administration and the Committee on House Administration, the Majority 
and Minority Leaders of the House and Senate, three Members of the 
Senate, and three Members of the House.

  The Office <> of General 
Counsel, established by clause 8 of rule II, is authorized by law to 
appear in any proceeding before a State or Federal court (except the 
United States Supreme Court) without compliance with admission 
requirements of such court (2 U.S.C. 5571(a)). Furthermore, the law 
requires the Attorney General to notify the General Counsel of various 
decisions and policies (2 U.S.C. 5571(b)).


[[Page 1028]]


  This office <> , responsible for mitigation and 
preparedness operations, crisis management and response, resource 
services, and recovery operations (sec. 905, P.L. 107-117), was 
established in the 107th Congress and abolished in the 112th Congress, 
when its functions were transferred to the Sergeant-at-Arms (sec. 105, 
P.L. 112-74).

  This office <> was 
established in the 70th Congress when the House requested the Secretary 
of the Navy to detail a medical officer to be in attendance at the Hall 
of the House during sessions of the House (H. Res. 253, Dec. 5, 1928, p. 
101). Currently, the office provides primary care and emergency, 
environmental, and occupational health services in direct support of 
Members of Congress and the Supreme Court, staff, visiting dignitaries, 
and tourists (Office of Attending Physician in the U.S. Congress, CRS, 
Dec. 12, 2001).

  This office <> , which dates from 1793, operates and maintains the buildings 
and grounds of the Capitol complex. For further information on the 
office, see Architect of the Capitol: Appointment Process and Current 
Legislation, CRS, June 4, 2010. Section 6701 of Public Law 110-28 
established within the office a Chief Executive Officer for Visitor 
Services with responsibility for the operation and management of the 
Capitol Visitor Center.

  Established <> for the 
109th (H. Res. 135, Mar. 14, 2005, p. 4527), 110th (H. Res. 24, Jan. 30, 
2007, p. 2626), 111th (sec. 4(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9), 112th 
(which first changed its name from the House Democracy Assistance 
Commission) (sec. 4(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), 113th (sec. 
4(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _), and 114th Congresses (sec. 4(b), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _), the partnership provides advice and 
consultation to selected countries. The partnership consists of 20 
Members appointed by the Speaker and Minority Leader.

  Established <> for the 110th Congress (H. Res. 1451, Sept. 24, 2008, p. 
20250), and the 111th through 114th Congresses with modifications to its 
authority (sec. 4(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 4(b), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 4(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 
4(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _), the commission promotes 
internationally recognized human rights. Any Member may join the 
commission, which is led by co-chairs appointed by the Speaker and 
Minority Leader, respectively.

  Established <> for 
the 110th Congress (H. Res. 895, Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3741), the 111th and 
112th Congresses with a modification of its authority to engage 
consultants (sec. 4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 4(c), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), the 113th Congress with a further 
modification to the term limits of the governing board (sec. 4(d), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _), and the 114th Congress with further 
modifications regarding representation by

[[Page 1029]]

counsel and prohibiting any action that would deny any person a 
constitutional right (sec. 4(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _), the 
office investigates ``self-initiated'' alleged ethics violations and 
reports its recommendations to the Committee on Ethics.

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                     EARLY ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE

                               __________

                             [2 U.S.C. 29a]

  (a) Caucus or conference for incumbent Members reelected to and 
Members-elect of ensuing Congress; time and procedure for calling
  (1) The <> majority leader or 
minority leader of the House of Representatives after consultation with 
the Speaker may at any time during any even-numbered year call a caucus 
or conference of all incumbent Members of his or her political party who 
have been reelected to the ensuing Congress and all other Members-elect 
of such party, for the purpose of taking all steps necessary to achieve 
the prompt organization of the Members and Members-elect of such party 
for the ensuing Congress.
  (2) If the majority leader or minority leader calls an organizational 
caucus or conference under paragraph (1), he or she shall file with the 
Clerk of the House a written notice designating the date upon which the 
caucus or conference is to convene. As soon as possible after the 
election of Members to the ensuing Congress, the Clerk shall furnish 
each Member-elect of the party involved with appropriate written 
notification of the caucus or conference.
  (3) If a vacancy occurs in the office of majority leader or minority 
leader during any even-numbered year (and has not been filled), the 
chairman of the caucus or conference of the party involved for the 
current Congress may call an organizational caucus or conference under 
paragraph (1) by filing written notice thereof as provided by paragraph 
(2).

  (b) Payment and reimbursement for travel and per diem expenses for 
Members attending caucus or conference; exceptions; regulations 
governing payments and reimbursements; reimbursement vouchers
  (1)(A) Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to 
the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under 
subsection (a) of this

[[Page 1032]]

section, and each incumbent Member reelected to the ensuing Congress who 
attends any such caucus or conference convening after the adjournment 
sine die of the Congress in the year involved, shall be paid for one 
round trip between his or her place of residence in the district which 
he or she represents and Washington, District of Columbia, for the 
purpose of attending such caucus or conference. Payment shall be made 
through the issuance of a transportation request form to each such 
Member-elect or incumbent Member by the Finance Office of the House 
before such caucus or conference.
  (B) Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to the 
ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under 
subsection (a) of this section shall in addition be reimbursed on a per 
diem or other basis for expenses incurred in connection with his or her 
attendance at such caucus or conference.
  (2) Payments and reimbursements to Members-elect under paragraph (1) 
shall be made as provided (with respect to Members) in the regulations 
prescribed by the Committee on House Administration with respect to 
travel and other expenses of committees and Members. Reimbursements 
shall be paid on special voucher forms prescribed by the Committee on 
House Administration.

  (c) Availability of applicable accounts of House
  The applicable accounts of the House of Representatives are made 
available to carry out the purposes of this section.

  (d) Orientation programs for new Members
  With the approval of the majority leader (in the case of a Member or 
Member-elect of the majority party) or the minority leader (in the case 
of a Member or Member-elect of the minority party), subsections (b) and 
(c) of this section shall apply with respect to the attendance of a 
Member or Member-elect at a program conducted by the Committee on House 
Administration for the orientation of new Members in the same manner as 
such provisions apply to the attendance of the Member or Member-elect at 
the organizational caucus or conference.

  These provisions were originated by a resolution of the 93d Congress 
(sec. 202, H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974), which was enacted into permanent 
law (effective Jan. 2, 1975) shortly thereafter (P.L. 93-554, Dec. 27, 
1974, 88 Stat. 1777). Amendments were effected in the 104th Congress 
(sec. 202, P.L. 104-186, Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1725), when the House 
renamed the committee concerned and converted references to its 
``contingent fund''

[[Page 1033]]

to ``applicable accounts of the House.'' Further amendments were 
effected at the end of the 108th Congress (to apply beginning in the One 
Hundred Tenth Congress) to permit organizational activity to be 
scheduled for any period after the general election and before the onset 
of the new Congress and to include orientation programs (sec. 107, div. 
G, P.L. 108-447, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3176).
  Under the former form of the statute, contemplating organizational 
activity in the month of December, the House occasionally adopted 
resolutions allowing earlier convening of an organizational caucus or 
conference (e.g., H. Res. 666, 106th Cong., Nov. 3, 2000, p. 25993; H. 
Res. 590, 107th Cong., Oct. 16, 2002, p. 20812; H. Res. 824, 108th 
Cong., Oct. 6, 2004, pp. 21212, 21213).

                             [2 U.S.C. 5343]

  Staff expenses for House Members attending organizational caucus or 
conference
  (a) In general
  Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to the 
ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under 
section 29a(a) of this title, and each incumbent Member reelected to the 
ensuing Congress who attends any such caucus or conference convening 
after the adjournment sine die of the Congress in the year involved, 
shall be entitled to designate one staff person to be paid for one round 
trip between that person's place of residence, provided such place of 
residence is in the district which the Member-elect or incumbent Member 
represents, and Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of 
accompanying that Member-elect or incumbent Member to such caucus or 
conference.

  (b) Per diem expenses of staff person
  Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to the 
ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under such 
section 29a(a) of this title shall be entitled to designate one staff 
person who shall in addition be reimbursed on a per diem or other basis 
for expenses incurred in accompanying the Member-elect at the time of 
such caucus or conference.

  (c) Orientation programs for new Members
  With the approval of the majority leader (in the case of a Member or 
Member-elect of the majority party) or the minority leader (in the case 
of a Member or Member-elect of the minority party), subsections (a) and 
(b) of this section shall apply with respect to the attendance of a 
Member or Member-elect at a program conducted by the Com

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mittee on House Administration for the orientation of new Members in the 
same manner as such provisions apply to the attendance of the Member or 
Member-elect at the organizational caucus or conference.

  These provisions were originated by a resolution of the 94th Congress 
(H. Res. 10, Jan. 14, 1975), which was then enacted into permanent law 
(sec. 201, P.L. 94-59, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 282). Amendments were 
effected at the end of the 108th Congress (to apply with respect to the 
One Hundred Tenth Congress and each succeeding Congress) to conform to 
the permissible scheduling of organizational activity for any period 
after the general election and before the onset of the new Congress and 
to include orientation programs (sec. 107, div. G, P.L. 108-447, Dec. 8, 
2004, 118 Stat. 3176).

                             [2 U.S.C. 5344]

  Payments and reimbursements for certain House staff expenses
  (a) Payments and reimbursements to staff persons under section 5343 of 
this title shall be made as provided (with respect to staff) in the 
regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration with 
respect to travel and other expenses of staff. Reimbursements shall be 
paid on special voucher forms prescribed by the Committee on House 
Administration.

  (b) Additional funds, if any, for staff allowances and office space 
for use by Members-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to 
the ensuing Congress) shall be authorized by the Committee on House 
Administration.

  These provisions were originated by a resolution of the 94th Congress 
(H. Res. 10, Jan. 14, 1975), which was then enacted into permanent law 
(sec. 201, P.L. 94-59, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 282). Amendments were 
effected in the 104th Congress (sec. 202, P.L. 104-186, Aug. 20, 1996, 
110 Stat. 1725), when the House renamed the committee concerned as the 
Committee on House Oversight. (The committee has since been returned to 
its earlier name). end segment .014  deg. segment .015 
-- budget  deg.

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                        CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT

                         BUDGET ENFORCEMENT ACT

                       STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO ACT

========================================================================

[[Page 1037]]

                                                               Sec. 1127

                        CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT

                               __________

excerpts relating to legislative procedure from the congressional budget 
                   act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)

                         declaration of purposes

  Sec. 2. The Congress declares that it is essential--
          (1) to <> assure effective congressional 
        control over the budgetary process;
          (2) to provide for the congressional determination each year 
        of the appropriate level of Federal revenues and expenditures;
          (3) to provide a system of impoundment control;
          (4) to establish national budget priorities; and
          (5) to provide for the furnishing of information by the 
        executive branch in a manner that will assist the Congress in 
        discharging its duties.

                               definitions

  Sec. 3. In General.--For purposes of this Act--
  (1) The terms ``budget outlays'' and ``outlays'' mean, with respect to 
any fiscal year, expenditures and net lending of funds under budget 
authority during such year.
  (2) Budget authority and new budget authority.--
          (A) In general.--The term ``budget authority'' means the 
        authority provided by Federal law to incur financial 
        obligations, as follows:
                  (i) provisions of law that make funds available for 
                obligation and expenditure (other than borrowing 
                authority), including the authority to obligate and 
                expend the proceeds of offsetting receipts and 
                collections;
                  (ii) borrowing authority, which means authority 
                granted to a Federal entity to borrow and obligate and 
                expend the borrowed funds, including through the 
                issuance of promissory notes or other monetary credits;

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                  (iii) contract authority, which means the making of 
                funds available for obligation but not for expenditure; 
                and
                  (iv) offsetting receipts and collections as negative 
                budget authority, and the reduction thereof as positive 
                budget authority.
          (B) Limitations on budget authority.--With respect to the 
        Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, the Supplementary Medical 
        Insurance Trust Fund, the Unemployment Trust Fund, and the 
        railroad retirement account, any amount that is precluded from 
        obligation in a fiscal year by a provision of law (such as a 
        limitation or a benefit formula) shall not be budget authority 
        in that year.
          (C) New budget authority.--The term ``new budget authority'' 
        means, with respect to a fiscal year--
                  (i) budget authority that first becomes available for 
                obligation in that year, including budget authority that 
                becomes available in that year as a result of a 
                reappropriation; or
                  (ii) a change in any account in the availability of 
                unobligated balances of budget authority carried over 
                from a prior year, resulting from a provision of law 
                first effective in that year;
        and includes a change in the estimated level of new budget 
        authority provided in indefinite amounts by existing law.
  (3) The term ``tax expenditures'' means those revenue losses 
attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special 
exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a 
special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax 
liability, and the term ``tax expenditures budget'' means an enumeration 
of such tax expenditures.
  (4) The term ``concurrent resolution on the budget'' means--
          (A) a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional 
        budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as 
        provided in section 301; and
          (B) any other concurrent resolution revising the congressional 
        budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as 
        described in section 304.
  (5) The term ``appropriation Act'' means an Act referred to in section 
105 of title 1, United States Code.

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  (6) The term ``deficit'' means, with respect to a fiscal year, the 
amount by which outlays exceeds receipts during that year.
  (7) The term ``surplus'' means, with respect to a fiscal year, the 
amount by which receipts exceeds outlays during that year.
  (8) The term ``government-sponsored enterprise'' means a corporate 
entity created by a law of the United States that--
          (A)(i) has a Federal charter authorized by law;
          (ii) is privately owned, as evidenced by capital stock owned 
        by private entities or individuals;
          (iii) is under the direction of a board of directors, a 
        majority of which is elected by private owners;
          (iv) is a financial institution with power to--
                  (I) make loans or loan guarantees for limited purposes 
                such as to provide credit for specific borrowers or one 
                sector; and
                  (II) raise funds by borrowing (which does not carry 
                the full faith and credit of the Federal Government) or 
                to guarantee the debt of others in unlimited amounts; 
                and
          (B)(i) does not exercise powers that are reserved to the 
        Government as sovereign (such as the power to tax or to regulate 
        interstate commerce);
          (ii) does not have the power to commit the Government 
        financially (but it may be a recipient of a loan guarantee 
        commitment made by the Government); and
          (iii) has employees whose salaries and expenses are paid by 
        the enterprise and are not Federal employees subject to title 5 
        of the United States Code.
  (9) The term ``entitlement authority'' means--
          (A) the authority to make payments (including loans and 
        grants), the budget authority for which is not provided for in 
        advance by appropriation Acts, to any person or government if, 
        under the provisions of the law containing that authority, the 
        United States is obligated to make such payments to persons or 
        governments who meet the requirements established by that law; 
        and
          (B) the food stamp program.
  (10) The term ``credit authority'' means authority to incur direct 
loan obligations or to incur primary loan guarantee commitments.

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  (11) The terms ``emergency'' and ``unanticipated'' have the meanings 
given to such terms in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) modified 
paragraphs (2) and (6) of this section and added paragraphs (7) and (8). 
Two separate sections of the 1990 Act amended paragraph (2): section 
13201 added a new sentence at the end of the paragraph; section 13211 
rewrote the paragraph entirely, effective for fiscal years after 1991. 
The text depicted here attempts to harmonize the two; but see 2 U.S.C. 
622(2). The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
(tit. II of P.L. 99-177) added paragraphs (9) and (10). The Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10101 of P.L. 105-33) amended the 
definition of ``entitlement authority'' in paragraph (9) in conjunction 
with amendments to section 401. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (sec. 105 
of P.L. 112-25) added paragraph (11).
  Amounts of liquidating cash provided in the annual bill making 
appropriations for the Department of Transportation are not new budget 
authority within the meaning of this section, but are merely funds to 
liquidate contractual obligations previously incurred pursuant to new 
discretionary contract authority previously reported from and scored 
against allocations to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation 
(now Transportation and Infrastructure) as the authority to enter into 
obligations that will result in immediate or future outlays (July 30, 
1986, p. 18154).
* * * * *

                 TITLE III--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS

                                timetable

  Sec. 300. The timetable with respect to the congressional budget 
process for any fiscal year is as follows:


 
 
                 On or before:                   Action to be completed:
 
First Monday in February......................  President submits his
                                                 budget.
February 15...................................  Congressional Budget
                                                 Office submits report
                                                 to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks after President submits  Committees submit views
 budget.                                         and estimates to Budget
                                                 Committees.
April 1.......................................  Senate Budget Committee
                                                 reports concurrent
                                                 resolution on the
                                                 budget.
April 15......................................  Congress completes
                                                 action on concurrent
                                                 resolution on the
                                                 budget.

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May 15........................................  Annual appropriation
                                                 bills may be considered
                                                 in the House.
June 10.......................................  House Appropriations
                                                 Committee reports last
                                                 annual appropriation
                                                 bill.
June 15.......................................  Congress completes
                                                 action on
                                                 reconciliation
                                                 legislation.
June 30.......................................  House completes action
                                                 on annual appropriation
                                                 bills.
October 1.....................................  Fiscal year begins.
 


  The date for committees' submissions of views and estimates was 
amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10104, P.L. 105-33).

         annual adoption of concurrent resolution on the budget

  Sec. 301. (a) Content of Concurrent Resolution on the Budget.--On or 
before April 15 of each year, the Congress shall complete action on a 
concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on 
October 1 of such year. The concurrent resolution shall set forth 
appropriate levels for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of such 
year and for at least each of the 4 ensuing fiscal years for the 
following--
          (1) totals of new budget authority and outlays;
          (2) total Federal revenues and the amount, if any, by which 
        the aggregate level of Federal revenues should be increased or 
        decreased by bills and resolutions to be reported by the 
        appropriate committees;
          (3) the surplus or deficit in the budget;
          (4) new budget authority and outlays for each major functional 
        category, based on allocations of the total levels set forth 
        pursuant to paragraph (1);
          (5) the public debt;
          (6) for purposes of Senate enforcement under this title, 
        outlays of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance 
        program established under title II of the Social Security Act 
        for the fiscal year of the resolution and for each of the 4 
        succeeding fiscal years; and
          (7) for purposes of Senate enforcement under this title, 
        revenues of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance 
        program established under title II of the Social Security Act 
        (and the related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986) for the fiscal year of

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        the resolution and for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
The concurrent resolution shall not include the outlays and revenue 
totals of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program 
established under title II of the Social Security Act or the related 
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in the surplus or 
deficit totals required by this subsection or in any other surplus or 
deficit totals required by this title.

  (b) Additional Matters in Concurrent Resolution.--The concurrent 
resolution on the budget may--
          (1) set forth, if required by subsection (f), the calendar 
        year in which, in the opinion of the Congress, the goals for 
        reducing unemployment set forth in section 4(b) of the 
        Employment Act of 1946 should be achieved;
          (2) include reconciliation directives described in section 
        310;
          (3) require a procedure under which all or certain bills or 
        resolutions providing new budget authority or new entitlement 
        authority for such fiscal year shall not be enrolled until the 
        Congress has completed action on any reconciliation bill or 
        reconciliation resolution or both required by such concurrent 
        resolution to be reported in accordance with section 310(b);
          (4) set forth such other matters, and require such other 
        procedures, relating to the budget, as may be appropriate to 
        carry out the purposes of this Act;
          (5) include a heading entitled ``Debt Increase as Measure of 
        Deficit'' in which the concurrent resolution shall set forth the 
        amounts by which the debt subject to limit (in section 3101 of 
        title 31 of the United States Code) has increased or would 
        increase in each of the relevant fiscal years;
          (6) include a heading entitled ``Display of Federal Retirement 
        Trust Fund Balances'' in which the concurrent resolution shall 
        set forth the balances of the Federal retirement trust funds;
          (7) set forth procedures in the Senate whereby committee 
        allocations, aggregates, and other levels can be revised for 
        legislation if that legislation would not increase the deficit, 
        or would not increase the deficit when taken with other 
        legislation enacted after the adoption of the resolution, for 
        the first fiscal year or the total period of fiscal years 
        covered by the resolution;

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          (8) set forth procedures to effectuate pay-as-you-go in the 
        House of Representatives; and
          (9) set forth direct loan obligation and primary loan 
        guarantee commitment levels.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) added 
paragraphs (6) and (7) and a new last sentence to subsection (a), added 
paragraphs (5)-(8) to subsection (b), and added former section 606 
(repealed by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10118, P.L. 105-
33)), requiring that a concurrent resolution on the budget set forth 
appropriate levels for five fiscal years for the matters described in 
subsection (a). Title III had previously been comprehensively amended by 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, 
P.L. 99-177). Sections 301(a) and 301(b) were amended by the Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10105, P.L. 105-33) to extend the 
requirement that the term of budget resolutions be at least five years 
and to eliminate the requirement that budget resolutions contain direct 
loan and loan guarantee levels. In the 113th and 114th Congresses, the 
House prohibited consideration of a budget resolution not containing 
specified information on certain direct spending programs (sec. 3(e), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; sec. 3(h), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).
  The prescribed content of a concurrent resolution on the budget under 
the prior version of section 301 evolved over time. Pursuant to the 
authority to include other ``appropriate procedures'' under then section 
301(b)(2) of the Budget Act, the first concurrent resolution on the 
budget for fiscal year 1981 (which also contained the third concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1980, budget targets for fiscal 
years 1981 and 1983, and other related matters) contained new provisions 
directing House and Senate committees to report to their respective 
Committees on the Budget reconciliation legislation reducing spending 
for fiscal year 1981 (H. Con. Res. 307, 96th Cong.). The first 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1982, in addition to 
other new ``appropriate procedures,'' included in its reconciliation 
instructions directions to several House and Senate committees to report 
reductions in both entitlement spending authority and discretionary 
authorization programs sufficient to reduce budget authority and outlays 
separately for each of three fiscal years, and included a ``deferred 
enrollment'' procedure relating to bills containing new budget authority 
and entitlement spending authority in excess of allocations to 
committees (H. Con. Res. 115, 97th Cong.). The first concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1983, in addition to other new 
``appropriate procedures,'' included a binding Federal credit budget for 
two fiscal years, containing not only aggregate and functional category 
targets for new direct loan obligations and new primary and secondary 
loan guarantee commitments, but also (1) prohibiting consideration of 
bills authorizing new loan obligations or new loan guarantee commitments 
not subject to the appropriations process with certain exceptions (now 
section 402(a)), and (2) establishing a ceiling on total new direct loan 
obligations and new

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primary or secondary loan guarantee commitments for the ensuing fiscal 
year upon adoption of the second concurrent resolution on the budget for 
that year (similar to the section 311 ceiling for direct budget 
authority). Also included was a prohibition against consideration in 
either House of measures providing new budget or entitlement authority 
until the reporting committee filed a report in the House concerning its 
section 302(b) allocation (now section 302(c)) and a direction that if a 
second concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1983 was not 
finally adopted by October 1, then the aggregate amounts in that first 
concurrent resolution would become the spending ceilings and revenue 
floor for the purposes of section 311 (S. Con. Res. 92, 97th Cong.). The 
first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984 likewise 
contained the latter provision, but also provided that a point of order 
under section 311 of the Budget Act would not apply if spending 
contained in a bill remained within the reporting committee's 
discretionary allocation under section 302 (section 311(b) contains a 
similar exception). The 1984 resolution also contained a new provision 
reserving specific amounts of budget authority and outlays for 
subsequent allocation to committees by the Committee on the Budget (H. 
Con. Res. 91, 98th Cong.; see also Mar. 6, 1984, p. 4621, for a 
statement by Speaker O'Neill describing the operation and effect of the 
latter provision). The first concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 1985 included a similar provision that it be treated as the 
second budget resolution for that year on October 1, 1984, for the 
purposes of the section 311 spending ceilings and revenue levels, but 
that a point of order not apply where the committee in question had not 
exceeded its section 302(a) allocations. The resolution also provided 
that legislation providing budget authority, entitlement authority, or 
credit authority not be considered until the reporting committee filed 
the requisite report concerning its section 302(b) allocations (H. Con. 
Res. 280, 98th Cong.).
  In 1986, the first concurrent resolution on the budget since the 
enactment of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 (P.L. 99-177), the recommended deficit level for fiscal year 1987 
was below the maximum deficit amount as then specified, thus permitting 
consideration of the conference reported amendment in disagreement 
pursuant to then section 301(i) without a waiver by three-fifths vote in 
either House (June 26, 1986, p. 15740). That concurrent resolution also 
contained a ``contingency fund'' for deficit reduction and unmet 
critical needs, additional general revenue-sharing funding beyond levels 
contained therein if deficits were not increased and authorization 
enacted, and a provision authorizing a report to be filed by the chair 
of the House Committee on the Budget by a date certain to be printed and 
to constitute allocations of new budget authority and outlays required 
by section 302(a) (where the conferees did not have time to prepare 
allocations prior to filing of the conference report).
  The concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal years 1988-1990 
contained a provision permitting the first concurrent resolution to 
``become'' a second binding concurrent resolution only at the beginning 
of the fiscal

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year. It also contained a provision encouraging sales of Government 
assets to non-Government buyers but providing that amounts realized not 
be treated as revenues, receipts, or negative outlays for purposes of 
specified budget enforcement and scorekeeping procedures (H. Con. Res. 
93, 100th Cong.). The concurrent resolutions on the budget for fiscal 
years 1989-1991 and for fiscal years 1990-1992, respectively, each 
contained a section stating that, for purposes of allocations and points 
of order under section 302, amounts realized from asset sales and 
prepayments of loans would not be allocated or scored as affecting 
budget authority or outlays (H. Con. Res. 268, 100th Cong.; H. Con. Res. 
106, 101st Cong.). The concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
years 1989-1991 also contained a section providing for a subsequent 
allocation of budget authority and outlays for fiscal year 1989 upon the 
reporting by appropriate committees of an anti-drug initiative (H. Con. 
Res. 268, 101st Cong.). The concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal years 1995-1999 included provisions (1) adjusting allocations of 
budget authority, new entitlement authority, and outlays and adjusting 
total levels of budget authority, outlays, and revenues for health care 
reform in the House (within a maximum aggregate deficit for fiscal years 
1995-1999), and (2) adjusting committee allocations, budget aggregates, 
and the maximum deficit amount contingent on certain IRS compliance 
initiatives (H. Con. Res. 218, 103d Cong.). The concurrent resolution on 
the budget for fiscal years 1996-2002 established a budget surplus 
allowance contemplating tax reductions only as part of a legislative 
package producing a balanced budget by fiscal year 2002; corrected a 
disparity that had arisen under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 
for the scoring of student loans; and established a process for 
certifying a balanced budget before the House could consider a 
reconciliation bill reducing taxes (H. Con. Res. 67, 104th Cong.).
  Concurrent resolutions on the budget have included reconciliation 
instructions that contemplated reductions in revenues (e.g., H. Con. 
Res. 95, 109th Cong.), including one that contemplated two bills 
reducing revenues (H. Con. Res. 178, 104th Cong.).
  The concurrent resolutions on the budget for fiscal years 2000 and 
2001 included a point of order against consideration in the House or 
Senate of a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal 
year, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that sets 
forth a deficit for any fiscal year (as determined by the Committee on 
the Budget) (sec. 201, H. Con. Res. 68, 106th Cong.; sec. 201, H. Con. 
Res. 290, 106th Cong.).
  The concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2001 also 
included points of order against consideration in the House of a 
reported bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or 
conference report thereon: (1) that would cause a surplus for fiscal 
year 2001 to be less than the level established in the resolution; and 
(2) that, until January 1, 2001, contained a directed scorekeeping 
provision (secs. 202, 203, H. Con. Res. 290, 106th Cong.).

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  Budget resolutions have established a point of order against a measure 
that would cause the total level of discretionary advance appropriations 
to exceed a set amount (secs. 202, 203, H. Con. Res. 290, 106th Cong.; 
sec. 201, H. Con. Res. 83, 107th Cong.; sec. 301, H. Con. Res. 353, 
107th Cong., deemed in place by H. Res. 428, 107th Cong., May 22, 2002, 
pp. 8675, 8676, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 108th Cong., Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 10; sec. 501, H. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong.; sec. 401, S. Con. 
Res. 95, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 
108th Cong., May 19, 2004, p. 10105, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 
109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 401, H. Con. Res. 95, 109th 
Cong.; sec. 206, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Cong.; sec. 302, S. Con. Res. 
70, 110th Cong.; sec. 424, S. Con. Res. 13, 111th Cong. (carried forward 
by H. Res. 1493, 111th Cong.); sec. 402. H. Con. Res. 34, 112th Cong., 
deemed in place by H. Res. 287, 112th Cong., June 1, 2011; sec. 501, H. 
Con. Res. 112, 112th Cong., deemed in place by H. Res. 614, 112th Cong., 
Apr. 17, 2012; sec. 601, H. Con. Res. 25, 113th Cong., deemed in place 
by H. Res. 243, 113th Cong., June 4, 2013; sec. 3304, S. Con. Res. 11, 
114th Cong.). Such point of order has also been established for a 
Congress in the absence of a budget resolution (sec. 3(e), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
  Budget resolutions have provided that new budget authority, new 
entitlement authority, outlays, and receipts designated as an emergency 
in bills, joint resolutions, amendments, or conference reports are not 
cognizable under specified sections of titles III and IV of the Budget 
Act. The budget resolutions also have required to be included in a 
committee report, joint statement of managers, or the Congressional 
Record an explanation of how an emergency item meets certain criteria 
(sec. 502, H. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong.; sec. 402, S. Con. Res. 95, 
108th Cong., May 19, 2004, deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., 
May 19, 2004, p. 10105, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 402, H. Con. Res. 95, 109th Cong.; sec. 204, 
S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Cong.; sec. 301, S. Con. Res. 70, 110th Cong.). 
The concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2005 also 
provided that new budget authority, new entitlement authority, and 
outlays contained in a supplemental appropriation bill for fiscal year 
2005 for overseas contingency operations related to the war or terrorism 
were not cognizable under sections 302, 303 and 401 of the Budget Act 
(sec. 403, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, deemed in place 
by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, p. 10105, and by sec. 
3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44). Budget 
resolutions have also provided that new budget authority, outlays, or 
receipts resulting from appropriations for overseas deployments and 
related activities are not cognizable under titles III and IV of the 
Budget Act (sec. 207, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Cong.; sec. 301, S. Con. 
Res. 70, 110th Cong.).
  The concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006 included 
a provision permitting the chair of the Committee on the Budget to make 
adjustments to levels and allocations to conform to changes in concepts 
or definitions and a provision providing for a section 302(b) 
suballocation

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to the full Appropriations Committee for appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch (secs. 406, 410, H. Con. Res. 95, 109th Cong.).
  The House has adopted resolutions to deem budget resolutions, portions 
thereof, or other budgetary parameters to be in place for temporary 
enforcement (H. Res. 231, July 24, 1985, p. 20181; H. Res. 413, June 19, 
1990, p. 14612; H. Res. 477, June 19, 1998, p. 12991; ; H. Res. 428, May 
22, 2002, pp. 8675, 8676; sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10; 
H. Res. 649, May 19, 2004, p. 10105; sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
2005, p. 44; sec. 2(a), H. Res. 818, May 18, 2006, p. 8651; sec. 
511(a)(4), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); H. 
Res. 1493, July 1, 2010, p. 12572; H. Res. 287, June 1, 2011, pp. 8438, 
8439; H. Res. 614, Apr. 17, 2012, p. _ (amended by H. Res. 643, May 8, 
2012, p. _); sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _; H. Res. 243, June 
4, 2013, p. _; H. Res. 557, Apr. 30, 2014, p. _; sec. 3(e)(1), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _; H. Res. 223, Apr. 29, 2015, p. _). The House has 
also directed the chair of the Committee on the Budget to publish in the 
Congressional Record budget aggregates and allocations and provided that 
such figures be treated as completion of a budget resolution (sec. 2(a), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80) and in one case further specified the level of an allocation to be 
so published by reference to a given fiscal year (H. Res. 38, Jan. 25, 
2011, p. 627). For fiscal year 2014, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 
(div. A, P.L. 113-67) provided by statute for such a publication and 
required that certain levels be set by reference to statutory 
discretionary spending caps or to a published baseline (sec. 111), and 
in the next Congress the levels in that publication (as subsequently 
adjusted) were deemed to be in force for the first session (sec. 
3(e)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _). That act had a similar 
provision for fiscal year 2015 (sec. 115), but contingent on Congress 
not adopting a budget resolution for that fiscal year.

  (c) Consideration of Procedures or Matters Which Have the Effect of 
Changing any Rule of the House of Representatives.--If the Committee on 
the Budget of the House of Representatives reports any concurrent 
resolution on the budget which includes any procedure or matter which 
has the effect of changing any rule of the House of Representatives, 
such concurrent resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on 
Rules with instructions to report it within five calendar days (not 
counting any day on which the House is not in session). The Committee on 
Rules shall have jurisdiction to report any concurrent resolution 
referred to it under this paragraph with an amendment or amendments 
changing or striking out any such procedure or matter.

  (d) Views and Estimates of Other Committees.--Within 6 weeks after the 
President submits a budget under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, or

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at such time as may be requested by the Committee on the Budget, each 
committee of the House of Representatives having legislative 
jurisdiction shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the House 
and each committee of the Senate having legislative jurisdiction shall 
submit to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate its views and 
estimates (as determined by the committee making such submission) with 
respect to all matters set forth in subsections (a) and (b) which relate 
to matters within the jurisdiction or functions of such committee. The 
Joint Economic Committee shall submit to the Committees on the Budget of 
both Houses its recommendations as to the fiscal policy appropriate to 
the goals of the Employment Act of 1946. Any other committee of the 
House of Representatives or the Senate may submit to the Committee on 
the Budget of its House, and any joint committee of the Congress may 
submit to the Committees on the Budget of both Houses, its views and 
estimates with respect to all matters set forth in subsections (a) and 
(b) which relate to matters within its jurisdiction or functions. Any 
Committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate that anticipates 
that the committee will consider any proposed legislation establishing, 
amending, or reauthorizing any Federal program likely to have a 
significant budgetary impact on any State, local, or tribal government, 
or likely to have a significant financial impact on the private sector, 
including any legislative proposal submitted by the executive branch 
likely to have such a budgetary or financial impact, shall include its 
views and estimates on that proposal to the Committee on the Budget of 
the applicable House.

  Section 301(d) was amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10105, P.L. 105-33) to permit the Committees on the Budget to set an 
alternate deadline for submission of committee views and estimates.

  (e) Hearings and Report.--
          (1) In general.--In developing the concurrent resolution on 
        the budget referred to in subsection (a) for each fiscal year, 
        the Committee on the Budget of each House shall hold hearings 
        and shall receive testimony from Members of Congress and such 
        appropriate representatives of Federal departments and agencies, 
        the general public, and national organizations as the committee 
        deems desirable. Each of the recommendations as to short-term 
        and medium-term goals set forth in the report submitted by the 
        members of the Joint Eco

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        nomic Committee under subsection (d) may be considered by the 
        Committee on the Budget of each House as part of its 
        consideration of such concurrent resolution, and its report may 
        reflect its views thereon, including its views on how the 
        estimates of revenues and levels of budget authority and outlays 
        set forth in such concurrent resolution are designed to achieve 
        any goals it is recommending.
          (2) Required contents of report.--The report accompanying the 
        resolution shall include--
                  (A) a comparison of the levels of total new budget 
                authority, total outlays, total revenues, and the 
                surplus or deficit for each fiscal year set forth in the 
                resolution with those requested in the budget submitted 
                by the President;
                  (B) with respect to each major functional category, an 
                estimate of total new budget authority and total 
                outlays, with the estimates divided between 
                discretionary and mandatory amounts;
                  (C) the economic assumptions that underlie each of the 
                matters set forth in the resolution and any alternative 
                economic assumptions and objectives the committee 
                considered;
                  (D) information, data, and comparisons indicating the 
                manner in which, and the basis on which, the committee 
                determined each of the matters set forth in the 
                resolution;
                  (E) the estimated levels of tax expenditures (the tax 
                expenditures budget) by major items and functional 
                categories for the President's budget and in the 
                resolution; and
                  (F) allocations described in section 302(a).
          (3) Additional contents of report.--The report accompanying 
        the resolution may include--
                  (A) a statement of any significant changes in the 
                proposed levels of Federal assistance to State and local 
                governments;
                  (B) an allocation of the level of Federal revenues 
                recommended in the resolution among the major sources of 
                such revenues;
                  (C) information, data, and comparisons on the share of 
                total Federal budget outlays and of gross domestic 
                product devoted to investment in the budget submitted by 
                the President and in the resolution;

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                  (D) the assumed levels of budget authority and outlays 
                for public buildings, with a division between amounts 
                for construction and repair and for rental payments; and
                  (E) other matters, relating to the budget and to 
                fiscal policy, that the committee deems appropriate.

  The contents required of a report accompanying a budget resolution 
were modified by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10105, P.L. 
105-33).

  (f) Achievement of Goals for Reducing Unemployment.--
          (1) If, pursuant to section 4(c) of the Employment Act of 
        1946, the President recommends in the Economic Report that the 
        goals for reducing unemployment set forth in section 4(b) of 
        such Act be achieved in a year after the close of the five-year 
        period prescribed by such subsection, the concurrent resolution 
        on the budget for the fiscal year beginning after the date on 
        which such Economic Report is received by the Congress may set 
        forth the year in which, in the opinion of the Congress, such 
        goals can be achieved.
          (2) After the Congress has expressed its opinion pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) as to the year in which the goals for reducing 
        unemployment set forth in section 4(b) of the Employment Act of 
        1946 can be achieved, if, pursuant to section 4(e) of such Act, 
        the President recommends in the Economic Report that such goals 
        be achieved in a year which is different from the year in which 
        the Congress has expressed its opinion that such goals should be 
        achieved, either in its action pursuant to paragraph (1) or in 
        its most recent action pursuant to this paragraph, the 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 
        beginning after the date on which such Economic Report is 
        received by the Congress may set forth the year in which, in the 
        opinion of the Congress, such goals can be achieved.
          (3) It shall be in order to amend the provision of such 
        resolution setting forth such year only if the amendment thereto 
        also proposes to alter the estimates, amounts, and levels (as 
        described in subsection (a)) set forth in such resolution in 
        germane fashion in order to be consistent with the economic 
        goals (as described in sections 3(a)(2) and (4)(b) of the 
        Employment Act of 1946) which such amendment proposes

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        can be achieved by the year specified in such amendment.

  (g) Economic Assumptions.--
          (1) It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, or any 
        amendment thereto, or any conference report thereon, that sets 
        forth amounts and levels that are determined on the basis of 
        more than one set of economic and technical assumptions.
          (2) The joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference 
        report on a concurrent resolution on the budget shall set forth 
        the common economic assumptions upon which such joint statement 
        and conference report are based, or upon which any amendment 
        contained in the joint explanatory statement to be proposed by 
        the conferees in the case of technical disagreement, is based.
          (3) Subject to periodic reestimation based on changed economic 
        conditions or technical estimates, determinations under titles 
        III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall be 
        based upon such common economic and technical assumptions.
  (h) Budget Committee's Consultation With Committees.--The Committee on 
the Budget of the House of Representatives shall consult with the 
committees of its House having legislative jurisdiction during the 
preparation, consideration, and enforcement of the concurrent resolution 
on the budget with respect to all matters which relate to the 
jurisdiction or functions of such committees.
  (i) Social Security Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the 
Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget (or 
amendment, motion, or conference report on the resolution) that would 
decrease the excess of social security revenues over social security 
outlays in any of the fiscal years covered by the concurrent resolution. 
No change in chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be 
treated as affecting the amount of social security revenues unless such 
provision changes the income tax treatment of social security benefits.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) modified this portion of section 301 by: (1) inserting 
a new subsection on referral of budget resolutions to the Committee on 
Rules; (2) amending and redesignating existing subsections (c), (d), and 
(e) as (d), (e), and (f), respectively; and (3) adding new subsections 
(g) (which was amended by Public Law 100-119) and (h). It also added a 
former

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subsection (i), which precluded consideration of a concurrent resolution 
on the budget exceeding the pertinent maximum deficit amount absent a 
three-fifths vote. That point of order was amended by Public Law 100-119 
and was eliminated by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, 
P.L. 101-508). The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L. 
100-418) added paragraph (10) to subsection (e), effective only for 
fiscal years 1989 through 1992. Previously, the Full Employment and 
Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-523) amended this section by: (1) 
adding a new paragraph (6) to subsection (a) and redesignating the 
succeeding paragraph (both of which were later repealed by P.L. 99-177); 
(2) adding a new second sentence to subsection (c) (now contained in 
subsection (d)); and (3) adding a new subsection (e) (now designated as 
(f)), relating to the review of the Economic Report as part of the 
congressional budget process, and allowing the inclusion in the budget 
resolution of a timetable for achieving unemployment goals under the 
Employment Act of 1946. The last sentence of subsection (d) was added by 
the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (sec. 102(2), P.L. 104-4; 109 
Stat. 62). The Social Security point of order contained in paragraph (i) 
was added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-
508) and later expanded by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10105, P.L. 105-33).
  The House and Senate completed final action on the first concurrent 
resolution on the budget considered under the Congressional Budget Act 
by adopting a conference report thereon on May 14, 1975 (p. 14329). That 
concurrent resolution contained aggregate figures only for revenues, 
budget authority, budget outlays, deficit and public debt, because the 
Committee on the Budget had not implemented the functional categories 
provisions of the Act for fiscal year 1976.
  On May 13, 1976, the House and Senate completed final action on the 
first concurrent resolution for fiscal year 1977, the first year of full 
implementation of title III of the Congressional Budget Act (p. 13776).

                          committee allocations

  Sec. 302. (a) Committee Spending Allocations.--
          (1) Allocation among committees.--The joint explanatory 
        statement accompanying a conference report on a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget shall include an allocation, consistent 
        with the resolution recommended in the conference report, of the 
        levels for the first fiscal year of the resolution, for at least 
        each of the ensuing 4 fiscal years, and a total for that period 
        of fiscal years (except in the case of the Committee on 
        Appropriations only for the fiscal year of that resolution) of--
                  (A) total new budget authority; and
                  (B) total outlays;

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        among each committee of the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate that has jurisdiction over legislation providing or 
        creating such amounts.
          (2) No double counting.--In the House of Representatives, any 
        item allocated to one committee may not be allocated to another 
        committee.
          (3) Further division of amounts.--
                  (A) In the senate.--In the Senate, the amount 
                allocated to the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
                further divided among the categories specified in 
                section 250(c)(4) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
                Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall not exceed the 
                limits for each category set forth in section 251(c) of 
                that Act.
                  (B) In the house.--In the House of Representatives, 
                the amounts allocated to each committee for each fiscal 
                year, other than the Committee on Appropriations, shall 
                be further divided between amounts provided or required 
                by law on the date of filing of that conference report 
                and amounts not so provided or required. The amounts 
                allocated to the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
                further divided--
                        (i) between discretionary and mandatory amounts 
                    or programs, as appropriate; and
                        (ii) consistent with the categories specified in 
                    section 250(c)(4) of the Balanced Budget and 
                    Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
          (4) Amounts not allocated.--In the House of Representatives or 
        the Senate, if a committee receives no allocation of new budget 
        authority or outlays, that committee shall be deemed to have 
        received an allocation equal to zero for new budget authority or 
        outlays.
          (5) Adjusting allocation of discretionary spending in the 
        house of representatives.--(A) If a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget is not adopted by April 15, the chairman of the Committee 
        on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall submit to 
        the House, as soon as practicable, an allocation under paragraph 
        (1) to the Committee on Appropriations consistent with the 
        discretionary spending levels in the most recently agreed to 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for the appropriate fiscal 
        year covered by that resolution.
          (B) As soon as practicable after an allocation under paragraph 
        (1) is submitted under this section, the

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        Committee on Appropriations shall make suballocations and report 
        those suballocations to the House of Representatives.

  (b) Suballocations by Appropriations Committees.--As soon as 
practicable after a concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed to, 
the Committee on Appropriations of each House (after consulting with the 
Committee on Appropriations of the other House) shall suballocate each 
amount allocated to it for the budget year under subsection (a) among 
its subcommittees. Each Committee on Appropriations shall promptly 
report to its House suballocations made or revised under this 
subsection. The Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives shall further divide among its subcommittees the 
divisions made under subsection (a)(3)(B) and promptly report those 
divisions to the House.

  (c) Point of Order.--After the Committee on Appropriations has 
received an allocation pursuant to subsection (a) for a fiscal year, it 
shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to 
consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 
report within the jurisdiction of that committee providing new budget 
authority for that fiscal year, until that committee makes the 
suballocations required by subsection (b).

  (d) Subsequent Concurrent Resolutions.--In the case of a concurrent 
resolution on the budget referred to in section 304, the allocations 
under subsection (a) and the subdivisions under subsection (b) shall be 
required only to the extent necessary to take into account revisions 
made in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget.

  (e) Alteration of Allocations.--At any time after a committee reports 
the allocations required to be made under subsection (b), such committee 
may report to its House an alteration of such allocations. Any 
alteration of such allocations must be consistent with any actions 
already taken by its House on legislation within the committee's 
jurisdiction.

  (f) Legislation Subject to Point of Order.--
          (1) In the house of representatives.--After the Congress has 
        completed action on a concurrent resolution on the budget for a 
        fiscal year, it shall not be in order in the House of 
        Representatives to consider any bill, joint resolution, or 
        amendment providing new

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        budget authority for any fiscal year, or any conference report 
        on any such bill or joint resolution, if--
                  (A) the enactment of such bill or resolution as 
                reported;
                  (B) the adoption and enactment of such amendment; or
                  (C) the enactment of such bill or resolution in the 
                form recommended in such conference report,
        would cause the applicable allocation of new budget authority 
        made under subsection (a) or (b) for the first fiscal year or 
        the total of fiscal years to be exceeded.
          (2) In the senate.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
        conference report that would cause--
                  (A) in the case of any committee except the Committee 
                on Appropriations, the applicable allocation of new 
                budget authority or outlays under subsection (a) for the 
                first fiscal year or the total of fiscal years to be 
                exceeded; or
                  (B) in the case of the Committee on Appropriations, 
                the applicable suballocation of new budget authority or 
                outlays under subsection (b) to be exceeded.

  (g) Pay-as-You-Go Exception in the House.--
          (1) In general.--(A) Subsection (f)(1) and, after April 15, 
        section 303(a) shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution, 
        as reported, amendment thereto, or conference report thereon if, 
        for each fiscal year covered by the most recently agreed to 
        concurrent resolution on the budget--
                  (i) the enactment of that bill or resolution as 
                reported;
                  (ii) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; or
                  (iii) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the 
                form recommended in that conference report,
        would not increase the deficit, and, if the sum of any revenue 
        increases provided in legislation already enacted during the 
        current session (when added to revenue increases, if any, in 
        excess of any outlay increase provided by the legislation 
        proposed for consideration) is at least as great as the sum of 
        the amount, if any, by which the aggregate level of Federal 
        revenues should be increased as set forth in that concurrent

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        resolution and the amount, if any, by which revenues are to be 
        increased pursuant to pay-as-you-go procedures under section 
        301(b)(8), if included in that concurrent resolution.
          (B) Section 311(a), as that section applies to revenues, shall 
        not apply to any bill, joint resolution, amendment thereto, or 
        conference report thereon if, for each fiscal year covered by 
        the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the 
        budget--
                  (i) the enactment of that bill or resolution as 
                reported;
                  (ii) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; or
                  (iii) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the 
                form recommended in that conference report,
        would not increase the deficit, and, if the sum of any outlay 
        reductions provided in legislation already enacted during the 
        current session (when added to outlay reductions, if any, in 
        excess of any revenue reduction provided by the legislation 
        proposed for consideration) is at least as great as the sum of 
        the amount, if any, by which the aggregate level of Federal 
        outlays should be reduced as required by that concurrent 
        resolution and the amount, if any, by which outlays are to be 
        reduced pursuant to pay-as-you-go procedures under section 
        301(b)(8), if included in that concurrent resolution.
          (2) Revised allocations.--(A) As soon as practicable after 
        Congress agrees to a bill or joint resolution that would have 
        been subject to a point of order under subsection (f)(1) but for 
        the exception provided in paragraph (1)(A) or would have been 
        subject to a point of order under section 311(a) but for the 
        exception provided in paragraph (1)(B), the chairman of the 
        Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall 
        file with the House appropriately revised allocations under 
        section 302(a) and revised functional levels and budget 
        aggregates to reflect that bill.
          (B) Such revised allocations, functional levels, and budget 
        aggregates shall be considered for the purposes of this Act as 
        allocations, functional levels, and budget aggregates contained 
        in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the 
        budget.

  Section 302 was amended by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177) to: (1) add appropriate 
levels of total entitlement authority and total credit authority to the 
allocations

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required by subsection (a), with all levels further divided into 
mandatory and discretionary amounts; (2) add new credit authority to the 
subdivisions required of the Committees on Appropriations by subsection 
(b)(1); (3) redesignate subsection (c) as (d); and (4) add new 
subsections (c), (e), (f), and (g). The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 
(tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) removed credit authority from the purview of 
points of order under this section by deleting all references to credit 
authority in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (f), effective for fiscal 
years beginning after September 30, 1991. That law also amended 
subsections (c) and (f) to standardize their application to bills, joint 
resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports. Section 302 was 
further amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10106, P.L. 
105-33) to: (1) permanently extend the requirement that allocations to 
the authorizing committees cover at least a five-year period and to 
revert the temporary allocations under former section 602 into section 
302; (2) permit a further allocation among defense, nondefense, and 
violent crime reduction funding; (3) modify the Committee on 
Appropriations' default allocation; and (4) clarify that committee's 
suballocations to its subcommittees.
  Clause 8 of rule XXI, adopted in the 110th Congress, provides that 
points of order under title III of the Budget Act apply to unreported 
measures (sec. 403, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 
2007)). Previously, a point of order under section 302(f) operated with 
respect to a bill or joint resolution in its reported state and thus did 
not lie against consideration of an unreported measure (Mar. 21, 1995, 
p. 8491). The budget resolution deemed in place for fiscal year 2005 
provided that, for purposes of titles II and III of the Budget Act, the 
term ``amendment'' or ``amendment thereto'' means an amendment offered 
or an amendment made in order as original text or considered as adopted 
by special order of the House (sec. 406, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong., 
May 19, 2004, deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, 
p. 10105, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 
44).
  Points of order under section 302(c) apply separately to the 
consideration of bills and amendments, and thus a waiver of points of 
order against consideration of an appropriation bill before the filing 
of a report from the Appropriations Committee allocating new budget 
authority among its subcommittees does not extend to an amendment 
providing new budget authority in addition to the amounts contained in 
the bill (July 13, 1987, p. 19514). Where the House deemed the adoption 
of new section 302(a) allocations for the 108th Congress (sec. 3, H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10), the Chair sustained a point of order under 
section 302(c) against an amendment providing new budget authority where 
the Appropriations Committee had not reported section 302(b) 
suballocations (Jan. 8, 2003, p. 225; Jan. 28, 2003, p. 2009 (both 
sustained by tabling of appeal)).
  By way of example, the Chair has held the following as providing new 
budget authority in excess of the relevant allocations under section 
302(a), as authoritatively estimated by the Committee on the Budget 
pursuant

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to section 312(a), in violation of section 302(f): (1) a motion to 
recommit a bill establishing a Medicare prescription drug benefit 
program with instructions to report forthwith an amendment in the nature 
of substitute containing a different program (sustained by tabling of 
appeal) (June 28, 2000, pp. 12736, 12751); (2) an amendment extending 
eligibility for Foster Care Maintenance Payments to a new class (Sept. 
14, 2005, pp. 20218-20); (3) an amendment delaying the imposition of a 
monetary penalty resulting in a loss of offsetting receipts (July 18, 
1991, p. 18860); (4) where a subcommittee of the Committee on 
Appropriations had received two separate allocations of budget 
authority, an amendment transferring funds from accounts under one 
allocation to accounts under the other, thereby exceeding the level of 
the latter allocation (July 18, 2012, p. _).
  An amendment that proposes offsetting increases and decreases in new 
budget authority is not subject to a point of order under section 302(f) 
(May 9, 1995, p. 12175). Amendments to an appropriation bill making a 
series of figure changes intended to offset one another and considered 
en bloc are subject to points of order under section 302(f) where the 
intended reductions in new discretionary budget authority fail to offset 
increases in such authority, so that the net effect of the amendments is 
to cause the bill to exceed the appropriate allocation of new 
discretionary budget authority made pursuant to section 302(b) for the 
fiscal year (July 30, 1986, p. 18154).
  Where a Senate amendment proposed to increase certain loan guarantees 
that were estimated by the Committee on the Budget to breach the 
subcommittee subdivision of new credit authority (as then required by 
this section), the Chair sustained a point of order under section 302(f) 
against a motion to concur therein (Oct. 20, 1990, p. 31517).
  Where a limitation on funds in a general appropriation bill was 
estimated under former section 302(g) (current section 312(a)) to 
provide negative new budget authority in an amount sufficient to avoid a 
breach of the pertinent allocation of such authority, an amendment 
striking the limitation from the bill was held to provide new budget 
authority causing such a breach, in violation of section 302(f) (June 
26, 1991, p. 16474; June 13, 2000, p. 10501). An amendment proposing to 
strike from a general appropriation bill a proviso stating that a 
specified increment of new discretionary budget authority ostensibly 
provided by the bill would ``become available for obligation only upon 
the enactment of future appropriations legislation'' was held to cause 
the bill to provide additional new discretionary budget authority in 
that incremental amount, in breach of the pertinent allocation under 
sections 302 and 602, and therefore in violation of section 302(f) (June 
26, 1996, p. 15563). An amendment proposing to strike from a general 
appropriation bill a rescission scored as negative budget authority was 
held to provide new budget authority in excess of the relevant 
allocation under section 302(b) (June 20, 2001, pp. 11248, 11249). The 
Chair relies on authoritative estimates from the Committee on the Budget 
pursuant to section 312(a) to determine whether an amendment

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to a general appropriation bill provides new budget authority in excess 
of the relevant allocation under section 302(b) in violation of section 
302(f) (e.g., June 8, 2000, pp. 9942, 9943; June 12, 2000, pp. 10377, 
10378; Apr. 2, 2004, pp. 6355, 6374). Such estimates may be provided by 
the chair of the Committee on the Budget pursuant to clause 4 of rule 
XXIX.
  For a point of order against the motion to rise and report an 
appropriation bill to the House where the bill, as proposed to be 
amended, exceeds an applicable allocation of new budget authority under 
section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and procedures 
in the Committee of the Whole in the event that the point of order is 
sustained, see Sec. 1044b, supra.
  The 104th Congress authorized the chair of the Committee on the Budget 
to revise existing allocations under this section among committees of 
the House to reflect changes in jurisdiction under clause 1 of rule X 
and to publish the revised allocations in the Congressional Record, to 
the end that the revised allocations be effective in the House as though 
made pursuant to sections 302(a) and 602(a) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (sec. 202(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). The House 
has adopted resolutions to deem budget resolutions, or portions thereof, 
to be in place for temporary enforcement (see annotations under section 
301(b) of this Act). The budget resolution deemed adopted for fiscal 
year 2003 established a reserve fund in the House to support an extra 
allocation for propositions providing for specified increases in 
obligation levels for highway spending, with a special application of 
section 302(f) to enforce levels of outlays (as well as budget 
authority) in that area, and provided for a separate, exclusive section 
302(a) allocation for medicare spending (on one-year and 10-year bases) 
(sec. 204, H. Con. Res. 353, 107th Cong., deemed in place by H. Res. 
428, 107th Cong., May 22, 2002, pp. 8675, 8676, and by sec. 3, H. Res. 
5, 108th Cong., Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10). The special allocation for surface 
transportation was carried in the budget resolution for fiscal year 2004 
(sec. 501, H. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong.) and in the budget resolution 
deemed in place for fiscal year 2005 (sec. 401, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th 
Cong., May 19, 2004, deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 
19, 2004, p. 10105, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 
2005, p. 44). Budget resolutions have established reserve funds in the 
House to support extra allocations for various propositions covering a 
broad range of subjects (e.g., secs. 201-220, S. Con. Res. 70, 110th 
Cong.). The House has provided that, for purposes of subsection (f), 
certain off-budget discretionary amounts be included in estimates of 
budget authority and outlays (sec. 3(f)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
80).

   concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before budget-
                    related legislation is considered

  Sec. 303. (a) In General.--Until the concurrent resolution on the 
budget for a fiscal year has been agreed to, it shall not be in order in 
the House of Representatives, with

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respect to the first fiscal year covered by that resolution, or the 
Senate, with respect to any fiscal year covered by that resolution, to 
consider any bill or joint resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or 
conference report thereon that--
          (1) first provides new budget authority for that fiscal year;
          (2) first provides an increase or decrease in revenues during 
        that fiscal year;
          (3) provides an increase or decrease in the public debt limit 
        to become effective during that fiscal year;
          (4) in the Senate only, first provides new entitlement 
        authority for that fiscal year; or
          (5) in the Senate only, first provides for an increase or 
        decrease in outlays for that fiscal year.
  (b) Exceptions in the House.--In the House of Representatives, 
subsection (a) does not apply--
          (1)(A) to any bill or joint resolution, as reported, providing 
        advance discretionary new budget authority that first becomes 
        available for the first or second fiscal year after the budget 
        year; or
          (B) to any bill or joint resolution, as reported, first 
        increasing or decreasing revenues in a fiscal year following the 
        fiscal year to which the concurrent resolution applies;
          (2) after May 15, to any general appropriation bill or 
        amendment thereto; or
          (3) to any bill or joint resolution unless it is reported by a 
        committee.
  (c) Application to Appropriation Measures in the Senate.--
          (1) In general.--Until the concurrent resolution on the budget 
        for a fiscal year has been agreed to and an allocation has been 
        made to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate under 
        section 302(a) for that year, it shall not be in order in the 
        Senate to consider any appropriation bill or joint resolution, 
        amendment or motion thereto, or conference report thereon for 
        that year or any subsequent year.
          (2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) does not apply to appropriations 
        legislation making advance appropriations for the first or 
        second fiscal year after the year the allocation referred to in 
        that paragraph is made.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) amended subsection 303(a) by: (1) adding the phrase 
``as reported to the House or Senate''; (2) modifying paragraph (4) to 
apply

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to new entitlement authority; and (3) adding a paragraph (5) relating to 
new credit authority. The same law amended subsection (b) by adding the 
May 15th exception for general appropriation bills. The Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) amended subsection (a) 
to standardize its application to bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
motions, and conference reports, and by deleting the reference in 
paragraph (5) to new credit authority. That law also subdivided 
subsection (b) into paragraphs relating to exceptions in the House and 
Senate. Section 303 was rewritten by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 
(sec. 10107, P.L. 105-33) to simplify the section, drop obsolete 
provisions, make certain conforming changes, and eliminate references to 
``new entitlement authority'' in the House and ``new credit authority.''
  Clause 8 of rule XXI, adopted in the 110th Congress, provides that 
points of order under title III of the Budget Act apply to unreported 
measures (sec. 403, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 
2007)). Previously, a point of order under section 303(a) operated with 
respect to a bill or joint resolution in its reported state and thus did 
not lie against consideration of an unreported measure (Mar. 21, 1995, 
p. 8491), although it did lie against consideration of an amendment to 
an unreported measure (July 24, 1998, p. 17278). The budget resolution 
deemed in place for fiscal year 2005 provided that, for purposes of 
titles II and III of the Budget Act, the term ``amendment'' or 
``amendment thereto'' means an amendment offered or an amendment made in 
order as original text or considered as adopted by special order of the 
House (sec. 406, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, deemed in 
place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, p. 10105, and by sec. 
3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44).
  A conference report containing revenue-sharing provisions in the form 
of new entitlement authority as described in section 401(c)(2)(C) of the 
Budget Act to become effective in fiscal years 1978 through 1980 in 
amounts greater than the amount in fiscal year 1977 was ruled out on a 
point of order under section 303(a), because the first concurrent 
resolution on the budget for those future fiscal years had not yet been 
adopted and the increased entitlements could not be considered mere 
continuations of entitlement authority that became effective in fiscal 
year 1977 (for which a concurrent resolution had been adopted), and 
because the section 303(b) exception permitting certain advance budget 
authority does not apply in the case of new entitlement authority 
(Speaker Albert, Sept. 30, 1976, p. 34074). An amendment providing new 
budget authority for a fiscal year before adoption of a budget 
resolution for that year was held to violate section 303, where points 
of order under that section had been waived against the pending bill but 
not against amendments (Aug. 1, 1984, p. 21871; July 17, 1985, pp. 
19435, 19463 (amendment contained in motion to recommit with 
instructions)).
  To a bill providing eligibility for certain entitlement benefits to 
become effective in the fiscal year for which a budget resolution had 
been adopted,

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an amendment allowing a deduction in computing household income to 
determine eligibility effective in the next following fiscal year, to 
reflect changes in shelter and utility costs, was ruled out as providing 
new entitlement authority to become effective in a fiscal year for which 
a concurrent resolution on the budget had not been adopted, in violation 
of section 303(a)(4) (July 27, 1977, p. 25222).
  To a bill partially replacing an existing mandatory student loan 
(entitlement) program with a new discretionary program, an amendment 
reducing the discretionary program and commensurately restoring the 
mandatory program was held to violate section 303(a) by providing new 
entitlement authority for the ensuing fiscal year before the adoption of 
a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year (Mar. 26, 
1992, p. 7173). Amendments enlarging the class of persons eligible for, 
or increasing the amount of, a Government subsidy (lower interest 
payments on student loans) have been held to violate section 303(a) by 
providing new entitlement authority for the ensuing fiscal year before 
the adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal 
year (Mar. 26, 1992, pp. 7184, 7186, 7227, 7231, 7236).
  An amendment repealing an agricultural marketing (entitlement) program 
for peanuts over a five-year period was nevertheless held to provide new 
budget authority for the ensuing fiscal year before the adoption of the 
budget resolution for that year, in violation of section 303(a), where 
the Chair was persuaded by estimates from the Congressional Budget 
Office that economic conditions under that repeal would result in 
decreased receipts and increased Federal outlays during that first 
fiscal year (July 25, 1990, p. 19155).
  An amendment imposing fees on generated electric energy, to be 
deposited in a trust fund, and effective in the ensuing fiscal year, was 
held to violate section 303(a) by increasing revenues effective in the 
ensuing fiscal year, for which a budget resolution had yet to be adopted 
(July 23, 1985, p. 20041). An amendment striking a revenue provision in 
a pending unreported bill and proposing to insert an alternative revenue 
provision was held to violate section 303(a) (July 24, 1998, p. 17278).
  The Committee on the Budget of the House determined, as stated in its 
second report on the implementation of congressional budget procedures 
for fiscal year 1976 (H. Rept. No. 94-457, Oct. 8, 1975), that the 
section 303(b) exemption for certain advance budget or revenue authority 
ceases to apply with the beginning of the fiscal year in question. 
Therefore, on or after October 1, 1975, the beginning of fiscal year 
1976, budget authority or revenue measures to become effective in fiscal 
year 1977, could no longer be considered under the 303(b) exception but 
would have to await the final adoption in May of the first concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1977. But the Senate in the 
95th Congress overruled a decision of its presiding officer holding that 
the section 303(b) exemption ceased to apply after the beginning of the 
fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which revenue changes were 
proposed (Oct. 5, 1978, pp. 33945-50).

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  In the 106th through 113th Congresses, the House adopted an order to 
enforce a 303(a) point of order against a reported bill or joint 
resolution considered under a special order of business on the basis of 
text made in order as original text (sec. 2(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47; sec. 3(b)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24; sec. 3(a)(2), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10; sec. 3(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, 
p. 44; sec. 511(a)(2), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 
2007); sec. 3(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 3(a)(2), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(b)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 
_). These orders were no longer necessary after an amendment to section 
315 by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (div. A, P.L. 113-67).
  The House has adopted resolutions to deem budget resolutions, or 
portions thereof, to be in place for temporary enforcement (see 
annotations under section 301(b) of this Act).

      permissible revisions of concurrent resolutions on the budget

  Sec. 304. At any time after the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for a fiscal year has been agreed to pursuant to section 301, and before 
the end of such fiscal year, the two Houses may adopt a concurrent 
resolution on the budget which revises or reaffirms the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for such fiscal year most recently agreed to.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) deleted a 
subsection (b), relating to maximum deficit amount requirements for 
revised budget resolutions, that had been added by the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177), and 
redesignated the subsection on economic assumptions, originally added by 
Public Law 100-119, as (b). The latter subsection (b) was deleted by the 
Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10108, P.L. 105-33). Although not a 
section 304 revision, the House has by simple resolution modified 
amounts in House enforcement provisions of a concurrent resolution on 
the budget (sec. 2, H. Res. 665, July 22, 2009, p. 18581).

 provisions relating to the consideration of concurrent resolutions on 
                               the budget

  Sec. 305. (a) Procedure in House of Representatives After Report of 
Committee; Debate.--
          (1) When a concurrent resolution on the budget has been 
        reported by the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives and has been referred to the appropriate 
        calendar of the House, it shall be in order on any day 
        thereafter, subject to clause 4 of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
        House of Representatives, to move to proceed to the 
        consideration of the concurrent reso

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        lution. The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An 
        amendment to the motion is not in order and it is not in order 
        to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to 
        or disagreed to.
          (2) General debate on any concurrent resolution on the budget 
        in the House of Representatives shall be limited to not more 
        than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally between the 
        majority and minority parties, plus such additional hours of 
        debate as are consumed pursuant to paragraph (3). A motion 
        further to limit debate is not debatable. A motion to recommit 
        the concurrent resolution is not in order, and it is not in 
        order to move to reconsider the vote by which the concurrent 
        resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
          (3) Following the presentation of opening statements on the 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year by the 
        chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
        Budget of the House, there shall be a period of up to four hours 
        for debate on economic goals and policies.
          (4) Only if a concurrent resolution on the budget reported by 
        the Committee on the Budget of the House sets forth the economic 
        goals (as described in sections 3(a)(2) and (4)(b) of the Full 
        Employment Act of 1946) which the estimates, amounts, and levels 
        (as described in section 301(a)) set forth in such resolution 
        are designed to achieve, shall it be in order to offer to such 
        resolution an amendment relating to such goals, and such 
        amendment shall be in order only if it also proposes to alter 
        such estimates, amounts, and levels in germane fashion in order 
        to be consistent with the goals proposed in such amendment.
          (5) Consideration of any concurrent resolution on the budget 
        by the House of Representatives shall be in the Committee of the 
        Whole, and the resolution shall be considered for amendment 
        under the five-minute rule in accordance with the applicable 
        provisions of rule XVIII of the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives. After the Committee rises and reports the 
        resolution back to the House, the previous question shall be 
        considered as ordered on the resolution and any amendments 
        thereto to final passage without intervening motion; except that 
        it shall be in order at any time prior to final passage 
        (notwithstanding any other rule or provision of law) to adopt an 
        amendment (or a series of amendments) changing any figure or

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        figures in the resolution as so reported to the extent necessary 
        to achieve mathematical consistency.
          (6) Debate in the House of Representatives on the conference 
        report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall be 
        limited to not more than 5 hours, which shall be divided equally 
        between the majority and minority parties. A motion further to 
        limit debate is not debatable. A motion to recommit the 
        conference report is not in order, and it is not in order to 
        move to reconsider the vote by which the conference report is 
        agreed to or disagreed to.
          (7) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the 
        application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
        procedure relating to any concurrent resolution on the budget 
        shall be decided without debate.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) amended section 305 in several places, with the most 
important changes being the reduction in the availability requirement 
for the committee report on a budget resolution to five days (from 10) 
and the addition of a one-day availability requirement for any report 
thereon from the Committee on Rules. The Full Employment and Balanced 
Growth Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-523) amended this subsection by adding 
subparagraphs (3) and (4) and making conforming changes relating to 
debate and amendments on economic goals and policies during 
consideration of the first concurrent resolution on the budget in the 
House. A similar addition relating to Senate procedure was made in 
subparagraphs (3) and (4). The Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10109, P.L. 105-33) amended section 305(a)(1) to provide a three-day 
layover requirement for the concurrent resolution on the budget.
  General debate on economic goals and policies under subsection (a)(3) 
must be confined to that subject (Apr. 23, 1980, p. 8815). Clause 10 of 
rule XVIII (former clause 8 of rule XXVIII), as added in the 95th 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) requires that any 
concurrent resolution on the budget (consisting of both aggregate totals 
and functional categories) be considered as read and open to amendment 
at any point, and unanimous consent is required to read such a 
concurrent resolution by section in order to allow amendments to 
aggregates to be considered before amendments to functional categories 
(May 2, 1978, pp. 12074, 12075). Clause 10 of rule XVIII (former clause 
8 of rule XXIII) was further amended in the 96th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16) to require that amendments to budget 
resolutions achieve mathematical consistency and contain all the matter 
set forth in subsections 301(a)(1) through (5). On one occasion, the 
chair of the Committee on the Budget offered a ``mathematical 
consistency'' amendment in Committee of the Whole, rather than in the 
House (Apr. 29, 1976, p. 11916).

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  A concurrent resolution on the budget is subject to a demand for a 
division of the question if, for example, the resolution grammatically 
and substantively relates to different fiscal years (May 7, 1980, pp. 
10185-87) or includes a separate, hortatory section having its own 
grammatical and substantive meaning (Mar. 5, 1992, p. 4675).
  Where a perfecting amendment changing several figures in a concurrent 
resolution on the budget was pending in Committee of the Whole, the 
Chair indicated that adoption of that amendment would preclude a further 
amendment merely changing those figures but would not preclude a more 
comprehensive amendment changing other (unamended) portions of the 
resolution (Apr. 28, 1976, p. 11599).
  Although under this paragraph there can be up to five hours of debate 
on a conference report on a concurrent resolution on the budget, where 
the conferees report in total disagreement, debate on the motion to 
dispose of the amendment in disagreement is under the ``hour rule'' and 
is equally divided and controlled between the majority and minority 
parties under clause 8(d) of rule XXII (former clause 2 of rule XXVIII) 
(May 13, 1976, p. 13756; Sept. 16, 1976, p. 30182).
  A concurrent resolution on the budget providing for the production of 
three separate reconciliation bills, including a reconciliation bill 
that lowers revenues, is privileged in the Senate under section 305(b) 
(May 21, 1996, pp. 11937-41).
  In the 96th Congress, for the first time, the Committee on Rules 
reported and the House adopted a special order permitting only certain 
designated amendments to be offered to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget (H. Res. 642, Apr. 23, 1980, p. 8789). The House has adopted 
similar ``modified-closed rules'' for the consideration of concurrent 
resolutions on the budget in each subsequent Congress. In the 98th 
Congress, a special order (H. Res. 144, Mar. 22, 1983, p. 6503) waiving 
the existing 10-day layover requirement of section 305(a)(1) was 
construed not to have waived the separate three-day layover requirement 
of clause 4 of rule XIII (former clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI, amended in 
the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39) to conform to the 
five-day layover requirement of this section). The House has adopted 
resolutions to deem budget resolutions, or portions thereof, to be in 
place for temporary enforcement (see annotations under section 301(b) of 
this Act).

  (b) Procedure in Senate After Report of Committee; Debate; 
Amendments.--
          (1) Debate in the Senate on any concurrent resolution on the 
        budget, and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and 
        appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more 
        than 50 hours, except that with respect to any concurrent 
        resolution referred to in section 304 all such debate shall be 
        limited to not more than 15 hours. The time shall be

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        equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader 
        and the minority leader or their designees.
          (2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget shall be limited to 2 hours, to be 
        equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the 
        manager of the concurrent resolution, and debate on any 
        amendment to an amendment, debatable motion, or appeal shall be 
        limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled 
        by, the mover and the manager of the concurrent resolution, 
        except that in the event the manager of the concurrent 
        resolution is in favor of any such amendment, motion, or appeal, 
        the time in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the 
        minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not 
        germane to the provisions of such concurrent resolution shall be 
        received. Such leaders, or either of them, may, from the time 
        under their control on the passage of the concurrent resolution, 
        allot additional time to any Senator during the consideration of 
        any amendment, debatable motion, or appeal.
          (3) Following the presentation of opening statements on the 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year by the 
        chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
        Budget of the Senate, there shall be a period of up to four 
        hours for debate on economic goals and policies.
          (4) Subject to the other limitations of this Act, only if a 
        concurrent resolution on the budget reported by the Committee on 
        the Budget of the Senate sets forth the economic goals (as 
        described in sections 3(a)(2) and 4(b) of the Employment Act of 
        1946) which the estimates, amounts, and levels (as described in 
        section 301(a)) set forth in such resolution are designed to 
        achieve, shall it be in order to offer to such resolution an 
        amendment relating to such goals, and such amendment shall be in 
        order only if it also proposes to alter such estimates, amounts, 
        and levels in germane fashion in order to be consistent with the 
        goals proposed in such amendment.
          (5) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. A 
        motion to recommit (except a motion to recommit with 
        instructions to report back within a specified number of days, 
        not to exceed 3, not counting any day on which the Senate is not 
        in session) is not in order. Debate on any such motion to 
        recommit shall be lim

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        ited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled 
        by, the mover and the manager of the concurrent resolution.
          (6) Notwithstanding any other rule, an amendment or series of 
        amendments to a concurrent resolution on the budget proposed in 
        the Senate shall always be in order if such amendment or series 
        of amendments proposes to change any figure or figures then 
        contained in such concurrent resolution so as to make such 
        concurrent resolution mathematically consistent or so as to 
        maintain such consistency.

  (c) Action on Conference Reports in the Senate.--
          (1) A motion to proceed to the consideration of the conference 
        report on any concurrent resolution on the budget (or a 
        reconciliation bill or resolution) may be made even though a 
        previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to.
          (2) During the consideration in the Senate of the conference 
        report (or a message between Houses) on any concurrent 
        resolution on the budget, and all amendments in disagreement, 
        and all amendments thereto, and debatable motions and appeals in 
        connection therewith, debate shall be limited to 10 hours, to be 
        equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader 
        and minority leader or their designees. Debate on any debatable 
        motion or appeal related to the conference report (or a message 
        between Houses) shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally 
        divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of 
        the conference report (or a message between Houses).
          (3) Should the conference report be defeated, debate on any 
        request for a new conference and the appointment of conferees 
        shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
        controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the 
        minority leader or his designee, and should any motion be made 
        to instruct the conferees before the conferees are named, debate 
        on such motion shall be limited to one-half hour, to be equally 
        divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of 
        the conference report. Debate on any amendment to any such 
        instructions shall be limited to 20 minutes, to be equally 
        divided between and controlled by the mover and the manager of 
        the conference report. In all cases when the manager of the 
        conference report is in favor of any

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        motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition shall be 
        under the control of the minority leader or his designee.
          (4) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement, 
        time on each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be 
        equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of the 
        conference report and the minority leader or his designee. No 
        amendment that is not germane to the provisions of such 
        amendments shall be received.

  (d) Concurrent Resolution Must Be Consistent in the Senate.--It shall 
not be in order in the Senate to vote on the question of agreeing to--
          (1) a concurrent resolution on the budget unless the figures 
        then contained in such resolution are mathematically consistent; 
        or
          (2) a conference report on a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget unless the figures contained in such resolution, as 
        recommended in such conference report, are mathematically 
        consistent.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) deleted a 
subsection (d), which required action by budget conferees within seven 
days, and redesignated the succeeding subsection.

legislation dealing with congressional budget must be handled by budget 
                               committees

  Sec. 306. (a) In the Senate.--In the Senate, no bill, resolution, 
amendment, motion, or conference report, dealing with any matter which 
is within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget shall be 
considered unless it is a bill or resolution which has been reported by 
the Committee on the Budget (or from the consideration of which such 
committee has been discharged) or unless it is an amendment to such a 
bill or resolution.
  (b) In the House of Representatives.--In the House of Representatives, 
no bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto, or conference report 
thereon, dealing with any matter which is within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee on the Budget shall be considered unless it is a bill or joint 
resolution which has been reported by the Committee on the Budget (or 
from the consideration of which such committee has been discharged) or 
unless it is an amendment to such a bill or joint resolution.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) amended 
this section to standardize its application to any bill, resolution, 
amend

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ment, motion, or conference report. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 
(div. A, P.L. 113-67) separated the section into two subsections to 
provide that the point of order applies in the House to a joint 
resolution but not any other resolution. This change codified separate 
orders adopted by the House from the 107th through 113th Congresses that 
construed the term ``resolution'' in the former unified section as 
``joint resolution'' (sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24; sec. 
3(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10; sec. 3(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 511(a)(1), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted 
Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 3(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 
3(a)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(b)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2013, p. _). The 104th and 105th Congresses expanded the legislative 
jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463; sec. 5, H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). See 
clause 1(e) of rule X, supra. Pursuant to section 4(a)(4) of the 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (tit. I, P.L. 111-139), a 
designation regarding budgetary effects under that Act is not considered 
a matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget for 
purposes of section 306 enforcement.
  A special order of business adopted by the House providing for 
consideration of an unreported concurrent resolution on the budget upon 
the Speaker's declaration that the House be resolved into the Committee 
of the Whole has the effect of discharging the Committee on the Budget 
when so announced by the Speaker, and need not contain the term 
``discharge'' or waive points of order under this section, because the 
concurrent resolution is effectively discharged consistent with, and not 
in violation of, this section (Mar. 13, 1986, p. 4638).
  The following were held to violate this section: (1) an amendment 
directing that certain lease-purchase agreements be scored on an annual 
basis for budget purposes (July 19, 1999, p. 16615); and (2) an 
amendment designating an appropriation as ``emergency spending'' within 
the meaning of the budget-enforcement laws (Sept. 8, 1999, p. 20930).
  In the Senate, the following were held to violate this section: (1) to 
an omnibus revenue bill reported from the Committee on Finance 
containing certain tax credits, an amendment expressing the sense of 
Congress that under the Congressional Budget Act process the 
continuation of tax credits would be offset by reductions in Federal 
spending (June 18, 1976, pp. 19089-97); and (2) to a bill making 
comprehensive amendments to the Social Security Act, an amendment 
removing social security trust funds from the ``unified budget'' and 
establishing separate aggregate and functional categories in all 
concurrent resolutions on the budget for social security trust funds 
(Mar. 22, 1983, p. 6590).

  house committee action on all appropriation bills to be completed by 
                                 june 10

  Sec. 307. On or before June 10 of each year, the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives

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shall report annual appropriation bills providing new budget authority 
under the jurisdiction of all of its subcommittees for the fiscal year 
which begins on October 1 of that year.

  This section was rewritten by the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177) to establish June 
10th as the annual target date for completion of House committee action 
on all regular appropriation bills.

   reports, summaries, and projections of congressional budget actions

  Sec. 308. (a) Legislation Providing New Budget Authority or Providing 
an Increase or Decrease in Revenues or Tax Expenditures.--
          (1) Whenever a committee of either House reports to its House 
        a bill or joint resolution, or committee amendment thereto, 
        providing new budget authority (other than continuing 
        appropriations) or providing an increase or decrease in revenues 
        or tax expenditures for a fiscal year (or fiscal years), the 
        report accompanying that bill or joint resolution shall contain 
        a statement, or the committee shall make available such a 
        statement in the case of an approved committee amendment which 
        is not reported to its House, prepared after consultation with 
        the Director of the Congressional Budget Office--
                  (A) comparing the levels in such measure to the 
                appropriate allocations in the reports submitted under 
                section 302(b) for the most recently agreed to 
                concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year 
                (or fiscal years);
                  (B) containing a projection by the Congressional 
                Budget Office of how such measure will affect the levels 
                of such budget authority, budget outlays, revenues, or 
                tax expenditures under existing law for such fiscal year 
                (or fiscal years) and each of the four ensuing fiscal 
                years, if timely submitted before such report is filed; 
                and
                  (C) containing an estimate by the Congressional Budget 
                Office of the level of new budget authority for 
                assistance to State and local governments provided by 
                such measure, if timely submitted before such report is 
                filed.
          (2) Whenever a conference report is filed in either House and 
        such conference report or any amendment

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        reported in disagreement or any amendment contained in the joint 
        statement of managers to be proposed by the conferees in the 
        case of technical disagreement on such bill or joint resolution 
        provides new budget authority (other than continuing 
        appropriations) or provides an increase or decrease in revenues 
        for a fiscal year (or fiscal years), the statement of managers 
        accompanying such conference report shall contain the 
        information described in paragraph (1), if available on a timely 
        basis. If such information is not available when the conference 
        report is filed, the committee shall make such information 
        available to Members as soon as practicable prior to the 
        consideration of such conference report.
          (3) CBO paygo estimates.--
                  (A) The Chairs of the Committees on the Budget of the 
                House and Senate, as applicable, shall request from the 
                Director of the Congressional Budget Office an estimate 
                of the budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation.
                  (B) Estimates shall be prepared using baseline 
                estimates supplied by the Congressional Budget Office, 
                consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and 
                Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
                  (C) The Director shall not count timing shifts, as 
                that term is defined at section 3(8) of the Statutory 
                Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, in estimates of the budgetary 
                effects of PAYGO Legislation.

  (b) Up-To-Date Tabulations of Congressional Budget Action.--
          (1) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall 
        issue to the committees of the House of Representatives and the 
        Senate reports on at least a monthly basis detailing and 
        tabulating the progress of congressional action on bills and 
        joint resolutions providing new budget authority or providing an 
        increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures for each 
        fiscal year covered by a concurrent resolution on the budget. 
        Such reports shall include but are not limited to an up-to-date 
        tabulation comparing the appropriate aggregate and functional 
        levels (including outlays) included in the most recently adopted 
        concurrent resolution on the budget with the levels provided in 
        bills and joint resolutions reported by committees or adopted by 
        either House or by the Congress, and with the

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        levels provided by law for the fiscal year preceding the first 
        fiscal year covered by the appropriate concurrent resolution.
          (2) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall make 
        available to Members of its House summary budget scorekeeping 
        reports. Such reports--
                  (A) shall be made available on at least a monthly 
                basis, but in any case frequently enough to provide 
                Members of each House an accurate representation of the 
                current status of congressional consideration of the 
                budget;
                  (B) shall include, but are not limited to summaries of 
                tabulations provided under subsection (b)(1); and
                  (C) shall be based on information provided under 
                subsection (b)(1) without substantive revision.
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives shall submit such reports to the Speaker.

  (c) Five-Year Projection of Congressional Budget Act.--As soon as 
practicable after the beginning of each fiscal year, the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office shall issue a report projecting for the 
period of 5 fiscal years beginning with such fiscal year--
          (1) total new budget authority and total budget outlays for 
        each fiscal year in such period;
          (2) revenues to be received and the major sources thereof, and 
        the surplus or deficit, if any, for each fiscal year in such 
        period;
          (3) tax expenditures for each fiscal year in such period; and
          (4) entitlement authority for each fiscal year in such period.
  (d) Scorekeeping Guidelines.--Estimates under this section shall be 
provided in accordance with the scorekeeping guidelines determined under 
section 252(d)(5) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) expanded the scope of subsection (a) to apply not only 
to reports on legislation providing budget authority and tax 
expenditures but also to reports on legislation providing new spending 
authority, new credit authority, and changes in revenues. That law also 
added the requirement that the same information be available to Members 
before consider

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ation of conference reports or amendments in disagreement on such 
legislation, as well as subsections (b) and (c). The Budget Enforcement 
Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) made conforming changes to 
subsections (a) and (b) to reflect the advent of five-year budget 
resolutions. Certain technical and conforming changes were made to this 
section by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10110, P.L. 105-33). 
The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (tit. I, P.L. 111-139) added 
subsections (a)(3) and (d).
  Section 308(a)(1) does not apply either to the consideration or to the 
adoption of a special order reported from the Committee on Rules ``self-
executing'' the adoption in the House of an amendment providing new 
budget authority, because the amendment is not separately before the 
House during consideration of the special order (but only when the bill 
of which it becomes a part is before the House), and because it is the 
amendment itself, and not the special order resolution, that provides 
the new budget authority (Feb. 24, 1993, p. 3543). A committee cost 
estimate identifying certain spending authority as recurring annually 
and indefinitely was held necessarily to address the five-year period 
required by this section (Nov. 20, 1993, p. 31354).

              house approval of regular appropriation bills

  Sec. 309. It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to 
consider any resolution providing for an adjournment period of more than 
three calendar days during the month of July until the House of 
Representatives has approved annual appropriation bills providing new 
budget authority under the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of the 
Committee on Appropriations for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 
of such year. For purposes of this section, the chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall 
periodically advise the Speaker as to changes in jurisdiction among its 
various subcommittees.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) added this section. See also section 310(f), infra.

                             reconciliation

  Sec. 310. (a) Inclusion of Reconciliation Directives in Concurrent 
Resolutions on the Budget.--A concurrent resolution on the budget for 
any fiscal year, to the extent necessary to effectuate the provisions 
and requirements of such resolution, shall--
          (1) specify the total amount by which--
                  (A) new budget authority for such fiscal year;

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                  (B) budget authority initially provided for prior 
                fiscal years;
                  (C) new entitlement authority which is to become 
                effective during such fiscal year; and
                  (D) credit authority for such fiscal year,
        contained in laws, bills, and resolutions within the 
        jurisdiction of a committee is to be changed and direct that 
        committee to determine and recommend changes to accomplish a 
        change of such total amount;
          (2) specify the total amount by which revenues are to be 
        changed and direct that the committees having jurisdiction to 
        determine and recommend changes in the revenue laws, bills, and 
        resolutions to accomplish a change of such total amount;
          (3) specify the amounts by which the statutory limit on the 
        public debt is to be changed and direct the committee having 
        jurisdiction to recommend such change; or
          (4) specify and direct any combination of the matters 
        described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) (including a direction 
        to achieve deficit reduction).

  (b) Legislative Procedure.--If a concurrent resolution containing 
directives to one or more committees to determine and recommend changes 
in laws, bills, or resolutions is agreed to in accordance with 
subsection (a), and--
          (1) only one committee of the House or the Senate is directed 
        to determine and recommend changes, that committee shall 
        promptly make such determination and recommendations and report 
        to its House reconciliation legislation containing such 
        recommendations; or
          (2) more than one committee of the House or the Senate is 
        directed to determine and recommend changes, each such committee 
        so directed shall promptly make such determination and 
        recommendations and submit such recommendations to the Committee 
        on the Budget of its House, which upon receiving all such 
        recommendations, shall report to its House reconciliation 
        legislation carrying out all such recommendations without any 
        substantive revision.
For purposes of this subsection, a reconciliation resolution is a 
concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the case may be, to 
make specified changes in bills and resolutions which have not been 
enrolled.


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  (c) Compliance With Reconciliation Directions.--(1) Any committee of 
the House of Representatives or the Senate that is directed, pursuant to 
a concurrent resolution on the budget, to determine and recommend 
changes of the type described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 
(a) with respect to laws within its jurisdiction, shall be deemed to 
have complied with such directions--
          (A) if--
                  (i) the amount of the changes of the type described in 
                paragraph (1) of such subsection recommended by such 
                committee do not exceed or fall below the amount of the 
                changes such committee was directed by such concurrent 
                resolution to recommend under that paragraph by more 
                than--
                        (I) in the Senate, 20 percent of the total of 
                    the amounts of the changes such committee was 
                    directed to make under paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
                    such subsection; or
                        (II) in the House of Representatives, 20 percent 
                    of the sum of the absolute value of the changes the 
                    committee was directed to make under paragraph (1) 
                    and the absolute value of the changes the committee 
                    was directed to make under paragraph (2); and
                  (ii) the amount of the changes of the type described 
                in paragraph (2) of such subsection recommended by such 
                committee do not exceed or fall below the amount of the 
                changes such committee was directed by such concurrent 
                resolution to recommend under that paragraph by more 
                than--
                        (I) in the Senate, 20 percent of the total of 
                    the amounts of the changes such committee was 
                    directed to make under paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
                    such subsection; or
                        (II) in the House of Representatives, 20 percent 
                    of the sum of the absolute value of the changes the 
                    committee was directed to make under paragraph (1) 
                    and the absolute value of the changes the committee 
                    was directed to make under paragraph (2); and
          (B) if the total amount of the changes recommended by such 
        committee is not less than the total of the amounts of the 
        changes such committee was directed

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        to make under paragraphs (1) and (2) of such subsection.
          (2)(A) Upon the reporting to the Committee on the Budget of 
        the Senate of a recommendation that shall be deemed to have 
        complied with such directions solely by virtue of this 
        subsection, the chairman of that committee may file with the 
        Senate appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) 
        and revised functional levels and aggregates to carry out this 
        subsection.
              (B) Upon the submission to the Senate of a conference 
            report recommending a reconciliation bill or resolution in 
            which a committee shall be deemed to have complied with such 
            directions solely by virtue of this subsection, the chairman 
            of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may file with 
            the Senate appropriately revised allocations under section 
            302(a) and revised functional levels and aggregates to carry 
            out this subsection.
              (C) Allocations, functional levels, and aggregates revised 
            pursuant to this paragraph shall be considered to be 
            allocations, functional levels, and aggregates contained in 
            the concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 
            301.
              (D) Upon the filing of revised allocations pursuant to 
            this paragraph, the reporting committee shall report revised 
            allocations pursuant to section 302(b) to carry out this 
            subsection.

  (d) Limitation on Amendments to Reconciliation Bills and 
Resolutions.--
          (1) It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives 
        to consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill or 
        reconciliation resolution if such amendment would have the 
        effect of increasing any specific budget outlays above the level 
        of such outlays provided in the bill or resolution (for the 
        fiscal years covered by the reconciliation instructions set 
        forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on 
        the budget), or would have the effect of reducing any specific 
        Federal revenues below the level of such revenues provided in 
        the bill or resolution (for such fiscal years), unless such 
        amendment makes at least an equivalent reduction in other 
        specific budget outlays, an equivalent increase in other 
        specific Federal revenues, or an equivalent combination thereof 
        (for such fiscal years), except that a motion to strike a 
        provision

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        providing new budget authority or new entitlement authority may 
        be in order.
          (2) It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any 
        amendment to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution 
        if such amendment would have the effect of decreasing any 
        specific budget outlay reductions below the level of such outlay 
        reductions provided (for the fiscal years covered) in the 
        reconciliation instructions which relate to such bill or 
        resolution set forth in a resolution providing for 
        reconciliation, or would have the effect of reducing Federal 
        revenue increases below the level of such revenue increases 
        provided (for such fiscal years) in such instructions relating 
        to such bill or resolution, unless such amendment makes a 
        reduction in other specific budget outlays, an increase in other 
        specific Federal revenues, or a combination thereof (for such 
        fiscal years) at least equivalent to any increase in outlays or 
        decrease in revenues provided by such amendment, except that a 
        motion to strike a provision shall always be in order.
          (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if a declaration of 
        war by the Congress is in effect.
          (4) For purposes of this section, the levels of budget outlays 
        and Federal revenues for a fiscal year shall be determined on 
        the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of 
        the House of Representatives or of the Senate, as the case may 
        be.
          (5) The Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives may 
        make in order amendments to achieve changes specified by 
        reconciliation directives contained in a concurrent resolution 
        on the budget if a committee or committees of the House fail to 
        submit recommended changes to its Committee on the Budget 
        pursuant to its instruction.
  (e) Procedure in the Senate.--
          (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the provisions of 
        section 305 for the consideration in the Senate of concurrent 
        resolutions on the budget and conference reports thereon shall 
        also apply to the consideration in the Senate of reconciliation 
        bills reported under subsection (b) and conference reports 
        thereon.
          (2) Debate in the Senate on any reconciliation bill reported 
        under subsection (b), and all amendments thereto and debatable 
        motions and appeals in connec

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        tion therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours.

  (f) Completion of Reconciliation Process.--It shall not be in order in 
the House of Representatives to consider any resolution providing for an 
adjournment period of more than three calendar days during the month of 
July until the House of Representatives has completed action on the 
reconciliation legislation for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of 
the calendar year to which the adjournment resolution pertains, if 
reconciliation legislation is required to be reported by the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for such fiscal year.
  (g) Limitation on Changes to the Social Security Act.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or 
the House of Representatives to consider any reconciliation bill or 
reconciliation resolution reported pursuant to a concurrent resolution 
on the budget agreed to under section 301 or 304, or a joint resolution 
pursuant to section 258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, or any amendment thereto or conference report 
thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age, 
survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II 
of the Social Security Act.

  Until the enactment of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177) this section required 
Congress to complete action on a concurrent resolution on the budget, 
normally the second for that fiscal year, reaffirming or revising the 
most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. It also 
permitted the second budget resolution to implement the reconciliation 
process (instructions to committees to make changes in law necessary to 
achieve the changes in spending or revenues contemplated by the budget 
resolution). The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177) amended subsection (a) to eliminate the 
requirement for subsequent budget resolutions and specified the 
reconciliation process in greater detail by adding paragraph (1)(D) to 
subsection (a) along with new subsections (b) through (g). The Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) amended subsection 
(c), relating to adjustments to allocations in the Senate, and deleted 
from subsection (f) a June 15 deadline for congressional action on 
reconciliation. The Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10111, P.L. 
105-33) amended section 310(c)(1)(A) to clarify that committees, in 
meeting their reconciliation targets, may alternatively substitute 
revenue and spending changes by up to 20 percent of the sum of the 
absolute value of reconciled changes as long as the result does not 
increase the deficit

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relative to the reconciliation instructions. Clause 7 of rule XXI places 
restrictions on reconciliation directives relative to direct spending.

      budget-related legislation must be within appropriate levels

  Sec. 311. (a) Enforcement of Budget Aggregates.--
          (1) In the house of representatives.--Except as provided by 
        subsection (c), after the Congress has completed action on a 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, it shall 
        not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider any 
        bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report 
        providing new budget authority or reducing revenues, if--
                  (A) the enactment of that bill or resolution as 
                reported;
                  (B) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; or
                  (C) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the 
                form recommended in that conference report;
        would cause the level of total new budget authority or total 
        outlays set forth in the applicable concurrent resolution on the 
        budget for the first fiscal year to be exceeded, or would cause 
        revenues to be less than the level of total revenues set forth 
        in that concurrent resolution for the first fiscal year or for 
        the total of that first fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years 
        for which allocations are provided under section 302(a), except 
        when a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect.
          (2) In the senate.--After a concurrent resolution on the 
        budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate to 
        consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
        conference report that--
                  (A) would cause the level of total new budget 
                authority or total outlays set forth for the first 
                fiscal year in the applicable resolution to be exceeded; 
                or
                  (B) would cause revenues to be less than the level of 
                total revenues set forth for that first fiscal year or 
                for the total of that first fiscal year and the ensuing 
                fiscal years in the applicable resolution for which 
                allocations are provided under section 302(a).
          (3) Enforcement of social security levels in the senate.--
        After a concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed to, it 
        shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
        resolution, amendment,

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        motion, or conference report that would cause a decrease in 
        social security surpluses or an increase in social security 
        deficits relative to the levels set forth in the applicable 
        resolution for the first fiscal year or for the total of that 
        fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years for which allocations 
        are provided under section 302(a).
  (b) Social Security Levels.--
          (1) In General.--For purposes of subsection (a)(3), social 
        security surpluses equal the excess of social security revenues 
        over social security outlays in a fiscal year or years with such 
        an excess and social security deficits equal the excess of 
        social security outlays over social security revenues in a 
        fiscal year or years with such an excess.
          (2) Tax Treatment.--For purposes of subsection (a)(3), no 
        provision of any legislation involving a change in chapter 1 of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be treated as affecting 
        the amount of social security revenues or outlays unless that 
        provision changes the income tax treatment of social security 
        benefits.
  (c) Exception in the House of Representatives.--Subsection (a)(1) 
shall not apply in the House of Representatives to any bill, joint 
resolution, or amendment that provides new budget authority for a fiscal 
year or to any conference report on any such bill or resolution, if--
          (1) the enactment of that bill or resolution as reported;
          (2) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; or
          (3) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the form 
        recommended in that conference report;
would not cause the appropriate allocation of new budget authority made 
pursuant to section 302(a) for that fiscal year to be exceeded.

  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) amended 
subsection (a) by: (1) standardizing its application to any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report; (2) adding the 
exception for the case of a declaration of war; and (3) adding a new 
paragraph (2) relating to Senate procedure. The Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. II, P.L. 99-177) made 
important changes in this section by codifying in subsection (b) the 
exception for the House that previously had appeared in the budget 
resolution, and by adding subsection (c). The Budget Enforcement Act of 
1997 (sec. 10112, P.L. 105-33) further amended this section by: (1) 
eliminating references to ``new entitlement

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authority''; (2) modifying Senate procedure; and (3) enforcing the 
revenue level for the same multiyear period covered by the allocations 
under section 302(a).
  Clause 8 of rule XXI, adopted in the 110th Congress, provides that 
points of order under title III of the Budget Act apply to unreported 
measures (sec. 403, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 
2007)). Previously, a point of order under section 311(a) operated with 
respect to a bill or joint resolution in its reported state and thus did 
not lie against consideration of an unreported measure (Mar. 21, 1995, 
p. 8491). The budget resolution deemed in place for fiscal year 2005 
provided that, for purposes of titles II and III of the Budget Act, the 
term ``amendment'' or ``amendment thereto'' means an amendment offered 
or an amendment made in order as original text or considered as adopted 
by special order of the House (sec. 406, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong., 
May 19, 2004, deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, 
p. 10105, and by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 
44). The House has adopted resolutions to deem budget resolutions, or 
portions thereof, to be in place for temporary enforcement (see 
annotations under section 301(b) of this Act). A point of order under 
this section is untimely after consideration of the measure has begun 
(July 11, 2014, p. _).
  To an appropriation bill already containing new budget outlays in 
excess of the total level permitted by the second concurrent resolution 
on the budget for that fiscal year, where the bill was considered under 
a waiver of section 311(a) of the Budget Act, an amendment striking a 
proposed rescission of existing budget authority that had the effect of 
causing the net total of new budget authority in the bill to be 
increased was ruled out in the House as in violation of section 311(a), 
as further exceeding the total budget outlay ceiling in the second 
concurrent resolution on the budget (May 12, 1981, pp. 9314, 15). An 
amendment that provides no new budget authority or outlays but instead 
results in outlay savings is not subject to a point of order under 
section 311(a) (June 30, 1987, p. 18308).
  The Chair relied on estimates furnished by the Committee on the Budget 
to hold that a motion to amend a Senate amendment providing new budget 
authority for official mail costs to be available immediately violated 
section 311(a) because the appropriate level of new budget authority 
contained in the budget resolution had already been exceeded and because 
the Appropriations Committee had exceeded its section 302(a) allocation 
(thereby rendering the section 311(b) exception inapplicable) (Sept. 28, 
1989, p. 22267).
  In the Senate, the Chair sustained a point of order (later withdrawn) 
against an amendment that had the effect of reducing revenues for fiscal 
year 1977 below the total level of revenues contained in the final 
concurrent resolution on the budget for that year, in violation of 
section 311(a) (Oct. 1, 1976, p. 34557). Similarly, a motion in the 
Senate to recommit a bill with instructions to report it back with an 
amendment to the Internal Revenue Code delaying the implementation of 
withholding on interest and

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dividends was held (in response to a parliamentary inquiry) to be 
subject to a point of order because the amendment would cause revenues 
to be less than the appropriate level provided in the budget resolution 
for that year (where S. Con. Res. 92 of the 97th Congress, the first 
budget resolution for fiscal year 1985, provided that if a second budget 
resolution was not adopted by October 1, 1982, then section 311 would be 
enforced based on the aggregate figures contained in that resolution) 
(Apr. 20, 1983, pp. 9131, 9151). A point of order was sustained (and 
upheld on appeal) in the Senate against consideration of an amendment 
reducing the amount of a rescission of appropriated funds where the 
effect was to increase the net amount of total budget outlays contained 
in the bill to a level that, when taken together with other spending 
actions already completed by Congress, exceeded the total amount of 
budget outlays provided for the current fiscal year in the third budget 
resolution, in violation of section 311 (June 27, 1980, pp. 17478, 
17479). Also in the Senate, to a bill making comprehensive changes in 
the Social Security Act being considered at a time when the revenue 
floor established by the second concurrent resolution on the budget for 
that fiscal year had already been breached, an amendment to the Internal 
Revenue Code to delay interest and dividend withholding during that 
fiscal year was held to constitute a further revenue reduction and to 
violate section 311 (Vice President Bush, Mar. 22, 1983, p. 6573). An 
amendment in the Senate to a Defense Department authorization bill, 
providing a new entitlement program of educational assistance to members 
and veterans of the armed forces, to become effective in a future fiscal 
year or at any earlier time if so determined by the President, was held 
to allow new entitlement spending for the current fiscal year and to 
breach the applicable budget total, in violation of section 311 (July 
13, 1983, p. 19018).

                   determinations and points of order

  Sec. 312. (a) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this 
title and title IV, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct 
spending, new entitlement authority, and revenues for a fiscal year 
shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on 
the Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as applicable.
  (b) Discretionary Spending Point of Order in the Senate.--
          (1) In General.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
        subsection, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider 
        any bill or resolution (or amendment, motion, or conference 
        report on that bill or resolution) that would exceed any of the 
        discretionary spending limits in section 251(c) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

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          (2) Exceptions.--This subsection shall not apply if a 
        declaration of war by the Congress is in effect or if a joint 
        resolution pursuant to section 258 of the Balanced Budget and 
        Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 has been enacted.
  (c) Maximum Deficit Amount Point of Order in the Senate.--It shall not 
be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the 
budget for a fiscal year, or to consider any amendment to that 
concurrent resolution, or to consider a conference report on that 
concurrent resolution, if--
          (1) the level of total outlays for the first fiscal year set 
        forth in that concurrent resolution or conference report 
        exceeds; or
          (2) the adoption of that amendment would result in a level of 
        total outlays for that fiscal year that exceeds;
the recommended level of Federal revenues for that fiscal year, by an 
amount that is greater than the maximum deficit amount, if any, 
specified in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 for that fiscal year.
  (d) Timing of Points of Order in the Senate.--A point of order under 
this Act may not be raised against a bill, resolution, amendment, 
motion, or conference report while an amendment or motion, the adoption 
of which would remedy the violation of this Act, is pending before the 
Senate.
  (e) Points of Order in the Senate Against Amendments Between the 
Houses.--Each provision of this Act that establishes a point of order 
against an amendment also establishes a point of order in the Senate 
against an amendment between the Houses. If a point of order under this 
Act is raised in the Senate against an amendment between the Houses and 
the point of order is sustained, the effect shall be the same as if the 
Senate had disagreed to the amendment.
  (f) Effect of a Point of Order in the Senate.--In the Senate, if a 
point of order under this Act against a bill or resolution is sustained, 
the Presiding Officer shall then recommit the bill or resolution to the 
committee of appropriate jurisdiction for further consideration.

  Section 312 was added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. 
XIII, P.L. 101-508). The section was amended by the Budget Enforcement 
Act of 1997 (sec. 10113, P.L. 105-33) to: (1) clarify the responsibility 
of the Committee on the Budget to provide estimates to the Chair upon 
which

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points of order under the Congressional Budget Act are evaluated; and 
(2) modify Senate procedure. The concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2000 included a point of order against consideration in the 
House or Senate of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2001, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that sets 
forth a deficit for any fiscal year (as determined by the Committee on 
the Budget) (sec. 201, H. Con. Res. 68, 106th Cong., Apr. 13, 1999, p. 
6337). Pursuant to clause 4 of rule XXIX, estimates may be provided by 
the chair of the Committee on the Budget.

             extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation

  Sec. 313. (a) In General.--When the Senate is considering a 
reconciliation bill or a reconciliation resolution pursuant to section 
310 (whether that bill or resolution originated in the Senate or the 
House) or section 258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, upon a point of order being made by any Senator 
against material extraneous to the instructions to a committee which is 
contained in any title or provision of the bill or resolution or offered 
as an amendment to the bill or resolution, and the point of order is 
sustained by the Chair, any part of said title or provision that 
contains material extraneous to the instructions to said Committee as 
defined in subsection (b) shall be deemed stricken from the bill and may 
not be offered as an amendment from the floor.

  (b) Extraneous Provisions.--(1)(A) Except as provided in paragraph 
(2), a provision of a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution 
considered pursuant to section 310 shall be considered extraneous if 
such provision does not produce a change in outlays or revenue, 
including changes in outlays and revenues brought about by changes in 
the terms and conditions under which outlays are made or revenues are 
required to be collected (but a provision in which outlay decreases or 
revenue increases exactly offset outlay increases or revenue decreases 
shall not be considered extraneous by virtue of this subparagraph); (B) 
any provision producing an increase in outlays or decrease in revenues 
shall be considered extraneous if the net effect of provisions reported 
by the Committee reporting the title containing the provision is that 
the Committee fails to achieve its reconciliation instructions; (C) a 
provision that is not in the jurisdiction of the Committee with 
jurisdiction over said title or provision shall be considered 
extraneous; (D) a provision shall be considered extraneous if it 
produces changes in outlays or revenues which are merely

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incidental to the non-budgetary components of the provision; (E) a 
provision shall be considered to be extraneous if it increases, or would 
increase, net outlays, or if it decreases, or would decrease, revenues 
during a fiscal year after the fiscal years covered by such 
reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, and such increases or 
decreases are greater than outlay reductions or revenue increases 
resulting from other provisions in such title in such year; and (F) a 
provision shall be considered extraneous if it violates section 310(g).
  (2) A Senate-originated provision shall not be considered extraneous 
under paragraph (1)(A) if the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of 
the Committee on the Budget and the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Committee which reported the provision certify that: (A) the 
provision mitigates direct effects clearly attributable to a provision 
changing outlays or revenue and both provisions together produce a net 
reduction in the deficit; (B) the provision will result in a substantial 
reduction in outlays or a substantial increase in revenues during fiscal 
years after the fiscal years covered by the reconciliation bill or 
reconciliation resolution; (C) a reduction of outlays or an increase in 
revenues is likely to occur as a result of the provision, in the event 
of new regulations authorized by the provision or likely to be proposed, 
court rulings on pending litigation, or relationships between economic 
indices and stipulated statutory triggers pertaining to the provision, 
other than the regulations, court rulings or relationships currently 
projected by the Congressional Budget Office for scorekeeping purposes; 
or (D) such provision will be likely to produce a significant reduction 
in outlays or increase in revenues but, due to insufficient data, such 
reduction or increase cannot be reliably estimated.
  (3) A provision reported by a committee shall not be considered 
extraneous under paragraph (1)(C) if (A) the provision is an integral 
part of a provision or title, which if introduced as a bill or 
resolution would be referred to such committee, and the provision sets 
forth the procedure to carry out or implement the substantive provisions 
that were reported and which fall within the jurisdiction of such 
committee; or (B) the provision states an exception to, or a special 
application of, the general provision or title of which it is a part and 
such general provision or title if introduced as a bill or resolution 
would be referred to such committee.


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  (c) Extraneous Materials.--Upon the reporting or discharge of a 
reconciliation bill or resolution pursuant to section 310 in the Senate, 
and again upon the submission of a conference report on such a 
reconciliation bill or resolution, the Committee on the Budget of the 
Senate shall submit for the record a list of material considered to be 
extraneous under subsections (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), and (b)(1)(E) of this 
section to the instructions of a committee as provided in this section. 
The inclusion or exclusion of a provision shall not constitute a 
determination of extraneousness by the Presiding Officer of the Senate.

  (d) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a conference 
report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a 
reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution pursuant to section 
310, upon--
          (1) a point of order being made by any Senator against 
        extraneous material meeting the definition of subsections 
        (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), (b)(1)(D), (b)(1)(E), or (b)(1)(F), and
          (2) such point of order being sustained,
such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be 
deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed, without intervening 
action or motion, to consider the question of whether the Senate shall 
recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur 
in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, 
which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the 
conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so 
stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable for two 
hours. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a 
conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference 
report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be 
in order.

  (e) General Point of Order.--Notwithstanding any other law or rule of 
the Senate, it shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single point 
of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, 
motion, or conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer 
may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the provisions 
against which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding 
Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions 
(including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) 
against

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which the Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions 
(including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) 
against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be 
deemed stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer 
rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a 
point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against 
which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is amendable 
in accordance with the rules and precedents of the Senate. After the 
Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may appeal 
the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it 
applies to some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer 
ruled.

  Section 313, popularly known as the ``Byrd Rule,'' was added by the 
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508). The Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 effected a technical correction to this section 
(sec. 10113, P.L. 105-33). Changes in outlays or revenues are not 
rendered incidental under this section simply by their insusceptibility 
to measurement (Aug. 6, 1993, p. 19764). A provision that achieved a net 
reduction in revenue beyond the 10-year directive of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget was stricken under this section (July 28, 1999, 
pp. 18172, 18178). An amendment expressing the sense of the Senate 
presents nonbinding language with no budgetary effect and is, therefore, 
in violation of this section (Oct. 27, 1995, p. 30379).

                               adjustments

  Sec. 314. (a) Adjustments.--After the reporting of a bill or joint 
resolution or the offering of an amendment thereto or the submission of 
a conference report thereon, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
of the House of Representatives or the Senate may make appropriate 
budgetary adjustments of new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom in the same amount as required by section 251(b) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
  (b) Application of Adjustments.--The adjustments made pursuant to 
subsection (a) for legislation shall--
          (1) apply while that legislation is under consideration;
          (2) take effect upon the enactment of that legislation; and
          (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 
        practicable.

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  (c) Reporting Revised Suballocations.--Following any adjustment made 
under subsection (a), the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives may report appropriately revised 
suballocations under section 302(b) to carry out this section.
  (d) Emergencies in the House of Representatives.--(1) In the House of 
Representatives, if a reported bill or joint resolution, or amendment 
thereto or conference report thereon, contains a provision providing new 
budget authority and outlays or reducing revenue, and a designation of 
such provision as an emergency requirement pursuant to 251(b)(2)(A) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the chair 
of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall not 
count the budgetary effects of such provision for purposes of title III 
and title IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Rules of 
the House of Representatives.
  (2)(A) In the House of Representatives, a proposal to strike a 
designation under paragraph (1) shall be excluded from an evaluation of 
budgetary effects for purposes of this title and title IV and the Rules 
of the House of Representatives.
  (B) An amendment offered under subparagraph (A) that also proposes to 
reduce each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by the 
pending measure that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise 
made available shall be in order at any point in the reading of the 
pending measure.
  (e) Senate Point of Order Against an Emergency Designation.--
          (1) In General.--When the Senate is considering a bill, 
        resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the Houses, or 
        conference report, if a point of order is made by a Senator 
        against an emergency designation in that measure, that provision 
        making such a designation shall be stricken from the measure and 
        may not be offered as an amendment from the floor.
          (2) Supermajority Waiver and Appeals.--
                  (A) Waiver.--Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended 
                in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
                fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
                  (B) Appeals.--Appeals in the Senate from the decisions 
                of the Chair relating to any provision of this 
                subsection shall be limited to 1 hour, to be

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                equally divided between, and controlled by, the 
                appellant and the manager of the bill or joint 
                resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of 
                three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen 
                and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the 
                ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
                this subsection.
          (3) Definition of an Emergency Designation.--For purposes of 
        paragraph (1), a provision shall be considered an emergency 
        designation if it designates any item pursuant to section 
        251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985.
          (4) Form of the point of order.--A point of order under 
        paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 
        313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
          (5) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a 
        conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 
        relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any 
        Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being 
        sustained, such material contained in such conference report 
        shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to 
        consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from 
        its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in 
        the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may 
        be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion 
        of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, 
        not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be 
        debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained 
        against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from 
        such conference report by operation of this subsection), no 
        further amendment shall be in order.
  (f) Enforcement of Discretionary Spending Caps.--It shall not be in 
order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any 
bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that 
would cause the discretionary spending limits as set forth in section 
251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to be 
exceeded.

  This section was added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10114, P.L. 105-33). Subsection (b)(6) was added by the Adoption and 
Safe Families Act of 1997 (sec. 201(b), P.L. 105-89). Subsection (a) was 
amended

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and subsections (d) and (e) (later redesignated as (f)) were added by 
the Budget Control Act of 2011 (sec. 105, P.L. 112-25). Subsection 
(d)(2) was amended by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (div. A, P.L. 
113-67) to strike a subparagraph (A) that was erroneously duplicative of 
subsection (d)(1). Subsection (e) was added by the Temporary Payroll Tax 
Cut Continuation Act of 2011 (sec. 511, P.L. 112-78). Budget resolutions 
have provided that new budget authority, new entitlement authority, 
outlays, and receipts designated as an emergency in bills, joint 
resolutions, amendments, or conference reports are not cognizable under 
specified sections of title III and IV of the Budget Act. The budget 
resolutions also have required to be included in a committee report, 
joint statement of managers, or the Congressional Record an explanation 
of how an emergency item meets certain criteria (sec. 502, H. Con. Res. 
95, 108th Cong.; sec. 402, S. Con. Res. 95, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, 
deemed in place by H. Res. 649, 108th Cong., May 19, 2004, p. 10105, and 
by sec. 3(a)(4), H. Res. 5, 109th Cong., Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 402, 
H. Con. Res. 95, 109th Cong.; sec. 204, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Cong.; 
sec. 301, S. Con. Res. 70, 110th Cong.). The budget resolution adopted 
by the House in 2006 provided a specific amount of emergency spending 
that, to be exceeded, would require a vote of the Committee on the 
Budget to raise the relevant 302 allocation (sec. 501, H. Con. Res. 376, 
109th Cong., May 18, 2006). In the absence of a budget resolution, the 
House has enabled the designation of budget authority or revenue as an 
emergency (sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).

   effect of adoption of a special order of business in the house of 
                             representatives

  Sec. 315. For purposes of a reported bill or joint resolution 
considered in the House of Representatives pursuant to a special order 
of business, the term ``as reported'' in this title or title IV shall be 
considered to refer to the text made in order as an original bill or 
joint resolution for the purpose of amendment or to the text on which 
the previous question is ordered directly to passage, as the case may 
be. In the case of a reported bill or joint resolution considered 
pursuant to a special order of business, a point of order under section 
303 shall be determined on the basis of the text made in order as an 
original bill or joint resolution for the purpose of amendment or to the 
text on which the previous question is ordered directly to passage, as 
the case may be.

  This section was added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10115, P.L. 105-33). The second sentence was added by the Bipartisan 
Budget Act of 2013 (div. A, P.L. 113-67), codifying separate orders 
adopted by the House from the 106th through 113th Congresses (see 
annotations

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under section 303 of this Act). See clause 8 of rule XXI for similar 
treatment of unreported bills under title III.
  The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) 
established a new title VI that placed temporary limits on discretionary 
spending and provided mechanisms for enforcement that included those 
found in title III of the Congressional Budget Act, which was extended 
by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (tit. XIV, P.L. 103-
66). Title VI was repealed by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10118, P.L. 105-33). For the text of title VI, see the House Rules and 
Manual for the 104th Congress (H. Doc. 103-342).

      TITLE IV--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE FISCAL PROCEDURES

                       Part A--General Provisions

        budget-related legislation not subject to appropriations

  Sec. 401. (a) Controls on Certain Budget-related Legislation Not 
Subject to Appropriations.--It shall not be in order in either the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint 
resolution (in the House of Representatives only, as reported), 
amendment, motion, or conference report that provides--
          (1) new authority to enter into contracts under which the 
        United States is obligated to make outlays;
          (2) new authority to incur indebtedness (other than 
        indebtedness incurred under chapter 31 of title 31 of the United 
        States Code) for the repayment of which the United States is 
        liable; or
          (3) new credit authority;
unless that bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 
report also provides that the new authority is to be effective for any 
fiscal year only to the extent or in the amounts provided in advance in 
appropriation Acts.
  (b) Legislation Providing New Entitlement Authority.--
          (1) Point of order.--It shall not be in order in either the 
        House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or 
        joint resolution (in the House of Representatives only, as 
        reported), amendment, motion, or conference report that provides 
        new entitlement authority that is to become effective during the 
        current fiscal year.
          (2) If any committee of the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate reports any bill or resolution which provides new 
        entitlement authority which is to

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        become effective during a fiscal year and the amount of new 
        budget authority which will be required for such fiscal year if 
        such bill or resolution is enacted as so reported exceeds the 
        appropriate allocation of new budget authority reported under 
        section 302(a) in connection with the most recently agreed to 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year, such 
        bill or resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate or may then be referred to the 
        Committee on Appropriations of the House, as the case may be, 
        with instructions to report it, with the committee's 
        recommendations, within 15 calendar days (not counting any day 
        on which that House is not in session) beginning with the day 
        following the day on which it is so referred. If the Committee 
        on Appropriations of either House fails to report a bill or 
        resolution referred to it under this paragraph within such 15-
        day period, the committee shall automatically be discharged from 
        further consideration of such bill or resolution and such bill 
        or resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
          (3) The Committee on Appropriations of each House shall have 
        jurisdiction to report any bill or resolution referred to it 
        under paragraph (2) with an amendment which limits the total 
        amount of new spending authority provided in such bill or 
        resolution.
  (c) Exceptions.--
          (1) Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to new authority 
        described in those subsections if outlays from that new 
        authority [will]\1\ flow--
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                  (A) from a trust fund established by the Social 
                Security Act (as in effect on the date of the enactment 
                of this Act); or
                  (B) from any other trust fund, 90 percent or more of 
                the receipts of which consist or will consist of amounts 
                (transferred from the general fund of the Treasury) 
                equivalent to amounts of taxes (related to the purposes 
                for which such outlays are or will be made) received in 
                the Treasury under specified provisions of the Internal 
                Revenue Code of 1954.

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          (2) Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to new authority 
        described in those subsections to the extent that--
                  (A) the outlays resulting therefrom are made by an 
                organization which is (i) a mixed-ownership Government 
                corporation (as defined in section 201 of the Government 
                Corporation Control Act), or (ii) a wholly owned 
                Government corporation (as defined in section 101 of 
                such Act) which is specifically exempted by law from 
                compliance with any or all of the provisions of that 
                Act, as of the date of enactment of the Balanced Budget 
                and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; or
                  (B) the outlays resulting therefrom consist 
                exclusively of the proceeds of gifts or bequests made to 
                the United States for a specific purpose.
          (3) In the House of Representatives, subsections (a) and (b) 
        shall not apply to new authority described in those subsections 
        to the extent that a provision in a bill or joint resolution, or 
        an amendment thereto or a conference report thereon, establishes 
        prospectively for a Federal office or position a specified or 
        minimum level of compensation to be funded by annual 
        discretionary appropriations.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) amended subsection (a) by substituting the phrase 
``spending authority'' for ``contract or borrowing authority'' and 
extended the point of order to conference reports, consistent with House 
precedent. The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
(tit. II, P.L. 99-177) left the subsection entitled ``exceptions'' 
intact except to clarify the application of section 401 to Government 
corporations created after December 12, 1985. The Budget Enforcement Act 
of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) amended subsections (a) and (b)(1) to 
standardize their application to any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
motion, or conference report. The Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10116, P.L. 105-33): (1) repealed section 402, collapsing the point of 
order under that section into section 401; (2) repealed the definition 
of ``new spending authority,'' while shifting the definition of new 
entitlement authority to section 3; and (3) converted the mandatory 
referral of measures providing new entitlement authority to the 
Appropriations Committee to discretionary referral of such measures. The 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (div. A, P.L. 113-67) added subsection 
(c)(3), codifying separate orders adopted by the House in the 109th and 
110th Congresses (sec. 3(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 
511(a)(3), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). The 
107th, 108th, 111th, 112th, and 113th Congresses had adopted similar 
orders regarding entitlement authority, but they were not limited to 
section 401

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(sec. 3(b)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24; sec. 3(a)(3), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 7, 2003, p. 10; sec. 3(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9; sec. 
3(a)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(b)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2013, p. _). The 106th Congress adopted a temporary version of that 
order (sec. 2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47), which expired upon 
the adoption of the budget resolution for fiscal year 2000. Before these 
orders, an amendment establishing a new executive position at 
compensation level II but subjecting its salary to the appropriation 
process was held not to provide new entitlement authority (Mar. 26, 
1992, p. 7203).
  Language in a bill authorizing receipts from loans under certain 
legislation to be made available for designated purposes was held not to 
be ``new spending authority'' that would prohibit the consideration of 
the bill under section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget Act, where it 
was shown from the term ``authorized'' and from the committee report on 
the bill that the amounts of repaid loans must again be appropriated in 
appropriation acts before the funds could be expended (Speaker Albert, 
Sept. 10, 1975, p. 28270). A point of order under section 401(a) 
operates with respect to a bill or joint resolution in reported state 
and thus does not lie against consideration of an unreported measure 
(Mar. 21, 1995, p. 8491). Section 401(a) prohibits the consideration of 
a bill or amendment, including a conference report, containing new 
spending authority to incur indebtedness for the repayment of which the 
United States is primarily liable, the budget authority for which is not 
provided in advance by appropriation acts. Thus a conference report 
authorizing a Secretary to borrow funds by issuing Government notes as a 
public debt transaction to make payments in connection with defaults on 
loans by medical students, not subject to amounts specified in advance 
by appropriation acts, was ruled out of order as violating section 
401(a) (Sept. 27, 1976, pp. 32655-704).
  A point of order under section 401(b) operates with respect to a bill 
or joint resolution in reported state and thus does not lie against 
consideration of an unreported measure (Mar. 21, 1995, p. 8491).
  A conference report (filed in 1976 to accompany a bill originally 
reported in the House in calendar year 1975) requiring the Secretary of 
Agriculture to pay a cost of transporting agricultural commodities to 
major disaster areas upon the date of enactment was held to constitute 
new spending ``entitlement'' authority that could become effective 
before the fiscal year beginning during the calendar year in which the 
bill had been reported from conference, in violation of section 
401(b)(1), and the conference report was ruled out of order (Speaker 
Albert, Sept. 23, 1976, pp. 32099, 32100). A Senate amendment providing 
new spending ``entitlement'' authority for adjustment assistance under 
the Trade Act of 1974, by requiring the Secretary of Labor to certify a 
new group of workers as eligible beginning on the day before to the 
start of the ensuing fiscal year, was conceded to violate section 
401(b)(1), and a motion to concur was ruled out on that point of order 
(June 26, 1986, p. 15729). Where an amendment contained new entitlement 
authority in the form of retirement benefits to certain

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Federal employees, the Chair contemplated immediate enactment in his 
determination that the new entitlement authority became effective before 
the fiscal year beginning during the calendar year in which the pending 
bill was reported (May 9, 1995, p. 12178).
  Where a committee had not yet filed with the House a report 
subdividing among its subcommittees or by programs new entitlement 
authority allocated to that committee in the joint statement 
accompanying a conference report on a concurrent resolution on the 
budget, formerly required under section 302(a), the Speaker under 
section 401(b) referred to the Appropriations Committee for the 15-day 
period a bill reported by that committee that exceeded the total 
entitlement authority allocated to that committee in the joint 
statement, and also referred a subsequent bill reported by that 
committee that contained new entitlement authority (Speaker Albert, May 
17, 1976, p. 14093; Aug. 25, 1976, p. 27775). During the efficacy of 
title VI, section 401(b)(2) had no practical effect because that section 
remained linked to section 302 rather than the overriding section 602. 
Before consideration of a bill in Committee of the Whole, the Speaker 
may discharge from the Union Calendar and refer to the Appropriations 
Committee for 15 days, pursuant to section 401(b), a bill that has been 
reported providing new entitlement authority in excess of the total 
amount allocated to the reporting committee (Speaker O'Neill, Sept. 8, 
1977, p. 28153; Sept. 8, 1978, p. 28543) even if the bill was reported 
before final adoption of the first budget resolution (Speaker O'Neill, 
July 19, 1978, pp. 21786, 21787; May 21, 1981, p. 10622). A bill 
reported from the Committee on Agriculture amending the Food and 
Agriculture Act to increase certain commodity target prices of 1979 
crops, thereby providing new entitlement authority for fiscal year 1980 
in excess of the amount allocated to that committee under the first 
budget resolution, and a bill reported from the Committee on Ways and 
Means increasing eligibility and payments for child welfare and social 
services under the Social Security Act, providing new entitlement 
authority in excess of the net amount of such authority allocated to 
that committee under the first budget resolution, were discharged from 
the Union Calendar by the Speaker and referred to the Appropriations 
Committee pursuant to section 401(b) (Speaker O'Neill, June 5, 1979, p. 
13385; June 6, 1979, p. 13665). The Speaker may exercise the referral 
authority under section 401(b), whether or not the committee has filed 
its report under section 302(b) of the Budget Act, where the budget 
authority for the entitlement bill has been assumed in the budget 
resolution and would be included in the committee's 302(b) report, but 
where the budget authority for such bill exceeds the net amount of such 
authority allocated to the reporting committee, because the budget 
resolution assumes the reporting of other legislation, decreasing other 
programs for the year in question, that has yet to be reported (Speaker 
O'Neill, June 6, 1979, p. 13665).
  Although the former definition of new spending authority in section 
401(c)(2) did not include the authority to insure or guarantee the repay

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ment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government (as where 
the authority to incur contractual obligations to insure or guarantee 
another person's debt is a contingent liability of the United States), 
the authority to make payments in connection with defaults that have 
already occurred was conceded to constitute a primary liability of the 
United States to incur indebtedness and to require budget authority in 
advance in appropriation acts (Sept. 27, 1976, pp. 32655-704). A 
provision that requires payments to individuals meeting certain 
qualifications, but that also contains an authorization for 
appropriations to make such payments and a provision that if sums 
appropriated pursuant thereto are insufficient to make payments, then 
payments be ratably reduced to the amounts of appropriations actually 
made, does not constitute new entitlement authority (Sept. 13, 1983, p. 
23884).
  The former definition of new entitlement authority did not include 
revenue-sharing spending authority in the form of entitlements, because 
the exception from the definition of new spending authority for revenue-
sharing programs did not apply to new entitlement authority for future 
fiscal years (Speaker Albert, Sept. 30, 1976, pp. 34074-100).

                 analysis by congressional budget office

  Sec. 402. The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to 
the extent practicable, prepare for each bill or resolution of a public 
character reported by any committee of the House of Representatives or 
the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations of each House), and 
submit to such committee--
          (1) an estimate of the costs which would be incurred in 
        carrying out such bill or resolution in the fiscal year in which 
        it is to become effective and in each of the 4 fiscal years 
        following such fiscal year, together with the basis for each 
        such estimate;
          (2) a comparison of the estimates of costs described in 
        paragraph (1), with any available estimates of costs made by 
        such committee or by any Federal agency; and
          (3) a description of each method for establishing a Federal 
        financial commitment contained in such bill or resolution.
The estimates, comparison, and description so submitted shall be 
included in the report accompanying such bill or resolution if timely 
submitted to such committee before such report is filed.
* * * * *
  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) amended this section by adding paragraph (4) to 
subsection

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(a), along with a conforming change to the second sentence of that 
subsection. Public Law 97-108 previously amended section 403 by adding 
subsections (a)(2), (b), and (c). The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 
1995 deleted from this section a requirement that the Director estimate 
costs incurred by State and local governments, in favor of a more 
particularized requirement in section 424, infra (sec. 104, P.L. 104-4; 
109 Stat. 62). The Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-
33) redesignated this section, formerly section 403, as section 402. A 
committee cost estimate identifying certain spending authority as 
recurring annually and indefinitely was held necessarily to address the 
five-year period required by section 308 (Nov. 20, 1993, p. 31354). 
During the 102d Congress, former clause 8 of rule XXI required that 
certain measures contain a statement of cost by the Congressional Budget 
Office (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39).

   study by the government accountability office of forms of federal 
     financial commitment that are not reviewed annually by congress

  Sec. 404. The Government Accountability Office shall study those 
provisions of law which provide mandatory spending and report to the 
Congress its recommendations for the appropriate form of financing for 
activities or programs financed by such provisions not later than 
eighteen months after the effective date of this section. Such report 
shall be revised from time to time.

  This section, formerly section 405, was redesignated by the Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33).

              off-budget agencies, programs, and activities

  Sec. 405. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, budget 
authority, credit authority, and estimates of outlays and receipts for 
activities of the Federal budget which are off-budget immediately prior 
to the date of enactment of this section, not including activities of 
the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Funds, shall be included in a budget submitted pursuant 
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, and in a concurrent 
resolution on the budget reported pursuant to section 301 or section 304 
of this Act and shall be considered, for purposes of this Act, budget 
authority, outlays, and spending authority in accordance with 
definitions set forth in this Act.
  (b) All receipts and disbursements of the Federal Financing Bank with 
respect to any obligations which are issued, sold, or guaranteed by a 
Federal agency shall be

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treated as a means of financing such agency for purposes of section 1105 
of title 31, United States Code, and for purposes of this Act.

  This section, formerly section 406, was redesignated by the Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33).

                            member user group

  Sec. 406. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, after 
consulting with the Minority Leader of the House, may appoint a Member 
User Group for the purpose of reviewing budgetary scorekeeping rules and 
practices of the House and advising the Speaker from time to time on the 
effect and impact of such rules and practices.

  The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (tit. 
II, P.L. 99-177) added sections 405, 406, and 407 as new sections at the 
end of title IV. This section, formerly section 407, was redesignated by 
the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33).
* * * * *

                        Part B--Federal Mandates

SEC. 421. DEFINITIONS.
  For purposes of this part:
          (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the same meaning as 
        defined in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code, but 
        does not include independent regulatory agencies.
          (2) Amount.--The term ``amount'', with respect to an 
        authorization of appropriations for Federal financial 
        assistance, means the amount of budget authority for any Federal 
        grant assistance program or any Federal program providing loan 
        guarantees or direct loans.
          (3) Direct costs.--The term ``direct costs''--
                  (A)(i) in the case of a Federal intergovernmental 
                mandate, means the aggregate estimated amounts that all 
                State, local, and tribal governments would be required 
                to spend or would be prohibited from raising in revenues 
                in order to comply with the Federal intergovernmental 
                mandate; or
                  (ii) in the case of a provision referred to in 
                paragraph (5)(A)(ii), means the amount of Federal 
                financial assistance eliminated or reduced;

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                  (B) in the case of a Federal private sector mandate, 
                means the aggregate estimated amounts that the private 
                sector will be required to spend in order to comply with 
                the Federal private sector mandate;
                  (C) shall be determined on the assumption that--
                        (i) State, local, and tribal governments, and 
                    the private sector will take all reasonable steps 
                    necessary to mitigate the costs resulting from the 
                    Federal mandate, and will comply with applicable 
                    standards of practice and conduct established by 
                    recognized professional or trade associations; and
                        (ii) reasonable steps to mitigate the costs 
                    shall not include increases in State, local, or 
                    tribal taxes or fees; and
                  (D) shall not include--
                        (i) estimated amounts that the State, local, and 
                    tribal governments (in the case of a Federal 
                    intergovernmental mandate) or the private sector (in 
                    the case of a Federal private sector mandate) would 
                    spend--

    (I) to comply with or carry out all applicable Federal, State, local, 
and tribal laws and regulations in effect at the time of the adoption of 
the Federal mandate for the same activity as is affected by that Federal 
mandate; or

    (II) to comply with or carry out State, local, and tribal governmental 
programs, or private-sector business or other activities in effect at the 
time of the adoption of the Federal mandate for the same activity as is 
affected by that mandate; or

                        (ii) expenditures to the extent that such 
                    expenditures will be offset by any direct savings to 
                    the State, local, and tribal governments, or by the 
                    private sector, as a result of--

    (I) compliance with the Federal mandate; or

    (II) other changes in Federal law or regulation that are enacted or 
adopted in the same bill or joint resolution or proposed or final Federal 
regulation and that govern the

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same activity as is affected by the Federal mandate.

          (4) Direct savings.--The term ``direct savings'', when used 
        with respect to the result of compliance with the Federal 
        mandate--
                  (A) in the case of a Federal intergovernmental 
                mandate, means the aggregate estimated reduction in 
                costs to any State, local, or tribal government as a 
                result of compliance with the Federal intergovernmental 
                mandate; and
                  (B) in the case of a Federal private sector mandate, 
                means the aggregate estimated reduction in costs to the 
                private sector as a result of compliance with the 
                Federal private sector mandate.
          (5) Federal intergovernmental mandate.--The term ``Federal 
        intergovernmental mandate'' means--
                  (A) any provision in legislation, statute, or 
                regulation that--
                        (i) would impose an enforceable duty upon State, 
                    local, or tribal governments, except--

    (I) a condition of Federal assistance; or

    (II) a duty arising from participation in a voluntary Federal program, 
except as provided in subparagraph (B); or

                        (ii) would reduce or eliminate the amount of 
                    authorization of appropriations for--

    (I) Federal financial assistance that would be provided to State, 
local, or tribal governments for the purpose of complying with any such 
previously imposed duty unless such duty is reduced or eliminated by a 
corresponding amount; or

    (II) the control of borders by the Federal Government; or reimbursement 
to State, local, or tribal governments for the net cost associated with 
illegal, deportable, and excludable aliens, including court-mandated 
expenses related to emergency health care, education or criminal justice; 
when such a reduction or elimination would result in increased net costs to 
State, local, or tribal governments in providing education or emergency 
health care to, or incarceration of, illegal aliens; except that this 
subclause shall not be in effect with respect to a State, local, or tribal 
government, to the extent that such gov

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ernment has not fully cooperated in the efforts of the Federal Government 
to locate, apprehend, and deport illegal aliens; [or]

                  (B) any provision in legislation, statute, or 
                regulation that relates to a then-existing Federal 
                program under which $500,000,000 or more is provided 
                annually to State, local, and tribal governments under 
                entitlement authority, if the provision--
                        (i)(I) would increase the stringency of 
                    conditions of assistance to State, local, or tribal 
                    governments under the program; or
                        (II) would place caps upon, or otherwise 
                    decrease, the Federal Government's responsibility to 
                    provide funding to State, local, or tribal 
                    governments under the program; and
                        (ii) the State, local, or tribal governments 
                    that participate in the Federal program lack 
                    authority under that program to amend their 
                    financial or programmatic responsibilities to 
                    continue providing required services that are 
                    affected by the legislation, statute, or regulation.
          (6) Federal mandate.--The term ``Federal mandate'' means a 
        Federal intergovernmental mandate or a Federal private sector 
        mandate, as defined in paragraphs (5) and (7).
          (7) Federal private sector mandate.--The term ``Federal 
        private sector mandate'' means any provision in legislation, 
        statute, or regulation that--
                  (A) would impose an enforceable duty upon the private 
                sector except--
                        (i) a condition of Federal assistance; or
                        (ii) a duty arising from participation in a 
                    voluntary Federal program; or
                  (B) would reduce or eliminate the amount of 
                authorization of appropriations for Federal financial 
                assistance that will be provided to the private sector 
                for the purposes of ensuring compliance with such duty.
          (8) Local government.--The term ``local government'' has the 
        same meaning as defined in section 6501(6) of title 31, United 
        States Code.
          (9) Private sector.--The term ``private sector'' means all 
        persons or entities in the United States, including individuals, 
        partnerships, associations, corporations, and educational and 
        nonprofit institutions,

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        but shall not include State, local, or tribal governments.
          (10) Regulation; rule.--The term ``regulation'' or ``rule'' 
        (except with respect to a rule of either House of the Congress) 
        has the meaning of ``rule'' as defined in section 601(2) of 
        title 5, United States Code.
          (11) Small government.--The term ``small government'' means 
        any small governmental jurisdictions defined in section 601(5) 
        of title 5, United States Code, and any tribal government.
          (12) State.--The term ``State'' has the same meaning as 
        defined in section 6501(9) of title 31, United States Code.
          (13) Tribal government.--The term ``tribal government'' means 
        any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or 
        community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or 
        village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the 
        Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688; 43 U.S.C. 
        1601 et seq.) which is recognized as eligible for the special 
        programs and services provided by the United States to Indians 
        because of their special status as Indians.
SEC. 422. EXCLUSIONS.
  This part shall not apply to any provision in a bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report before Congress 
that--
          (1) enforces constitutional rights of individuals;
          (2) establishes or enforces any statutory rights that prohibit 
        discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, 
        national origin, age, handicap, or disability;
          (3) requires compliance with accounting and auditing 
        procedures with respect to grants or other money or property 
        provided by the Federal Government;
          (4) provides for emergency assistance or relief at the request 
        of any State, local, or tribal government or any official of a 
        State, local, or tribal government;
          (5) is necessary for the national security or the ratification 
        or implementation of international treaty obligations;
          (6) the President designates as emergency legislation and that 
        the Congress so designates in statute; or
          (7) relates to the old-age, survivors, and disability 
        insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act 
        (including taxes imposed by sections 3101(a) and 3111(a) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to old-age, survivors, 
        and disability insurance)).

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SEC. 423. DUTIES OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.
  (a) In General.--When a committee of authorization of the Senate or 
the House of Representatives reports a bill or joint resolution of 
public character that includes any Federal mandate, the report of the 
committee accompanying the bill or joint resolution shall contain the 
information required by subsections (c) and (d).
  (b) Submission of Bills to the Director.--When a committee of 
authorization of the Senate or the House of Representatives orders 
reported a bill or joint resolution of a public character, the committee 
shall promptly provide the bill or joint resolution to the Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office and shall identify to the Director any 
Federal mandates contained in the bill or resolution.
  (c) Reports on Federal Mandates.--Each report described under 
subsection (a) shall contain--
          (1) an identification and description of any Federal mandates 
        in the bill or joint resolution, including the direct costs to 
        State, local, and tribal governments, and to the private sector, 
        required to comply with the Federal mandates;
          (2) a qualitative, and if practicable, a quantitative 
        assessment of costs and benefits anticipated from the Federal 
        mandates (including the effects on health and safety and the 
        protection of the natural environment); and
          (3) a statement of the degree to which a Federal mandate 
        affects both the public and private sectors and the extent to 
        which Federal payment of public sector costs or the modification 
        or termination of the Federal mandate as provided under section 
        425(a)(2) would affect the competitive balance between State, 
        local, or tribal governments and the private sector including a 
        description of the actions, if any, taken by the committee to 
        avoid any adverse impact on the private sector or the 
        competitive balance between the public sector and the private 
        sector.
  (d) Intergovernmental Mandates.--If any of the Federal mandates in the 
bill or joint resolution are Federal intergovernmental mandates, the 
report required under subsection (a) shall also contain--
          (1)(A) a statement of the amount, if any, of increase or 
        decrease in authorization of appropriations under existing 
        Federal financial assistance programs, or of authorization of 
        appropriations for new Federal financial assistance, provided by 
        the bill or joint resolution

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        and usable for activities of State, local, or tribal governments 
        subject to the Federal intergovernmental mandates;
          (B) a statement of whether the committee intends that the 
        Federal intergovernmental mandates be partly or entirely 
        unfunded, and if so, the reasons for that intention; and
          (C) if funded in whole or in part, a statement of whether and 
        how the committee has created a mechanism to allocate the 
        funding in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the 
        expected direct costs among and between the respective levels of 
        State, local, and tribal government;
          (2) any existing sources of Federal assistance in addition to 
        those identified in paragraph (1) that may assist State, local, 
        and tribal governments in meeting the direct costs of the 
        Federal intergovernmental mandates; and
          (3) if the bill or joint resolution would make the reduction 
        specified in section 421(5)(B)(i)(II), a statement of how the 
        committee specifically intends the States to implement the 
        reduction and to what extent the legislation provides additional 
        flexibility, if any, to offset the reduction.
  (e) Preemption Clarification and Information.--When a committee of 
authorization of the Senate or the House of Representatives reports a 
bill or joint resolution of public character, the committee report 
accompanying the bill or joint resolution shall contain, if relevant to 
the bill or joint resolution, an explicit statement on the extent to 
which the bill or joint resolution is intended to preempt any State, 
local, or tribal law, and, if so, an explanation of the effect of such 
preemption.
  (f) Publication of Statement From the Director.--
          (1) In general.--Upon receiving a statement from the Director 
        under section 424, a committee of the Senate or the House of 
        Representatives shall publish the statement in the committee 
        report accompanying the bill or joint resolution to which the 
        statement relates if the statement is available at the time the 
        report is printed.
          (2) Other publication of statement of director.--If the 
        statement is not published in the report, or if the bill or 
        joint resolution to which the statement relates is expected to 
        be considered by the Senate or the House of Representatives 
        before the report is pub

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        lished, the committee shall cause the statement, or a summary 
        thereof, to be published in the Congressional Record in advance 
        of floor consideration of the bill or joint resolution.
SEC. 424. DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR; STATEMENTS ON BILLS AND JOINT 
        RESOLUTIONS OTHER THAN APPROPRIATIONS BILLS AND JOINT 
        RESOLUTIONS.
  (a) Federal Intergovernmental Mandates in Reported Bills and 
Resolutions.--For each bill or joint resolution of a public character 
reported by any committee of authorization of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall 
prepare and submit to the committee a statement as follows:
          (1) Contents.--If the Director estimates that the direct cost 
        of all Federal intergovernmental mandates in the bill or joint 
        resolution will equal or exceed $50,000,000 (adjusted annually 
        for inflation) in the fiscal year in which any Federal 
        intergovernmental mandate in the bill or joint resolution (or in 
        any necessary implementing regulation) would first be effective 
        or in any of the 4 fiscal years following such fiscal year, the 
        Director shall so state, specify the estimate, and briefly 
        explain the basis of the estimate.
          (2) Estimates.--Estimates required under paragraph (1) shall 
        include estimates (and brief explanations of the basis of the 
        estimates) of--
                  (A) the total amount of direct cost of complying with 
                the Federal intergovernmental mandates in the bill or 
                joint resolution;
                  (B) if the bill or resolution contains an 
                authorization of appropriations under section 
                425(a)(2)(B), the amount of new budget authority for 
                each fiscal year for a period not to exceed 10 years 
                beyond the effective date necessary for the direct cost 
                of the intergovernmental mandate; and
                  (C) the amount, if any, of increase in authorization 
                of appropriations under existing Federal financial 
                assistance programs, or of authorization of 
                appropriations for new Federal financial assistance, 
                provided by the bill or joint resolution and usable by 
                State, local, or tribal governments for activities 
                subject to the Federal intergovernmental mandates.
          (3) Additional flexibility information.--The Director shall 
        include in the statement submitted under

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        this subsection, in the case of legislation that makes changes 
        as described in section 421(5)(B)(i)(II)--
                  (A) if no additional flexibility is provided in the 
                legislation, a description of whether and how the States 
                can offset the reduction under existing law; or
                  (B) if additional flexibility is provided in the 
                legislation, whether the resulting savings would offset 
                the reductions in that program assuming the States fully 
                implement that additional flexibility.
          (4) Estimate not feasible.--If the Director determines that it 
        is not feasible to make a reasonable estimate that would be 
        required under paragraphs (1) and (2), the Director shall not 
        make the estimate, but shall report in the statement that the 
        reasonable estimate cannot be made and shall include the reasons 
        for that determination in the statement. If such determination 
        is made by the Director, a point of order under this part shall 
        lie only under section 425(a)(1) and as if the requirement of 
        section 425(a)(1) had not been met.
  (b) Federal Private Sector Mandates in Reported Bills and Joint 
Resolutions.--For each bill or joint resolution of a public character 
reported by any committee of authorization of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall 
prepare and submit to the committee a statement as follows:
          (1) Contents.--If the Director estimates that the direct cost 
        of all Federal private sector mandates in the bill or joint 
        resolution will equal or exceed $100,000,000 (adjusted annually 
        for inflation) in the fiscal year in which any Federal private 
        sector mandate in the bill or joint resolution (or in any 
        necessary implementing regulation) would first be effective or 
        in any of the 4 fiscal years following such fiscal year, the 
        Director shall so state, specify the estimate, and briefly 
        explain the basis of the estimate.
          (2) Estimates.--Estimates required under paragraph (1) shall 
        include estimates (and a brief explanation of the basis of the 
        estimates) of--
                  (A) the total amount of direct costs of complying with 
                the Federal private sector mandates in the bill or joint 
                resolution; and

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                  (B) the amount, if any, of increase in authorization 
                of appropriations under existing Federal financial 
                assistance programs, or of authorization of 
                appropriations for new Federal financial assistance, 
                provided by the bill or joint resolution usable by the 
                private sector for the activities subject to the Federal 
                private sector mandates.
          (3) Estimate not feasible.--If the Director determines that it 
        is not feasible to make a reasonable estimate that would be 
        required under paragraphs (1) and (2), the Director shall not 
        make the estimate, but shall report in the statement that the 
        reasonable estimate cannot be made and shall include the reasons 
        for that determination in the statement.
  (c) Legislation Falling Below the Direct Costs Thresholds.--If the 
Director estimates that the direct costs of a Federal mandate will not 
equal or exceed the thresholds specified in subsections (a) and (b), the 
Director shall so state and shall briefly explain the basis of the 
estimate.
  (d) Amended Bills and Joint Resolutions; Conference Reports.--If a 
bill or joint resolution is passed in an amended form (including if 
passed by one House as an amendment in the nature of a substitute for 
the text of a bill or joint resolution from the other House) or is 
reported by a committee of conference in amended form, and the amended 
form contains a Federal mandate not previously considered by either 
House or which contains an increase in the direct cost of a previously 
considered Federal mandate, then the committee of conference shall 
ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, that the Director shall 
prepare a statement as provided in this subsection or a supplemental 
statement for the bill or joint resolution in that amended form.
SEC. 425. LEGISLATION SUBJECT TO POINT OF ORDER.
  (a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House 
of Representatives to consider--
          (1) any bill or joint resolution that is reported by a 
        committee unless the committee has published a statement of the 
        Director on the direct costs of Federal mandates in accordance 
        with section 423(f) before such consideration, except this 
        paragraph shall not apply to any supplemental statement prepared 
        by the Director under section 424(d); and
          (2) any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
        conference report that would increase the direct costs

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        of Federal intergovernmental mandates by an amount that causes 
        the thresholds specified in section 424(a)(1) to be exceeded, 
        unless--
                  (A) the bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
                conference report provides new budget authority or new 
                entitlement authority in the House of Representatives or 
                direct spending authority in the Senate for each fiscal 
                year for such mandates included in the bill, joint 
                resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report in 
                an amount equal to or exceeding the direct costs of such 
                mandate; or
                  (B) the bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
                conference report includes an authorization for 
                appropriations in an amount equal to or exceeding the 
                direct costs of such mandate, and--
                        (i) identifies a specific dollar amount of the 
                    direct costs of such mandate for each year up to 10 
                    years during which such mandate shall be in effect 
                    under the bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion 
                    or conference report, and such estimate is 
                    consistent with the estimate determined under 
                    subsection (e) for each fiscal year;
                        (ii) identifies any appropriation bill that is 
                    expected to provide for Federal funding of the 
                    direct cost referred to under clause (i); and
                        (iii)(I) provides that for any fiscal year the 
                    responsible Federal agency shall determine whether 
                    there are insufficient appropriations for that 
                    fiscal year to provide for the direct costs under 
                    clause (i) of such mandate, and shall (no later than 
                    30 days after the beginning of the fiscal year) 
                    notify the appropriate authorizing committees of 
                    Congress of the determination and submit either--

    (aa) a statement that the agency has determined, based on a re-estimate 
of the direct costs of such mandate, after consultation with State, local, 
and tribal governments, that the amount appropriated is sufficient to pay 
for the direct costs of such mandate; or

    (bb) legislative recommendations for either implementing a less costly 
mandate or making such mandate ineffective for the fiscal year;

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                        (II) provides for expedited procedures for the 
                    consideration of the statement or legislative 
                    recommendations referred to in subclause (I) by 
                    Congress no later than 30 days after the statement 
                    or recommendations are submitted to Congress; and
                        (III) provides that such mandate shall--

    (aa) in the case of a statement referred to in subclause (I)(aa), cease 
to be effective 60 days after the statement is submitted unless Congress 
has approved the agency's determination by joint resolution during the 60-
day period;

    (bb) cease to be effective 60 days after the date the legislative 
recommendations of the responsible Federal agency are submitted to Congress 
under subclause (I)(bb) unless Congress provides otherwise by law; or

    (cc) in the case that such mandate that has not yet taken effect, 
continue not to be effective unless Congress provides otherwise by law.

  (b) Rule of Construction.--The provisions of subsection (a)(2)(B)(iii) 
shall not be construed to prohibit or otherwise restrict a State, local, 
or tribal government from voluntarily electing to remain subject to the 
original Federal intergovernmental mandate, complying with the 
programmatic or financial responsibilities of the original Federal 
intergovernmental mandate and providing the funding necessary consistent 
with the costs of Federal agency assistance, monitoring, and 
enforcement.
  (c) Committee on Appropriations.--
          (1) Application.--The provisions of subsection (a)--
                  (A) shall not apply to any bill or resolution reported 
                by the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate or the 
                House of Representatives; except
                  (B) shall apply to--
                        (i) any legislative provision increasing direct 
                    costs of a Federal intergovernmental mandate 
                    contained in any bill or resolution reported by the 
                    Committee on Appropriations of the Senate or House 
                    of Representatives;
                        (ii) any legislative provision increasing direct 
                    costs of a Federal intergovernmental mandate 
                    contained in any amendment offered to a bill or 
                    resolution reported by the Committee on

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                    Appropriations of the Senate or House of 
                    Representatives;
                        (iii) any legislative provision increasing 
                    direct costs of a Federal intergovernmental mandate 
                    in a conference report accompanying a bill or 
                    resolution reported by the Committee on 
                    Appropriations of the Senate or House of 
                    Representatives; and
                        (iv) any legislative provision increasing direct 
                    costs of a Federal intergovernmental mandate 
                    contained in any amendments in disagreement between 
                    the two Houses to any bill or resolution reported by 
                    the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate or 
                    House of Representatives.
          (2) Certain provisions stricken in senate.--Upon a point of 
        order being made by any Senator against any provision listed in 
        paragraph (1)(B), and the point of order being sustained by the 
        Chair, such specific provision shall be deemed stricken from the 
        bill, resolution, amendment, amendment in disagreement, or 
        conference report and may not be offered as an amendment from 
        the floor.
  (d) Determinations of Applicability to Pending Legislation.--For 
purposes of this section, in the Senate, the presiding officer of the 
Senate shall consult with the Committee on Governmental Affairs, to the 
extent practicable, on questions concerning the applicability of this 
part to a pending bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or 
conference report.
  (e) Determinations of Federal Mandate Levels.--For purposes of this 
section, in the Senate, the levels of Federal mandates for a fiscal year 
shall be determined based on the estimates made by the Committee on the 
Budget.
SEC. 426. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
  (a) Enforcement in the House of Representatives.--It shall not be in 
order in the House of Representatives to consider a rule or order that 
waives the application of section 425.
  (b) Disposition of Points of Order.--
          (1) Application to the house of representatives.--This 
        subsection shall apply only to the House of Representatives.

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          (2) Threshold burden.--In order to be cognizable by the Chair, 
        a point of order under section 425 or subsection (a) of this 
        section must specify the precise language on which it is 
        premised.
          (3) Question of consideration.--As disposition of points of 
        order under section 425 or subsection (a) of this section, the 
        Chair shall put the question of consideration with respect to 
        the proposition that is the subject of the points of order.
          (4) Debate and intervening motions.--A question of 
        consideration under this section shall be debatable for 10 
        minutes by each Member initiating a point of order and for 10 
        minutes by an opponent on each point of order, but shall 
        otherwise be decided without intervening motion except one that 
        the House adjourn or that the Committee of the Whole rise, as 
        the case may be.
          (5) Effect on amendment in order as original text.--The 
        disposition of the question of consideration under this 
        subsection with respect to a bill or joint resolution shall be 
        considered also to determine the question of consideration under 
        this subsection with respect to an amendment made in order as 
        original text.
SEC. 427. REQUESTS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE FROM SENATORS.
  At the written request of a Senator, the Director shall, to the extent 
practicable, prepare an estimate of the direct costs of a Federal 
intergovernmental mandate contained in an amendment of such Senator.
SEC. 428. CLARIFICATION OF APPLICATION.
  (a) In General.--This part applies to any bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, motion, or conference report that reauthorizes 
appropriations, or that amends existing authorizations of 
appropriations, to carry out any statute, or that otherwise amends any 
statute, only if enactment of the bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
motion, or conference report--
          (1) would result in a net reduction in or elimination of 
        authorization of appropriations for Federal financial assistance 
        that would be provided to State, local, or tribal governments 
        for use for the purpose of complying with any Federal 
        intergovernmental mandate, or to the private sector for use to 
        comply with any Federal private sector mandate, and would not 
        elimi

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        nate or reduce duties established by the Federal mandate by a 
        corresponding amount; or
          (2) would result in a net increase in the aggregate amount of 
        direct costs of Federal intergovernmental mandates or Federal 
        private sector mandates other than as described in paragraph 
        (1).
  (b) Direct Costs.--
          (1) In general.--For purposes of this part, the direct cost of 
        the Federal mandates in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
        motion, or conference report that reauthorizes appropriations, 
        or that amends existing authorizations of appropriations, to 
        carry out a statute, or that otherwise amends any statute, means 
        the net increase, resulting from enactment of the bill, joint 
        resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report, in the 
        amount described under paragraph (2)(A) over the amount 
        described under paragraph (2)(B).
          (2) Amounts.--The amounts referred to under paragraph (1) 
        are--
                  (A) the aggregate amount of direct costs of Federal 
                mandates that would result under the statute if the 
                bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 
                report is enacted; and
                  (B) the aggregate amount of direct costs of Federal 
                mandates that would result under the statute if the 
                bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference 
                report were not enacted.
          (3) Extension of authorization of appropriations.--For 
        purposes of this section, in the case of legislation to extend 
        authorization of appropriations, the authorization level that 
        would be provided by the extension shall be compared to the 
        authorization level for the last year in which authorization of 
        appropriations is already provided.

  Part B of title IV was added by the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 
1995 (sec. 101(a), P.L. 104-4; 109 Stat. 50-60). That Act explicitly 
declared that the new part was enacted as an exercise of congressional 
rulemaking powers (sec. 108; 109 Stat. 63-64).
  Pursuant to section 426, a Member raising a point of order under 
section 425 or 426 must specify the precise language upon which the 
point of order is based (see e.g., May 23, 1996, p. 12283; May 14, 2008, 
p. 9050), and the content of estimates prepared under section 424 is a 
matter for debate (June 8, 2006, p 10457). A point of order under 
section 426 raised against consideration of a resolution providing a 
special order of business must specify the precise language upon which 
the point of order is based (see e.g., June 10, 1998 p. 11853; June 26, 
2001, p. 11906), which may include

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a waiver of points of order against amendments (Jan. 28, 2009, p. 1796; 
May 21, 2014, p. _), must be made when the special order is called up 
and comes too late after the resolution has been adopted (July 18, 1996, 
p. 17668), and may be raised against a resolution that, by hereby 
adopting legislative text, effectively waives the application of section 
425 (Feb. 1, 2006, pp. 549, 550). A point of order under section 425 
against consideration of a bill is properly raised pending the Speaker's 
declaration that the House resolve into the Committee of the Whole for 
such consideration (Oct. 29, 1997, p. 23712). A statutorily privileged 
joint resolution of approval may be subject to a point of order under 
section 425 (May 8, 2002, p. 7145). Debate on the point of order is on 
the question of considering the underlying text that is the subject of 
the point of order (May 14, 2008, p. 9051). The Members controlling 
debate on the point of order may reserve their time (Mar. 28, 1996, p. 
6932), and a manager of a measure who controls time for debate against 
the point of order that is to be resolved by a question of consideration 
has the right to close debate (June 10, 1998, p. 11854).

                TITLE VII--PROGRAM REVIEW AND EVALUATION

* * * * *

         continuing study of additional budget reform proposals

  Sec. 703. (a) The Committees on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate shall study on a continuing basis 
proposals designed to improve and facilitate methods of congressional 
budgetmaking. The proposals to be studied shall include, but are not 
limited to, proposals for--
          (1) improving the information base required for determining 
        the effectiveness of new programs by such means as pilot 
        testing, survey research, and other experimental and analytical 
        techniques;
          (2) improving analytical and systematic evaluation of the 
        effectiveness of existing programs;
          (3) establishing maximum and minimum time limitations for 
        program authorization; and
          (4) developing techniques of human resource accounting and 
        other means of providing noneconomic as well as economic 
        evaluation measures.
  (b) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall, from time to 
time, report to its House the results of the study carried on by it 
under subsection (a), together with its recommendations.
  (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude studies to improve the 
budgetary process by any other committee of the

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House of Representatives or the Senate or any joint committee of the 
Congress.
* * * * *

           TITLE IX--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS; EFFECTIVE DATES

* * * * *

                      exercise of rulemaking powers

  Sec. 904. (a) The provisions of this title and of titles I, III, IV, 
and V and the provisions of sections 701, 703, and 1017 are enacted by 
the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they 
        shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, 
        respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, 
        and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent 
        that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
        House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 
        as in the case of any other rule of such House.

  (b) Any provision of title III or IV may be waived or suspended in the 
Senate by a majority vote of the Members voting, a quorum being present, 
or by the unanimous consent of the Senate.

  (c) Waivers.--
          (1) Permanent.--Sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 310(d)(2), 
        313, 904(c), and 904(d) of this Act may be waived or suspended 
        in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of 
        the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
          (2) Temporary.--Sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 310(g), 
        311(a), 312(b), 312(c), 314(e), and 314(f) of this Act and 
        sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b)(3)(C)(i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 
        258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 may be waived or 
        suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-
        fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.

  (d) Appeals.--

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          (1) Procedure.--Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of 
        the Chair relating to any provision of title III or IV or 
        section 1017 shall, except as otherwise provided therein, be 
        limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled 
        by, the mover and the manager of the resolution, concurrent 
        resolution, reconciliation bill, or rescission bill, as the case 
        may be.
          (2) Permanent.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
        Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate 
        to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of 
        order raised under sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 
        310(d)(2), 313, 904(c), and 904(d) of this Act.
          (3) Temporary.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
        Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate 
        to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of 
        order raised under sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 310(g), 
        311(a), 312(b), 312(c), 314(e), and 314(f) of this Act and 
        sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b)(3)(C)(i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 
        258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
  (e) Expiration of Certain Supermajority Voting Requirements.--
Subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) shall expire on September 30, 2002.

  Section 904 was amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 
10119, P.L. 105-33) to clarify points of order in the Senate that may be 
waived by a supermajority vote. The Senate extended to 2017 the 
expiration in subsection (e) in the budget resolution for fiscal year 
2008 (sec. 205, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Cong.).
  Pursuant to this section, and under its authority contained in clause 
5 of rule XIII (former clause 4(b) of rule XI) to report on rules and 
the order of business, the Committee on Rules may report as privileged a 
resolution recommending the temporary waiver of the provisions of 
section 401 of the Congressional Budget Act during the consideration of 
designated legislation in the House (Speaker Albert, Mar. 20, 1975, p. 
7676). A point of order against consideration of a resolution reported 
from the Committee on Rules providing for consideration of a concurrent 
resolution on the budget does not lie based upon alleged violation of a 
statute that merely reaffirms the congressional commitment towards 
achieving balanced Federal budgets (P.L. 96-389), because the statute 
does not constitute a rule of the House and because section 904 of the 
Budget Act acknowledges the constitutional authority of either House to 
change its rules at any time (June 10, 1982, pp. 13352, 13353). A 
unanimous-consent agreement that only permits a (nonprivileged) bill to 
be considered in the House before three-day availability of the report 
thereon, but that does not specifically

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waive points of order against consideration, does not preclude a point 
of order against consideration of the bill when called up based upon an 
alleged violation of the Budget Act (Feb. 4, 1982, p. 845).


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                                                               Sec. 1129

                     BUDGET ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1990

                               __________

                excerpts from title xiii of p.l. 101-508

In addition <> to adding titles V and VI to the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (relating to credit reform and to 
budget agreement enforcement, respectively), the Budget Enforcement Act 
of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-508) also included these free-standing 
provisions addressing the budgetary treatment of social security.

                       Subtitle C--Social Security

SEC. 13301. OFF-BUDGET STATUS OF OASDI TRUST FUNDS.
  (a) Exclusion of Social Security From All Budgets.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the receipts and disbursements of the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal 
Disability Insurance Trust Fund shall not be counted as new budget 
authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of--
          (1) the budget of the United States Government as submitted by 
        the President,
          (2) the congressional budget, or
          (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
        1985.

  The House has waived this section in requiring that discretionary 
administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration be 
included in an allocation under section 302 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (sec. 3(f)(1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).

* * * * *
SEC. 13302. PROTECTION OF OASDI TRUST FUNDS IN THE HOUSE OF 
        REPRESENTATIVES.
  (a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives to consider any bill or joint resolution, as reported, 
or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if, upon 
enactment--

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          (1)(A) such legislation under consideration would provide for 
        a net increase in OASDI benefits of at least 0.02 percent of the 
        present value of future taxable payroll for the 75-year period 
        utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of 
        Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social 
        Security Act, and (B) such legislation under consideration does 
        not provide at least a net increase, for such 75-year period, in 
        OASDI taxes of the amount by which the net increase in such 
        benefits exceeds 0.02 percent of the present value of future 
        taxable payroll for such 75-year period,
          (2)(A) such legislation under consideration would provide for 
        a net increase in OASDI benefits (for the 5-year estimating 
        period for such legislation under consideration), (B) such net 
        increase, together with the net increases in OASDI benefits 
        resulting from previous legislation enacted during that fiscal 
        year or any of the previous 4 fiscal years (as estimated at the 
        time of enactment) which are attributable to those portions of 
        the 5-year estimating periods for such previous legislation that 
        fall within the 5-year estimating period for such legislation 
        under consideration, exceeds $250,000,000, and (C) such 
        legislation under consideration does not provide at least a net 
        increase, for the 5-year estimating period for such legislation 
        under consideration, in OASDI taxes which, together with net 
        increases in OASDI taxes resulting from such previous 
        legislation which are attributable to those portions of the 5-
        year estimating periods for such previous legislation that fall 
        within the 5-year estimating period for such legislation under 
        consideration, equals the amount by which the net increase 
        derived under subparagraph (B) exceeds $250,000,000;
          (3)(A) such legislation under consideration would provide for 
        a net decrease in OASDI taxes of at least 0.02 percent of the 
        present value of future taxable payroll for the 75-year period 
        utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of 
        Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social 
        Security Act, and (B) such legislation under consideration does 
        not provide at least a net decrease, for such 75-year period, in 
        OASDI benefits of the amount by which the net decrease in such 
        taxes exceeds 0.02 percent of the

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        present value of future taxable payroll for such 75-year period, 
        or
          (4)(A) such legislation under consideration would provide for 
        a net decrease in OASDI taxes (for the 5-year estimating period 
        for such legislation under consideration), (B) such net 
        decrease, together with the net decreases in OASDI taxes 
        resulting from previous legislation enacted during that fiscal 
        year or any of the previous 4 fiscal years (as estimated at the 
        time of enactment) which are attributable to those portions of 
        the 5-year estimating periods for such previous legislation that 
        fall within the 5-year estimating period for such legislation 
        under consideration, exceeds $250,000,000, and (C) such 
        legislation under consideration does not provide at least a net 
        decrease, for the 5-year estimating period for such legislation 
        under consideration, in OASDI benefits which, together with net 
        decreases in OASDI benefits resulting from such previous 
        legislation which are attributable to those portions of the 5-
        year estimating periods for such previous legislation that fall 
        within the 5-year estimating period for such legislation under 
        consideration, equals the amount by which the net decrease 
        derived under subparagraph (B) exceeds $250,000,000.

  (b) Application.--In applying paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection (a), 
any provision of any bill or joint resolution, as reported, or any 
amendment thereto, or conference report thereon, the effect of which is 
to provide for a net decrease for any period in taxes described in 
subsection (c)(2)(A) shall be disregarded if such bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report also includes a provision 
the effect of which is to provide for a net increase of at least an 
equivalent amount for such period in medicare taxes.

  (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection:
          (1) The term ``OASDI benefits'' means the benefits under the 
        old-age, survivors, and disability insurance programs under 
        title II of the Social Security Act.
          (2) The term ``OASDI taxes'' means--
                  (A) the taxes imposed under sections 1401(a), 3101(a), 
                and 3111(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and
                  (B) the taxes imposed under chapter 1 of such Code (to 
                the extent attributable to section 86 of such Code).

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          (3) The term ``medicare taxes'' means the taxes imposed under 
        sections 1401(b), 3101(b), and 3111(b) of the Internal Revenue 
        Code of 1986.
          (4) The term ``previous legislation'' shall not include 
        legislation enacted before fiscal year 1991.
          (5) The term ``5-year estimating period'' means, with respect 
        to any legislation, the fiscal year in which such legislation 
        becomes or would become effective and the next 4 fiscal years.
          (6) No provision of any bill or resolution, or any amendment 
        thereto or conference report thereon, involving a change in 
        chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be treated 
        as affecting the amount of OASDI taxes referred to in paragraph 
        (2)(B) unless such provision changes the income tax treatment of 
        OASDI benefits.

  The House in the 114th Congress established a point of order against 
consideration of measures that would reduce the actuarial balance of the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund by a specified 
percentage (sec. 3(q), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

* * * * *

  For a discussion of the Federal budget process, including the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman), which 
sets forth executive budget enforcement mechanisms, see House Practice, 
ch. 7 and Deschler-Brown-Johnson-Sullivan, ch. 41.


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                                                              Sec. 1129a

                   STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO ACT OF 2010

                               __________

          excerpts from title i of p.l. 111-139 (2 U.S.C. 939)

The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (tit. I, P.L. 111-139) included 
this provision addressing the budgetary treatment of social security.

SEC. 13. LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.
  (a) Limitation on Changes to the Social Security Act.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or 
the House of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution pursuant 
to any expedited procedure to consider the recommendations of a Task 
Force for Responsible Fiscal Action or other commission that contains 
recommendations with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability 
insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act, 
or the taxes received under subchapter A of chapter 9; the taxes imposed 
by subchapter E of chapter 1; and the taxes collected under section 86 
of part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue 
Code. end segment .015  deg. segment .016 -- expedited 
procedures through (15)  deg.

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                         LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES

                             ENACTED IN LAW

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                  LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES ENACTED IN LAW

  Congress has, <> from time to time, passed laws 
reserving to itself an absolute or limited right of review by approval 
or disapproval of certain actions of the executive branch or of 
independent agencies. These laws usually envision some form of 
congressional action falling into one of three general categories: (1) 
action by both Houses of Congress on a bill or joint resolution 
requiring presidential signature; (2) action by one or both Houses of 
Congress on a simple or concurrent resolution; and (3) action by a 
congressional committee. Although provisions in the first category 
remain viable, provisions in the latter two categories should be read in 
light of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 
(1983). In that case the Supreme Court held unconstitutional as in 
violation of the presentment clause of article I, section 7, and the 
doctrine of separation of powers the provisions of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act contemplating disapproval of a decision of the Attorney 
General to allow an otherwise deportable alien to remain in the United 
States by simple resolution of one House. That same year, the Supreme 
Court summarily affirmed several lower court decisions invalidating 
provisions contemplating disapproval of executive actions by methods 
described in both categories (2) and (3) above. 463 U.S. 1216 (1983). 
Since then, Congress has amended several ``legislative procedure'' 
statutes to convert provisions requiring simple or concurrent 
resolutions to provisions requiring joint resolutions.
  Many ``legislative procedure'' statutes prescribe special procedures 
for the House to follow when reviewing executive actions. These 
procedures, termed ``privileged procedures,'' technically are Rules of 
the House, enacted expressly or impliedly as an exercise of the House's 
rulemaking authority. At the beginning of each Congress, it is customary 
for the House to re-incorporate by reference in the resolution adopting 
its rules such ``legislative procedure'' procedures as may exist in 
current law. Nevertheless, because the House retains the constitutional 
right to

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change its rules at any time, the Committee on Rules may report a 
resolution varying the statutorily prescribed procedures for the House.
  Below is a compilation of the various provisions in ``legislative 
procedure'' statutes setting forth ``privileged procedures'' to be 
followed by the House when considering executive actions, together with 
any annotations of decisions of the Chair interpreting those provisions. 
Although some annotations provide pertinent legislative history, this 
compilation does not endeavor to provide a comprehensive record of 
legislative history for every provision. Excerpts of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act, formerly carried after the 
Congressional Budget Act, have been scaled down and moved to this 
segment of the Manual for quick reference to the legislative procedures 
therein. The primary enforcement mechanisms in the statute (such as 
sequestration) are no longer carried because they are not legislative 
procedures. However, sections 250, 251, 251A, and 252 operate in 
conjunction with procedural provisions in title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, supra. Sections 258, 258A, 258B, and 258C primarily 
provide for reporting and consideration of legislation in the Senate; 
therefore, only portions of those sections are carried here. A more 
thorough understanding of the statutory scheme requires the full 
statutory text (see 2 U.S.C. 900).
                                                               Sec. 1130

           Measures Privileged for Consideration in the House

 1.                       Executive Reorganization.

 2.                       War Powers Resolution.

 3.                       National Emergencies Act.

 4.                       International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

 5.                       District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

 6.                       Title X of the Congressional Budget and 
                          Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

    a.                        Impoundment Control.

    b.                        Line Item Veto Authority.

 7.                       Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel.

 8.                       Pension Reform Act.

 9.                       Multiemployer Guarantees, Revised Schedules.

10.                       Atomic Energy Act Provisions on Nuclear Non-
                          Proliferation.

11.                       Trade Provisions.

   a.                        Import Relief.

   b.                        Freedom of Emigration.

   c.                        Nondiscriminatory Treatment.

   d.                        ``Fast-Track'' Procedures.

   e.                        Narcotics Control Provisions.

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   f.                        Customs Duties, Negotiation and Implementation 
                          of Trade Agreements.

   g.                        Trade Promotion Authority.

   h.                        U.S. Participation in WTO.

   i.                        Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act.

   j.                        Prohibition on import restrictions that would 
                          threaten to impair national security.

12.                       Federal Salary Act of 1967.

13.                       Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

14.                       Extensions of Emergency Energy Authorities.

15.                       Nuclear Waste Fund Fees.

16.                       Arms Export Control.

   a.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. 36(b).

   b.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. 36(c).

   c.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. 36(d).

   d.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. 3.

   e.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. Sec. 62-63.

   f.                        Arms Export Control Act, Sec. 40(f).

17.                       Federal Election Commission Regulations.

18.                       Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976.

19.                       Crude Oil Transportation Systems.

20.                       Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
                          Act.

21.                       Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
                          1976.

   a.                        Land Use Planning.

   b.                        Sales.

   c.                        Withdrawals.

   d.                        Review of Withdrawals.

22.                       Marine Fisheries Conservation Act.

23.                       Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

24.                       Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

   a.                        High-level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear 
                          Fuel.

   b.                        Interim Storage Program.

   c.                        Monitored Retrievable Storage.

25.                       Defense Base Closure and Realignment.

   a.                        Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
                          1990.

   b.                        Limitation on Military Construction Funds.

26.                       Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.

27.                       Termination of Cuban Economic Embargo.

28.                       Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking.

29.                       The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
                          Control Act of 1985.

30.                       Andean Counterdrug Initiative.

31.                       Medicare Cost Containment.

32.                       Minimum Standards for Identification of 
                          Documents.

33.                       Independent Payment Advisory Board.




              1. Executive Reorganization [5 U.S.C. 902-12]

                          Sec. 902. definitions

  For the purpose of this chapter--
          (1) ``agency'' means--
                  (A) an Executive agency or part thereof; and
                  (B) an office or officer in the executive branch;
        but does include the Government Accountability Office or the 
        Comptroller General of the United States;

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          (2) ``reorganization'' means a transfer, consolidation, 
        coordination, authorization, or abolition, referred to in 
        section 903 of this title; and
          (3) ``officer'' is not limited by section 2104 of this title.
                                                            Sec. 1130(1)

                     Sec. 903. reorganization plans

  (a) Whenever the President, after investigation, finds that changes in 
the organization of agencies are necessary to carry out any policy set 
forth in section 901(a) of this title, he shall prepare a reorganization 
plan specifying the reorganizations he finds are necessary. Any plan may 
provide for--
          (1) the transfer of the whole or a part of an agency, or of 
        the whole or a part of the functions thereof, to the 
        jurisdiction and control of another agency;
          (2) the abolition of all or a part of the functions of an 
        agency, except that no enforcement function or statutory program 
        shall be abolished by the plan;
          (3) the consolidation or coordination of the whole or a part 
        of an agency, or of the whole part of the functions thereof, 
        with the whole or a part of another agency or the functions 
        thereof;
          (4) the consolidation or coordination of a part of an agency 
        or the functions thereof with another part of the same agency or 
        the functions thereof;
          (5) the authorization of an officer to delegate any of his 
        functions; or
          (6) the abolition of the whole or a part of an agency which 
        agency or part does not have, or on the taking effect of the 
        reorganization plan will not have, any functions.
The President shall transmit the plan (bearing an identification number) 
to the Congress together with a declaration that, with respect to each 
reorganization included in the plan, he has found that the 
reorganization is necessary to carry out any policy set forth in section 
901(a) of this title.
  (b) The President shall have a reorganization plan delivered to both 
Houses on the same day and to each House while it is in session, except 
that no more than three plans may be pending before the Congress at one 
time. In his message transmitting a reorganization plan, the President 
shall specify with respect to each abolition of a function included in 
the plan the statutory authority for the

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exercise of the function. The message shall also estimate any reduction 
or increase in expenditures (itemized so far as practicable), and 
describe any improvements in management, delivery of Federal services, 
execution of the laws, and increases in efficiency of Government 
operations, which it is expected will be realized as a result of the 
reorganizations included in the plan. In addition, the President's 
message shall include an implementation section which shall (1) describe 
in detail (A) the actions necessary or planned to complete the 
reorganization, (B) the anticipated nature and substance of any orders, 
directives, and other administrative and operational actions which are 
expected to be required for completing or implementing the 
reorganization, and (C) any preliminary actions which have been taken in 
the implementation process, and (2) contain a projected timetable for 
completion of the implementation process. The President shall also 
submit such further background or other information as the Congress may 
require for its consideration of the plan.
  (c) Any time during the period of 60 calendar days of continuous 
session of Congress after the date on which the plan is transmitted to 
it, but before any resolution described in section 909 has been ordered 
reported in either House, the President may make amendments or 
modifications to the plan, consistent with sections 903-905 of this 
title, which modifications or revisions shall thereafter be treated as a 
part of the reorganization plan originally transmitted and shall not 
affect in any way the time limits otherwise provided for in this 
chapter. The President may withdraw the plan any time prior to the 
conclusion of 90 calendar days of continuous session of Congress 
following the date on which the plan is submitted to Congress.

                                  * * *

                     Sec. 905. limitations on powers

  (a) A reorganization plan may not provide for, and a reorganization 
under this chapter may not have the effect of--
          (1) creating a new executive department or renaming an 
        existing executive department, abolishing or transferring an 
        executive department or independent regulatory agency, or all 
        the functions thereof, or consolidating two or more executive 
        departments or two

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        or more independent regulatory agencies, or all the functions 
        thereof;
          (2) continuing an agency beyond the period authorized by law 
        for its existence or beyond the time when it would have 
        terminated if the reorganization had not been made;
          (3) continuing a function beyond the period authorized by law 
        for its exercise or beyond the time when it would have 
        terminated if the reorganization had not been made;
          (4) authorizing an agency to exercise a function which is not 
        expressly authorized by law at the time the plan is transmitted 
        to Congress;
          (5) creating a new agency which is not a component or part of 
        an existing executive department or independent agency;
          (6) increasing the term of an office beyond that provided by 
        law for the office; or
          (7) dealing with more than one logically consistent subject 
        matter.
  (b) A provision contained in a reorganization plan may take effect 
only if the plan in transmitted to Congress (in accordance with section 
903(b) of this chapter) on or before December 31, 1984.

    Sec. 906. effective date and publication of reorganization plans

  (a) Except as provided under subsection (c) of this section, a 
reorganization plan shall be effective upon approval by the President of 
a resolution (as defined in section 909) with respect to such plan, if 
such resolution is passed by the House of Representatives and the 
Senate, within the first period of 90 calendar days of continuous 
session of Congress after the date on which the plan is transmitted to 
Congress. Failure of either House to act upon such resolution by the end 
of such period shall be the same as disapproval of the resolution.
  (b) For the purpose of this chapter--
          (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
        Congress sine die; and
          (2) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of any period of time in which 
        Congress is in continuous session.

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  (c) Under provisions contained in a reorganization plan, any provision 
thereof may be effective at a time later than the date on which the plan 
otherwise is effective.
  (d) A reorganization plan which is effective shall be printed (1) in 
the Statutes at Large in the same volume as the public laws and (2) in 
the Federal Register.

                                  * * *

Sec. 908. rules of senate and house of representatives on reorganization 
                                  plans

  Sections 909 through 912 of this title are enacted by Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that House in the case of resolutions with respect to any 
        reorganization plans transmitted to Congress (in accordance with 
        section 903(b) of this chapter) on or before December 31, 1984; 
        and they supersede other rules only to the extent that they are 
        inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.

                      Sec. 909. terms of resolution

  For the purpose of sections 908 through 912 of this title, 
``resolution'' means only a joint resolution of the Congress, the matter 
after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the ___ 
Congress approves the reorganization plan numbered _ transmitted to the 
Congress by the President on ___, 19_.'', and includes such 
modifications and revisions as submitted by the President under section 
903(c) of this chapter. The blank spaces therein are to be filled 
appropriately. The term does not include a resolution which specifies 
more than one reorganization plan.


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           Sec. 910. introduction and reference of resolution

  (a) No later than the first day of session following the day on which 
a reorganization plan is transmitted to the House of Representatives and 
the Senate under section 903, a resolution, as defined in section 909, 
shall be introduced (by request) in the House by the chairman of the 
Committee on Government Reform of the House, or by a Member of Members 
of the House designated by such chairman; and shall be introduced (by 
request) in the Senate by the chairman of the Governmental Affairs 
Committee of the Senate, or by a Member or Members of the Senate 
designated by such chairman.
  (b) A resolution with respect to a reorganization plan shall be 
referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Government Reform of the House (and all resolutions with 
respect to the same plan shall be referred to the same committee) by the 
President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be. The committee shall make its recommendations to the 
House of Representatives or the Senate, respectively, within 75 calendar 
days of continuous session of Congress following the date of such 
resolution's introduction.

         Sec. 911. discharge of committee considering resolution

  If the committee to which is referred a resolution introduced pursuant 
to subsection (a) of section 910 (or, in the absence of such a 
resolution, the first resolution introduced with respect to the same 
reorganization plan) has not reported such resolution or identical 
resolution at the end of 75 calendar days of continuous session of 
Congress after its introduction, such committee shall be deemed to be 
discharged from further consideration of such resolution and such 
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House 
involved.

Sec. 912. procedure after report or discharge of committee; debate; vote 
                            on final passage

  (a) When the committee has reported, or has been deemed to be 
discharged (under section 911) from further consideration of, a 
resolution with respect to a reorganization plan, it is at any time 
thereafter in order (even

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though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for 
any Member of the respective House to move to proceed to the 
consideration of the resolution. The motion is highly privileged and is 
not debatable. The motion shall not be subject to amendment, or to a 
motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other 
business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed 
to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of the resolution is agreed to, the resolution shall 
remain the unfinished business of the respective House until disposed 
of.
  (b) Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals 
in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than ten hours, 
which shall be divided equally between individuals favoring and 
individuals opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is 
in order and not debatable. An amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or 
a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion 
to recommit the resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the 
vote by which the resolution is passed or rejected shall not be in 
order.
  (c) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on the 
resolution with respect to a reorganization plan, and a single quorum 
call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the 
rules of the appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the 
resolution shall occur.
  (d) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with 
respect to a reorganization plan shall be decided without debate.
  (e) If, prior to the passage by one House of a resolution of that 
House, that House receives a resolution with respect to the same 
reorganization plan from the other House, then--
          (1) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no 
        resolution had been received from the other House; but
          (2) the vote on final passage shall be on the resolution of 
        the other House.

  Section 905(b) was amended by Public Law 98-614 to terminate the 
authority of the President to submit reorganization plans under this 
statute on December 31, 1984. These provisions are carried in this 
compilation because other Acts have incorporated their procedures by 
reference.

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                                                            Sec. 1130(2)




       2. War Powers Resolution, Sec. Sec. 5-7 [50 U.S.C. 1544-46]

  Sec. 5. (a) Each report submitted pursuant to section 4(a)(1) shall be 
transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the 
President pro tempore of the Senate on the same calendar day. Each 
report so transmitted shall be referred to the Committee on 
International Relations of the House of Representatives and to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate for appropriate action. If, 
when the report is transmitted, the Congress has adjourned sine die or 
has adjourned for any period in excess of three calendar days, the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of 
the Senate, if they deem if advisable (or if petitioned by at least 30 
percent of the membership of their respective Houses) shall jointly 
request the President to convene Congress in order that it may consider 
the report and take appropriate action pursuant to this section.
  (b) Within sixty calendar days after a report is submitted or is 
required to be submitted pursuant to section 4(a)(1), whichever is 
earlier, the President shall terminate any use of United States Armed 
Forces with respect to which such report was submitted (or required to 
be submitted), unless the Congress (1) has declared war or has enacted a 
specific authorization for such use of United States Armed Forces, (2) 
has extended by law such sixty-day period, or (3) is physically unable 
to meet as a result of an armed attack upon the United States. Such 
sixty-day period shall be extended for not more than an additional 
thirty days if the President determines and certifies to the Congress in 
writing that unavoidable military necessity respecting the safety of 
United States Armed Forces requires the continued use of such armed 
forces in the course of bringing about a prompt removal of such forces.
  (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), at any time that United States 
Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the 
United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of 
war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by 
the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.

  This section (and section 7, infra) should be read in light of INS v. 
Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983).


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  Sec. 6. (a) Any joint resolution or bill introduced pursuant to 
section 5(b) at least thirty calendar days before the expiration of the 
sixty-day period specified in such section shall be referred to the 
Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives or 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, as the case may be, 
and such committee shall report one such joint resolution or bill, 
together with its recommendations, not later than twenty-four calendar 
days before the expiration of the sixty-day period specified in such 
section, unless such House shall otherwise determine by the yeas and 
nays.
  (b) Any joint resolution or bill so reported shall become the pending 
business of the House in question (in the case of the Senate the time 
for debate shall be equally divided between the proponents and the 
opponents), and shall be voted on within three calendar days thereafter, 
unless such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.
  (c) Such a joint resolution or bill passed by one House shall be 
referred to the committee of the other House named in subsection (a) and 
shall be reported out not later than fourteen calendar days before the 
expiration of the sixty-day period specified in section 5(b). The joint 
resolution or bill so reported shall become the pending business of the 
House in question and shall be voted on within three calendar days after 
it has been reported, unless such House shall otherwise determine by 
yeas and nays.
  (d) In the case of any disagreement between the two Houses of Congress 
with respect to a joint resolution or bill passed by both Houses, 
conferees shall be promptly appointed and the committee of conference 
shall make and file a report with respect to such resolution or bill not 
later than four calendar days before the expiration of the sixty-day 
period specified in section 5(b). In the event the conferees are unable 
to agree within 48 hours, they shall report back to their respective 
Houses in disagreement. Notwithstanding any rule in either House 
concerning the printing of conference reports in the Record or 
concerning any delay in the consideration of such reports, such report 
shall be acted on by both Houses not later than the expiration of such 
sixty-day period.

  Sec. 7. (a) Any concurrent resolution introduced pursuant to section 
5(c) shall be referred to the Committee on International Relations of 
the House of Representatives or the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate, as the case may be, and one such concurrent resolution shall 
be reported out by such committee together with its rec

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ommendations within fifteen calendar days, unless such House shall 
otherwise determine by the yeas and nays.
  (b) Any concurrent resolution so reported shall become the pending 
business of the House in question (in the case of the Senate the time 
for debate shall be equally divided between the proponents and the 
opponents) and shall be voted on within three calendar days thereafter, 
unless such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.
  (c) Such a concurrent resolution passed by one House shall be referred 
to the committee of the other House named in subsection (a) and shall be 
reported out by such committee together with its recommendations within 
fifteen calendar days and shall thereupon become the pending business of 
such House and shall be voted upon within three calendar days, unless 
such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.
  (d) In the case of any disagreement between the two Houses of Congress 
with respect to a concurrent resolution passed by both Houses, conferees 
shall be promptly appointed and the committee of conference shall make 
and file a report with respect to such concurrent resolution within six 
calendar days after the legislation is referred to the committee of 
conference. Notwithstanding any rule in either House concerning the 
printing of conference reports in the Record or concerning any delay in 
the consideration of such reports, such report shall be acted on by both 
Houses not later than six calendar days after the conference report is 
filed. In the event the conferees are unable to agree within 48 hours, 
they shall report back to their respective Houses in disagreement.

  In the 94th Congress the President was granted authority to implement 
a ``Sinai early-warning system'' involving the assignment of civilian 
personnel to noncombat functions. In the same enactment, Congress 
provided for privileged consideration of a concurrent resolution calling 
for the removal of such personnel (see 22 U.S.C. 2348 note).
  In the 98th Congress the Committee on Foreign Affairs reported a joint 
resolution providing statutory authorization under the War Powers 
Resolution for a multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The joint 
resolution would have been subject to consideration under the procedural 
provisions of the statute, but the House adopted a special order 
reported from the Committee on Rules varying the procedures for 
consideration of the joint resolution and also providing for 
consideration of a similar Senate joint resolution (H. Res. 318, Sept. 
28, 1983, p. 26108). The House subsequently passed a Senate joint 
resolution on the subject that changed the Rules of the House and Senate 
to provide special procedures for consideration

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of a joint resolution or bill to amend or repeal its provisions (P.L. 
98-119, Sept. 29, 1983, p. 26493).
  The 98th Congress provided for expedited consideration in the Senate 
of bills or joint resolutions requiring the removal of U.S. forces 
engaged in hostilities outside U.S. territory without a declaration of 
war (P.L. 98-164, 97 Stat. 1062). Those procedures appear in section 
601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control 
Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-329; 90 Stat. 765).
  In the 102d and 107th Congresses the President was granted specific 
authority within the meaning of section 5(b) of the Act to use U.S. 
armed forces (P.L. 102-1; P.L. 107-40; P.L. 107-243).
  In the 103d Congress the Committee on Foreign Affairs reported H. Con. 
Res. 170, directing the President pursuant to 5(c) of the Act to remove 
United States Armed Forces from Somalia by January 31, 1994. By 
unanimous consent the House extended by one day the time for privileged 
consideration of that measure under section 7(b) (Nov. 4, 1993, p. 
27393).
  In the 105th Congress the Committee on International Relations (now 
Foreign Affairs) reported H. Con. Res. 227, directing the President 
pursuant to section 5(c) of the Act to remove United States Armed Forces 
from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By unanimous consent the 
House postponed consideration of the measure until a date certain and 
provided for its consideration under a ``closed'' procedure (Mar. 12, 
1998, p. 3398).
  In the 106th Congress the Committee on International Relations (now 
Foreign Affairs) reported H. Con. Res. 82, directing the President 
pursuant to section 5(c) of the Act to remove United States Armed Forces 
from their positions in connection with the operations against the 
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and H. J. Res. 44, pursuant to section 
5(b) of the Act and article I, section 8 of the Constitution, declaring 
a state of war between the United States and the Government of the 
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The House adopted a special order 
reported from the Committee on Rules varying the statutory procedures 
for consideration of both measures (H. Res. 151, Apr. 28, 1999, p. 
7718).
                                                            Sec. 1130(3)




        3. National Emergencies Act [50 U.S.C. 1601, 1621, 1622]

           title i--terminating existing declared emergencies

                            [50 U.S.C. 1601]

  Sec. 101. (a) All powers and authorities possessed by the President, 
any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or any 
executive agency, as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States 
Code, as a result of the existence of any declaration of national 
emergency in effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 14, 
1976]

[[Page 1140]]

are terminated two years from the date of such enactment. Such 
termination shall not affect--
          (1) any action taken or proceeding pending not finally 
        concluded or determined on such date;
          (2) any action or proceeding based on any act committed prior 
        to such date; or
          (3) any rights or duties that matured or penalties that were 
        incurred prior to such date.
  (b) For the purpose of this section, the words ``any national 
emergency in effect'' means a general declaration of emergency made by 
the President.

          title ii--declarations of future national emergencies

                            [50 U.S.C. 1621]

  Sec. 201. (a) With respect to Acts of Congress authorizing the 
exercise, during the period of a national emergency, of any special or 
extraordinary power, the President is authorized to declare such 
national emergency. Such proclamation shall immediately be transmitted 
to the Congress and published in the Federal Register.
  (b) Any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be 
exercised during a national emergency shall be effective and remain in 
effect (1) only when the President (in accordance with subsection (a) of 
this section), specifically declares a national emergency, and (2) only 
in accordance with this Act. No law enacted after the date of enactment 
of this Act shall supersede this title unless it does so in specific 
terms, referring to this title, and declaring that the new law 
supersedes the provisions of this title.

                            [50 U.S.C. 1622]

  Sec. 202. (a) Any national emergency declared by the President in 
accordance with this title shall terminate if--
          (1) there is enacted into law a joint resolution terminating 
        the emergency; or
          (2) the President issues a proclamation terminating the 
        emergency.
Any national emergency declared by the President shall be terminated on 
the date specified in any joint resolution referred to in clause (1) or 
on the date specified in a proclamation by the President terminating the 
emergency as provided in clause (2) of this subsection, whichever date 
is

[[Page 1141]]

earlier, and any powers or authorities exercised by reason of said 
emergency shall cease to be exercised after such specified date, except 
that such termination shall not affect--
          (A) any action taken or proceeding pending not finally 
        concluded or determined on such date;
          (B) any action or proceeding based on any act committed prior 
        to such date; or
          (C) any rights or duties that matured or penalties that were 
        incurred prior to such date.
  (b) Not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, 
and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such 
emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a 
vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be 
terminated.
  (c)(1) A joint resolution to terminate a national emergency declared 
by the President shall be referred to the appropriate committee of the 
House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be. One such 
joint resolution shall be reported out by such committee together with 
its recommendations within fifteen calendar days after the day on which 
such resolution is referred to such committee, unless such House shall 
otherwise determine by the yeas and nays.
  (2) Any joint resolution so reported shall become the pending business 
of the House in question (in the case of the Senate the time for debate 
shall be equally divided between the proponents and the opponents) and 
shall be voted on within three calendar days after the day on which such 
resolution is reported, unless such House shall otherwise determine by 
yeas and nays.
  (3) Such a joint resolution passed by one House shall be referred to 
the appropriate committee of the other House and shall be reported out 
by such committee together within its recommendations within fifteen 
calendar days after the day on which such resolution is referred to such 
committee and shall thereupon become the pending business of such House 
and shall be voted upon within three calendar days after the day on 
which such resolution is reported, unless such House shall otherwise 
determine by yeas and nays.
  (4) In the case of any disagreement between the two Houses of Congress 
with respect to a joint resolution passed by both Houses, conferees 
shall be promptly appointed and the committee of conference shall make 
and

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file a report with respect to such joint resolution within six calendar 
days after the day on which managers on the part of the Senate and the 
House have been appointed. Notwithstanding any rule in either House 
concerning the printing of conference reports or concerning any delay in 
the consideration of such reports, such report shall be acted on by both 
Houses not later than six calendar days after the conference report is 
filed in the House in which such report is filed first. In the event the 
conferees are unable to agree within forty-eight hours, they shall 
report back to their respective Houses in disagreement.
  (5) Paragraphs (1)-(4) of this subsection (b) of this section, and 
section 502(b) of this Act are enacted by Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        the House in the case of resolutions described by this 
        subsection; and they supersede other rules only to the extent 
        that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
  (d) Any national emergency declared by the President in accordance 
with this title, and not otherwise previously terminated, shall 
terminate on the anniversary of the declaration of that emergency if, 
within the ninety-day period prior to each anniversary date, the 
President does not publish in the Federal Register and transmit to the 
Congress a notice stating that such emergency is to continue in effect 
after such anniversary.

   A privileged motion to discharge a committee from further 
consideration of a joint resolution terminating an emergency is 
available after the measure has been referred to committee for 15 
calendar days (Nov. 7, 2005, pp. 25133, 25134).
                                                            Sec. 1130(4)




  4. International Emergency Economic Powers Act [50 U.S.C. 1702, 1706]

  Sec. 203. (a)(1) At the times and to the extent specified in section 
202, the President may, under such regulations

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as he may prescribe, by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise--
          (A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit--
                  (i) any transactions in foreign exchange,
                  (ii) transfers of credit or payments between, by, 
                through, or to any banking institution, to the extent 
                that such transfers or payments involve any interest of 
                any foreign country or a national thereof,
                  (iii) the importing or exporting of currency or 
                securities,
        by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the 
        jurisdiction of the United States;
          (B) investigate, block during the pendency of an 
        investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, 
        prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, 
        transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation 
        of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege 
        with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in 
        which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest 
        by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the 
        jurisdiction of the United States; and
          (C) when the United States is engaged in armed hostilities or 
        has been attacked by a foreign country or foreign nationals, 
        confiscate any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the 
        United States, of any foreign person, foreign organization, or 
        foreign country that he determines has planned, authorized, 
        aided, or engaged in such hostilities or attacks against the 
        United States; and all right, title, and interest in any 
        property so confiscated shall vest, when, as, and upon the terms 
        directed by the President, in such agency or person as the 
        President may designate from time to time, and upon such terms 
        and conditions as the President may prescribe, such interest or 
        property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or 
        otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of 
        the United States, and such designated agency or person may 
        perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or 
        furtherance of these purposes.

                                  * * *

  Sec. 207. * * * (b) The authorities described in subsection (a)(1) may 
not continue to be exercised under this

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section if the national emergency is terminated by the Congress by 
concurrent resolution pursuant to section 202 of the National 
Emergencies Act [50 U.S.C. 1622] and if the Congress specifies in such 
concurrent resolution that such authorities may not continue to be 
exercised under this section.
                                                            Sec. 1130(5)




  5. District of Columbia Home Rule Act, Sec. Sec. 303(b), 602(c), 604

  Sec. 303. * * * (b) An amendment to the charter ratified by the 
registered electors shall take effect upon the expiration of the 35-
calendar-day period (excluding Saturday, Sunday, holidays, and days on 
which either House of Congress is not in session) following the date 
such amendment was submitted to the Congress, or upon the date 
prescribed by such amendment, whichever is later, unless during such 35-
day period, there has been enacted into law a joint resolution, in 
accordance with the procedures specified in section 604 of this Act, 
disapproving such amendment. In any case in which any such joint 
resolution disapproving such an amendment has, within such 35-day 
period, passed both Houses of Congress and has been transmitted to the 
President, such resolution, upon becoming law subsequent to the 
expiration of such 35-day period, shall be deemed to have repealed such 
amendment, as of the date such resolution becomes law.

  Sec. 602. * * * (c)(1) Except acts of the Council which are submitted 
to the President in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, 
any act which the Council determines according to section 412(a), should 
take effect immediately because of emergency circumstances, and acts 
proposing amendments to title IV of this Act, and except as provided in 
section 462(c) and section 472(d)(1) [relative to borrowing in 
anticipation of revenues], the Chairman of the Council shall transmit to 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the 
Senate a copy of each act passed by the Council and signed by the Mayor, 
or vetoed by the Mayor and repassed by two-thirds of the Council present 
and voting, each act passed by the Council and allowed to become 
effective by the Mayor without his signature, and each initiated act and 
act subject to referendum which has been ratified by a majority of the 
registered qualified electors voting on the initiative or referendum. 
Except as provided

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in paragraph (2), such act shall take effect upon the expiration of the 
30-calendar-day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, and 
any day on which neither House is in session because of an adjournment 
sine die, a recess of more than three days, or an adjournment of more 
than three days) beginning on the day such act is transmitted by the 
Chairman to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
President of the Senate, or upon the date prescribed by such act, 
whichever is later, unless during such 30-day period, there has been 
enacted into law a joint resolution disapproving such act. In any case 
in which any such joint resolution disapproving such an act has, within 
such 30-day period, passed both Houses of Congress and has been 
transmitted to the President, such resolution, upon becoming law, 
subsequent to the expiration of such 30-day period, shall be deemed to 
have repealed such act, as of the date such resolution becomes law. The 
provisions of section 604, except subsections (d), (e), and (f) of such 
section, shall apply with respect to any joint resolution disapproving 
any act pursuant to this paragraph.
  (2) In the case of any such Act transmitted by the Chairman with 
respect to any Act codified in title 22, 23, or 24 of the District of 
Columbia Code, such act shall take effect at the end of the 60-day 
period beginning on the day such act is transmitted by the Chairman to 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate unless, during such 60-day period, there has been enacted into 
law a joint resolution disapproving such act. In any case in which any 
such joint resolution disapproving such an act has, within such 60-day 
period, passed both Houses of Congress and has been transmitted to the 
President, such resolution, upon becoming law subsequent to the 
expiration of such 60-day period shall be deemed to have repealed such 
act, as of the date such resolution becomes law. The provisions of 
section 604, relating to an expedited procedure for consideration of 
joint resolutions, shall apply to a joint resolution disapproving such 
Act as specified in this paragraph.
  (3) The Council shall submit with each Act transmitted under this 
subsection an estimate of the costs which will be incurred by the 
District of Columbia as a result of the enactment of the Act in each of 
the first 4 fiscal years for which the Act is in effect, together with a 
statement of the basis for such estimate.

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            congressional action on certain district matters

  Sec. 604. (a) This section is enacted by Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such these 
        provisions are deemed a part of the rule of each House, 
        respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure 
        to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions 
        described by this section; and they supersede other rules only 
        to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rule (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
  (b) For the purpose of this section, ``resolution'' means only a joint 
resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
follows: ``That the ___ approves/disapproves of the action of the 
District of Columbia Council described as follows: ___.'', the blank 
spaces therein being appropriately filled, and either approval or 
disapproval being appropriately indicated; but does not include a 
resolution which specifies more than one action.
  (c) A resolution with respect to Council action shall be referred to 
the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, or 
the Committee on the District of Columbia of the Senate, by the 
President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be.
  (d) If the committee to which a resolution has been referred has not 
reported it at the end of twenty calendar days after its introduction, 
it is in order to move to discharge the committee from further 
consideration of any other resolution with respect to the same Council 
action which has been referred to the committee.
  (e) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring 
the resolution, is highly privileged (except that it may not be made 
after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the same 
action), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one hour, 
to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
resolution. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and it is not in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to.

[[Page 1147]]

  (f) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the 
motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the 
committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to 
the same action.
  (g) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a resolution, it is at any time thereafter in 
order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been 
disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. 
The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to 
the motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider 
the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (h) Debate on the resolution shall be limited to not more than ten 
hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not 
debatable. An amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution is not 
in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which 
the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (i) Motions to postpone made with respect to the discharge from 
committee or the consideration of a resolution, and motions to proceed 
to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.
  (j) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be 
decided without debate.

  It is not in order to offer as privileged a motion to discharge the 
Committee on the District of Columbia (now Oversight and Government 
Reform) from a simple (now joint) resolution disapproving an act passed 
by the D.C. City Council before the time that the Council was vested 
with the authority to pass the category of act to which the simple 
resolution disapproval procedure applies (Speaker Albert, Sept. 22, 
1976, pp. 31873-74). The D.C. City Council subsequently having been 
vested with that authority, a motion to discharge the Committee on the 
District of Columbia (now Oversight and Government Reform) from further 
consideration of a (joint) resolution disapproving an act of the Council 
amending the D.C. Criminal Code is privileged after 20 calendar days 
from introduction of the resolution, if not reported during that time 
(Oct. 1, 1981, p. 22752; Oct. 14, 1987, p. 27847).
  Section 604 does not provide a privileged motion to discharge the 
Committee on the District of Columbia (now Oversight and Government 
Reform) from a concurrent (now joint) resolution disapproving acts of 
the D.C. City Council not affecting the D.C. Criminal Code, such 
concurrent resolutions only being privileged when reported by that 
committee (Speak

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er Albert, Sept. 22, 1976, pp. 31873-74). The House has provided that 
section 604(g) not apply to a specified joint resolution of disapproval 
(not affecting the D.C. Criminal Code) and instead provided for its 
separate consideration by special order of business (Apr. 30, 2015, p. 
_). Under section 604(h), debate on a concurrent (now joint) resolution 
of disapproval can be limited by motion, but otherwise extends not to 
exceed 10 hours; a concurrent (now joint) resolution disapproving an 
action of the D.C. Council that does not affect the U.S. Treasury is 
considered in the House (Dec. 20, 1979, p. 37303).
                                                           Sec. 1130(6A)




 6. Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
                                  1974

             a. impoundment control, Sec. Sec. 1011-13, 1017

                         [2 U.S.C. 682-84, 688]

                               definitions

  Sec. 1011. For purposes of this part--
          (1) ``deferral of budget authority'' includes--
                  (A) withholding or delaying the obligation or 
                expenditure of budget authority (whether by establishing 
                reserves or otherwise) provided for projects or 
                activities; or
                  (B) any other type of Executive action or inaction 
                which effectively precludes the obligation or 
                expenditure of budget authority, including authority to 
                obligate by contract in advance of appropriations as 
                specifically authorized by law;
          (2) ``Comptroller General'' means the Comptroller General of 
        the United States;
          (3) ``rescission bill'' means a bill or joint resolution which 
        only rescinds, in whole or in part, budget authority proposed to 
        be rescinded in a special message transmitted by the President 
        under section 1012, and upon which the Congress completes action 
        before the end of the first period of 45 calendar days of 
        continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the 
        President's message is received by the Congress;
          (4) ``impoundment resolution'' means a resolution of the House 
        of Representatives or the Senate which only expresses its 
        disapproval of a proposed deferral of budget authority set forth 
        in a special message transmitted by the President under section 
        1013; and

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          (5) continuity of a session of the Congress shall be 
        considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine 
        die, and the days on which either House is not in session 
        because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain 
        shall be excluded in the computation of the 45-day period 
        referred to in paragraph (3) of this section and in section 
        1012, and the 25-day periods referred to in sections 1016 and 
        1017(b)(1). If a special message is transmitted under section 
        1012 during any Congress and the last session of such Congress 
        adjourns sine die before the expiration of 45 calendar days of 
        continuous session (or a special message is so transmitted after 
        the last session of the Congress adjourns sine die), the message 
        shall be deemed to have been retransmitted on the first day of 
        the succeeding Congress and the 45-day period referred to in 
        paragraph (3) of this section and in section 1012 (with respect 
        to such message) shall commence on the day after such first day.

                     rescission of budget authority

  Sec. 1012. (a) transmittal of special message.--Whenever the President 
determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required 
to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is 
provided or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal 
policy or other reasons (including the termination of authorized 
projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), or 
whenever all or part of budget authority provided for only one fiscal 
year is to be reserved from obligation for such fiscal year, the 
President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message 
specifying--
          (1) the amount of budget authority which he proposes to be 
        rescinded or which is to be so reserved;
          (2) any account, department, or establishment of the 
        Government to which such budget authority is available for 
        obligation, and the specific project or governmental functions 
        involved;
          (3) the reasons why the budget authority should be rescinded 
        or is to be so reserved;
          (4) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, 
        economic, and budgetary effect of the proposed rescission or of 
        the reservation; and

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          (5) all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to 
        or bearing upon the proposed rescission or the reservation and 
        the decision to effect the proposed rescission or the 
        reservation, and to the maximum extent practicable, the 
        estimated effect of the proposed rescission or the reservation 
        upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget 
        authority is provided.
  (b) requirement to make available for obligation.--Any amount of 
budget authority proposed to be rescinded or that is to be reserved as 
set forth in such special message shall be made available for obligation 
unless, within the prescribed 45-day period, the Congress has completed 
action on a rescission bill rescinding all or part of the amount 
proposed to be rescinded or that is to be reserved. Funds made available 
for obligation under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission 
again.

                 proposed deferrals of budget authority

  Sec. 1013. (a) transmittal of special message.--Whenever the 
President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head 
of any department or agency of the United States, or any officer or 
employee of the United States proposes to defer any budget authority 
provided for a specific purpose or project, the President shall transmit 
to the House of Representatives and the Senate a special message 
specifying--
          (1) The amount of the budget authority proposed to be 
        deferred;
          (2) any account, department, or establishment of the 
        Government to which such budget authority is available for 
        obligation, and the specific projects or governmental functions 
        involved;
          (3) the period of time during which the budget authority is 
        proposed to be deferred;
          (4) the reasons for the proposed deferral, including any legal 
        authority invoked to justify the proposed deferral;
          (5) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, 
        economic, and budgetary effect of the proposed deferral; and
          (6) all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to 
        or bearing upon the proposed deferral and the decision to effect 
        the proposed deferral, including an analysis of such facts, 
        circumstances, and consider

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        ations in terms of their application to any legal authority, 
        including specific elements of legal authority, invoked to 
        justify such proposed deferral, and to the maximum extent 
        practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed deferral upon 
        the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget 
        authority is provided.
A special message may include one or more proposed deferrals of budget 
authority. A deferral may not be proposed for any period of time 
extending beyond the end of the fiscal year in which the special message 
proposing the deferral is transmitted to the House and the Senate.
  (b) consistency with legislative policy.--Deferrals shall be 
permissible only--
          (1) to provide for contingencies;
          (2) to achieve savings made possible by or through changes in 
        requirements or greater efficiency of operations; or
          (3) as specifically provided by law.
No officer or employee of the United States may defer any budget 
authority for any other purpose.
  (c) exception.--The provisions of this section do not apply to any 
budget authority proposed to be rescinded or that is to be reserved as 
set forth in a special message required to be transmitted under section 
1012.

                                  * * *

                      procedure in house and senate

  Sec. 1017. (a) referral.--Any rescission bill introduced with respect 
to a special message or impoundment resolution introduced with respect 
to a proposed deferral of budget authority shall be referred to the 
appropriate committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as 
the case may be.
  (b) discharge of committee.--(1) If the committee of which a 
rescission bill or impoundment resolution has been referred has not 
reported it at the end of 25 calendar days of continuous session of the 
Congress after its introduction, it is in order to move either to 
discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill or 
resolution or to discharge the committee from further consideration of 
any other rescission bill with respect to the same special message or 
impoundment resolution with respect to the same proposed deferral, as 
the case may be, which has been referred to the committee.

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  (2) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring 
the bill or resolution, may be made only if supported by one-fifth of 
the Members of the House involved (a quorum being present), and is 
highly privileged in the House and privileged in the Senate (except that 
it may not be made after the committee has reported a bill or resolution 
with respect to the same special message or the same proposed deferral, 
as the case may be); and debate thereon shall be limited to not more 
than 1 hour, the time to be divided in the House equally between those 
favoring and those opposing the bill or resolution, and to be divided in 
the Senate equally between, and controlled by, the majority leader and 
the minority leader or their designees. An amendment to the motion is 
not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (c) floor consideration in the house.--(1) When the committee of the 
House of Representatives has reported, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, 
it shall at any time thereafter be in order (even though a previous 
motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to 
the consideration of the bill or resolution. The motion shall be highly 
privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which 
the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (2) Debate on a rescission bill or impoundment resolution shall be 
limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally between 
those favoring and those opposing the bill or resolution. A motion 
further to limit debate shall not be debatable. In the case of an 
impoundment resolution, no amendment to, or motion to recommit, the 
resolution shall be in order. It shall not be in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which a rescission bill or impoundment resolution 
is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (3) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the consideration of a 
rescission bill or impoundment resolution, and motions to proceed to the 
consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.
  (4) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
procedure relating to any rescission bill or impoundment resolution 
shall be decided without debate.
  (5) Except to the extent specifically provided in the preceding 
provisions of this subsection, consideration of any

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rescission bill or impoundment resolution and amendments thereto (or any 
conference report thereon) shall be governed by the Rules of the House 
of Representatives applicable to other bills and resolutions, 
amendments, and conference reports in similar circumstances.
  (d) floor consideration in the senate.--(1) Debate in the Senate on 
any rescission bill or impoundment resolution, and all amendments 
thereto (in the case of a rescission bill) and debatable motions and 
appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 
hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, the 
majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.
  (2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a rescission bill shall 
be limited to 2 hours, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, 
the mover and the manager of the bill. Debate on any amendment to an 
amendment, to such a bill, and debate on any debatable motion or appeal 
in connection with such a bill or an impoundment resolution shall be 
limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the 
mover and the manager of the bill or resolution, except that in the 
event the manager of the bill or resolution is in favor of any such 
amendment, motion, or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall be 
controlled by the minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is 
not germane to the provisions of a rescission bill shall be received. 
Such leaders, or either of them, may, from the time under their control 
on the passage of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, allot 
additional time to any Senator during the consideration of any 
amendment, debatable motion, or appeal.
  (3) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. In the case of 
a rescission bill, a motion to recommit (except a motion to recommit 
with instructions to report back within a specified number of days, not 
to exceed 3, not counting any day on which the Senate is not in session) 
is not in order. Debate on any such motion to recommit shall be limited 
to one hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover 
and the manager of the concurrent resolution. In the case of an 
impoundment resolution, no amendment or motion to recommit is in order.
  (4) The conference report on any rescission bill shall be in order in 
the Senate at any time after the third day (excluding Saturdays, 
Sundays, and legal holidays) following the day on which such a 
conference report is reported and

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is available to Members of the Senate. A motion to proceed to the 
consideration of the conference report may be made even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to.
  (5) During the consideration in the Senate of the conference report on 
any rescission bill, debate shall be limited to 2 hours, to be equally 
divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and minority 
leader or their designees. Debate on any debatable motion or appeal 
related to the conference report shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be 
equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of 
the conference report.
  (6) Should the conference report be defeated, debate on any request 
for a new conference and the appointment of conferees shall be limited 
to one hour, to be equally divided, between, and controlled by, the 
manager of the conference report and the minority leader or his 
designee, and should any motion be made to instruct the conferees before 
the conferees are named, debate on such motion shall be limited to 30 
minutes, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and 
the manager of the conference report. Debate on any amendment to any 
such instructions shall be limited to 20 minutes, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by the mover and the manager of the conference 
report. In all cases when the manager of the conference report is in 
favor of any motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition shall 
be under the control of the minority leader or his designee.
  (7) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement, time on 
each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the 
minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not germane to the 
provisions of such amendments shall be received.

  The privileged status given in section 1017(c)(1) to rescission bills 
within the 45-day period prescribed in section 1011 applies only to the 
initial consideration of the bill in the House, and consideration of a 
conference report on any bill containing rescissions of budget authority 
is subject only to the general rules of the House relating to conference 
reports and is not prevented by the expiration of the 45-day period 
following the initial consideration of the bill in the House (Speaker 
Albert, Mar. 25, 1975, pp. 8484-85).

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                                                           Sec. 1130(6B)

             b. line item veto authority, Sec. Sec. 1021-27

                             [P.L. 104-130]

                        line item veto authority

  In Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998), the Supreme Court 
held that the cancellation procedures of the Line Item Veto Act violated 
the presentment clause of article I, section 7 of the Constitution. 
During the period between the January 1, 1997, effective date of the Act 
and the Court decision, the President exercised his authority under the 
Act to cancel dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority (see 
e.g., H. Doc. 105-147), new direct spending (H. Doc. 105-115), and 
limited tax benefits (H. Doc. 105-116). Cancellations were effective 
unless disapproved by law (P.L. 105-159). The congressional review 
procedures remained in the law until their expiration on January 1, 
2005, but were not invoked following the Court's decision. Accordingly 
their text is omitted here but may be found in pp. 1029-45 of the House 
Rules and Manual for the 105th Congress. The procedures may be 
summarized as follows: The cancellations were transmitted to the 
Congress by the President by a special message within five calendar days 
after the enactment of the law to which the cancellation applied. The 
Act provided for a congressional review period of 30 calendar days of 
session with expedited House consideration of bills disapproving the 
cancellations including: (1) prescribing the text (section 1026(6)); (2) 
referral to committee with directions to report within seven calendar 
days subject to a motion to discharge (section 1025(d)); (3) 
consideration of a disapproval bill in the Committee of the Whole with 
no amendment in order (except that a Member, supported by 49 other 
Members, could offer an amendment striking cancellations from the bill), 
and consideration of the bill for amendment limited to one hour (section 
1025(d)); and (4) one-calendar-day availability for a conference report 
(section 1025(f)). The Act also provided for expedited procedures in the 
Senate.
                                                            Sec. 1130(7)




    7. Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel [Department of Energy Act of 1978--
           Civilian Applications, Sec. 107 (22 U.S.C. 3224a)]

  Sec. 107. * * * Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, that none of the funds made available to the Secretary of Energy 
under any other authorization or appropriation Act shall be used, 
directly or indirectly, for the repurchase, transportation or storage of 
any foreign spent nuclear fuel (including any nuclear fuel irradiated in 
any nuclear power reactor located outside of the United States and 
operated by any foreign legal entity,

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government or nongovernment, regardless of the legal ownership or 
control of the fuel or the reactor, and regardless of the origin or 
licensing of the fuel or the reactor, but not including fuel irradiated 
in a research reactor, and not including fuel irradiated in a power 
reactor if the President determines that (1) use of funds for 
repurchase, transportation or storage of such fuel is required by an 
emergency situation, (2) it is in the interest of the common defense and 
security of the United States to take such action, and (3) he notifies 
the Congress of the determination and action, with a detailed 
explanation and justification thereof, as soon as possible) unless the 
President formally notifies, with the report information specified 
herein, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and 
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of 
Representatives of such use of funds thirty calendar days, during such 
time as either House of Congress is in session, before the commitment, 
expenditure, or obligation of such funds: And provided further, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, that none of the funds 
appropriated pursuant to this Act or any other funds made available to 
the Secretary of Energy under any other authorization or appropriation 
Act shall be used, directly or indirectly, for the repurchase, 
transportation, or storage of any such foreign spent nuclear fuel for 
storage or other disposition, interim or permanent, in the United 
States, unless the use of the funds for that specific purpose has been 
(1) previously and expressly authorized by Congress in legislation 
hereafter enacted, (2) previously and expressly authorized by a 
concurrent resolution, or (3) the President submits a plan for such use, 
with the report information specified herein, thirty days during which 
the Congress is in continuous session, as defined in the Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974, prior to such use and neither House of Congress 
approves a resolution of disapproval of the plan prior to the expiration 
of the aforementioned thirty-day period. If such a resolution of 
disapproval has been introduced, but has not been reported by the 
Committee on or before the twentieth day after transmission of the 
presidential message, a privileged motion shall be in order in the 
respective body to discharge the Committee from further consideration of 
the resolution and to provide for its immediate consideration, using the 
procedures specified for consideration of an impoundment resolution in 
section 1017 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 688).


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  This provision should be read in light of INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 
(1983).
                                                            Sec. 1130(8)




         8. Pension Reform Act, Sec. 4006(b) [29 U.S.C. 1306(b)]

  Sec. 4006. revised schedule; congressional procedures applicable-- * * 
* (b)(1) In order to place a revised schedule (other than a schedule 
described in subsection (a)(2) (C), (D), or (E) of this section) in 
effect, the corporation shall transmit the proposed schedule, its 
proposed effective date, and the reasons for its proposal to the 
Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of 
the House of Representatives, and to the Committee on Finance and the 
Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.
  (2) The succeeding paragraphs of this subsection are enacted by 
Congress as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be deemed 
a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only 
with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case 
of resolutions described in paragraph (3). They shall supersede other 
rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith. They are 
enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of either 
House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that 
House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the 
case of any rule of that House.
  (3) For the purpose of the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection, 
``resolution'' means only a joint resolution, the matter after the 
resolving clause of which is as follows: ``The proposed revised schedule 
transmitted to Congress by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on 
___ is hereby approved.'', the blank space therein being filled with the 
date on which the corporation's message proposing the rate was 
delivered.
  (4) A resolution shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives 
and to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Labor and Human 
Resources of the Senate.
  (5) If a committee to which has been referred a resolution has not 
reported it before the expiration of 10 calendar days after its 
introduction, it shall then (but not before) be in order to move to 
discharge the committee from

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further consideration of that resolution, or to discharge the committee 
from further consideration of any other resolution with respect to the 
proposed adjustment which has been referred to the committee. The motion 
to discharge may be made only by a person favoring the resolution, shall 
be highly privileged (except that it may not be made after the committee 
has reported a resolution with respect to the same proposed rate), and 
debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be divided 
equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. An 
amendment to the motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move 
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may 
not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be 
made with respect to any other resolution with respect to the same 
proposed rate.
  (6) When a committee has reported, or has been discharged from further 
consideration of a resolution, it is at any time thereafter in order 
(even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) 
to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is 
highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the motion is 
not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. Debate on the resolution 
shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided 
equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A 
motion further to limit debate is not debatable. An amendment to, or 
motion to recommit, the resolution is not in order, and it is not in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed 
to or disagreed to.
  (7) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from 
committee, or the consideration of, a resolution and motions to proceed 
to the consideration of other business shall be decided without debate. 
Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of 
the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may 
be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without 
debate.

  By unanimous consent a concurrent resolution approving a revised 
coverage schedule proposed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 
was considered ``in the House as in Committee of the Whole'' (Nov. 2, 
1977, pp. 36644-46).

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                                                            Sec. 1130(9)




  9. Multiemployer Guarantees, Revised Schedules [Employee Retirement 
       Income Security Act of 1974, Sec. 4022A (29 U.S.C. 1322a)]

                 multiemployer plan benefits guaranteed

  Sec. 4022A. * * * (f)(1) No later than 5 years after September 26, 
1980, and at least every fifth year thereafter, the corporation shall--
          (A) conduct a study to determine--
                  (i) the premiums needed to maintain the basic-benefit 
                guarantee levels for multiemployer plans described in 
                subsection (c), and
                  (ii) whether the basic-benefit guarantee levels for 
                multiemployer plans may be increased without increasing 
                the basic-benefit premiums for multiemployer plans under 
                this title; and
          (B) report such determinations to the Committee on Ways and 
        Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of 
        Representatives and to the Committee on Finance and the 
        Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.
  (2)(A) If the last report described in paragraph (1) indicates that a 
premium increase is necessary to support the existing basic-benefit 
guarantee levels for multiemployer plans, the corporation shall transmit 
to the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and 
Labor of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Finance 
and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate by March 31 
of any calendar year in which congressional action under this subsection 
is requested--
          (i) a revised schedule of basic-benefit guarantees for 
        multiemployer plans which would be necessary in the absence of 
        an increase in premiums approved in accordance with section 
        4006(b) [29 U.S.C. 1306(b)],
          (ii) a revised schedule of basic-benefit premiums for 
        multiemployer plans which is necessary to support the existing 
        basic-benefit guarantees for such plans, and
          (iii) a revised schedule of basic-benefit guarantees for 
        multiemployer plans for which the schedule of premiums necessary 
        is higher than the existing premium schedule for such plans but 
        lower than the revised

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        schedule of premiums for such plans specified in clause (ii), 
        together with such schedule of premiums.
  (B) The revised schedule of increased premiums referred to in 
subparagraph (A)(ii) or (A)(iii) shall go into effect as approved by the 
enactment of a joint resolution.
  (C) If an increase in premiums is not so enacted, the revised 
guarantee schedule described in subparagraph (A)(i) shall go into effect 
on the first day of the second calendar year following the year in which 
such revised guarantee schedule was submitted to the Congress.
  (3)(A) If the last report described in paragraph (1) indicates that 
basic-benefit guarantees for multiemployer plans can be increased 
without increasing the basic-benefit premiums for multiemployer plans 
under this title, the corporation shall submit to the Committee on Ways 
and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of 
Representatives and to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on 
Labor and Human Resources of the Senate by March 31 of the calendar year 
in which congressional action under this paragraph is requested--
          (i) a revised schedule of increases in the basic-benefit 
        guarantees which can be supported by the existing schedule of 
        basic-benefit premiums for multiemployer plans, and
          (ii) a revised schedule of basic-benefit premiums sufficient 
        to support the existing basic-benefit guarantees.
  (B) The revised schedules referred to in subparagraph (A)(i) or 
subparagraph (A)(ii) shall go into effect as approved by the Congress by 
the enactment of a joint resolution.
  (4)(A) The succeeding subparagraphs of this paragraph are enacted by 
the Congress as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be 
deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable 
only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the 
case of joint resolutions (as defined in subparagraph (B)). Such 
subparagraphs shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they 
are inconsistent therewith. They are enacted with full recognition of 
the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same 
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any rule of that House.

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  (B) For purposes of this subsection, ``joint resolution'' means only a 
joint resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
follows: ``The proposed schedule described in ___ transmitted to the 
Congress by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on ___ is hereby 
approved.'', the first blank space therein being filled with ``section 
4022A(f)(2)(A)(ii) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 
1974'', ``section 4022A(f)(2)(A)(iii) of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974'', ``section 4022A(f)(3)(A)(i) of the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974'', or ``section 
4022A(f)(3)(A)(ii) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 
1974'' (whichever is applicable), and the second blank space therein 
being filled with the date on which the corporation's message proposing 
the revision was submitted.
  (C) The procedure for disposition of a joint resolution shall be the 
procedure described in section 4006(b)(4) through (7) [29 U.S.C. 
1306(b)(4)-(7)]. * * *
  (g)(4)(A) No revised schedule of premiums under this subsection, after 
the initial schedule, shall go into effect unless--
          (i) the revised schedule is submitted to the Congress, and
          (ii) a joint resolution described in subparagraph (B) is not 
        adopted before the close of the 60th legislative day after such 
        schedule is submitted to the Congress.
  (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), a joint resolution described in 
this subparagraph is a joint resolution the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ``The revised premium schedule 
transmitted to the Congress by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 
under section 4022A(g)(4) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974 on ___ is hereby disapproved.'', the blank space therein being 
filled with the date on which the revised schedule was submitted.
  (C) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term ``legislative day'' 
means any calendar day other than a day on which either House is not in 
session because of a sine die adjournment or an adjournment of more than 
3 days to a day certain.
  (D) The procedure for disposition of a joint resolution described in 
subparagraph (B) shall be the procedure described in paragraphs (4) 
through (7) of section 4006(b) [29 U.S.C. 1306(b)(4)-(7)].

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                                                           Sec. 1130(10)




10. Atomic Energy Act Provisions on Nuclear Non-Proliferation [42 U.S.C 
                                2153-60]

                     cooperation with other nations

                            [42 U.S.C. 2153]

  Sec. 123. cooperation with other nations.--
  No cooperation with any nation, group of nations or regional defense 
organization pursuant to section 53, 54a., 57, 64, 82, 91, 103, 104, or 
144 [42 U.S.C. 2073, 2074(a), 2077, 2094, 2112, 2121, 2133, 2134, or 
2164] shall be undertaken until--
  a. the proposed agreement for cooperation has been submitted to the 
President, which proposed agreement shall include the terms, conditions, 
duration, nature, and scope of the cooperation; and shall include the 
following requirements: * * *
  b. the President has submitted text of the proposed agreement for 
cooperation (except an agreement arranged pursuant to subsection 91c., 
144b., 144c., or 144d. [42 U.S.C. 2121(c), 2164(b), 2164(c), or 
2164(d)], together with the accompanying unclassified Nuclear 
Proliferation Assessment Statement, to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives, the President has consulted with such 
Committees for a period of not less than thirty days of continuous 
session (as defined in section 130 [42 U.S.C. 2159]) concerning the 
consistency of the terms of the proposed agreement with all the 
requirements of this chapter, and the President has approved and 
authorized the execution of the proposed agreement for cooperation and 
has made a determination in writing that the performance of the proposed 
agreement will promote, and will not constitute an unreasonable risk to, 
the common defense and security;
  c. the proposed agreement for cooperation (if not an agreement subject 
to subsection d.), together with the approval and determination of the 
President, has been submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate for a period of thirty days of continuous session (as defined in 
subsection 130g. [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]): Provided, however, That these 
committees, after having received such agreement for cooperation, may by

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resolution in writing waive the conditions of all or any portion of such 
thirty-day period; and
  d. the proposed agreement for cooperation (if arranged pursuant to 
subsection 91c., 144b., 144c., or 144d. [42 U.S.C. 2121(c), 2164(b), 
2164(c), or 2164(d)], or if entailing implementation of section 53, 
54a., 103, or 104 [42 U.S.C. 2073, 2074(a), 2133, or 2134] in relation 
to a reactor that may be capable of producing more than five thermal 
megawatts or special nuclear material for use in connection therewith) 
has been submitted to the Congress, together with the approval and 
determination of the President, for a period of sixty days of continuous 
session (as defined in subsection 130g. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]) 
and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 
and in addition, in the case of a proposed agreement for cooperation 
arranged pursuant to subsection 91c., 144b., 144c., or 144d. [42 U.S.C. 
2121(c), 2164(b), 2164(c), or 2164(d)], the Committee on Armed Services 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of 
the Senate, but such proposed agreement for cooperation shall not become 
effective if during such sixty-day period the Congress adopts and there 
is enacted, a joint resolution stating in substance that the Congress 
does not favor the proposed agreement for cooperation: Provided, That 
the sixty-day period shall not begin until a Nuclear Proliferation 
Assessment Statement prepared by the Secretary of State, and any annexes 
thereto, when required by subsection a., have been submitted to the 
Congress. Provided further, That an agreement for cooperation exempted 
by the President pursuant to subsection (a) of this section from any 
requirement contained in that subsection or an agreement exempted 
pursuant to section 104(a)(1) of the Henry J. Hyde United States-India 
Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006, shall not become 
effective unless the Congress adopts, and there is enacted, a joint 
resolution stating that the Congress does favor such agreement. During 
the sixty-day period the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
shall each hold hearings on the proposed agreement for cooperation and 
submit a report to their respective bodies recommending whether it 
should be approved or disapproved. Any such proposed agreement for 
cooperation shall be considered pursuant to the proce

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dures set forth in section 130i. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159(i)].
  Following submission of a proposed agreement for co-operation (except 
an agreement for cooperation arranged pursuant to subsection 91c., 
144b., 144c., or 144d. [42 U.S.C. 2121(c), 2164(b), 2164(c), or 
2164(d)]) to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of State, the 
Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense shall, upon the 
request of either of those committees, promptly furnish to those 
committees their views as to whether the safeguards and other controls 
contained therein provide an adequate framework to ensure that any 
exports as contemplated by such agreement will not be inimical to or 
constitute an unreasonable risk to the common defense and security.
  If, after March 10, 1978, the Congress fails to disapprove a proposed 
agreement for cooperation which exempts the recipient nation from the 
requirement set forth in subsection a.(2), such failure to act shall 
constitute a failure to adopt a resolution of disapproval pursuant to 
subsection 128b.(3) [42 U.S.C. 2157(b)(3)] for purposes of the 
Commission's consideration of applications and requests under section 
126a.(2) [42 U.S.C. 2155(a)(2)] and there shall be no congressional 
review pursuant to section 128 [42 U.S.C. 2157] of any subsequent 
license or authorization with respect to that until the first such 
license or authorization which is issued after twelve months from the 
elapse of the sixty-day period in which the agreement for cooperation in 
question is reviewed by the Congress.

  The authority of the President to exempt certain agreements with India 
under the Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy 
Cooperation Act of 2006 (sec. 104(f), P.L. 109-401) terminated upon 
enactment of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and 
Nonproliferation Enhancement Act (sec. 101(c), P.L. 110-369).

                       export licensing procedures

                            [42 U.S.C. 2155]

  Sec. 126. export licensing procedures.--
  a. No license may be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the 
``Commission'') for the export of any production or utilization 
facility, or any source material or special nuclear material, including 
distributions of any

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material by the Department of Energy under sections 54, 64, or 82 [42 
U.S.C. 2074, 2094, 2112], for which a license is required or requested, 
and no exemption from any requirement for such an export license may be 
granted by the Commission, as the case may be, until-- * * *

  Provided, That continued cooperation under an agreement for 
cooperation as authorized in accordance with section 124 of this Act [42 
U.S.C. 2154] shall not be prevented by failure to meet the provisions of 
paragraph (4) or (5) of section 127 [42 U.S.C. 2156(4) or (5)] for a 
period of thirty days after March 10, 1978, and for a period of twenty-
three months thereafter if the Secretary of State notifies the 
Commission that the nation or group of nations bound by the relevant 
agreement has agreed to negotiations as called for in section 404(a) of 
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 [42 U.S.C. 2153c(a)]; however, 
nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to relinquish any rights 
which the United States may have under agreements for cooperation in 
force on the date of enactment of this section: Provided further, That 
if, upon the expiration of such twenty-month period, the President 
determines that failure to continue cooperation with any group of 
nations which has been exempted pursuant to the above proviso from the 
provisions of paragraph (4) or (5) of section 127 of this Act [42 U.S.C. 
2156(4) or (5)], but which has not yet agreed to comply with those 
provisions would be seriously prejudicial to the achievement of United 
States non-proliferation objectives or otherwise jeopardize the common 
defense and security, he may, after notifying the Congress of his 
determination, extend by Executive order the duration of the above 
proviso for a period of twelve months, and may further extend the 
duration of such proviso by one year increments annually thereafter if 
he again makes such determination and so notifies the Congress. In the 
event that the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives or the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
reports a joint resolution to take any action with respect to any such 
extension, such joint resolution will be considered in the House or 
Senate, as the case may be, under procedures identical to those provided 
for the consideration of resolutions pursuant to section 130 of this Act 
[42 U.S.C. 2159]: * * *

  b. * * * (2) * * * If, after receiving the proposed license 
application and reviewing the Commission's decision, the

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President determines that withholding the proposed export would be 
seriously prejudicial to the achievement of United States non-
proliferation objectives, or would otherwise jeopardize the common 
defense and security, the proposed export may be authorized by Executive 
order: Provided, That prior to any such export, the President shall 
submit the Executive order, together with his explanation of why, in 
light of the Commission's decision, the export should nonetheless be 
made, to the Congress for a period of sixty days of continuous session 
(as defined in subsection 130g. [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]) and shall be 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 
but any such proposed export shall not occur if during such sixty-day 
period the Congress adopts a concurrent resolution stating in substance 
that it does not favor the proposed export. Any such Executive order 
shall be considered pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 130 
of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159] for the consideration of Presidential 
submissions: * * *

  c. In the event that the House of Representatives or the Senate passes 
a joint resolution which would adopt one or more additional export 
criteria, or would modify any existing criteria under this Act, any such 
joint resolution shall be referred in the other House to the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate or the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and shall be 
considered by the other House under applicable procedures provided for 
the consideration of resolutions pursuant to section 130 of this Act [42 
U.S.C. 2159].

  Subsection b.(2) should be read in light of INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 
919 (1983).

               additional export criterion and procedures

                            [42 U.S.C. 2157]

  Sec. 128. additional export criterion and procedures.-- * * * b. * * * 
(1) * * * Provided, That no such export of any production or utilization 
facility or of any source or special nuclear material (intended for use 
as fuel in any production or utilization facility) which has been 
licensed or authorized pursuant to this subsection shall be made to any 
non-nuclear-weapon state which has failed to meet such criterion until 
the first such license or author

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ization with respect to such state is submitted to the Congress 
(together with a detailed assessment of the reasons underlying the 
President's determination, the judgment of the executive branch required 
under section 126 of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2155], and any Commission 
opinion and views) for a period of sixty days of continuous session (as 
defined in subsection 130g. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]) and 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 
but such export shall not occur if during such sixty-day period the 
Congress adopts a concurrent resolution stating in substance that the 
Congress does not favor the proposed export. Any such license or 
authorization shall be considered pursuant to the procedures set forth 
in section 130 of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159] for the consideration of 
Presidential submissions.
  (2) If the Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval pursuant to 
paragraph (1), no further export of materials, facilities, or technology 
specified in subsection a. shall be permitted for the remainder of that 
Congress, unless such state meets the criterion or the President 
notifies the Congress that he has determined that significant progress 
has been made in achieving adherence to such criterion by such state or 
that United States foreign policy interests dictate reconsideration and 
the Congress, pursuant to the procedure of paragraph (1), does not adopt 
a concurrent resolution stating in substance that it disagrees with the 
President's determination.
  (3) If the Congress does not adopt a resolution of disapproval with 
respect to a license or authorization submitted pursuant to paragraph 
(1), the criterion set forth in subsection a. shall not be applied as an 
export criterion with respect to exports of materials, facilities and 
technology specified in subsection a. to that state: Provided, That the 
first license or authorization with respect to that state which is 
issued pursuant to this paragraph after twelve months from the elapse of 
the sixty-day period specified in paragraph (1), and the first such 
license or authorization which is issued after each twelve-month period 
thereafter, shall be submitted to the Congress for review pursuant to 
the procedures specified in paragraph (1): Provided further, That if the 
Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval during any review period 
provided for by this paragraph, the provisions of paragraph (2) shall 
apply with respect to further exports to such state.


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  This provision should be read in light of INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 
(1983).

           conduct resulting in termination of nuclear exports

                            [42 U.S.C. 2158]

  Sec. 129. conduct resulting in termination of nuclear exports.--(a) No 
nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology shall be 
exported to--
          (1) any non-nuclear-weapon state that is found by the 
        President to have, at any time after March 10, 1978,

                                  * * *

unless the President determines that cessation of such exports would be 
seriously prejudicial to the achievement of United States non-
proliferation objectives or otherwise jeopardize the common defense and 
security: Provided, That prior to the effective date of any such 
determination, the President's determination, together with a report 
containing the reasons for his determination, shall be submitted to the 
Congress and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
for a period of sixty days of continuous session (as defined in 
subsection 130g. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]), but any such 
determination shall not become effective if during such sixty-day period 
the Congress adopts, and there is enacted, a joint resolution stating in 
substance that it does not favor the determination. Any such 
determination shall be considered pursuant to the procedures set forth 
in section 130 of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159] for the consideration of 
Presidential submissions.

                     congressional review procedures

                            [42 U.S.C. 2159]

  Sec. 130. congressional review procedures.--
  a. Not later than forty-five days of continuous session of Congress 
after the date of transmittal to the Congress of any submission of the 
President required by subsection 126a.(2), 126b.(2), 127b., 129, 
131a.(3), or 131f.(1)(A) of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2155(a)(2), 2155(b)(2), 
2157(b), 2158, 2160(a)(3), or 2160(f)(1)(A)], the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Af

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fairs of the House of Representatives, shall each submit a report to its 
respective House on its views and recommendations respecting such 
Presidential submission together with a resolution, as defined in 
subsection f., stating in substance that the Congress approves or 
disapproves such submission, as the case may be: Provided, That if any 
such committee has not reported such a resolution at the end of such 
forty-five day period, such committee shall be deemed to be discharged 
from further consideration of such submission. If no such resolution has 
been reported at the end of such period, the first resolution, as 
defined in subsection f., which is introduced within five days 
thereafter within such House shall be placed on the appropriate calendar 
of such House.
  b. When the relevant committee or committees have reported such a 
resolution (or have been discharged from further consideration of such a 
resolution pursuant to subsection a. of this section) or when a 
resolution has been introduced and placed on the appropriate calendar 
pursuant to subsection a. of this section, as the case may be, it is at 
any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same 
effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective House to 
move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is 
highly privileged and is not debatable. The motion shall not be subject 
to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to 
the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If 
a motion to proceed to the consideration of the resolution is agreed to, 
the resolution shall remain the unfinished business of the respective 
House until disposed of.
  c. Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals 
in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than ten hours, 
which shall be divided equally between individuals favoring and 
individuals opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is 
in order and not debatable. An amendment to a motion to postpone, or a 
motion to recommit the resolution, or a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of other business is not in order. A motion to reconsider 
the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to shall not 
be in order. No amendment to any concurrent resolution pursuant to the 
procedures of this section is in order except as provided in subsection 
d. of this section.

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  d. Immediately following (1) the conclusion of the debate on such 
concurrent resolution, (2) a single quorum call at the conclusion of 
debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the appropriate 
House, and (3) the consideration of an amendment introduced by the 
Majority Leader or his designee to insert the phrase, ``does not'' in 
lieu of the word ``does'' if the resolution under consideration is a 
concurrent resolution of approval, the vote on final approval of the 
resolution shall occur.
  e. Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application 
of the rules of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the 
case may be, to the procedure relating to such a resolution shall be 
decided without debate.
  f. For the purposes of subsections a. through e. of this section, the 
term ``resolution'' means a concurrent resolution of the Congress, the 
matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the 
Congress (does or does not) favor the ___ transmitted to the Congress by 
the President on ___.'', the blank spaces therein to be appropriately 
filled, and the affirmative or negative phrase within the parenthetical 
to be appropriately selected.
  g. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for the purposes of this 
section--
          (A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
        Congress sine die; and
          (B) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of any period of time in which 
        Congress is in continuous session.
  (2) For purposes of this section insofar as it applies to section 123 
[42 U.S.C. 2153]--
          (A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
        Congress sine die at the end of a Congress; and
          (B) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than three days are excluded in the 
        computation of any period of time in which Congress is in 
        continuous session.
  h. This section is enacted by Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that

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        House in the case of resolutions described by subsection f. of 
        this section; and they supersede other rules only to the extent 
        that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
  i. (1) For the purposes of this subsection, the term ``joint 
resolution'' means--
          (A) for an agreement for cooperation pursuant to section 123 
        of this Act, a joint resolution, the matter after the resolving 
        clause of which is as follows: ``That the Congress (does or does 
        not) favor the proposed agreement for cooperation transmitted to 
        the Congress by the President on ___.'',
          (B) for a determination under section 129 of this Act, a joint 
        resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
        follows: ``That the Congress does not favor the determination 
        transmitted to the Congress by the President on ___.'', or
          (C) for a subsequent arrangement under section 201 of the 
        United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and 
        Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, a joint resolution, the matter 
        after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the 
        Congress does not favor the subsequent arrangement to the 
        Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United 
        States of America and the Government of India Concerning 
        Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy that was transmitted to Congress 
        by the President on September 10, 2008.'',
  with the date of the transmission of the proposed agreement for 
cooperation inserted in the blank, and the affirmative or negative 
phrase within the parenthetical appropriately selected.
  (2) On the day on which a proposed agreement for cooperation is 
submitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate under section 
123d. [42 U.S.C. 2153(d)], a joint resolution with respect to such 
agreement for cooperation shall be introduced (by request) in the House 
by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for himself and the 
ranking minority member of the Committee, or by Members of the House 
designated by the chairman and ranking minority member; and shall be in

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troduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the 
Senate, for himself and the minority leader of the Senate, or by Members 
of the Senate designated by the majority leader and minority leader of 
the Senate. If either House is not in session on the day on which such 
an agreement for cooperation is submitted, the joint resolution shall be 
introduced in that House, as provided in the preceding sentence, on the 
first day thereafter on which that House is in session.
  (3) All joint resolutions introduced in the House of Representatives 
shall be referred to the appropriate committee or committees, and all 
joint resolutions introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations and in addition, in the case of a 
proposed agreement for cooperation arranged pursuant to section 91c., 
144b., or 144c. [42 U.S.C. 2121(c), 2164(b), 2164(c)], the Committee on 
Armed Services.
  (4) If the committee of either House to which a joint resolution has 
been referred has not reported it at the end of 45 days after its 
introduction (or in the case of a joint resolution related to a 
subsequent arrangement under section 201 of the United States-India 
Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, 15 
days after its introduction), the committee shall be discharged from 
further consideration of the joint resolution or of any other joint 
resolution introduced with respect to the same matter; except that, in 
the case of a joint resolution which has been referred to more than one 
committee, if before the end of that 45-day period (or in the case of a 
joint resolution related to a subsequent arrangement under section 201 
of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and 
Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, 15-day period) one such committee has 
reported the joint resolution, any other committee to which the joint 
resolution was referred shall be discharged from further consideration 
of the joint resolution or of any other joint resolution introduced with 
respect to the same matter.
  (5) A joint resolution under this subsection shall be considered in 
the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b)(4) of the 
International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976. 
For the purpose of expediting the consideration and passage of joint 
resolutions reported or discharged pursuant to the provisions of this 
subsection, it shall be in order for the Committee on Rules of the House 
of Representatives to present for consideration a resolution of the 
House of Representatives

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providing procedures for the immediate consideration of a joint 
resolution under this subsection which may be similar, if applicable, to 
the procedures set forth in section 601(b)(4) of the International 
Security Assistance and Arms Exports Control Act of 1976.
  (6) In the case of a joint resolution described in paragraph (1), if 
prior to the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that House, 
that House receives a joint resolution with respect to the same matter 
from the other House, then--
          (A) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no 
        joint resolution had been received from the other House; but
          (B) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint resolution 
        of the other House.

                         subsequent arrangements

                            [42 U.S.C. 2160]

  Sec. 131. subsequent arrangements.-- * * *
  f. (1) With regard to any subsequent arrangement under subsection a. 
(2)(E) (for the storage or disposition of irradiated fuel elements), 
where such arrangement involves a direct or indirect commitment of the 
United States for the storage or other disposition, interim or 
permanent, of any foreign spent nuclear fuel in the United States, the 
Secretary of Energy may not enter into any such subsequent arrangement, 
unless:
          (A)(i) Such commitment of the United States has been submitted 
        to the Congress for a period of sixty days of continuous session 
        (as defined in subsection 130g. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159(g)]) 
        and has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
        House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations 
        of the Senate, but any such commitment shall not become 
        effective if during such sixty-day period the Congress adopts a 
        concurrent resolution stating in substance that it does not 
        favor the commitment, any such commitment to be considered 
        pursuant to the procedures set forth in section 130 of this Act 
        [42 U.S.C. 2159] for the consideration of Presidential 
        submissions; or (ii) if the President has submitted a detailed 
        generic plan for such disposition or storage in the United 
        States to the Congress for a period of sixty days of continuous 
        session (as defined in subsection 130g. of this Act [42 U.S.C. 
        2159(g)]),

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        which plan has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
        of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
        Relations of the Senate and has not been disapproved during such 
        sixty-day period by the adoption of a concurrent resolution 
        stating in substance that Congress does not favor the plan; and 
        the commitment is subject to the terms of an effective plan. Any 
        such plan shall be considered pursuant to the procedures set 
        forth in section 130 of this Act [42 U.S.C. 2159] for the 
        consideration of Presidential submissions;

 congressional review and oversight of agreements with iran relating to 
                       the nuclear program of iran

  Sec. 135. congressional review and oversight of agreements with 
iran.--
  (a) transmission to congress of nuclear agreements with iran and 
verification assessment with respect to such agreements.--
          (1) tranmission of agreements.--Not later than 5 calendar days 
        after reaching an agreement with Iran relating to the nuclear 
        program of Iran, the President shall transmit to the appropriate 
        congressional committees and leadership--
                  (A) the agreement, as defined in subsection (h)(1), 
                including all related materials and annexes; * * *

                                  * * *

  (b) period for review by congress of nuclear agreements with iran.--
          (1) in general.--During the 30-calendar day period following 
        transmittal by the President of an agreement pursuant to 
        subsection (a), the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
        and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
        Representatives shall, as appropriate, hold hearings and 
        briefings and otherwise obtain information in order to fully 
        review such agreement.
          (2) exception.--The period for congressional review under 
        paragraph (1) shall be 60 calendar days if an agreement, 
        including all materials required to be transmitted to Congress 
        pursuant to subsection (a)(1), is transmitted pursuant to 
        subsection (a) between July 10, 2015, and September 7, 2015.

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          (3) limitation on actions during intial congressional review 
        period.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as 
        provided in paragraph (6), prior to and during the period for 
        transmission of an agreement in subsection (a)(1) and during the 
        period for congressional review provided in paragraph (1), 
        including any additional period as applicable under the 
        exception provided in paragraph (2), the President may not 
        waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit 
        the application of statutory sanctions with respect to Iran 
        under any provision of law or refrain from applying any such 
        sanctions pursuant to an agreement described in subsection (a).
          (4) limitation on actions during presidential consideration of 
        a joint resolution of disapproval.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, except as provided in paragraph (6), if a 
        joint resolution of disapproval described in subsection 
        (c)(2)(B) passes both Houses of Congress, the President may not 
        waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit 
        the application of statutory sanctions with respect to Iran 
        under any provision of law or refrain from applying any such 
        sanctions pursuant to an agreement described in subsection (a) 
        for a period of 12 calendar days following the date of such 
        passage.
          (5) limitation on actions during congressional reconsideration 
        of a joint resolution of disapproval.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law, except as provided in paragraph (6), if a 
        joint resolution of disapproval described in subsection 
        (c)(2)(B) passes both Houses of Congress, and the President 
        vetoes such joint resolution, the President may not waive, 
        suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the 
        application of statutory sanctions with respect to Iran under 
        any provision of law or refrain from applying any such sanctions 
        pursuant to an agreement described in subsection (a) for a 
        period of 10 calendar days following the date of the President's 
        veto.
          (6) exception.--The prohibitions under paragraphs (3) through 
        (5) do not apply to any new deferral, waiver, or other 
        suspension of statutory sanctions pursuant to the Joint Plan of 
        Action if that deferral, waiver, or other suspension is made--

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                  (A) consistent with the law in effect on the date of 
                the enactment of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act 
                of 2015; and
                  (B) not later than 45 calendar days before the 
                transmission by the President of an agreement, 
                assessment report, and certification under subsection 
                (a).
          (7) definition.--In the House of Representatives, for purposes 
        of this subsection, the terms ``transmittal,'' ``transmitted,'' 
        and ``transmission'' mean transmittal, transmitted, and 
        transmission, respectively, to the Speaker of the House of 
        Representatives.

                                  * * *

  (d) congressional oversight of iranian compliance with nuclear 
agreements.--
          (1) in general.--The President shall keep the appropriate 
        congressional committees and leadership fully and currently 
        informed of all aspects of Iranian compliance with respect to an 
        agreement subject to subsection (a).
          (2) potentially significant breaches and compliance 
        incidents.--The President shall, within 10 calendar days of 
        receiving credible and accurate information relating to a 
        potentially significant breach or compliance incident by Iran 
        with respect to an agreement subject to subsection (a), submit 
        such information to the appropriate congressional committees and 
        leadership.
          (3) material breach report.--Not later than 30 calendar days 
        after submitting information about a potentially significant 
        breach or compliance incident pursuant to paragraph (2), the 
        President shall make a determination whether such potentially 
        significant breach or compliance issue constitutes a material 
        breach and, if there is such a material breach, whether Iran has 
        cured such material breach, and shall submit to the appropriate 
        congressional committees and leadership such determination, 
        accompanied by, as appropriate, a report on the action or 
        failure to act by Iran that led to the material breach, actions 
        necessary for Iran to cure the breach, and the status of Iran's 
        efforts to cure the breach. * * *
          (6) compiance certification.--After the review period provided 
        in subsection (b), the President shall, not less than every 90 
        calendar days--

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                  (A) determine whether the President is able to certify 
                that--
                      (i) Iran is transparently, verifiably, and fully 
                    implementing the agreement, including all related 
                    technical or additional agreements;
                      (ii) Iran has not committed a material breach with 
                    respect to the agreement or, if Iran has committed a 
                    material breach, Iran has cured the material breach;
                      (iii) Iran has not taken any action, including 
                    covert activities, that could significantly advance 
                    its nuclear weapons program; and
                      (iv) suspension of sanctions related to Iran 
                    pursuant to the agreement is--
                  (B) if the President determines he is able to make the 
                certification described in subparagraph (A), make such 
                certification to the appropriate congressional 
                committees and leadership.

                                  * * *

  (e) expedited consideration of legislation.--
          (1) initiation--
                  (A) in general--In the event the President does not 
                submit a certification pursuant to subsection (d)(6) 
                during each 90-day period following the review period 
                provided in subsection (b), or submits a determination 
                pursuant to subsection (d)(3) that Iran has materially 
                breached an agreement subject to subsection (a) and the 
                material breach has not been cured, qualifying 
                legislation introduced within 60 calendar days of such 
                event shall be entitled to expedited consideration 
                pursuant to this subsection.
                  (B) definition--In the House of Representatives, for 
                purposes of this paragraph, the terms ``submit'' and 
                ``submits'' mean submit and submits, respectively, to 
                the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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          (2) qualifying legislation defined--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term ``qualifying legislation'' means only a 
        bill of either House of Congress--
                  (A) the title of which is as follows: ``A bill 
                reinstating statutory sanctions imposed with respect to 
                Iran.''; and
                  (B) the matter after the enacting clause of which is: 
                ``Any statutory sanctions imposed with respect to Iran 
                pursuant to _ that were waived, suspended, reduced, or 
                otherwise relieved pursuant to an agreement submitted 
                pursuant to section 135(a) of the Atomic Energy Act of 
                1954 are hereby reinstated and any action by the United 
                States Government to facilitate the release of funds or 
                assets to Iran pursuant to such agreement, or provide 
                any further waiver, suspension, reduction, or other 
                relief pursuant to such agreement is hereby 
                prohibited.'', with the blank space being filled in with 
                the law or laws under which sanctions are to be 
                reinstated.
          (3) introduction--During the 60-calendar day period provided 
        for in paragraph (1), qualifying legislation may be introduced--
                  (A) in the House of Representatives, by the majority 
                leader or the minority leader; and
                  (B) in the Senate, by the majority leader (or the 
                majority leader's designee) or the minority leader (or 
                the minority leader's designee).
          (4) floor consideration in house of representatives--
                  (A) reporting and discharge--If a committee of the 
                House to which qualifying legislation has been referred 
                has not reported such qualifying legislation within 10 
                legislative days after the date of referral, that 
                committee shall be discharged from further consideration 
                thereof.
                  (B) proceeding to consideration--Beginning on the 
                third legislative day after each committee to which 
                qualifying legislation has been referred reports it to 
                the House or has been discharged from further 
                consideration thereof, it shall be in order to move to 
                proceed to consider the qualifying legislation in the 
                House. All points of order against the motion are 
                waived. Such a motion shall not be in order after the 
                House has disposed of a motion to proceed on the 
                qualifying legisla

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                tion with regard to the same agreement. The previous 
                question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to 
                its adoption without intervening motion. The motion 
                shall not be debatable. A motion to reconsider the vote 
                by which the motion is disposed of shall not be in 
                order.
                  (C) consideration--The qualifying legislation shall be 
                considered as read. All points of order against the 
                qualifying legislation and against its consideration are 
                waived. The previous question shall be considered as 
                ordered on the qualifying legislation to final passage 
                without intervening motion except two hours of debate 
                equally divided and controlled by the sponsor of the 
                qualifying legislation (or a designee) and an opponent. 
                A motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the 
                qualifying legislation shall not be in order. * * *
          (6) rules relating to senate and house of representatives--
                  (A) coordination with action by other house--If, 
                before the passage by one House of qualifying 
                legislation of that House, that House receives 
                qualifying legislation from the other House, then the 
                following procedures shall apply:
                      (i) The qualifying legislation of the other House 
                    shall not be referred to a committee.
                      (ii) With respect to qualifying legislation of the 
                    House receiving the legislation--
                  (B) treatment of a bill of other house--If one House 
                fails to introduce qualifying legislation under this 
                section, the qualifying legislation of the other House 
                shall be entitled to expedited floor procedures under 
                this section.
                  (C) treatment of companion measures--If, following 
                passage of the qualifying legislation in the Senate, the 
                Senate then receives a companion measure from the House 
                of Representatives, the companion measure shall not be 
                debatable.
                  (D) application to revenue measures--The provisions of 
                this paragraph shall not apply in the

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                House of Representatives to qualifying legislation which 
                is a revenue measure.
  (f) rules of house of representatives and senate.--Subsection (e) is 
enacted by Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that House in the case of legislation described in those 
        sections, and supersede other rules only to the extent that they 
        are inconsistent with such rules; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.

                                  * * *

  (h) definitions.--In this section:
          (1) agreement--The term ``agreement'' means an agreement 
        related to the nuclear program of Iran that includes the United 
        States, commits the United States to take action, or pursuant to 
        which the United States commits or otherwise agrees to take 
        action, regardless of the form it takes, whether a political 
        commitment or otherwise, and regardless of whether it is legally 
        binding or not, including any joint comprehensive plan of action 
        entered into or made between Iran and any other parties, and any 
        additional materials related thereto, including annexes, 
        appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, 
        documents, and guidance, technical or other understandings, and 
        any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented 
        prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in 
        the future.
          (2) appropriate congressional committees--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
        Finance, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 
        the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and 
        Means, the Committee on Financial Services, the Permanent Select 
        Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
        of the House of Representatives.

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          (3) appropriate congressional committees and leadership--The 
        term ``appropriate congressional committees and leadership'' 
        means the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Banking, 
        Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Select Committee on 
        Intelligence, and the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the 
        Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate and the Committee on 
        Ways and Means, the Committee on Financial Services, the 
        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs, and the Speaker, Majority Leader, and Minority 
        Leader of the House of Representatives. * * *
          (7) material breach--The term ``material breach'' means, with 
        respect to an agreement described in subsection (a), any breach 
        of the agreement, or in the case of non-binding commitments, any 
        failure to perform those commitments, that substantially--
                  (A) benefits Iran's nuclear program;
                  (B) decreases the amount of time required by Iran to 
                achieve a nuclear weapon; or
                  (C) deviates from or undermines the purposes of such 
                agreement.

                                  * * *

                                                          Sec. 1130(11A)




                          11. Trade Provisions

           a. import relief, Sec. 203 of the trade act of 1974

                            [19 U.S.C. 2253]

  Sec. 203. action by president after determination of import injury.-- 
* * *
  (b) reports to congress.--(1) On the day the President takes action 
under subsection (a)(1), the President shall transmit to Congress a 
document describing the action and the reasons for taking the action. If 
the action taken by the President differs from the action required to be 
recommended by the Commission under section 202(e)(1), the President 
shall state in detail the reasons for the difference.
  (2) On the day on which the President decides that there is no 
appropriate and feasible action to take under subsection (a)(1) with 
respect to a domestic industry, the President shall transmit to Congress 
a document that sets forth in detail the reasons for the decision.

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  (3) On the day on which the President takes any action under 
subsection (a)(1) that is not reported under paragraph (1), the 
President shall transmit to Congress a document setting forth the action 
being taken and the reasons therefor.
  (c) implementation of action recommended by commission.--If the 
President reports under subsection (b)(1) or (2) that--
          (1) the action taken under subsection (a)(1) differs from the 
        action recommended by the Commission under section 202(e)(1); or
          (2) no action will be taken under subsection (a)(1) with 
        respect to the domestic industry;
the action recommended by the Commission shall take effect (as provided 
in subsection (d)(2)) upon the enactment of a joint resolution described 
in section 152(a)(1)(A) within the 90-day period beginning on the date 
on which the document referred to in subsection (b)(1) or (2) is 
transmitted to the Congress.

  In the 107th Congress, the House adopted a special order ``hereby'' 
laying on the table a privileged joint resolution (reported adversely by 
the Committee on Ways and Means) disapproving a steel-tariff action 
taken by the President (H. Res. 414, May 8, 2002, p. 7136).
                                                          Sec. 1130(11B)

       b. freedom of emigration, Sec. 402 of the trade act of 1974

                            [19 U.S.C. 2432]

  Sec. 402. freedom of emigration in east-west trade.-- * * *
  (c)(1) During the 18-month period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President is authorized to waive by Executive 
order the application of subsections (a) and (b) with respect to any 
country, if he reports to the Congress that--
          (A) he has determined that such waiver will substantially 
        promote the objectives of this section; and
          (B) he has received assurances that the emigration practices 
        of that country will henceforth lead substantially to the 
        achievement of the objectives of this section.
  (2) During any period subsequent to the 18-month period referred to in 
paragraph (1), the President is authorized to waive by Executive order 
the application of subsections (a) and (b) with respect to any country, 
if the

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waiver authority granted by this subsection continues to apply to such 
country pursuant to subsection (d), and if he reports to the Congress 
that--
          (A) he has determined that such waiver will substantially 
        promote the objectives of this section; and
          (B) he has received assurances that the emigration practices 
        of that country will henceforth lead substantially to the 
        achievement of the objectives of this section.
  (3) A waiver with respect to any country shall terminate on the day 
after the waiver authority granted by this subsection ceases to be 
effective with respect to such country pursuant to subsection (d). The 
President may, at any time, terminate by Executive order any waiver 
granted under this subsection.
  (d)(1) If the President determines that the further extension of the 
waiver authority granted under subsection (c) will substantially promote 
the objectives of this section, he may recommend further extensions of 
such authority for successive 12-month periods. Any such recommendations 
shall--
          (A) be made not later than 30 days before the expiration of 
        such authority;
          (B) be made in a document transmitted to the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate setting forth his reasons for 
        recommending the extension of such authority; and
          (C) include, for each country with respect to which a waiver 
        granted under subsection (c) is in effect, a determination that 
        continuation of the waiver applicable to that country will 
        substantially promote the objectives of this section, and a 
        statement setting forth his reasons for such determination.
If the President recommends the further extension of such authority, 
such authority shall continue in effect until the end of the 12-month 
period following the end of the previous 12-month extension with respect 
to any country (except for any country with respect to which such 
authority has not been extended under this subsection), unless a joint 
resolution described in section 153(a) is enacted into law pursuant to 
the provisions of paragraph (2).
  (2)(A) The requirements of this paragraph are met if the joint 
resolution is enacted under the procedures set forth in section 153, 
and--
          (i) the Congress adopts and transmits the joint resolution to 
        the President before the end of the 60-day

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        period beginning on the date the waiver authority would expire 
        but for an extension under paragraph (1), and
          (ii) if the President vetoes the joint resolution, each House 
        of Congress votes to override such veto on or before the later 
        of the last day of the 60-day period referred to in clause (i) 
        or the last day of the 15-day period (excluding any day 
        described in section 154(b)) beginning on the date the Congress 
        receives the veto message from the President.
  (B) If a joint resolution is enacted into law under the provisions of 
this paragraph, the waiver authority applicable to any country with 
respect to which the joint resolution disapproves of the extension of 
such authority shall cease to be effective as of the day after the 60-
day period beginning on the date of the enactment of the joint 
resolution.
  (C) A joint resolution to which this subsection and section 153 apply 
may be introduced at any time on or after the date the President 
transmits to the Congress the document described in paragraph (1)(B).
  (e) This section shall not apply to any country the products of which 
are eligible for the rates set forth in rate column numbered 1 of the 
Tariff Schedules of the United States on the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
                                                          Sec. 1130(11C)

    c. nondiscriminatory treatment, Sec. 407 of the trade act of 1974

                            [19 U.S.C. 2437]

  Sec. 407. procedure for congressional approval or disapproval of 
extension of nondiscriminatory treatment and presidential reports.--(a) 
Whenever the President issues a proclamation under section 404 extending 
nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of any foreign country, he 
shall promptly transmit to the House of Representatives and to the 
Senate a document setting forth the proclamation and the agreement the 
proclamation proposes to implement, together with his reasons therefor.
  (b) The President shall transmit to the House of Representatives and 
the Senate a document containing the initial report submitted by him 
under section 402(b) or 409(b) with respect to a nonmarket economy 
country. On or before December 31 of each year, the President shall 
transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate,

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a document containing the report required by section 402(b) or 409(b) as 
the case may be, to be submitted on or before such December 31.
  (c)(1) In the case of a document referred to in subsection (a), the 
proclamation set forth in the document may become effective and the 
agreement set forth in the document may enter into force and effect only 
if a joint resolution described in section 151(b)(3) that approves of 
the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of the 
country concerned is enacted into law.
  (2) In the case of a document referred to in subsection (b) which 
contains a report submitted by the President under section 402(b) or 
409(b) with respect to a nonmarket economy country, if, before the close 
of the 90-day period beginning on the day on which such document is 
delivered to the House of Representatives and to the Senate, a joint 
resolution described in section 152(a)(i)(B) is enacted into law that 
disapproves of the report submitted by the President with respect to 
such country, then, beginning with the day after the end of the 60-day 
period beginning with the date of the enactment of such resolution of 
disapproval, (A) nondiscriminatory treatment shall not be in force with 
respect to the products of such country, and the products of such 
country shall be dutiable at the rates set forth in rate column numbered 
2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, (B) such 
country may not participate in any program of the Government of the 
United States which extends credit or credit guarantees or investment 
guarantees, and (C) no commercial agreement may thereafter be concluded 
with such country under this title. If the President vetoes the joint 
resolution, the joint resolution shall be treated as enacted into law 
before the end of the 90-day period under this paragraph if both Houses 
of Congress vote to override such veto on or before the later of the 
last day of such 90-day period or the last day of the 15-day period 
(excluding any day described in section 154(b)) beginning on the date 
the Congress receives the veto message from the President.

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                                                          Sec. 1130(11D)

d. ``fast-track'' procedures, Sec. Sec. 151-154 of the trade act of 1974

                           [19 U.S.C. 2191-94]

                      implementing bills, Sec. 151

                            [19 U.S.C. 2191]

  Sec. 151. bills implementing trade agreements on nontariff barriers 
and resolutions approving commercial agreements with communist 
countries.--(a) rules of house of representatives and senate.--This 
section and sections 152 and 153 are enacted by the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they 
        are deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that House in the case of implementing bills described in 
        subsection (b)(1), implementing revenues bills described in 
        subsection (b)(2), approval resolutions described in subsection 
        (b)(3), and resolutions described in subsections 152(a) and 
        153(a); and they supersede other rules only to the extent that 
        they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
  (b) definitions.--For purposes of this section--
          (1) The term ``implementing bill'' means only a bill of either 
        House of Congress which is introduced as provided in subsection 
        (c) with respect to one or more trade agreements, or with 
        respect to an extension described in section 282(c)(3) of the 
        Uruguay Round Agreements Act, submitted to the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate under section 102 of this Act, 
        section 282 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, or section 
        2105(a)(1) of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 
        2002, and which contains--
                  (A) a provision approving such trade agreement or 
                agreements or such extension,

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                  (B) a provision approving the statement of 
                administrative action (if any) proposed to implement 
                such trade agreement or agreements, and
                  (C) if changes in existing laws or new statutory 
                authority is required to implement such trade agreement 
                or agreements or such extension, provisions, necessary 
                or appropriate to implement such trade agreement or 
                agreements, either repealing or amending existing laws 
                or providing new statutory authority.
          (2) The term ``implementing revenue bill or resolution'' means 
        an implementing bill or approval resolution which contains one 
        or more revenue measures by reason of which it must originate in 
        the House of Representatives.
          (3) The term ``approval resolution'' means only a joint 
        resolution of the two Houses of the Congress, the matter after 
        the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the Congress 
        approves the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment with 
        respect to the products of ___ transmitted by the President to 
        the Congress on ___.'', the first blank space being filled with 
        the name of the country involved and the second blank space 
        being filled with the appropriate date.
  (c) introduction and referral.--(1) On the day on which a trade 
agreement or extension is submitted to the House of Representatives and 
the Senate under section 102, section 282 of the Uruguay Round 
Agreements Act, or section 2105(a)(1) of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion 
Authority Act of 2002, the implementing bill submitted by the President 
with respect to such trade agreement or extension shall be introduced 
(by request) in the House by the majority leader of the House, for 
himself and the minority leader of the House, or by Members of the House 
designated by the majority leader and minority leader of the House; and 
shall be introduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of 
the Senate, for himself the minority leader of the Senate, or by Members 
of the Senate designated by the majority leader and minority leader of 
the Senate. If either House is not in session on the day on which such a 
trade agreement is submitted, the implementing bill shall be introduced 
in that House as provided in the preceding sentence, on the first day 
thereafter on which the House is in session. Such bills shall be 
referred by the Presiding Officers of the respective Houses to the 
appropriate committee, or, in the case of a bill con

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taining provisions within the jurisdiction of two or more committees, 
jointly to such committees for consideration of those provisions within 
their respective jurisdictions.
  (2) On the day on which a bilateral commercial agreement, entered into 
under title IV of this Act after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
is transmitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate, an 
approval resolution with respect to such agreement shall be introduced 
(by request) in the House by the majority leader of the House, for 
himself and the minority leader of the House, or by Members of the House 
designated by the majority leader and minority leader of the House; and 
shall be introduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of 
the Senate, for himself and the minority leader of the Senate, or by 
Members of the Senate designated by the majority leader and minority 
leader of the Senate. If either House is not in session on the day on 
which such an agreement is transmitted, the approval resolution with 
respect to such agreement shall be introduced in that House, as provided 
in the preceding sentence, on the first day thereafter on which that 
House is in session. The approval resolution introduced in the House 
shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and the approval 
resolution introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee 
on Finance.
  (d) amendments prohibited.--No amendment to an implementing bill or 
approval resolution shall be in order in either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate; and no motion to suspend the application 
of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor shall it be in 
order in either House for the Presiding Officer to entertain a request 
to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous consent.
  (e) period for committee and floor consideration.--(1) Except as 
provided in paragraph (2), if the committee or committees of either 
House to which an implementing bill or approval resolution has been 
referred have not reported it at the close of the 45th day after its 
introduction, such committee or committees shall be automatically 
discharged from further consideration of the bill or resolution and it 
shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. A vote on final passage of 
the bill or resolution shall be taken in each House on or before the 
close of the 15th day after the bill or resolution is reported by the 
committee or committees of that House to which it was referred, or after 
such committee or committees have been discharged from fur

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ther consideration of the bill or resolution. If prior to the passage by 
one House of an implementing bill or approval resolution of that House, 
that House receives the same implementing bill or approval resolution 
from the other House, then--
          (A) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no 
        implementing bill or approval resolution had been received from 
        the other House; but
          (B) the vote on final passage shall be on the implementing 
        bill or approval resolution of the other House.
  (2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply in the Senate to 
an implementing revenue bill or resolution. An implementing revenue bill 
or resolution received from the House shall be referred to the 
appropriate committee or committees of the Senate. If such committee or 
committees have not reported such bill at the close of the 15th day 
after its receipt by the Senate (or, if later, before the close of the 
45th day after the corresponding implementing revenue bill or resolution 
was introduced in the Senate), such committee or committees shall be 
automatically discharged from further consideration of such bill or 
resolution and it shall be placed on the calendar. A vote on final 
passage of such bill or resolution shall be taken in the Senate on or 
before the close of the 15th day after such bill or resolution is 
reported by the committee or committees of the Senate to which it was 
referred, or after such committee or committees have been discharged 
from further consideration of such bill or resolution.
  (3) For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), in computing a number of 
days in either House, there shall be excluded any day on which that 
House was not in session.
  (f) floor consideration in the house.--(1) A motion in the House of 
Representatives to proceed to the consideration of an implementing bill 
or approval resolution shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order 
to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to.
  (2) Debate in the House of Representatives on an implementing bill or 
approval resolution shall be limited to not more than 20 hours, which 
shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
bill or resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall not be 
debatable. It shall not be in order to move to recommit an implementing 
bill or approval resolution or to move to recon

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sider the vote by which an implementing bill or approval resolution is 
agreed to or disagreed to.
  (3) Motions to postpone, made in the House of Representatives with 
respect to the consideration of an implementing bill or approval 
resolution, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other 
business, shall be decided without debate.
  (4) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
procedure relating to an implementing bill or approval resolution shall 
be decided without debate.
  (5) Except to the extent specifically provided in the preceding 
provisions of this subsection, consideration of an implementing bill or 
approval resolution shall be governed by the Rules of the House of 
Representatives applicable to other bills and resolutions in similar 
circumstances.
  (g) floor consideration in the senate.--(1) A motion in the Senate to 
proceed to the consideration of an implementing bill or approval 
resolution shall be privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the 
motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (2) Debate in the Senate on an implementing, and all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 
20 hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, 
the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.
  (3) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in 
connection with an implementing bill or approval resolution shall be 
limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and 
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill or resolution, 
except that in the event the manager of the bill or resolution is in 
favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, 
shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. Such 
leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control on the 
passage of an implementing bill or approval resolution, allot additional 
time to any Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or 
appeal.
  (4) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate is not debatable. A 
motion to recommit an implementing bill or approval resolution is not in 
order.

  Pursuant to section 151(f)(2) of this Act debate on an implementing 
revenue bill must be equally divided and controlled among those favoring 
and opposing the bill (absent an order of the House establishing some 
other distribution of the time); a motion to limit debate on such 
legislation

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must be made in the House, and not in the Committee of the Whole, and 
may be made either pending the motion to resolve into Committee of the 
Whole or at a later time, after the Committee has risen without 
completing action on the bill (July 10, 1979, pp. 17812, 17813). An 
implementing bill reported from committee has been considered as 
privileged under the Act (Nov. 14, 1980, p. 29617). The House has 
adopted a special order recommended by the Committee on Rules providing 
for consideration of both a resolution to deny the extension of ``fast-
track'' procedures requested by the President under section 1103(b) of 
the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and a resolution to 
express the sense of the House concerning U.S. negotiating objectives 
after such an extension (May 23, 1991, p. 12137). For other special 
orders altering procedures under the Trade Act of 1974, see, e.g., July 
27, 2005, p. 17978; Apr. 10, 2008, p. 5640. The Senate has affirmed its 
constitutional authority to enact a statutory rule (as in subsection (d) 
of section 151) prohibiting amendments to specified revenue bills in 
derogation of its constitutional authority to propose amendments to 
House revenue bills (presiding officer sustained on appeal) (Nov. 19, 
1993, p. 30641).

                  resolutions of disapproval, Sec. 152

                            [19 U.S.C. 2192]

  Sec. 152. resolutions disapproving certain actions.--(a) contents of 
resolution.--(1) For purposes of this section, the term ``resolution'' 
means only--
          (A) a joint resolution of the two Houses of the Congress, the 
        matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
        the Congress does not approve the action taken by, or the 
        determination of the President under section 203 of the Trade 
        Act of 1974 transmitted to the Congress on ___.'', the blank 
        space being filled with the appropriate date; and
          (B) a joint resolution of the two Houses of Congress, the 
        matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
        the Congress does not approve ___ transmitted to the Congress on 
        ___.'', with the first blank space being filled in accordance 
        with paragraph (2), and the second blank space being filled with 
        the appropriate date.
  (2) The first blank space referred to in paragraph (1)(B) shall be 
filled as follows: in the case of a resolution referred to in section 
407(c)(2), with the phrase ``the report of the President submitted under 
section __ of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to ___'' (with the 
first blank space being filled with ``402(b)'' or ``409(b)'', as 
appropriate,

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and the second blank space being filled with the name of the country 
involved).
  (b) reference to committees.--All resolutions introduced in the House 
of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
and all resolutions introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the 
Committee on Finance.
  (c) discharge of committees.--(1) If the committee of either House to 
which a resolution has been referred has not reported it at the end of 
30 days after its introduction, not counting any day which is excluded 
under section 154(b), it is in order to move either to discharge the 
committee from further consideration of the resolution or to discharge 
the committee from further consideration of any other resolution 
introduced with respect to the same matter, except that a motion to 
discharge--
          (A) may only be made on the second legislative day after the 
        calendar day on which the Member making the motion announces to 
        the House his intention to do so; and
          (B) is not in order after the Committee has reported a 
        resolution with respect to the same matter.
  (2) A motion to discharge under paragraph (1) may be made only by an 
individual favoring the resolution, and is highly privileged in the 
House and privileged in the Senate; and debate thereon shall be limited 
to not more than 1 hour, the time to be divided in the House equally 
between those favoring and those opposing the resolution, and to be 
divided in the Senate equally between, and controlled by, the majority 
leader and the minority leader or their designees. An amendment to the 
motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the 
vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (d) floor consideration in the house.--(1) A motion in the House of 
Representatives to proceed to the consideration of a resolution shall be 
highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall 
not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (2) Debate in the House of Representatives on a resolution shall be 
limited to not more than 20 hours, which shall be divided equally 
between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion 
further to limit debate shall not be debatable. No amendment to, or 
motion to recommit, the resolution shall be in order. It shall not be in

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order to move to reconsider the vote by which a resolution is agreed to 
or disagreed to.
  (3) Motions to postpone, made in the House of Representatives with 
respect to the consideration of a resolution, and motions to proceed to 
the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.
  (4) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without debate.
  (5) Except to the extent specifically provided in the preceding 
provisions of this subsection, consideration of a resolution in the 
House of Representatives shall be governed by the Rules of the House of 
Representatives applicable to other resolutions in similar 
circumstances.
  (e) floor consideration in the senate.--(1) A motion in the Senate to 
proceed to the consideration of a resolution shall be privileged. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order 
to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to.
  (2) Debate in the Senate on a resolution, and all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 
20 hours, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority 
leader and the minority leader or their designees.
  (3) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in 
connection with a resolution shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, 
to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the 
manager of the resolution, except that in the event the manager of the 
resolution is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in 
opposition thereto, shall be controlled by the minority leader or his 
designee. Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their 
control on the passage of a resolution, allot additional time to any 
Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or appeal.
  (4) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a resolution, 
debatable motion, or appeal is not debatable. No amendment to, or motion 
to recommit, a resolution is in order in the Senate.
  (f) procedures in the senate.--(1) Except as otherwise provided in 
this section, the following procedures shall apply in the Senate to a 
resolution to which this section applies:

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          (A)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), a resolution that 
        has passed the House of Representatives shall, when received in 
        the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Finance for 
        consideration in accordance with this section.
          (ii) If a resolution to which this section applies was 
        introduced in the Senate before receipt of a resolution that has 
        passed the House of Representatives, the resolution from the 
        House of Representatives shall, when received in the Senate, be 
        placed on the calendar. If this clause applies, the procedures 
        in the Senate with respect to a resolution introduced in the 
        Senate that contains the identical matter as the resolution that 
        passed the House of Representatives shall be the same as if no 
        resolution had been received from the House of Representatives, 
        except that the vote on passage in the Senate shall be on the 
        resolution that passed the House of Representatives.
          (B) If the Senate passes a resolution before receiving from 
        the House of Representatives a joint resolution that contains 
        the identical matter, the joint resolution shall be held at the 
        desk pending receipt of the joint resolution from the House of 
        Representatives. Upon receipt of the joint resolution from the 
        House of Representatives, such joint resolution shall be deemed 
        to be read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed.
  (2) If the texts of joint resolutions described in section 152 or 
153(a), whichever is applicable concerning any matter are not 
identical--
          (A) the Senate shall vote passage on the resolution introduced 
        in the Senate, and
          (B) the text of the joint resolution passed by the Senate 
        shall, immediately upon its passage (or, if later, upon receipt 
        of the joint resolution passed by the House), be substituted for 
        the text of the joint resolution passed by the House of 
        Representatives, and such resolution, as amended, shall be 
        returned with a request for a conference between the two Houses.
  (3) Consideration in the Senate of any veto message with respect to a 
joint resolution described in subsection (a)(2)(B) or section 153(a), 
including consideration of all debatable motions and appeals in 
connection therewith, shall be limited to 10 hours, to be equally 
divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the minority 
leader or their designees.


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  Although a motion that the House resolve itself into the Committee of 
the Whole is not ordinarily subject to the motion to postpone 
indefinitely (VI, 726), the motion to postpone indefinitely may be 
offered pursuant to the provisions of this statute, is nondebatable, and 
represents final adverse disposition of the disapproval resolution (Mar. 
10, 1977, p. 7021).

           resolutions to extend section 402 waivers, Sec. 153

                            [19 U.S.C. 2193]

  Sec. 153. resolutions relating to extension of waiver authority under 
section 402.--(a) contents of resolutions.--For purposes of this 
section, the term ``resolution'' means only a joint resolution of the 
two Houses of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which 
is as follows: ``That the Congress does not approve the extension of the 
authority contained in section 402(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 
recommended by the President to the Congress on ___ with respect to 
___.'', with the first blank space being filled with the appropriate 
date, and the second blank space being filled with the names of those 
countries, if any, with respect to which such extension of authority is 
not approved, and with the clause beginning with ``with-respect-to'' 
being omitted if the extension of the authority is not approved with 
respect to any country.
  (b) application of rules of section 152; exceptions.--(1) Except as 
provided in this section, the provisions of section 152 shall apply to 
resolutions described in subsection (a).
  (2) In applying section 152(c)(1), all calendar days shall be counted.
  (3) That part of section 152(d)(2) which provides that no amendment is 
in order shall not apply to any amendment to a resolution which is 
limited to striking out or inserting the names of one or more countries 
or to striking out or inserting a with-respect-to clause. Debate in the 
House of Representatives on any amendment to a resolution shall be 
limited to not more than 1 hour which shall be equally divided between 
those favoring and those opposing the amendment. A motion in the House 
to further limit debate on an amendment to a resolution is not 
debatable.
  (4) That part of section 152(e)(4) which provides that no amendment is 
in order shall not apply to any amendment to a resolution which is 
limited to striking out or inserting the names of one or more countries 
or to striking out or inserting a with-respect-to clause. The time limit 
on a debate on a resolution in the Senate under section 152(e)(2)

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shall include all amendments to a resolution. Debate in the Senate on 
any amendment to a resolution shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, 
to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the 
manager of the resolution, except that in the event the manager of the 
resolution is in favor of any such amendment, the time in opposition 
thereto shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. The 
majority leader and minority leader may, from time under the control on 
the passage of a resolution, allot additional time to any Senator during 
the consideration of any amendment. A motion in the Senate to further 
limit debate on an amendment to a resolution is not debatable.
  (c) consideration of second resolution not in order.--It shall not be 
in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to 
consider a resolution with respect to a recommendation of the President 
under section 402(d) (other than a resolution described in subsection 
(a) received from the other House), if that House has adopted a 
resolution with respect to the same recommendation.
  (d) procedures relating to conference reports in the senate.--(1) 
Consideration in the Senate of the conference report on any joint 
resolution described in subsection (a), including consideration of all 
amendments in disagreement (and all amendments thereto), and 
consideration of all debatable motions and appeals in connection 
therewith, shall be limited to 10 hours, to be equally divided between, 
and controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or their 
designees. Debate on any debatable motion or appeal related to the 
conference report shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference 
report.
  (2) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement, time on 
each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the 
minority leader or his designee. No amendment to any amendment in 
disagreement shall be received unless it is a germane amendment.

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           special rules for congressional procedure, Sec. 154

                            [19 U.S.C. 2194]

  Sec. 154. special rules relating to congressional procedures.--(a) 
Whenever, pursuant to section 102(e), 203(b), 402(d), or 407 (a) or (b), 
a document is required to be transmitted to the Congress, copies of such 
document shall be delivered to both Houses of Congress on the same day 
and shall be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Representatives if 
the House is not in session and to the Secretary of the Senate if the 
Senate is not in session.
  (b) For purposes of sections 203(c), and 407(c)(2), the 90-day period 
referred to in such sections shall be computed by excluding--
          (1) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain or an 
        adjournment of the Congress sine die, and
          (2) any Saturday and Sunday, not excluded under paragraph (1), 
        when either House is not in session.
                                                          Sec. 1130(11E)

  e. narcotics control provisions--trade act of 1974, Sec. Sec. 801-05

                           [19 U.S.C. 2491-95]

 tariff treatment of products of uncooperative major drug producing or 
                    drug-transit countries, Sec. 856

                            [19 U.S.C. 2492]

  Sec. 802. tariff treatment of products of uncooperative major drug 
producing or drug-transit countries.
  (a) required action by president.--Subject to subsection (b), for 
every major drug producing country and every major drug-transit country, 
the President shall, on or after March 1, 1987, and March 1 of each 
succeeding year, to the extent considered necessary by the President to 
achieve the purposes of this title--
          (1) deny to any or all of the products of that country tariff 
        treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences, the 
        Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, or any other law 
        providing preferential tariff treatment;

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          (2) apply to any or all of the dutiable products of that 
        country an additional duty at a rate not to exceed 50 percent ad 
        valorem or the specific rate equivalent;
          (3) apply to one or more duty-free products of that country a 
        duty at a rate not to exceed 50 percent ad valorem;
          (4) take the steps described in subsection (d)(1) or (d)(2), 
        or both, to curtail air transportation between the United States 
        and that country;
          (5) withdraw the personnel and resources of the United States 
        from participation in any arrangement with that country for the 
        pre-clearance of customs by visitors between the United States 
        and that country; or
          (6) take any combination of the actions described in 
        paragraphs (1) through (5).
  (b)(1)(A) Subject to paragraph (3), subsection (a) shall not apply 
with respect to a country if the President determines and certifies to 
the Congress, at the time of the submission of the report required by 
section 481(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, that-- * * *

                                  * * *

  (3) Subsection (a) shall apply to a country without regard to 
paragraph (1) of this subsection if the Congress enacts, with 45 days of 
continuous session after receipt of a certification under paragraph (1), 
a joint resolution disapproving the determination of the President 
contained in that certification.
  (4) If the President takes action under subsection (a), that action 
shall remain in effect until--
          (A) the President makes the certification under paragraph (a), 
        a period of 45 days of continuous session of Congress elapses, 
        and during that period the Congress does not enact a joint 
        resolution of disapproval; or
          (B) the President submits at any other time a certification of 
        the matters described in paragraph (1) with respect to that 
        country, a period of 45 days of continuous session of Congress 
        elapses, and during that period the Congress does not enact a 
        joint resolution of disapproving determination contained in that 
        certification.
  (5) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under paragraphs (3) and (4)--

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          (A) a motion to proceed to the consideration of any such joint 
        resolution after it has been reported by the Committee on Ways 
        and Means shall be treated as highly privileged in the House of 
        Representatives; and
          (B) a motion to proceed to the consideration of any such joint 
        resolution after it has been reported by the Committee on 
        Finance shall be treated as privileged in the Senate.

                                  * * *

                          definitions, Sec. 805

                            [19 U.S.C. 2495]

  Sec. 805. For purposes of this title--
          (1) continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by an 
        adjournment of the Congress sine die, and the days on which 
        either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more 
        than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation 
        of the period indicated; * * *

                                  * * *

                                                          Sec. 1130(11F)

       f. omnibus trade and competitiveness act of 1988, Sec. 1103

                            [19 U.S.C. 2903]

sec. 1103. implementation of trade agreements
  (a) in general--
          (1) Any agreement entered into under section 1102(b) or (c) 
        shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and 
        only if)--
                  (A) the President, at least 90 calendar days before 
                the day on which he enters into the trade agreement, 
                notifies the House of Representatives and the Senate of 
                his intention to enter into the agreement, and promptly 
                thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the 
                Federal Register;
                  (B) after entering into the agreement, the President 
                submits a document to the House of Representatives and 
                to the Senate containing a copy of the final legal text 
                of the agreement, together with--
                        (i) a draft of an implementing bill,

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                        (ii) a statement of any administrative action 
                    proposed to implement the trade agreement, and
                        (iii) the supporting information described in 
                    paragraph (2); and
                  (C) the implementing bill is enacted into law.

                                  * * *

  (b) application of congressional ``fast track'' procedures to 
implementing bills--
          (1) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section--
                  (A) the provisions of section 151 of the Trade Act of 
                1974 (hereinafter in this section referred to as ``fast 
                track procedures'') apply to implementing bills 
                submitted with respect to trade agreements entered into 
                under section 1102(b) or (c) of this title before June 
                1, 1991; and
                  (B) such fast track procedures shall be extended to 
                implementing bills submitted with respect to trade 
                agreements entered into under section 2902(b) or (c) of 
                this title after May 31, 1991, and before June 1, 1993, 
                if (and only if)--
                        (i) the President requests such extension under 
                    paragraph (2); and
                        (ii) neither House of the Congress adopts an 
                    extension disapproval resolution under paragraph (5) 
                    before June 1, 1991.
          (2) If the President is of the opinion that the fast track 
        procedures should be extended to implementing bills described in 
        paragraph (1)(B), the President must submit to the Congress, no 
        later than March 1, 1991, a written report that contains a 
        request for such extension, together with--
                  (A) a description of all trade agreements that have 
                been negotiated under section 1102(b) or (c) of this 
                title and the anticipated schedule for submitting such 
                agreements to the Congress for approval;
                  (B) a description of the progress that has been made 
                in multilateral and bilateral negotiations to achieve 
                the purposes, policies, and objectives of this title, 
                and a statement that such progress justifies the 
                continuation of negotiations; and
                  (C) a statement of the reasons why the extension is 
                needed to complete the negotiations.

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          (3) The President shall promptly inform the Advisory Committee 
        for Trade Policy and Negotiations established under section 135 
        of the Trade Act of 1974 of his decision to submit a report to 
        Congress under paragraph (2). The Advisory Committee shall 
        submit to the Congress as soon as practicable, but no later than 
        March 1, 1991, a written report that contains--
                  (A) its views regarding the progress that has been 
                made in multilateral and bilateral negotiations to 
                achieve the purposes, policies, and objectives of this 
                title; and
                  (B) a statement of its views, and the reasons 
                therefor, regarding whether the extension requested 
                under paragraph (2) should be approved or disapproved.
          (4) The reports submitted to the Congress under paragraphs (2) 
        and (3), or any portion of the reports, may be classified to the 
        extent the President determines appropriate.
          (5)(A) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``extension 
        disapproval resolution'' means a resolution of either House of 
        the Congress, the sole matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the ___ disapproves the request of 
        the President for the extension, under section 1103(b)(1)(B)(i) 
        of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, of the 
        provisions of section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 to any 
        implementing bill submitted with respect to any trade agreement 
        entered into under section 1102(b) or (c) of such Act after May 
        31, 1991, because sufficient tangible progress has not been made 
        in trade negotiations.'', with the blank space being filled with 
        the name of the resolving House of the Congress.
          (B) Extension disapproval resolutions--
                  (i) may be introduced in either House of the Congress 
                by any member of such House; and
                  (ii) shall be jointly referred, in the House of 
                Representatives, to the Committee on Ways and Means and 
                the Committee on Rules.
          (C) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of the Trade Act 
        of 1974 (relating to the floor consideration of certain 
        resolutions in the House and Senate) apply to extension 
        disapproval resolutions.
          (D) It is not in order for--

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                  (i) the Senate to consider any extension disapproval 
                resolution not reported by the Committee on Finance;
                  (ii) the House of Representatives to consider any 
                extension disapproval resolution not reported by the 
                Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Rules; 
                or
                  (iii) either House of the Congress to consider an 
                extension disapproval resolution that is reported to 
                such House after May 15, 1991.
  (c) limitations on use of ``fast track'' procedures--
          (1)(A) The fast track procedures shall not apply to any 
        implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement 
        entered into under section 1102(b) or (c) if both Houses of the 
        Congress separately agree to procedural disapproval resolutions 
        within any 60-day period.
          (B) Procedural disapproval resolutions--
                  (i) in the House of Representatives--
                        (I) shall be introduced by the chairman or 
                    ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and 
                    Means or the chairman or ranking minority member of 
                    the Committee on Rules,
                        (II) shall be jointly referred to the Committee 
                    on Ways and Means and the Committee on Rules, and
                        (III) may not be amended by either Committee; 
                    and
                  (ii) in the Senate shall be original resolutions of 
                the Committee on Finance.
          (C) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of the Trade Act 
        of 1974 (relating to the floor consideration of certain 
        resolutions in the House and Senate) apply to procedural 
        disapproval resolutions.
          (D) It is not in order for the House of Representatives to 
        consider any procedural disapproval resolution not reported by 
        the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Rules.
          (E) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``procedural 
        disapproval resolution'' means a resolution of either House of 
        the Congress, the sole matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the President has failed or refused 
        to consult with Congress on trade negotiations and trade 
        agreements in accordance with the provisions of the Omnibus 
        Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, and, therefore, the

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        provisions of section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 shall not 
        apply to any implementing bill submitted with respect to any 
        trade agreement entered into under section 1102(b) or (c) of 
        such Act of 1988, if, during the 60-day period beginning on the 
        date on which this resolution is agreed to by the ___, the ___ 
        agrees to a procedural disapproval resolution (within the 
        meaning of section 1103(c)(1)(E) of such Act of 1988).'', with 
        the first blank space being filled with the name of the 
        resolving House of the Congress and the second blank space being 
        filled with the name of the other House of the Congress.
          (2) The fast track procedures shall not apply to any 
        implementing bill that contains a provision approving of any 
        trade agreement which is entered into under section 1102(c) with 
        any foreign country if either--
                  (A) the requirements of section 1102(c)(3) are not met 
                with respect to the negotiation of such agreement; or
                  (B) the Committee on Finance of the Senate or the 
                Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
                Representatives disapproves of the negotiation of such 
                agreement before the close of the 60-day period which 
                begins on the date notice is provided under section 
                1102(c)(3)(C)(i) with respect to the negotiation of such 
                agreement.
  (d) rules of house of representatives and senate subsections (b) and 
(c) of this section are enacted by the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such is 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, and such 
        procedures supersede other rules only to the extent that they 
        are inconsistent with such other rules; and
          (2) with the full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as any other rule of that House.
  (e) computation of certain periods of time--Each period of time 
described in subsection (c)(1)(A) and (E) and (2) of this section shall 
be computed without regard to--
          (1) the days on which either House of Congress is not in 
        session because of an adjournment of more

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        than 3 days to a day certain or an adjournment of the Congress 
        sine die; and
          (2) any Saturday and Sunday, not excluded under paragraph (1), 
        when either House of the Congress is not in session.

                                                          Sec. 1130(11G)

   g. trade promotion authority under the bipartisan trade promotion 
                authority act of 2002, Sec. Sec. 2101-13

                           [19 U.S.C. 3801-13]

                       trade agreements authority

                            [19 U.S.C. 3803]

sec. 2103. trade agreements authority.

(a) agreements regarding tariff barriers.--
          (1) in general.--Whenever the President determines that one or 
        more existing duties or other import restrictions of any foreign 
        country or the United States are unduly burdening and 
        restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the 
        purposes, policies, priorities, and objectives of this title 
        will be promoted thereby, the President--
                  (A) may enter into trade agreements with foreign 
                countries before--
                        (i) July 1, 2005; or
                        (ii) July 1, 2007, if trade authorities 
                    procedures are extended under subsection (c); and
                  (B) may, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), proclaim--
                        (i) such modification or continuance of any 
                    existing duty,
                        (ii) such continuance of existing duty-free or 
                    excise treatment, or
                        (iii) such additional duties,
                as the President determines to be required or 
                appropriate to carry out any such trade agreement.
        The President shall notify the Congress of the President's 
        intention to enter into an agreement under this subsection.

                                  * * *

  (b) agreements regarding tariff and nontariff barriers.--

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          (1) in general.--(A) Whenever the President determines that--
                  (i) one or more existing duties or any other import 
                restriction of any foreign country or the United States 
                or any other barrier to, or other distortion of, 
                international trade unduly burdens or restricts the 
                foreign trade of the United States or adversely affects 
                the United States economy, or
                  (ii) the imposition of any such barrier or distortion 
                is likely to result in such a burden, restriction, or 
                effect,
        and that the purposes, policies, priorities, and objectives of 
        this title will be promoted thereby, the President may enter 
        into a trade agreement described in subparagraph (B) during the 
        period described in subparagraph (C).
          (B) The President may enter into a trade agreement under 
        subparagraph (A) with foreign countries providing for--
                  (i) the reduction or elimination of a duty, 
                restriction, barrier, or other distortion described in 
                subparagraph (A); or
                  (ii) the prohibition of, or limitation on the 
                imposition of, such barrier or other distortion.
          (C) The President may enter into a trade agreement under this 
        paragraph before--
                  (i) July 1, 2005; or
                  (ii) July 1, 2007, if trade authorities procedures are 
                extended under subsection (c).
          (2) conditions.--A trade agreement may be entered into under 
        this subsection only if such agreement makes progress in meeting 
        the applicable objectives described in section 2102(a) and (b) 
        and the President satisfies the conditions set forth in section 
        2104.
          (3) bills qualifying for trade authorities procedures.--(A) 
        The provisions of section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 (in this 
        title referred to as ``trade authorities procedures'') apply to 
        a bill of either House of Congress which contains provisions 
        described in subparagraph (B) to the same extent as such section 
        151 applies to implementing bills under that section. A bill to 
        which this paragraph applies shall hereafter in this title be 
        referred to as an ``implementing bill''.
          (B) The provisions referred to in subparagraph (A) are--

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                  (i) a provision approving a trade agreement entered 
                into under this subsection and approving the statement 
                of administrative action, if any, proposed to implement 
                such trade agreement; and
                  (ii) if changes in existing laws or new statutory 
                authority are required to implement such trade agreement 
                or agreements, provisions, necessary or appropriate to 
                implement such trade agreement or agreements, either 
                repealing or amending existing laws or providing new 
                statutory authority.
  (c) extension disapproval process for congressional trade authorities 
procedures.--
          (1) in general.--Except as provided in section 2105(b)--
                  (A) the trade authorities procedures apply to 
                implementing bills submitted with respect to trade 
                agreements entered into under subsection (b) before July 
                1, 2005; and
                  (B) the trade authorities procedures shall be extended 
                to implementing bills submitted with respect to trade 
                agreements entered into under subsection (b) after June 
                30, 2005, and before July 1, 2007, if (and only if)--
                        (i) the President requests such extension under 
                    paragraph (2); and
                        (ii) neither House of the Congress adopts an 
                    extension disapproval resolution under paragraph (5) 
                    before July 1, 2005.
          (2) report to congress by the president.--If the President is 
        of the opinion that the trade authorities procedures should be 
        extended to implementing bills described in paragraph (1)(B), 
        the President shall submit to the Congress, not later than April 
        1, 2005, a written report that contains a request for such 
        extension, together with--
                  (A) a description of all trade agreements that have 
                been negotiated under subsection (b) and the anticipated 
                schedule for submitting such agreements to the Congress 
                for approval;
                  (B) a description of the progress that has been made 
                in negotiations to achieve the purposes, policies, 
                priorities, and objectives of this title, and a 
                statement that such progress justifies the continuation 
                of negotiations; and

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                  (C) a statement of the reasons why the extension is 
                needed to complete the negotiations.
          (3) other reports to congress.--
                  (A) report by the advisory committee.--The President 
                shall promptly inform the Advisory Committee for Trade 
                Policy and Negotiations established under section 135 of 
                the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2155) of the 
                President's decision to submit a report to the Congress 
                under paragraph (2). The Advisory Committee shall submit 
                to the Congress as soon as practicable, but not later 
                than May 1, 2005, a written report that contains--
                        (i) its views regarding the progress that has 
                    been made in negotiations to achieve the purposes, 
                    policies, priorities, and objectives of this title; 
                    and
                        (ii) a statement of its views, and the reasons 
                    therefor, regarding whether the extension requested 
                    under paragraph (2) should be approved or 
                    disapproved.
                  (B) report by itc.--The President shall promptly 
                inform the International Trade Commission of the 
                President's decision to submit a report to the Congress 
                under paragraph (2). The International Trade Commission 
                shall submit to the Congress as soon as practicable, but 
                not later than June 1, 2005, a written report that 
                contains a review and analysis of the economic impact on 
                the United States of all trade agreements implemented 
                between the date of enactment of this Act and the date 
                on which the President decides to seek an extension 
                requested under paragraph (2).
          (4) status of reports.--The reports submitted to the Congress 
        under paragraphs (2) and (3), or any portion of such reports, 
        may be classified to the extent the President determines 
        appropriate.
          (5) extension disapproval resolutions.--(A) For purposes of 
        paragraph (1), the term ``extension disapproval resolution'' 
        means a resolution of either House of the Congress, the sole 
        matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
        the ___ disapproves the request of the President for the 
        extension, under section 2103(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Bipartisan 
        Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002, of the trade authorities 
        procedures under that Act to any imple

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        menting bill submitted with respect to any trade agreement 
        entered into under section 2103(b) of that Act after June 30, 
        2005.'', with the blank space being filled with the name of the 
        resolving House of the Congress.
          (B) Extension disapproval resolutions--
                  (i) may be introduced in either House of the Congress 
                by any member of such House; and
                  (ii) shall be referred, in the House of 
                Representatives, to the Committee on Ways and Means and, 
                in addition, to the Committee on Rules.
          (C) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of the Trade Act 
        of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(d) and (e)) (relating to the floor 
        consideration of certain resolutions in the House and Senate) 
        apply to extension disapproval resolutions.
          (D) It is not in order for--
                  (i) the Senate to consider any extension disapproval 
                resolution not reported by the Committee on Finance;
                  (ii) the House of Representatives to consider any 
                extension disapproval resolution not reported by the 
                Committee on Ways and Means and, in addition, by the 
                Committee on Rules; or
                  (iii) either House of the Congress to consider an 
                extension disapproval resolution after June 30, 2005. * 
                * *

sec. 2104. consultations and assessment.

  (a) notice and consultation before negotiation.--The President, with 
respect to any agreement that is subject to the provisions of section 
2103(b), shall--
          (1) provide, at least 90 calendar days before initiating 
        negotiations, written notice to the Congress of the President's 
        intention to enter into the negotiations and set forth therein 
        the date the President intends to initiate such negotiations, 
        the specific United States objectives for the negotiations, and 
        whether the President intends to seek an agreement, or changes 
        to an existing agreement;
          (2) before and after submission of the notice, consult 
        regarding the negotiations with the Committee on Finance of the 
        Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
        Representatives, such other committees of the House and Senate 
        as the President deems appropriate, and the Congressional 
        Oversight group convened under section 2107; and

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          (3) upon the request of a majority of the members of the 
        Congressional Oversight Group under section 2107(c), meet with 
        the Congressional Oversight Group before initiating the 
        negotiations or at any other time concerning the negotiations. * 
        * *
  (d) consultation with congress before agreements entered into.--
          (1) consultation.--Before entering into any trade agreement 
        under section 2103(b), the President shall consult with--
                  (A) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
                Senate;
                  (B) each other committee of the House and the Senate, 
                and each joint committee of the Congress, which has 
                jurisdiction over legislation involving subject matters 
                which would be affected by the trade agreement; and
                  (C) the Congressional Oversight Group convened under 
                section 2107.
          (2) scope.--The consultation described in paragraph (1) shall 
        include consultation with respect to--
                  (A) the nature of the agreement;
                  (B) how and to what extent the agreement will achieve 
                the applicable purposes, policies, priorities, and 
                objectives of this title; and
                  (C) the implementation of the agreement under section 
                2105, including the general effect of the agreement on 
                existing laws.
          (3) report regarding united states trade remedy laws.--
                  (A) changes in certain trade laws.--The President, at 
                least 180 calendar days before the day on which the 
                President enters into a trade agreement under section 
                2103(b), shall report to the Committee on Ways and Means 
                of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
                Finance of the Senate--
                        (i) the range of proposals advanced in the 
                    negotiations with respect to that agreement, that 
                    may be in the final agreement, and that could 
                    require amendments to title VII of the Tariff Act of 
                    1930 or to chapter 1 of title II of the Trade Act of 
                    1974; and
                        (ii) how these proposals relate to the 
                    objectives described in section 2102(b)(14).

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                  (B) certain agreements.--With respect to a trade 
                agreement entered into with Chile or Singapore, the 
                report referred to in subparagraph (A) shall be 
                submitted by the President at least 90 calendar days 
                before the day on which the President enters into that 
                agreement.
                  (C) resolutions.--(i) At any time after the 
                transmission of the report under subparagraph (A), if a 
                resolution is introduced with respect to that report in 
                either House of Congress, the procedures set forth in 
                clauses (iii) through (vi) shall apply to that 
                resolution if--
                        (I) no other resolution with respect to that 
                    report has previously been reported in that House of 
                    Congress by the Committee on Ways and Means or the 
                    Committee on Finance, as the case may be, pursuant 
                    to those procedures; and
                        (II) no procedural disapproval resolution under 
                    section 2105(b) introduced with respect to a trade 
                    agreement entered into pursuant to the negotiations 
                    to which the report under subparagraph (A) relates 
                    has previously been reported in that House of 
                    Congress by the Committee on Ways and Means or the 
                    Committee on Finance, as the case may be.
                  (ii) For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 
                ``resolution'' means only a resolution of either House 
                of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of 
                which is as follows: ``That the ___ finds that the 
                proposed changes to United States trade remedy laws 
                contained in the report of the President transmitted to 
                the Congress on ___ under section 2104(d)(3) of the 
                Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 with 
                respect to ___, are inconsistent with the negotiating 
                objectives described in section 2102(b)(14) of that 
                Act.'', with the first blank space being filled with the 
                name of the resolving House of Congress, the second 
                blank space being filled with the appropriate date of 
                the report, and the third blank space being filled with 
                the name of the country or countries involved.
                  (iii) Resolutions in the House of Representatives--
                        (I) may be introduced by any Member of the 
                    House;

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                        (II) shall be referred to the Committee on Ways 
                    and Means and, in addition, to the Committee on 
                    Rules; and
                        (III) may not be amended by either Committee.
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                        (I) may introduced by any Member of the Senate;
                        (II) shall be referred to the Committee on 
                    Finance; and
                        (III) may not be amended.
                  (iv)\2\ It is not in order for the House of 
                Representatives to consider any resolution that is not 
                reported by the Committee on Ways and Means and, in 
                addition, by the Committee on Rules.
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                  (v) It is not in order for the Senate to consider any 
                resolution that is not reported by the Committee on 
                Finance.
                  (vi) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of the 
                Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(d) and (e)) (relating 
                to floor consideration of certain resolutions in the 
                House and Senate) shall apply to resolutions.
  (e) advisory committee reports.--The report required under section 
135(e)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 regarding any trade agreement entered 
into under section 2103(a) or (b) of this Act shall be provided to the 
President, the Congress, and the United States Trade Representative not 
later than 30 days after the date on which the President notifies the 
Congress under section 2103(a)(1) or 2105(a)(1)(A) of the President's 
intention to enter into the agreement. * * *

sec. 2105. implementation of trade agreements. [19 U.S.C. 3805]

  (a) in general.--
          (1) notification and submission.--Any agreement entered into 
        under section 2103(b) shall enter into force with respect to the 
        United States if (and only if)--
                  (A) the President, at least 90 calendar days before 
                the day on which the President enters into the trade 
                agreement, notifies the House of Representatives and the 
                Senate of the President's in

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                tention to enter into the agreement, and promptly 
                thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the 
                Federal Register;
                  (B) within 60 days after entering into the agreement, 
                the President submits to the Congress a description of 
                those changes to existing laws that the President 
                considers would be required in order to bring the United 
                States into compliance with the agreement;
                  (C) after entering into the agreement, the President 
                submits to the Congress, on a day on which both Houses 
                of Congress are in session, a copy of the final legal 
                text of the agreement, together with--
                        (i) a draft of an implementing bill described in 
                    section 2103(b)(3);
                        (ii) a statement of any administrative action 
                    proposed to implement the trade agreement; and
                        (iii) the supporting information described in 
                    paragraph (2); and
                  (D) the implementing bill is enacted into law.
          (2) supporting information.--The supporting information 
        required under paragraph (1)(C)(iii) consists of--
                  (A) an explanation as to how the implementing bill and 
                proposed administrative action will change or affect 
                existing law; and
                  (B) a statement--
                        (i) asserting that the agreement makes progress 
                    in achieving the applicable purposes, policies, 
                    priorities, and objectives of this title; and
                        (ii) setting forth the reasons of the President 
                    regarding--

    (I) how and to what extent the agreement makes progress in achieving 
the applicable purposes, policies, and objectives referred to in clause 
(i);

    (II) whether and how the agreement changes provisions of an agreement 
previously negotiated;

    (III) how the agreement serves the interests of United States commerce;

    (IV) how the implementing bill meets the standards set forth in section 
2103(b)(3); and

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    (V) how and to what extent the agreement makes progress in achieving 
the applicable purposes, policies, and objectives referred to in section 
2102(c) regarding the promotion of certain priorities.

          (3) reciprocal benefits.--In order to ensure that a foreign 
        country that is not a party to a trade agreement entered into 
        under section 2103(b) does not receive benefits under the 
        agreement unless the country is also subject to the obligations 
        under the agreement, the implementing bill submitted with 
        respect to the agreement shall provide that the benefits and 
        obligations under the agreement apply only to the parties to the 
        agreement, if such application is consistent with the terms of 
        the agreement. The implementing bill may also provide that the 
        benefits and obligations under the agreement do not apply 
        uniformly to all parties to the agreement, if such application 
        is consistent with the terms of the agreement.
          (4) disclosure of commitments.--Any agreement or other 
        understanding with a foreign government or governments (whether 
        oral or in writing) that--
                  (A) relates to a trade agreement with respect to which 
                the Congress enacts an implementing bill under trade 
                authorities procedures, and
                  (B) is not disclosed to the Congress before an 
                implementing bill with respect to that agreement is 
                introduced in either House of Congress, shall not be 
                considered to be part of the agreement approved by the 
                Congress and shall have no force and effect under United 
                States law or in any dispute settlement body.
  (b) limitations on trade authorities procedures.--
          (1) for lack of notice or consultations.--
                  (A) in general.--The trade authorities procedures 
                shall not apply to any implementing bill submitted with 
                respect to a trade agreement or trade agreements entered 
                into under section 2103(b) if during the 60-day period 
                beginning on the date that one House of Congress agrees 
                to a procedural disapproval resolution for lack of 
                notice or consultations with respect to such trade 
                agreement or agreements, the other House separately 
                agrees to a procedural disapproval resolution with 
                respect to such trade agreement or agreements.

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                  (B) procedural disapproval resolution.--(i) For 
                purposes of this paragraph, the term ``procedural 
                disapproval resolution'' means a resolution of either 
                House of Congress, the sole matter after the resolving 
                clause of which is as follows: ``That the President has 
                failed or refused to notify or consult in accordance 
                with the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 
                2002 on negotiations with respect to ___ and, therefore, 
                the trade authorities procedures under that Act shall 
                not apply to any implementing bill submitted with 
                respect to such trade agreement or agreements.'', with 
                the blank space being filled with a description of the 
                trade agreement or agreements with respect to which the 
                President is considered to have failed or refused to 
                notify or consult.
                        (ii) For purposes of clause (i), the President 
                    has ``failed or refused to notify or consult in 
                    accordance with the Bipartisan Trade Promotion 
                    Authority Act of 2002'' on negotiations with respect 
                    to a trade agreement or trade agreements if--

    (I) the President has failed or refused to consult (as the case may be) 
in accordance with section 2104 or 2105 with respect to the negotiations, 
agreement, or agreements;

    (II) guidelines under section 2107(b) have not been developed or met 
with respect to the negotiations, agreement, or agreements;

    (III) the President has not met with the Congressional Oversight Group 
pursuant to a request made under section 2107(c) with respect to the 
negotiations, agreement, or agreements; or

    (IV) the agreement or agreements fail to make progress in achieving the 
purposes, policies, priorities, and objectives of this title.

          (2) procedures for considering resolutions.--(A) Procedural 
        disapproval resolutions--
                      (i) in the House of Representatives--

    (I) may be introduced by any Member of the House;

    (II) shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and, in 
addition, to the Committee on Rules; and

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    (III) may not be amended by either Committee; and

                        (ii) in the Senate--

    (I) may be introduced by any Member of the Senate

    (II) shall be referred to the Committee on Finance; and

    (III) may not be amended.

                  (B) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of the 
                Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(d) and (e)) (relating 
                to the floor consideration of certain resolutions in the 
                House and Senate) apply to a procedural disapproval 
                resolution introduced with respect to a trade agreement 
                if no other procedural disapproval resolution with 
                respect to that trade agreement has previously been 
                reported in that House of Congress by the Committee on 
                Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance, as the case 
                may be, and if no resolution described in section 
                2104(d)(3)(C)(ii) with respect to that trade agreement 
                has been reported in that House of Congress by the 
                Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance, 
                as the case may be, pursuant to the procedures set forth 
                in clauses (iii) through (vi) of such section 
                2104(d)(3)(C).
                  (C) It is not in order for the House of 
                Representatives to consider any procedural disapproval 
                resolution not reported by the Committee on Ways and 
                Means and, in addition, by the Committee on Rules.
                  (D) It is not in order for the Senate to consider any 
                procedural disapproval resolution not reported by the 
                Committee on Finance.
          (3) for failure to meet other requirements.--Not later than 
        December 31, 2002, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation 
        with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
        Attorney General, and the United States Trade Representative, 
        shall transmit to the Congress a report setting forth the 
        strategy of the executive branch to address concerns of the 
        Congress regarding whether dispute settlement panels and the 
        Appellate Body of the WTO have added to obligations, or 
        diminished rights, of the United States, as described in section 
        2101(b)(3). Trade authorities procedures shall not apply to any 
        implementing bill with respect to an agreement nego

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        tiated under the auspices of the WTO unless the Secretary of 
        Commerce has issued such report in a timely manner.
  (c) rules of house of representatives and senate.--Subsection (b) of 
this section, section 2103(c), and section 2104(d)(3)(C) are enacted by 
the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, and such 
        procedures supersede other rules only to the extent that they 
        are inconsistent with such other rules; and
          (2) with the full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as any other rule of that House.

                                                          Sec. 1130(11H)

  h. u.s. participation in wto, uruguay round agreements act, Sec. 125

                            [19 U.S.C. 3535]

  Sec. 125. review of participation in the wto.--
  (a) report on the operation of the wto.--The first annual report 
submitted to the Congress under section 124--
          (1) after the end of the 5-year period beginning on the date 
        on which the WTO Agreement enters into force with respect to the 
        United States, and
          (2) after the end of every 5-year period thereafter, shall 
        include an analysis of the effects of the WTO Agreement on the 
        interests of the United States, the costs and benefits to the 
        United States of its participation in the WTO, and the value of 
        the continued participation of the United States in the WTO.
  (b) congressional disapproval of u.s. participation in the wto.--
          (1) general rule.--The approval of the Congress, provided 
        under section 101(a), of the WTO Agreement shall cease to be 
        effective if, and only if, a joint resolution described in 
        subsection (c) is enacted into law pursuant to the provisions of 
        paragraph (2).
          (2) procedural provisions.--(A) The requirements of this 
        paragraph are met if the joint resolution is enacted under 
        subsection (c), and--

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                  (i) the Congress adopts and transmits the joint 
                resolution to the President before the end of the 90-day 
                period (excluding any day described in section 154(b) of 
                the Trade Act of 1974), beginning on the date on which 
                the Congress receives a report referred to in subsection 
                (a), and
                  (ii) if the President vetoes the joint resolution, 
                each House of Congress votes to override that veto on or 
                before the later of the last day of the 90-day period 
                referred to in clause (i) or the last day of the 15-day 
                period (excluding any day described in section 154(b) of 
                the Trade Act of 1974) beginning on the date on which 
                the Congress receives the veto message from the 
                President.
          (B) A joint resolution to which this section applies may be 
        introduced at any time on or after the date on which the 
        President transmits to the Congress a report described in 
        subsection (a), and before the end of the 90-day period referred 
        to in subparagraph (A).
  (c) joint resolutions.--
          (1) joint resolutions.--For purposes of this section, the term 
        ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution of the 2 
        Houses of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the Congress withdraws its approval, 
        provided under section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements 
        Act, of the WTO Agreement as defined in section 2(9) of that 
        Act.''.
          (2) procedures.--(A) Joint resolutions may be introduced in 
        either House of the Congress by any member of such House.
          (B) Subject to the provisions of this subsection, the 
        provisions of subsections (b), (d), (e), and (f) of section 152 
        of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(b), (d), (e), and (f)) 
        apply to joint resolutions to the same extent as such provisions 
        apply to resolutions under such section.
          (C) If the committee of either House to which a joint 
        resolution has been referred has not reported it by the close of 
        the 45th day after its introduction (excluding any day described 
        in section 154(b) of the Trade Act of 1974), such committee 
        shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of 
        the joint resolution and it shall be placed on the appropriate 
        calendar.
          (D) It is not in order for--

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                  (i) the Senate to consider any joint resolution unless 
                it has been reported by the Committee on Finance or the 
                committee has been discharged under subparagraph (C); or
                  (ii) the House of Representatives to consider any 
                joint resolution unless it has been reported by the 
                Committee on Ways and Means or the committee has been 
                discharged under subparagraph (C).
          (E) A motion in the House of Representatives to proceed to the 
        consideration of a joint resolution may only be made on the 
        second legislative day after the calendar day on which the 
        Member making the motion announces to the House his or her 
        intention to do so.
          (3) consideration of second resolution not in order.--It shall 
        not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate to consider a joint resolution (other than a joint 
        resolution received from the other House), if that House has 
        previously adopted a joint resolution under this section.
  (d) rules of house of representatives and senate.--This section is 
enacted by the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such is 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, and such 
        procedures supersede other rules only to the extent that they 
        are inconsistent with such other rules; and
          (2) with the full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as any other rule of that House.

  In the 106th and 109th Congresses a joint resolution withdrawing the 
approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World 
Trade Organization was considered under a special rule (H. J. Res. 90, 
June 21, 2000, p. 11704; H. J. Res. 27, June 9, 2005, p. 12008).

                                                          Sec. 1130(11I)

          i. burmese freedom and democracy act of 2003, Sec. 9

                          [50 U.S.C. 1701 note]

  Sec. 9. duration of sanctions.--
  (a) Termination by Request From Democratic Burma.--The President may 
terminate any provision in

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this Act upon the request of a democratically elected government in 
Burma, provided that all the conditions in section 3(a)(3) have been 
met.
  (b) Continuation of Import Sanctions.--
          (1) Expiration.--The import restrictions contained in section 
        3(a)(1) shall expire 1 year from the date of enactment of this 
        Act unless renewed under paragraph (2) of this section.
          (2) Resolution by congress.--The import restrictions contained 
        in section 3(a)(1) may be renewed annually for a 1-year period 
        if, prior to the anniversary of the date of enactment of this 
        Act, and each year thereafter, a renewal resolution is enacted 
        into law in accordance with subsection (c).
          (3) Limitation.--The import restrictions contained in section 
        3(a)(1) may be renewed for a maximum of nine years from the date 
        of the enactment of this Act.
          (4) Rule of construction.--For purposes of this subsection, 
        any reference to section 3(a)(1) shall be deemed to include a 
        reference to section 3A(b)(1) and (c)(1).
  (c) Renewal Resolutions.--
          (1) In general.--For purposes of this section, the term 
        ``renewal resolution'' means a joint resolution of the 2 Houses 
        of Congress, the sole matter after the resolving clause of which 
        is as follows: ``That Congress approves the renewal of the 
        import restrictions contained in section 3(a)(1) and section 
        3A(b)(1) and (c)(1) of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 
        2003.''.
          (2) Procedures.--
                  (A) In general.--A renewal resolution--
                        (i) may be introduced in either House of 
                    Congress by any member of such House at any time 
                    within the 90-day period before the expiration of 
                    the import restrictions contained in section 3(a)(1) 
                    and section 3A(b)(1) and (c)(1); and
                        (ii) the provisions of subparagraph (B) shall 
                    apply.
                  (B) Expedited consideration.--The provisions of 
                section 152(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of the Trade Act 
                of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192 (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f)) 
                apply to a renewal resolution under this Act as if such 
                resolution were a resolution described in section 152(a) 
                of the Trade Act of 1974.


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                                                          Sec. 1130(11J)

  j. prohibition on import restrictions that would threaten to impair 
     national security, Sec. 262 of the trade expansion act of 1962 

                            [19 U.S.C. 1862 ]

  Sec. 1862. Safeguarding national security-- * * *
  (f) Congressional disapproval of Presidential adjustment of imports of 
petroleum or petroleum products; disapproval resolution--
          (1) An action taken by the President under subsection (c) of 
        this section to adjust imports of petroleum or petroleum 
        products shall cease to have force and effect upon the enactment 
        of a disapprovalresolution, provided for in paragraph (2), 
        relating to that action.
          (2)(A) This paragraph is enacted by the Congress--
                  (i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the 
                House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, 
                and as such is deemed a part of the rules of each House, 
                respectively, but applicable only with respect to the 
                procedures to be followed in that House in the case of 
                disapproval resolutions and such procedures supersede 
                other rules only to the extent that they are 
                inconsistent therewith; and
                  (ii) with the full recognition of the constitutional 
                right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
                relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in 
                the same manner, and to the same extent as any other 
                rule of that House.
          (B) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``disapproval 
        resolution'' means only a joint resolution of either House of 
        Congress the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
        follows: ``That the Congress disapproves the action taken under 
        section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 with respect to 
        petroleum imports under ___ dated ___.'', the first blank space 
        being filled with the number of the proclamation, Executive 
        order, or other Executive act issued under the authority of 
        subsection (c) of this section for purposes of adjusting imports 
        of petroleum or petroleum products and the second blank being 
        filled with the appropriate date.
          (C)(i) All disapproval resolutions introduced in the House of 
        Representatives shall be referred to the

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        Committee on Ways and Means and all disapproval resolutions 
        introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on 
        Finance.
          (ii) No amendment to a disapproval resolution shall be in 
        order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, and 
        no motion to suspend the application of this clause shall be in 
        order in either House nor shall it be in order in either House 
        for the Presiding Officer to entertain a request to suspend the 
        application of this clause by unanimous consent.

                                                           Sec. 1130(12)




    12. Federal Salary Act of 1967, Sec. 225(h)-(j) [2 U.S.C. 358-60]

  Sec. 225. citizens' commission on public service and compensation.-- * 
* *

  (h) recommendations of the president with respect to pay [2 U.S.C. 
358].-- * * * (2) The President shall transmit his recommendations under 
this subsection to Congress on the first Monday after January 3 of the 
first calendar year beginning after the date on which the Commission 
submits its report and recommendations to the President under subsection 
(g) [2 U.S.C. 357].

  (i) effective date of recommendations of the president [2 U.S.C. 
359].--(1) None of the President's recommendations under subsection (h) 
[2 U.S.C. 358] shall take effect unless approved under paragraph (2).
  (2)(A) The recommendations of the President under subsection (h) [2 
U.S.C. 358] shall be considered approved under this paragraph if there 
is enacted into law a bill or joint resolution approving such 
recommendations in their entirety. This bill or joint resolution shall 
be passed by recorded vote to reflect the vote of each Member of 
Congress thereon.
  (B)(i) The provisions of this subparagraph are enacted by the 
Congress--
          (I) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives and as such shall be considered as 
        part of the rules of each House, and shall supersede other rules 
        only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (II) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in

[[Page 1222]]

        the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 
        other rule of that House.
  (ii) During the 60-calendar-day period beginning on the date that the 
President transmits his recommendations to the Congress under subsection 
(h) [2 U.S.C. 358], it shall be in order as a matter of highest 
privilege in each House of Congress to consider a bill or joint 
resolution, if offered by the majority leader of such House (or a 
designee), approving such recommendations in their entirety.
  (3) Except as provided in paragraph (4), any recommended pay 
adjustment approved under paragraph (2) shall take effect as of the date 
proposed by the President under subsection (h) [2 U.S.C. 358] with 
respect to such adjustment.
  (4)(A) Notwithstanding the approval of the President's pay 
recommendations in accordance with paragraph (2), none of those 
recommendations shall take effect unless, between the date on which the 
bill or resolution approving those recommendations is signed by the 
President (or otherwise becomes law) and the earliest date as of which 
the President proposes (under subsection (h) [2 U.S.C. 358]) that any of 
those recommendations take effect, an election of Representatives shall 
have intervened.
  (B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term ``election of 
Representatives'' means an election held on the Tuesday following the 
first Monday of November in any even-numbered calendar year.

  (j) effect of recommendations on existing law and prior 
recommendations [2 U.S.C. 360].--The recommendations of the President 
taking effect as provided in section 225(i) [2 U.S.C. 359] shall be held 
and considered to modify, supersede, or render inapplicable, as the case 
may be, to the extent inconsistent therewith--
          (A) all provisions of law enacted prior to the effective date 
        or dates of all or part (as the case may be) of such 
        recommendations (other than any provision of law enacted with 
        respect to such recommendations in the period beginning on the 
        date the President transmits his recommendations to the Congress 
        under subsection (h) [2 U.S.C. 358] and ending on the date of 
        their approval under subsection (i)(2) [2 U.S.C. 359(2)]), and
          (B) any prior recommendations of the President which take 
        effect under this chapter.

  In 1985, the Salary Act was amended to require a salary commission 
report with respect to fiscal year 1987. The President transmitted rec

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ommendations concerning that report in the fiscal year 1988 Budget 
message (Jan. 5, 1987, H. Doc. 100-11). Because not disapproved by the 
Congress in accordance with the Salary Act (2 U.S.C. 359), those 
recommendations took effect on March 1, 1987. On return to the normal 
quadrennial cycle, the President transmitted with the fiscal year 1990 
Budget message recommendations concerning a salary commission report 
with respect to fiscal year 1989 (Jan. 9, 1989, H. Doc. 101-21). Those 
recommendations were disapproved by Public Law 101-1 (H. J. Res. 129, 
101st Cong., Feb. 7, 1989, p. 1708). In 1989, the Salary Act was amended 
to redesignate the Commission, refine the parameters for quadrennial 
adjustments, and provide for privileged consideration of legislation to 
approve adjustments recommended by the President. The quadrennial review 
contemplated by the statute has not occurred since 1993. Adjustments are 
to maintain equal levels of pay among the Speaker, the Vice President, 
and the Chief Justice; among the Majority and Minority Leaders, the 
President pro tempore of the Senate, and level I of the Executive 
Schedule; and among Representatives, Senators, certain judges, and level 
II of the Executive Schedule (2 U.S.C. 362).

  Under section 311(d) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
1988 (2 U.S.C. 4532), the Speaker may adjust pay levels for officers and 
employees of the House to maintain certain relationships with comparable 
levels in the Senate and in the other branches of government. This 
authority to issue ``pay orders'' is stated as follows:

  ``Sec. 311. * * * (d)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, or any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, hereafter each 
time the President pro tempore of the Senate exercises any authority 
pursuant to any of the amendments made by this section with respect to 
rates of pay or any other matter relating to personnel whose pay is 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, or whenever any of the events 
described in paragraph (2) occurs, the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives may adjust the rates of pay (and any minimum or maximum 
rate, limitation, or allowance) applicable to personnel whose pay is 
disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
Representatives to the extent necessary to ensure--
          ``(A) appropriate pay levels and relationships between and 
        among positions held by personnel of the House of 
        Representatives; and
          ``(B) appropriate pay relationships between--
                  ``(i) positions referred to in subparagraph (A); and
                  ``(ii)(I) positions under subparagraphs (A) through 
                (D) of section 225(f) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 
                [2 U.S.C. 356];
                  ``(II) positions held by personnel whose pay is 
                disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate; and
                  ``(III) positions to which the General Schedule 
                applies.
  ``(2) The other events permitting an exercise of authority under this 
subsection are either--

[[Page 1224]]

          ``(A) an adjustment under section 5303 of title 5, United 
        States Code, in rates of pay under the General Schedule; or
          ``(B) an adjustment in rates of pay for Members of the House 
        of Representatives (other than an adjustment which occurs by 
        virtue of an adjustment described in subparagraph (A)).
  ``(3) For the purpose of this subsection, the term `Member of the 
House of Representatives' means a Member of the House of 
Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the 
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.''
                                                           Sec. 1130(13)




         13. Energy Policy and Conservation Act [42 U.S.C. 6421]

                      Part C--Congressional Review

procedure for congressional review of presidential requests to implement 
                           certain authorities

  Sec. 551. (a) For purposes of this section, the term ``energy action'' 
means any matter required to be transmitted, or submitted to the 
Congress in accordance with the procedures of this section.
  (b) The President shall transmit any energy action (bearing an 
identification number) to both Houses of Congress on the same day. If 
both Houses are not in session on the day any energy action is received 
by the appropriate officers of each House, for purposes of this section 
such energy action shall be deemed to have transmitted on the first 
succeeding day on which both Houses are in session.
  (c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, if 
energy action is transmitted to the Houses of Congress, such action 
shall take effect at the end of the first period of 15 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress after the date on which such action is 
transmitted to such Houses, unless between the date of transmittal and 
the end of such 15-day period, either House passes a resolution stating 
in substance that such House does not favor such action.
  (2) An energy action described in paragraph (1) may take effect prior 
to the expiration of the 15-calendar-day period after the date on which 
such action is transmitted, if each House of Congress approves a 
resolution affirmatively stating in substance that such House does not 
object to such action.
  (d) For the purpose of subsection (c) of this section--

[[Page 1225]]

          (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
        Congress sine die; and
          (2) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of the 15-calendar-day period.
  (e) Under provisions contained in an energy action, a provision of 
such an action may take effect on a date later than the date on which 
such action otherwise takes effect pursuant to the provisions of this 
section.
  (f)(1) This subsection is enacted by Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that House in the case of resolutions described by paragraph (2) 
        of this subsection; and it supersedes other rules only to the 
        extent that is inconsistent therewith; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
  (2) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``resolution'' means 
only a resolution of either House of Congress described in subparagraph 
(A) or (B) of this paragraph.
          (A) A resolution the matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the ___ does not object to the 
        energy action numbered __ submitted to the Congress on ___, 
        19_.'', the first blank space therein being filled with the name 
        of the resolving House and the other blank spaces being 
        appropriately filled; but does not include a resolution which 
        specifies more than one energy action.
          (B) A resolution the matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the ___ does not favor the energy 
        action numbered __ transmitted to Congress on ___, 19_.'', the 
        first blank space therein being filled with the name of the 
        resolving House and other blank spaces therein being 
        appropriately filled; but does not include a resolution which 
        specifies more than one energy action.
  (3) A resolution once introduced with respect to an energy action 
shall immediately be referred to a committee (and all resolutions with 
respect to the same plan shall be

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referred to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
  (4)(A) If the committee to which a resolution with respect to an 
energy action has been referred has not reported it at the end of 5 
calendar days after its referral, it shall be in order to move either to 
discharge the committee from further consideration of such resolution or 
to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other 
resolution with respect to such energy action which has been referred to 
the committee.
  (B) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring 
the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be 
made after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the 
same energy action), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more 
than one hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to.
  (C) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the 
motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the 
committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to 
the same energy action.
  (5)(A) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a resolution, it shall be at any time 
thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect 
has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the 
resolution. The motion shall be highly privileged and shall not be 
debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it 
shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
was agreed to or disagreed to.
  (B) Debate on the resolution referred to in subparagraph (A) of this 
paragraph shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be 
divided equally between those favoring and those opposing such 
resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. An 
amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution shall not be in 
order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
which such resolution was agreed to or disagreed to; except that it 
shall be in order--

[[Page 1227]]

          (i) to offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute, 
        consisting of the text of a resolution described in paragraph 
        (2)(A) of this subsection with respect to an energy action, for 
        a resolution described in paragraph (2)(B) of this subsection 
        with respect to the same such action, or
          (ii) to offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute, 
        consisting of the text of a resolution described in paragraph 
        (2)(B) of this subsection with respect to an energy action, for 
        a resolution described in paragraph (2)(A) of this subsection 
        with respect to the same such action.
The amendments described in clauses (i) and (ii) of this subparagraph 
shall not be amendable.
  (6)(A) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from 
committee, or the consideration of a resolution and motions to proceed 
to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.
  (B) Appeals from the decision of the Chair relating to the application 
of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case 
may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided 
without debate.
  (7) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this subsection, if a 
House has approved a resolution with respect to an energy action, then 
it shall not be in order to consider in that House any other resolution 
with respect to the same such action.

  These statutory procedures have been used for consideration of a 
motion to discharge a committee from consideration of a resolution 
disapproving an ``energy action'' under Public Law 94-163 (Apr. 13, 
1976, p. 10794; May 27, 1976, p. 15772).
                                                           Sec. 1130(14)




     14. Extensions of Emergency Energy Authorities [42 U.S.C. 8374]

  Sec. 404. emergency authorities.--(a) coal allocation authority.--(1) 
If the President--
          (A) declares a severe energy supply interruption, as defined 
        in section 3(8) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act [42 
        U.S.C. 6202(8)], or
          (B) finds, and publishes such finding, that a national or 
        regional fuel supply shortage exists or may exist which the 
        President determines--
                  (i) is, or is likely to be, of significant scope and 
                duration, and of an emergency nature;

[[Page 1228]]

                  (ii) causes, or may cause, major adverse impact on 
                public health, safety, or welfare or on the economy; and
                  (iii) results, or is likely to result, from an 
                interruption in the supply of coal or from sabotage, or 
                an act of God;
the President may, by order, allocate (and require the transportation 
thereof) for the use of any electrical powerplant or major fuel-burning 
installation, in accordance with such terms and conditions as he may 
prescribe, to insure reliability of electric service or prevent 
unemployment, or protect public health, safety, or welfare.
  (2) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``coal'' means 
anthracite and bituminous coal and lignite (but does not mean any fuel 
derivative thereof).
  (b) emergency prohibition on use of natural gas or petroleum.--If the 
President declares a severe energy supply interruption, as defined in 
section 3(8) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act [42 U.S.C. 
6202(8)], the President may, by order, prohibit any electric powerplant 
or major fuelburning installation from using natural gas or petroleum, 
or both, as a primary energy source for the duration of such 
interruption. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any 
suspension of emission limitations or other requirements of applicable 
implementation plans, as defined in section 110(d) of the Clean Air Act 
[42 U.S.C. 7410(d)], required by such prohibition shall be issued only 
in accordance with section 110(f) of the Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 
7410(f)].
  (c) emergency stays.--The President may, by order, stay the 
application of any provision of this act, or any rule or order 
thereunder, applicable to any new or existing electric powerplant, if 
the President finds, and publishes such finding, that an emergency 
exists, due to national, regional, or systemwide shortages of coal or 
other alternate fuels, or disruption of transportation facilities, which 
emergency is likely to affect reliability of service of any such 
electric powerplant.
  (d) duration of emergency orders.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(3), any order issued by the President under this section shall not be 
effective for longer than the duration of the interruption or emergency, 
or 90 days, whichever is less.
  (2) Any such order may be extended by a subsequent order which the 
President shall transmit to the Congress in accordance with section 551 
of the Energy Policy and

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Conservation Act [42 U.S.C. 6421]. Such order shall be subject to 
congressional review pursuant to such section.
  (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the effectiveness of any order 
issued under this section shall not terminate under this subsection 
during the 15-calendar-day period during which any such subsequent order 
described in paragraph (2) is subject to congressional review under 
section 551 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act [42 U.S.C. 6421].
                                                           Sec. 1130(15)




              15. Nuclear Waste Fund Fees [42 U.S.C. 10222]

  Sec. 302. (a) contracts.--(1) In the performance of his functions 
under this Act, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with 
any person who generates or holds title to high-level radioactive waste, 
or spent nuclear fuel, of domestic origin for the acceptance of title, 
subsequent transportation, and disposal of such waste or spent fuel. 
Such contracts shall provide for payment to the Secretary of fees 
pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) sufficient to offset expenditures 
described in subsection (d).

                                  * * *

  (4) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall establish procedures for the collection and payment 
of the fees established by paragraph (2) and paragraph (3). The 
Secretary shall annually review the amount of the fees established by 
paragraphs (2) and (3) above to evaluate whether collection of the fee 
will provide sufficient revenues to offset the costs as defined in 
subsection (d) herein. In the event the Secretary determines that either 
insufficient or excess revenues are being collected, in order to recover 
the costs incurred by the Federal Government that are specified in 
subsection (d), the Secretary shall propose an adjustment to the fee to 
insure full cost recovery. The Secretary shall immediately transmit this 
proposal for such an adjustment to Congress. The adjusted fee proposed 
by the Secretary shall be effective after a period of 90 days of 
continuous session have elapsed following the receipt of such 
transmittal unless during such 90-day period either House of Congress 
adopts a resolution disapproving the Secretary's proposed adjustment in 
accordance with the procedures set forth for congressional review of an 
energy action under section 551 of the Energy Policy and Conservation 
Act [42 U.S.C. 6421]. end segment .016  deg. segment 
.017 -- expedited procedures from (16)  deg.

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                                                          Sec. 1130(16A)




                         16. Arms Export Control

                   a. arms export control act, Sec. 36

                           [22 U.S.C. 2776(b)]

 reports on commercial and governmental military exports; congressional 
                                 action

  Sec. 36. * * * (b)(1) Subject to paragraph (6), in the case of any 
letter of offer to sell any defense articles or services under this Act 
for $50,000,000 or more, any design and construction services for 
$200,000,000 or more, or any major defense equipment for $14,000,000 or 
more, before such letter of offer is issued, the President shall submit 
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the chairman of 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a numbered 
certification with respect to such offer to sell containing the 
information specified in * * * subsection (a) * * *

A certification transmitted pursuant to this subsection shall be 
unclassified, except that the information specified in clause (ii) and 
the details of the description specified in clause (iii) of subsection 
(a) may be classified if the public disclosure thereof would be clearly 
detrimental to the security of the United States, in which case the 
information shall be accompanied by a description of the damage to the 
national security that could be expected to result from public 
disclosure of the information. The letter of offer shall not be issued 
with respect to a proposed sale to the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization, any member country of such Organization, Japan, Australia, 
the Republic of Korea, Israel, or New Zealand, if the Congress, within 
fifteen calendar days after receiving such certification, or with 
respect to a proposed sale to any other country or organization, if the 
Congress within thirty calendar days after receiving such certification, 
enacts a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed sale, unless the 
President states in his certification that an emergency exists which 
requires such sale in the national security interests of the United 
States. If the President states in his certification that an emergency 
exists which requires the proposed sale in the national security 
interest of the United States, thus waiving the congressional review 
requirements of this subsection, he shall set forth in the certification 
a detailed

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justification for his determination, including a description of the 
emergency circumstances which necessitate the immediate issuance of the 
letter of offer and a discussion of the national security interests 
involved.
  (2) Any such joint resolution shall be considered in the Senate in 
accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International 
Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976, except that for 
purposes of consideration of any joint resolution with respect to the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, any member country of such 
Organization, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Israel, or New 
Zealand, it shall be in order in the Senate to move to discharge a 
committee to which such joint resolution was referred if such committee 
has not reported such joint resolution at the end of five calendar days 
after its introduction.
  (3) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under this subsection, a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by 
the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives.

                                  * * *

  Pursuant to this provision, a motion that the House resolve itself 
into the Committee of the Whole for consideration of a concurrent (now 
joint; see P.L. 99-247) resolution disapproving an export sale of major 
defense equipment is highly privileged after the resolution has been 
reported, subject to the three-day availability requirement of clause 4 
of rule XIII (former clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI) (Oct. 14, 1981, pp. 
23796, 23871, 23872; May 7, 1986, p. 9716).
                                                          Sec. 1130(16B)

                   b. arms export control act, Sec. 36

       commercial exports of defense articles and defense services

                           [22 U.S.C. 2776(c)]

  Sec. 36. * * * (c) * * * (2) Unless the President states in his 
certification [under paragraph (1)] that an emergency exists which 
requires the proposed export in the national security interests of the 
United States, a license for export described in paragraph (1)--
          (A) in the case of a license for an export to the North 
        Atlantic Treaty Organization, any member country of that 
        Organization or Australia, Japan, the

[[Page 1232]]

        Republic of Korea, Israel, or New Zealand, shall not be issued 
        until at least 15 calendar days after the Congress receives such 
        certification, and shall not be issued then if the Congress, 
        within that 15-day period, enacts a joint resolution prohibiting 
        the proposed export; and
          (B) in the case of a license for an export of a commercial 
        communications satellite for launch from, and by nationals of, 
        the Russian Federation, Ukraine, or Kazakhstan, shall not be 
        issued until at least 15 calendar days after the Congress 
        receives such certification, and shall not be issued then if the 
        Congress, within that 15-day period, enacts a joint resolution 
        prohibiting the proposed export; and
          (C) in the case of any other license, shall not be issued 
        until at least 30 calendar days after the Congress receives such 
        certification, and shall not be issued then if the Congress, 
        within that 30-day period, enacts a joint resolution prohibiting 
        the proposed export.
  (3)(A) Any joint resolution under this subsection shall be considered 
in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the 
International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
  (B) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under this subsection, a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by 
the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives.
                                                          Sec. 1130(16C)

                   c. arms export control act, Sec. 36

                   commercial manufacturing agreements

                           [22 U.S.C. 2776(d)]

  Sec. 36. (d)(1) In the case of an approval under section 38 of this 
Act [22 U.S.C. 2778] of a United States commercial technical assistance 
or manufacturing licensing agreement which involves the manufacture 
abroad of any item of significant combat equipment on the United States 
Munitions List, before such approval is given, the President shall 
submit a certification with respect to such proposed commercial 
agreement in a manner similar to the certification required under 
subsection (c)(1) of this section containing comparable information, 
except that the last sen

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tence of such subsection shall not apply to certifications submitted 
pursuant to this subsection.
  (2) A certification under this subsection shall be submitted--
          (A) at least 15 days before approval is given in the case of 
        an agreement for or in a country which is a member of the North 
        Atlantic Treaty Organization or Australia, Japan, the Republic 
        of Korea, Israel, or New Zealand; and
          (B) at least 30 days before approval is given in the case of 
        an agreement for or in any other country;
unless the President states in his certification that an emergency 
exists which requires the immediate approval of the agreement in the 
national security interests of the United States.
  (3) If the President states in his certification that an emergency 
exists which requires the immediate approval of the agreement in the 
national security interests of the United States, thus waiving the 
requirements of paragraph (4), he shall set forth in the certification a 
detailed justification for his determination, including a description of 
the emergency circumstances which necessitate the immediate approval of 
the agreement and a discussion of the national security interests 
involved.
  (4) Approval for an agreement subject to paragraph (1) may not be 
given under section 38 if the Congress, within the 15-day or 30-day 
period specified in paragraph (2)(A) or (B), as the case may be, enacts 
a joint resolution prohibiting such approval.
  (5)(A) Any joint resolution under paragraph (4) shall be considered in 
the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the 
International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
  (B) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under paragraph (4), a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by 
the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives.

[[Page 1234]]

                                                          Sec. 1130(16D)

                   d. arms export control act, Sec. 3

              third country transfer of military equipment

                            [22 U.S.C. 2753]

  Sec. 3. (a) No defense article or defense service shall be sold or 
leased by the United States Government under this Act to any country or 
international organization, and no agreement shall be entered into for a 
cooperative project (as defined in section 27 of this Act [22 U.S.C. 
2767]), unless--

                                  * * *

  (2) the country or international organization shall have agreed not to 
transfer title to, or possession of, any defense article or related 
training or other defense service so furnished to it, or produced in a 
cooperative project (as defined in section 27 of this Act [22 U.S.C. 
2767]), to anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of that country or 
international organization (or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or 
the specific member countries (other than the United States) in the case 
of a cooperative project) and not to use or permit the use of such 
article or related training or other defense service for purposes other 
than those for which furnished unless the consent of the President has 
first been obtained;

                                  * * *

  (d)(1) Subject to paragraph (5), the President may not give his 
consent under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) or under the third 
sentence of such subsection, or under section 505(a)(1) or 505(a)(4) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2314(a)(1) or (4)], to a 
transfer of any major defense equipment valued (in terms of its original 
acquisition cost) at $14,000,000 or more, or any defense article or 
related training or of other defense service valued (in terms of its 
original acquisition cost) at $50,000,000 or more, unless the President 
submits to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate a written certification with respect 
to such proposed transfer containing--
          (A) the name of the country or international organization 
        proposing to make such transfer,
          (B) a description of the article or service proposed to be 
        transferred, including its acquisition cost,

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          (C) the name of the proposed recipient of such article or 
        service,
          (D) the reasons for such proposed transfer, and
          (E) the date on which such transfer is proposed to be made.
Any certification submitted to Congress pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be unclassified, except that information regarding the dollar value and 
number of articles or services proposed to be transferred may be 
classified if public disclosure thereof would be clearly detrimental to 
the security of the United States.
  (2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), unless the President 
states in the certification submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) of this 
subsection that an emergency exists which requires that consent to the 
proposed transfer become effective immediately in the national security 
interests of the United States, such consent shall not become effective 
until 30 calendar days after the date of such submission and such 
consent shall become effective then only if the Congress does not enact, 
within such 30-day period, a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed 
transfer.
  (B) In the case of a proposed transfer to the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization, or any member country of such Organization, Japan, 
Australia, the Republic of Korea, Israel, or New Zealand, unless the 
President states in the certification submitted pursuant to paragraph 
(1) of this subsection that an emergency exists which requires that 
consent to the proposed transfer become effective immediately in the 
national security interests of the United States, such consent shall not 
become effective until fifteen calendar days after the date of such 
submission and such consent shall become effective then only if the 
Congress does not enact, with such fifteen-day period, a joint 
resolution prohibiting the proposed transfer.
  (C) If the President states in his certification under subparagraph 
(A) or (B) that an emergency exists which requires that consent to the 
proposed transfer become effective immediately in the national security 
interests of the United States, thus waiving the requirements of that 
subparagraph, the President shall set forth in the certification a 
detailed justification for his determination, including a description of 
the emergency circumstances which necessitate immediate consent to the 
transfer and a discussion of the national security interests involved.

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  (D)(i) Any joint resolution under this paragraph shall be considered 
in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the 
International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
  (ii) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under this paragraph, a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by 
the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives.
  (3)(A) Subject to paragraph (5), the President may not give his 
consent to the transfer of any major defense equipment valued (in terms 
of its original acquisition cost) at $14,000,000 or more, or any defense 
article or defense service valued (in terms of its original acquisition 
cost) at $50,000,000 or more, the export of which has been licensed or 
approved under section 38 of this Act [22 U.S.C. 2778] or has been 
exempted from the licensing requirements of this chapter pursuant to a 
treaty referred to in section 38 of this Act [22 U.S.C. 2778] where such 
treaty does not authorize the transfer without prior United States 
Government approval, unless before giving such consent the President 
submits to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman 
of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a certification 
containing the information specified in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of 
paragraph (1). Such certification shall be submitted--
          (i) at least 15 calendar days before such consent is given in 
        the case of a transfer to a country which is a member of the 
        North Atlantic Treaty Organization or Australia, Japan, the 
        Republic of Korea, Israel, or New Zealand; and
          (ii) at least 30 calendar days before such consent is given in 
        the case of a transfer to any other country,
unless the President states in his certification that an emergency 
exists which requires that consent to the proposed transfer become 
effective immediately in the national security interests of the United 
States. If the President states in his certification that such an 
emergency exists (thus waiving the requirements of clause (i) or (ii), 
as the case may be, and of subparagraph (B)) the President shall set 
forth in the certification a detailed justification for his 
determination, including a description of the emergency circumstances 
which necessitate that consent to the

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proposed transfer become effective immediately and a discussion of the 
national security interests involved.
  (B) Consent to a transfer subject to subparagraph (A) shall become 
effective after the end of the 15-day or 30-day period specified in 
subparagraph (A)(i) or (ii), as the case may be, only if the Congress 
does not enact, within that period, a joint resolution prohibiting the 
proposed transfer.
  (C)(i) Any joint resolution under this paragraph shall be considered 
in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the 
International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
  (ii) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under this paragraph, a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by 
the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives.
  (4) This subsection shall not apply--
          (A) to transfers of maintenance, repair, or overhaul defense 
        services, or of the repair parts of other defense articles used 
        in furnishing such services, if the transfer will not result in 
        any increase, relative to the original specifications, in the 
        military capability of the defense articles and services to be 
        maintained, repaired, or overhauled;
          (B) to temporary transfers of defense articles for the sole 
        purpose of receiving maintenance, repair, or overhaul; or
          (C) to arrangements among members of the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization or between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
        and any of its member countries--
                  (i) for cooperative cross servicing, or
                  (ii) for lead-nation procurement if the certification 
                transmitted to the Congress pursuant to section 36(b) of 
                this Act [22 U.S.C. 2776(b)] with regard to such lead-
                nation procurement identified the transferees on whose 
                behalf the lead-nation procurement was proposed.
  (5) In the case of a transfer to a member country of the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or Australia, Japan, the Republic of 
Korea, Israel, or New Zealand that does not authorize a new sales 
territory that includes any country other than such countries, the 
limitations on con

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sent of the President set forth in paragraphs (1) and (3)(A) shall apply 
only if the transfer is--
          (A) a transfer of major defense equipment valued (in terms of 
        its original acquisition cost) at $25,000,000 or more; or
          (B) a transfer of defense articles or defense services valued 
        (in terms of its original acquisition cost) at $100,000,000 or 
        more.

                                  * * *

                                                          Sec. 1130(16E)

              e. arms export control act, Sec. Sec. 62, 63

                       leases of defense articles

                        [22 U.S.C. 2796a, 2796b]

  Sec. 62. reports to the congress.--(a) Before entering into or 
renewing any agreement with a foreign country or international 
organization to lease any defense article under this chapter, or to loan 
any defense article under chapter 2 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2311], for a period of one year or longer, the 
President shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and to 
the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, a written 
certification which specifies--
          (1) the country or international organization to which the 
        defense article is to be leased or loaned;
          (2) the type, quantity, and value (in terms of replacement 
        cost) of the defense article to be leased or loaned;
          (3) the terms and duration of the lease or loan; and
          (4) a justification for the lease or loan, including an 
        explanation of why the defense article is being leased or loaned 
        rather than sold under this Act.
  (b) The President may waive the requirements of this section (and in 
the case of an agreement described in section 63 [22 U.S.C. 2796b], may 
waive the provisions of that section) if he states in his certification, 
that an emergency exists which requires that the lease or loan be 
entered into immediately in the national security interests of the 
United States. If the President states in his certification that such an 
emergency exists, he shall set forth in

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the certification a detailed justification for his determination, 
including a description of the emergency circumstances which necessitate 
that the lease be entered into immediately and a discussion of the 
national security interests involved.
  (c) The certification required by subsection (a) shall be 
transmitted--
          (1) not less than 15 calendar days before the agreement is 
        entered into or renewed in the case of an agreement with the 
        North Atlantic Treaty Organization, any member country of that 
        Organization or Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Israel, 
        or New Zealand; and
          (2) not less than 30 calendar days before the agreement is 
        entered into or renewed in the case of an agreement with any 
        other organization or country.

  Sec. 63. legislative review.--(a)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in the 
case of any agreement involving the lease under this chapter, or the 
loan under chapter 2 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
[22 U.S.C. 2311], to any foreign country or international organization 
for a period of one year or longer of any defense articles which are 
either (i) major defense equipment valued (in terms of its replacement 
cost less any depreciation in its value) at $14,000,000 or more, or (ii) 
defense articles valued (in terms of their replacement cost less any 
depreciation in their value) at $50,000,000 or more, the agreement may 
not be entered into or renewed if the Congress, within the 15-day or 30-
day period specified in section 62(c) (1) or (2), as the case may be, 
enacts a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed lease or loan.
  (2) In the case of an agreement described in paragraph (1) that is 
entered into with a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) or Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Israel, 
or New Zealand, the limitations in paragraph (1) shall apply only if the 
agreement involves a lease or loan of--
          (A) major defense equipment valued (in terms of its 
        replacement cost less any depreciation in its value) at 
        $25,000,000 or more; or
          (B) defense articles valued (in terms of their replacement 
        cost less any depreciation in their value) at $100,000,000 or 
        more.
  (b) Any joint resolution under subsection (a) shall be considered in 
the Senate in accordance with the provisions

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of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms 
Export Control Act of 1976.
  (c) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment of 
joint resolutions under subsection (a), a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such resolution after it has been reported by the 
appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged in the House 
of Representatives.
                                                          Sec. 1130(16F)

                   f. arms export control act, Sec. 40

 transactions with countries supporting acts of international terrorism.

                            [22 U.S.C. 2780]

  Sec. 40. Transactions with Countries Supporting Acts of International 
Terrorism.

                                  * * *

  (f) Rescission.--(1) A determination made by the Secretary of State 
under subsection (d) may not be rescinded unless the President submits 
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate--
          (A) before the proposed rescission would take effect, a report 
        certifying that--
                  (i) there has been a fundamental change in the 
                leadership and policies of the government of the country 
                concerned;
                  (ii) that government is not supporting acts of 
                international terrorism; and
                  (iii) that government has provided assurances that it 
                will not support acts of international terrorism in the 
                future; or
          (B) at least 45 days before the proposed rescission would take 
        effect, a report justifying the rescission and certifying that--
                  (i) the government concerned has not provided any 
                support for international terrorism during the preceding 
                6-month period; and
                  (ii) the government concerned has provided assurances 
                that it will not support acts of international terrorism 
                in the future.
  (2) (A) No rescission under paragraph (1)(B) of a determination under 
subsection (d) may be made if the Congress, within 45 days after receipt 
of a report under para

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graph (1)(B), enacts a joint resolution the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ``That the proposed rescission of the 
determination under section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act 
pursuant to the report submitted to the Congress on ___ is hereby 
prohibited.'', the blank to be completed with the appropriate date.
  (B) A joint resolution described in subparagraph (A) and introduced 
within the appropriate 45-day period shall be considered in the Senate 
and the House of Representatives in accordance with paragraphs (3) 
through (7) of section 8066(c) of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act (as contained in Public Law 98-473), except that 
references in such paragraphs to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate shall be deemed to be references 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, respectively.

                                  * * *

                                                           Sec. 1130(17)




               17. Federal Election Commission Regulations

          a. federal election campaign act of 1971, Sec. 311(d)

                          [52 U.S.C. 30111(d)]

  Sec. 311. * * *(d)(1) Before prescribing any rule, regulation, or form 
under this section or any other provision of this Act, the Commission 
shall transmit a statement with respect to such rule, regulation, or 
form to the Senate and the House of Representatives, in accordance with 
this subsection. Such statement shall set forth the proposed rule, 
regulation, or form, and shall contain a detailed explanation and 
justification of it.
  (2) If either House of the Congress does not disapprove by resolution 
any proposed rule or regulation submitted by the Commission under this 
section within 30 legislative days after the date of the receipt of such 
proposed rule or regulation or within 10 legislative days after the date 
of receipt of such proposed form, the Commission may prescribe such 
rule, regulation, or form.
  (3) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``legislative day'' 
means, with respect to statements transmitted to the Senate, any 
calendar day on which the Senate is in session, and with respect to 
statements transmitted to the

[[Page 1242]]

House of Representatives, any calendar day on which the House of 
Representatives is in session.
  (4) For purposes of this subsection, the terms ``rule'' and 
``regulation'' mean a provision or series of interrelated provisions 
stating a single, separate rule of law.
  (5)(A) A motion to discharge a committee of the Senate from the 
consideration of a resolution relating to any such rule, regulation, or 
form or a motion to proceed to the consideration of such a resolution, 
is highly privileged and shall be decided without debate.
  (B) Whenever a committee of the House of Representatives reports any 
resolution relating to any such form, rule or regulation, it is at any 
time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same 
effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of 
the resolution. The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An 
amendment to the motion is not in order, and is not in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed with.

               b. internal revenue code of 1986, Sec. 9039

                            [26 U.S.C. 9039]

  Sec. 9039. * * *(c) Review of regulations
          (1) The Commission, before prescribing any rule or regulation 
        under subsection (b), shall transmit a statement with respect to 
        such rule or regulation to the Senate and to the House of 
        Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of this 
        subsection. Such statement shall set forth the proposed rule or 
        regulation and shall contain a detailed explanation and 
        justification of such rule or regulation.
          (2) If either such House does not, through appropriate action, 
        disapprove the proposed rule or regulation set forth in such 
        statement no later than 30 legislative days after receipt of 
        such statement, then the Commission may prescribe such rule or 
        regulation. Whenever a committee of the House of Representatives 
        reports any resolution relating to any such rule or regulation, 
        it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous 
        motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 
        proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is 
        highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the 
        motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to 
        reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or dis

[[Page 1243]]

        agreed to. The Commission may not prescribe any rule or 
        regulation which is disapproved by either such House under this 
        paragraph.
          (3) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``legislative 
        days'' does not include any calendar day on which both Houses of 
        the Congress are not in session.
          (4) For purposes of this subsection, the term ``rule or 
        regulation'' means a provision or series of interrelated 
        provisions stating a single separable rule of law.
                                                           Sec. 1130(18)




 18. Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976, Sec. Sec. 8, 9 [15 
                           U.S.C. 719f, 719g]

                          congressional review

  Sec. 8. * * * (c) For purposes of this section--
          (1) continuity of session of Congress is broken only by an 
        adjournment sine die; and
          (2) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of the 60-day calendar period.
  (d)(1) This subsection is enacted by Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of each House of 
        Congress, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the 
        rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 
        respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the 
        case of resolutions described by paragraph (2) of this 
        subsection; and it supersedes other rules only to the extent 
        that it is inconsistent therewith; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as those rules relate 
        to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner 
        and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such 
        House.
  (2) For purposes of this Act, the term ``resolution'' means (A) a 
joint resolution, the resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That 
the House of Representatives and Senate approve the Presidential 
decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation system submitted to the 
Congress on ___, 19_, and find that any environmental impact statements 
prepared relative to such system and submitted with the President's 
decision are in compliance with the Natural [so in original] 
Environmental Policy Act

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of 1969.''; the blank space therein shall be filled with the date on 
which the President submits his decision to the House of Representatives 
and the Senate; or (B) a joint resolution described in subsection (g) of 
this section.
  (3) A resolution once introduced with respect to a Presidential 
decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation system shall be 
referred to one or more committees (and all resolutions with respect to 
the same Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation 
system shall be referred to the same committee or committees) by the 
President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be.
  (4)(A) If any committee to which a resolution with respect to a 
Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation system has 
been referred has not reported it at the end of 30 calendar days after 
its referral, it shall be in order to move either to discharge such 
committee from further consideration of such resolution or to discharge 
such committee from consideration of any other resolution with respect 
to such Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation 
system which has been referred to such committee.
  (B) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring 
the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be 
made after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the 
same Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas transportation 
system), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to 
be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it 
shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
was agreed to or disagreed to.
  (C) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the 
motion may not be made with respect to any other resolution with respect 
to the same Presidential decision on an Alaska natural gas 
transportation system.
  (5)(A) When any committee has reported, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a resolution, but in no case earlier than 30 
days after the date or receipt of the President's decision to the 
Congress, it shall be at any time thereafter in order (even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 
proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion shall be 
highly privileged and shall not be debatable. An amendment to the motion 
shall not be in order, and it

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shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
was agreed to or disagreed to.
  (B) Debate on the resolution described in subsection (d)(2)(A) shall 
be limited to not more than 10 hours and on any resolution described in 
subsection (g) to one hour. This time shall be divided equally between 
those favoring and those opposing such resolution. A motion further to 
limit debate shall not be debatable. An amendment to, or motion to 
recommit the resolution shall not be in order, and it shall not be in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which such resolution was agreed 
to or disagreed to or, thereafter within such 60-day period, to consider 
any other resolution respecting the same Presidential decision.
  (6)(A) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from 
committee, or the consideration of a resolution and motions to proceed 
to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.
  (B) Appeals from the decision of the Chair relating to the application 
of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case 
may be, to the procedures relating to a resolution shall be decided 
without debate.

                                  * * *

  (g)(1) At any time after a decision designating a transportation 
system is submitted to the Congress pursuant to this section, if the 
President finds that any provision of law applicable to actions to be 
taken under subsection (a) or (c) of section 9 (15 U.S.C. 719g(a) or 
(c)) require waiver in order to permit expeditious construction and 
initial operation of the approved transportation system, the President 
may submit such proposed waiver to both Houses of Congress.
  (2) Such provision shall be waived with respect to actions to be taken 
under subsection (a) or (c) of section 9 [15 U.S.C. 719g(a) or (c)] upon 
enactment of a joint resolution pursuant to the procedures specified in 
subsection (c) and (d) of this section (other than subsection (d)(2) 
thereof) within the first period of 60 calendar days of continuous 
session of Congress beginning on the date after the date of receipt by 
the Senate and House of Representatives of such proposal.
  (3) The resolving clause of the joint resolution referred to in this 
subsection is as follows: ``That the House of Representatives and Senate 
approve the waiver of the provision of law (___) as proposed by the 
President, submitted to the Congress on ___, 19_.'' The first blank

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space therein being filled with the citation to the provision of law and 
the second blank space therein being filled with the date on which the 
President submits his decision to the House of Representatives and the 
Senate.
  (4) In the case of action with respect to a joint resolution described 
in this subsection, the phrase ``a waiver of a provision of law'' shall 
be substituted in subsection (d) for the phrase ``the Alaska natural gas 
transportation system.''.

                             authorizations

  Sec. 9. (a) To the extent that the taking of any action which is 
necessary or related to the construction and initial operation of the 
approved transportation system requires a certificate, right-of-way, 
permit, lease, or other authorization to be issued or granted by a 
Federal officer or agency, such Federal officer or agency shall--
          (1) to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of law 
        administered by such officer or agency, but
          (2) without regard to any provision of law which is waived 
        pursuant to section 8(g) [15 U.S.C. 719f(g)] issue or grant such 
        certificates, permits, rights-of-way, leases, and other 
        authorizations at the earliest practicable date.

                                  * * *

  (c) Any certificate, right-of-way, permit, lease, or other 
authorization issued or granted pursuant to the direction under 
subsection (a) shall include the terms and conditions required by law 
unless waived pursuant to a resolution under section 8(g) [15 U.S.C. 
719f(g)], and may include terms and conditions permitted by law, except 
that with respect to terms and conditions permitted but not required, 
the Federal officer or agency, notwithstanding any such other provision 
of law, shall have no authority to include terms and conditions as would 
compel a change in the basic nature and general route of the approved 
transportation system or those the inclusion of which would otherwise 
prevent or impair in any significant respect the expeditious 
construction and initial operation of such transportation system.

  Pursuant to section 8(d)(6)(A) of this statute (15 U.S.C. 
719f(d)(6)(A)) a privileged motion to resolve into the Committee of the 
Whole to consider a joint resolution providing a waiver of law under the 
statute is subject to a nondebatable motion to postpone to a day certain 
(or indefinitely) (Dec. 8, 1981, pp. 29972, 29973).

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                                                           Sec. 1130(19)




          19. Crude Oil Transportation Systems [43 U.S.C. 2008]

  Sec. 508. procedures for waiver of federal law.--(a) waiver of 
provisions of federal law.--The President may identify those provisions 
of Federal law (including any law or laws regarding the location of a 
crude oil transportation system but not including any provision of the 
antitrust laws) which, in the national interest, as determined by the 
President, should be waived in whole or in part to facilitate 
construction or operation of any such system approved under section 507 
[43 U.S.C. 2007] or of the Long Beach-Midland project, and he shall 
submit any such proposed waiver to both Houses of the Congress. The 
provisions so identified shall be waived with respect to actions to be 
taken to construct or operate such system or project only upon enactment 
of a joint resolution within the first period of 60 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress beginning on the date of receipt by the 
House of Representatives and the Senate of such proposal.
  (b) joint resolution.--The resolving clause of the joint resolution 
referred to in subsection (a) is as follows: ``That the House of 
Representatives and Senate approve the waiver of the provisions of law 
(___) as proposed by the President, submitted to the Congress on ___, 
19_.''. The first blank space therein being filled with the citation to 
the provisions of law proposed to be waived by the President and the 
second blank space therein being filled with the date on which the 
President submits his decision to wave [so in original] such provisions 
of law to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Rules and 
procedures for consideration of any such joint resolution shall be 
governed by section 8 (c) and (d) of the Alaskan Natural Gas 
Transportation Act [15 U.S.C. 719f(c) and (d)], other than paragraph (2) 
of section 8(d) [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)], except that for the purposes of 
this subsection, the phrase ``a waiver of provisions of law'' shall be 
substituted in section 8(d) [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)] each place where the 
phrase ``an Alaska natural gas transportation system'' appears.

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                                                           Sec. 1130(20)




  20. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Sec. Sec. 1502, 
                       1503 [16 U.S.C. 3232, 3233]

             national need mineral activity recommendations

                            [16 U.S.C. 3232]

  Sec. 1502. (a) recommendation.--At any time after December 2, 1980, 
the President may transmit a recommendation to the Congress that mineral 
exploration, development, or extraction not permitted under this Act or 
other applicable law shall be permitted in a specified area of the lands 
referred to in section 1501 [16 U.S.C. 3231]. Notice of such transmittal 
shall be published in the Federal Register. No recommendation of the 
President under this section may be transmitted to the Congress before 
ninety days after publication in the Federal Register of notice of his 
intention to submit such recommendation.

                                  * * *

  (d) approval.--Any recommendation under this section shall take effect 
only upon enactment of a joint resolution approving such recommendation 
within the first period of one hundred and twenty calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress beginning on the date after the date of 
receipt by the Senate and House of Representatives of such 
recommendation. Any recommendation of the President submitted to 
Congress under subsection (a) shall be considered received by both 
Houses for purposes of this section on the first day on which both are 
in session occurring after such recommendation is submitted.
  (e) one-hundred-and-twenty-day computation.--For purposes of this 
section--
          (1) continuity of session of Congress is broken only by an 
        adjournment sine die; and
          (2) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of the one-hundred-and-twenty-day 
        calendar period.

                     expedited congressional review

                            [16 U.S.C. 3233]

  Sec. 1503. (a) rulemaking.--This subsection is enacted by Congress--

[[Page 1249]]

          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of each House of 
        Congress, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the 
        rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 
        respect to the procedure to be followed in the House in the case 
        of resolutions described by subsection (b) of this section and 
        it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is 
        inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as those relate to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.
  (b) resolution.--For purposes of this section, the term ``resolution'' 
means a joint resolution, the resolving clause of which is as follows: 
``That the House of Representatives and Senate approve the 
recommendation of the President for ___ in ___ submitted to the Congress 
on ___, 19_.'', the first blank space therein to be filled in with 
appropriate activity, the second blank space therein to be filled in 
with the name or description of the area of land affected by the 
activity, and the third blank space therein to be filled with the date 
on which the President submits his recommendation to the House of 
Representatives and the Senate. Such resolution may also include 
material relating to the application and effect of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321] to the recommendation.
  (c) referral.--A resolution once introduced with respect to such 
Presidential recommendation shall be referred to one or more committees 
(and all resolutions with respect to the same Presidential 
recommendation shall be referred to the same committee or committees) by 
the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, as the case may be.
  (d) other procedures.--Except as otherwise provided in this section 
the provisions of section 8(d) of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation 
Act [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)] shall apply to the consideration of the 
resolution.

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                                                          Sec. 1130(21A)




   21. Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 [43 U.S.C. 1701]

                          a. land use planning

                            [43 U.S.C. 1712]

  Sec. 202. (a) The Secretary shall, with public involvement and 
consistent with the terms and conditions of this Act, develop, maintain, 
and, when appropriate, revise land use plans which provide by tracts or 
areas for the use of the public lands. Land use plans shall be developed 
for the public lands regardless of whether such lands previously have 
been classified, withdrawn, set aside, or otherwise designated for one 
or more uses.

                                  * * *

  (d) Any classification of public lands or any land use plan in effect 
on October 21, 1976, is subject to review in the land use planning 
process conducted under this section, and all public lands, regardless 
of classification, are subject to inclusion in any land use plan 
developed pursuant to this section. The Secretary may modify or 
terminate any such classification with such land use plans.
  (e) The Secretary may issue management decisions to implement land use 
plans developed or revised under this section in accordance with the 
following:
          (1) Such decisions, including but not limited to exclusions 
        (that is, total elimination) of one or more of the principal or 
        major uses made by a management decision shall remain subject to 
        reconsideration, modification, and termination through revision 
        by the Secretary or his delegate, under the provisions of this 
        section, of the land use plan involved.
          (2) Any management decision or action pursuant to a management 
        decision that excludes (that is, totally eliminates) one or more 
        of the principal or major uses for two or more years with 
        respect to a tract of land of one hundred thousand acres or more 
        shall be reported by the Secretary to the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate. If within ninety days from the 
        giving of such notice (exclusive of days on which either House 
        has adjourned for more than three consecutive days), the 
        Congress adopts a concurrent resolution of nonapproval of the 
        management decision or

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        action, then the management decision or action shall be promptly 
        terminated by the Secretary. If the committee to which a 
        resolution has been referred during the said ninety day period 
        has not reported it at the end of thirty calendar days after its 
        referral, it shall be in order to either discharge the committee 
        from further consideration of such resolution or to discharge 
        the committee from consideration of any other resolution with 
        respect to the management decision or action. A motion to 
        discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the 
        resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not 
        be made after the committee has reported such a resolution), and 
        debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one hour, to be 
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
        resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, 
        and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
        which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to. If the motion to 
        discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may not be 
        made with respect to any other resolution with respect to the 
        same management decision or action. When the committee has 
        reprinted [so in original], or has been discharged from further 
        consideration of a resolution, it shall at any time thereafter 
        be in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect 
        has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration 
        of the resolution. The motion shall be highly privileged and 
        shall not be debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be 
        in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the 
        vote by which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to.
                                                          Sec. 1130(21B)

                                b. sales

                            [43 U.S.C. 1713]

  Sec. 203. * * * (c) Where a tract of the public lands in excess of two 
thousand five hundred acres has been designated for sale, such sale may 
be made only after the end of the ninety days (not counting days on 
which the House of Representatives or the Senate has adjourned for more 
than three consecutive days) beginning on the day the Secretary has 
submitted notice of such designation to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives, and then only if the Congress has not adopted a 
concurrent resolution stating that such House does not approve of such 
designa

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tion. If the committee to which a resolution has been referred during 
the said ninety day period has not reported it at the end of thirty 
calendar days after its referral, it shall be in order to either 
discharge the committee from further consideration of such resolution or 
to discharge the committee from consideration of any other resolution 
with respect to the designation. A motion to discharge may be made only 
by an individual favoring the resolution, shall be highly privileged 
(except that it may not be made after the committee has reported such a 
resolution), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one 
hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing 
the resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it 
shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
was agreed to or disagreed to. If the motion to discharge is agreed to 
or disagreed to, the motion may not be made with respect to any other 
resolution with respect to the same designation. When the committee has 
reprinted [so in original], or has been discharged from further 
consideration of a resolution, it shall at any time thereafter be in 
order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been 
disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. 
The motion shall be highly privileged and shall not be debatable. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to 
or disagreed to.
                                                          Sec. 1130(21C)

                             c. withdrawals

                            [43 U.S.C. 1714]

  Sec. 204. * * * (c)(1) On and after the dates of approval of this Act 
a withdrawal aggregating five thousand acres or more may be made (or 
such a withdrawal or any other withdrawal involving the aggregate five 
thousand acres or more which terminates after such date of approval may 
be extended) only for a period of not more than twenty years by the 
Secretary on his own motion or upon request by a department or agency 
head. The Secretary shall notify both Houses of Congress of such a 
withdrawal no later than its effective date and the withdrawal shall 
terminate and become effective at the end of ninety days (not counting 
days on which the Senate or the House of Representatives has adjourned 
for more than three consecutive days) beginning on the day notice of 
such withdrawal has been submitted to the Senate and to the House of 
Representa

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tives, if the Congress has adopted a concurrent resolution stating that 
such House does not approve the withdrawal. If the committee to which a 
resolution has been referred during the said ninety day period has not 
reported it at the end of thirty calendar days after its referral, it 
shall be in order to either discharge the committee from further 
consideration of such resolution or to discharge the committee from 
consideration of any other resolution with respect to the Presidential 
recommendation. A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual 
favoring the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may 
not be made after the committee has reported such a resolution), and 
debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one hour, to be divided 
equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to 
or disagreed to. If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed 
to, the motion may not be made with respect to any other resolution with 
respect to the same Presidential recommendation. When the committee has 
reprinted [so in original], or has been discharged from further 
consideration of a resolution, it shall at any time thereafter be in 
order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been 
disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. 
The motion shall be highly privileged and shall not be debatable. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in 
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to 
or disagreed to.
                                                          Sec. 1130(21D)

                        d. review of withdrawals

                            [43 U.S.C. 1714]

  Sec. 204. * * * (l)(1) The Secretary shall, within fifteen years of 
October 21, 1976, review withdrawals existing on the date of approval of 
this Act, in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, 
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming of 
(1) all Federal lands other than withdrawals of the public lands 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management and of lands which, on the 
date of approval of this Act, were part of Indian reservations and other 
Indian holdings, the National Forest System, the National Park System, 
the National Wildlife Refuge System, other lands administered by the 
Fish and Wildlife Service or the Secretary through

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the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, and the National System of Trails; and (2) all public lands 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management and of lands in the 
National Forest System (except those in wilderness areas, and those 
areas formally identified as primitive or natural areas or designated as 
national recreation areas) which closed the lands to appropriation under 
the Mining Law of 1872 (17 Stat. 91, as amended; 30 U.S.C. 22) or to 
leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (41 Stat. 437, as amended; 
30 U.S.C. 181).
  (2) In the review required by paragraph (1) of this subsection, the 
Secretary shall determine whether, and for how long, the continuation of 
the existing withdrawal of the lands would be, in his judgment, 
consistent with the statutory objectives of the programs for which the 
lands were dedicated and of the other relevant programs. The Secretary 
shall report his recommendations to the President, together with 
statements of concurrence or nonconcurrence submitted by the heads of 
the departments or agencies which administer the lands. The President 
shall transmit this report to the President of the Senate and the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, together with his 
recommendations for action by the Secretary, or for legislation. The 
Secretary may act to terminate withdrawals other than those made by Act 
of the Congress in accordance with the recommendations of the President 
unless before the end of ninety days (not counting days on which the 
Senate and the House of Representatives has adjourned for more than 
three consecutive days) beginning on the day the report of the President 
has been submitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives the 
Congress has adopted a concurrent resolution indicating otherwise. If 
the committee to which a resolution has been referred during the said 
ninety day period has not reported it at the end of thirty calendar days 
after its referral, it shall be in order to either discharge the 
committee from further consideration of such resolution or to discharge 
the committee from consideration of any other resolution with respect to 
the Presidential recommendation. A motion to discharge may be made only 
by an individual favoring the resolution, shall be highly privileged 
(except that it may not be made after the committee has reported such a 
resolution), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one 
hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing 
the resolution. An amendment to

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the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in order to move 
to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to or disagreed 
to. If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion 
may not be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to the 
same Presidential recommendation. When the committee has reprinted [so 
in original], or has been discharged from further consideration of a 
resolution, it shall at any time thereafter be in order (even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 
proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion shall be 
highly privileged and shall not be debatable. An amendment to the motion 
shall not be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to.
                                                           Sec. 1130(22)




    22. Marine Fisheries Conservation Act, Sec. 203 [16 U.S.C. 1823]

  Sec. 203. congressional oversight of international fishery 
agreements.--(a) in general.--No governing international fishery 
agreement, bycatch reduction agreement, or Pacific Insular Area fishery 
agreement shall become effective with respect to the United States 
before the close of the first 120 days (excluding any days in a period 
for which the Congress is adjourned sine die) after the date on which 
the President transmits to the House of Representatives and to the 
Senate a document setting forth the text of such governing international 
fishery agreement, bycatch reduction agreement, or Pacific Insular Area 
fishery agreement. A copy of the document shall be delivered to each 
House of Congress on the same day and shall be delivered to the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives, if the House is not in session, and to the 
Secretary of the Senate, if the Senate is not in session.
  (b) referral to committees.--Any document described in subsection (a) 
shall be immediately referred in the House of Representatives to the 
Committee on Resources, and in the Senate to the Committees on Commerce 
and Foreign Relations.
  (c) congressional procedures.--(1) rules of the house of 
representatives and senate.--The provisions of this section are enacted 
by the Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and they are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each

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        House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the 
        procedure to be followed in that House in the case of fishery 
        agreement resolutions described in paragraph (2), and they 
        supersede other rules only to the extent that they are 
        inconsistent therewith; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, and in the same manner and 
        to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that 
        House.
  (2) definition.--For purposes of this subsection, the term ``fishery 
agreement resolution'' refers to a joint resolution of either House of 
Congress--
          (A) the effect of which is to prohibit the entering into force 
        and effect of any governing international fishery agreement, 
        bycatch reduction agreement, or Pacific Insular Area fishery 
        agreement the text of which is transmitted to the Congress 
        pursuant to subsection (a); and
          (B) which is reported from the Committee on Resources of the 
        House of Representatives or the Committee on Commerce or the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, not later than 45 
        days after the date on which the document described in 
        subsection (a) relating to that agreement is transmitted to the 
        Congress.
  (3) placement on calendar.--Any fishery agreement resolution upon 
being reported shall immediately be placed on the appropriate calendar.
  (4) floor consideration in the house.--
          (A) A motion in the House of Representatives to proceed to the 
        consideration of any fishery agreement resolution shall be 
        highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion 
        shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to 
        reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
        disagreed to.
          (B) Debate in the House of Representatives on any fishery 
        agreement resolution shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, 
        which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those 
        opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall 
        not be debatable. It shall not be in order to move to recommit 
        any fishery agreement resolution or to move to reconsider the 
        vote by which any fishery agreement resolution is agreed to or 
        disagreed to.

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          (C) Motions to postpone, made in the House of Representatives 
        with respect to the consideration of any fishery agreement 
        resolution, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other 
        business, shall be decided without debate.
          (D) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 
        the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to 
        the procedure relating to any fishery agreement resolution shall 
        be decided without debate.
          (E) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of any 
        fishery agreement resolution shall be governed by the Rules of 
        the House of Representatives applicable to other bills and 
        resolutions in similar circumstances.
                                                           Sec. 1130(23)




     23. Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Sec. 8 [43 U.S.C. 1337]

  Sec. 8. (a)(1) The Secretary is authorized to grant to the highest 
responsible qualified bidder or bidders by competitive bidding, under 
regulations promulgated in advance, any oil and gas lease on submerged 
lands of the Outer Continental Shelf which are not covered by leases 
meeting the requirements of subsection (a) of section 6 of this Act [43 
U.S.C. 1335(a)]. * * *

                                  * * *

  (4)(A) The Secretary of Energy shall submit any bidding system 
authorized in subparagraph (H) of paragraph (1) to the Senate and House 
of Representatives. The Secretary may institute such bidding system 
unless either the Senate or the House of Representatives passes a 
resolution of disapproval within thirty days after receipt of the 
bidding system.
  (B) Subparagraphs (C) through (J) of this paragraph are enacted by 
Congress--
          (i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but they 
        are applicable only with respect to the procedures to be 
        followed in that House in the case of resolutions described by 
        this paragraph, and they supersede other

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        rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; 
        and
          (ii) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
  (C) A resolution disapproving a bidding system submitted pursuant to 
this paragraph shall immediately be referred to a committee (and all 
resolutions with respect to the same request shall be referred to the 
same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, as the case may be.
  (D) If the committee to which has been referred any resolution 
disapproving the bidding system of the Secretary has not reported the 
resolution at the end of ten calendar days after its referral, it shall 
be in order to move either to discharge the committee from further 
consideration of the resolution or to discharge the committee from 
further consideration of any other resolution with respect to the same 
bidding system which has been referred to the committee.
  (E) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring 
the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be 
made after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the 
same recommendation), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more 
than one hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (F) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the 
motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the 
committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to 
the same bidding system.
  (G) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a resolution as provided in this paragraph, it 
shall be at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion 
to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the 
consideration of the resolution. The motion shall be highly privileged 
and shall not be debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
order, and it shall not be in order

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to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to.
  (H) Debate on the resolution is limited to not more than two hours, to 
be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not debatable. An 
amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution is not in order, and 
it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (I) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from the 
committee, or the consideration of a resolution with respect to a 
bidding system, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other 
business, shall be decided without debate.
  (J) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with 
respect to a bidding system shall be decided without debate.
                                                          Sec. 1130(24A)




         24. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 [42 U.S.C. 10101]

a. high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Sec. Sec. 111-25

                          [42 U.S.C. 10131-45]

              review of repository site selection, Sec. 115

                            [42 U.S.C. 10135]

  Sec. 115. (a) definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``resolution of repository siting approval'' means a joint resolution of 
the Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
follows: ``That there hereby is approved the site at ___ for a 
repository, with respect to which a notice of disapproval was submitted 
by ___ on ___''. The first blank space in such resolution shall be 
filled with the name of the geographic location of the proposed site of 
the repository to which such resolution pertains; the second blank space 
in such resolution shall be filled with the designation of the State 
Governor and legislature or Indian tribe governing body submitting the 
notice of disapproval to which such resolution per

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tains; and the last blank space in such resolution shall be filled with 
the date of such submission.
  (b) state or indian tribe petitions.--The designation of a site as 
suitable for application for a construction authorization for a 
repository shall be effective at the end of the 60-day period beginning 
on the date that the President recommends such site to the Congress 
under section 114, unless the Governor and the legislature of the State 
in which such site is located, or the governing body of an Indian tribe 
on whose reservation such site is located, as the case may be, has 
submitted to the Congress a notice of disapproval under section 116 or 
118. If any such notice of disapproval has been submitted, the 
designation of such site shall not be effective except as provided under 
subsection (c).
  (c) congressional review of petitions.--If any notice of disapproval 
of a repository site designation has been submitted to the Congress 
under section 116 or 118 after a recommendation for approval of such 
site is made by the President under section 114, such site shall be 
disapproved unless, during the first period of 90 calendar days of 
continuous session of the Congress after the date of the receipt by the 
Congress of such notice of disapproval, the Congress passes a resolution 
of repository siting approval in accordance with this subsection 
approving such site, and such resolution thereafter becomes law.
  (d) procedures applicable to the senate.--[see 42 U.S.C. 10135(d)]

                                  * * *

  (e) procedures applicable to the house of representatives.--(1) The 
provisions of this section are enacted by the Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives, and as such they are deemed a part of the rules 
        of the House, but applicable only with respect to the procedure 
        to be followed in the House in the case of resolutions of 
        repository siting approval, and such provisions supersede other 
        rules of the House only to the extent that they are inconsistent 
        with such other rules; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 
        House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure 
        of the House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same 
        extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.

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  (2) Resolutions of repository siting approval shall, upon 
introduction, be immediately referred by the Speaker of the House to the 
appropriate committee or committees of the House. Any such resolution 
received from the Senate shall be held at the Speaker's table.
  (3) Upon the expiration of 60 days of continuous session after the 
introduction of the first resolution of repository siting approval with 
respect to any site, each committee to which such resolution was 
referred shall be discharged from further consideration of such 
resolution, and such resolution shall be referred to the appropriate 
calendar, unless such resolution or an identical resolution was 
previously reported by each committee to which it was referred.
  (4) It shall be in order for the Speaker to recognize a Member 
favoring a resolution to call up a resolution of repository siting 
approval after it has been on the appropriate calendar for 5 legislative 
days. When any such resolution is called up, the House shall proceed to 
its immediate consideration and the Speaker shall recognize the Member 
calling up such resolution and a Member opposed to such resolution for 2 
hours of debate in the House, to be equally divided and controlled by 
such Members. When such time has expired, the previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the resolution to adoption without intervening 
motion. No amendment to any such resolution shall be in order, nor shall 
it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which such resolution 
is agreed to or disagreed to.
  (5) If the House receives from the Senate a resolution of repository 
siting approval with respect to any site, then the following procedures 
shall apply:
          (A) The resolution of the Senate with respect to such site 
        shall not be referred to a committee.
          (B) With respect to the resolution of the House with respect 
        to such site--
                  (i) the procedure with respect to that or other 
                resolutions of the House with respect to such site shall 
                be the same as if no resolution from the Senate with 
                respect to such site had been received; but
                  (ii) on any vote on final passage of a resolution of 
                the House with respect to such site, a resolution from 
                the Senate with respect to such site where the text is 
                identical shall be automatically substituted for the 
                resolution of the House.

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  (f) computation of days.--For purposes of this section--
          (1) continuity of session of Congress is broken only by an 
        adjournment sine die; and
          (2) the days on which either House is not in session because 
        of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are 
        excluded in the computation of the 90-day period referred to in 
        subsection (c) and the 60-day period referred to in subsections 
        (d) and (e).

                                  * * *

  The first time the House considered a measure under these procedures 
was to address the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository Site in the 107th 
Congress (H. J. Res. 87, May 8, 2002, p. 7145). A privileged joint 
resolution of approval called up under these procedures is subject to a 
point of order under section 425 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(relating to unfunded mandates) (May 8, 2002, p. 7145).
                                                          Sec. 1130(24B)

              b. interim storage program, Sec. Sec. 131-37

                          [42 U.S.C. 10151-57]

        review of storage sites and state participation, Sec. 135

                            [42 U.S.C. 10155]

  Sec. 135. * * * (d) * * * (6)(A) Upon deciding to provide an aggregate 
of 300 or more metric tons of storage capacity under subsection (a)(1) 
at any one site, the Secretary shall notify the Governor and legislature 
of the State where such site is located, or the governing body of the 
Indian tribe in whose reservation such site is located, as the case may 
be, of such decision. During the 60-day period following receipt of 
notification by the Secretary of his decision to provide an aggregate of 
300 or more metric tons of storage capacity at any one site, the 
Governor or legislature of the State in which such site is located, or 
the governing body of the affected Indian tribe where such site is 
located, as the case may be, may disapprove the provision of 300 or more 
metric tons of storage capacity at the site involved and submit to the 
Congress a notice of such disapproval. A notice of disapproval shall be 
considered to be submitted to the Congress on the date of the 
transmittal of such notice of disapproval to the Speaker of the House 
and the President pro tempore of the Senate. Such notice of disapproval 
shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons explaining why the 
provision of such

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storage capacity at such site was disapproved by such Governor or 
legislature or the governing body of such Indian tribe.
  (B) Unless otherwise provided by State law, the Governor or 
legislature of each State shall have authority to submit a notice of 
disapproval to the Congress under subparagraph (A). In any case in which 
State law provides for submission of any such notice of disapproval by 
any other person or entity, any reference in this subtitle to the 
Governor or legislature of such State shall be considered to refer 
instead to such other person or entity.
  (C) The authority of the Governor and legislature of each State under 
this paragraph shall not be applicable with respect to any site located 
on a reservation.
  (D) If any notice of disapproval is submitted to the Congress under 
subparagraph (A), the proposed provision of 300 or more metric tons of 
storage capacity at the site involved shall be disapproved unless, 
during the first period of 90 calendar days of continuous session of the 
Congress following the date of the receipt by the Congress of such 
notice of disapproval, the Congress passes a resolution approving such 
proposed provision of storage capacity in accordance with the procedures 
established in this paragraph and subsections (d) through (f) of section 
115 and such resolution thereafter becomes law. For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term ``resolution'' means a joint resolution of either 
House of the Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is 
as follows: ``That there hereby is approved the provision of 300 or more 
metric tons of spent nuclear fuel storage capacity at the site located 
at ___, with respect to which a notice of disapproval was submitted by 
___ on ___.''. The first blank space in such resolution shall be filled 
with the geographic location of the site involved; the second blank 
space in such resolution shall be filled with the designation of the 
State Governor and legislature or affected Indian tribe governing body 
submitting the notice of disapproval involved; and the last blank space 
in such resolution shall be filled with the date of submission of such 
notice of disapproval.
  (E) For purposes of the consideration of any resolution described in 
subparagraph (D), each reference in subsections (d) and (e) of section 
115 to a resolution of repository siting approval shall be considered to 
refer to the resolution described in such subparagraph.

                                  * * *

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                                                          Sec. 1130(24C)

           c. monitored retrievable storage, Sec. Sec. 141-49

                     secretarial proposal, Sec. 141

                            [42 U.S.C. 10161]

  Sec. 141. * * * (b) submission of proposal by secretary.--(1) On or 
before June 1, 1985, the Secretary shall complete a detailed study of 
the need for and feasibility of, and shall submit to the Congress a 
proposal for, the construction of one or more monitored retrievable 
storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear 
fuel. Each such facility shall be designed--
          (A) to accommodate spent nuclear fuel and high-level 
        radioactive waste resulting from civilian nuclear activities;
          (B) to permit continuous monitoring, management, and 
        maintenance of such spent fuel and waste for the foreseeable 
        future;
          (C) to provide for the ready retrieval of such spent fuel and 
        waste for further processing or disposal; and
          (D) to safely store such spent fuel and waste as long as may 
        be necessary by maintaining such facility through appropriate 
        means, including any required replacement of such facility. * * 
        *

                                  * * *

  (h) participation of states and indian tribes.--Any facility 
authorized pursuant to this section shall be subject to the provisions 
of sections 115, 116(a), 116(b), 116(d), 117, and 118. For purposes of 
carrying out the provisions of this subsection, any reference in 
sections 115 through 118 to a repository shall be considered to refer to 
a monitored retrievable storage facility.

                        site selection, Sec. 145

                            [42 U.S.C. 10165]

  Sec. 145. (a) in general.--The Secretary may select the site evaluated 
under section 144 that the Secretary determines on the basis of 
available information to be the most suitable for a monitored 
retrievable storage facility that is an integral part of the system for 
the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste 
established under this Act.

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                                  * * *

                     notice of disapproval, Sec. 146

                            [42 U.S.C. 10166]

  Sec. 146. (a) in general.--The selection of a site under section 145 
shall be effective at the end of the period of 60 calendar days 
beginning on the date of notification under such subsection, unless the 
governing body of the Indian tribe on whose reservation such site is 
located, or, if the site is not on a reservation, the Governor and the 
legislature of the State in which the site is located, has submitted to 
Congress a notice of disapproval with respect to such site. If any such 
notice of disapproval has been submitted under this subsection, the 
selection of the site under section 145 shall not be effective except as 
provided under section 115(c).
  (b) references.--For purposes of carrying out the provisions of this 
subsection, references in section 115(c) to a repository shall be 
considered to refer to a monitored retrievable storage facility and 
references to a notice of disapproval of a repository site designation 
under section 116(b) or 118(a) shall be considered to refer to a notice 
of disapproval under this section.
                                                          Sec. 1130(25A)




                25. Defense Base Closure and Realignment

  a. defense base closure and realignment act of 1990, Sec. Sec. 2903, 
                               2904, 2908

                          [10 U.S.C. 2687 note]

      closure and realignment of military installations, Sec. 2904

  Sec. 2904. * * * (b) congressional disapproval.--(1) The Secretary may 
not carry out any closure or realignment recommended by the Commission 
in a report transmitted from the President pursuant to section 2903(e) 
if a joint resolution is enacted, in accordance with the provisions of 
section 2908, disapproving such recommendations of the Commission before 
the earlier of--
          (A) the end of the 45-day period beginning on the date on 
        which the President transmits such report; or
          (B) the adjournment of Congress sine die for the session 
        during which such report is transmitted.

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  (2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection and subsections 
(a) and (c) of section 2908, the days on which either House of Congress 
is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a 
day certain shall be excluded in the computation of a period.

                                  * * *

       congressional consideration of commission report, Sec. 2908

  Sec. 2908. (a) terms of the resolution.--For purposes of section 
2904(b), the term ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution 
which is introduced within the 10-day period beginning on the date on 
which the President transmits the report to the Congress under section 
2903(e), and--
          (1) which does not have a preamble;
          (2) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
        follows: ``That Congress disapproves the recommendations of the 
        Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission as submitted by 
        the President on ___'', the blank space being filled in with the 
        appropriate date; and
          (3) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution 
        disapproving the recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and 
        Realignment Commission.''.
  (b) referral.--A resolution described in subsection (a) that is 
introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. A 
resolution described in subsection (a) introduced in the Senate shall be 
referred to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
  (c) discharge.--If the committee to which a resolution described in 
subsection (a) is referred has not reported such resolution (or an 
identical resolution) by the end of the 20-day period beginning on the 
date on which the President transmits the report to the Congress under 
section 2903(e), such committee shall be, at the end of such period, 
discharged from further consideration of such resolution, and such 
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House 
involved.
  (d) consideration.--(1) On or after the third day after the date on 
which the committee to which such a resolution is referred has reported, 
or has been discharged (under subsection (c)) from further consideration 
of, such

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a resolution, it is in order (even though a previous motion to the same 
effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective House to 
move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. A Member may 
make the motion only on the day after the calendar day on which the 
Member announces to the House concerned the Member's intention to make 
the motion, except that, in the case of the House of Representatives, 
the motion may be made without such prior announcement if the motion is 
made by direction of the committee to which the resolution was referred. 
All points of order against the resolution (and against consideration of 
the resolution) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in the House 
of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. 
The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or 
to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion 
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to 
shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
the resolution is agreed to, the respective House shall immediately 
proceed to consideration of the joint resolution without intervening 
motion, order, or other business, and the resolution shall remain the 
unfinished business of the respective House until disposed of.
  (2) Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals 
in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, 
which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing 
the resolution. An amendment to the resolution is not in order. A motion 
further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. A motion to 
postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, 
or a motion to recommit the resolution is not in order. A motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to 
is not in order.
  (3) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a resolution 
described in subsection (a) and a single quorum call at the conclusion 
of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 
appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution shall 
occur.
  (4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution described 
in subsection (a) shall be decided without debate.

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  (e) consideration by other house.--(1) If, before the passage by one 
House of a resolution of that House described in subsection (a), that 
House receives from the other House a resolution described in subsection 
(a), then the following procedures shall apply:
          (A) The resolution of the other House shall not be referred to 
        a committee and may not be considered in the House receiving it 
        except in the case of final passage as provided in subparagraph 
        (B)(ii).
          (B) With respect to a resolution described in subsection (a) 
        of the House receiving the resolution--
                  (i) the procedure in that House shall be the same as 
                if no resolution had been received from the other House; 
                but
                  (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the 
                resolution of the other House.
  (2) Upon disposition of the resolution received from the other House, 
it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution that 
originated in the receiving House.
  (f) rules of the senate and house.--This section is enacted by 
Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed 
        a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable 
        only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House 
        in the case of a resolution described in subsection (a), and it 
        supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is 
        inconsistent with such rules; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.

                                  * * *

  The House has considered joint resolutions pursuant to this section in 
the full House by special rule (July 30, 1991, p. 20315) and by 
unanimous consent (Sept. 8, 1995, p. 24129), and in the Committee of the 
Whole by motion (Oct. 27, 2005, p. 23979), in which case the Committee 
rose without motion at the conclusion of debate and the question on 
passage was put without intervening motion. Managers in the Committee of 
the Whole yielded control of portions of their time by unanimous consent 
(Oct. 27, 2005, p. 23979). The manager calling up a joint resolution 
pursuant to this section is entitled to close debate thereon (even when 
opposed, as in the case of a joint resolution reported adversely) (Oct. 
27, 2005, p. 23993).

[[Page 1269]]

 The House by special rule restricted the availability of the motion to 
proceed to consider a joint resolution pursuant to this section (Sept. 
29, 2005, p. 21786). Because the Commission has not submitted a report 
pursuant to the statute since 2005, these procedures have been truncated 
in this compilation.
                                                          Sec. 1130(25B)

    b. emergency supplemental appropriations and rescissions for the 
department of defense to preserve and enhance military readiness act of 
                             1994, Sec. 112

                    [P.L. 104-6; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note]

              department of defense--military construction

  Sec. 112. None of the funds made available to the Department of 
Defense for any fiscal year for military construction or family housing 
may be obligated to initiate construction projects upon enactment of 
this Act for any project on an installation that--
          (1) was included in the closure and realignment 
        recommendations submitted by the Secretary of Defense to the 
        Base Closure and Realignment Commission on February 28, 1995, 
        unless removed by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission, 
        or
          (2) is included in the closure and realignment recommendation 
        as submitted to Congress in 1995 in accordance with the Defense 
        Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, as amended (Public Law 
        101-510):
Provided, That the prohibition on obligation of funds for projects 
located on an installation cited for realignment are only to be in 
effect if the function or activity with which the project is associated 
will be transferred from the installation as a result of the 
realignment: Provided further, That this provision will remain in effect 
unless the Congress enacts a Joint Resolution of Disapproval in 
accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, as 
amended (Public Law 101-510).
                                                           Sec. 1130(26)




 26. Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, Sec. 304 [2 U.S.C. 1384]

  Sec. 304. substantive regulations.
  (a) regulations.--

          (1) in general.--The procedures applicable to the regulations 
        of the Board issued for the implementa

[[Page 1270]]

        tion of this Act, which shall include regulations the Board is 
        required to issue under title II (including regulations on the 
        appropriate application of exemptions under the laws made 
        applicable in title II) are prescribed in this section.
          (2) rulemaking procedure.--Such regulations of the Board--
                  (A) shall be adopted, approved, and issued in 
                accordance with subsection (b); and
                  (B) shall consist of 3 separate bodies of regulations, 
                which shall apply, respectively, to--

  (i) the Senate and Employees of the Senate;

  (ii) the House of Representatives and employees of the House of 
Representatives; and

  (iii) all other covered employees and employing offices.

  (b) adoption by the board.--The Board shall adopt the regulations 
referred to in subsection (a)(1) in accordance with the principles and 
procedures set forth in section 553 of title 5, United States Code, and 
as provided in the following provisions of this subsection:
          (1) proposal.--The Board shall publish a general notice of 
        proposed rulemaking under section 553(b) of title 5, United 
        States Code, but, instead of publication of a general notice of 
        proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, the Board shall 
        transmit such notice to the Speaker of the House of 
        Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate for 
        publication in the Congressional Record on the first day on 
        which both Houses are in session following such transmittal. 
        Such notice shall set forth the recommendations of the Deputy 
        Director for the Senate in regard to regulations under 
        subsection (a)(2)(B)(i), the recommendations of the Deputy 
        Director for the House of Representatives in regard to 
        regulations under subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii), and the 
        recommendations of the Executive Director for regulations under 
        subsection (a)(2)(B)(iii).
          (2) comment.--Before adopting regulations, the Board shall 
        provide a comment period of at least 30 days after publication 
        of a general notice of proposed rulemaking.
          (3) adoption.--After considering comments, the Board shall 
        adopt regulations and shall transmit notice of such action 
        together with a copy of such regulations to the Speaker of the 
        House of Representatives

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        and the President pro tempore of the Senate for publication in 
        the Congressional Record on the first day on which both Houses 
        are in session following such transmittal.
          (4) recommendation as to method of approval.--The Board shall 
        include a recommendation in the general notice of proposed 
        rulemaking and in the regulations as to whether the regulations 
        should be approved by resolution of the Senate, by resolution of 
        the House of Representatives, by concurrent resolution, or by 
        joint resolution.
  (c) approval of regulations.--
          (1) in general.--Regulations referred to in paragraph 
        (2)(B)(i) of subsection (a) may be approved by the Senate by 
        resolution or by the Congress by concurrent resolution or by 
        joint resolution. Regulations referred to in paragraph 
        (2)(B)(ii) of subsection (a) may be approved by the House of 
        Representatives by resolution or by the Congress by concurrent 
        resolution or by joint resolution. Regulations referred to in 
        paragraph (2)(B)(iii) may be approved by Congress by concurrent 
        resolution or by joint resolution.
          (2) referral.--Upon receipt of a notice of adoption of 
        regulations under subsection (b)(3), the presiding officers of 
        the House of Representatives and the Senate shall refer such 
        notice, together with a copy of such regulations, to the 
        appropriate committee or committees of the House of 
        Representatives and of the Senate. The purpose of the referral 
        shall be to consider whether such regulations should be 
        approved, and, if so, whether such approval should be by 
        resolution of the House of Representatives or of the Senate, by 
        concurrent resolution or by joint resolution.
          (3) joint referral and discharge in the senate.--The presiding 
        officer of the Senate may refer the notice of issuance of 
        regulations, or any resolution of approval of regulations, to 
        one committee or jointly to more than one committee. If a 
        committee of the Senate acts to report a jointly referred 
        measure, any other committee of the Senate must act within 30 
        calendar days of continuous session, or be automatically 
        discharged.
          (4) one-house resolution or concurrent resolution.--In the 
        case of a resolution of the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate or a concurrent resolution referred to in paragraph (1), 
        the matter after the

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        resolving clause shall be the following: ``The following 
        regulations issued by the Office of Compliance on ___ are hereby 
        approved:'' (the blank space being appropriately filled in, and 
        the text of the regulations being set forth).
          (5) joint resolution.--In the case of joint resolution 
        referred to in paragraph (1), the matter after the resolving 
        clause shall be the following: ``The following regulations 
        issued by the Office of Compliance on ___ are hereby approved 
        and shall have the force and effect of law:'' (the blank space 
        being appropriately filled in, and the text of the regulations 
        being set forth).
  (d) issuance and effective date.--
          (1) publication.--After approval of regulations under 
        subsection (c), the Board shall submit the regulations to the 
        Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro 
        tempore of the Senate for publication in the Congressional 
        Record on the first day on which both Houses are in session 
        following such transmittal.
          (2) date of issuance.--The date of issuance of regulations 
        shall be the date on which they are published in the 
        Congressional Record under paragraph (1).
          (3) effective date.--Regulations shall become effective not 
        less than 60 days after the regulations are issued, except that 
        the Board may provide for an earlier effective date for good 
        cause found (within the meaning of section 553(d)(3) of title 5, 
        United States Code) and published with the regulation.
  (e) amendment of regulations.--Regulations may be amended in the same 
manner as is described in this section for the adoption, approval, and 
issuance of regulations, except that the Board may, in its discretion, 
dispense with publications of a general notice of proposed rulemaking of 
minor, technical, or urgent amendments that satisfy the criteria for 
dispensing with publication of such notice pursuant to section 553(b)(B) 
of title 5, United States Code.

                                  * * *

  In the 104th Congress the House agreed to a concurrent resolution 
approving with changes regulations promulgated by the Office of 
Compliance under this provision (S. Con. Res. 51, Apr. 15, 1996, p. 
7515). On December 19, 1995, the House agreed to a resolution and a 
concurrent resolution

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providing ``provisional'' approval of regulations not yet promulgated 
(H. Res. 311, p. 37590; H. Con. Res. 123, p. 37632).
                                                           Sec. 1130(27)




  27. Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996, 
                      Sec. 204(e) [22 U.S.C. 6064]

  Sec. 204. termination of the economic embargo of cuba.

  (a) presidential actions.--Upon submitting a determination to the 
appropriate congressional committees under section 203(c)(1) that a 
transition government in Cuba is in power, the President, after 
consultation with the Congress, is authorized to take steps to suspend 
the economic embargo of Cuba and to suspend the right of action created 
in section 302 [22 U.S.C. 6082] with respect to actions thereafter filed 
against the Cuban Government, to the extent that such steps contribute 
to a stable foundation for a democratically elected government in Cuba.

                                  * * *

  (e) review of suspension of economic embargo.--
          (1)  review.--If the President takes action under subsection 
        (a) to suspend the economic embargo of Cuba, the President shall 
        immediately so notify the Congress. The President shall report 
        to the Congress no less frequently than every 6 months 
        thereafter, until he submits a determination under section 
        203(c)(3) that a democratically elected government in Cuba is in 
        power, on the progress being made by Cuba toward the 
        establishment of such a democratically elected government. The 
        action of the President under subsection (a) shall cease to be 
        effective upon the enactment of a joint resolution described in 
        paragraph (2).
          (2)  joint resolutions.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        term ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution of the 2 
        Houses of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That the Congress disapproves the action 
        of the President under section 204(a) of the Cuban Liberty and 
        Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to suspend the 
        economic embargo of Cuba, notice of which was submitted to the 
        Congress on ___.'', with the blank space being filled with the 
        appropriate date.

[[Page 1274]]

          (3) referral to committees.--Joint resolutions introduced in 
        the House of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee 
        on International Relations and joint resolutions introduced in 
        the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign 
        Relations.
          (4) procedures.--(A) Any joint resolution shall be considered 
        in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 
        601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export 
        Control Act of 1976.
          (B) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and 
        enactment of joint resolutions, a motion to proceed to the 
        consideration of any joint resolution after it has been reported 
        by the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly 
        privileged in the House of Representatives.
          (C) Not more than 1 joint resolution may be considered in the 
        House of Representatives and the Senate in the 6-month period 
        beginning on the date on which the President notifies the 
        Congress under paragraph (1) of the action taken under 
        subsection (a), and in each 6-month period thereafter.
                                                           Sec. 1130(28)




 28. Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking [5 U.S.C. 801, 802, 804]

  The following excerpts of chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, do 
not contain privileged procedures for the consideration of a measure in 
the House. They are depicted here because they constitute Rules of the 
House and potentially affect the legislative process. Detailed 
procedures for the consideration in the Senate of a joint resolution 
disapproving an agency rule may be found in the statute (5 U.S.C. 802).

  Sec. 801. congressional review.

  (a)(1)(A) Before a rule can take effect, the Federal agency 
promulgating such rule shall submit to each House of the Congress and to 
the Comptroller General a report containing--
          (i) a copy of the rule;
          (ii) a concise general statement relating to the rule, 
        including whether it is a major rule; and
          (iii) the proposed effective date of the rule.
  (B) On the date of the submission of the report under subparagraph 
(A), the Federal agency promulgating the rule shall submit to the 
Comptroller General and make available to each House of Congress--

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          (i) a complete copy of the cost-benefit analysis of the rule, 
        if any;
          (ii) the agency's actions relevant to sections 603, 604, 605, 
        607, and 609;
          (iii) the agency's actions relevant to sections 202, 203, 204, 
        and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 [2 U.S.C. 
        1532-35]; and
          (iv) any other relevant information or requirements under any 
        other Act and any relevant Executive orders.
  (C) Upon receipt of a report submitted under subparagraph (A), each 
House shall provide copies of the report to the chairman and ranking 
member of each standing committee with jurisdiction under the rules of 
the House of Representatives or the Senate to report a bill to amend the 
provision of law under which the rule is issued.
  (2)(A) The Comptroller General shall provide a report on each major 
rule to the committees of jurisdiction in each House of the Congress by 
the end of 15 calendar days after the submission or publication date as 
provided in section 802(b)(2). The report of the Comptroller General 
shall include an assessment of the agency's compliance with procedural 
steps required by paragraph (1)(B).
  (B) Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Comptroller General by 
providing information relevant to the Comptroller General's report under 
subparagraph (A).
  (3) A major rule relating to a report submitted under paragraph (1) 
shall take effect on the latest of--
          (A) the later of the date occurring 60 days after the date on 
        which--
                  (i) the Congress receives the report submitted under 
                paragraph (1); or
                  (ii) the rule is published in the Federal Register, if 
                so published;
          (B) if the Congress passes a joint resolution of disapproval 
        described in section 802 relating to the rule, and the President 
        signs a veto of such resolution, the earlier date--
                  (i) on which either House of Congress votes and fails 
                to override the veto of the President; or
                  (ii) occurring 30 session days after the date on which 
                the Congress received the veto and objections of the 
                President; or
          (C) the date the rule would have otherwise taken effect, if 
        not for this section (unless a joint resolution of disapproval 
        under section 802 is enacted).

[[Page 1276]]

  (4) Except for a major rule, a rule shall take effect as otherwise 
provided by law after submission to Congress under paragraph (1).
  (5) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), the effective date of a rule shall 
not be delayed by operation of this chapter beyond the date on which 
either House of Congress votes to reject a joint resolution of 
disapproval under section 802.
  (b)(1) A rule shall not take effect (or continue), if the Congress 
enacts a joint resolution of disapproval, described under section 802, 
of the rule.
  (2) A rule that does not take effect (or does not continue) under 
paragraph (1) may not be reissued in substantially the same form, and a 
new rule that is substantially the same as such a rule may not be 
issued, unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a 
law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the 
original rule.
  (c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section (except 
subject to paragraph (3)), a rule that would not take effect by reason 
of subsection (a)(3) may take effect, if the President makes a 
determination under paragraph (2) and submits written notice of such 
determination to the Congress.
  (2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination made by the President by 
Executive order that the rule should take effect because such rule is--
          (A) necessary because of an imminent threat to health or 
        safety or other emergency;
          (B) necessary for the enforcement of criminal laws;
          (C) necessary for national security; or
          (D) issued pursuant to any statute implementing an 
        international trade agreement.
  (3) An exercise by the President of the authority under this 
subsection shall have no effect on the procedures under section 802 or 
the effect of a joint resolution of disapproval under this section.
  (d)(1) In addition to the opportunity for review otherwise provided 
under this chapter, in the case of any rule for which a report was 
submitted in accordance with subsection (a)(1)(A) during the period 
beginning on the date occurring--
          (A) in the case of the Senate, 60 session days, or
          (B) in the case of the House of Representatives, 60 
        legislative days,
before the date the Congress adjourns a session of Congress through the 
date on which the same or succeeding

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Congress first convenes its next session, section 802 shall apply to 
such rule in the succeeding session of Congress.
  (2)(A) In applying section 802 for purposes of such additional review, 
a rule described under paragraph (1) shall be treated as though--
          (i) such rule were published in the Federal Register (as a 
        rule that shall take effect) on--
                  (I) in the case of the Senate, the 15th session day, 
                or
                  (II) in the case of the House of Representatives, the 
                15th legislative day,
        after the succeeding session of Congress first convenes; and
          (ii) a report on such rule were submitted to Congress under 
        subsection (a)(1) on such date.
  (B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to affect the 
requirement under subsection (a)(1) that a report shall be submitted to 
Congress before a rule can take effect.
  (3) A rule described under paragraph (1) shall take effect as 
otherwise provided by law (including other subsections of this section).

                                  * * *

  (f) Any rule that takes effect and later is made of no force or effect 
by enactment of a joint resolution under section 802 shall be treated as 
though such rule had never taken effect.
  (g) If the Congress does not enact a joint resolution of disapproval 
under section 802 respecting a rule, no court or agency may infer any 
intent of the Congress from any action or inaction of the Congress with 
regard to such rule, related statute, or joint resolution of 
disapproval.

  Sec. 802. congressional disapproval procedure.

  (a) For purposes of this section, the term ``joint resolution'' means 
only a joint resolution introduced in the period beginning on the date 
on which the report referred to in section 801(a)(1)(A) is received by 
Congress and ending 60 days thereafter (excluding days either House of 
Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a session of 
Congress), the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 
``That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the ___ relating to 
___, and such rule shall have no force or effect.'' (The blank spaces 
being appropriately filled in).

[[Page 1278]]

  (b)(1) A joint resolution described in subsection (a) shall be 
referred to the committees in each House of Congress with jurisdiction.
  (2) For purposes of this section, the term ``submission or publication 
date'' means the later of the date on which--
          (A) the Congress receives the report submitted under section 
        801(a)(1); or
          (B) the rule is published in the Federal Register, if so 
        published.

                                  * * *

  (f) If, before the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that 
House described in subsection (a), that House receives from the other 
House a joint resolution described in subsection (a), then the following 
procedures shall apply:
          (1) The joint resolution of the other House shall not be 
        referred to a committee.
          (2) With respect to a joint resolution described in subsection 
        (a) of the House receiving the joint resolution--
                  (A) the procedure in that House shall be the same as 
                if no joint resolution had been received from the other 
                House; but
                  (B) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint 
                resolution of the other House.

                                  * * *

  Sec. 804. definitions.

  For purposes of this chapter--
          (1) The term ``Federal agency'' means any agency as that term 
        is defined in section 551(1).
          (2) The term ``major rule'' means any rule that the 
        Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory 
        Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds has 
        resulted in or is likely to result in--
                  (A) an annual effect on the economy of $100,000,000 or 
                more;
                  (B) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, 
                individual industries, Federal, State, or local 
                government agencies, or geographic regions; or
                  (C) significant adverse effects on competition, 
                employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or on 
                the ability of United States-based enter

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                prises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in 
                domestic and export markets.
        The term does not include any rule promulgated under the 
        Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the amendments made by that 
        Act.
          (3) The term ``rule'' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 551, except that such term does not include--
                  (A) any rule of particular applicability, including a 
                rule that approves or prescribes for the future rates, 
                wages, prices, services, or allowances therefor, 
                corporate or financial structures, reorganizations, 
                mergers, or acquisitions thereof, or accounting 
                practices or disclosures bearing on any of the 
                foregoing;
                  (B) any rule relating to agency management or 
                personnel; or
                  (C) any rule of agency organization, procedure, or 
                practice that does not substantially affect the rights 
                or obligations of non-agency parties.

                                  * * *

  In compliance with the requirement of the Act that ``major'' final 
regulations submitted later than a certain number of days before the end 
of a legislative session be treated as though received on a legislative 
day certain in the next session, the Congressional Record of that 
subsequent legislative day contained a notice of the resubmission of all 
such ``grandfathered'' regulations (e.g., Mar. 1, 2000, p. 1851; Mar. 4, 
2002, p. 2354).
                                                           Sec. 1130(29)




29. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act [2 U.S.C. 904(i), 
                               907a-907c]

  These excerpts are provided for quick reference. They include the 
provisions of the Act that relate directly to House procedure. Sections 
258-258C primarily provide for reporting and consideration of 
legislation in the Senate; therefore, only portions of those sections 
are carried here.

SEC. 254. REPORTS AND ORDERS.
* * * * *
  (i) Low-Growth Report.--At any time, CBO shall notify the Congress 
if--
          (1) during the period consisting of the quarter during which 
        such notification is given, the quarter preceding such 
        notification and the 4 quarters following

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        such notification, CBO or OMB has determined that real economic 
        growth is projected or estimated to be less than zero with 
        respect to each of any 2 consecutive quarters within such 
        period; or
          (2) the most recent of the Department of Commerce's advance 
        preliminary or final reports of actual real economic growth 
        indicate that the rate of real economic growth for each of the 
        most recently reported quarter and the immediately preceding 
        quarter is less than one percent.

* * * * *
SEC. 258. SUSPENSION IN THE EVENT OF WAR OR LOW GROWTH.
  (a) Procedures in the Event of a Low-Growth Report.--
          (1) Trigger.--Whenever CBO issues a low-growth report under 
        section 254(i), the Majority Leader of the House of 
        Representatives may, and the Majority Leader of the Senate 
        shall, introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in 
        paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in 
        section 254(i) are met and suspending the relevant provisions of 
        this title, titles III and VI of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974, and section 1103 of title 31, United States Code.
          (2) Form of joint resolution.--
                  (A) The matter after the resolving clause in any joint 
                resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be 
                as follows: ``That the Congress declares that the 
                conditions specified in section 254(j) of the Balanced 
                Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are 
                met, and the implementation of the Congressional Budget 
                and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, chapter 11 of title 
                31, United States Code, and part C of the Balanced 
                Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are 
                modified as described in section 258(b) of the Balanced 
                Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.''.
                  (B) The title of the joint resolution shall be ``Joint 
                resolution suspending certain provisions of law pursuant 
                to section 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and 
                Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.''; and the joint 
                resolution shall not contain any preamble.

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          (3) Committee action.--Each joint resolution introduced 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be referred to the appropriate 
        committees of the House of Representatives or the Committee on 
        the Budget of the Senate, as the case may be; and such Committee 
        shall report the joint resolution to its House without amendment 
        on or before the fifth day on which such House is in session 
        after the date on which the joint resolution is introduced. If 
        the Committee fails to report the joint resolution within the 
        five-day period referred to in the preceding sentence, it shall 
        be automatically discharged from further consideration of the 
        joint resolution, and the joint resolution shall be placed on 
        the appropriate calendar.
          (4) Consideration of joint resolution.--(A) A vote on final 
        passage of a joint resolution reported to the Senate or 
        discharged pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be taken on or before 
        the close of the fifth calendar day of session after the date on 
        which the joint resolution is reported or after the Committee 
        has been discharged from further consideration of the joint 
        resolution. If prior to the passage by one House of a joint 
        resolution of that House, that House receives the same joint 
        resolution from the other House, then--
                  (i) the procedure in that House shall be the same as 
                if no such joint resolution had been received from the 
                other House, but
                  (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint 
                resolution of the other House.
        When the joint resolution is agreed to, the Clerk of the House 
        of Representatives (in the case of a House joint resolution 
        agreed to in the House of Representatives) or the Secretary of 
        the Senate (in the case of a Senate joint resolution agreed to 
        in the Senate) shall cause the joint resolution to be engrossed, 
        certified, and transmitted to the other House of the Congress as 
        soon as practicable.
* * * * *

  (b) Suspension of Sequestration Procedures.--Upon the enactment of a 
declaration of war or a joint resolution described in subsection (a)--
          (1) the subsequent issuance of any sequestration report or any 
        sequestration order is precluded;
          (2) sections 302(f), 310(d), 311(a), and title VI of the 
        Congressional Budget Act of 1974 are suspended; and

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          (3) section 1103 of title 31, United States Code, is 
        suspended.

  (c) Restoration of Sequestration Procedures.--(1) In the event of a 
suspension of sequestration procedures due to a declaration of war, 
then, effective with the first fiscal year that begins in the session 
after the state of war is concluded by Senate ratification of the 
necessary treaties, the provisions of subsection (b) triggered by that 
declaration of war are no longer effective.
  (2) In the event of a suspension of sequestration procedures due to 
the enactment of a joint resolution described in subsection (a), then, 
effective with regard to the first fiscal year beginning at least 12 
months after the enactment of that resolution, the provisions of 
subsection (b) triggered by that resolution are no longer effective.

SEC. 258A. MODIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ORDER.
  (a) Introduction of Joint Resolution.--At any time after the Director 
of OMB issues a final sequestration report under section 254 for a 
fiscal year, but before the close of the twentieth calendar day of the 
session of Congress beginning after the date of issuance of such report, 
the majority leader of either House of Congress may introduce a joint 
resolution which contains provisions directing the President to modify 
the most recent order issued under section 254 or provide an alternative 
to reduce the deficit for such fiscal year. After the introduction of 
the first such joint resolution in either House of Congress in any 
calendar year, then no other joint resolution introduced in such House 
in such calendar year shall be subject to the procedures set forth in 
this section.

  (b) Procedures for Consideration of Joint Resolutions.--
* * * * *

          (7) Resolution from other house.--If, before the passage by 
        the Senate of a joint resolution of the Senate introduced under 
        subsection (a), the Senate receives from the House of 
        Representatives a joint resolution introduced under subsection 
        (a), then the following procedures shall apply:
                  (A) The joint resolution of the House of 
                Representatives shall not be referred to a committee and 
                shall be placed on the calendar.

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                  (B) With respect to a joint resolution introduced 
                under subsection (a) in the Senate--
                        (i) the procedure in the Senate shall be the 
                    same as if no joint resolution had been received 
                    from the House; but
                        (ii)(I) the vote on final passage shall be on 
                    the joint resolution of the House if it is identical 
                    to the joint resolution then pending for passage in 
                    the Senate; or
                        (II) if the joint resolution from the House is 
                    not identical to the joint resolution then pending 
                    for passage in the Senate and the Senate then passes 
                    the Senate joint resolution, the Senate shall be 
                    considered to have passed the House joint resolution 
                    as amended by the text of the Senate joint 
                    resolution.
                  (C) Upon disposition of the joint resolution received 
                from the House, it shall no longer be in order to 
                consider the resolution originated in the Senate.
          (8) Senate action on house resolution.--If the Senate receives 
        from the House of Representatives a joint resolution introduced 
        under subsection (a) after the Senate has disposed of a Senate 
        originated resolution which is identical to the House passed 
        joint resolution, the action of the Senate with regard to the 
        disposition of the Senate originated joint resolution shall be 
        deemed to be the action of the Senate with regard to the House 
        originated joint resolution. If it is not identical to the House 
        passed joint resolution, then the Senate shall be considered to 
        have passed the joint resolution of the House as amended by the 
        text of the Senate joint resolution.

SEC. 258B. FLEXIBILITY AMONG DEFENSE PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND ACTIVITIES.
  (a) Subject to subsections (b), (c), and (d), new budget authority and 
unobligated balances for any programs, projects, or activities within 
major functional category 050 (other than a military personnel account) 
may be further reduced beyond the amount specified in an order issued by 
the President under section 254 for such fiscal year. To the extent such 
additional reductions are made and result in additional outlay 
reductions, the President may provide for lesser reductions in new 
budget authority and unobligated balances for other programs, projects, 
or activities

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within major functional category 050 for such fiscal year, but only to 
the extent that the resulting outlay increases do not exceed the 
additional outlay reductions, and no such program, project, or activity 
may be increased above the level actually made available by law in 
appropriation Acts (before taking sequestration into account). In making 
calculations under this subsection, the President shall use account 
outlay rates that are identical to those used in the report by the 
Director of OMB under section 254.

  (b) No actions taken by the President under subsection (a) for a 
fiscal year may result in a domestic base closure or realignment that 
would otherwise be subject to section 2687 of title 10, United States 
Code.

  (c) The President may not exercise the authority provided by this 
paragraph for a fiscal year unless--
          (1) the President submits a single report to Congress 
        specifying, for each account, the detailed changes proposed to 
        be made for such fiscal year pursuant to this section;
          (2) that report is submitted within 5 calendar days of the 
        start of the next session of Congress; and
          (3) a joint resolution affirming or modifying the changes 
        proposed by the President pursuant to this paragraph becomes 
        law.

  (d) Within 5 calendar days of session after the President submits a 
report to Congress under subsection (c)(1) for a fiscal year, the 
majority leader of each House of Congress shall (by request) introduce a 
joint resolution which contains provisions affirming the changes 
proposed by the President pursuant to this paragraph.

  (e)(1) The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution 
introduced pursuant to subsection (d) shall be as follows: ``That the 
report of the President as submitted on [Insert Date] under section 258B 
is hereby approved.''.
  (2) The title of the joint resolution shall be ``Joint resolution 
approving the report of the President submitted under section 258B of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.''.
  (3) Such joint resolution shall not contain any preamble.

* * * * *

  (l) If, before the passage by the Senate of a joint resolution of the 
Senate introduced under subsection (d), the Senate receives from the 
House of Representatives a joint

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resolution introduced under subsection (d), then the following 
procedures shall apply:
          (1) The joint resolution of the House of Representatives shall 
        not be referred to a committee.
          (2) With respect to a joint resolution introduced under 
        subsection (d) in the Senate--
                  (A) the procedure in the Senate shall be the same as 
                if no joint resolution had been received from the House; 
                but
                  (B)(i) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint 
                resolution of the House if it is identical to the joint 
                resolution then pending for passage in the Senate; or
                  (ii) if the joint resolution from the House is not 
                identical to the joint resolution then pending for 
                passage in the Senate and the Senate then passes the 
                Senate joint resolution, the Senate shall be considered 
                to have passed the House joint resolution as amended by 
                the text of the Senate joint resolution.
          (3) Upon disposition of the joint resolution received from the 
        House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the joint 
        resolution originated in the Senate.

  (m) If the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a joint 
resolution introduced under subsection (d) after the Senate has disposed 
of a Senate originated joint resolution which is identical to the House 
passed joint resolution, the action of the Senate with regard to the 
disposition of the Senate originated joint resolution shall be deemed to 
be the action of the Senate with regard to the House originated joint 
resolution. If it is not identical to the House passed joint resolution, 
then the Senate shall be considered to have passed the joint resolution 
of the House as amended by the text of the Senate joint resolution.
                                                           Sec. 1130(30)




                    30. Andean Counterdrug Initiative

emergency supplemental act, 2000 Sec. 3204 [p.l. 106-246, 114 stat. 511, 
 576, as amended by p.l. 107-115, 115 stat. 2131 and p.l. 108-199, 118 
                               stat. 210]

Sec. 3204. limitations on support for plan colombia and on the 
assignment of united states personnel in colombia.


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  (a) limitation on support for plan colombia.--
          (1) limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of 
        the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by any Act 
        shall be available for support of Plan Colombia unless and 
        until--
                  (A) the President submits a report to Congress 
                requesting the availability of such funds; and
                  (B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the 
                request of the President under subparagraph (A).
          (2) exceptions.--The limitation in paragraph (1) does not 
        apply to--
                  (A) appropriations made by this Act, the Foreign 
                Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
                Appropriations Act, 2001, the Military Construction 
                Appropriations Act, 2001, the Commerce, Justice, State 
                and the Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001, the Treasury 
                and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001, or the 
                Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001, for the 
                purpose of support of Plan Colombia; or
                  (B) the unobligated balances from any other program 
                used for their originally appropriated purpose to combat 
                drug production and trafficking, foster peace, increase 
                the rule of law, improve human rights, expand economic 
                development, and institute justice reform in the 
                countries covered by Plan Colombia.
          (3) waiver.--The limitations in subsection (a) may be waived 
        by an Act of Congress.
  (b) limitation on assignment of united states personnel in colombia.--
          (1) limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none of 
        the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or 
        any other Act (including funds described in subsection (c)) may 
        be available for--
                  (A) the assignment of any United States military 
                personnel for temporary or permanent duty in Colombia in 
                connection with support of Plan Colombia if that 
                assignment would cause the number of United States 
                military personnel so assigned in Colombia to exceed 
                400, or
                  (B) the employment of any United States individual 
                civilian retained as a contractor in Colombia if that 
                employment would cause the total number of United States 
                individual civilian con

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                tractors employed in Colombia in support of Plan 
                Colombia who are funded by Federal funds to exceed 400.
          (2) exception.--The limitation contained in paragraph (1) 
        shall not apply if--
                  (A) the President submits a report to Congress 
                requesting that the limitation not apply; and
                  (B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the 
                request of the President under subparagraph (A).
  (c) waiver.--The President may waive the limitation in subsection 
(b)(1) for a single period of up to 90 days in the event that the Armed 
Forces of the United States are involved in hostilities or that imminent 
involvement by the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities is 
clearly indicated by the circumstances.
  (d) statutory construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed 
to affect the authority of the President to carry out any emergency 
evacuation of United States citizens or any search or rescue operation 
for United States military personnel or other United States citizens.
  (e) report on support for plan colombia.--Not later than June 1, 2001, 
and not later than June 1 and December 1 of each of the succeeding 4 
fiscal years, the President shall submit a report to the appropriate 
congressional committees setting forth any costs (including incremental 
costs incurred by the Department of Defense) incurred by any department, 
agency, or other entity of the executive branch of Government during the 
two previous fiscal quarters in support of Plan Colombia. Each such 
report shall provide an itemization of expenditures by each such 
department, agency or entity.
  (f) quarterly reports.--Beginning within 90 days of the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the President shall 
submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that shall 
include the aggregate number, locations, activities, and lengths of 
assignment for all temporary and permanent United States military 
personnel and United States individual civilians retained as contractors 
involved in the antinarcotics campaign in Colombia.
  (g) congressional priority procedures.--
          (1) joint resolutions defined.--
                  (A) For purposes of subsection (a)(1)(B), the term 
                ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution 
                introduced not later than 10 days of the date

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                on which the report of the President under subsection 
                (a)(1)(A) is received by Congress, the matter after the 
                resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That Congress 
                approves the request of the President for additional 
                funds for Plan Colombia contained in the report 
                submitted by the President under section 3204(a)(1) of 
                the 2000 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
                  (B) For purposes of subsection (b)(2)(B), the term 
                ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution 
                introduced not later than 10 days of the date on which 
                the report of the President under subsection (a)(1)(A) 
                is received by Congress, the matter after the resolving 
                clause of which is as follows: ``That Congress approves 
                the request of the President for exemption from the 
                limitation applicable to the assignment of personnel in 
                Colombia contained in the report submitted by the 
                President under section 3204(b)(2)(B) of the 2000 
                Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
          (2) procedures.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a 
        joint resolution described in paragraph (1)(A) or (1)(B) shall 
        be considered in a House of Congress in accordance with the 
        procedures applicable to joint resolutions under paragraphs (3) 
        through (8) of section 8066(c) of the Department of Defense 
        Appropriations Act, 1985 (as contained in Public Law 98-473; 98 
        Stat. 1936).
  (h) plan colombia defined.--In this section, the term ``Plan 
Colombia'' means the plan of the Government of Colombia instituted by 
the administration of President Pastrana to combat drug production and 
trafficking, foster peace, increase the rule of law, improve human 
rights, expand economic development, and institute justice reform.
* * * * *

  department of defense appropriations act, 1985 Sec. 8066(c) [p.l. 98-
                      473; 98 stat. 1904, 1936-37]

  Sec. 8066 * * * (c)
  (c)(3) A resolution described in paragraph (1) introduced in the House 
of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives. A resolution described in paragraph (1) 
introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Ap

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propriations of the Senate. Such a resolution may not be reported before 
the eighth day after its introduction.
  (4) If the committee to which is referred a resolution described in 
paragraph (1) has not reported such resolution (or an identical 
resolution) at the end of fifteen calendar days after its introduction, 
such committee shall be discharged from further consideration of such 
resolution and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate 
calendar of the House involved.
  (5)(A) When the committee to which a resolution is referred has 
reported, or has been deemed to be discharged (under paragraph (4)) from 
further consideration of, a resolution described in paragraph (1) 
notwithstanding any rule or precedent of the Senate, including Rule 22, 
it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to 
the same effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective 
House to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution, and all 
points of order against the resolution (and against consideration of the 
resolution) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in the House of 
Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. 
The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or 
to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion 
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to 
shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
the resolution is agreed to, the resolution shall remain the unfinished 
business of the respective House until disposed of.
  (B) Debate on the resolution, and all debatable motions and appeals in 
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than ten hours, which 
shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
resolution. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not 
debatable. An amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to 
proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit 
the resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which 
the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order.
  (C) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a resolution 
described in paragraph (1), and a single quorum call at the conclusion 
of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 
appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution shall 
occur.
  (D) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of

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Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a 
resolution described in paragraph (1) shall be decided without debate.
  (6) If, before the passage by the Senate of a resolution described in 
paragraph (1), the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a 
resolution described in paragraph (1), then the following procedures 
shall apply:
          (A) The resolution of the House of Representatives shall not 
        be referred to a committee.
          (B) With respect to a resolution described in paragraph (1) of 
        the Senate--
                  (i) the procedure in the Senate shall be the same as 
                if no resolution had been received from the House; but
                  (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the 
                resolution of the House.
          (C) Upon disposition of the resolution received from the 
        House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution 
        originated in the Senate.
  (7) If the Senate receives from the House of Representatives a 
resolution described in paragraph (1) after the Senate has disposed of a 
Senate originated resolution, the action of the Senate with regard to 
the disposition of the Senate originated resolution shall be deemed to 
be the action of the Senate with regard to the House originated 
resolution.
  (8) This subsection is enacted by Congress--
          (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and 
        House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed 
        a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable 
        only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House 
        in the case of a resolution described in paragraph (1), and it 
        supercedes other rules only to the extent that it is 
        inconsistent with such rules; and
          (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.


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                                                           Sec. 1130(31)




31. Medicare Cost Containment; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, 
 and Modernization Act of 2003, Sec. Sec. 802-04 [31 U.S.C. 1105, 1105 
                                  note]

         Sec. 1105. budget contents and submission to Congress.

                                  * * *

  (h)(1) If there is a medicare funding warning under section 801(a)(2) 
of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 
2003 made in a year, the President shall submit to Congress, within the 
15-day period beginning on the date of the budget submission to Congress 
under subsection (a) for the succeeding year, proposed legislation to 
respond to such warning.
  (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if, during the year in which the 
warning is made, legislation is enacted which eliminates excess general 
revenue medicare funding (as defined in section 801(c) of the Medicare 
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) for the 
7-fiscal-year reporting period, as certified by the Board of Trustees of 
each medicare trust fund (as defined in section 801(c)(5) of such Act) 
not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of such 
legislation.

          Sec. 803. procedures in the house of representatives.

                          [31 U.S.C. 1105 note]

  (a) Introduction and Referral of President's Legislative Proposal.--
          (1) Introduction.--In the case of a legislative proposal 
        submitted by the President pursuant to section 1105(h) of title 
        31, United States Code, within the 15-day period specified in 
        paragraph (1) of such section, the Majority Leader of the House 
        of Representatives (or his designee) and the Minority Leader of 
        the House of Representatives (or his designee) shall introduce 
        such proposal (by request), the title of which is as follows: 
        ``A bill to respond to a medicare funding warning.'' Such bill 
        shall be introduced within 3 legislative days after Congress 
        receives such proposal.

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          (2) Referral.--Any legislation introduced pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) shall be referred to the appropriate committees of 
        the House of Representatives.
  (b) Direction to the Appropriate House Committees.--
          (1) In general.--In the House, in any year during which the 
        President is required to submit proposed legislation to Congress 
        under section 1105(h) of title 31, United States Code, the 
        appropriate committees shall report medicare funding legislation 
        by not later than June 30 of such year.
          (2) Medicare funding legislation.--For purposes of this 
        section, the term ``medicare funding legislation'' means--
                  (A) legislation introduced pursuant to subsection 
                (a)(1), but only if the legislative proposal upon which 
                the legislation is based was submitted within the 15-day 
                period referred to in such subsection; or
                  (B) any bill the title of which is as follows: ``A 
                bill to respond to a medicare funding warning.''.
          (3) Certification.--With respect to any medicare funding 
        legislation or any amendment to such legislation to respond to a 
        medicare funding warning, the chairman of the Committee on the 
        Budget of the House shall certify--
                  (A) whether or not such legislation eliminates excess 
                general revenue medicare funding (as defined in section 
                801(c)) for each fiscal year in the 7-fiscal-year 
                reporting period; and
                  (B) with respect to such an amendment, whether the 
                legislation, as amended, would eliminate excess general 
                revenue medicare funding (as defined in section 801(c)) 
                for each fiscal year in such 7-fiscal-year reporting 
                period.
  (c) Fallback Procedure for Floor Consideration if the House Fails to 
Vote on Final Passage by July 30.--
          (1) After July 30 of any year during which the President is 
        required to submit proposed legislation to Congress under 
        section 1105(h) of title 31, United States Code, unless the 
        House of Representatives has voted on final passage of any 
        medicare funding legislation for which there is an affirmative 
        certification under subsection (b)(3)(A), then, after the 
        expiration of not less than 30 calendar days (and concurrently 5

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        legislative days), it is in order to move to discharge any 
        committee to which medicare funding legislation which has such a 
        certification and which has been referred to such committee for 
        30 calendar days from further consideration of the legislation.
          (2) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual 
        favoring the legislation, may be made only if supported by one-
        fifth of the total membership of the House (a quorum being 
        present), and is highly privileged in the House. Debate thereon 
        shall be limited to not more than one hour, the time to be 
        divided in the House equally between those favoring and those 
        opposing the motion. An amendment to the motion is not in order, 
        and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which 
        the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
          (3) Only one motion to discharge a particular committee may be 
        adopted under this subsection in any session of a Congress.
          (4) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), it shall not be in order to 
        move to discharge a committee from further consideration of 
        medicare funding legislation pursuant to this subsection during 
        a session of a Congress if, during the previous session of the 
        Congress, the House passed medicare funding legislation for 
        which there is an affirmative certification under subsection 
        (b)(3)(A).
  (d) Floor Consideration in the House of Discharged Legislation.--
          (1) In the House, not later than 3 legislative days after any 
        committee has been discharged from further consideration of 
        legislation under subsection (c), the Speaker shall resolve the 
        House into the Committee of the Whole for consideration of the 
        legislation.
          (2) The first reading of the legislation shall be dispensed 
        with. All points of order against consideration of the 
        legislation are waived. General debate shall be confined to the 
        legislation and shall not exceed five hours, which shall be 
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
        legislation. After general debate the legislation shall be 
        considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. During 
        consideration of the legislation, no amendments shall be in 
        order in the House or in the Committee of the Whole except those 
        for which there has been an affirmative certification under 
        subsection (b)(3)(B). All

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        points of order against consideration of any such amendment in 
        the Committee of the Whole are waived. The legislation, together 
        with any amendments which shall be in order, shall be considered 
        as read. During the consideration of the bill for amendment, the 
        chairman of the Committee of the Whole may accord priority in 
        recognition on the basis of whether the Member offering an 
        amendment has caused it to be printed in the portion of the 
        Congressional Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of 
        Rule XVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives. Debate 
        on any amendment shall not exceed one hour, which shall be 
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
        amendment, and no pro forma amendments shall be offered during 
        the debate. The total time for debate on all amendments shall 
        not exceed 10 hours. At the conclusion of consideration of the 
        legislation for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report 
        the legislation to the House with such amendments as may have 
        been adopted. The previous question shall be considered as 
        ordered on the legislation and amendments thereto to final 
        passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit 
        with or without instructions. If the Committee of the Whole 
        rises and reports that it has come to no resolution on the bill, 
        then on the next legislative day the House shall, immediately 
        after the third daily order of business under clause 1 of Rule 
        XIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives, resolve into 
        the Committee of the Whole for further consideration of the 
        bill.
          (3) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 
        the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to 
        the procedure relating to any such legislation shall be decided 
        without debate.
          (4) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of any 
        such legislation and amendments thereto (or any conference 
        report thereon) shall be governed by the Rules of the House of 
        Representatives applicable to other bills and resolutions, 
        amendments, and conference reports in similar circumstances.
  (e) Legislative Day Defined.--As used in this section, the term 
``legislative day'' means a day on which the House of Representatives is 
in session.

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  (f) Restriction on Waiver.--In the House, the provisions of this 
section may be waived only by a rule or order proposing only to waive 
such provisions.
  (g) Rulemaking Power.--The provisions of this section are enacted by 
the Congress--
          (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and, as such, shall be considered as part of the 
        rules of that House and shall supersede other rules only to the 
        extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
          (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of that 
        House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that 
        House.

                   Sec. 804. procedures in the senate.

                          [31 U.S.C. 1105 note]

                                  * * *

  The House has provided that section 803 not apply during a Congress 
(sec. 3(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 9) or a portion thereof (July 
24, 2008, p. 16371).
                                                           Sec. 1130(32)




  32. Minimum Standards for Identification of Documents; Intelligence 
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Sec. 7220 [49 U.S.C. 44901 
                                  note]

                  Sec. 7220. identification standards.

          (a) Proposed Standards.--
                  (1) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security--
                        (A) shall propose minimum standards for 
                    identification documents required of domestic 
                    commercial airline passengers for boarding an 
                    aircraft; and
                        (B) may, from time to time, propose minimum 
                    standards amending or replacing standards previously 
                    proposed and transmitted to Congress and approved 
                    under this section.
                  (2) Submission to congress.--Not later than 6 months 
                after the date of enactment of this Act,

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                the Secretary shall submit the standards under paragraph 
                (1)(A) to the Senate and the House of Representatives on 
                the same day while each House is in session.
                  (3) Effective date.--Any proposed standards submitted 
                to Congress under this subsection shall take effect when 
                an approval resolution is passed by the House and the 
                Senate under the procedures described in subsection (b) 
                and becomes law.
          (b) Congressional Approval Procedures.--
                  (1) Rulemaking power.--This subsection is enacted by 
                Congress--
                        (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
                    the Senate and the House of Representatives, 
                    respectively, and as such they are deemed a part of 
                    the rules of each House, respectively, but 
                    applicable only with respect to the procedure to be 
                    followed in that House in the case of such approval 
                    resolutions; and it supersedes other rules only to 
                    the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
                        (B) with full recognition of the constitutional 
                    right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
                    relating to the procedure of that House) at any 
                    time, in the same manner and to the same extent as 
                    in the case of any other rule of that House.
                  (2) Approval resolution.--For the purpose of this 
                subsection, the term ``approval resolution'' means a 
                joint resolution of Congress, the matter after the 
                resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the 
                Congress approves the proposed standards issued under 
                section 7220 of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act 
                of 2004, transmitted by the President to the Congress on 
                ___'', the blank space being filled in with the 
                appropriate date.
                  (3) Introduction.--Not later than the first day of 
                session following the day on which proposed standards 
                are transmitted to the House of Representatives and the 
                Senate under subsection (a), an approval resolution--
                        (A) shall be introduced (by request) in the 
                    House by the Majority Leader of the House of 
                    Representatives, for himself or herself and the

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                    Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, or 
                    by Members of the House of Representatives 
                    designated by the Majority Leader and Minority 
                    Leader of the House; and
                        (B) shall be introduced (by request) in the 
                    Senate by the Majority Leader of the Senate, for 
                    himself or herself and the Minority Leader of the 
                    Senate, or by Members of the Senate designated by 
                    the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the 
                    Senate.
                  (4) Prohibitions.--
                        (A) Amendments.--No amendment to an approval 
                    resolution shall be in order in either the House of 
                    Representatives or the Senate.
                        (B) Motions to suspend.--No motion to suspend 
                    the application of this paragraph shall be in order 
                    in either House, nor shall it be in order in either 
                    House for the Presiding Officer to entertain a 
                    request to suspend the application of this paragraph 
                    by unanimous consent.
                  (5) Referral.--
                        (A) In general.--An approval resolution shall be 
                    referred to the committees of the House of 
                    Representatives and of the Senate with jurisdiction. 
                    Each committee shall make its recommendations to the 
                    House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case 
                    may be, within 45 days after its introduction. 
                    Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if a 
                    committee to which an approval resolution has been 
                    referred has not reported it at the close of the 
                    45th day after its introduction, such committee 
                    shall be automatically discharged from further 
                    consideration of the resolution and it shall be 
                    placed on the appropriate calendar.
                        (B) Final passage.--A vote on final passage of 
                    the resolution shall be taken in each House on or 
                    before the close of the 15th day after the 
                    resolution is reported by the committee or 
                    committees of that House to which it was referred, 
                    or after such committee or committees have been 
                    discharged from further consideration of the 
                    resolution.
                        (C) Computation of days.--For purposes of this 
                    paragraph, in computing a number of

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                    days in either House, there shall be excluded any 
                    day on which that House is not in session.
                  (6) Coordination with action of other house.--If prior 
                to the passage by one House of an approval resolution of 
                that House, that House receives the same approval 
                resolution from the other House, then the procedure in 
                that House shall be the same as if no approval 
                resolution has been received from the other House, but 
                the vote on final passage shall be on the approval 
                resolution of the other House.
                  (7) Floor consideration in the house of 
                representatives.--
                        (A) Motion to proceed.--A motion in the House of 
                    Representatives to proceed to the consideration of 
                    an approval resolution shall be highly privileged 
                    and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall 
                    not be in order, not shall it be in order to move to 
                    reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to 
                    or disagreed to.
                        (B) Debate.--Debate in the House of 
                    Representatives on an implementing bill or approval 
                    resolution shall be limited to not more than 4 
                    hours, which shall be divided equally between those 
                    favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion 
                    to further limit debate shall not be debatable. It 
                    shall not be in order to move to recommit an 
                    approval resolution or to move to reconsider the 
                    vote by which an approval resolution is agreed to or 
                    disagreed to.
                        (C) Motion to postpone.--Motions to postpone 
                    made in the House of Representatives with respect to 
                    the consideration of an approval resolution and 
                    motions to proceed to the consideration of other 
                    business shall be decided without debate.
                        (D) Appeals.--All appeals from the decisions of 
                    the Chair relating to the application of the Rules 
                    of the House of Representatives to the procedure 
                    relating to an approval resolution shall be decided 
                    without debate.
                        (E) Rules of the house of representatives.--
                    Except to the extent specifically provided in 
                    subparagraphs (A) through (D), consideration of an 
                    approval resolution shall be gov

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                    erned by the Rules of the House of Representatives 
                    applicable to other resolutions in similar 
                    circumstances.
                  (8) Floor consideration in the Senate.--

                                  * * *

          (c) Default Standards.--
                (1) In general.--If the standards proposed under 
                subsection (a)(1)(A) are not approved pursuant to the 
                procedures described in subsection (b), then not later 
                than 1 year after rejection by a vote of either House of 
                Congress, domestic commercial airline passengers seeking 
                to board an aircraft shall present, for identification 
                purposes--

                                  * * *

                                                           Sec. 1130(33)




33. Independent Payment Advisory Board; Social Security Act, Sec. 1899A 
                           [42 U.S.C. 1395kkk]

             Sec. 1899A. independent payment advisory board.

          (a) Establishment.--There is established an independent board 
        to be known as the `Independent Payment Advisory Board'.

                                  * * *

          (c) Board Proposals.--
                  (1) Development.--
                      (A) In General.--The Board shall develop detailed 
                    and specific proposals related to the Medicare 
                    program in accordance with the succeeding provisions 
                    of this section.

                                  * * *

                  (3) Submission of Board Proposal to Congress and the 
                President.--
                      (A) In General.--
                        (i) In General.--Except as provided in clause 
                    (ii) and subsection (f)(3)(B), the Board shall 
                    submit a proposal under this section to Congress and 
                    the President on January 15 of each year (beginning 
                    with 2014).

                                  * * *

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                      (B) Required Information.--Each proposal submitted 
                    by the Board under subparagraph (A)(i) shall 
                    include--
                        (i) the recommendations described in paragraph 
                    (2)(A)(i);
                        (ii) an explanation of each recommendation 
                    contained in the proposal and the reasons for 
                    including such recommendation;
                        (iii) an actuarial opinion by the Chief Actuary 
                    of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 
                    certifying that the proposal meets the requirements 
                    of subparagraphs (A)(i) and (C) of paragraph (2);
                        (iv) a legislative proposal that implements the 
                    recommendations; and
                        (v) other information determined appropriate by 
                    the Board.
                  (4) Presidential Submission to Congress.--Upon 
                receiving a proposal from the Secretary under paragraph 
                (5), the President shall within 2 days submit such 
                proposal to Congress.

                                  * * *

          (d) Congressional Consideration.--
                  (1) Introduction.--
                      (A) In General.--On the day on which a proposal is 
                    submitted by the Board or the President to the House 
                    of Representatives and the Senate under subsection 
                    (c)(3)(A)(i) or subsection (c)(4), the legislative 
                    proposal (described in subsection (c)(3)(B)(iv)) 
                    contained in the proposal shall be introduced (by 
                    request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the 
                    Senate or by Members of the Senate designated by the 
                    majority leader of the Senate and shall be 
                    introduced (by request) in the House by the majority 
                    leader of the House or by Members of the House 
                    designated by the majority leader of the House.
                      (B) Not in Session.--If either House is not in 
                    session on the day on which such legislative 
                    proposal is submitted, the legislative proposal 
                    shall be introduced in that House, as provided in 
                    subparagraph (A), on the first day thereafter on 
                    which that House is in session.

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                      (C) Any Member.--If the legislative proposal is 
                    not introduced in either House within 5 days on 
                    which that House is in session after the day on 
                    which the legislative proposal is submitted, then 
                    any Member of that House may introduce the 
                    legislative proposal.
                      (D) Referral.--The legislation introduced under 
                    this paragraph shall be referred by the Presiding 
                    Officers of the respective Houses to the Committee 
                    on Finance in the Senate and to the Committee on 
                    Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways and 
                    Means in the House of Representatives.
                  (2) Committee Consideration of Proposal.--
                      (A) Reporting Bill.--Not later than April 1 of any 
                    proposal year in which a proposal is submitted by 
                    the Board or the President to Congress under this 
                    section, the Committee on Ways and Means and the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
                    Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
                    Senate may report the bill referred to the Committee 
                    under paragraph (1)(D) with committee amendments 
                    related to the Medicare program.
                      (B) Calculations.--In determining whether a 
                    committee amendment meets the requirement of 
                    subparagraph (A), the reductions in Medicare program 
                    spending during the 3-month period immediately 
                    preceding the implementation year shall be counted 
                    to the extent that such reductions are a result of 
                    the implementation provisions in the committee 
                    amendment for a change in the payment rate for an 
                    item or service that was effective during such 
                    period pursuant to such amendment.
                      (C) Committee Jurisdiction.--Notwithstanding rule 
                    XV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a committee 
                    amendment described in subparagraph (A) may include 
                    matter not within the jurisdiction of the Committee 
                    on Finance if that matter is relevant to a proposal 
                    contained in the bill submitted under subsection 
                    (c)(3).
                      (D) Discharge.--If, with respect to the House 
                    involved, the committee has not reported the bill by 
                    the date required by subparagraph

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                    (A), the committee shall be discharged from further 
                    consideration of the proposal.
                  (3) Limitation on Changes to the Board 
                Recommendations.--
                      (A) In General.--It shall not be in order in the 
                    Senate or the House of Representatives to consider 
                    any bill, resolution, or amendment, pursuant to this 
                    subsection or conference report thereon, that fails 
                    to satisfy the requirements of subparagraphs (A)(i) 
                    and (C) of subsection (c)(2).
                      (B) Limitation on Changes to the Board 
                    Recommendations in Other Legislation.--It shall not 
                    be in order in the Senate or the House of 
                    Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, 
                    amendment, or conference report (other than pursuant 
                    to this section) that would repeal or otherwise 
                    change the recommendations of the Board if that 
                    change would fail to satisfy the requirements of 
                    subparagraphs (A)(i) and (C) of subsection (c)(2).
                      (C) Limitation on Changes to this Subsection.--It 
                    shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of 
                    Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, 
                    amendment, or conference report that would repeal or 
                    otherwise change this subsection.

                                  * * *

                  (4) Expedited Procedure.--

                                  * * *

                      (C) Consideration by the Other House.--
                        (i) In General.--The expedited procedures 
                    provided in this subsection for the consideration of 
                    a bill introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall 
                    not apply to such a bill that is received by one 
                    House from the other House if such a bill was not 
                    introduced in the receiving House.
                        (ii) Before Passage.--If a bill that is 
                    introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) is received by 
                    one House from the other House, after introduction 
                    but before disposition of such a bill in the 
                    receiving House, then the following shall apply:

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                          (I) The receiving House shall consider the 
                    bill introduced in that House through all stages of 
                    consideration up to, but not including, passage.
                          (II) The question on passage shall be put on 
                    the bill of the other House as amended by the 
                    language of the receiving House.
                        (iii) After Passage.--If a bill introduced 
                    pursuant to paragraph (1) is received by one House 
                    from the other House, after such a bill is passed by 
                    the receiving House, then the vote on passage of the 
                    bill that originates in the receiving House shall be 
                    considered to be the vote on passage of the bill 
                    received from the other House as amended by the 
                    language of the receiving House.
                        (iv) Disposition.--Upon disposition of a bill 
                    introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) that is 
                    received by one House from the other House, it shall 
                    no longer be in order to consider the bill that 
                    originates in the receiving House.
                        (v) Limitation.--Clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) 
                    shall apply only to a bill received by one House 
                    from the other House if the bill--
                          (I) is related only to the program under this 
                    title; and
                          (II) satisfies the requirements of 
                    subparagraphs (A)(i) and (C) of subsection (c)(2).

                                  * * *

                      (E) Consideration in Conferece.--
                        (i) In General.--Consideration in the Senate and 
                    the House of Representatives on the conference 
                    report or any messages between Houses shall be 
                    limited to 10 hours, equally divided and controlled 
                    by the majority and minority leaders of the Senate 
                    or their designees and the Speaker of the House of 
                    Representatives and the minority leader of the House 
                    of Representatives or their designees.

                                  * * *

                        (iv) Limitation.--Clauses (i) through (iii) 
                    shall only apply to a conference report, message or 
                    the amendments thereto if the conference report, 
                    message, or an amendment thereto--

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                          (I) is related only to the program under this 
                    title; and
                          (II) satisfies the requirements of 
                    subparagraphs (A)(i) and (C) of subsection (c)(2).

  Section 1899A was added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act, as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 
2010 (P.L. 111-148; P.L. 111-152). The House has provided that 
subsection (d) not apply during a Congress (sec. 3(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2013, p. _; (sec. 3(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

                * 	* 	* 	* 	*

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                                  INDEX

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                                I N D E X

                                __________
                                                                 Section
                                                                 Section
Absence.  See also Attendance; Quorum.
        Attendance required.
Arrest of Members for absence................................. 1021-1023
            Arrest of Members attending committee meetings during 
                call of the House notwithstanding leave for 
                committee to sit..................................   324
Call of House................................................ 1025, 1026
Call of House in old form..................................... 1021-1024
            Deductions from pay of Members on account of absence..   86,
                                                                     671
            House may excuse, during call of the House............  1022
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   729
            Members to be present unless excused..................   671
            Failure of quorum in Committee of the Whole...........   982
            Rule of Parliament as to..............................   311
        Leave of.
            Presentation of requests for..........................   671
            Revoked but not granted during call of the House......  1022
Accounts.
        In the House, jurisdiction as to..........................   724
        Of receipt and expenditures of public money to be 
            published.............................................   143
Accusation.
        Common fame as ground for.................................   341
        Right of accused to be informed of in criminal cases......   213
Acts.
        Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626
        States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to 
            public................................................   183
Addresses.
        Signed by Speaker.........................................   624
        Of and to the early Presidents............................   316
Adhere, motion to.  See Amendments between the Houses.
Adjourn, motion to.  See also Adjournment.
        Nature and conditions of.
Amendment of................................................... 585, 912
            Repetition of.........................................   918
General conditions of.......................................... 911, 912

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            May be held dilatory..................................   903
        Precedence of.
High privilege and precedence of.......................... 439, 911, 912
            In order after ordering of yeas and nays..............    80
            In order before reading of the Journal................   621
            In order in House as in Committee of the Whole........   427
Not in order in Committee of the Whole.................... 333, 334, 912
            When not in order in House............................   912
Not to interrupt Member having the floor in debate............. 393, 946
            One in order pending motion for suspension of rules...   890
            One in order pending report from Committee on Rules...   857
            Privileged over motion to reconsider..................  1003
            Privileged over questions of privilege................   698
            Yields to presentation but not consideration of 
                conference reports................................  1077
        Relation of, to quorum.
In order in absence of quorum.................................. 52, 1022
In order during call of the House............................ 1025, 1026
            Not in order when Committee of the Whole rises to 
                report proceedings incident to securing quorum....   912
        To fix the day.
General conditions of motion to fix the day to which the House 
shall adjourn.................................................. 911, 913
Adjournment.  See also Adjourn, motion to.
        Of the House alone.
            At the end of the term of a Congress..................     6
Emergency postponement of reconvening time...................... 83, 639
For three days or less...................................... 82, 83, 639
            Hour of, entered on the Journal.......................   647
            House has adjourned for more than one day before 
                election of Speaker...............................    83
            Pronounced by the Speaker.............................   587
            Speaker takes Chair at hour to which House has 
                adjourned.........................................   621
        Of Congress--Requirements as to.
            Adjournment during pleasure effected by a recess......   586
            Case in which President may cause.....................   171
Neither House to adjourn for more than three days without consent 
of other......................................................... 82, 83
Recall authority under adjournment resolutions to another time or 
place............................................................. 82-84
            Of a session as related to constitutional day of 
                meeting...........................................    45
            Parliamentary law as to the adjournment of the Lords 
                and Commons.......................................   584

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Prohibited before completion of congressional budget process....... 1127 
                                                              (sec. 310)
            Session not terminated by an adjournment of Congress 
                for a fixed time over three days..................   590
            Time of...............................................     6
            To be in July with certain exceptions.................  1106
        Of Congress--Manner of.
            For more than three days by privileged concurrent 
                resolution........................................    84
            Jurisdiction of resolutions for final, of Congress....   733
            Manner of closing a session by action of the two 
                Houses............................................   591
            Resolutions relating to, not presented to President 
                for approval......................................   115
        Of Congress--Effect of.
            As affecting signing of enrolled bills................   577
            As affecting the functions of committees..............   589
            As related to action on a veto message................   107
            Conferences not interrupted by........................   533
            Duties of clerks as to committee papers at............   695
            Effect of, as to bills in hands of President..........   111
            Effect of adjournment to day certain, as to bills in 
                hands of President................................   113
Impeachment not interrupted by................................. 592, 620
Journal of last day not approved................................ 74, 621
            Obsolete law as to business at time of................   385
            Parliamentary law as to business at the termination of 
                a session.........................................   592
        Of a debate.
            Of a debate, obsolete practice as to..................   444
Administrative oversight.
        Former subcommittee on....................................   744
Administrator of General Services.
        Bills that become law deposited with................... 105, 109
Admiralty.
        Judicial power extends to cases of........................   178
Admission.  See Floor; Galleries.
Advance appropriations.
        Point of order against....................................  1127
Adverse Reports.  See Committees, Reports of.
Affirmation.  See also Oath.
        In lieu of oath...........................................   196
        In support of certain warrants............................   211
        Senators on, for trial of impeachments....................  615b

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Affrays.  See Decorum.
Age.
        As qualification of a Representative......................     9
        As qualification of a Senator.............................    35
        As qualification of the President of the United States....   154
        Reference to, as a qualification of suffrage..............   226
        Right to vote extended to persons 18 years or older.......   257
Aging.
        Former select committee on................................   784
Agree, motion to.
        Amendments in order on motion to..........................   487
        Negative of, equivalent to affirmative of disagree........   487
        Order of precedence of............... 486, 528, 528a, 528b, 528d
        Precedence of motion to amend over motion to agree or 
            disagree.................................... 528, 528b, 528d
        Priority of amendments over..................... 456, 528b, 528d
Agreements among States.  See States.
Agriculture.
        Committee on, history and jurisdiction of.................   715
Aid to enemies of United States.  See Treason.
Alliance among States.  See States.
Alteration of a bill.  See Bills.
Ambassadors.
        Admitted to the floor of the House........................   678
        Duty of President to receive..............................   172
        Gallery for use of........................................   682
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178
        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179
        President appoints........................................   166
Amend, motion to.
        General conditions of.
Conditions, form, and precedence of the motion.................. 922-927
            In order to amend motion to commit with instructions 
                unless previous question ordered..................   917
Must be germane................................................. 928-940
            Not to be applied to a conference report..............   550
Not in order in third degree................................... 454, 923
Precedence of.................................................. 911, 926
Precedence of motion to, over motion to agree or disagree.... 528, 528a, 
                                                              528b, 528d
            Precedence of motion to, over one to strike or agree..   456
            Rule as to offering, degree of........................   922
            Substitute............................................   922
To title of a bill........................................ 427, 512, 922
            Withdrawal of.........................................   925
            Yields to motion to refer.............................   449

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        Relations of.
Application of previous question to............................ 450, 994
Not applicable to the previous question........................ 452, 927
Relations of, to motion to postpone.................. 449, 451, 453, 927
            Relations of, to other motions........................   927
            Relations of, to points of order......................   924
        Striking and inserting.
Matter to be inserted not divisible............................ 920, 921
Negative of motion to strike not a bar to further amendment.... 920, 921
            Relations to motion to strike enacting words..........   988
To strike and insert not divisible............................. 920, 921
Amendment.
        General conditions of.
            Amending portions of bill already amended.............   469
Form, conditions, precedence of................................. 922-927
            Commemoratives prohibited.............................   823
            Conferees restricted as to action on Senate amendments 
                proposing appropriations..........................  1076
            Copies of, furnished by Clerk.........................   978
Co-offerors not permitted...................................... 825, 923
            Closing debate on.....................................   959
Divisibility of amendments............................. 921, 1042, 1063a
            Do not have several readings as in case of bills......   496
En bloc..................................................... 1042, 1063a
            Modification of.......................................   922
Not in order in the third degree............................... 454, 923
            Of a conference report not in order...................   542
Of motion to adjourn........................................... 585, 927
On general appropriation bills, limited...................... 1039-1063a
On general appropriation bills, en bloc..................... 1042, 1063a
            Priority of, over motions to strike or agree..........   456
            Proposing a commemorative prohibited..................   823
            Proposing an appropriation prohibited.................  1065
            Proposing settlement of certain claims prohibited.....   822
Proposing taxes or tariffs............................. 1066-1068, 1076a
            Reading, motion to dispense with, in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   986
Relation of, to division of the question for voting............ 482, 921
            Relation of point of order to motion to amend.........   924
Right of Member who has spoken to the main question to speak to an 
amendment...................................................... 465, 959
Self-executed adoption of amendments by special rule.......... 928, 1065
            Senate may concur with, on revenue bills..............   102

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            Separate vote on Senate, if not germane...............  1091
Speaker not to decide as to legislative or legal effect or 
consistency of................................................. 466, 629
        Germane.
            Required to be germane................................   928
            Amendment being considered, which would have been 
                subject to a point of order, may be perfected by 
                amendments germane to it..........................  1052
            Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications and 
                limitations.......................................   940
            Amendments to bills amending existing law.............   939
            Amendments to special orders reported from Committee 
                on Rules..........................................   928
            Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.........   934
            Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness............   933
            General provision not germane to a specific subject...   937
            Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must 
                be germane........................................   930
            One individual proposition not germane to another.....   936
            Parliamentary law as to germaneness...................   467
            Proposition to which amendment must be germane........   929
Senate amendments and matter contained in conference reports, 
procedure for consideration if not germane.............. 931, 1090, 1091
            Specific subjects germane to general propositions of 
                the class.........................................   938
            Subject matter as test of germaneness.................   932
            Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive........   935
        Striking and inserting.
            Application of the motion to strike...................   472
            Conditions of repetition of motions to strike and 
                insert............................................   471
            Conditions of striking an amendment already agreed to.   474
            Effect of affirmative vote on motion to strike and 
                insert............................................   473
Motions to strike and insert not divisible..................... 920, 921
Negative decision on motion to strike not bar to further amendment
                                                                920, 921
            Principles as to perfecting, before inserting or 
                striking..........................................   469
            Priority of perfecting amendments over................   456
            Reading the motion and putting the question on motion 
                to strike and insert..............................   470
            To strike certain words of a bill.....................   468
        Of bills.
            Action of House on those, reported from a committee...   423
            Clerk makes corrections of section numbers of.........   479

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            For joining and dividing bills........................   476
            For transposing the sections..........................   477
            In ``House as in Committee of the Whole''.............   427
            Method of noting amendments to a bill.................   417
            Numerical designations of amendments printed in Record   987
            Of bills in standing and select committees............   412
Offered after second reading and before engrossment and third 
reading........................................................ 428, 497
            Order of amending bills in the House..................   413
            To the preamble.......................................   414
To title of a bill, parliamentary law as to............... 427, 512, 922
        In Committee of the Whole.
            Dispensing with reading of certain amendments in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   986
Amendments preempted by motion to rise after appropriation bill 
read.................................................. 1039, 1040, 1044b
            Numerical designations of amendments printed in Record   987
On general appropriation bills, en bloc..................... 1042, 1063a
            Pro forma, in Committee of the Whole..................   981
            Printing in Record of proposed, 10 minutes debate 
                required on, in Committee of the Whole............   987
            Reading concurrent resolution on budget for amendment.   990
Rule as to consideration of, in Committee of the Whole.... 978, 980, 981
Withdrawal of, in Committee of the Whole....................... 925, 978
        By Committee of the Whole.
            Consideration and report of, by Committee of the Whole   336
            Consideration of, by the House after report from 
                Committee of the Whole............................   337
            For filling blanks, and amending numbers..............   455
            For filling blanks as to time.........................   475
            For filling blanks left by the other House............   478
            Former automatic de novo votes in House where 
                Delegates' votes decisive in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   985
            Not to be withdrawn when reported from Committee of 
                the Whole.........................................   335
        Of Journal.
Cut off when previous question is ordered on motion to approve 
Journal......................................................... 74, 621
            Nature of.............................................    74
Precedence of................................................... 74, 621
            Scope of..............................................    71
        To the Constitution.
            Differences as to, committed to conference............   530

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            Jurisdiction over.....................................   729
Methods of making............................................... 190-193
            Not approved by the President.........................   115
The twenty-seven................................................ 208-258
Two-thirds vote on conference report as to..................... 192, 549
            Two-thirds vote not necessary on amendments to a 
                resolution proposing a constitutional amendment...   192
            Two-thirds vote required on amendment of other House 
                to joint resolution proposing a constitutional 
                amendment.........................................   192
            Yeas and nays not necessarily taken on................    76
Amendments between the Houses.
        General principles as to.
            Amendments to Senate amendment may not contain 
                appropriation on legislative bill.................  1065
            Degree of amendments between the Houses...............   529
Discussion of, in Jefferson's Manual............................ 521-529
Germaneness, separate vote on Senate amendments included in 
conference reports or reported in disagreement if not germane...... 931, 
                                                              1090, 1091
Germaneness, amendments to Senate amendment should be germane...... 931, 
                                                                    1091
            Germaneness, reference of nongermane Senate amendments 
                to committee......................................   874
Senate amendments to legislative bills containing appropriations 
                                                              1076, 1065
Senate amendments to appropriation bills containing legislation... 1076, 
                                                                    1084
Senate amendments containing taxes or tariffs............... 1066, 1076a
Stage of disagreement on............................... 528a, 528c, 1074
Status of, after rejection of a conference report............. 551, 1090
Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed....... 527, 1088
            Two-thirds vote required on agreeing to amendment of 
                the other House to a constitutional amendment.....   224
        Parliamentary principles relative to motions as to.
Adherence and conference, relations of......................... 553, 554
            Disagree, amendments in order on motion to............   487
Disagreeing, insisting, and adhering................ 521, 522, 526, 528b
Division of question on....................................... 525, 528d
Receding, discussion in Jefferson's Manual...................... 523-526
Receding, one House not to recede from its own amendment with an 
amendment; or depart from form fixed by adherence.............. 524, 526

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            Receding, practice of the House as to receding from 
                its own amendment to a bill of the other House....   524
            Receding, practice of the House as to receding from 
                disagreement to amendment of the other House......   525
            Previous question, motion to amend not in order when 
                demanded on motion to concur......................   486
            Previous question, motion to recede not in order when 
                ordered on motion to adhere.......................   525
Previous question, effect of demanding or ordering on the motion 
to refer...................................................... 486, 1002
Lay on the table................................... 519, 528b, 528d, 914
Refer.............................................. 486, 528d, 916, 1002
Reject nongermane matter in.................................. 1089, 1091
            Send to conference,  see Conferences.
        Precedence of motions as to.
Precedence of motions for disposition of...... 486, 519, 525, 528, 528a, 
                                 528b, 528d, 916, 1002, 1084, 1089, 1091
Precedence of motions before stage of disagreement...... 486, 528, 528a, 
                                                                   528b,
Precedence of motions after stage of disagreement........ 486, 525, 528, 
                                                             528a, 528d,
Precedence of motions to dispose of nongermane matter in 
conference reports........................................... 1089, 1090
Precedence of motions to dispose of nongermane matter reported in 
disagreement................................................. 1089, 1091
            Precedence of motion to insist as to legislative 
                amendment to appropriation bill...................  1084
Precedence of motion to adhere.......................... 486, 528b, 528d
        Equivalent questions as to.
Discussion of equivalent questions on motions relating to....... 485-488
            Equivalent questions on motions to agree and disagree 
                as related to amendments..........................   487
            No equivalent questions on motions to recede, insist, 
                and adhere........................................   488
        Consideration of.
Consideration, generally............. 528, 528a, 1072, 1073, 1075, 1076a
            Debate on amendments reported in disagreement.........  1086
            Legislative amendments to appropriation bills.........  1084
Nongermane Senate amendments in conference reports or reported in 
disagreement.................................................. 1089-1091
Senate amendments carrying a tax or tariff.................. 1066, 1076a
Senate amendments in Committee of the Whole............ 528a, 1072, 1073

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Senate amendments in House.............. 528a, 873, 874, 1071-1073, 1075
            When privileged.......................................  1075
            Reference of Senate amendments from Speaker's table... 528a,
                                                                873, 874
When consideration of Senate amendments should be in Committee of 
the Whole.................................................... 528a, 1073
        Conferences on.  See Conferences.
Announcement of vote.  See Voting.
Answer.
        In an impeachment...................................... 612, 613
        Right of accused to be heard before an investigating 
            committee.............................................   803
Apology of Members to the House for disorder.  See Decorum.
Appeal.
        From decisions of Speaker......................... 379, 627, 628
        Debate on.................................................   628
        Guaranty against arbitrary control of Speaker.............   629
        House controls decisions of the Speaker by................   379
        From decisions of the Clerk at organization...............   643
        None on a question of recognition and on counts by Chair 
                                                                629, 949
        None on decision as to dilatory motions................ 629, 903
        None on catastrophic quorum failure report................  1024
        None on refusal to entertain prohibited point of order of 
            no quorum.............................................   629
        None from responses to parliamentary inquiries............   629
        On timeliness of an objection.............................   629
        On questions as to priority of business decided without 
            debate................................................   884
        Withdrawal of.............................................   629
Appearance.
        Of respondent in an impeachment................... 608, 610, 611
        Right of accused to be heard before investigating 
            committee.............................................   803
Appellate jurisdiction of Supreme Court.  See Supreme Court.
Application of laws to legislative branch.  See Congressional 
    Accountability.
Appointments.
        President makes...........................................   166
        Power of Congress as to...................................   166
        In recess of the Senate by the President..................   167
        Of select and conference committees, rules and practice as 
            to....................................................  317,
                                                                637, 782
        Of committee staff,  see Committee staffs.

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Apportionment.
        Adjustment by districts................................ 226, 227
        First and last............................................    15
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts on 
            apportionment of water for irrigation purposes........   731
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to generally............   724
        Of Representatives among the several States...............   226
        Old provision for.........................................    14
        Questions as to elections in relation to congressional 
            districts.............................................   228
        Reduction of basis of, for abridgment of the suffrage.....   226
        Requirement that congressional districts be equally 
            populated.............................................   229
Appropriation bills, general.
        Privilege and consideration of.
            Considered in Committee of the Whole..................   973
            Designated emergencies................................  1041
            Exempt from Unfunded Mandates Reform Act..............  1127
            Not privileged against Calendar Wednesday.............   901
Offsetting amendments to.................................... 1042, 1063a
Point of order against motion to rise on an appropriation bill 
where the bill exceeds a section 302(b) allocation................ 1044b
            Precedence of, in Committee of the Whole..............   977
            Precedence of, in order of business...................   856
Privileged for report and consideration........................ 853, 855
            Public, placed on Union Calendar......................   828
            Reported by Committee on Appropriations only..........   717
            Report on must describe changes in existing law.......   847
            Restrictions on conferees.............................  1076
            Spending reduction account, transfers to.............. 1063b
            Vote on, by yeas and nays.............................  1033
        Authorizations, legislation, and limitations.
Authorization of law for appropriations................ 1036, 1038, 1045
            Authorization for claims and salaries.................  1046
            Authorization for committee expenses..................   763
            Authorization for public works........................  1047
            Burden of proof on those proposing appropriation on...  1044
            Continuation of a public work by appropriations.......  1048
            Continuation of a public work, examples illustrating..  1049
            Continuation of a public work, new buildings at 
                existing institutions as a........................  1050
            Continuation of a public work, new vessels for naval 
                and other services as in..........................  1051
            Legislation on appropriation bills:
                Contingencies and congressional action............  1055
                Construing or amending existing law...............  1056
                Generally.........................................  1052

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                Imposing duties or requiring determinations.......  1054
                Mandating expenditures............................  1057
                Retrenching expenditures in order (Holman rule)... 1038, 
                                                              1040, 1062
                Rule prohibiting.............................. 1038-1040
                Senate amendments...................... 1076, 1058, 1084
                Waivers; amending legislation permitted to remain.  1058
                Limitations on appropriation bills generally......  1053
Limitations on, in order..................................... 1040, 1053
                Effect of, on executive discretion................  1054
                Consistent with existing law................. 1040, 1056
                Amendments at end of reading in Committee of the 
                    Whole.........................................  1040
            Points of order on general appropriation bills........  1044
            Unauthorized appropriations and legislation on general 
                appropriation bills...............................  1036
Unexpended balances not to be included unless in continuation of 
public work already commenced................................ 1037, 1063
Appropriations.
        Conditions of.
            Advance, point of order against.......................  1127
            Annual, committee endeavor to insure..................   755
            Estimates of, transmission and reference..............   827
            Jurisdiction of.......................................   716
            Necessary for drawing money from Treasury.............   143
            None for armies for a longer term than two years......   129
            Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole   973
            Senate amendments proposing, may not be agreed to by 
                House conferees under certain conditions..........  1076
            To be made by law.....................................   143
        Committee on.
            Budget Act procedures for, including referral to, of 
                bills providing new entitlement authority.........   745
Must show, in report on general appropriation bill, effect of any 
provisions changing existing law.................................... 847
Staff for................................................. 772, 776, 778
            Subcommittee markup of all appropriation bills before 
                report of first regular appropriation bill........   835
            Rescissions of appropriations, jurisdiction over......   716
            Separate headings for rescissions and transfers of 
                unexpended balances required in certain bills and 
                reports...........................................   716
Sequential referral to, of bills containing new entitlement 
authority exceeding budget resolution allocation........ 1128 (sec. 401)

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            Budget hearings, within 30 days after transmittal of 
                budget............................................   745
Powers and duties concerning appointments, qualifications of staff
                                                      763, 773, 778, 779
            To study existing permanent appropriations with view 
                to reducing.......................................   747
            To study organization and operation of agencies.......   743
        Committees not having jurisdiction of.
            May not report an appropriation.......................  1065
            Point of order may be made at any time................  1065
            Point of order may be made against amendment to Senate 
                amendment.........................................  1065
Approval.
        Of bills by President.  See also Enrolled bills.
            As to approval of concurrent resolutions by...........   396
            Errors as to..........................................   106
            Notice of.............................................   106
            Of bills, effect of intervening recess on.............   814
            Of joint resolutions..................................   397
            Of orders, resolutions, and votes, as to presentation 
                for...............................................   115
            Parliamentary law as to presenting a bill for the 
                King's assent.....................................   572
            President's approval given by signature...............   104
            Presentation of enrolled bills to.....................   577
            Signing of enrolled bills for presentation to the 
                President.........................................   575
Time and conditions of signature.......................... 104, 105, 111
In general...................................................... 73, 621
            Amendment precedes....................................    74
            Place of, in order of business........................   869
Architect of the Capitol.
        Office of................................................. 1125e
        Admitted to floor of the House............................   678
Armed Services, Committee on.
        History, jurisdiction and duties of.......................   718
        Special oversight functions of............................   744
Armies.
        Congress to raise and support.............................   129
        Congress to make rules for................................   131
        No appropriation for a longer term than two years.........   129
        States not to keep troops in time of peace................   148
Arming.
        Of the militia............................................   133
Arms.
        Right of people to keep and bear..........................   209

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Army.
        Officers in, disqualified as Members......................    98
        President, Commander in Chief of..........................   160
        Trial for crimes in.......................................   212
Arrest.  See also Absence.
        House releases a Member under.............................   305
        Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Member of Congress 
            as to.............................................. 288, 289
        Members liable to, for absence although attending a 
            committee with leave to sit...........................   324
        Of Members for absence................................ 1021-1023
        Privileges of Members of Parliament as to......... 287, 305, 307
        Privilege of Senators and Representatives from........... 90, 91
        Speaker's power to order, doubtful........................   622
Arsenals.
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   718
Art.
        Works of, duty of Committee on House Administration as to.   724
Articles of impeachment.  See Impeachment.
Assaults.
        Arrest and imprisonment in case of, on Member returning...    91
        Members punished for................................. 62-66, 294
        On clerk of a committee in the Capitol a question of 
            privilege.............................................   773
        On Members for words spoken in debate.....................    92
        On Members, power of House to punish for..................   294
        Proceedings in cases of, on the floor.....................   367
        Speaker takes Chair to quell disorder from, in Committee 
            of the Whole.................................. 331, 332, 622
Assembly.
        Of Congress at least once every year.................... 45, 242
        Rights of people as to....................................   208
Assent.  See Approval.
Attainder.
        No bill of, to be passed..................................   139
        States not to pass bill of................................   146
        Limitations of, for treason...............................   182
Attendance.  See also Absence; Quorum.
        Count of Members present to secure a quorum of record.....  1020
        At committee meetings when House is in session............   801
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   679
        Leave for committee to sit does not release its members 
            from, during call of the House........................   324
        Names of absent, reported when quorum fails in Committee 
            of the Whole..........................................   982

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        Members may be compelled to attend........................ 52-55
        Members privileged from arrest during.................... 90, 91
        Members to be present unless excused......................   671
        Of Commons and House of Representatives at an impeachment 
            trial.............................................. 616, 617
        Secured by call of the House................... 1014, 1021, 1025
Attending Physician.
        Office of................................................. 1125d
Attest.
        Of Clerk on bills, writs..................................   648
Attire.
        Of Members............................................. 622, 962
Attorneys.
        Admission of, in investigations...........................   348
        Role in impeachment..................................... 601-620
Auditing.
        Of accounts against contingent fund (applicable accounts 
            of the House).........................................   724
Authorization of Law.  See Appropriation bills.
Authors.
        Congress may provide for copyrights for...................   124
Availability.
        Of reported bills, before floor consideration................850
        Of introduced bills, before floor consideration........... 1068j
Aviation programs, funding for.
        Point of order............................................ 1064a
Bail.
        Excessive not to be required..............................   215
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.  See Budget.
Ballot.
        Rule for voting by........................................  1034
        House of Representatives elects President by..............   221
        Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during count of.....   962
        Presidential electors vote, by in several States..........   219
        Record of, in Journal.....................................    72
        Speaker required to vote on...............................   631
Banking and Financial Services, [now Financial Services] Committee 
    on............................................................   722
Bankruptcy.
        Power of Congress to make laws on.........................   120
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   729
Bar, of House.
        Method of examining witnesses at..........................   343
        Trials at, and arraignment of contumacious witnesses at...   344

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Bells (legislative call system)...................................  1016
Bicentennial, former Office of House..............................   669
Bill of Attainder.
        None to be passed.........................................   139
        States not to pass........................................   146
Bills.
        Forms, printing, loss, alteration.
            Distinction between a bill and a joint resolution.....   397
            Indorsement of the title on an engrossed bill.........   431
            Loss of...............................................   352
            Improper alteration...................................   352
        Introduction of.
            By request............................................   826
            Commemoratives prohibited.............................   823
            Constitutional authority statement....................  826a
            Cosponsorship of public...............................   825
            Cosponsorship of public, more than one Member 
                designated as first sponsor.......................   825
Obsolete provisions as to introduction and readings of.......... 398-400
            Reservation of certain bill numbers...................   825
            Signing of, by chief sponsor..........................  825a
        Reference of.
            By Speaker to committees..............................   816
Committal of, on third reading............................ 494, 916, 994
Correction of, error of reference......................... 824, 825, 869
            Custody of, in committees.............................   695
            Delivery of bills to committees.......................   403
House may send to any committee............................... 816, 816c
House bills returned with Senate amendments on a different subject
                                                                873, 874
            Not to be brought back from committees on motion to 
                reconsider........................................  1011
            Parliamentary law (largely obsolete) as to reference 
                of................................................   401
Public......................................................... 816, 825
Recommittal of, to select or standing committees or Committee of 
the Whole.......................................... 420, 994, 1001-1002c
Referral procedures, multiple referrals or referral to ad hoc 
committee..........................................816, 816a, 816b, 816c
With amendments between the Houses... 486, 528-528d, 873, 874, 916, 1002
        Consideration by committees and report.  See Committees.
        In Committee of the Whole.  See also Amendments; Calendar 
            Wednesday; Committee of the Whole.
Consideration of nonprivileged bills, after call of committees..... 882, 
                                                                     883

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            Construction of the rule requiring consideration in...   973
Debate in Committee of the Whole................ 948, 957, 978, 979, 987
Designation of public works, consideration prohibited............. 1068a
            Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills  1044
            Forms of going into Committee of the Whole............   328
            General practice as to consideration..................   973
            Old parliamentary usage as to consideration of matters 
                as modified by House rules and practice...........   326
            Order of House to consider certain bills in Committee 
                of the Whole precludes report of others...........   335
            Precedence of revenue and appropriation bills in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   977
            Precedence of motion to go into Committee of the Whole 
                to consider general appropriation bills...........   856
            Question of order on appropriation bills..............  1044
            Reading and amendment under five-minute rule..........   980
Recommittal of bills to Committee of the Whole........... 420, 988, 1001
            Revenue and appropriation bills considered in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   973
Subjects not requiring consideration in Committee of the Whole.... 528a, 
                                                                     973
            Subjects requiring consideration in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   973
            Unfinished business in Committee of the Whole.........   879
            Withdrawal of amendments in Committee of the Whole....   925
        Consideration and amendment in House.
            Action on, in the House after being reported from 
                committee.........................................   423
            Amended after second reading..........................   428
            Amendments of, before third reading...................   497
            Amendments for joining and dividing...................   476
            Amendment to the title of.............................   922
            Amendment to the title of, in ``House as in Committee 
                of the Whole''....................................   427
            As to possession of, by the House.....................   437
            Consideration of a preamble...........................   414
            Consideration of, when reported from Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   337
            Filling blanks left by the other House................   478
            House in perfecting does not agree to paragraph or 
                sections of, individually.........................   456
            Order of considering and amending in the House........   413
            Obsolete requirement as to reading of amendments to...   496

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            Parliamentary law as to amendment to the title........   512
            Presumed to have gone through the stages when reported 
                from Committee of the Whole.......................   335
            Prohibition against retroactive income tax rate 
                increase..........................................  1068
            Transposition of sections of, by amendments...........   477
        Reading, engrossment, and passage.
            Generally.............................................   941
            First and second readings.............................   942
            Manner of reading a bill the second time..............   428
Third reading by title after engrossment....................... 941, 943
            Debate in relation to third reading...................   498
            Test of strength on engrossment after amendment.......   429
            Test of strength on a bill before amending............   430
Obsolete requirements as to third reading and passage.......... 492, 493
            Putting the question on the passage of................   499
            Clerk certifies to passage of all.....................   648
            Question on rejection of, comes indirectly............   484
            Division of, not in order, on vote on engrossment or 
                passage...........................................   921
            Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates........  1067
            Voting on.............................................   944
            Yeas and nays automatically ordered on appropriation 
                and tax measures and on concurrent resolution on 
                the budget........................................  1033
            Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further 
                proceedings on the question of passage............  1030
        Effect of rejection or passage of.
            Action on similar bill after rejection................   944
            Once rejected not to be brought up again at the same 
                session...........................................   515
            Exceptions to the rule against bringing up a matter 
                once rejected.....................................   517
            Expedients for changing the effect of bills once 
                passed............................................   516
            Bills not altered after their passage.................   500
            Use of joint resolution to correct error in bill sent 
                to the President..................................   518
            Passage of supplementary bills........................   518
            Obsolete parliamentary practice as to riders..........   495
            Procedure on loss of..................................   352
            Improper alteration of................................   352
        Action of the two Houses on.
Both Houses pass identical..................................... 873, 944
            Fail when both Houses continue to insist or adhere....   522

[[Page 1325]]

            For raising revenue to originate in House.............   102
            From the other House laid on the table................   519
            Information from the other House as to................   520
            Lost when conference report is not acted on...........   549
            Not to be noticed in other House until communicated...   308
            Rejection of, communicated to the other House.........   568
            Votes by which they are passed not communicated.......   567
            When neglected by the other House.....................   570
        Enrollment and presentation to President for approval.
Enrollment, signing, and presentation to the President for 
approval........................................................ 572-577
Former duties of Committee on House Administration as to 
enrollment................................................ 577, 724, 754
            Report as to accuracy of enrolled.....................   625
            Reports as to accuracy of enrolled, privileged........   648
            Rule of Parliament as to enrollment...................   573
Speaker signs enrolled......................................... 624, 625
            Speaker declines to sign enrolled, when motion to 
                reconsider is pending.............................  1007
            Speaker pro tempore signs under conditions............   632
            Speaker's signature vacated...........................   625
Presented to the President for approval................... 104, 105, 110
            Errors in when sent to the President..................   110
Become laws without President's approval under conditions....... 111-113
            Effect of recess of Congress before approval..........   814
Method of approval........................................ 104, 105, 110
Method of disapproval........................................... 104-109
            Notice of approval....................................   106
            Notice and action as to disapproval...................   104
            When signed by President deposited with Archivist.....   105
            When vetoed and passed deposited with Archivist.......   109
        Private.  See Private bills.
Bills of credit.
        States not to emit........................................   146
Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group.
        Establishment.............................................  670a
        To be consulted by the Speaker............................   670
Blanks.
        Rule as to filling by amendment...........................   455
        Amendments, filling as to time............................   475
        Filling those left by the other House.....................   478
        Not counted in vote by ballot.............................  1034

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Blood, corruption of.
        For treason...............................................   182
Bonded debt.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   741
Books.
        Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate......   364
Borrow.
        Power of Congress to borrow money.........................   118
Botanic Garden.
        Under control of Committees on House Administration and 
            Transportation and Infrastructure.................. 724, 739
Boundary lines.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to...................... 723, 729
Bounties.
        Debt incurred for, certain not to be questioned...........   232
Breach of the peace.
        Members not privileged from arrest for................... 90, 91
        Relation of privilege to cases of...................... 305, 306
Bribery.
        An impeachable offense....................................   173
        Power of House to punish attempts at, on Members....... 293, 294
Bridges.
        Bills for construction of certain banned..................   822
Broadcasting.
        Press coverage of committee hearings............... 796, 807-812
        Of House proceedings, rule for............................   684
Budget.
        Committee on the.
Authoritative guidance on budgetary levels provided by...... 1105d, 1127 
                                                              (sec. 312)
History, composition, jurisdiction, and duties................. 719, 758
            Special oversight functions of........................   748
            Studies and reports required of.......................   748
            Staff for, former rule on appointment of..............   778
            Submissions to, from standing committees..............   756
            Quorum requirements in................................   800
            Privileged reports by.................................   853
        Concurrent resolution on the.
            Amendments to must be mathematically consistent and 
                contain certain matter............................   990
Consideration of........................................ 1127 (sec. 305)
            Considered read after general debate..................   990
Definition of............................................. 1127 (sec. 3)
Limitation on reconciliation directive in......................... 1068b
Procedures contained in................................. 1127 (sec. 301)
Timetable for budget process............................ 1127 (sec. 300)

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            Yeas and nays automatically ordered...................  1033
        Congressional budget process.
Application of points of order to unreported measures............. 1068c
Definitions............................................... 1127 (sec. 3)
Timetable............................................... 1127 (sec. 300)
Advance budget and revenue authority ineligible for consideration 
before adoption of concurrent resolution................ 1127 (sec. 303)
            Committee on the Budget must handle budget legislation  1127
                                                              (sec. 306)
Appropriation bills reported before June 10............. 1127 (sec. 307)
July adjournment not in order--
                Until House passes appropriation bills....... 1127 (sec. 
                                                                    309)
                Until reconciliation legislation completed... 1127 (sec. 
                                                                    310)
Reports, summarized projections......................... 1127 (sec. 308)
Reconciliation process.................................. 1127 (sec. 310)
Budget authority and revenue legislation to be within appropriate 
limits.................................................. 1127 (sec. 311)
            Rule establishing public debt limit as part of, rule 
                for...............................................  1104
        Provisions to improve fiscal procedures.
Bills providing certain entitlement authority may not be 
considered.............................................. 1128 (sec. 401)
Certain bills providing entitlement authority to be referred to 
Committee on Appropriations........................ 747, 1128 (sec. 401)
Cost estimate by Congressional Budget Office............ 1128 (sec. 407)
            Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.....  1128
            Budget Enforcement Act of 1990........................  1129
        Generally.
            Budget Act procedures by Committee on Appropriations..   747
Congressional Budget Office, functions of... 748, 1081, 1119, 1127, 1128
            Emergency designations in appropriation bills.........  1041
            Hearings on by Committee on Appropriations............   746
            Legislation not to increase mandatory spending........ 1068f
Point of order against motion to rise on an appropriation bill 
where the bill exceeds a section 302(b) allocation................ 1044b
            Program review and evaluation.........................  1010
            Transmittal of budget by President....................   169
            Year-ahead requests for new budget authority..........  1129
        Impoundment Control Act and line item veto authority.
Line item veto authority....................................... 1130(6b)

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Procedures on rescission bills and impoundment resolutions..... 1130(6a)
Buildings, office.
        Assignment of rooms in....................................  1114
Buildings, public.
        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work.... 1037, 
                                                                    1050
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
        Jurisdiction as to, generally.............................   739
        Jurisdiction as to buildings abroad.......................   723
        Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals.......................   721
        Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries..................   729
Burden of proof.
        On proponent of amendment, as to germaneness..............   928
        On those proposing items in a general appropriation bill..  1044
Business.  See also Order of business.
        In general.
            As related to election of Clerk.......................    30
May be transacted only by quorum............................ 52, 55, 510
            Not transacted before approval of Journal.............   621
            Parliamentary law as to that pending at the end of a 
                session...........................................   592
            Obsolete law as to, at end of a session...............   385
            Resumption of business of a preceding session of 
                Congress..........................................   814
        Order of.
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   733
        Unfinished.  See Unfinished business.
Cabinet.
        Majority of and Vice President to determine Presidential 
            inability.............................................   255
        President may require opinions from members of............   161
        Of President, gallery for use of..........................   682
Calendar Wednesday.
        In order to consider President's veto.....................   901
        Limited application of precedents before the 111th 
            Congress..............................................   900
        Privilege of general appropriation bills limited on.... 856, 901
        Rule for order of business on.............................   900
Calendars.
        Corrections Calendar, former,  see Corrections Calendar, 
            former.
        The three for reports of committees.......................   828
        Adverse reports........................................ 832, 893
        For motions to discharge committees.................... 830, 892
        Former, for unanimous consent and decisions...............   899

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        Reports filed with the Clerk for reference to.............   831
        Of Committee of the Whole, order of taking up bills on....   977
        Publication and distribution of...........................   649
Call of committees.
        In order on Calendar Wednesday............................   900
        Interruption of, for consideration of nonprivileged bills 
            in Committee of the Whole.......................... 882, 883
        Place of, in order of business............................   869
        Rule and practice for consideration of bills during.... 880, 881
        Unfinished business in.................................. 876-879
Call of the House.  See also Absence.
        Motion for, in order in absence of quorum.................    55
        After previous question is ordered........................  1029
        Arrest of Members.................................... 1021, 1023
        Call of the House.................................... 1025, 1026
        Call of the House in the old form..................... 1021-1024
        Clerks to tell Members present............................  1025
        Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record on a 
            record vote...........................................  1020
        Dispensing with, after quorum appears................ 1025, 1028
        Electronic equipment for..................................  1014
        Motions during a call of the House........................  1024
        Ordering and conducting the call of the House in the old 
            form..................................................  1022
        Power to compel attendance............................... 52, 55
        Rule of Parliament as to..................................   311
        Speaker may recognize for motion for at any time..........  1028
Call to order.
        For disorder in debate................................. 960, 961
        May interrupt Member having floor.........................   393
Campaign contributions.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   724
        Prohibition on distribution of in Hall of House...........   683
Capitation tax.
        To be in proportion to census.............................   140
Capitol.
        Speaker's control of House wing of........................   623
        Architect of, admitted to floor of the House..............   678
        Preservation Commission................................... 1125a
        Police, duties of Sergeant-at-Arms as to..................   656
Captures.
        Congress to make rules concerning.........................   127
Caucus.
        Held in Hall of House.....................................   677

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        Party caucuses nominate Members for election to standing 
            committees............................................   757
        Majority caucus nominates chairs of standing committees...   761
        Membership is required for committee membership........ 760, 782
        Early organizational......................................  1126
Cemeteries, national.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to................. 718, 731, 740
Censure.
        Course of a Member, when subject of debate as to..........   375
        For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..........    94
        Instances of..............................................    65
        Of a Delegate.............................................   675
        Of a counsel before investigating committees..............   803
        Of Member when called to order in debate............... 960, 961
        Procedure of punishment by................................    65
        Punishment for personalities in debate....................   363
        Reprimand.................................................    64
        Speaker not to administer, of own authority...............   622
Census.
        Taken as basis of apportionment...........................    15
        Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to..........   140
Ceremonies.
        As to participation of the House in.................... 387, 388
        Use of Hall of the House for..............................   677
Certificates.
        Of the electoral vote, transmittal and opening......... 151, 219
        Currency, jurisdiction of subjects relating to............   722
Chair.
        Speaker takes it at hour of meeting, not waiting for 
            ascertainment of a quorum.......................... 310, 621
        Speaker takes, to restore order in Committee of the Whole.   622
        To be addressed when a Member desires to interrupt in 
            debate................................................   364
Chairs.
        Of standing or select committee.
Of standing committees elected by the House.................... 317, 761
Administer oaths to witnesses............................. 343, 346, 805
Duties relating to appointment, qualification, compensation of 
staff...................................................... 767, 771-781
            May be delegated power to issue subpoenas.............   805
            Preside over committee................................   317
            Prior claim of, to recognition........................   953
            Procedure of, in investigations.......................   803
            Procedure of, in submitting reports from standing or 
                select committees.................................   418

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            Reports to the House by, must be made promptly........   834
            Resignation of, presents question of privilege........   699
            Sign subpoenas issued by committee (or subcommittee)..   805
            Speaker appoints, of select and conference committees.   637
Usually report from a standing or select committee............. 317, 415
            Vacancy or absence in the position of.................   761
            Vice chair presides in absence of.....................   793
        Of subcommittees.
            Former authority to appoint staff.....................   767
        Of Committee of the Whole.
Selection of................................................... 327, 970
            Seating of............................................   328
Administers oaths to witnesses................................. 343, 346
            Always reports from Committee of the Whole............   415
            Causes roll to be called on failure of a quorum and 
                reports unless proceedings are vacated............   982
            Functions of..........................................   971
            Power to preserve order...............................   970
            Report of, alone recognized...........................   335
        Of joint committee.
            Of a joint committee..................................   325
Challenge.
        Of the right of a Member to take the oath.............. 202, 203
Chaplain.
        Election and oath of......................................   640
        Offers prayer.......................................... 640, 665
        Place in order of business of prayer by...................   869
Charges.
        Against a Member or Senator in course of an inquiry..... 321-323
        Course of Member when charges against such Member are 
            debated...............................................   375
Chief Administrative Officer.
        Election, oath, and removal of............................   640
        Duties of.................................................   661
        Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits   663
        Financial and operational reports to Committee on House 
            Administration........................................   662
Chief Justice.
        Pay of....................................................    86
        Role in impeachment proceedings............ 608a, 615, 615a, 618
Citizens.
        Limitations on suits of, against States...................   218
        Of the United States and the several States...............   225
        Of States, judicial power extends to cases affecting 
            certain...............................................   178

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        Privileges and immunities not to be abridged..............   225
        Privileges and immunities of, in States other than their 
            own...................................................   184
        Right to vote of those eighteen years of age or older.....   257
        Those of the United States as to voting...................   234
Citizenship.
        As qualification of Representative........................ 9, 10
        As qualification of a Senator.............................    35
        As qualification of the President of the United States....   154
        Reference to, as qualification for suffrage...............   226
Civil aviation.
        Jurisdiction over subjects related to generally...........   739
        Jurisdiction over research and development................   735
Civil offices.
        May be removed by impeachment.............................   173
        Members not to be appointed to certain....................    96
Civil Service.
        Jurisdiction over, including intergovernmental personnel..   732
Claims.
        In general.
            Amendments proposing settlement of certain, banned....   822
            Bills for settlement of certain, banned...............   822
            Authorization of payment of, on general appropriation 
                bills.............................................  1046
            Bills referring to Court of Claims considered in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   973
            Consideration of, on Tuesdays.........................   895
            Constitution not to prejudice certain.................   188
            Ex-Members interested in, not admitted to the floor...   678
            Jurisdiction of, generally............................   729
            Jurisdiction of war claims............................   729
            Jurisdiction of private land claims...................   731
            Jurisdiction as to certain foreign....................   723
            Jurisdiction of, against the United States............   729
            Jurisdiction relating to international and other......   723
            Reference of bills for private, restricted to certain 
                committees........................................   817
            Relation of officers and employees of House to........  1102
            Those for slaves not to be paid.......................   232
            Withdrawal of papers relating to......................   696
Claims, Court of.
        Status of reports of, on the calendars....................   828
Classes.
        Of Senators...............................................    33

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Classified information.  See Information.
Clerical staff of committees.  See Committee staffs.
Clerk.
        Election and oath of.
            Election, oath, and removal of........................   640
Election of, as related to business and adoption of rules........ 30, 59
            Oath administered to, by Speaker......................   198
            In absence of, designated official acts...............   651
        Duties at organization of House.
            Continues in office until successor is elected........   642
            Duties of, at organization of the House...............   643
            Makes up the roll for organization....................   644
Officiates at election of Speaker.............................. 312, 643
            Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order under direction of, 
                pending election of Speaker.......................   648
        Legislative duties of.
            Allowing no papers to be taken from the table or out 
                of custody........................................   352
            Amending section numbers of a bill....................   479
            Announcing pairs......................................  1031
            Attesting and sealing writs, warrants, subpoenas......   648
            Receiving messages when House is in recess or is not 
                in session........................................   652
            Calendars, publication and distribution of............   649
Call of the House............................................ 1021, 1025
            Calling the roll......................................  1015
            Certifying to passage of bills........................   648
            Collecting and transferring noncurrent records........   695
            Committees formerly to make accounting of funds to....   780
            Copies of amendments offered in Committee of the Whole   978
            Custody of committee papers...........................   695
            Custody of oath not to disclose classified information  1095
            Delivering resolutions of inquiry.....................   865
            Distribution of Journal and documents.................   647
            Former insertions in the Congressional Record relating 
                to committee staff................................   780
            Engrossment and enrollment of bills...................   648
            Introduction of bills.................................   818
            Making no changes in enrolling a bill.................   573
            Motions to discharge committees.......................   892
            Noting Members to make a quorum on a vote of record...  1020
            Noting questions of order with the decisions in the 
                Journal...........................................   647
            Papers on file........................................   696
            Reading motions.......................................   904

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            Referring reports to calendars........................   831
            Stands while reading..................................   428
            Taking a vote by clerk tellers........................  1012
            Taking a vote by the yeas and nays....................   504
        Executive duties of.
            Administration of vacant Member's office..............   653
            As member of Federal Elections Commission.............   642
            Delivery of documents.................................   650
            Deposits noncurrent records with Archivist............   695
            Discretionary authority as to printing................   642
            Duty to furnish to Members list of certain reports....   646
            Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and 
                audits............................................   655
            Duty under the gift rule..............................  1100
            Financial and operational reports to Committee on 
                House Administration..............................   654
            Formerly kept contingent and stationery accounts and 
                furnished stationery..............................   642
            Formerly made certain contracts.......................   642
            Maintains House library...............................   650
            Maintains list of Members to act as Speaker pro 
                tempore in the case of vacancy in Office of the 
                Speaker...........................................   632
            Role in payment of officers and employees.............   642
            Receives testimony taken in election cases............   642
Clerks.
        Of Members, allowance for.................................    88
        Of committees,  see Committee staffs......................
        Of Speaker, Leaders, and Whips............................    88
Clerk's desk (or table).
        Disorderly words taken down at......................... 960, 961
        Members may address the House from........................   945
        Members not to write at, or take books or papers from, 
            during debate.........................................   364
        No Member to remain near, during record vote..............   962
Cloakrooms.
        Exclusion of persons from.................................   679
Closing debate.  See Debate.
Coast Guard.
        Bills to correct certain discharge records banned.........   822
Coastal zone management.
        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.................. 731, 739
Code of Official Conduct.  See Official conduct.
Codification.
        Of laws, jurisdiction of, bills for.......................   729

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Coexisting questions.  See Questions.
Coin.
        Congress to regulate value of.............................   121
        Congress may provide punishment for counterfeiting the....   122
        States to make gold and silver only a tender for payment 
            of debts..............................................   146
        Power of Congress relating to coinage (including foreign).   121
Colleges, agricultural.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   715
Comfort.
        To enemies of the United States........................ 181, 232
Commander in Chief.  See President.
Commemoratives prohibited.........................................   823
Commerce.
        Energy and Commerce, Committee on.........................   721
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to financial aid to.....   722
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, with foreign nations   723
        Power of Congress to regulate.............................   119
        No regulation shall give preferences to any ports.........   142
Commissions.
        Congressional Mailing Standards...........................  1113
        House Office Building.....................................  1114
        Tom Lantos Human Rights................................... 1125g
        U.S. Capitol Preservation................................. 1125a
        Democracy Assistance Commission (House Democracy 
            Partnership).......................................... 1125f
        President to issue, to officers...........................   172
        For recess appointments of the President..................   167
        Created by law, to sit after expiration of a Congress.....   589
        Places on, not incompatible offices.......................    98
        Primary and supplemental expense resolutions for..........   763
Commit, motion to.  See also Recommit.
        Precedence and use of.
Precedence and general conditions of............... 911, 916, 1001-1002c
Debate on motion to........................................... 917, 1002
Relation of, to early use of the previous question............. 448, 449
            Has precedence of motion to amend.....................   449
Instructions with............................................ 917, 1002b
            May not be postponed..................................   451
            Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.....   450
            Not used in Committee of the Whole....................   916
            Repetition of.........................................   918
            Use of................................................   446

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        Application of, to bills.
After previous question ordered, Committee on Rules limited as to 
                                                               857, 1001
After previous question ordered......................... 994, 1001, 1002
            In order as to bill on third reading..................   494
            Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions.......   476
            Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending 
                previous question.................................   857
Opposition have preference in recognition for, after previous 
question is ordered......................................... 1001, 1002c
Ten minutes debate permitted on motion to recommit bill or joint 
resolution.................................................. 1001, 1002a
On bills with amendments between Houses...... 486, 528b, 528d, 916, 1002
Committee of the Whole.
        In general.
            House may attend impeachment trial in.................   617
            No control over admission to floor....................   678
Powers and privileges of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in.... 675, 
                                                                     970
Procedure of the House as in.................................... 424-427
            Rare case of investigation conducted by...............   343
            Relations of, to the Congressional Record.............   688
            Two continuing committees of..........................   332
        Chair of.
            Chair preserves order.................................   970
            Functions of..........................................   971
            Discretionary authority as to quorum calls............   982
Discretionary authority as to reduced-time votes on questions in 
sequence...................................................... 984, 1032
            Parliamentary method of selecting.....................   327
            Selection of Chair....................................   970
        Quorum of.
Quorum of...................................................... 329, 982
Call of, by electronic device or clerks....................... 982, 1019
            When failure of may be raised.........................   982
            Rising and reports as related to quorum...............   983
            Short or notice quorum call at discretion of Chair....   982
        Sitting, rising.
            Former automatic de novo vote in House where 
                Delegates' votes decisive.........................   985
Informal rising to receive a message........................... 330, 563
            Informal rising for signing of enrolled bill..........   625
            May take a recess only with consent of the House......   586
Motion to rise privileged...................................... 334, 983

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            Motion to rise not in order during time yielded for 
                general debate....................................   979
            Motion to rise prior amendments offered after reading 
                of general appropriation bills....................  1040
Point of order against motion to rise on an appropriation bill 
exceeding a section 302(b) allocation............................. 1044b
            Report from Committee on Rules not in order after 
                House votes to go into............................   857
            Rising after disorder in..............................   331
Rising when a quorum fails............................... 982, 983, 1027
Rising with unfinished business................................ 333, 334
        Motions to go into.
            Form of...............................................   328
            Privileged motion to go into, to consider and general 
                appropriation bills...............................   856
Consideration of nonprivileged bills in, after call of, committees
                                                                882, 883
            Nonprivileged public bills in, considered on Calendar 
                Wednesday.........................................   900
            Place in order of business for motions to consider 
                nonprivileged bills in............................   869
            Speaker's declaration into............................   972
        Subjects considered in.
            Subjects requiring consideration in...................   973
            As to origination of business in......................   412
            Bill must show on face falls within the rule..........   973
            Conference report not referred to.....................   550
            Construction of the rule requiring consideration in...   973
            Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills 
                by................................................  1044
            General practice as to consideration in...............   973
            Old parliamentary usage as to consideration of matters 
                in, as modified by House rules and practice.......   326
            Questions of order on appropriation bill in...........  1044
Recommittal of bills to................................. 420, 1001-1002c
Reference of Senate bills from Speaker's table to.............. 873, 874
Senate amendments considered in.............................. 1072, 1073
Subjects not requiring consideration in....................... 528a, 973
        Procedure in, as to motions.
            Amendments not to be withdrawn in.....................   925
Application of House rules to.................................. 340, 992
            Five-minute recorded vote in, immediately following 
                quorum call.......................................   982
Reduced-time recorded votes in, on questions in sequence...... 984, 1032

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            Unanimous consent to modify special orders entertained 
                in................................................   993
Motions for previous question and to adjourn not used in....... 333, 912
            Motion to reconsider not in order in..................  1003
Recorded vote in....................................... 1012, 1030, 1032
Relations of motion to strike enacting words to................ 988, 990
            Yeas and nays not taken in............................    76
        Debate in.
            Closing the five-minute debate........................   987
            General debate in.....................................   978
            Hour rule of debate applicable to.....................   957
            Motion to close general debate........................   979
            Relevancy of debate in................................   948
            Ten minutes debate on amendments submitted in advance 
                and printed in Record.............................   987
        Reading in.  See also Amendments.
            Reading of bill in....................................   942
            Reading of concurrent resolution on the budget in.....   990
        Order of business in.
            Order of business in..................................   977
            Calendars for the business of.........................   828
            Unfinished business in................................   879
        Reports of, and consideration in House.
            Action of the House on amendment reported from........   423
Amendments of, considered in the House......................... 336, 337
            Bills from, considered in the House...................   338
            Discharge of..........................................   339
            Duties of Speaker and House as to reception of reports 
                of................................................   335
            Former automatic de novo votes in House where 
                Delegates' votes decisive in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   985
            Recommitted when report ruled out by House............   335
Parliamentary law as to reports from........................... 334, 983
        Disorder in.
Action in case of disorderly words in.......................... 960, 961
Disorderly words taken down in, reported to the House..... 369, 960, 961
Effect of breaking up of, by disorder.......................... 332, 622
            Quarrels in, and duty of the Speaker as to............   331
            Sergeant-at-Arms enforces order in....................   648
            Speaker restores order in.............................   622
Committee staffs.
        Admitted to floor of House under certain conditions.......   678
        Consultants and training.............................. 774, 1095

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        Subcommittee staff appointments formerly by chair and 
            ranking minority member...............................   767
        Expense resolution for...................................... 763
        Former clerical/professional staff distinction.............. 779
        Former professional/investigative staff distinction.......   777
        Interrogation of witnesses................................   802
        Staff of committees, number and appointment........ 767, 771-781
        Reduction in staff for 104th Congress....................... 773
        Minority staff.................................... 767, 773, 779
        Staff duties..............................................   773
        Associate or shared staff.............................. 776, 779
        Duties of House Administration as to......... 724, 773, 776, 779
        Duties as to papers.......................................   695
        Former reports on staff...................................   780
        Printed amendments submitted to...........................   986
        Rate of pay for...........................................   777
        For Committees on Appropriations and (formerly) Budget..... 776, 
                                                                     778
        Permission of Committee on House Administration required 
            for appointment of staff from Governmental agencies...   779
        Nonpartisan staff.........................................   780
Committee stenographers.
        Appointment of............................................   685
Committees.
        Constitution and election of.
Appointment of Members under indictment or conviction to....... 305, 306
            Clerks of,  see Committee staffs.
            Delegates and Resident Commissioner may vote in.......   675
            Election of, by ballot................................  1034
            Establishment of subcommittees limited................   762
            Former rule regarding election of ranking minority 
                member to Committee on the Budget.................   719
General power of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in........ 675, 676
            House elects the standing committees on nominations by 
                caucuses..........................................   757
            Member-elect may be appointed on, before taking the 
                oath..............................................   300
            Members' committee assignments limited................   760
            Membership on, contingent upon membership in party 
                caucus............................................   760
Names and number of the standing................................ 714-741
            Old and modern requirements as to constitution of.....   402
            Select committees,  see Select committees.
Rules and practice as to the appointment of.................... 317, 757

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            Selection of chairs of select and of standing 
                committees........................................   761
            Serve through a Congress..............................   317
Service of Resident Commissioner and Delegates on.............. 675, 676
Speaker appoints select and conference committees.............. 637, 782
            Subcommittees limited.................................   762
            Term limits for chairs of committees and subcommittees   761
            Vacancies in, filled by election by House.............   762
            Vice chair of.........................................   793
        Jurisdiction of, and reference to.
For jurisdiction and history of, individually,  see Jurisdiction.
            Act only on matters referred to them..................   412
            Bills not to be brought back from, on motion to 
                reconsider........................................  1011
            Commemoratives prohibited.............................   823
            Delivery of bills to..................................   403
            Duty of, in case of recommittal with instructions.....   420
Functions of, in correcting errors of reference of bills....... 824, 825
            Jurisdiction as to creation, and duties of............   733
            Jurisdiction of, as affected by errors in reference of 
                bills.............................................  824,
                                                                     825
            Nearly all business of the House considered in........   446
            Papers not read in House on ordinary reference to.....   436
            Parliamentary law (largely obsolete) as to reference 
                of bills to.......................................   401
            Private claims to be referred to certain..............   817
            Private claims bills banned in certain cases..........   822
            Receive petitions only through the House..............   320
            Recommittal to select or standing, or of the Whole....   420
Referral of bills and other matters, procedures for............ 816-816b
        Sittings and procedure of.
            Additional and special meetings.......................   793
            Amendments adopted in, to be publicly available within 
                24 hours..........................................   796
            Authorization to go to conference.....................   791
            Availability of markup text...........................   798
Broadcasting and press coverage of meetings and hearings... 796, 807-812
            Clerks of,  see Committee staffs.
            Debate in.............................................   318
Decorum in................................................ 369, 787, 803
Executive sessions of..................................... 796, 798, 803
Former rule proscribing sitting during five-minute rule........ 324, 801
            Intelligence, Select Committee on, special procedures 
                for...............................................   785

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May only act when together................................ 407, 793, 799
Meetings and action of..................................... 408, 793-805
            Meeting when chair fails to call......................   793
Meetings open to public........................................ 746, 798
            Method of voting amendments to a bill in..............   417
            Notice requirement for meetings.......................   798
            Noting amendments to bill in committee................   417
            Parliamentary law governing consideration of bills in.   412
            Postponement of votes in..............................  800a
            Power of, over body and title of a bill...............   411
            Power to sit and act..................................   805
            Presence of Member of the House in a select...........   410
Procedure in generally......................................... 427, 792
            Proxy voting prohibited...............................   797
Quorum of a select or standing.................. 343, 409, 799, 800, 805
Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to 
support charge of perjury...................................... 343, 409
            Quorum to release testimony received in executive 
                session...........................................   803
            Quorum for taking testimony...........................   800
            Quorum for reporting a measure........................   799
Quorum for issuing a subpoena.................................. 343, 805
Vice chair or ranking member presides in absence of chair...... 761, 793
            Reading of investigative or oversight reports waived..   788
            Recess of a committee.................................   787
            Reconsideration of a vote in..........................   416
            Record of actions by, to be kept......................   794
            Regular meetings......................................   793
            Rise when the House sits unless leave be given to 
                remain sitting (obsolete).........................   324
            Rules of committee same as House......................   787
            Rules of, published in Record and available 
                electronically....................................   791
Secrecy of procedure...................................... 319, 798, 803
            Subcommittees subject to direction of full committee..   787
            Subpoena power........................................   805
            Time of hearings and subject matter to be placed in 
                daily Congressional Record and entered into 
                committee scheduling service of House Information 
                Resources.........................................   798
            Transcripts of meetings and hearings paid from 
                contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House)   789
            Vice chair............................................   793
            Votes in, available for inspection and publicly 
                available.........................................   794
            Witnesses before committees,  see Witnesses.

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        Hearings.
            Exclusion of Members and public from..................   798
            Five-minute rule when examining witnesses in..........   802
Rules to be adhered to in................................. 746, 798, 803
Broadcasting and press coverage of......................... 796, 807-812
            Executive hearings open to noncommittee Members.......   798
            Five-minute rule applicable during interrogation of 
                witnesses.........................................   802
Hearings open to public................................... 746, 798, 803
            Hearings to be preserved in Library of Congress.......  1107
            Notice requirement for hearings.......................   798
            On mismanagement, required............................  805a
Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to 
support charge of perjury...................................... 343, 409
            Quorum to release testimony received in executive 
                session...........................................   803
            Quorum for taking testimony...........................   800
Quorum to close hearing to discuss or receive certain testimony or 
evidence....................................................... 798, 803
            Witnesses before committees,  see Witnesses.
        Reports of, generally.
            Action of the House on amendments reported from.......   423
            Action of the House on reports from...................   422
            Activities report.....................................   790
Adverse.............................................. 832, 853, 861, 893
Adverse reports from Committee on Rules........................ 861, 893
Authorization, signing, and validity of..... 407, 408, 415, 799, 831-851
Availability in electronic form.............................. 796, 1105b
Availability of, before floor consideration.................... 850, 851
By whom made......................................... 317, 834, 804, 850
Calendars on which reports of, await action of the House........ 828-899
            Calling up reports made in order by adoption of a 
                resolution by the House...........................   862
Direction of committee, for making............................. 317, 415
Filing of, by chair or majority.................................834, 835
            From Committee on Rules, not divisible................   919
            Joint Economic Committee, report of...................  1108
Layover requirements......................................... 850, 1105b
            Limitations on reports from Committee on Rules........   857
            Origin and effect of the rule giving privilege to 
                certain reports...................................   854
Placing adverse reports on the Calendars............. 853, 861, 832, 893
            Practice as to reading reports of, in the House.......   435
            Prior claim of Member in charge of bill to recognition   953

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            Prior right of Members of, to recognition for debate..   955
Privileged...................................................... 853-868
            Privilege of individual committees to report..........   855
            Privilege of reports from Committee on Rules..........   857
Recommittal of................................ 405, 420, 917, 1001-1002c
            Reports to the House must be made promptly............   834
            Restriction on reporting bill containing an 
                appropriation.....................................  1065
            Select committee......................................   419
            Speaker does not decide on sufficiency of.............   628
Submitting reports............................................. 317, 418
            Single volume.........................................   837
Supplemental, filing of838........................................
            To be in writing and to be printed....................   833
        Reports, contents required in.
            Appropriations Committee reports on general 
                appropriation bills must state effect of any 
                provision changing existing law...................   847
            Congressional Accountability Act, requirements under..   842
            Cover must reflect inclusion of certain matters.......   804
            Former ``dynamic estimate'' of changes in revenues 
                expected to result from enactment of ``major'' tax 
                legislation (discretionary).......................  849a
            Former ``macroeconomic analysis'' of tax proposals....  849a
            Estimate of cost......................................   841
            Estimate and comparison of Congressional Budget Office   840
Estimate and comparison of funding levels...................... 840, 844
            Filing after hours if views...........................   788
            Former reporting requirement relating to committee 
                staff.............................................   780
            General performance goals and objectives..............   840
            Investigative and oversight reports considered as read   788
            Joint reports.........................................   788
Minority, supplemental, additional, and dissenting views...... 804, 833, 
                                                                     836
            New budget authority and tax expenditures, statement 
                as to.............................................   840
            Obsolete provision for directing a committee to 
                withdraw and report...............................   404
Oversight findings and recommendations......................... 742, 840
Former oversight findings and recommendations of Committee on 
Government Reform................................................... 749
            Report on bills amending or repealing statutes must 
                show by typographical device parts of statute 
                affected..........................................   846

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            Report from Committee on Rules on resolutions 
                repealing or amending Rules of the House must show 
                by typographical device parts of Rules affected...   848
Resolutions of inquiry, requirements for reports of............. 864-867
Tax complexity................................................ 849, 1092
Unfunded Mandates........................................ 790, 843, 1127
            Vote totals and names on amendments and motion to 
                report............................................   839
        Oversight functions.
            Ad hoc oversight committees...........................   743
General oversight by committees as to laws within their 
jurisdiction.................................................... 742-743
            General oversight findings and recommendations to be 
                included in reports...............................   840
            Establishment of oversight subcommittees required.....   743
            Oversight of Committee on Oversight and Government 
                Reform............................................   743
            Oversight plans submitted to Committees on Oversight 
                and Government Reform and House Administration....   743
            Special oversight functions...........................   744
            Additional functions..................................   745
            Budget hearings.......................................   746
Budget Act procedures......................................... 747, 1127
            Committee on the Budget, additional functions of......   748
            Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
                additional functions of...........................   749
        Discharge, instructions.
Motion to discharge and instruct............................... 406, 892
            Motion to discharge from consideration of vetoed bill.   108
Motion to discharge under certain public laws...................... 1130
            Obsolete provision for direction to withdraw and bring 
                back a bill.......................................   404
            Recommittal with directions to report forthwith.......   405
            Speaker usually does not judge of fidelity of, to 
                instructions......................................   628
        Call of.
            Place of, in order of business........................   869
            Calendar Wednesday....................................   900
            Morning hour..........................................   880
        In general.
            Availability of publications in electronic form.......   796
            Conferences held by means of select joint.............   532
            Correction of error in Journal by.....................   583

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            Custody of papers of..................................   695
Duties of, as to resolutions of inquiry........................ 864, 867
            Establishment of subcommittees limited................   762
            Expenses of, primary, additional, and interim funding.   768
            Exception to initial funding..........................   766
            Points of order in House against committee procedure..   798
            Records of, to be accessible to all Members...........   796
            Reference in debate to proceedings of.................   360
            Rights as to motions to suspend the rules.............   885
            Verbatim meeting and hearing transcripts..............   794
        Staff of.  See Committee staffs.
Committees, joint.
        Number and functions of............................... 1108-1113
        Compliance with clause 2(a) of rule XI....................   783
        Conferences held by means of..............................   532
        Expiration of select......................................   419
        Taxation, formerly rendered ``dynamic estimate'' on tax 
            legislation...........................................  849a
        Taxation, renders ``macroeconomic analyses'' of tax 
            proposals.............................................  868a
        Membership on contingent on party membership..............   782
        Quorum, chair, and voting in..............................   325
Common defense.
        Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
Common fame.
        As a ground for impeachment...............................   605
        As foundation for investigation...........................   341
Common law.
        Jury trial for suits at...................................   214
        Rules of, in courts.......................................   214
Communications.
        Rule for reference of............................. 816, 873, 874
        Executive, transmission of, to House......................   827
Compacts.
        States not to make, without consent of Congress...........   148
        Jurisdiction of, over interstate, generally...............   729
        Jurisdiction of, relating to apportionment of waters for 
            irrigation purposes...................................   731
        Jurisdiction of, over interstate energy...................   721
Compensation.  See also Pay.
        For private property taken for public use.................   212
        Of relatives of Members and employees.....................  1095
Compliance, Office of.  See Congressional accountability.
Compulsory process.
        For obtaining witnesses...................................   213

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Concur, motion to.  See also Agree, motion to.
        Relative to striking enacting words.......................   988
Concurrent resolutions.
        Nature and use of.........................................   396
        As to approval of, by the President.......................   396
        Adjournment for more than three days by...................    84
        On the budget.................................... 719, 990, 1127
        Legislative procedure provisions utilizing................  1130
Confederation.
        Validity of debts of......................................   194
        States not to make........................................   146
Conferees.  See Conferences.
Conferences.
        Objects and nature of.
            By means of select committees.........................   532
            Effect of recess of Congress on.......................   814
            Free and simple in modern practice....................   540
            Free or instructed....................................   557
            Over matters other than differences as to amendments..   531
            Obsolete provision as to conference on first reading..   559
            Parliamentary law as to free and simple...............   539
            Parliamentary law as to purposes for which conferences 
                may be held.......................................   558
            Questions asked of other House by, rather than by 
                message...........................................   569
Relations of adherence and conference under the parliamentary law 
and in Congress.................................... 528b, 528d, 553, 554
            Usually asked over differences as to amendments.......   530
        As to requests for.
            Adherence does not prevent granting requests for......   522
Generally................................ 528a, 530, 533, 535, 1069-1093
Motions to request, precedence of..... 528a, 528b, 528d, 535, 1069, 1070
Motions to request, authorization in committee................ 791, 1070
Requests declined or neglected................................ 534, 1070
Separate vote on certain amendments between the Houses when 
request is made.............................................. 1070, 1072
        Managers and their powers.
As affected by free and simple conference................. 539, 540, 557
Managers of, appointment, removal, and function................ 536, 637
Managers of, motion to instruct or discharge.................. 541, 1079
Managers restricted to the disagreements of the two Houses.... 546, 1088
            Managers may not agree to Senate amendments making 
                appropriations....................................  1076

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            Managers may not agree to Senate amendments to 
                appropriation bills containing legislation........  1076
            May report a germane modification within the scope of 
                disagreement where one House strikes all after 
                enacting clause of bill of other House and inserts 
                new language......................................  1088
Meeting and action of managers................................ 548, 1093
            Open conference meetings..............................  1093
            Quorum, evidence of...................................   543
            Reappointment of managers at second or subsequent.....   537
            Remedy where managers exceed their authority..........   547
            Speaker appoints......................................   637
Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed by 
managers unless by authority of both Houses................... 527, 1088
            Vacancies in managers.................................   538
        Reports of managers.
            Accompanying statement................................  1080
            Accompanying statement, Speaker decides as to 
                sufficiency of....................................   628
            Action on a report in the two Houses..................   549
            As to consideration in Committee of the Whole.........   973
            Consideration in House not in order until report 
                available for three days and copies available at 
                least two hours...................................  1082
            Considered as read if available.......................  1085
            Considered rejected if conferees have improperly 
                closed meeting....................................  1093
            Debate on, equally divided between parties............  1086
Effect of disagreement to a conference report............ 551, 954, 1091
Form of conference reports............................... 542, 543, 1080
            Have precedence of motion to reconsider...............  1003
            High privilege of.....................................  1077
            Legislation contained in amendments in disagreement, 
                procedure for consideration.......................  1084
            Limited to scope of matter committed to conference....  527,
                                                               546, 1088
Motions in order during action on a report............... 550, 1089-1091
            May report germane modification of amendment in nature 
                of substitute.....................................  1088
            May not differ from text agreed to by managers........  1094
Nongermane matter contained in conference agreements, procedure 
for consideration............................................ 1089, 1090
Nongermane matter in amendments in disagreement, procedure for 
consideration................................................ 1089, 1091
            Not to interrupt reading of Journal...................   621
            Parliamentary law as to reports of managers...........   542

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            Partial reports.......................................   544
            Postponing record votes on agreeing to................  1030
            Precedence of, over report from Committee on Rules....   857
            Printing in Record of amendment in total disagreement.  1083
Recommittal of.................................... 550, 1001-1002c, 1088
            Printing of reports and statements in the Record......  1082
Rejection of, status of amendments after................. 551, 1089-1091
Reports of inability to agree................................. 545, 1083
            Retroactive income tax rate increase prohibited in....  1068
            Quorum, evidence of...................................   543
Signing of.................................................... 543, 1093
            Speaker decides as to validity of reports.............   627
Statements relating to Federal unfunded mandates............. 1081, 1127
Three-day layover and two-hour availability before consideration 
                                                             1082, 1105b
            Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates........  1067
            To be in writing......................................   542
            To be entered in the Journal..........................   542
            Unamendable...........................................   542
            When on constitutional amendments agreed to by two-
                thirds vote.......................................   192
            Yeas and nays automatically ordered on adoption of 
                certain...........................................  1033
        Custody of papers in.
            After an effective conference.........................   555
            When managers fail to agree...........................   556
            When asked before disagreement........................   552
Confession.
        In cases of treason.......................................   181
Confirmation.
        Congress, of President's nominee as Vice President........   256
Congress.
        Meeting, term.
Meets once a year............................................... 45, 242
            Term and adjournment of...............................     6
            Adjourns in July with certain exceptions..............  1106
Neither House to adjourn for more than three days or to another 
place without consent of the other.......................... 82, 82a, 84
            Place of meeting,  see Place.
Power of President to convene or adjourn Houses of.............. 82, 171
            President to give information of the state of the 
                Union to..........................................   168
Prohibited from adjourning sine die before completion of 
congressional budget process............................ 1127 (sec. 310)

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        Powers of--legislative and general.
            Legislative...........................................     3
            As to migration of importation of persons.............   137
            Consent of, to acceptance of certain gifts............   144
            To establish patents and copyrights...................   124
            To establish post offices and post roads..............   123
            To make laws to carry its powers into effect..........   136
            To provide for legislative veto of executive actions..  1130
            To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121
            To regulate commerce..................................   119
            To regulate naturalization and bankruptcy.............   120
        Powers of--as to taxes, money, property, and territory.
            To lay and collect taxes..............................   117
            To borrow money.......................................   118
            Money to be drawn only on appropriations by...........   143
Over the seat of Government and ceded places................... 134, 135
            Over the territory and other property of the United 
                States............................................   188
        Powers of--as to war.
            To declare war, grant letters of marque...............   127
            To support armies.....................................   129
            To provide a navy.....................................   130
            To make rules for land and naval forces...............   131
            To provide for calling out the militia................   132
            To provide for organization of militia................   133
            Relative powers of Congress and the President.........   128
        Powers of--as to elections, suffrage.
As to apportionment and establishment of districts............. 226, 227
            Determines time of choosing electors..................   153
            May by law provide for cases in which President-elect 
                nor Vice President-elect shall qualify............   244
May choose President and Vice President in certain cases........ 221-223
May confirm nomination to fill vacancy in Vice Presi-
  dency........................................................ 253, 256
            Instances in which House and Senate have confirmed 
                nominee as Vice President.........................   256
            May decide termination of Presidential disability.....   255
            May provide for case wherein death occurs among those 
                from whom House and Senate may choose President 
                and Vice President................................   246
May provide for succession to Presidency or new election....... 155, 244
            Power to make or alter regulations as to elections of 
                Representatives...................................    42

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To legislate to enforce the 13th, 14th, 15th, 23d, and 24th 
amendments to the Constitution.................. 224, 233, 234, 250, 251
            To remove political disabilities......................   230
        Powers of--as to courts.
            Regulates jurisdiction of Supreme Court...............   179
To establish inferior courts................................... 125, 177
            To fix places for trial of crimes.....................   180
            To regulate the proving of acts, records, and judicial 
                proceedings of the States.........................   183
        Powers of--as to the States.
            As to admission, consolidation, or division of States.   187
            May revise and control certain State laws.............   147
            No State to lay imposts or duties on exports or 
                imports without consent of........................   147
            Consent of, for certain acts of States as to duties, 
                troops, war, and compacts.........................   148
        Powers of--to provide certain punishments.
            Each House may punish its Members for disorderly 
                behavior..........................................    62
            To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122
            To provide punishment for piracies....................   126
            To declare punishment of treason......................   182
        Powers of--as to amending Constitution.
            As to amendments to the Constitution..................   190
            To propose amendments to the Constitution or call a 
                convention........................................   190
            Jurisdiction of proposed amendments to................   729
        Powers of--limitations on.
            As related to writ of habeas corpus...................   138
            As to religion, free speech, the press, or right of 
                assembly and petition.............................   208
            Laws of, not binding on House in judging elections....    51
            Limitation on capitation or other direct tax..........   140
            No bill of attainder or ex post facto law to be passed   139
            No export duties to be laid...........................   141
            No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142
            No titles of nobility to be granted...................   144
Congressional accountability.
        Approval of regulations with respect to................ 1130(26)
        Committee reports accompanying measures must contain 
            statement relating to.................................   842
        Former rule on application of laws to Congress............  1101
        Office of Compliance......................................  1116
        Point of order for insufficient committee report..........   842

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        Settlements under approval by House Administration........   754
Congressional Budget Office.  See Budget.
legislative procedure, laws providing mechanisms for..............  1130
Congressional Record.
        Reports of debates.
Correction of............................................. 689, 967, 968
            Duties of Joint Committee on Printing in relation to..  1111
            General control of Committee on House Administration 
                over..............................................   728
            Jurisdiction relating to improvement of...............  1111
            ``Leave to print'' in, including cost of..............   692
            Not the official record of proceedings................    69
Pledge of Allegiance printed in................................ 687, 869
            Power of chair of Committee of the Whole over.........   972
            Privilege of Member to revise remarks.................   691
Privilege of propositions to correct........................... 685, 690
            Relation of Committee of the Whole to.................   688
            Remarks uttered not under recognition not printed in..   687
            Reporters of debates..................................   685
Substantially verbatim account of remarks............ 687, 691, 967, 968
Unparliamentary remarks printed in............................. 687, 961
        Matters recorded in.
            Amendments to be offered during five-minute rule may 
                be printed in advance, and given a numerical 
                designation.......................................   987
            Certain messages printed in...........................   815
            Clerk supervises daily insertions in..................  1111
            Committee meetings and hearings inserted in...........  1111
            Former ``bullet'' symbols in..........................   692
            House activities of previous day inserted in..........  1111
            Index daily of proceedings of previous day............  1111
            Introduction of bills, petitions, resolutions entered 
                in................................................   818
            Legislative program for the day to be inserted........  1111
            Messages from President entered in....................   875
            Names of Members signing discharge petitions..........   892
            Printing of conference reports in.....................  1082
Reference of public bills, memorials entered in................ 825, 826
Substantially verbatim account of remarks................. 691, 967, 968
            Titles of reported bills entered in...................   831
Congressional Research Service....................................  1117
Consent.
        Unanimous.  See Unanimous consent.
        Of Congress.
            For acceptance of certain gifts.......................   144
            For certain acts of States as to duties, troops, war, 
                and compacts......................................   148

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            No State to tax imports or exports without............   147
        Of a State.
            Required before its equal suffrage in the Senate may 
                be disturbed......................................   190
Conservation.
        Energy resources, jurisdiction of matters relating to.....   721
        Petroleum (naval), jurisdiction of matters relating to....   718
        Radium, jurisdiction of matters relating to...............   731
        Soil, jurisdiction of matters relating to.................   715
        Wildlife, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............   731
Consideration, question of.
        Form and history of.......................................   906
        Conditions of raising.................................. 862, 907
        Not to be raised against a report from Committee on Rules.   857
        On Calendar Wednesday.....................................   901
        Questions subject to......................................   908
        To dispose of points of order raised under the Unfunded 
            Mandates Reform Act............................... 909, 1127
        To dispose of certain points of order regarding 
            congressional earmarks, tax benefits, and tariff 
            benefits.............................................. 1068d
        Relation of, to other motions.............................   907
        Relation of, to points of order....................... 909, 1077
        Where quorum fails on yea-and-nay vote and adjournment 
            intervenes............................................    76
Consistency.
        Speaker not to decide questions of..................... 466, 628
Constituency.
        Apportionment and establishment of districts........... 226, 227
        Status of, as related to right to take the oath...........   204
Constitution of the United States.
        Establishment.
            Enumerated rights of, and those reserved to people....   216
            Established by the people.............................     1
            Formation of..........................................     2
            Disabilities arising from violation of the oath to 
                support...........................................   230
Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Members of Congress under 
the............................................................ 288, 289
            Judicial power extends to cases of law and equity 
                arising under.....................................   178
            Nothing in it to prejudice certain claims.............   188
            Oath to support.......................................   196
            Officers of House sworn to support....................   640
            Powers delegated to the United States by..............   217
            President sworn to preserve...........................   158

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            Supreme law of the land...............................   195
        Ratification and amendment of.
            Amendments to, jurisdiction over......................   729
            Differences as to amendment to, committed to 
                conference........................................   530
            Extension of time for ratification of proposed 
                amendment.........................................   192
            Joint resolution for amendment of, not approved by 
                President.........................................   115
            Limitation on amendment of............................   190
Methods of amending............................................. 190-192
            Ratification of.......................................   207
The 27 amendments of............................................ 208-258
            Two-thirds vote on conference report as to............   549
            Yeas and nays not necessarily taken on amendments to..    76
Constitutional authority statement.
        Requirement for introduction of bill or joint resolution..  826a
Constitutional conventions.
        Relation of, to State legislatures, in fixing times of 
            elections.............................................    43
        May be called for purpose of proposing amendments to 
            Constitution..........................................   190
Constitutional prerogatives.
        Of House as to revenue legislation........................   102
        Questions of, committed to conference.....................   531
        Questions relating to, treated as of privilege............   698
        Precedence of questions of................................   698
Constitutional privilege.
        Questions relating to................................... 698-702
Constitutions.
        Those of States subordinate to that of United States......   195
Consular service.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   723
Consuls.
        President appoints........................................   166
Consultants.
        Training..................................................   774
        Lobbying by...............................................  1095
        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178
Contempts.
        Committee reports on, privileged for immediate 
            consideration without three-day layover....... 299, 699, 850
        Power of the House to punish for........................ 293-299
Contestants.
        In election cases, admitted to the floor..................   678
        Relations of, to incompatible offices.....................   100

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Contested elections.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   724
        Contests affected by death................................    18
        Clerk receives testimony taken in contests................   642
Contingency fund (applicable accounts of the House).
        Duties of Committee on House Administration as to...... 724, 763
        Clerk formerly kept account of disbursements out of.......   642
        Commission and other entity expenses, payment from........   763
        Committee expenses, payment from..........................   763
        Committee transcripts, cost of printing paid from.........   789
        Early organization caucuses funded from...................  1126
        Privileged reports on.....................................   853
Continuation of a public work.
        Appropriations for.............................. 1036, 1048-1051
        Examples illustrating.....................................  1049
        New buildings at existing institutions as a...............  1050
        Unexpended balances may be appropriated for.......... 1037, 1063
Contractors.
        Not ineligible as Members.................................    98
Contracts.
        Obligations of, no State to impair........................   146
        Clerk formerly made or approved certain...................   644
Controversies.
        To which the judicial power extends.......................   178
Convening of Congress.
        At least once in every year............................. 45, 242
        Emergency postponement or reconvening of the House...... 83, 639
        Laws appointing a different day for.......................   243
        Public interest postponement or reconvening of the House 
                                                            83a, 84, 639
        Reconvening (recall) authority under adjournment 
            resolution, to reconvene at another time or place,  
            See Reconvene.
Convention.
        To amend the Constitution, method of calling of...........   190
Conviction.
        Two-thirds vote for, in impeachments......................    38
        Evidence for, for treason.................................   181
        For crime as basis for involuntary servitude..............   224
        In impeachments......................................... 41, 619
        Members should refrain from voting and committee 
            participation following...............................   939
Copyrights.
        Copyright royalties, limitation on........................  1099
Correction.
        Bills for, of military and naval records are banned.......   822
        Of Congressional Record............ 685, 689, 690, 744, 967, 968

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        Of reference of public bills, place of, in order of 
            business..............................................   869
        Of reference of bills from Speaker's table............. 873, 874
        Of reference of bills, correction in errors...............   824
Corrections Calendar, former.
        Former rule providing for.................................   898
Corridors.
        Speaker's control of......................................   623
Corruption.
        Of blood, for treason.....................................   182
Cosponsorship, of bills.  See Bills.
Cost, limit of.
        On public works...........................................  1047
Counsel.
        General, Office of........................................   670
        Floor privileges for respondent counsel in disciplinary 
            proceeding............................................   678
        For accused in criminal prosecutions......................   213
        In cases of expulsion.....................................    66
        Admission of, in investigations........................ 348, 803
        May be censured and excluded from hearings................   803
Count.
        Electoral.
            Constitutional provision for..........................   219
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   724
            In the Hall of the House..............................   220
        On a division or other vote.
Appeal from Chair's count prohibited........................... 629, 630
            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508
            Decision of points of order during....................   507
Division of the House after determination by sound............ 501, 1012
            Duty of Speaker to make an honest count...............  1012
            Interruption of, by demand for yeas and nays..........    77
            Messages not received during rising vote or by tellers   562
            Not to be interrupted by conference report............  1077
            Parliamentary provisions as to division, not 
                applicable in the House...........................   502
            Questions of order arising during, decided 
                peremptorily......................................   628
            Rule as to voting by division.........................  1012
            Two-thirds votes......................................   509
        Of a quorum.
Certain business suspended by failure of a quorum.............. 510, 832
            By Speaker, to ascertain as to quorum after previous 
                question is ordered...............................  1029
Not to be verified by tellers or on appeal...................... 54, 629

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            Of House when absence of quorum is observed...........   310
On record vote and otherwise by Speaker........................ 54, 1020
Counterfeiting.
        Congress may provide punishment for.......................   122
Courthouses.
        Jurisdiction as to bills for construction of..............   739
Courts.
        Of the United States.
            Appointment of officers of............................   166
            Congress to constitute inferior.......................   125
            Determination of relevancy of materials subpoenaed 
                from House........................................  291a
            Inferior, their judges................................   177
            Judges bound by Constitution and laws.................   195
            Judicial power vested in supreme and inferior.........   177
            Jurisdiction of, in general...........................   178
            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.........................   179
            Limitations of judicial power in suits of law or 
                equity............................................   218
            Tenure, compensation of judges........................   177
            Trials of suits at common law in......................   214
        As related to proceedings of Congress.
            Privilege of Members of Congress as to demands of.....  290,
                                                               291a, 697
            Relations of Members of Parliament to.................   287
            Relations of State courts to election cases...........    50
            Status of reports of Court of Claims on calendars.....   828
            Reference of claims to Court of Claims considered in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   973
            Judicial appearances on behalf of House...............  291b
            Jurisdiction as to certain, in District of Columbia...   732
            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..................   729
            Jurisdiction as to, in foreign lands..................   723
Credentials.  See also Members.
        As related to the right of a Member to take the oath......   204
        Prima facie effect of, dependent on vacancy...............    23
        House Administration Committee may consider questions as 
            to....................................................   724
Credit.
        For public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of a 
            State in other States.................................   183
        Power of Congress to borrow money on......................   118
        States not to emit bills of...............................   146
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to public...............   722

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Crimes.
        Abridgment of suffrage for................................   226
        As to what are high.......................................   175
        Extradition for...........................................   185
        High impeachable offenses.................................   175
        Involuntary servitude as punishment for...................   224
        Members refrain from voting and committee action when 
            convicted of..........................................  1095
        Persons to be held to answer for, only on conditions......   212
        Trial of all, except in impeachments, to be by jury.......   180
Criminal law.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   729
Criminal prosecutions.
        Rights of accused in all..................................   213
        Security as to accusations, and trial.....................   212
Criticism.  See also Debate.
        Of the House and its proceedings, in debate...............   361
        Of the Speaker............................................   362
        Of the motives of Members.................................   363
Cruel punishments.
        Not to be inflicted.......................................   215
Custody.
        Procuring attendance of witness in, from other House......   345
Customhouses.
        Customs, jurisdiction as to...............................   741
        Jurisdiction as to buildings for..........................   739
        Special oversight jurisdiction............................   744
Cutgo.
        Point of order............................................ 1068f
Damages to property.
        Bills of payments for, banned with exceptions.............   822
Dams.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to................... 731, 739
Dean of the House.
        Administers oath to Speaker...............................   198
Death.
        Bills for payment of certain claims against the United 
            States for, banned....................................   822
        Ceremonies for deceased Members...........................   724
        Of officers of House, vacancies caused by may be filled 
            temporarily by Speaker................................   640
        Of Member, vacancy caused by..............................    18
        Of President or Vice President of United States... 155, 244, 252
        Of Speaker................................................    28

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Debate.
        Exhibits.
            Use of in debate.............................. 622, 963, 964
        Freedom of.
            Members not to be questioned for, in another place....    92
            Members of Parliament exempted from question as to....  287,
                                                                302, 309
            Not to be interfered with by other House by notice of.   308
            Privilege of Members of Parliament as to..............   287
        Obtaining the floor for.
            Conditions under which a Member's right to the floor 
                is subjected to the will of the House.............   355
            Member to speak but once, except one Member in reply..   959
Member who has spoken to the main question may speak to an 
amendment...................................................... 465, 959
            Member's right to close debate on amendment considered 
                under five-minute rule............................   959
            Morning-hour debate...................................   951
            Motion to be stated before............................   904
            Obtaining the floor in debate.........................   945
            One-minute speeches...................................   950
            Oxford-style debates..................................   952
            Parliamentary law as to recognition by the Speaker....   356
            Procedure of the Member in seeking recognition........   354
Recognition of Members by the Speaker for debate, generally..... 949-956
            Right of a Member to be heard a second time...........   357
            Special-order speeches................................   950
            Rights of Member as to opening and closing in debate..   958
            The hour rule for debate..............................   957
        Interruptions of.
            Interruptions in......................................   364
            Interruption of a Member in debate....................   946
            Certain motions only in order when a question is under   911
            Coughing..............................................   364
            Member having the floor in, not to be interrupted by 
                motions...........................................   393
            Member in, may be interrupted by conference report....  1077
            Messages received during..............................   561
The call to order in debate.................................... 960, 961
Words taken down in debate..................................... 960, 961
        Disorder in.
Calls to order............................................ 364, 960, 961
            Disorder and interruptions during.....................   364
            Disorderly words taken down and reported from 
                Committee of the Whole............................   369

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            Impertinent, superfluous, or tedious speaking.........   359
            Members censured for..................................    65
            Parliamentary law as to taking down disorderly words..   368
            Parliamentary method of silencing a tedious Member....   365
            Rules of debate restraint on captiousness of Members..   285
            Warm words and assaults...............................   367
        Personalities, references to other House, committees.
            Criticism of the Speaker..............................   362
Debate, proceedings, and Members of the other House....... 371, 372, 945
Decorum and abstention from personalities...................... 361, 945
            Duty of the Speaker to prevent expressions offensive 
                to the other House................................   374
            Language reflecting on the House......................   360
Motives of Members not to be arraigned......................... 363, 945
            Reference to proceedings of committees................   360
Reference to the Executive..................................... 370, 945
            Reference to presumptive major-party nominee for 
                President.........................................   370
            Reference to occupants of galleries...................   966
Relevancy of................................................... 945, 948
        Closing of, in the House.
            Effect of order of yeas and nays in closing...........    80
            Effect of previous question on........................   994
            Not precluded until the negative has been put.........   490
        Limitations on.
                Forty minutes of:
                After previous question is ordered................   999
                On motion to suspend the rules....................   891
                On certain nongermane amendments between the 
                    Houses................................... 1070, 1072
                On nongermane Senate amendments included in 
                    conference report......................... 1089-1091
                Recognition for...................................   955
Limit of, on appeals........................................... 627, 629
            Morning-hour debate...................................   951
On conference reports, and on certain motions relating to 
amendments between the Houses................................ 1084, 1086
            On certain secondary motions..........................   911
            On question of order, within Speaker's discretion.....   628
            On questions of privilege.............................   698
            On motion to instruct conferees.......................  1078
            On motion to reconsider...............................  1010

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            On motion to strike enacting words....................   989
On rescission bills and deferral resolutions................... 1130(6a)
            One-minute speeches...................................   950
            Oxford-style debates..................................   952
            Special-order speeches................................   950
            Strictly enforced.....................................   957
                Ten minutes of:
                On amendments submitted in advance and printed in 
                    Record........................................   987
                On motion to recommit....................... 1001, 1002a
                Twenty minutes of:
                On motions to discharge...........................   892
        On question of consideration with regard to congressional 
            earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
            benefits.............................................. 1068d
        On question of consideration with regard to unfunded 
            mandates..............................................  1127
            Under various laws permitting congressional approval..  1130
        General debate in Committee of the Whole.
Closing of, in Committee of the Whole.......................... 978, 979
            In Committee of the Whole under the old parliamentary 
                usage.............................................   326
        Five-minute debate.
            Closing five-minute...................................   987
            Closing five-minute, in Committee of the Whole........   987
            Member's right to close debate on amendment considered 
                under the five-minute rule........................   959
            Reading and amendment under the five-minute rule......   980
            Recognition for, under the five-minute rule...........   980
            Rule as to five-minute, in Committee of the Whole.....   978
            Ten minutes on amendments previously printed in Record 
                even though debate under is limited...............   987
            Time not yielded under five-minute....................   980
        Questions not debatable.
            Amendment to title decided without....................   922
            Appeals as to priority of business decided without....   884
            Correction of reference of public bills to be made 
                without...........................................   825
            Motions to adjourn, lay on the table, and for the 
                previous question not debatable...................   911
            Motion that Journal be read...........................   621
Motion to discharge a committee not debatable (except under clause 
2, rule XV).................................................... 406, 867
            Under former rule XXX, questions as to reading of 
                papers were determined without....................   965

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        Record of.  See Congressional Record.
        Relevancy of
            Requirement of........................................   945
            Application of rule...................................   948
            Irrelevant remarks removed from Record by unanimous 
                consent only......................................   687
        In general.
            Course of the Member when business concerning that 
                Member is debated.................................   375
            In standing and select committees.....................   318
            Morning-hour debate...................................   951
            Obsolete practice as to adjournment of debate.........   444
            Obsolete practice as to Member's advice during points 
                of order..........................................   507
            On bills, usually occurs before engrossment and third 
                reading...........................................   498
            One-minute speeches...................................   950
            Oxford-style debates..................................   952
Participation of the Speaker in debate......................... 358, 947
Quorum necessary during......................................... 54, 510
            Special-order speeches................................   950
Under reservation of right to object to a unanimous-consent 
request........................................................ 381, 872
Debt.
        Claims for slaves.........................................   232
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to bonded...............   741
        None incurred in aid of insurrection to be paid...........   232
        Power of Congress to pay public...........................   117
        States restricted as to tender in payment of..............   146
        Validity of those contracted before the Constitution......   194
        Validity of debt of the United States not to be questioned   232
        Debt limit, former rule for establishment of statutory....  1104
Decisions.  See Appeal.
Declarations of war.
        Congress to make..........................................   127
        Jurisdiction as to........................................   723
        War Powers Resolution................................... 1130(2)
Declination.
        Of seat by Member.........................................    20
Decorum.  See also Debate.
        As to sitting in place....................................   353
        Assaults and affrays......................................   367
        Attire................................................. 622, 962
        Call to order for transgressions in............... 364, 960, 961

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        Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House...........   643
        Committees, preservation of....................... 369, 787, 803
        Conduct of counsel in investigation.......................   803
        Conduct of Members in the Hall............................   962
        Decorum of Members in debate,  see Debate.
        Disorder in Committee of the Whole........................   331
        Member may speak from any place on floor..................   945
        Members' presence when business concerning Member debated.   375
        Movements of Member during voting.........................   506
        Power of House to punish and expel for breaches of........    62
        Exhibits, use of.................................. 622, 963, 964
        Speaker preserves, on floor............................ 331, 622
        Smoking forbidden.........................................   962
        Use of mobile electronic device that impairs decorum 
            forbidden.............................................   962
        Wearing of hats forbidden.............................. 377, 962
Deductions.
        From the compensation of Members........................ 86, 671
        From the compensation of Members for State income taxes...   656
Defense.
        Power of Congress to provide for public...................   117
        Counsel for, in criminal cases............................   213
Defense production.
        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   722
Degree.
        Of amendments.......................................... 922, 923
        Of amendments between the Houses..........................   529
Delegated powers.
        Of the Constitution.......................................   217
Delegates.
        Admitted to floor of House................................   678
        Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of................   642
        Clerk to distribute certain documents to..................   647
        Compensation of...........................................    86
        Former de novo votes in House where vote decisive in 
            Committee of Whole....................................   985
        Elected to committees.....................................   675
        Establishment and nature of office........................   675
        From District of Columbia, formerly required to be elected 
            to the former Committee on District of Columbia.......   675
        Impeachment began at instance of a........................   603
        May have been appointed a teller..........................  1013
        As chair of Committee of the Whole........................   970
        May be appointed a conferee...............................   676

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        May be appointed to select committee......................   676
        May call a Member to order............................. 960, 961
        Powers and privileges of, on floor and in committee.......  603,
                                                675, 676, 960, 970, 1030
        Powers and privileges of, in Committee of the Whole.......   675
        Rooms of, in office buildings.............................  1114
        Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed pay of................   656
        Sworn.....................................................   675
Departments.  See Executive departments and agencies.
Deposition authority.
        Of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.......  749a
Desertion.
        Certain private bills to correct records are banned.......   822
Designation of public works.
        Consideration prohibited.................................. 1068a
Desk, Clerk's.  See Clerk's desk.
Dilatory motions.
        Amendments printed in Record may not be...................   987
        Forbidden pending report from Committee on Rules..........   857
        Not to be entertained by the Speaker......................   903
        One motion to adjourn only in order pending motion to 
            suspend rules.........................................   890
        Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as......    77
Direct tax.  See also Taxes and tariffs.
Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services.
        Former position and functions of..........................   664
Disabilities.
        Of President or Vice President.................... 155, 244, 252
        Political, arising from disloyalty........................   232
        Consideration of bills removing...........................   729
        Of President-elect or Vice President-elect................   244
Disagree, motion to.  See Amendments between the Houses.
Disagreement.
        President may adjourn Congress in a certain case of.......   171
        Stage of,  see Amendments between the Houses.
Disapproval provisions.
        Expedited procedures with respect to executive actions....  1130
Discharge.
        Motions to, of a committee............................. 406, 892
        Motions to, under certain public laws...................... 1130
        Motions as to Committee of the Whole not privileged.......   339
        Motion to discharge a committee from consideration of 
            vetoed bill...........................................   108
        Of a committee, from a resolution of inquiry..............   867

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Discipline.
        Of the militia............................................   133
        Of Members.............................................. 62, 806
Discoveries.
        Congress may provide exclusive rights to..................   124
Disorder.
        Disorderly words taken down....................... 369, 960, 961
        Galleries or lobby, cleared by Speaker for................   622
        In Committee of the Whole......................... 331, 332, 622
        May interrupt reading of Journal..........................   621
        Parliamentary law as to taking down disorderly words......   368
        Parliamentary law as to taking down words in Committee of 
            the Whole.............................................   369
        Power of chair of Committee of the Whole as to, in 
            galleries and lobby...................................   970
        Power of each House to punish for......................... 62-66
        Proceedings in case of, on the floor......................   367
Disqualification.
        As judgment in impeachment.............................. 41, 619
        Members not to hold incompatible offices................. 97-101
        Service of Committee on Ethics............................   806
Disqualifying interest.
        Of a Member as to voting.......................... 376, 671, 672
District of Columbia.
        In general.
            Bills relating to, as unfinished business.............   879
Home Rule Act, disapproval procedures under..................... 1130(5)
            Jurisdiction as to Government buildings within........   739
            Jurisdiction as to parks in...........................   731
Power of Congress as to legislation over....................... 134, 135
            Representation in Electoral College of................   250
            Second and fourth Mondays for business of.............   894
        Former Committee on.
            Jurisdiction transferred..............................   732
        Delegate from, powers of.  See Delegates.
Districts.
        Adjustment of, to apportionment...........................   227
        Questions as to elections in relation to..................   228
        Requirement that districts be equally populated...........   229
Disturbance.
        Galleries or lobby cleared by Speaker for.................   622
        Of another in debate not in order.........................   364
Division.
        Of papers for reference.
Of matter for reference to committees..................... 421, 816, 818
            Of bills for reference................................   816

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        Voting by.
            Rule as to voting by..................................  1012
            Business suspended by failure of quorum...............   510
            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508
            Decisions of points of order during...................   507
Division of the House after determination by sound............ 501, 1012
            Interruption of, by demand for yeas and nays..........    77
            Messages not received during rising vote or vote by 
                tellers...........................................   562
            Not to be interrupted by conference report............  1077
            Parliamentary provisions as to division, not 
                applicable in the House...........................   502
            Questions of order arising during, decided 
                peremptorily......................................   628
            Repetition of demand for division.....................  1012
            Two-thirds votes......................................   509
        Of the question for a vote.
            As related to debate on amendment.....................   482
Into substantive propositions.................................. 919, 921
            Jefferson's discussion of.............................   481
Motion to recede and concur divisible......................... 525, 528d
Motion to strike and insert not divisible...................... 920, 921
Offsetting amendments to appropriation bills indivisible.... 1042, 1063a
            Parliamentary law as to...............................   480
            Principles governing..................................   921
Resolutions or orders reported by Committee on Rules not divisible
                                                                919, 921
            Resolutions electing standing committees not divisible   919
Dockyards.
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
Documents.
        Reading of those, accompanying President's message........   170
        Clerk to distribute certain, to Members...................   650
Domestic violence.
        States may ask protection from............................   189
Doorkeeping.
        Doorkeeping duties of Sergeant-at-Arms................. 380, 658
        History of former Office of the Doorkeeper................  663a
Doors.
        Of the House kept by Sergeant-at-Arms.................. 380, 658
        Closed on call of the House when ordered by Speaker.......  1019
Drug testing.
        Rule providing for drug testing of Members, officers, and 
            employees.............................................   635
Due process of law.
        No person to be deprived of life, liberty, or property 
            without...............................................   212

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        No State to deprive a person of life, liberty, or property 
            without...............................................   225
Duties.  See Taxes and tariffs.
Earmarks.
        Committee on Rules may not waive certain points of order 
            against............................................... 1068d
        Point of order against certain............................ 1068d
        Question of consideration to dispose of certain points of 
            order against......................................... 1068d
        Responsibilities as to the Code of Official Conduct.......  1095
Economic and Educational Opportunities, Committee on.  See Education and 
    the Workforce, Committee on.
Economic Committee, Joint.........................................  1108
Economic report.
        Time for filing of, by President..........................   169
Education.
        Jurisdiction of subjects on............................ 720, 723
Education and the Workforce, Committee on.........................   720
Education and Labor, Committee on.  See Education and the Workforce, 
    Committee on.
Effects.
        Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211
Elections.
        Of officers of the two Houses.
Of officers of the House except Speaker......................... 29, 640
            Of officers of House, except that Speaker may fill 
                vacancies temporarily by appointment..............   640
            Of officers of the Senate.............................    37
            Of President pro tempore of the Senate................   313
Of Speaker...................................................... 26, 312
Of Speaker and other officers of House........................... 26, 30
            Of Speaker pro tempore................................   314
            Motion to proceed to election of Speaker of higher 
                privilege than motion to correct the roll.........   644
            Rule for, by ballot...................................  1034
        Of Representatives.  See also Contested elections.
            Apportioned among the States according to numbers.....   226
            Apportionment of, jurisdiction as to..................   729
            Apportionment of (obsolete provision).................    14
            Apportionments, first and last and minimum basis of...    15
            By the people.........................................     5
            Campaign contributions, jurisdiction of matters 
                relating to.......................................   724
            Clerk receives testimony taken in contests............   642
            Contests affected by death............................    18

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Each House judge of............................................... 46-51
Election by districts.......................................... 228, 229
            Functions of State executive..........................    24
            Jurisdiction as to laws relating......................   724
            Of Members, questions relating to, considered by House 
                Administration Committee..........................   724
Power of each House to judge as related to State laws............. 47-50
            Power to judge as related to law of Congress..........    51
            Prima facie title, enrollment by Clerk not conclusive 
                as to.............................................   644
            Qualifications of electors............................     7
            Question of final right as related to oath............   204
            Questions as to elections in relation to congressional 
                districts.........................................   228
Regulation of times, places, and manner of....................... 42, 43
Federal Elections Commission, disapproval of regulations....... 1130(17)
Special elections in extraordinary circumstances........ 17, 43, 53, 310
            Suffrage not to be abridged for race, color...........   234
            To fill vacancies.....................................    17
        Of Senators.
Of Senators............................................. 32, 34, 46, 236
            Congress not to interfere as to place of choosing 
                Senators..........................................    42
            Vice President votes in case of tie in cases of 
                contest in Senate.................................    36
Of President of the United States and Vice President........... 149-153,
                                                            219-223, 249
            Of electors of President and Vice President...........   151
            No person to be elected President more than twice.....   249
            Power of Congress to provide for special, for 
                President.........................................   155
            Majority of electors required to choose a President of 
                the United States.................................   221
            Qualifications of electors of President as to loyalty.   230
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   724
Election of President by House in certain cases................. 221-223
Election of Vice President by Senate in certain cases........... 221-223
            Congress to provide for case wherein death occurs 
                among those from whom House and Senate choose 
                President and Vice President respectively.........   246
Electoral count.
        Constitutional provision for........................... 219, 220
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   724

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Electoral votes.
        Transmittal and count of..................................   220
Electors.
        Of President, appointment and numbers of............... 151, 250
        Of President, qualifications of loyalty...................   226
        Of President, voting of, and count of the votes...........   219
        Of Senators, qualifications of......................... 236, 238
        Qualifications of Electors............................. 151, 152
Electronic equipment and form of publication.
        Availability in electronic form and layover requirements.. 1105b
        Committee publications available in electronic form.......   796
        Mobile electronic devices that impair decorum forbidden in 
            Chamber...............................................   962
        Standards for electronic documents set by House 
            Administration........................................   753
        Voting and quorum calls by,  see Voting.
Emancipation.
        Of slaves, no compensation for............................   232
Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations.
        Former Office of.......................................... 1125c
Emoluments.
        Conditions on acceptance of, by officers..................   144
        Of civil office under United States, increase of during 
            term bars Senators and Representatives................    96
Employees.
        Admission of, to the floor.............................. 678-681
        Appointed by officers of the House........................   640
        Application of employment laws to legislative branch,  see 
            Congressional accountability.
        Code of conduct for.......................................  1095
        Compensation, retirement, and benefits, jurisdiction over.   724
        Consultant contractors....................................  1095
        Sergeant-at-Arms responsible for conduct of...............   658
        Drug testing of,  see Drug testing.
        Duties of Committee on House Administration as to.........   724
        Former rule on fair employment practices..................  1101
        Former, admission of to floor.......................... 678, 921
        Nondiscrimination in relation to..........................  1095
        Of committees,  see Committee staffs.
        Of House, relations to claims.............................  1102
        Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions by..   683
        Relatives of Members, employment of.................... 88, 1095
        To be assigned only to duties for which they are appointed   640
Enacting words, striking.
        Rule relating to motion...................................   988
        Practice as to use of motion..............................   989

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Enemies.
        Treason to consist in adhering to or aiding...............   181
        Aid or comfort to those of the United States..............   232
Energy and Commerce, Committee on.................................   721
Energy matters.  See also Nuclear energy.
        Jurisdiction over.
Coastal zone management........................................ 731, 739
            Commercial application of energy technology...........   721
            Conservation of energy resources......................   721
            Energy information generally..........................   721
            Energy research and development.......................   735
            Interstate energy compacts............................   721
            Interstate transmission of power......................   721
            Mineral resources of public lands and mining..........   731
            National energy policy generally......................   721
            Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves................   718
            Water power...........................................   739
Engagements.
        Validity of those entered into before adoption of 
            Constitution..........................................   194
Engrossment.
        Of a bill, question on, and procedure.................. 941, 943
        Properly done after a bill is amended.....................   428
        Reading in full not required........................... 941, 943
        Test of strength on.......................................   429
        Endorsement of the title on an engrossed bill.............   431
Enrolled bills.
        As to raising a question of privilege over delay of, in 
            reaching the President................................   572
        As to signing of, by Speaker pro tempore..................   625
        Authority of pro tempore presiding officers to sign 
            enrolled bills..................................... 576, 632
        Clerk, duties in connection with..........................   648
        Conditions of signing by the Speaker................... 624, 625
        Parliamentary law as to enrollment........................   573
        Practice of the two Houses of Congress as to enrollment...   574
        Presentation of, to the President.........................   577
        Privileged reports relative to............................   853
        Report as to accuracy.....................................   625
        Signing of, for presentation to the President.............   575
        Signature vacated.........................................   625
Enumeration.
        Of people for apportionment...............................    15
        Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to..........   140
Equal protection.
        Of law, guaranteed........................................   225

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Equity.
        Judicial power extends to all cases of....................   178
        Limitation of judicial power in suits of..................   218
Equivalent questions.  See Question; Amendments between the Houses.
Errors.
        Cancellation of signatures of an enrolled bill for..... 575, 625
        Correction of, in enrollment of a bill....................   573
        Correction of, in messages................................   565
        Correction of, in reference of a bill to a calendar.......   828
        Correction of, in reference of bills, petitions........ 824, 825
        Correction of, in reference of bills from Speaker's table 
                                                                873, 874
        Correction of, in the Journal by a committee..............   583
        In a yea-and-nay vote.....................................  1017
        In bills sent to the President............................   110
        In former vote by tellers.................................  1013
        Questions of privilege affect integrity of proceedings....   698
        Rectifying of, after report by tellers....................   503
        Use of joint resolutions to correct bills sent to the 
            President.............................................   518
Establishment.
        Of religion, Congress to make no law respecting...........   208
Estimates.
        Of appropriations, transmission of, to Congress...........   827
Ethics.
        Code of Official Conduct..................................  1095
        Financial disclosure......................................  1103
        Former Select Committee on................................  721c
        Limitations on use of frank...............................  1097
        Limitations on outside earned income......................  1099
        Office of Congressional Ethics....................... 806, 1125h
        Sanctions for ethical violations...........................62-66
        Unofficial office accounts prohibited.....................  1096
Ethics, Committee on.
        Approval of copyright royalty contracts...................  1099
        Composition of............................................   759
        Duties and procedures of as to standards of conduct and 
            investigations........................................   806
        Duties under the gift rule................................  1100
        Employing agency under Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act..  721b
        History and jurisdiction of...............................  721b
        Inspector General makes certain reports to................   667
        Privileged reports from...................................   853
        Sanction committee may recommend.......................... 62-66
        Training provided by......................................   806
Evidence.
        Methods of taking............................. 341-348, 802, 803

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        Duties of committee clerks as to..........................   695
Ex-Members.  See Former Members.
Ex post facto law.
        None to be passed.........................................   139
        States not to pass........................................   146
Examination.  See Witnesses.
Excessive bail or fines.
        Not to be required........................................   215
Excises.  See Taxes and tariffs.
Exclusion.
        Of certain private bills..................................   822
        Of commemoratives.........................................   823
        Of Member for holding incompatible offices................   101
        Of Member-elect for disqualification.................... 12, 205
        Of petitions, bills for cause.......................... 819, 824
Excuses.  See Absence.
Executive.  See President; Executive departments and agencies.
Executive communications.
        Transmission to House.....................................   827
        Reference of...................................... 816, 873, 874
Executive departments and agencies.
        Appropriations Committee to study organization and 
            operation of..........................................   742
        Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers 
            in heads of...........................................   166
        Congressional review of agency rulemaking.............. 1130(28)
        Gallery for use of heads of...............................   682
        Heads of, admitted to the floor of the House..............   678
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to reorganization of.....   732
        No employees of, detailed to committee may be employed on 
            professional staff except under certain conditions....   779
        Of Government, power of Congress to legislate as to.......   136
        5 U.S.C. 3101; authority to authorize appropriation for 
            salary of clerks......................................  1046
        Reference of papers from............................... 873, 874
        Resolutions of inquiry of............................... 864-868
        President may require opinions from officers of...........   161
        Privilege of, as to papers from files.....................   696
Executive expenses.
        Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................   716
Executive of State.
        May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189
        Power to demand fugitives from justice....................   185

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Executive officers.
        Bound by oath to support the Constitution.................   196
Executive power.
        Vested in the President...................................   149
Expedited Procedures.
        For consideration of measures reviewing executive actions.  1130
Exhibits.
        Use of in debate.................................. 622, 963, 964
Expenditures.
        Of public money, account to be published..................   143
Experiment stations.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   715
Explanation.
        Of Member called to order in debate.................... 960, 961
        Personal, made by unanimous consent.......................   945
Export duties.  See Taxes and tariffs.
Expulsion.
        Power of the two Houses to punish by................. 62, 63, 66
        Course of Member when subject to debate as to.............   375
        Of a Delegate, question as to.............................   675
        Of Member-elect before taking the oath....................   300
Expunging.
        Of entries of Journal.....................................    71
Extradition.
        Of fugitives from justice in any State....................   185
Extraordinary occasions.
        Power of President to convene Congress on.................   171
Fact.
        Privilege of the Speaker to speak as to...................   358
        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court as to.......................   179
Fair employment practices and application of certain laws.
        History of former rules...................................  1101
Faith.
        For public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of a 
            State in other States.................................   183
Falsehood.
        Not to be charged on Members in debate....................   363
Fame, common.
        As foundation for investigation...........................   341
        As a ground for impeachment...............................   605
Federal mandates.
        Statements for conference reports relating to........ 1081, 1127
        Committee reports must contain effect of accompanying 
            measures on.................................. 790, 843, 1127
        Former motion to strike...................................   991

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        Question of consideration to dispose of points of order 
            raised under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
                                                               910, 1127
        Committee on Rules activity report to include waivers 
            relating to....................................... 790, 1127
        Committee on Rules may not waive certain points of order 
            under Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995............  1127
Felony.
        Conviction of Member for, nonparticipation in committee 
            and House business....................................  1095
        Senators and Representatives not privileged from arrests 
            for.................................................. 90, 91
        Relation of privilege to cases of...................... 305, 306
        Congress to punish, on the high seas......................   126
        Extradition for...........................................   185
Files.  See Papers.
Financial audits.
        By Inspector General......................................   667
        House officers to cooperate in performance of..... 655, 660, 663
        Of House and joint entities...............................   667
Financial disclosure.
        By Members, officers, principal assistants, and committee 
            professional staff....................................  1103
        Ethics in Government Act..................................  1103
        Financial audits of House and joint entities..............   667
Financial Services, Committee on..................................   722
Fines.
        Excessive, not to be imposed..............................   215
        As condition of discharging Member arrested for absence...    55
First reading.  See Reading.
Five-minute rule.
        Applicability to committee hearings.......................   802
        Closing of debate under...................................   987
        Former rule proscribing committee sittings during...... 324, 801
        Debate must be on the subject.............................   948
        Debate on amendments submitted in advance and printed in 
            Record................................................   987
        Debate on appeal in Committee of the Whole................   629
        Reading and amendment of bills under......................   980
        Pro forma amendments......................................   981
Fix the day and hour, motion to.  See Adjourn, motion to.
Flag.
        Pledge of Allegiance................................... 687, 869
Floor, Hall of House.
        Abuse of privilege of.....................................   679
        Admission of representative of press and radio to...... 693, 694

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        Admission of certain former Members.......................   680
        Distribution of campaign contributions prohibited..... 650a, 683
        Decorum of Members on,  see Decorum.
        Duty of Sergeant-at-Arms to clear of nonprivileged persons   658
        Electoral count held in...................................   220
        Exhibits, use of,  see Exhibits.
        Persons and officials admitted during sessions of the 
            House......................................... 678, 680, 681
        Sergeant-at-Arms enforces rules relating to privilege of..   658
        Speaker preserves order on............................. 331, 622
        Use of....................................................   677
        Yielding of, in debate,  see Debate.
Forces.
        Conditions to make rules for land and naval...............   131
        Land or naval, trial for crimes in........................   212
Foreign affairs.
        International commodity agreements, jurisdiction over.....   723
        International economic policy, jurisdiction over..........   723
        International education, jurisdiction over................   723
        International financial and monetary organizations, 
            jurisdiction over.................................. 722, 744
        International fishing agreements, jurisdiction over.... 731, 744
        International waters, jurisdiction over...................   723
        Limitation on loans to foreign entities................ 1013(32)
        Non-proliferation and nuclear export agreements... 723, 1130(10)
        President's relations to..................................   165
Foreign Affairs, Committee on.
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   723
        Special oversight functions of............................   744
        Reports private bills.....................................   817
Foreign coin.  See Coin.
Foreign gifts and decorations.
        Constitutional prohibition................................   144
        House rules regarding................................. 753, 1100
        Law regulating acceptance.................................   145
Foreign ministers.
        Admitted to the floor of the House........................   678
        Gallery for use of........................................   682
Foreign nations.
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting certain.........   178
        Limitations on suits of subjects of, against..............   218
        Power of Congress to regulate commerce with...............   119
        States not to make engagements with, except on conditions.   148
        Titles, gifts from.................................... 144, 1100

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Forest reserves and forestry.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to...................... 715, 731
Forfeiture.
        In cases of, treason......................................   182
Form of government.
        Republican, guaranteed to the State.......................   189
Former Members, admission to floor.  See Floor.
Forms.
        Of putting question:
            For viva voce vote....................................   630
            On question of consideration..........................   906
            On engrossment and third reading of a bill............   941
            On the passage of a bill..............................   499
        Of resolutions of inquiry.................................   865
        Of reports from Committee of the Whole................. 333, 334
        Of salutation of reception of messages....................   564
        Of going into Committee of the Whole......................   328
        Of oath of Members........................................   197
Forthwith.
        Reference with instructions to report.....................   917
Forts.
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
Forty minutes' debate.  See Debate.
Fourteen days.
        Discharge of resolutions of inquiry..................... 864-867
Franking privilege.
        House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards.......  1113
        Limitation on use of......................................  1097
Fraud.
        In introduction of a bill.................................  825a
Free conference.  See Conference.
Freedom.
        Of religion, speech, the press, and right of assembly and 
            petition..............................................   208
Fugitives.
        From justice, extradition of..............................   185
        From service or labor, return of..........................   186
Galleries.
        As to right to demand clearing of.........................   382
        Distribution, admission, and control of...................   682
        Members may not introduce occupants in, to House..........   966
        Power of chair of Committee of the Whole as to order in...   970
        Speaker may order, to be cleared..........................   622
        The Press Gallery.........................................   693
        The Radio/TV Gallery......................................   694

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Government Accountability Office, assistance to committees........  1115
General appropriation bills.  See Appropriations.
General Counsel.
        Office of............................................ 670, 1125b
General debate.  See Debate.
General revenue sharing.
        Jurisdiction over.........................................   732
General welfare.
        Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
Germane.
        Amendments required to be germane.........................   928
        Amendment being considered, which would have been subject 
            to a point of order, may be perfected by amendments 
            germane to it.........................................  1058
        Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications, and 
            limitations...........................................   940
        Amendments to bills amending existing law.................   939
        Burden of proof as to germaneness.........................   928
        Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.............   934
        Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness................   933
        A general provision not germane to a specific subject.....   937
        Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must be 
            germane...............................................   930
        One individual proposition not germane to another.........   936
        Parliamentary law as to germaneness.......................   467
        Proposition to which amendment must be germane............   929
        Senate amendments and matter contained in conference 
            reports, separate vote if not germane....... 931, 1089, 1090
        Specific subjects germane to general propositions of the 
            class.................................................   938
        Subject matter as test of germaneness.....................   932
        Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive............   935
Gifts.
        Acceptance of by House Administration Committee...........   753
        Foreign...................................................   144
        Gift rule.................................................  1100
Government.
        Economy and efficiency in, jurisdiction over..............   732
        Intergovernmental relationships, jurisdiction over........   732
        Republican form of, guaranteed to the States..............   189
        Right of people to petition...............................   208

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Government Operations, Committee on.  See Oversight and Government 
    Reform, Committee on.
Government Reform, Committee on.  See Oversight and Government Reform, 
    Committee on.
Government Reform and Oversight, Committee on.  See Oversight and 
    Government Reform, Committee on.
Government, seat of.
        Power of President to convene Congress at another place..... 82, 
                                                            82a, 84, 171
        Power of Congress to legislate for........................   134
Governors of States.
        Admitted to the floor of the House........................   678
        Fill certain vacancies in Senate..........................    34
        Issue writs to fill vacancies in representation.......... 17, 24
        May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189
        Power to demand fugitives from justice....................   185
Grand Jury.
        Indictment by, as related to trial for crime..............   212
Grants.
        Of land, judicial power extends to cases affecting certain   178
Grievances.
        Right of people to petition for redress of................   208
Grounds.
        Jurisdiction as to occupied or improved...................   739
Habeas corpus.
        Suspension of writ of.....................................   138
Hall of the House.  See Floor, Hall of House; Galleries.
Harbors.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to the improvement of...   739
Hats.
        Not to be worn by Members in the House................. 377, 962
Heads of departments.  See also Departments.
        Admitted to the floor of the House........................   678
        Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers 
            in....................................................   166
        Gallery for use of Cabinet................................   682
        Rule for reference of papers from...................... 873, 874
Health.
        Care and facilities supported by general revenues, 
            jurisdiction over.....................................   721
        Care supported by payroll deductions, jurisdiction over...   741
        Biomedical research and development, jurisdiction over....   721
        Public health and quarantine, jurisdiction over...........   721
        Veterans' health care, jurisdiction over..................   740
        Human nutrition, jurisdiction over........................   715
Hearings.
        Exclusion of Members and public from......................   798

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        Five-minute rule when examining witnesses in..............   802
        Rules to be adhered to in......................... 746, 798, 803
High crimes and misdemeanors, impeachable offenses.  See Impeachment.
High seas.
        Punishment of piracies and felonies on....................   126
Hissing.
        Not in order during debate................................   364
Historian.
        Office of House...........................................   669
Holman rule.
        Decisions under Holman rule (in brief)....................  1062
Homeland Security.
        Committee on..............................................  723a
        Former select committees on...............................  723b
Honorarium.
        Limitations on................................. 1095, 1099, 1103
Hour of meeting.
        Speaker takes Chair at....................................   621
        Fixed.....................................................   621
        Standing order as to, expires with the session............   386
        Jurisdiction of orders as to daily........................   733
        Motion to fix.......................................... 911, 913
Hour rule.
        Of debate.................................................   957
House Administration, Committee on.
        Allowances of Members and committees, authority to adjust 
                                                                  86, 88
        Approval of reserve fund for committee expenses...........   763
        Availability for one day of reports on committee expense 
            resolutions................................... 851, 764, 765
        Chair and four members serve on Joint Committee on the 
            Library...............................................  1110
        Chair and four members serve on Joint Committee on 
            Printing..............................................  1111
        Details to committees from Government agencies permitted 
            by....................................................   779
        Duty as to acceptance of gifts............................  679d
        Duty as to approval of certain employment settlements.....  679e
        Duty as to relations of officers and employees to claims..  1102
        Duty as to direction of Inspector General and Chief 
            Administrative Officer................................   752
        Duty as to standard for electronic documents..............   753
        Former duty as to enrolled bills..........................   754
        Duty as to termination of LSOs.............................. 88a
        Former Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight...........   744
        History, jurisdiction, and duties of................... 724, 750

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        Oversight responsibilities................................   743
        Privileged reports from...................................   853
        Reports on committee expense resolutions............... 763, 764
        Reports on election cases.................................   853
        Responsibilities relating to committee staff........... 776, 779
House as in Committee of the Whole.
        Procedure in............................................ 424-427
        Procedure in generally applicable to House committees...... 407, 
                                                                     792
House Calendar.
        Certain bills placed on, to await action of House.........   828
        Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday................   900
        Bills on, considered during ``Morning Hour''..............   880
House of Commons.
        Members of.
            Common fame as ground for investigation of............   341
Privilege of.......................................... 287-289, 305, 307
            Relation to the sovereign.............................   309
        Powers of and Procedure in.
            Call of the House.....................................   311
            Election of Speaker...................................   312
Entry of votes in Journal of................................... 581, 582
            Jurisdiction of as to impeachments....................   601
            Motion to strike......................................   468
            Parliamentary law as to the adjournment of the Lords 
                and Commons.......................................   584
            Possession of a bill by...............................   437
            Power to punish for contempt..........................   296
Previous question.............................................. 461, 463
            Principles as to disagreeing, insisting, and adhering.   521
            Privileged motions....................................   447
            Proceedings in cases of assaults and affrays..........   367
            Receipt of address....................................   316
            Rules as related to the privilege of minorities.......   283
            Sessions of Parliament................................   588
Voting in...................................................... 502, 505
House of Representatives.
        Part of Congress..........................................     3
        Accounts, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............   724
        Assignment of rooms in office buildings...................  1114
        Attendance of, at an impeachment trial....................   617
        Authority as to treaties................................ 594-599
        Bills for raising revenue to originate in................... 102
        Choice of President by................................. 221, 222
        Chooses Speaker and other officers................... 26-30, 640
        Composed of Members chosen by people......................   5-7

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        Confirms nomination of Vice President.....................   253
        Contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House), leave 
            to report on expenditures at any time.................   853
        Contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House), 
            jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   724
        Door of, kept by Sergeant-at-Arms...................... 380, 658
        Early organization of.....................................  1126
        Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..............   219
        Employment of persons, jurisdiction of matters relating to   724
        Has power of impeachment..................................    31
        Historian for.............................................   669
        Indecent language against, not permitted in debate........   360
        Its power to make rules................................... 58-60
        Leadership, compensation, and emoluments of.............. 86, 89
        Library, Clerk's..........................................   650
        Library, jurisdiction of matters relating to..............   724
        May it prescribe qualifications of Members?...............    12
        Meets at noon............................................ 6, 621
        Members,  see Members.
        Officers,  see Officers.
        Place of meeting,  see Place.
        Power of President to convene or adjourn..................   171
        Power to punish and expel its Members..................... 62-66
        Questions of privilege affecting........................ 698-668
        Required to keep a Journal................................    68
        Rules,  see Rules.
        Services, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............   724
        Use of Hall of............................................   677
        Vacancies in.............................................. 17-25
House office buildings.
        Administration of, jurisdiction of matters relating to....   724
        Assignment of rooms in....................................  1114
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   739
House Recording Studio.  See Recording Studio.
House restaurant.  See Restaurant.
Houses.
        Relation between two of Congress.
Provisions of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 applicable to 
both.......................................................... 1106-1107
            Bill from one laid on the table in the other..........   520
            Communicate fact of rejection of a bill...............   568
            Complaint by one House of conduct of a Member of the 
                other.............................................   373
            Debate and proceedings in the other House not to be 
                noticed in debate.................................   371

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            Duty of the Speaker to prevent expressions offensive 
                to the other House................................   374
            Do not communicate votes by which bills are passed....   567
            Each judge of elections...............................    46
            Information transmitted as to bills...................   520
            Messages between to be sent only when both are sitting 
                under former rule.................................   560
            Messages from the President usually sent to both at 
                once..............................................   571
            Neither should encroach on the other..................   308
            Procedure when an inquiry in one, implicates a Member 
                of the other......................................   323
            Procuring attendance of witness in custody of other 
                House.............................................   345
            Questions asked by committee, not by message..........   569
            Questions as to prerogatives committed to conference..   531
            Relations of, as to summoning Members or officers as 
                witnesses.........................................   292
            Right of each, to inspect Journal of the other........   582
            The other House and its Members not to be criticized 
                in debate.........................................   372
        Private.
            Security of, as to searches and seizures..............   211
            As to quartering of soldiers in.......................   210
Immigration.
        Power of Congress over....................................   137
Immunities.
        Of citizens not to be abridged............................   225
        Of citizens in States other than their own................   184
        Of witnesses before committees............................   343
Impeachment.
        Civil officers removable by...............................   173
        As to who is a civil officer..............................   174
        Nature of impeachable offenses............................   175
        Later impeachment inquiries...............................   176
        Cases of, not to be tried by jury.........................   180
        House has sole power of...................................    31
        Senate alone tries........................................    38
        Conviction by two-thirds only.............................    38
        Judgment in cases of......................................    41
        President not to pardon in cases of.......................   162
        Jurisdiction of Lords and Commons as to...................   601
        Parliamentary law as to accusation in.....................   602
        Inception of proceedings in the House of Representatives..   603
        A proposition to impeach a question of privilege..........   604
        Investigation of charges..................................   605

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        Procedure of committee in investigating...................   606
        Common fame as ground for investigation with view to......   341
        Carried to the Senate.....................................   607
        The writ of summons for appearance of respondent..........   608
        Exhibition and form of articles...........................   609
        Parliamentary law as to appearance of respondent..........   610
        Requirements of the Senate as to appearance of respondent.   611
        Answer of respondent......................................   612
        Other pleadings...........................................   613
        Examination of witnesses..................................   614
        Attendance of the Commons.................................   616
        Attendance of the House of Representatives................   617
        Voting on the articles in the trial.......................   618
        Judgment in...............................................   619
        Not interrupted by adjournments...........................   620
        Continued before the Senate from session to session.......   592
Importation.
        Of persons, power of Congress over........................   137
        Of intoxicating liquors...................................   248
Imports.  See Taxes and tariffs.
Imposts.  See Taxes and tariffs.
Impoundment.
        Control Act of 1974.................................... 1130(6a)
        Impoundment resolutions, definitions, and procedures for 
            consideration of................................... 1130(6a)
        Deferral of appropriations, jurisdiction over.......... 716, 717
Imprisonment.
        Of person who assaulted a Member..........................    91
        As to termination of an order of..........................   386
Inability.
        Of President or Vice President.................... 155, 254, 255
        Of President-elect or Vice President-elect................   244
Inauguration.
        Ceremonies of.............................................   159
        Joint Committee on........................................  1112
        Of President when day falls on Sunday.....................   150
Incapacity.  See also Vacancy.
        Of Members-elect..........................................   205
        Of the President..........................................   256
Income.
        Limitation on outside earned..............................  1099
Incompatible offices.
        Relation of Members to................................... 97-101
        As to what are............................................    98
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   729

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Indefinite postponement.
        Use of the motion for.....................................   443
Index.
        Of the Journal, Clerk to make.............................   647
Indians.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to................... 720, 731
        Authority of House as to Indian treaties..................   598
        Power of Congress to regulate commerce with...............   119
        Excluded from basis of representation where not taxed.....   226
Indictment.  See also Impeachment.
        Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...............   212
Informal rising of Committee of the Whole.  See Committee of the Whole.
Information.
        Classified, oath not to disclose..........................  1095
        To be given to Congress by the President............... 169, 170
Inhabitancy.
        As qualification of a Member..............................    11
        As qualification of a Senator.............................    35
        As qualification of the President of the United States....   154
        As modifying the vote of presidential electors............   219
        As a condition of citizenship in the United States and the 
            States................................................   225
Inquiry.
        Resolution of.
            As related to the Executive...........................   868
            Discharge of committee from...........................   867
            Form and delivery of..................................   865
            Privileged status of..................................   866
            Rule relating to......................................   864
        For an investigation.  See Investigations.
        Parliamentary.
            No appeal from responses to...........................   629
Insert, motion to.  See Amendment.
Insist, motion to.  See Amendments between the Houses.
Inspection laws.
        Rights of States to levy duties or imposts, to execute....   147
Inspector General.
        Office of.................................................   667
Instructions.  See Commit; Conference; Discharge; Recommit; Recommittal; 
    Refer.
Insular affairs.
        Jurisdiction of revenue matters...........................   741
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...........   731

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Insult.
        Member censured for, to the House.........................    65
        Bills or petitions excluded for being insulting........ 818, 891
Insurrection.
        Suppression of............................................   132
        Debts incurred in suppressing, not to be questioned.......   232
        Debts incurred in aid of, not to be paid..................   232
        Participation in, as a disqualification for office........   230
Intelligence, Permanent Select Committee on.
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   785
        Oversight jurisdiction of.................................   744
        Procedures for disclosure of classified information... 785, 1095
Interest.
        Disqualifying personal, as to voting.............. 376, 671, 672
International Relations, Committee on.  See Foreign Affairs, Committee 
    on.
Interparliamentary Affairs.
        Office of.................................................  1124
Interruptions.
        Procedure as to, during debate............................   364
        Member having the floor not to be interrupted by motions..   946
        Of Member having the floor in debate......................   945
        Of Member having the floor, by a call to order............   393
        Of business or debate, by conference report...............  1077
        Of a record vote..........................................  1018
        Of record vote by recess not permitted....................   586
        Of the call of committees.................................   881
Interstate compacts.  See Compacts.
Intervening questions.  See Privileged Questions; Privilege, questions 
    of.
Intoxicating liquors.
        Jurisdiction as to prohibited traffic in..................   730
        Jurisdiction as to sale of, in District of Columbia.......   732
        Transportation and importation under the 21st amendment...   248
Introducer, right to speak twice.  See Debate.
Introduction of bills.  See Bills.
Invasions.
        Repelling of..............................................   132
        States to be protected against............................   189
        Suspension of writ of habeas corpus for...................   138
Inventors.
        Congress may provide for patents for......................   124
Investigation.  See also Committees; Contempt; Counsel; Impeachment; 
    Witnesses.
        Common fame as a ground for...............................   341

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        Earlier and later practice as to, inquiries at the bar of 
            the House.............................................   344
        Jurisdiction of resolutions ordering......................   733
        Method of obtaining testimony of a Member of the other 
            House.................................................   347
        Procedure when a Member or Senator is involved.......... 321-323
        Procuring attendance of a witness in custody of the other 
            House.................................................   345
Involuntary servitude.
        Not to exist except for punishment for crime..............   224
Jefferson's Manual.
        As source of general parliamentary law....................    60
        Part of rules of House....................................  1105
        Purposes and methods of preparation of (footnote).........   283
        Text of................................................. 283-620
Jeopardy.
        Of life and limb, not to occur twice......................   212
Joint committees.  See Committees, joint.
Joint resolutions.
        Nature and use of.........................................   397
        Clerk certifies to passage of.............................   648
        For amendments to Constitution, not approved by President.   115
        Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment or 
            passage...............................................   921
        Signed by Speaker.........................................   624
        Use of, to correct an error in a bill sent to the 
            President.............................................   518
        Used for abrogating treaties..............................   599
        Used for amendment to the Constitution....................   191
Joint rules.
        Jurisdiction as to........................................   733
        Abrogated............................................... 61, 316
        Reference to..............................................  1105
Joint sponsorship.  See Bills; Memorials.
Journal.
        In general.
            Clerk to publish and distribute.......................   647
            House required to keep and publish....................    68
            Not to go out of Clerk's custody......................   352
            Secrecy of portions of................................    68
The official record of proceedings.............................. 69, 582
        Entries in.
            Record of proceedings only............................    70
Clerk to note questions of order in............................ 628, 647
            Conditions under which reports are printed in.........   422
            Control of House over.................................    71
            Of amendments.........................................   580

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            Of certain messages...................................   815
            Of conference reports.................................   542
            Of introduction of bills, petitions, and resolutions..   818
            Of Members noted to make a quorum.....................  1020
            Of messages from President............................   875
            Of motions............................................   902
            Of motions (obsolete provisions as to)................   578
            Of motions to discharge committees....................   892
            Of names of absentees when quorum fails in Committee 
                of the Whole......................................   982
            Of names of Members appearing during call of the House  1021
            Of President's objection to a vetoed bill.............   104
Of questions and answers in, at examinations at the bar of the 
House.......................................................... 343, 344
            Of questions postponed or laid on the table...........   579
            Of record of votes....................................    72
            Of former recorded teller votes in Committee of the 
                Whole or in House.................................  1013
Of reference of public bills, memorials........................ 825, 826
            Of report of enrolled bills presented to the President   577
            Of titles of reported bills...........................   831
            Of votes, in the House of Commons.....................   581
Of yeas and nays generally........................................ 75-80
            Of yeas and nays on vetoed bill.......................   104
Relations of, to presence of a quorum.......................... 55, 1027
            Words of censure......................................    65
        Reading of.
As related to quorum........................................... 55, 1027
            Business not transacted before........................   621
            Disorder during.......................................   621
            For approval..........................................   621
            Interruption of.......................................   621
            May be interrupted by a question of privilege.........   710
Member sworn in before......................................... 201, 621
            Motion to adjourn before..............................   621
            Motion that, be read in full only upon rejection of 
                Speaker's approval................................   621
            Not interrupted by conference report..................  1077
            Place in order of business............................   869
        Amendment and approval.
Amendment of.................................................... 74, 621
Approval of, by House........................................... 73, 621
            Correction of, through a committee....................   583
            Postponement of record vote on, approval of...........  1030

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            Preliminary approval by Speaker.......................   621
Judges.
        Bound by Constitution and laws............................   195
        Of Supreme Court, President appoints......................   166
        Of Supreme Court, admitted to the floor...................   678
        Of Supreme Court, gallery for use of......................   682
        Tenure and compensation of................................   177
        As to impeachable offenses by........................... 174-176
Judgment in impeachments.  See Impeachment.
Judicial officers.
        Bound by oath to support the Constitution.................   196
Judicial power.
        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.............................   179
        Limitations of, in suits in law and equity................   218
        Scope of..................................................   178
        Vested in supreme and inferior courts.....................   177
Judicial proceedings.
        States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to......   183
Judiciary, Committee on the.
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   729
        Reports private claims bills........................... 729, 817
        Records transferred to from former Committee on Internal 
            Security..............................................   730
Jurisdiction.
        Of committees of the House.
            Conferred by uncorrected error in reference of public 
                bill..............................................   825
            Not conferred by erroneous reference of private bill..   824
Of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.............. 744, 785
            Referrals to assure each committee opportunity to 
                report on subjects within.........................   816
        Of the standing committees, severally
            Agriculture...........................................   715
            Appropriations........................................   716
            Armed Services........................................   718
            Budget................................................   719
            District of Columbia, former Committee on.............   732
            Education and the Workforce...........................   720
            Energy and Commerce...................................   721
            Ethics................................................  721b
            Financial Services....................................   722
            Oversight and Government Reform.......................   732
            Homeland Security.....................................  723a
            House Administration..................................   724
            Foreign Affairs.......................................   723

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            Judiciary.............................................   729
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on... 718, 731, 735, 739
            Post Office and Civil Service, former Committee on....   732
            Natural Resources.....................................   731
            Rules.................................................   733
            Science, Space, and Technology........................   735
            Small Business........................................   736
            Transportation and Infrastructure.....................   739
            Veterans' Affairs.....................................   740
            Ways and Means........................................   741
        Of the United States.
            As related to citizenship.............................   225
            Slavery and involuntary servitude forbidden in places 
                under.............................................   224
        Of the Supreme Court.
            Original and appellate, of Supreme Court..............   179
Jurors.
        All cases of crimes to be tried by, except in impeachments   180
        Grand, indictment by, as related to trial for crime.......   212
        Privilege of Members of Congress as to summons as...... 290, 291
        Privilege of members of Parliament as to summons as.......   287
        Relation of trial by, to impeachment......................   615
        Right to trial by, in criminal prosecutions...............   213
        Suits at common law tried by..............................   214
Justice.
        Extradition of fugitives from.............................   185
Kings.
        Gifts, titles, to be accepted on conditions...............   144
Labor.
        Return of fugitives from..................................   186
        Jurisdiction of regulation or prevention of importation of 
            contract labor........................................   720
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to transportation labor..   739
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...........   720
Land forces.
        Congress to make rules for................................   131
Lands.
        Irrigation of, jurisdiction as to.........................   731
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting certain grants..   178
        Jurisdiction as to occupied or improved grounds...........   739
        Jurisdiction of private claims to...................... 679, 817
        Mineral, jurisdiction of matters relating to..............   731
        Public, jurisdiction of matters relating to...............   731

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Law.
        As related to legislative functions.
            As agency for prescribing qualifications..............    12
        As related to power of House to elect officers........... 29, 30
Application of laws to legislative branch,  see Congressional 
accountability.
            Appropriations to be made by..........................   143
            Authority to administer oaths conferred by............    59
            Bill to be approved before becoming...................   104
            Civil and criminal, jurisdiction of subjects related 
                to................................................   729
            Fixes compensation of Representatives and Senators....    86
Meeting of Congress by.......................................... 45, 279
            Of Congress as related to power to judge elections....    51
Of State as related to House's power of judging elections......... 48-50
            Passed over veto by two-thirds........................   104
            Procedures contained in, for congressional vetoes of 
                executive action..................................  1130
Relation of, to power to determine rules.................. 59, 388, 1130
            Revision of, jurisdiction of subjects relating to.....   729
            That of 1789 relating to administration of oath at 
                organization......................................   198
        Parliamentary.
            General, before adoption of rules.....................    60
            Jefferson's Manual as a statement of..................   284
            Relations of the parliamentary law to the early 
                practice of Congress..............................   285
        Making and execution of.
            Congress to provide for calling forth militia to 
                execute...........................................   132
            Power of Congress to make.............................   136
            President to see that laws are faithfully executed....   172
            When made in pursuance of the Constitution the supreme 
                law of the land...................................   195
        Relations of judicial power to.
            Congress may fix places for trial of certain crimes by   180
            Judicial power extends to all cases of................   178
            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court as to...................   179
            Jury trial for suits at common........................   214
            Limitation of judicial power in suits of..............   218
            Of United States, judicial power extends to cases 
                arising under.....................................   178
            Rules of, in courts...................................   214
        Guarantees of liberty and property.
            Due process of, no person to be deprived of life, 
                liberty, or property without......................   212

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            Due process of, no person to be deprived of life, 
                liberty, or property by a State without...........   225
            Equal protection of, guaranteed.......................   225
            Impairing obligations of contract, no State to pass...   146
            No ex post facto, to be passed........................   139
            States not to pass ex post facto......................   146
        In General.
Application of laws to legislative branch,  see Congressional 
accountability.
            Certain, of States subject to revision and control of 
                Congress..........................................   147
            Of nations, offenses against..........................   126
            Punishment of, additional to impeachment..............    41
            Treaties abrogated by.................................   599
Law Librarian.
        Admitted to floor of the House............................   678
Law Revision Counsel.
        Office of, establishment and duties of....................  1120
Lay on the table, motion to.
        Conditions, precedence, and effect of.
Precedence and general effect and conditions of................ 911, 914
            Conditions of, repetition of..........................   918
            Effect of, as to main question and secondary questions   914
            May intervene before Member in charge begins debate...   955
            Not debatable.........................................   911
            Not in order in Committee of the Whole................   914
            Older and modern use of...............................   445
        Relations to other motions.
            May be applied to other secondary motions.............   914
            Not in order after previous question is ordered.......   914
            Relations of, to motion to reconsider.................  1009
            Relations of, to the previous question................   998
        Application of.
            Applicable to bills from the other House..............   519
            Applicable to preamble of a resolution................   414
            Applicable to vetoed bill.............................   108
            Applicable to Senate amendments.......................  528d
            Not applied to a conference report....................   550
Leadership.
        Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, members of...............  670a
        Coordination of oversight plans...........................   743
        Joint recall authority....................................    84
        Member designated by on Committee on the Budget...........   758
        Special order hours.......................................   950

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        Staff allowances..........................................    89
        Staff floor privileges....................................   678
        Clearance of certain unanimous-consent requests...........   857
Leave for committees to report at any time.  See Committees.
Leaves of absence.  See Absence.
Leave to print in Congressional Record.  See Congressional Record.
Legal tender.
        States restricted as to making............................   146
Legislation.
        On general appropriation bills prohibited,  see 
            Appropriation Bills.
        Power of Congress as to District of Columbia and ceded 
            places................................................   134
        Power of Congress to legislate to enforce the 13th, 14th, 
              and 15th amendments...........................  224, 233, 
                                                                     234
        Territorial, revision of, jurisdiction as to..............   731
Legislative call system...........................................  1016
Legislative Counsel, Office of....................................  1118
Legislative day.
        Speaker takes Chair on each...............................   621
        Journal dated as of.......................................    69
Legislative expenses.
        Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................   716
Legislative oversight by standing committees.  See Committees.
Legislative powers.  See also Congress, powers of.
        Of Congress............................................ 117, 136
        Vested in Congress........................................     3
        Legislative service organizations...................... 88a, 754
Legislative veto.
        Laws providing mechanisms for legislative procedure.......  1130
Legislatures of States.
        Function of, in prescribing times of elections of 
            Representatives...................................... 42, 43
        As related to qualifications of Electors..................     7
        Choose Senators (obsolete)................................    32
        Constitutional convention to be called on application of..   190
        In recess of, governor appoints Senator (obsolete)........    34
        May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189
        May empower State executive to make temporary appointment 
            of Senator............................................   236
        Power as to joining or dividing of their States...........   187
        Direct manner of appointment of electors of President.....   151
        Power of Congress over places purchased with consent of...   134

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        Members of, bound by oath to support the Constitution.....   196
        Ratification of constitutional amendments by..............   190
Letters of Marque.
        And reprisal, Congress to grant...........................   127
        States not to grant.......................................   146
Liberty.
        No person to be deprived of it without due process of law.   212
        No State to deprive a person of, without due process of 
            law...................................................   225
Librarian.
        Preserves committee hearings..............................  1107
        Of Congress, admitted to floor of House...................   678
        Assistant in Law Library admitted to floor of House.......   678
Library.  See also Congressional Research Service.
        Of Congress, jurisdiction of Committee on House 
            Administration as to..................................   727
        Of Congress, jurisdiction of matters relating to buildings 
            and grounds...........................................   739
        Of Clerk's office, certain books and documents to be 
            retained in...........................................   650
        Preserves committee hearings..............................  1107
        Joint Committee on........................................  1110
Lie.
        Not to be charged against Member in debate................   363
Life.
        No person to be deprived of it without due process of law.   212
        No State to deprive a person of, without due process of 
            law...................................................   225
        Persons not to be put twice in jeopardy of................   212
Limitations.
        On general appropriation bills,  see Appropriation bills.
        On outside earned income..................................  1099
        On use of frank...........................................  1097
Line item veto authority.
        Presidential authority................................. 1130(6b)
Lists.
        Presidential electors to make certain.....................   219
Loans (foreign).
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.................... 723, 729
Lobby.
        Speaker may order to be cleared...........................   622
        Power of chair of Committee of the Whole as to order in...   970
Lobbying.
        By committee consultants..................................  1095
        Gifts from lobbyists........................... 1095, 1100, 1103
        Floor privileges of lobbyists.............................   680
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   729

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Loss of a bill.  See Bills.
Loyalty.
        As related to the oath and qualifications.............. 205, 230
        Removal of disabilities as to.............................   231
Mace.
        Symbol of Sergeant-at-Arms................................   657
Magazines.
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
Mail.
        Delivery of...............................................   668
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   732
        House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards.......  1113
Majority.
        Required in elections.
            Necessary for election on ballot vote.................  1034
            Of Senators for choice of a Vice President............   263
            President chosen by...................................   263
Speaker elected by.............................................. 27, 312
        In procedure of the House.
Constitutes quorum of a standing or select committee for certain 
actions.............................................. 409, 798, 799, 805
Constitutes quorum of House...................................... 52, 53
            Decisions of the House reached by.....................   508
            May reconsider a vote ordering yeas and nays..........    79
            Questions as to priority of business decided by.......   884
To send bill to conference on motion.............. 791, 1069, 1070, 1071
            Rules to be a restraint on............................   283
            Special requirements as to two-thirds vote............   509
Managers of a conference.  See Conference.
Manner of elections.  See Elections.
Manual, Jefferson's.  See Jefferson's Manual.
Marine affairs.
        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   731
Marine hospitals.
        Jurisdiction as to........................................   721
Maritime jurisdiction.
        Judicial power extends to cases of........................   178
Mass mailing.
        Franking of...............................................  1097
Measures.
        Congress to fix standard of...............................   121
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   735
Meeting.
        Of Congress.
Once every year................................................. 45, 242
            Laws appointing different day for.....................   243

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            Power of President to convene.........................   171
            Other power to convene................................   171
            Time of...............................................     6
            Jurisdiction of bills to change date of...............   729
Duties of Clerk at organization of the House.................... 643-645
Administration of the oath at organization...................... 198-204
        Of the House.
            Speaker takes Chair at hour of........................   621
            Standing order as to daily hour of, expires with the 
                session...........................................   386
            Jurisdiction of orders as to..........................   733
        Of committees.
Of committees............................................. 407, 793, 805
Former rule proscribing sittings during five-minute rule....... 324, 801
            Prohibited during joint meetings and sessions.........   801
            Of managers of a conference...........................   548
            Of presidential electors in the several States........   262
            Power to sit and act inside United States.............   805
            When chair refuses to call............................   793
Members.
        Election of.  See Elections; Contested elections.
        Vacancies by death, resignation.  See Vacancies.
        Qualifications of.  See Qualifications.
        Relations of, to oaths.  See Oath.
        Compensation, seats, rooms, and clerks.
Admission to floor of House,  see Floor.
            Clerk to distribute certain documents to..............   649
            Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of............   642
            Clerk to furnish to, a list of certain reports........   646
Committee on House Administration may adjust certain allowances..... 86, 
                                                                      88
Compensation of.............................................. 85-88, 258
            Compensation may not vary until intervening Congress..   258
            Family and card galleries for use of..................   682
Franking privilege........................................... 1097, 1113
            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.................   724
            Jurisdiction over travel matters of...................   724
Mileage of, determined by a committee........................... 85, 724
            Nondiscrimination in employment by....................  1095
            Members' Representational Allowance...................    88
            Outside earned income of..............................  1099
            Rooms of, in office building..........................  1114
Relatives of, employment of.................................... 88, 1095

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            Travel on official business, designation by Speaker...   636
            Unofficial office allowances prohibited...............  1096
        Privilege of.
            Questions of privilege affecting, defined by rule.....   698
Arrest, privilege of Members from................................ 90, 91
            Arrest, parliamentary law as to arrest of a Member....   307
Attitude of the House as to demands of the courts.............. 291, 697
            Privilege of Members..................................   698
            Jefferson's discussion as to going and returning......   289
            Jefferson's discussion as to rights of courts to 
                summon as witnesses and jurors....................   290
            Jefferson's review of privilege of members of 
                Parliament........................................   287
            Members of Congress under the Constitution............   288
            Neither House to exercise authority over those of the 
                other.............................................   373
Not to be questioned in another place for speech or debate....... 92, 93
Scope of privilege of speech and debate......................... 93, 301
            Parliamentary law as to questioning for speech or 
                debate............................................   302
            Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason, 
                felony............................................   305
Power of the House to punish for attempts against.............. 293, 299
            Precedence of questions of personal privilege.........   698
            Privilege of, of Parliament...........................   287
            Raising questions of privilege........................   698
            Relations of, to privilege............................   301
            Relations of the courts to parliamentary privilege....   303
            Rule for responding to subpoenas......................   697
            Relations of sovereign to members of Parliament.......   309
            Status of Member-elect as to..........................   300
        Attendance of.  See Attendance.
        Decorum of.  See Decorum.
        Drug testing of.  See Drug testing.
        Introduction of bills and petitions by.  See Bills; Petitions.
        In debate.  See Debate.
        Right to seat.
            Leave to report matters relating to at any time.......   853
        Rights of, as to motion.
Conditions of motion to reconsider by........................ 1003, 1004
            In charge of bill, relations of, to previous question.   997
            Motions reduced to writing on demand of...............   902
            Rights of, as to motions to discharge committees......   892
Rights of, as to motions to suspend the rules.................. 885, 888
            Rights to demand question of consideration............   906

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        Rights to have papers read.
            Do not necessarily have a right to have papers read on 
                plea of privilege.................................   433
Former rights of, as to reading of papers in their places..... 434, 964, 
                                                                     965
Right of, to have paper read once.............................. 432, 964
            But no right where question is not put................   433
        General rights as to procedure.
            As to right to attend a select committee..............   410
            As to right to attend committee hearing...............   798
            Impeachment may be instituted on responsibility of....   603
May appeal from decisions of Speaker........................... 627, 629
            May not enter protests on the Journal.................    70
            Right of, to cause a secret session...................   969
            Right of, as to calling up bills taken from committees 
                on motions to discharge...........................   892
Rights of, as to placing adverse reports on the calendar....... 832, 893
Rights of, to demand the execution of a subsisting order....... 381, 872
            Rights of, to inspect the Journal.....................   582
            Rights of, access to committee files..................   796
        Voting of.  See Voting.
        In general.
            Memorial Day for deceased, jurisdiction of matters 
                relating to.......................................   724
            Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions 
                in Hall of House..................................   683
Members-elect.
        Admitted to floor of the House............................   678
        Election of, to an incompatible office....................    99
        Punishment of............................................. 62-66
        Franking privilege........................................  1113
        Oath of, as related to quorum.............................    56
        Questions as to seating under disabilities of fourteenth 
            amendment.............................................   231
        Relations of, to incompatible offices.................... 98-101
        Status of, as to privilege, oath, committee service.......   300
Memorials.
        Introduction and reference of..................... 816, 818, 825
        Joint sponsorship of......................................   825
        Correction of reference of............................. 824, 825
        Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...............   818
        Exclusion of..............................................   824
        Introduction by request...................................   826

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        Nature of.................................................   389
Merchant marine.
        Jurisdiction of, subjects relating to.................. 718, 739
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on.
        Former jurisdiction transferred.............. 718, 731, 735, 739
Messages.
        Usages as to.
            At organization of two Houses.........................    56
            Between the Houses as to vetoed bills.................   106
            Certain, entered in Journal and Record................   815
            Certain required by law...............................   169
            Confidential, from the President or Senate............   969
            Correction and return of messages.....................   565
            Disposal of messages after reception..................   566
From the Senate, reference of.................................. 873, 874
            From the Senate, Clerk may receive in adjournment.....   652
            Information by message as to bills passed.............   567
            Information by message as to rejection of bills.......   568
Informal rising of Committee of the Whole, to receive.......... 330, 563
            Neglected bills.......................................   570
            Questions asked by conference, not by message.........   569
            Quorum not required during receipt of.................  1027
            Received during a record vote.........................  1018
            Received, but not read in absence of quorum...........    55
            Received during debate................................   561
            Reception during voting, absence of a quorum..........   562
            Salutation of messengers by the Speaker...............   564
            Sent only when both Houses are sitting................   560
        Of the President.
            Clerk may receive in period of adjournment or recess..   652
To Congress............................................... 168, 169, 571
            Notice of approval of bills by President sent by......   106
            Reception and action on...............................   170
            Reading and action on, when bill is vetoed............   107
            Entered on Journal and Record.........................   875
Rule of reference of............................................ 873-875
            Reference and distribution of annual..................   875
Migration.
        Of persons, power of Congress as to.......................   137
Mileage, allowance of.
        Of Representatives........................................    86
        Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed.......................   656
        Committee on House Administration ascertains..............   724

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Military and naval records.
        Bills to correct, banned..................................   822
Militia.
        Congress to provide for calling forth.....................   132
        Congress to provide for organizing, arming, and 
            disciplining..........................................   133
        Right to bear arms........................................   290
        President Commander in Chief of, in certain cases.........   160
        Trials for crimes in......................................   212
Miners, welfare of.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.................... 720, 731
Ministers, public.
        Duty of President to receive..............................   172
        Foreign, admitted to the floor of the House...............   678
        Gallery for use of foreign................................   682
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178
        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179
        President appoints........................................   166
Minority.
        Committee staff for,  see Committee staffs.
        Debate equally divided for, on conference reports and 
            amendments in disagreement............................  1086
        Of managers of a conference may not submit a report.......   543
        Reference of views of, on committee reports to Calendar...   831
        Rules for the protection of...............................   283
        Signing and filing of views of......................... 833, 804
Misdemeanors.
        As to what are............................................   175
        Impeachable offenses.............................. 173, 175, 176
Mondays.
        First, in December of meeting of Congress (obsolete)......    45
        Every Monday for suspension of rules......................   885
        Second and fourth, for District of Columbia bills and 
            motions to discharge committees.................... 892, 894
Money.
        Account of public, to be published........................   143
        Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole...   973
        Congress to coin and regulate the value of................   121
        Jurisdiction over deposit of public.......................   741
        No appropriation of, for armies for longer term than two 
            years.................................................   129
        Not to be drawn from Treasury except on appropriation.....   143
        Power of Congress to borrow...............................   118
        Proper application of, and enforcement of payment of, 
            jurisdiction as to....................................   732
        Public bills appropriating, placed on Union Calendar......   828
        States not to coin or issue...............................   146

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Morning hour.
        Rule and practice for consideration of bills in........ 880, 881
        For call of committees, place of, in order of business....   869
        Unfinished business in....................................   879
        Interruption of........................................ 882, 883
        Debate....................................................   951
Motions.
        In general.
            Calls for orders of the day, obsolete.................   393
Certain, only in order in absence of quorum.................... 55, 1022
            Conditions of withdrawal..............................   904
            Considered to be pending as to recommendations of 
                Committee of the Whole............................   338
            For practice as to, in rejection and second reading of 
                bills.............................................   484
            In some cases considered as pending...................   945
In order during call of the House............................ 1024, 1026
            Incidental questions intervening during consideration 
                of main question..................................   457
            Intervening questions relating to reading of papers, 
                obsolete..........................................   459
Matters of privilege as intervening questions....................... 457
            None to be made except by rising and addressing the 
                Chair.............................................   394
            Not to interrupt Member having the floor..............   393
            Obsolete parliamentary law as to entry of, in the 
                Journal...........................................   578
            Parliamentary law as to making and reading............   392
Parliamentary law as to withdrawal of.......................... 392, 460
Reading or statement of........................................ 392, 904
            Reduced to writing and entered on the Journal.........   902
            Repetition of motions.................................   918
            Second no longer required for ordinary................   392
            Usually required before debate may proceed............   945
        Coexisting and equivalent.
            Jefferson's discussion of coexisting..................   483
            Equivalent, in general................................   485
Where negative of one amounts to affirmative of another......... 485-488
        Dilatory.
            Debate for 10 minutes not allowed when offering of 
                amendments printed in Record is...................   987
            Not admitted pending motion to suspend the rules......   890
            Not admitted pending report from Committee on Rules...   857
            Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as..    77
            To be ruled out generally.............................   903

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        In Committee of the Whole.
To adjourn and for the previous question not in order in Committee 
of the Whole................................................... 333, 334
            To close general debate...............................   979
            To reconsider, not used in Committee of the Whole.....   416
To strike enacting words....................................... 988, 989
Those admitted in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''........ 425-427
            To rise and report at conclusion of reading general 
                appropriation bill................................  1040
        Putting the question on.  See Putting the question.
        Privileged motions, generally.  See also Privileged questions.
            General principles of priority of motions.............   449
            Jefferson's discussion of certain privileged motions..   441
            Laws attaching privilege to congressional disapproval 
                procedures........................................  1130
Matters of privilege as intervening business............... 458, 698-713
            Obsolete intervening questions relating to reading of 
                papers............................................   459
            Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440
            Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged 
                motions...........................................   448
            One privileged or secondary motion not to be 
                suppressed by another.............................   450
Precedence and conditions of.................................... 911-917
Privileged interruptions of daily order of business............ 870, 871
            Privileged motions in the Senate and in Parliament....   447
            Theory as to privileged motions.......................   438
        For motions in order when question is under debate, see:
            Adjourn, motion to.
            Previous question, motion for.
            Postpone, motion to.
            Refer, motion to; Reference.
            Amend, motion to; Amendments.

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        Question of consideration.  See Consideration, question of.
        Motion to instruct conferees.  See Conferences.
        Motion to recommit.  See Recommit, motion to; Commit.
        Motion to reconsider.  See Reconsider, motion to.
        Motion to suspend the rules.  See Suspension of rules.
        Motions used in adjusting amendments between the Houses.  See 
            Amendments between Houses; Conferences.
        Motions relating to reading of papers and amendments.  See 
            Reading.
        Motion to discharge a committee.  See Discharge.
        Miscellaneous motions.  See also Privileged questions.
            By Majority Leader under former rule proscribing 
                committee sittings during five-minute rule........   801
For a recess.............................................. 586, 911, 913
            For a recess in committee.............................   787
            Former motion to strike Federal unfunded mandate......   991
            To read the Journal...................................   621
            To rescind a special order not privileged under the 
                rules.............................................   734
Motives.
        Of Members not to be arraigned............................   363
Mover.
        Right of, to speak twice..................................   959
        Right to close debate on amendment considered under five-
            minute rule...........................................   959
Natural Resources, Committee on.
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   731
        Special oversight functions of............................   744
Naturalization.
        Power of Congress to establish rule of....................   120
        Relations to citizenship..................................   225
        Jurisdiction as to........................................   729
Naval and military records.
        Private bills to correct, banned..........................   822
Naval vessels.
        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....  1050
Navigation.
        Between States not to be hampered by duties...............   147
Navy.
        Bills to correct certain records banned...................   822
        Congress to provide and maintain..........................   130
        Congress to make rules for................................   131
        President, Commander in Chief of..........................   160
        States not to maintain....................................   148
        Trial for crimes in.......................................   212

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Navy yards.
        Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
Negative.
        Of one question amounting to the affirmative of another 
                                                                 485-488
Newspapers, admission to the floor.  See Floor.
Nobility.
        Titles of, not to be granted..............................   144
        No State to grant title of................................   146
        Foreign gifts and decorations accepted with consent of 
            Congress..............................................   145
Nuclear energy.
        Jurisdiction of Committee on Energy and Commerce..........   721
        Military applications.....................................   718
        Non-proliferation and export agreements...................   723
        Regulation of domestic industry...........................   721
        Research and development..................................   735
        Oversight jurisdiction................................. 721, 744
Oath.  See also Affirmation.
        Of Senators, Representatives, officers, and employees of the 
            House.
            Administration of, at organization of the House.......   198
Administration, as related to quorum........................ 53, 56, 200
            Administered to Member before reading of Journal......   621
            As related to qualifications..........................     9
Challenge of right to take...................................... 202-204
            Consideration of objections to taking of..............   203
            Dean administers to Speaker...........................   198
            Disabilities arising from violation of................   230
            Form of...............................................   197
            Function of Speaker in administering..................   231
Member-elect named on committee, expelled, or permitted to resign 
before taking............................................... 63, 66, 300
            Names of Members not entered on roll for yeas and nays 
                until sworn.......................................   300
            Not to disclose classified information................  1095
            Of Chief Justice in impeachments......................  615a
Of Senators, for trial of impeachment.......................... 38, 615b
            Officers of House sworn...............................   640
            Precedence of.........................................   198
            Privilege of administration of........................   201
            Quorum not required during administration of..........  1027
            Relation of credentials to right to take..............   204
            Sanity and loyalty as related to......................   205
            Senators, Representatives, and other officers bound by   196
        In general.
            Of President of the United States.....................   158

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            Right to administer, given by law rather than by rule.    59
Speaker, Members, and chairs may administer to witnesses...... 343, 346, 
                                                                     805
            In support of certain warrants........................   211
Objections.  See also Unanimous consent.
        Challenge of right of a Member to take the oath........ 202, 205
        Ten Members required under former rule proscribing 
            committee sittings during five-minute rule............   801
        Of President to a bill....................................   104
        To administration of oath to Members by the Speaker.......   199
Obligation.
        Of contracts, State not to pass bills impairing...........   146
Obscenity.
        Bills for petitions rejected for....................... 818, 824
Occasions, extraordinary.
        Power of President to convene Congress on.................   171
        Other power of convening..................................   171
Offenses.
        Power of President to grant pardons for...................   162
        Against law of nations....................................   126
Office.
        In general.
As to meaning of word............................................ 97, 98
            Acceptance of, conditions of, from certain sources....   144
            Acceptance of gifts by holders of, conditions of......   144
Compilation of House and Congressional offices............... 1113-1125h
            Electors, no person holding office of trust or profit 
                under United States to be an elector..............   151
Impeachment from............................................... 173, 174
            Jurisdiction as to abolition..........................   732
            Of judges, held during good behavior..................   177
            Religious test for, none required under United States.   196
Term of President's....................................... 149, 150, 249
        Incompatible.
            As to what are incompatible...........................    98
            Appointment of Members-elect to.......................    99
Holding of, under the United States disqualifies Mem- ber........ 97-101
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   729
            Members not to be appointed to certain................    96
            Procedure in case of acceptance of, by Member.........   101
            Relations of contestants to...........................   100
Office accounts.
        Prohibition of unofficial.................................  1096

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Office buildings.
        Assignment of rooms in....................................  1114
Office of Technology Assessment...................................  1121
Officers.
        Of the United States.
            Accountability of, jurisdiction as to.................   732
            Bound by oath to support the Constitution.............   228
Civil, may be removed by impeachment........................... 173, 174
            Congress may determine agency for appointing of 
                inferior..........................................   166
            Of departments, President may require opinions from...   161
            Of the militia........................................   133
            Of United States, as related to legislative power.....   136
            Of United States, and the States, qualifications of as 
                to loyalty........................................   230
            President appoints....................................   166
            President to commission...............................   172
            Senators not civil officers who may be impeached......   174
        Of the House of Representatives.
            Audits of.............................................   667
            Compensation, retirement, and benefits, jurisdiction 
                over..............................................   724
            Continue in office until successors are chosen........   640
Drug testing of,  see Drug testing.
Election of, and terms....................................... 26-30, 640
Election of, except Speaker..................................... 29, 640
            Neither House to exercise authority over those of the 
                other.............................................   373
            Nondiscrimination in employment by....................  1095
Oath, administered to, by Speaker.............................. 198, 199
            Oversight of..........................................   752
            Privilege of floor extended to present and former.....   678
            Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions 
                by................................................   683
            Relations to claims...................................  1102
Removal of..................................................... 315, 640
            Vacancies, Speaker may fill by temporary appointment 
                of................................................   640
        Of the Senate.
            Vice President and voting.............................    36
            Choice of President pro tempore and other officers....    37
Official conduct.
        Code of, for Members, officers, and employees.............  1095
        Financial disclosure......................................  1103
        Former Committee on Standards of..........................  721b
        Outside earned income.....................................  1099
        Revisions of remarks in debate, standard of............ 967, 968
        Use of Frank..............................................  1097
        Unofficial office accounts................................  1096

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Official record.
        Journal as................................................   582
Official reporters.
        Of debates, appointment and removal of................. 724, 685
One-fifth.
        Of those present order yeas and nays..................... 75, 78
        Of quorum order recorded vote (or formerly teller vote)...  1012
One-minute speeches...............................................   950
Opening.
        Of debate, rights of Member as related to closing.........   958
Opinions.
        President may require from heads of departments...........   161
        Not entered on Journal....................................    70
Opposition.
        Preference in recognition given to, for motion to recommit 
            after previous question is ordered....................   911
        Right to prior recognition passes to, when essential 
            motion is lost........................................   954
Order.
        Of the House and preservation of.
            Breach of, for Speaker to refuse to put a question in 
                order.............................................   304
Call to, for disorder in debate................................ 960, 961
            Call to, may interrupt Member.........................   393
Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House................ 643, 645
            Necessity of rules for preservation of................   285
Parliamentarylawastotakingdowndisorderlywords.................. 368, 369
Power of chair of Committee of the Whole to preserve, in galleries 
and lobby...................................................... 970, 971
            Proceedings in case of disorder on the floor..........   367
            Sergeant-at-Arms maintains, under direction of the 
                Speaker...........................................   648
            Sergeant-at-Arms bears mace while enforcing...........   657
            Speaker calls House to................................   621
            Speaker preserves, on floor, in lobby, and galleries..   622
Speaker may restore in Committee of the Whole............. 331, 332, 622
        Questions of.
            As to delay in decision of questions of...............   378
Clerk to decide at organization of the House................... 643, 645
            Clerk to note in Journal..............................   649
Decided by Speaker............................................. 624, 628
            Decision of, during a division........................   507
            Decisions of questions of, by chair of Committee of 
                the Whole.........................................   972
            House controls decisions of, by appeal................   379
            Practice governing Speaker in deciding................   628

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            Raising of, on appropriation bills in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................  1044
            Raising of, at any time against appropriation in 
                legislative bills or amendments...................  1065
            Raising of, at any time against tax or tariff in 
                certain bills or amendments.......................  1066
            Relation of question of consideration to..............   909
Reserving, as to general appropriation bills................. 1044, 1035
            Speaker to be heard first in matters of...............   358
            Time of raising, as to consideration of bills in 
                Committee of the Whole............................   973
Order of business.  See also Business.
        Rule and conditions of.
            The rule prescribing..................................   869
            Advantage of an order of..............................   349
            Conditions of the old and modern orders of business...   350
            Early discretion of Speaker as to.....................   349
            Jurisdiction as to....................................   733
            Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440
Recognition by the Speaker in accordance with requirements of... 949-956
Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting order.... 381, 
                                                                     872
The calendars on which reports of committees await action of the 
House........................................................... 828-899
        Interruptions of.
            Business of District of Columbia on second and fourth 
                Mondays...........................................   894
            Business on Tuesdays for consideration of the Private 
                Calendar..........................................   895
            Call of Committees on Calendar Wednesday..............   900
Consideration of amendments between Houses, when privileged.... 528-528d
            Consideration of a motion to reconsider...............  1005
            Effect of privileged reports on.......................   854
            Effect of special orders on Tuesday business..........   895
            High privilege of general appropriation bills.........   856
            Interruption by request for unanimous consent.........   872
Intervening questions as to privilege on reading of papers..... 458, 459
            Intervening questions of order........................   457
            Intervention of private business on Tuesday...........   895
            Making and use of special orders......................   734

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            Motion for leave for a committee to sit during 
                sessions not privileged...........................   324
Precedence of questions of privilege............................ 698-713
            Privilege of conference reports.......................  1077
            Privileged interruptions of order of business.........   870
            Privileged interruptions specified....................   871
Privileged legislative veto provisions............................. 1130
Privileged reports from certain committees...................... 853-868
        Speaker's table.
Business on, disposal of...................................... 528a, 873
            Matters on, for action by the House or by Speaker 
                alone.............................................   874
            Messages on, parliamentary law as to disposal of......   566
            Messages from the President on, consideration of......   170
            Messages from the President on, reference of..........   875
        Unfinished business.
            Rule for unfinished business..........................   876
            Business unfinished in periods set apart for classes 
                of business.......................................   879
            Construction of rule as to unfinished business........   877
Consideration of unfinished business............................ 876-879
            Priority of unfinished business in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   977
            Precedence of a question on which previous question is 
                ordered...........................................   877
            Procedure in the morning hour.........................   881
Rules and practice for call of committees...................... 880, 881
            The morning hour for the call of committees...........   880
        Call of Committees--Interruption to go into Committee of the 
            Whole.
            Conditions of the motion to go into Committee of the 
                Whole at the end of one hour......................   883
            Interruption of the call of committees by motion to go 
                into Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
                the Union.........................................   882
Rule for consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole after 
call of committees............................................. 882, 883
        Orders of the day.
            Orders of the day now obsolete........................   384
            Parliamentary law as to proceeding with orders of the 
                day...............................................   383
        In Committee of the Whole.
            On calendars of Committee of the Whole................   977
Orders.
        As to presentation of, to President for approval..........   115
        Nature and use of, as compared with resolutions...........   395
        Standing, reference to....................................  1105

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        As to termination of, with reference to the end of the 
            session...............................................   386
        Execution of a subsisting order not to be demanded while a 
            Member has the floor in debate........................   393
        Obsolete reference to, in order of business...............   869
        Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting 
            order.............................................. 381, 872
            Intervening questions of..............................   457
Orders, special.
        Application of motion to postpone to................... 734, 915
        Effect of, on Tuesday business............................   895
        Privilege of reports of................................ 853, 857
        Use and method of making..................................   734
Organization of the two Houses of Congress.
        Administration of the oath at.............................   198
        Clerk's duties at...................................... 643, 645
        Clerk makes up the roll of Members-elect for..............   644
        Challenge of the right to take the oath................. 202-204
        Early organization........................................  1126
        Election of Speaker and other officers.................... 26-30
        Election of Speaker and Clerk as related to adoption of 
            rules.................................................    59
        House has adjourned for more than one day before election 
            of the Speaker........................................    83
        Messages received before..................................   562
        President's power to convene Congress.....................   171
        Other power to convene....................................   171
        Procedure before adoption of rules........................    60
        Quorum in two Houses as related to........................    56
        Relation of credentials to the right to take the oath.....   204
        Right of the House to determine its order of proceeding in 
            effecting.............................................   388
        Sanity and loyalty as related to the oath.................   205
        Speaker's function in administering oath at...............   199
        Taking oath as related to presence of quorum............ 56, 200
        Vice President votes in case of tie as to.................    36
        Yeas and nays may be ordered before.......................    76
Outside earned income.
        Limitations on............................................  1099
Oversight and Government Reform, Committee on.
        Authority as to depositions...............................  749a
        Executive agencies must submit to any information 
            requested relating to matter within its jurisdiction 
                                                                342, 732
        Former requirement that oversight findings of to be 
            included in reports of other committees...............   840
        General oversight functions of......................... 743, 749
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   732

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        Responsibility as to commemoratives.......................   823
Oxford-style debates.
        Structure of..............................................   952
Pairs.
        Forms and announcement of.................................  1031
        Not to be announced out of order..........................  1015
        In order in Committee of the Whole........................  1031
Papers.
        Security of private.
            Security of, as to searches and seizures..............   211
        In possession of the House.
            Attitude of one House as to the demands of the other 
                for...............................................   292
            Certain, not to go out of Clerk's custody.............   352
            Certain, in Clerk's custody, not open to public.......   655
            Court demands for.....................................   291
            Noncurrent deposited with Archivist...................   695
            Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate..   364
            Oath not to disclose classified records...............  1095
Of committees, custody of...................................... 695, 796
            President allowed to withdraw certain, accompanying a 
                message...........................................   571
            Withdrawal of, from files.............................   696
        Relations of, to conference.
            Custody of, when a conference is asked before 
                disagreement......................................   552
            Custody of, after an effective conference.............   555
            Custody of, when managers fail to agree...............   556
            House must possess, before acting on a conference 
                report............................................   549
            Request for a conference always by House possessed of.   530
        Reading of.
            By consent of the House under former rule XXX.........   965
            Committee reports not read except on order or in 
                debate............................................   435
            Criticizing the Senate or Senators not to be read.....   372
            Intervening questions as to...........................   459
Member not always privileged to read...................... 434, 964, 965
            Not necessarily to be read on plea of privilege.......   433
Objections to under former rule XXX............................ 964, 965
            On demand of a Member.................................   964
            On reference..........................................   436
            Parliamentary law as to...............................   432
            President's messages..................................   188
        Return of to other House.
            Privileged status of requests for return of papers....   565

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Paragraphs.
        Amendment of bills by.................................. 413, 980
        Amendments should be germane to...........................   929
        House does not agree to, severally in perfecting a bill...   456
        Reading of bills by.................................... 413, 980
        Transposition of, in a bill by motion to amend............   477
Pardons.
        Power of President to grant............................ 162, 164
Parks, District of Columbia.
        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   731
Parliament.  See House of Commons.
Parliamentarian.
        Office of.................................................  1122
        Precedents compiled by....................................  1122
Parliamentary inquiries.
        No appeal from responses to...............................   629
        Recognition to propound...................................  628a
Parliamentary law.
        As used before adoption of rules..........................    60
        Jefferson's Manual as a statement of......................   284
        Relations of, to the early practice of Congress...........   286
Passage of bills.  See Bills.
Passages.
        Speaker's control of, in House wing.......................   623
Patents.
        Power of Congress to provide for..........................   124
Pay.
        Cost of living adjustments................................... 86
        Of committee staff,  see Committee staffs.
        Of department officers, jurisdiction as to................   723
        Of judges.................................................   177
        Of Members during recess, Clerk certifies to (obsolete)...   647
        Of President of the United States.........................   157
        Of Representatives and Senators........... 85, 86, 258, 1130(12)
        Of Speaker and leadership................................ 86, 89
        Of witnesses..............................................   813
        Pay orders........................................ 89a, 1130(12)
        Quadrennial commission................................. 1130(12)
        Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed that of Members.......   656
Penalties.
        For absent Members........................................    52
Paygo.
        Exception under the Congressional Budget Act.... 1127 (sec. 302)
        Former pay-as-you-go point of order....................... 1068i
        Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010................... 910, 1129

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Pensions.
        Certain bills for, banned.................................   822
        Debt incurred for certain, not to be questioned...........   232
        Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................   716
        Of all wars, jurisdiction of bills for....................   740
        Pension Reform Act, disapproval procedures in........... 1130(8)
People.
        Establish the Constitution................................     1
        Powers reserved to, by the Constitution...................   216
        Quartering soldiers among.................................   424
        Representatives chosen by.................................     5
        Right of, to keep and bear arms...........................   209
        Rights reserved to........................................   217
        Security of, as to accusations, trials, and property......   212
        Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211
        Their right of assembly and petition......................   208
Perjury.
        To sustain a conviction of, a quorum of a committee must 
            be in attendance when perjurious testimony is given.... 343, 
                                                                     409
Person.
        Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211
Personal explanations.
        Made by unanimous consent.................................   945
Personal interest.
        Disqualifying as to voting........................ 376, 671, 673
Personal privilege.
        Method of presentation of questions of personal, as 
            distinguished from general............................   698
        Precedence of questions of.............................. 698-668
        Privilege of the Member...................................   698
        Procedure of Member in presenting question of.............   945
Personalities.
        Arraignment of motives of Members not in order............   363
        Member must refrain from, in debate.......................   945
        Members censured for......................................    65
        Not permitted in debate...................................   361
Persons.
        No State to deprive, of life, liberty, or property 
            unlawfully, or deny equal protection of the laws to...   225
Petition.
        Introduction and reference of.......................... 816, 818
        Division of, for reference............................. 421, 816
        Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...............   819
        Correction of reference of................................   824
        Exclusion of..............................................   824
        Nature of.................................................   389

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        Parliamentary law as to reception of......................   391
        Received by committees only through the House.............   320
        Right of petition guaranteed..............................   208
        Signing and presentation of...............................   390
Pictures.
        Taking of, in committee hearings..........................   811
Piracies.
        Congress to punish........................................   126
Place.
        Ceremonial functions in another place................... 82, 82a
        Neither House to adjourn to another, without consent of 
            other House..................................... 82, 82a, 84
        Power of President to convene Congress away from seat of 
            Government..................................... 82, 82a, 171
Places of elections.
        Regulation of............................................ 42, 43
Pleadings.
        In an impeachment...................................... 612, 613
Pledge of Allegiance..............................................   869
Pocket veto.
        Bills retained by President after Congress adjourns.......   112
        Effect of adjournment to day certain......................   113
Points of order.
        Decisions on.
            Chair of Committee of the Whole decides...............   971
Clerk to decide, at organization of the House.................. 643, 645
Constitutional.................................................. 60, 628
Procedure if point of order against motion to rise and report an 
appropriation bill where bill exceeds section 302(b) allocation is 
sustained......................................................... 1044b
            Decisions of, during a division.......................   507
            House by appeal controls decisions on.................   379
            Obsolete practice as to Members' advice on............   507
            Power of Speaker to delay decisions...................   378
            Practice governing Speaker in deciding................   628
        In general.
            Clerk to note certain, in Journal.....................   649
In House on procedure in committee.................................. 798
            On appropriation bills................................  1044
On conference reports.................................... 547, 1089-1091
On nongermane portions of conference reports and amendments in 
disagreement.................................................. 1089-1091
            On resolutions, raised before reading completed.......   628
        Relation of.
            To conference reports.................................   547

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            To general appropriation bills........................  1044
            To retroactive increases in income tax rates..........  1068
            To motions to amend...................................   924
To committee procedure............................... 798, 799, 842, 843
To question of consideration............................. 909, 910, 1127
        Reserving of.
Against general appropriation bills.......................... 1035, 1044
            Against conference reports............................   547
        Time of raising.
            At any time against an appropriation in legislative 
                bills or amendments...............................  1065
            At any time against tax or tariff provisions in 
                certain bills or amendments.......................  1066
            Former rule with respect to reporting a measure from 
                committee.........................................   839
            On appropriation bills in Committee of the Whole......  1044
            On consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole...   973
            On conference reports where conferees met in closed 
                session...........................................  1093
            On motions to amend...................................   924
            On resolutions........................................   628
            With respect to committee procedure...................   798
        Waivers.  See Rules.
Police, Capitol.  See Capitol.
Political disabilities.
        Arising from disloyalty...................................   230
        Consideration of bills removing...........................   895
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   729
Poll tax.
        Right to vote not denied for failure to pay...............   251
Population.
        The basis of representation...............................   226
Ports.
        Of one State not to be favored............................   142
Possession.
        Of a bill by the House....................................   437
Post Office and Civil Service, former Committee on.
        Jurisdiction transferred..................................   732
Post offices.
        Congress may establish....................................   123
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   732
        Jurisdiction as to buildings for..........................   739
Post roads.
        Congress may establish....................................   123

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        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to construction.........   739
Postmaster.
        Former election and oath of...............................   668
        Former superintendent of House post office................   668
Postpone, motion to.
        Precedence and general conditions of................... 911, 915
        Application of previous question to.......................   450
        Applied to motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole..   915
        As to application to a special order......................   805
        Debate on.................................................   911
        Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous 
            question........................................... 448, 449
        May be amended............................................   453
        Nature of the motion to postpone to a day certain.........   444
        Not to be applied to other secondary motions..............   451
        Not to be entertained after previous question is ordered..   915
        Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.........   450
        Relation of, to motion to amend...........................   449
        Relations of, to the previous question....................   998
        Repetition of.............................................   918
        Use of, to put off indefinitely....................... 443, 1130
Postponement.
        Of proceedings
            Authority of Speaker notwithstanding operation of 
                previous question................................. 1000a
        Of votes
            Authority of Speaker as to certain....................  1030
            Authority of Chair of Committee of the Whole as to 
                certain...........................................   984
Powers.
        Of Congress--General legislative.
            Legislative...........................................     3
            As to migration or importation of persons.............   137
Consent of, to acceptance of certain gifts..................... 144, 145
            No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142
            To establish patents and copyrights...................   124
            To establish post offices and post roads..............   123
            To make laws to carry its powers into effect..........   136
            To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122
            To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121
            To regulate commerce..................................   119
            To regulate naturalization and bankruptcy.............   120
            To provide for disapproval of executive action........  1130
        Of Congress--As to elections and political disabilities.
As to apportionment and establishment of districts............. 226, 227

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            Determines time of choosing electors..................   153
            May by law provide for case in which neither 
                President-elect nor Vice President-elect shall 
                qualify...........................................   244
May provide for succession to presidency or new election....... 155, 244
            Power to make or alter regulations as to election of 
                Representatives...................................    42
            To remove political disabilities......................   230
        Of Congress--Over revenue and expenditures.
            To lay and collect taxes..............................   117
            To borrow money.......................................   118
            Money to be drawn from Treasury only on appropriations   143
            Limitation on capitation or other direct tax..........   140
            No export duties to be laid...........................   141
        Of Congress--As to commerce, currency, mails, patents.
            To regulate commerce..................................   119
            To regulate bankruptcy................................   120
            To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121
            To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122
            To establish post offices and post roads..............   123
            To establish patents and copyrights...................   124
            No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142
        Of Congress--As to courts, crimes.
            To regulate jurisdiction of Supreme Court.............   179
To establish inferior courts................................... 125, 177
            To regulate the proving of acts, records, and judicial 
                proceedings of the States.........................   183
            To fix places for trial of certain crimes.............   180
            To provide punishment for piracies....................   126
            To declare punishment of treason......................   182
            As related to writ of habeas corpus...................   138
            No bill of attainder or ex post facto law to be passed   139
        Of Congress--As to wars.
To declare war, grant Letters of Marque........................ 127, 163
            To support armies.....................................   128
            To provide a navy.....................................   130
            To make rules for land and naval forces...............   131
            To provide for calling out the militia................   132
            To provide for organization of militia................   133
War Powers Resolution........................................... 1130(2)
        Of Congress--Jurisdiction over territory and property.
            To exercise jurisdiction over seat of Government and 
                ceded places......................................   134

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            Over the territory and other property of the United 
                States............................................   188
        Of Congress--As to immigration and naturalization.
            As to migration or importation of persons.............   137
            To regulate naturalization............................   120
        Of Congress--As related to States and people.
            To revise and control certain State laws..............   147
            As to admission, consolidation, or division of States.   187
            Not to interfere with religion, free speech, the 
                press, or right of assembly and petition..........   208
            No titles of nobility to be granted...................   144
            Those delegated and those reserved to States and 
                people............................................   217
        Of the House of Representatives.
            To confirm Vice President.............................   253
To elect its Speaker and other officers...................... 26-30, 640
To judge elections of its Members................................. 46-51
To punish and expel its Members................................... 62-66
To make rules..................................................... 58-60
To punish for contempt.......................................... 293-299
As to treaties................................................. 594, 599
            Of impeachment........................................    31
            Senate tries impeachments.............................    38
        Of President, courts, and States.
            Executive, vested in President of the United States...   149
Judicial, vested in the courts.................................. 177-179
            Judicial, limitation on, in suits in law or equity....   218
Of the States, limitations on, as to certain subjects........... 146-148
            Reserved to States and people.........................   217
Prayer.  See also Chaplain; Clerk.
        Offered by Chaplain.......................................   640
        Chaplain opens each day's sitting with....................   665
        By the Chaplain, place of, in order of business...........   869
        Quorum in relation to.....................................  1027
Preamble.
        Amended after the body of the resolution has been 
            considered, and after engrossment of joint resolution.   414
        As to application of previous question to.................   996
        As to separate vote on....................................   414
        Of a resolution may be laid on table......................   414
Precedence.
        Of intervening business.
Certain privileged questions that interrupt the order of business 
                                                                870, 871
            Intervening questions as to reading papers............   458

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            Intervening questions of order........................   457
            Of conference reports.................................  1077
            Of conference report over report from Committee on 
                Rules.............................................   857
            Of a proposition to administer the oath to Members....   233
            Of a question on which the previous question is 
                ordered...........................................   878
Of questions of privilege.................................. 458, 698-668
Of questions of privilege as related to pending business........ 698-668
            Of revenue and appropriation bills in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   977
            Questions as to, decided by a majority without debate.   884
        Of motions.
For disposition of amendments between the Houses,  see Amendments 
between Houses.
            General provisions of the priority of.................   449
            Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged......   448
Secondary or privileged......................................... 911-917
            To adjourn............................................   911
            To adjourn to day or time certain.....................   911
            To amend..............................................   926
            To amend Journal precedes approval....................    74
To amend over motions to agree or disagree..................... 528-528d
            To amend over motions to strike or agree..............   456
            To discharge committees...............................   892
To dispense with further proceedings under a call of the House.... 1019, 
                                                                    1022
            To go into Committee of the Whole to consider 
                appropriation bills...............................   856
            To read the Journal...................................   621
            To reconsider.........................................  1005
To strike enacting words of a bill............................. 988, 989
            To suspend the rules..................................   887
Precedents.
        Compilation of............................................  1122
        Place of, in the law of the House.........................   351
        Delay in decision of a question of order in order to 
            examine...............................................   378
Preferences.
        Not to be given to ports of one State over another........   142
Prerogatives.
        Of House as to revenue legislation........................   102
        Questions related to, treated as of privilege.............   698
        Questions of, committed to conference.....................   531
Presentment.
        Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...............   212

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Presents.
        Conditions as to acceptance of, by officers...............   144
President of the Senate.
        Vice President............................................    36
        President pro tempore.....................................    37
        Electoral votes transmitted to............................   153
President of the United States.  See also Executive.
        Relations of, to Congress--In general.
            Admitted to the floor of the House....................   678
            Gallery for use of....................................   682
            Houses may request the transmittal of constitutional 
                amendments to the States..........................   191
            May convene or adjourn Congress under certain 
                conditions........................................   171
            May notify Congress of ratification of a 
                constitutional amendment..........................   191
            President pro tempore chosen when Vice President 
                becomes...........................................    37
            Reference to, in debate...............................   370
War powers of Congress and the President................... 128, 1130(2)
        Relations of, to Congress--Messages and information from.
            Address by and to.....................................   316
            Clerk may receive messages from, when House adjourned.   652
            Confidential messages from............................   969
            Declaration of inability to discharge duties of office   254
            Gives Congress information and makes recommendations..   168
            Messages from, usually sent to both Houses at once....   571
            Messages required by law..............................   169
            Reception of messages from............................   170
Resolutions of inquiry as related to........................... 865, 868
Rule for reference of messages from............................ 873, 876
            Transmits budget during first 15 days of session......   169
Transmitting proposed rescissions and deferrals of budget 
authority...................................................... 1130(6a)
        Relations of, to Congress--Approval of bills by.
            Approval or disapproval of bills by...................   104
Approval, act of, as to time and manner........................ 105, 110
            Approval, notice of, sent by message..................   106
            Approval of concurrent resolutions by.................   396
            Approval of joint resolution by.......................   397
            As to presentation of orders, resolutions, and votes 
                for approval......................................   115
            Bills that become law without approval................   111
            Constitutional amendments, President does not sign 
                joint resolution submitting.......................   191
            Effect of recess on...................................   814

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            Enrolled bills, signing of, for presentation to the 
                President.........................................   575
            Enrolled bills, authority of pro tempore presiding 
                officers to sign..................................   576
            Enrolled bills, presentation of, to the President.....   577
            Enrollment of bills, parliamentary law as to..........   573
            Enrollment of bills, practice of the two Houses as to.   574
            Errors in bills sent to the President.................   110
Line item veto authority....................................... 1130(6b)
            Parliamentary law as to presenting a bill for the 
                King's assent.....................................   572
            Pocket veto...........................................   112
            Pocket veto, effect of adjournment to a day certain on   113
Veto, action on................................................ 108, 109
            Veto, two-thirds of Members present and voting and not 
                two-thirds of entire membership sufficient to pass 
                a bill over.......................................   109
        Office and general powers and duties.
            Appoints public officers..............................   166
            Commander in Chief of Army and Navy...................   160
            Commissions officers..................................   172
            Executive power vested in.............................   149
            Executes the laws.....................................   172
            Fills vacancies in offices during recesses of Senate..   167
            Grants reprieves and pardons..........................   162
            Holds office four years...............................   149
            Jurisdiction of bills relating to office of...........   729
            Makes treaties........................................   165
            Opinions of advisers..................................   161
            Receives ambassadors..................................   172
Term of................................................... 149, 150, 241
        Election, oath, impeachment, inability.
            Chief Justice presides when tried on impeachment......    38
            Compensation of.......................................   157
            Congress to provide for case wherein death occurs 
                among those from whom the House chooses a 
                President.........................................   246
Election of, by the House in certain cases...................... 221-223
            Electors for choice of................................   151
Grounds for impeachment of..................................... 175, 176
Inability of.............................................. 252, 254, 255
            Inauguration of.......................................   159
            Limitation on right of electors to vote for...........   219
May be impeached............................................... 173, 176
            Meeting of electors of, and transmission and count of 
                votes for.........................................   219

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            No person to be elected President more than twice.....   249
            Oath of...............................................   158
            Qualification of......................................   154
            Qualifications of electors of, as to loyalty..........   230
            Qualifications of electors, questions as to...........   152
            Time of choosing electors and action of...............   153
Removal, death, resignation, or disability of.............. 155, 252-256
Vice President as acting President........................ 252, 254, 255
President-elect of the United States.
        Death or failure to qualify...............................   244
President pro tempore.
        Chosen by Senate in certain cases.........................    37
        Election and tenure of....................................   313
        Presides in certain impeachments..........................  615a
Press.
        Coverage of committee hearings and meetings............. 807-812
        Freedom of, guaranteed....................................   208
        Members of, admission to the floor,  see Floor.
        Admission to press gallery................................   693
Previous question, motion for.
        Uses of.
            The rule of the.......................................   994
            History, uses of the parliamentary....................   463
            Obsolete use of.......................................   442
Not in order in Committee of the Whole......................... 333, 334
            Use of, in House as in Committee of the Whole.........   427
        Precedence of.
            Among other secondary motions.........................   911
            Of Parliament.........................................   461
            Questions on which it is ordered, as unfinished 
                business..........................................   877
            Questions of order pending the motion for.............  1000
            Relations of, to failure of a quorum..................  1029
        Application of.
General application of......................................... 994, 996
Postponement of proceedings notwithstanding1000a..................
            To debatable secondary and privileged motions.........   450
        Moving and putting of.
            Considered as ordered on certain preferential motions 
                to insist.........................................  1084
            Effect of, on debate..................................   999
Forty minutes of debate after ordering of...................... 891, 999
Forty minutes debate not allowed when ordered on motion not 
debatable................................................. 979, 891, 999
            Manner of putting.....................................   462

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Moving on nongermane Senate amendments contained in conference 
reports or reported in disagreement........................... 1089-1091
            Not debatable.........................................   911
            Recognition passes to Member leading opposition when 
                voted down........................................   954
            Right to move.........................................   997
            Right to close debate not to be exercised after 
                ordering of.......................................   959
            Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further 
                proceedings on....................................  1030
        Effect of, on amendment.
            Effect of, on amendments in general...................   994
            Order of, on motion to agree to Senate amendments 
                prevents motion to amend but not to refer.........   486
            Prevents amendment when ordered on motion to approve 
                Journal...........................................    74
        Relations of, to other motions.
General relation of, to other motions......................... 998, 1002
            Having been moved on a motion to adhere, the motion to 
                recede not admitted...............................   525
            Having been moved on a motion to insist, a motion to 
                recede and concur admitted........................   525
            May not be postponed..................................   451
            Motion to amend not applicable to the.................   452
            Motion to commit after it is ordered..................  1002
            Motion to commit pending, not applied to reports of 
                Committee on Rules pending previous question......   857
            Motion to recommit after ordering of, limitation on 
                Committee on Rules................................   857
Motion to recommit in connection with and right of opposition as 
to..................................................... 911, 1001, 1002c
            Motion to lay on table not in order after ordering of.   914
Relation of motion to reconsider to.......................... 1005, 1006
Prima facie title.
        Credentials as related to a Member's right to take the 
            oath..................................................   204
        Effect of credentials as related to vacancy...............    23
Princes.
        Titles, gifts from, to be accepted on conditions only.....   144
Printing.  See Congressional Record.
        General provisions as to.
            Discretion of Clerk as to.............................   642
            Of committee transcripts, paid for by contingent fund 
                (applicable accounts of the House)................   789
            Of reports when referred to calendars.................   831

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            Privileged reports from Committee on House 
                Administration on.................................   853
            Reports of committees to be printed...................   833
        Joint Committee on.
Duties of, as to Congressional Record......................... 686, 1111
            History, jurisdiction, duties of, and membership on...  1111
Priority.  See Precedence.
        All questions relating to priority of business to be 
            decided without debate................................   884
Private bills.
        As unfinished business....................................   879
        Certain, banned...........................................   822
        Correction of error in reference..........................   824
        Dispensing with call of calendar....................... 895, 897
        Introduction and reference of..................... 816, 817, 818
        Interruption of regular order on Tuesdays for 
            consideration of the Private Calendar.................   895
        Pension bills.......................................... 822, 895
        Placed on Private Calendar when reported..................   828
        Restriction on reference of certain.................... 817, 822
Private claims.  See Private bills.
Private pension bills.  See Private bills.
Private property.
        Not to be taken without compensation......................   248
Privilege of floor.  See Floor.
Privilege, questions of.
        Definition, precedence, and consideration of.
            Consideration of......................................   713
Constitutional privilege....................................... 698, 702
            Distinction between questions of privilege and 
                privileged questions..............................   707
Definition and precedence of questions of............. 698-700, 709, 711
            Intervention of questions of..........................   458
Precedence of questions of personal....................... 699, 708, 711
            Relation of, to quorum................................   712
            Relation of, to the order of business.................   871
        Raising of.
            Breach of privilege reported from Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   335
            Debate on.............................................   699
            Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read 
                on plea of........................................   433
Method of presentation of questions of general and personal..... 698-707

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            Preliminary decision of Speaker as to questions of....   628
Procedure when raised by floor leaders......................... 699, 713
Procedure when raised by Member................................ 699, 945
            Questions of, in relation to a quorum.................   712
            Question of, taken from the table.....................   914
            Time and place of consideration designated by Speaker.   699
        Affecting the House--In general.
            Abuse of privilege of the floor.......................   679
            Administration of the oath to Members.................   201
            Assault on clerk of a committee a question of.........   773
            Attitude of one House as to demands of the other for 
                attendance or papers..............................   292
            Attitude of the House as to demands of the courts.....   291
            Breach of, for one House to encroach or interfere as 
                to the other......................................   308
Demand of courts for papers................................... 291a, 697
            Jefferson's discussion of privilege as related to 
                rights of courts to summon witnesses and jurors...   290
            Judicial appearances on behalf of House...............  291b
            Procedure for response to subpoenas...................   697
            Proposition to impeach a high question of.............   604
            Relations of the Sovereign to the Parliament and its 
                members...........................................   309
            Relations of the courts to parliamentary privilege....   303
            Resolution for removal of an officer of the House a 
                question of.......................................   315
        Affecting the House--Relating to procedure.
            Breach of privilege for the Speaker to decline to put 
                a question that is in order.......................   304
            Censure or expel as questions of......................    67
            Censure for personalities in debate a question of.....   363
Correction of Congressional Record a question of............... 685, 690
            Correction of an error in a message a question of.....   565
            Discharge of committees from questions of.............   406
            Error in reference of a bill to a calendar a question 
                of................................................   828
            Hour rule of debate applies to........................   957
            May not be invoked to effect change in rules of the 
                House.............................................   706
            Messages received, while question of, is before House.   562
            Previous question applies to questions of.............   996
            Proposal to enter protest on the Journal not a matter 
                of................................................    70
            Question of, raised by fraudulent introduction of a 
                bill..............................................  825a
            Raising a question of, over delay of an enrolled bill 
                in reaching the President.........................   572

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            Reception of President's message while question of, is 
                pending...........................................   170
            Resolutions providing for adjournment for more than 
                three days........................................    84
        Affecting the House--Contempts.
Question of privilege..................................... 299, 702, 713
Jefferson's discussion of power of the House to punish for 
contempts....................................................... 293-299
        Affecting the Member.
            Of the Member.........................................   698
            Assault on Member returning to House a breach of......    91
Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Members of Congress...... 287-289
            Members not to be questioned in another place for 
                speech or debate..................................    92
Scope of the privilege of speech and debate..................... 93, 301
            Parliamentary law as to the arrest of a Member........   306
            Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason, 
                felony............................................   305
            Parliamentary law as to questioning for speech........   302
            Practice of the House as to Members indicted or 
                convicted.........................................   306
            Relations of Members and others to privilege and the 
                waiving thereof...................................   301
Senators and Representatives privileged from arrest.............. 90, 91
            Status of the Member-elect as to privilege............   300
        Of citizens.
            Not to be abridged by the States......................   225
            In States other than their own........................   184
        Questions relating to:
            Organization..........................................   701
            Constitutional prerogatives...........................   702
            Official conduct......................................   703
            Integrity of proceedings..............................   704
            Comfort and convenience...............................   705
Privileged questions.
        Theory and examples of.
            The theory as to......................................   438
            Distinction between questions of privilege and 
                privileged questions..............................   707
            Incidental questions, like points of order, that 
                intervene during consideration of the main 
                question..........................................   457
            Intervening questions relating to reading of papers...   459
Laws providing congressional disapproval by privileged resolution 
                                                                    1130

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Matters privileged to interrupt the daily order of business.... 870, 871
            Matters of privilege as intervening questions.........   458
            May not interrupt a call of committees................   881
Not to be called up on Calendar Wednesday...................... 900, 901
            Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440
            Presence of nonprivileged matter destroys privileges..   855
Resolutions of inquiry......................................... 866, 867
        Reports as.
Of certain committees........................................... 853-868
            Conference reports....................................  1077
Method of submitting to the House.............................. 418, 854
            Precedence of conference report over report from 
                Committee on Rules................................   857
            Reference of, to calendars............................   828
Right to report at any time gives right to consider at any time 
(subject to requirement of availability for three days)........ 853, 854
        Motions as--General principles.
Precedence and conditions of.................................... 911-917
            General principles of priority of motions.............   449
            In general, one privileged motion not to be suppressed 
                by another........................................   450
            Jefferson's discussion of certain privileged motions..   441
            Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged 
                motions...........................................   448
            Privileged motions in the Senate and in Parliament....   447
        For motions as--When question is under debate, see:
            Adjourn, motion to.
            Previous question, motion for.
            Postpone, motion to.
            Refer, motion to; Reference.
            Amend, motion to; Amendments.
        Motions as--Various.  See also Motions.
            By Majority Leader under former rule proscribing 
                committee sittings during five-minute rule........   801
Motions to dispose of amendments between Houses,  see Amendments 
between the Houses.
            Motions to proceed to election of Speaker of higher 
                privilege than motion to correct the roll.........   644
Motions requesting conferences................................ 528a, 535
            Motions to consider bills made in order by a 
                resolution adopted by the House...................   850

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            Motion to consider omnibus private bills in order on 
                third Tuesday.....................................   895
Relation of motion to consider to other motions.............. 1003, 1005
            To close general debate in Committee of the Whole.....   979
            To discharge a committee from consideration of vetoed 
                bill..............................................   108
            To go into Committee of the Whole to consider general 
                appropriation bills...............................   856
            To read the Journal...................................   621
            To recess in committee................................   787
To recess in House........................................ 586, 911, 913
To strike the enacting words of a bill......................... 988, 989
To suspend the rules............................................ 885-888
        Motions as--Certain not.  See also Motions.
            Motion to recess formerly not a.......................   586
            Motion to rescind not a...............................   734
Proceedings.
        Certain of the House not to be criticized in debate.......   360
        Each House determines rules of............................    58
        House governs Journal entries.............................    71
        House required to publish a journal of....................    67
        Journal a record of, only.................................    70
        States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to 
            judicial..............................................   183
        Committee,  see Committees.
Process.
        Of law required to deprive a person of life, liberty, or 
            property..............................................   225
        Writ of summons for appearance of respondent in an 
            impeachment........................................ 608, 611
        For obtaining witnesses...................................   213
Professional staffs of committees.  See Committee staffs.
Profit.
        No one holding office of, to accept certain gifts, titles.   144
Pro forma amendment.
        In Committee of the Whole.................................   981
Proof, burden of.
        On those proposing an amendment, as to germaneness........   928
        On those proposing items on general appropriation bills...  1047
Property.
        Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole...   973
        Disclosure of.............................................  1103
        No person to be deprived of, without due process of law...   212
        No State to deprive a person of, without due process of 
            law...................................................   225
        Power of Congress to make rules and regulations as to 
            public................................................   188
        Private, not to be taken without compensation.............   212
        Public bills appropriating, placed on Union Calendar......   828

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Proposer, right to close debate.  See Debate.
Prosecutions.
        Rights of accused in all criminal.........................   213
        Security as to accusations and trial......................   212
Protection.
        Equal, of the laws guaranteed.............................   225
Protests.
        Not entered on Journal as a matter of right...............    70
Proxy voting in committees.  See Committees.
Public bills.  See Bills.
Public buildings and grounds.
        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....  1050
        Jurisdiction as to, generally.............................   739
        Jurisdiction as to, abroad................................   723
        Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals.......................   721
        Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries..................   729
        Jurisdiction as to Patent Office............................ 729
Public credit.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   722
Public debt.  See also Debt.
        Claims for loss or emancipation of slaves not to be paid..   234
        Limit, rule establishing as part of congressional budget 
            process...............................................  1104
        None incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion to be 
            paid..................................................   234
        Validity of that of the United States not to be questioned   234
Public defense.  See Defense.
Public health.  See Health.
Public lands.
        Jurisdiction of matters related to........................   731
Public money.  See Money.
Public safety.  See Safety, public.
Public works.
        Authorization of appropriations for.......................  1047
        Appropriations in continuation of......... 1036, 1037, 1048-1051
        Designation of prohibited................................. 1068a
Public Works and Transportation, Committee on.  See Transportation and 
    Infrastructure, Committee on.
Publication.
        Of accounts of receipts and expenditures of public money..   143
        Of Journals of each House.................................    68
Punishments.
        Censure or reprimand, of a Member......................... 63-65
        Congress may provide, for counterfeiting..................   122
        Cruel and unusual, not to be inflicted....................   254
        Each House may provide, of its Members for disorderly 
            behavior..............................................    62

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        Expulsion,  see Expulsion.
        For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..........    92
        For disclosure of intelligence information................   785
        Involuntary servitude as..................................   224
        Member liable to, when called to order in debate....... 960, 961
        Of a Delegate.............................................   675
        Of piracies and felonies on the high seas.................   164
        Of the law additional to impeachment......................    41
        Power of the House to punish for contempt............... 293-299
        Committee on Ethics,  see Ethics, Committee on.
        Speaker may not inflict...................................   622
Putting the question.
        By the chair in committees................................   317
        By the Speaker............................................   630
        Decorum during............................................   962
        Duty of Speaker as to.....................................   304
        Effect of, in ending debate...............................   490
        First in the affirmative and then the negative............   489
        Informal..................................................   491
        Messages not received during..............................   562
        Point of no quorum may be raised during............... 982, 1027
        Speaker rises while.......................................   428
        Forms of:
            For vote by clerk tellers or by electronic device.....  1012
            For previous question.................................   462
            For question of consideration.........................   906
In examinations at the bar of the House........................ 343, 344
            Of final, in an impeachment trial in Senate...........   618
            On engrossment and third reading of a bill............   941
            On a motion to strike.................................   468
            On motion to strike and insert........................   470
            On the passage of a bill..............................   499
Qualifications.
        Of Representatives.
            As electors of President..............................   151
            As related to a Member's right to take the oath.......   204
            As to sanity and loyalty as...........................   205
            Conviction of crime as related to voting and 
                participation in committee business...............  1095
            House Administration Committee may consider questions 
                relating to.......................................   724
            In case of disqualification minority candidate not 
                seated............................................    13
Incompatible offices,  See Incompatible offices.
            No religious test required for office under United 
                States............................................   196
            Of Representatives....................................  9-11

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            Of Senators, Representatives, electors of President, 
                officers of the United States, and State officers 
                as to loyalty.....................................   230
            Other than those of Constitution......................    12
Power of each House, to judge as to............................... 46-51
            Removal of disabilities under fourteenth amendment....   231
        Of Senators, President, Vice President.
            As to inhabitancy modifying votes of presidential 
                electors..........................................   219
Of electors of President....................................... 151, 152
            Of officers and employees.............................  1102
            Of President of the United States.....................   154
            Of Senators as to age, citizenship, and inhabitancy...    35
            Of Vice President.....................................   221
        For suffrage.
            Of electors of Representatives........................     7
            Reference to..........................................   226
Quarrels.
        In Committee of the Whole.................................   331
        Intervening questions relating to.........................   458
        Members may be pledged not to prosecute...................   367
Quasi committee.
        Procedure in............................................ 424-427
Question.
        Coexisting and equivalent questions.
            Equivalent in general.................................   485
            Equivalent on amendments between the Houses...........   486
            Jefferson's discussion of coexisting..................   483
            No equivalent questions on motions to recede, insist, 
                and adhere........................................   488
            On agreeing to a conference report the negative of 
                agreeing equals the affirmative of disagreeing....   550
            The motions to agree and disagree as related to 
                motions to amend..................................   487
Where affirmative of one amounts to negative of another......... 485-488
        Putting of.  See Putting the question.
        Division of.  See Division.
        Relation of, to debate.
            Member to confine remarks to the......................   945
            Member who has spoken to, may speak also to amendment.   959

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        Of order.  See Points of order.
        Of consideration.  See Consideration, question of.
        Of privilege.  See Privilege.
        In general.
            As to reading of papers...............................   459
            Asked of other House by conference rather than by 
                message...........................................   569
            Former practice as to, in rejection and second reading 
                of bills..........................................   484
            Members of Parliament exempted from, as to debate.....  287,
                                                                302, 309
Quorum.
        How constituted.
Announcement of adjustment to.............................. 1024a, 1024b
            Committees may fix one-third or more as quorum for 
                certain actions...................................   800
            Committees may fix two or more as quorum to take 
                testimony and to close certain hearings...........   800
            Constituted by a majority.............................    52
Consists of a majority of standing or select committee or 
subcommittee to report, to issue subpoenas, or to close meetings 
or hearings.......................................... 409, 798, 799, 805
            Interpretation of meaning of majority.................    53
Must be present when perjurious testimony is given to support 
charge of perjury.............................................. 343, 409
Of the Committee of the Whole.................................. 329, 982
            Of House of Representatives and Senate in voting for 
                President and Vice President of the United States.   221
            Of a joint committee..................................   325
            Of Senators in an impeachment trial...................  615b
            Quorum in committees to report........................   799
``Provisional quorum'' in catastrophic circumstances....... 17, 53, 310, 
                                                                   1024a
        Count of.
Theory of quorum present and Speaker's count.................... 54, 628
        When necessary.
            After failure of, must be of record before transaction 
                of business.......................................    55
            Effect of failure of, as to motions in order pending a 
                motion to suspend the rules.......................   890
            Enrolled bills not signed in absence of...............   625
            Failure of, on second of motion to suspend the rules..   888
            Necessary during debate and other business (obsolete).   310
            Of House, necessary for business......................    52
            Quorum not required in certain situations.............  1027

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            Quorum not required in the House unless pending motion 
                or proposition put to vote........................  1027
            Quorum not required in Committee of the Whole, after 
                once ascertained on that day, unless pending 
                motion or proposition put to vote.................   982
            Relations of, to acts of House........................    55
Relations of, to reception of messages........................... 55, 56
            Relations of motion to reconsider to..................  1003
            Reporting a measure in committee......................   799
            Voting, debate, and other business suspended by 
                failure of (obsolete).............................   510
        Call of the House.
            Arrest of Members.....................................  1023
Call of the House............................................ 1025, 1026
            Call of the House in the old form.....................  1021
            Call of the House after previous question is ordered..  1029
            Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record 
                on a record vote..................................  1020
            Dispensing with call after quorum responds............  1023
            Motions during a call of the House....................  1024
            Ordering and conducting the call of the House in the 
                old form..........................................  1022
Power to compel attendance....................................... 52, 55
            Use of clerks to record...............................  1019
            Use of electronic equipment to record.................  1014
        Point of order as to.
            Before adoption of rules..............................    60
            Before approval of Journal............................   621
            Failure of, on yea-and-nay vote to be noted...........    76
            Former rule with respect to reporting a measure from 
                committee.........................................   839
            Making point as to....................................    54
Not in order before Chaplain offers prayer........... 56, 621, 869, 1027
            Point as to, may be dilatory..........................   903
Prohibition against making in certain situations.............. 982, 1027
            Right of a Member to have the House told when a quorum 
                is not present....................................   382
            Time of making point of...............................    55
            Withdrawal of point as to.............................    55
        Motions in absence of.
            Excuses, but not leaves of absence, granted by less 
                than..............................................   671
            Less than may order yeas and nays.....................    76
            Motions in order in absence of........................    55
            Questions of privilege in the absence of..............   698

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            Right to demand yeas and nays not waived by demand for    77
        In Committee of the Whole.
            Discretionary during general debate in................   982
            Not required, after once ascertained on that day, 
                unless pending motion or proposition put to vote..   982
            Of Committee of the Whole consists of 100 Members.....   982
            Procedure in case of failure of.......................   982
            Rising and reports of, as related to..................   983
            Short or notice quorum................................   982
        Relation of, to organization.
As related to right of Member to take oath...................... 56, 232
            At organization of the two Houses.....................    56
            Relations of, to business of two Houses at 
                organization......................................    56
        In general.
            At calling of House to order..........................   621
            Clerk to furnish Members a list of certain............   646
            Relations of, to calling of the House to order when 
                Speaker takes the Chair...........................   310
            Relations of Journal to absence of....................    55
            Relations of, to reading of Journal...................    55
            One-fifth of, orders recorded vote (or former vote by 
                tellers)..........................................  1012
Radio gallery.  See Galleries.
Raising revenue.  See Revenue.
Ramseyer rule.  See Committees.
Ratification.
        Of the Constitution.......................................   207
        Of amendments to the Constitution.........................   190
        Procedure of Senate in ratifying treaties.................   600
Reading.
        Of papers.
Member not always privileged to read a paper.............. 434, 964, 965
            Intervening questions as to...........................   459
Objections to reading of papers under former rule XXX.......... 964, 965
Of papers on which the House is to vote........................ 392, 964
            Of such as criticize the Senate or Senators not in 
                order.............................................   372
            On reference..........................................   436
Papers not necessarily to be read on plea of privilege......... 433, 964
            Papers read on demand of a Member.....................   964
            Papers read by consent of the House under former rule 
                XXX...............................................   965
Parliamentary law as to........................................ 432, 964

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            Reports of committees not read except in order or in 
                debate............................................   435
        Of bills, resolutions, conference reports.
            Rule for..............................................   941
            A bill read in Committee of the Whole not read in full 
                when taken up in House............................   338
            Amendments before third...............................   497
            Committal of, on third................................   494
            Debate in relation to third...........................   498
Engrossed copy, reading in full not required................... 941, 943
First and second............................................... 941, 942
            Manner of reading a bill the second time..............   428
Obsolete requirements as to.................................... 399, 400
Obsolete requirements as to third.............................. 492, 493
            Of a bill in Committee of the Whole...................   942
            Of bills for amendment under the five-minute rule.....   980
            Of concurrent resolution on the budget................   990
Of conference reports and amendments in disagreement, dispensed 
with......................................................... 1082, 1083
            Of Journal, not interrupted by conference report......  1077
            Of Journal, place of, in order of business............   869
            Of President's messages and accompanying documents....   188
            Of a veto message.....................................   107
            Raising points of order before completing reading of 
                resolution........................................   628
            Raising points of order before completing reading of 
                amendment.........................................   924
            Speaker sits while reading, but the Clerk stands......   428
            Third reading after engrossment.......................   943
        Of amendments.
            Motions to dispense with reading......................   986
Reappropriations.
        Citations relating to................................ 1037, 1063
        Not in order on general appropriation bill unless in 
            continuation of public works already commenced... 1037, 1063
Reasons.
        Not entered on Journal....................................    70
Rebellion.
        Debts incurred in suppressing, not to be questioned.......   234
        Debts incurred in aid of, not to be paid..................   234
        Participation in, as a disqualification for office........   230
        Suffrage may be abridged for..............................   226
        Suspension of writ of habeas corpus for...................   138

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Recapitulation.
        Of a vote, Speaker's discretion as to.....................  1015
Recede, motion to.
        Precedence of......................... 486, 528-528d, 1089, 1091
        Motion to recede and concur takes precedence of motion to 
            recede and concur with amendment or insist........ 525, 528d
        Motion to recede and concur divisible................. 525, 528d
        Not equivalent of either insisting or adhering when 
            decided in negative...................................   488
        One House not to recede from its own amendment with an 
            amendment............................................... 526
        Parliamentary law as to receding.................. 523, 528-528d
        Practice of the House as to receding from its own 
            amendment to a bill of the other House................   524
        Practice of the House as to receding from disagreement to 
            amendment of the other House..........................   525
Receipts.
        Of public money, account of, to be published..............   143
Reception.
        Duty of President to receive ambassadors..................   172
Recess.  See also Adjournment.
        In general.
            Of Congress...........................................   590
            Of a Congress, effect on pending business.............   814
            Of Congress, issue of subpoenas during................   342
            Of Congress, jurisdiction of resolutions relating to..   733
            Of Senate, power of President to fill offices during..   167
            Of Senate, emergency recess and reconvening...........   639
            Of House, during day's sitting, conditions of.........   586
Of House, Speaker's authority to declare....................... 638, 639
Of House, emergency recess and reconvening...................... 83, 639
            Of a committee........................................   787
            Of Committee of the Whole, emergency..................   639
        Motion for.
Status of................................................. 586, 911, 913
Recognition.
        To call up a bill made in order by a resolution adopted by 
            the House.............................................   715
        For debate and amendment under the five-minute rule.......   980
        For motions to discharge committees on second and fourth 
            Mondays...............................................   892
        For motion to go to conference....................... 1069, 1070
        For the motion to reconsider..............................  1004
        For the previous question.................................   997
        For question of privilege............................... 698-668
        Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge..........   954

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        Parliamentary law as to Speaker's duty in.................   356
        Preliminary action of Member in seeking...................   945
        Preference in, to be given to opposition for motion to 
            recommit after previous question is ordered....... 911, 917, 
                                                              1001, 1002
        Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition for 
            debate................................................   955
        Procedure of the Member in seeking........................   354
        Under former rule requiring a second on the motion to 
            suspend the rules.....................................   889
        Speaker's power of...................................... 949-956
        Speaker's power of with respect to Senate amendments...... 1070, 
                                                                    1072
        Speaker governed by usage in...................... 356, 953, 956
        Speaker not to recognize Members to introduce occupants of 
            galleries to House....................................   966
        No appeal from Speaker's decision in......................   356
        Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as to 
            recognitions..........................................   956
        Right to speak a second time..............................   357
Recommendations.
        President to make, to Congress............................   168
Recommit, motion to.  See also Commit, motion to.
        Precedence and general conditions of....... 911, 916, 1001-1002c
        After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect 
            of.......................................... 994, 1001, 1002
        Debate on............................................ 1001, 1002
        Germaneness test with respect to..........................   929
        In order as to bill on third reading......................   494
        Instructions with.............................. 917, 1001, 1002b
        Instructions to strike amendment adopted by House not in 
            order.................................................   917
        Instructions may be amended........................... 917, 1002
        Instructions must be germane to bill before the House...... 930, 
                                                                    1002
        Speaker does not usually decide as to whether or not 
            committees have followed..............................   628
        Limiting by Committee on Rules............................   857
        May be applied to a conference report under certain 
            circumstances............................... 550, 1001, 1002
        Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions...........   476
        Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   916
        Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending 
            previous question.....................................   857
        One motion to, in order after previous question is ordered
                                                         911, 1001, 1002

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        Repetition of motions.....................................   918
        Recognition to offer...................... 911, 917, 1001, 1002c
Recommittal.
        Of bills to select or standing committees.................   420
        Duty of committee in case of..............................   917
        Of bills amending or repealing statutes when committee 
            reports fail to comply with rule......................   846
        Of bills to Committee of the Whole........................   420
        Of report from Committee of the Whole when ruled out in 
            the House.............................................   335
        When House nonconcurs in recommendation of Committee of 
            the Whole to strike enacting words....................   988
        Speaker does not usually decide as to whether or not 
            committees have followed..............................   628
Reconsider, motion to.
        Rule for the motion and its precedence....................  1003
        Discussion of procedure of................................  1005
        Application of............................................  1006
        Application of, to bills in committee.....................  1011
        As to use in a standing or select committee........... 416, 1005
        Debate on.................................................  1010
        Delegates and Resident Commissioner not to make...........   741
        Effect of.................................................  1007
        Enrolled bills not signed pending.........................  1007
        Maker of..................................................  1004
        May be held dilatory......................................   903
        May be applied to vote refusing yeas and nays or ordering 
            yeas and nays (if not executed).................... 79, 1007
        Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   416
        Relations of, to motion to lay on the table...............  1009
        Relations of, to the previous question............... 1005, 1006
        Repetition of........................................ 1006, 1007
        Vote on...................................................  1008
        Vote on ordering yeas and nays may be reconsidered by less 
            than a quorum.........................................    76
Reconsideration.
        Bill once rejected not to be brought up again the same 
            session...............................................   515
        Early Senate practice as to...............................   513
        Exceptions to the rule against bringing up a matter once 
            rejected..............................................   516
        Expedients for changing the effect of bills once passed...   516
        Of a vetoed bill by the two Houses........................   104
        Member voting ``present'' not counted in determining the 
            two-thirds............................................   109

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        Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient 
            to pass bill..........................................   109
        Passage of supplementary bills............................   518
        Parliamentary law as to...................................   514
Reconvening.
        Emergency reconvening of the House, Speaker's authority..... 83, 
                                                                     639
        Public interest reconvening of the House, Speaker's 
            authority...................................... 83a, 84, 639
        Reconvening of Congress by joint leadership under recall 
            authority in adjournment resolutions................. 82, 84
Record.  See also Congressional Record.
        The Journal as............................................   582
Record vote.
        Changes and corrections of votes..........................  1017
        Count of those voting to make a quorum of record on a 
            record vote...........................................  1020
        Electronic device.................................... 1014, 1019
        In committee, formerly used as proof quorum present when 
            reporting.............................................   839
        In Committee of the Whole on the failure of quorum........   982
        Interruptions of the record vote..........................  1018
        Manner of, during call of the House.......................  1022
        Not to be interrupted for conference report...............  1077
        Not to be interrupted by arrival of time for recess... 586, 1018
        Oath administered to a Member during......................   201
        Postponement of, by Speaker...............................  1030
        Speaker may recognize for motion for call of House at any 
            time..................................................  1028
Recorded vote.
        Ordered by one-fifth of quorum in House...................  1012
        By electronic device or by tellers........................  1012
        Ordered by 25 in Committee of the Whole............... 984, 1012
        Repetition of demand for..................................  1013
        Vote by considered vote by yeas and nays..................  1012
Recording Studio.
        Establishment and composition of House Recording Studio...  1125
Records.  See Papers.
Redress.
        Of grievances, right of people to petition for............   208
Refer, motion to.  See also Recommit, motion to.
        Precedence and status of.
Precedence and general conditions of........................... 911, 916
            Has precedence of motion to amend.....................   449
            May not be postponed..................................   451
            Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.....   450

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            Repetition of.........................................   918
        Use of.
General use of................................................. 401, 446
            Not used in Committee of the Whole....................   916
Admitted in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''............. 425, 427
            In relation to motion to strike enacting words........   988
In relation to amendments between Houses....................... 528-528d
            In order as to bill on third reading..................   494
            Motion applicable to a vetoed bill....................   108
            Instructions with.....................................   917
Instructions may be amended.............................. 917, 929, 1002
            Instructions must be germane to bill before the House 
                and not to general law sought to be amended.......  1002
            Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions.......   476
        Relations of, to previous question.
            Application of previous question to...................   450
Relations of, to the previous question......................... 486, 998
After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect of... 994, 1002
Minority has preference in recognition for, after previous 
question is ordered......................................... 1001, 1002c
            After previous question is ordered, Committee on Rules 
                limited as to.....................................    57
            Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending 
                previous question.................................   857
Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous question 
                                                                448, 449
Reference.
        Of bills.  See Bills.
        Of memorials, petitions.
By Speaker................................................ 816, 825, 873
By Members..................................................... 816, 818
            Private claims referred to certain committees.........   817
Of communications, rule for............................... 816, 873, 874
Of messages of the President, rule for..................... 816, 873-875
            Of executive documents................................   827
            Papers not read in House on ordinary reference to 
                committee.........................................   436
        Correction of errors in reference of.
            Errors in.............................................   824
            Correction of, for public bills.......................   825
            Of public bills, place of correction of, in order of 
                business..........................................   869
            Change of, for errors in..............................   824

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Correction of, in case of bills referred from Speaker's table...... 873, 
                                                                     874
            Of bill to a calendar, error in, a question of 
                privilege.........................................   828
Regents.
        Do not hold incompatible offices..........................    98
Regular order.
        Improper use of demand for................................   381
        Right of the Member to demand..................... 381, 382, 872
        Not to be demanded while a Member has the floor in debate.   393
Regulations.
        Power of Congress to make, concerning territory and other 
            property..............................................   188
        Power of Congress to make, as to jurisdiction of Supreme 
            Court.................................................   179
Rejection.
        Effect of.............................................. 515, 517
        Bill is lost when a conference report is not agreed to....   549
        Bills fail when both Houses continue to insist or adhere..   522
        Of a bill, action on similar bill.........................   944
        Of a bill, communicated to the other House................   568
        Of bills, question on, comes indirectly...................   484
        Status of amendments after rejection of conference report.   551
        Striking enacting words of a bill equivalent to...........   988
Relatives.
        Of Members, employment of.............................. 88, 1095
Relevancy of debate.  See Debate.
Religion.
        Congress to make no law respecting establishment of, or 
            free exercise of......................................   208
        Religious tests not required for officers under United 
            States................................................   196
Remonstrance.
        Nature of.................................................   389
Removal.
        Of President from office..................................   155
        Of Speaker................................................   315
Repetition.
        Of motions, general rules as to........................ 911, 918
        Of motion to reconsider.............................. 1006, 1007
        Of motion to strike and insert......................... 471, 472
        Of motion to request a conference.........................   535
        Of demand for yeas and nays...............................    77
        Of motion to reconsider vote ordering yeas and nays.......    79
        Of a question once determined.............................   514
        Of amendments.............................................   468

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Reporters.
        Of debates................................................   685
        Of debates, duties of Committee on House Administration as 
            to....................................................   724
        Press, admission to the floor,  see Floor.
Reports.
        Of committees.  See Committees.
        From Committees of the Whole.  See also Committee of the Whole.
            As related to amendments adopted......................   336
            As to breach of privilege.............................   335
            Bill presumed to have passed necessary stages.........   335
            Bills from, considered in the House...................   338
            Chair alone makes reports.............................   335
            Consideration of amendments from, in the House........   337
            Discharge of Committee of the Whole...................   339
            Minutes of Clerk in lieu of, when Committee is 
                discharged........................................   339
            Not to be amended by the House........................   335
Of disorderly words taken down............................ 369, 960, 961
            Of motion to strike the enacting words................   988
            Recommitted when ruled out in House...................   335
Of Chair when Committee rises before a matter is concluded.... 333, 334, 
                                                                     983
            Quorum not required after Committee of the Whole has 
                risen and before report made to House.............  1027
            When a quorum fails...................................   982
        Of managers of conferences.  See Conferences.
        In general.  See also Clerk; Sergeant-at-Arms; Chief 
            Administrative Officer.
            Of Members, officers, and employees on financial 
                disclosure........................................  1103
From heads of departments, rule for reference of............... 873, 874
From heads of departments to be studied by committees........... 744-749
            Rectification of errors after report of tellers.......   503
Representation.
        Office of General Counsel............................ 670, 1125b
        Reduction of, for abridgement of the right of suffrage....   226
Representatives.
        Election, privilege, and duties.  See Members.
        House of.
            Part of Congress......................................     3
            Attendance at an impeachment trial....................   617
Authority as to treaties........................................ 594-599
            Bills for raising revenue to originate in.............   102

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Choice of President by......................................... 221, 222
Chooses Speaker and other officers................................ 26-30
            Composed of Members chosen by people..................  5, 7
            Confirms Vice President...............................   253
            Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..........   219
            Has power of impeachment..............................    31
            Indecent language against, not permitted in debate....   360
            Convening time........................................     6
            Power of President to convene or adjourn..............   171
Questions of privilege affecting............................... 698, 700
            Required to keep a Journal............................    68
Rules as to use of Hall........................................ 677, 678
            The office building...................................  1114
Vacancies in...................................................... 17-25
Reprieves.
        Power of President to grant...............................   162
Reprimand.
        Of a Member...............................................    64
Reprisal.
        Letters of, Congress to grant.............................   127
        States not to grant.......................................   146
Republican form of government.
        Guaranteed to the States..................................   189
Request.
        For a conference.
            Declined or neglected.................................   534
            Made by the House possessed of the papers.............   530
Motions to................................... 528a, 535, 791, 1069, 1070
            Practice as to making.................................   533
            Usual but not essential that names of managers be 
                transmitted with..................................   536
        Bills introduced by.
            Introduction of bills, resolutions by.................   826
Rescind, motion to.
        Not privileged under rules governing the order of business   734
        As to entries on Journal..................................    71
Rescission.
        Of appropriations, jurisdiction of Appropriations 
            Committee.............................................   716
        Separate headings required on in certain bills and reports   716
        Rescission bills, definition and procedure for 
            consideration of under Impoundment Control Act..... 1130(6a)
Reservation.
        Of rights of people.......................................   216
        Of points of order on general appropriation bills.... 1035, 1044

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        Of objection to unanimous-consent request.................   872
Reserved powers.
        Of the State and people...................................   217
Residence.
        As a condition of citizenship in the United States and the 
            State of..............................................   225
Resident Commissioner.
        Admitted to floor of House................................   678
        Clerk to distribute certain documents to..................   649
        Compensation of...........................................    86
        Elected to committees.....................................   675
        Former de novo vote in House where vote of decisive in 
            Committee of the Whole................................   985
        From Puerto Rico, power and privileges of......... 675, 676, 970
        May be appointed to select and conference committees......   676
        Formerly could be appointed chair of Committee of the 
            Whole.................................................   970
        Of Puerto Rico, admitted to the floor.....................   678
        Powers and privileges in Committee of the Whole........ 675, 970
        Rooms of, in office building..............................  1114
Resignations.
        As related to procedure for punishments................... 63-66
        From committees, privilege of and debate on................. 701
        Of chair of a committee, selection of a successor.........   761
        Of Member-elect before taking oath........................   300
        Of President of the United States or Vice President.... 155, 156
        Of Speaker................................................    28
        Procedure for considering.................................   700
        Vacancy from..............................................    19
        Vacancies caused by, in Senate............................    34
Resolutions.
        Commemoratives.
            Prohibited............................................   823
        Simple, of the House--Nature and forms of.
            As to presentation of, to President for approval......   115
            Consideration of a preamble...........................   414
            Introduction by request...............................   826
            Introduction and reference of private.................   818
            Introduction of public................................   825
            Nature and use of, as compared with others............   395
            Raising a question of privileges of the House.........   698
            Reference of..........................................   816
            Of inquiry............................................   864
            Use, to disapprove Executive actions..................  1130
        Simple, of the House--Of inquiry.
            Discharge of a committee from a resolution of inquiry.   867

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            Forms of resolutions of inquiry and delivery thereof..   865
            Privileged status of resolutions of inquiry...........   866
            Resolutions of inquiry as related to the Executive....   868
        Simple, of the Senate.
            Not referred in House.................................   874
        Concurrent.
            Adjournment for more than three days by concurrent 
                resolution........................................    84
            Reference of..........................................   816
Their use..................................................... 396, 1130
        Joint.
Their use..................................................... 397, 1130
            Clerk certifies to passage of.........................   648
            Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment of 
                passage...........................................   921
            Reference of..........................................   816
            Signed by Speaker.....................................   624
            Used for abrogating treaties..........................   599
            Used for amendments to the Constitution...............   291
            Use of, correct an error in a bill sent to the 
                President.........................................   518
Resources, Committee on.  See Natural Resources, Committee on.
Restaurant.
        Of House, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............   739
        Of House, management of...................................   725
        Retrenching expenditures, amendment providing new 
            legislation in order on appropriation bill........ 1036-1062
Return.
        Of a message sometimes asked..............................   565
Returns.
        Power of House to judge as to............................. 46-51
Revenue.
        Power to raise.
            Account of receipts of public money to be published...   143
            Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to 
                census............................................   140
            Export duties forbidden...............................   141
            General power of Congress to raise....................   117
            Not to be raised on commerce by water between States..   142
Power of States as to raising of............................... 147, 148
            Regulations of, not to favor ports....................   142
            Retroactive income tax rate increases prohibited......  1068
        Consideration of bills for raising.
            Amendments must relate to particular item.............   940
            Bills for raising, to originate in House..............   102

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            Bills raising, placed on Union Calendar...............   828
            Bills raising, considered in Committee of the Whole...   973
            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..................   741
            Jurisdiction as to oleomargarine......................   715
Point of order against certain bills or amendments carrying taxes 
or tariffs.................................................. 1066, 1076a
            Precedence of bills raising, in Committee of the Whole   977
            Precedence of, in order of business...................   856
Vote on measures raising income tax rates.................... 1033, 1067
Revenue sharing, general.
        Jurisdiction over.........................................   732
Revenue treaties.
        Authority of House as to..................................   597
Revision of the laws.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   729
        Law Revision Counsel, Office of...........................  1120
Riders.
        Nongermane Senate amendments.......................... 1089-1091
        Rule forbidding, on general appropriation bills,  see 
            Appropriations.
        On bills, obsolete parliamentary practice as to...........   495
Rights.
        Of the people under the Constitution.
            Those enumerated in Constitution and others retained 
                by the people.....................................   216
            As to quartering of soldiers..........................   210
            As to searches and seizures...........................   211
            Excessive bail or fines and cruel punishments 
                prohibited........................................   215
            Of citizens of the United States as to privileges and 
                immunities........................................   225
            Of citizens of the United States to vote..............   235
            Of persons to life, liberty, property, and equal 
                protection of the laws............................   225
            Of religion, speech, free press, assembly, and 
                petition..........................................   208
            Security as to accusations, trials, and property......   212
            To a fair trial by jury...............................   213
            To jury trial in suits at common law..................   214
            To bear arms..........................................   209
            To vote, of citizens eighteen years of age or older...   257
        Certain, of Members of the House.
Members not always entitled to read papers in their places.... 434, 964, 
                                                                     965
            Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read 
                on plea of privilege..............................   433

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            Of Member to have paper read..........................   432
Of Members, to call to order in debate......................... 960, 961
            Of Members to demand division of the House after vote 
                by sound..........................................   501
Of Members to demand the execution of a subsisting order....... 381, 872
            Of Members to inspect the Journal.....................   582
Rising.  See also Committee of the Whole.
        Of a Committee when the House sits........................   324
Rivers and harbors.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   739
        Precedence of bills to improve, in Committee of the Whole.   977
Roll Call.
        Members not to remain near Clerk's desk during roll call..   962
        Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote.......  1015
Rolls.
        Of Members-elect, Clerk makes up..........................   644
        Duty of Clerk as related to qualifications................     9
        Names of Members not entered on yea and nay, until sworn..   300
        Speaker's name not on that from which yeas and nays are 
            called................................................   631
Rooms.
        Assignment of, in office buildings........................  1114
        Control of, in House wing.................................   623
        Duty of Committee on House Administration as to...........   724
        Exclusion of persons from those leading to the Hall.... 678, 680
Rules.
        House makes its own.
Abrogation of joint rules....................................... 61, 316
            As related to privileges of minorities................   283
            Congressional Budget Act rules may be changed by the 
                House.............................................  1127
Each House makes its own.......................................... 58-60
            Early parliamentary law as related to.................   286
            House's construction of its power to adopt............   388
            Jefferson's Manual, part of...........................  1105
            Jefferson's views as to power to make.................   387
Jurisdiction as to............................................. 733, 734
            Necessity of..........................................   285
            Not to be changed by report from Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   335
            Power to administer oaths not conferred by............    59
Power to make, not impaired by rule or law...................... 59, 388
            Power to make, constitutionality of...................    60

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            Procedure before adoption of..........................    60
Those of the House in effect in Committee of the Whole so far as 
applicable..................................................... 340, 992
        Committee on.
            Activity reports of...................................   790
Certain reports may be considered immediately without two-thirds 
vote.......................................................... 857, 1087
            Exempted from requirement of record vote display in 
                reports...........................................   839
            History, jurisdiction, and powers of..................   682
            Limitations on reports from...........................   857
            Member of serves on Committee on the Budget...........   758
            Privileged reports of.................................   857
            Report from, providing special order of business not 
                divisible.........................................   857
            Report may be considered immediately by two-thirds 
                vote..............................................   857
Reports, adverse, from......................................... 861, 893
            Reports from, on resolutions repealing or amending 
                rules of House must show by typographical device 
                parts of rules affected...........................   848
            Report from, to specify waivers.......................   863
Right to report at any time confined to privileged matters..... 853, 857
        Suspension of.  See Suspension of rules.
        Power of Congress to make certain.
            Congress to make, for land and naval forces...........   131
            Congress to make, concerning captures on land and 
                water.............................................   127
            Power of Congress to make, concerning territory and 
                other property....................................   188
Rumor.
        As a ground for impeachment...............................   605
        As foundation for investigation...........................   341
Safety, public.
        As related to suspension of writ of habeas corpus.........   138
Salaries.
        Of Representatives and Senators............ 85-88, 258, 1130(12)
        Of Speaker................................................    86
        Jurisdiction as to, of legislative employees..............   724
        Authorization of appropriations for, in general 
            appropriation bills...................................  1046
Sanity.
        As related to the oath and qualifications.................   205
Science.
        Congress may promote, by patent and copyright laws........   124

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Science and Technology, Committee on.  See Science, Space, and 
    Technology, Committee on.
Science, Space, and Technology, Committee on.
        History, jurisdiction, and duties of......................   735
        Special oversight functions of............................   744
Seal.
        Of the House, Clerk affixes...............................   648
Searches.
        As related to security of persons, papers.................   211
Seat of Government.
        Power of Congress to legislate for..................... 134, 135
        Power of President to convene Congress at another place..... 82, 
                                                                82a, 171
        District of Columbia denominated as.......................   135
Seats.
        Obsolete requirement that a Member sit in his place.......   353
Second.
        Not required for ordinary motions...................... 392, 904
        Formerly required on motions to suspend the rules.........   889
        Of motion to adjourn on new call of House.................  1025
        Yeas and nays not taken on vote to........................    77
Second reading.
        Of a bill, obsolete requirement as to.....................   400
        Of bills to be in full................................. 941, 942
        Manner of reading a bill a second time....................   428
Secondary motions.  See also Motions.
        Application of motion to amend to other...................   927
        Discussion of use and relations of...................... 437-464
        In general, one not to be suppressed by another...........   450
        Precedence and conditions of............................ 911-917
Secrecy.
        Of portions of the Journal................................    68
        Of committee procedure....................................   319
Secret sessions.
        Rule for and procedure in.............................. 785, 969
        Of committees, banned with certain exceptions.............   798
Secretary of State.
        Bills that become laws deposited with (obsolete)....... 105, 109
Secrets.
        Of the House, oath of officers to keep (obsolete).........   640
Sections.
        Amendment of bills by.....................................   413
        Amendments should be germane to...........................   928
        Clerk amends numbers of, in a bill........................   479
        House does not agree to severally, in perfecting a bill...   456
        Reading of bills by.......................................   980

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        Transportation of, in a bill by amendment.................   477
Securities.
        Congress may provide punishment for counterfeiting........   122
Security.
        Of the people as to searches and seizures.................   211
Seizures.
        As related to security of persons, papers.................   211
Select committees.
        Ad hoc to consider legislation............................  816b
        Compliance with clause 2(a) of rule XI....................   783
        Conferences held by means of..............................   532
        Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi 
                                                                   1112c
        Former Aging..............................................   784
        Former Ethics.............................................  721c
        Former Homeland Security..................................  723b
        Former Intelligence Oversight Panel, Committee on 
            Appropriations........................................  747a
        Membership contingent on party membership.................   782
        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence...... 744, 785, 1112b
        Speaker appoints..........................................   637
        Reports, dissolution, and revival of......................   419
Select Panel.
        Of Committee on Appropriations, former Intelligence 
            Oversight.............................................  747a
Senate.
        Part of Congress..........................................     3
        Concurs in treaties by two-thirds vote....................   165
        Congress not to interfere as to place of choosing Senators    42
        Composition of............................................    32
        Division into classes.....................................    33
        Election of Senators................................ 32, 42, 236
        Electoral votes transmitted to President of...............   219
        Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..............   219
        Filling vacancies in.................................... 34, 236
        May amend revenue bills...................................   102
        No State to be deprived of equal suffrage in, without 
            consent...............................................   191
        Power of President to appoint officers during recess of...   167
        President pro tempore.....................................    37
        Procedure in ratifying treaties...........................   600
        References to Senate action........................ 371-374, 945
        Qualifications of Senators.............................. 35, 230
        Vice President............................................    36
        Tries impeachments........................................ 38-41

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Senate amendments.  See Amendments Between the Houses; Conferences.
Senate bills.
        Rule for reference of............................. 816, 873, 874
        Consideration of, from Speaker's table with reference to 
            Committee of the Whole............................. 873, 874
Senate resolutions.
        Simple resolutions of Senate not referred in House........   874
Sergeant-at-Arms.
        Custody of oath not to disclose classified information....  1095
        Doorkeeping duties..................................... 380, 658
        Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits   660
        Duties of, on call of the House................ 1021, 1023, 1025
        Election, oath, and removal of............................   640
        Enforces authority of House in House and in Committee of 
            the Whole.............................................   648
        Enforces rules as to decorum on floor.....................   962
        Financial and operational reports to Committee on House 
            Administration........................................   659
        Makes up roll of Members-elect in certain cases...........   648
        Of the Senate, admitted to the floor of the House.........   678
        The Mace as symbol of the office..........................   657
Service.
        Fugitives from, return of.................................   186
Servitude.
        Involuntary, not to exist except as punishment for crime..   224
        Suffrage not to be abridged for previous condition of.....   234
Sessions.  See also Adjournments.
        Sessions and recesses (adjournments) of Congress..... 82-84, 590
        Adjournment of Congress during August in certain 
            situations............................................  1106
        Adjournment prohibited before completion of congressional 
            budget process........................................  1127
        Close of, as related for constitutional day of meeting of 
            Congress............................................ 45, 242
        Conference asked at one and concluded at next.............   533
        Congress adjourns not later than last day of July in 
            certain situations....................................  1106
        Congress may extend session beyond July...................  1106
        Effect of adjournment on action on a veto.................   107
        Executive, of committees, banned with certain exceptions..   798
        Impeachments continue from one to another.................   620
        Manner of closing session by action of the two Houses...... 242, 
                                                                     591
        Obsolete law as to business at end of.....................   385
        Of Congress, resumption of business of a preceding........   814
        Of Parliament.............................................   588

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        Parliamentary law as to business at the termination of a 
            session...............................................   592
        Relations of, to adjournments for more than three days....    84
        Rule for secret, of the House.............................   969
        Sitting committees in recesses, and creation of 
            commissions to sit after Congress adjourns............   589
        Termination of, as affecting approval of bills............   577
Seven days.
        Any member of standing committee may call up bill after 
            resolution making bill in order has been adopted for 
            more than.............................................   862
        Any member of Committee on Rules may call up special rule 
            after it has been on calendar for.....................   861
        Filing of committee report within, after written request..   834
        See clause 2, rule XV, relating to motion to discharge....   892
        Special committee meetings to be called within, upon 
            request of committee majority.........................   793
Sex discrimination.
        Discrimination in employment..............................  1095
        Right of suffrage.........................................   240
Ships.
        Of war not to be kept by States in time of peace..........   148
Signature.
        Approval of bill by President valid only with.............   105
        As to signing of enrolled bills by Speaker pro tempore....   632
        Of enrolled bills for presentation to the President.... 575, 576
        Of enrolled bill canceled.............................. 575, 625
        Of bills, effect of recess of Congress on.................   814
        Of conference reports.....................................   543
        Of prime sponsor of bill at introduction..................  825a
        Of reports of committees and separate views............ 408, 833
        Of writs, warrants, acts, subpoenas.......................   624
        Speaker declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider 
            is pending............................................  1007
        Speaker does not sign bills in absence of a quorum 
            (obsolete)............................................   625
Simple conferences.  See Conferences.
Six days.
        Last, of session, status of motion to reconsider during...  1003
        Last, of session, suspension of rules during..............   885
        Conference report not required to be printed in Record on 
            last............................................. 1082, 1083
Slavery.
        Not to exist in the United States.........................   224
        Suffrage not to be abridged for previous condition of.....   234
        No claims to be paid for..................................   232

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Small business.
        Generally.
            Assistance and protection, jurisdiction over..........   736
            Participation in Federal contracts, jurisdiction over.   736
        Committee on.
            History and jurisdiction of...........................   736
            Special oversight functions of........................   744
Smithsonian Institution.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.................... 724, 739
Smoking.
        Forbidden on floor of House...............................   962
Social Security.
        Jurisdiction over health care and facilities supported by 
            payroll deductions....................................   741
        Jurisdiction over health care supported by general 
            revenues..............................................   721
        Jurisdiction of, generally................................   741
Soldiers.
        As to quartering of.......................................   210
        Of the World War, jurisdiction of matters relating to.....   740
Speaker.
        Election of.
Chosen by the House............................................. 26, 312
Chosen by majority on rollcall vote by surname.................. 27, 640
            Election of, as related to adoption of rules..........    59
            Election of, in case of death or resignation..........    28
Election or appointment of Speaker pro tempore............ 314, 632, 634
            Former four-term limit................................  635a
Has the power to name a Speaker pro tempore under conditions... 632, 634
            House has adjourned for more than one day before 
                election of Speaker...............................    83
            Motion to proceed to election of, of higher privilege 
                than motion to correct the roll...................   644
Nominations for, precedence of................................... 27, 60
            Removal of............................................   315
            Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order pending election of..   648
        Relations of, to oath.
            Administers oath to Members and officers..............   198
            As to power to direct a Member whose right to be sworn 
                is challenged, to step aside......................   203
            Functions of, in administering the oath to Members....   199
            May administer oaths to witnesses.....................   343
            Oath, administered to, by Dean of House...............   198
        Preserves order and decorum.
            Preserves order and decorum...........................   622

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            Censure inflicted by, on order of House...............    65
            Duty of, as to accommodating differences among Members   367
            May cause lobby or gallery to be cleared for disorder.   622
May not censure or punish a Member.........................622, 960, 961
            May not recognize Members to introduce occupants in 
                galleries.........................................   966
            May not entertain requests to extend floor privileges.   679
            Parliamentary law as to naming a Member by, for 
                disorder..........................................   366
            Power of, as to abuse of privilege of the floor.......   679
            Power to order arrest.................................   622
            Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order and executes commands 
                of House under direction of.......................   648
        Decides questions of order.
Decides questions of order..................................... 627, 628
            Advice from Members while deciding a question of order 
                during a division.................................   507
            Authority of, to delay decision or a question of order   378
House by appeal controls decisions on..................... 379, 627, 629
            May not decide questions of consistency as to 
                amendments........................................   466
            Not to pass on sufficiency of a committee's report....   833
            Not to pass on constitutionality of pending measures..   628
            Practice governing, in deciding questions of order....   628
            Questions not for decision............................   628
        Duties of, as to quorum.
            Actual count of, to ascertain quorum after previous 
                question is ordered...............................  1029
            Count of quorum by....................................    54
            Duties of, when Committee of the Whole rises without a 
                quorum............................................   982
            May order the noting of Members to make quorum on vote 
                of record.........................................  1020
            May recognize for call of the House...................  1028
            Required to notice failure of quorum on yea-and-nay 
                vote..............................................    76
            Takes Chair at hour of meeting, not waiting for 
                ascertainment of quorum...........................   310
        Duties of, as to sittings and adjournment.
            Calls House to order..................................   621
            Declares adjournment at end of Congress...............     6
May declare recesses....................................... 83, 638, 639
Postponement or reconvening of the House, authorities relating to 
                                                        83, 83a, 84, 639
            Pronounces adjournment................................   587

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            Takes the Chair.......................................   621
        Conduct of.
            As a witness before a committee.......................   346
            Former four-term limit................................  635a
Functions of, at examinations at the bar of the House.......... 343, 344
            Reprimand of..........................................    64
            Rules a restraint on caprice of.......................   285
        Duties, generally.
Authority, duties, and privileges as to use of galleries....... 682, 694
            Authority to implement broadcasting of House 
                proceedings.......................................   684
            Certifies to compensation of Members..................    86
            Directed to notify governor of State in case of 
                certain vacancies.................................    22
            Drug testing of Members, officers, and employees......   635
            Duties of, general control of Hall, corridors, and 
                rooms.............................................   623
            Ex officio member of Permanent Select Committee on 
                Intelligence......................................   785
            May designate Members, officers, and employees to 
                travel on official business of the House, on 
                vouchers..........................................   636
            Office for Legislative Floor Activities...............  1123
        Appointment of committees by.
            Appoints select and conference committees.............   637
            Removes conference committees.........................   637
        Appointment of officers of House temporarily by.
            Appoints temporarily to fill vacancies................   640
        Relations to petitions, bills, and order of business.
            Authority to reserve certain bill numbers.............   825
            Declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider is 
                pending...........................................  1007
            Directs Clerk as to reference of report to calendars..   831
Duties as to referring matters from Speaker's table............ 873, 874
            Duties of, in presenting petitions....................   818
Duty as to reception and reference of executive communications..... 816, 
                                                                     827
Duty to exclude certain bills, memorials.................. 818, 822, 823
            Duty of, when validity of a report is questioned......   408
            Early discretion of, as to the order of business......   349
            Exercises discretion about interrupting pending 
                business to receive a message.....................   562
            Functions of, in relation to request for unanimous 
                consent...........................................   872
Makes reference of public bills, memorials......................816, 825

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            Objects to action on a bill without reading...........   942
Sign acts, writs, subpoenas.................................... 624, 626
Signing of enrolled bills by................................... 575, 624
        Powers and duties as to recognition.
Speaker's power of recognition.................................. 949-956
            Designates time and place for consideration of 
                questions of privilege............................   698
            Discretion to recognize for motion for call of House..  1028
Discretion to recognize for motion to send bill to conference..... 528a, 
                                                              1069, 1070
            Discretion to recognize authorized committee member to 
                call up bill made in order by resolution..........   715
Duty of, as to entertaining questions of privilege.............. 698-668
            Duty as to recognition for motion to reconsider.......  1004
            Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as 
                to recognitions...................................   956
            Former duty as to recognizing for second of motion to 
                suspend the rules.................................   889
            Function of, in recognizing for debate................   354
            Limitation on power to entertain motion for recess on 
                Wednesdays........................................   900
            Limitation on power of, to entertain motions pending 
                report of Committee on Rules......................   857
            Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge......   954
No appeal from Speaker's recognition........................... 356, 629
            Not to entertain dilatory motions.....................   903
            Not to entertain motion to suspend the rules as to use 
                of Hall of House..................................   678
            Not to entertain motions or requests to suspend rule 
                relating to admission to the floor................   678
            May entertain one motion to adjourn pending motion to 
                suspend rules.....................................   890
            Power to entertain motions to suspend rules limited...   885
            Preliminary action of Member in seeking recognition...   945
            Principles as to recognition for motion for the 
                previous question.................................   997
            Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition 
                for debate........................................   955
Required to give preference to opposition for motion to recommit 
after previous question is ordered.......................... 1001, 1002c
            Speaker governed by usage in recognition..............   953
            With respect to former Consent Calendar...............   899

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        Relations of, to debate.
Criticism of in debate.................................... 362, 960, 961
Duty as to calling to order in debate.......................... 960, 961
            Duty of, to suppress reflections on motives...........   363
            Duty of, to prevent expressions in debate offensive to 
                the other House...................................   374
            Participation of, in debate...........................   358
            To be addressed when a Member desires to interrupt in 
                debate............................................   364
        Puts the question.
            Decorum while putting the question....................   962
            Duty of, to state motions.............................   904
Formal and informal putting of the question by.................. 489-491
            Must put a question that is in order..................   304
            Putting of the question by, and taking the vote.......   630
            Reads sitting but rises to put a question.............   428
        Duty and rights as to voting.
            Formerly appointed tellers............................  1013
            Discretionary authority to postpone certain 
                proceedings.......................................  1030
Discretionary authority to reduce electronic vote to five minutes 
                                                              1030, 1032
Discretionary authority to use electronic device in taking vote... 1012, 
                                                                    1032
            Duty of, when an order of yeas and nays is demanded...    78
            Duty to divide the House on demand of a Member after 
                vote by sound.....................................   501
            Forbidden to entertain a request to record a vote 
                after the record vote.............................  1015
            Has not usually decided as to vote of a Member 
                personally interested.............................   672
Ordinarily and in case of tie................................. 631, 1015
            Not deprived of vote by rule..........................    59
            Procedure of, in taking a vote of yeas and nays.......   504
        Relations to Committee of the Whole.
            Appoints chair of Committee of the Whole and leaves 
                Chair.............................................   970
            Declaration of resolve into Committee of the Whole 
                pursuant to special order.........................   972
            Duty of, as to recognition of a report from a 
                Committee of the Whole............................   335
            Function of, when the House goes into Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   328
May take the Chair to restore order in Committee of the Whole...... 331, 
                                                                332, 622

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            Remains in the Chair in House as in Committee of the 
                Whole.............................................   424
Takes the Chair at informal rising of Committee of the Whole to 
receive a message.............................................. 330, 563
        Powers and duties of, as to conferences.
Functions and duty of, in appointing and removing managers of a 
conference................................................ 536, 637, 782
            May rule out a conference report where managers exceed 
                their authority...................................   547
        Duties as to Journal and Record.
            Approves Journal......................................   621
            May cause Journal to be read..........................   621
            Duties as to reporters of debates and committee 
                stenographers.....................................   685
            May not prevent House from amending Journal...........    71
Relations of, to Congressional Record.......................... 685, 691
        Vacancy in office of.  See Vacancies and Speaker pro tempore.
Speaker's Office for Legislative Floor Activities.
        Establishment of..........................................  1123
Speaker pro tempore.
        Appointed by the Speaker or elected by the House....... 632, 634
        Choice of.................................................   314
        Chosen on removal of Speaker..............................   315
        Competency of, to administer oath to Members..............   199
Speaker's table.
        Business on, place in order of business...................   869
        Must be authorized by committee in formal meeting to make 
            motion................................................   874
        Rule for disposition of business on.................... 873, 874
        Senate bill must be substantially same as House bill as 
            reported from House committee.........................   874
        Senate bill to be called up, House bill must correctly be 
            on House Calendar.....................................   874
Special orders.  See also Rules.
        Committee on Rules report to specify waivers contained in.   863
        Effect of, on Tuesday business............................   895
        Oxford-style debates......................................   952
        Privilege of reports of........................... 853, 855, 857
        Quorum calls not in order during speeches.................  1027
        Relation of motion to postpone to...................... 734, 915
        Speeches..................................................   950
        Use of, and method of making..............................   734

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Speech.
        Freedom of, guaranteed....................................   208
        Members not to be questioned in another place for.........    92
        Members of Parliament exempted from question as to.... 287, 302, 
                                                                     309
        Not to be noticed by the other House......................   308
Spitting.
        Not in order during debate................................   364
Staffs of committees.  See Committee staffs.
Standard.
        Congress to fix, for weights and measures.................   121
Standing committees.  See Committees.
Standing orders.
        Duration of...............................................   386
State executive.
        Fills certain vacancies in Senate (obsolete)..............    34
        Issues writs to fill vacancies in representation......... 17, 24
        May be empowered by legislature to make temporary 
            appointment of Senator................................   236
State of the Union.
        President to inform Congress of...........................   168
Statement.
        Accompanying conference report, rule as to................  1080
        Of receipts and expenditures of public money to be 
            published.............................................   143
States.
        Relations to the two Houses.
            Admission of, jurisdiction of bills for...............   731
            Authority of, as to establishment of congressional 
                districts.........................................   227
            Clerk to distribute Journal to legislative bodies of..   647
            Constitutional convention to be called on application 
                of legislatures of................................   192
            Governors of, admitted to the floor of the House......   678
            House of Representatives votes by, in choosing 
                President.........................................   221
Legislatures prescribe time of elections......................... 42, 43
            May not prescribe qualifications of Members...........    12
            None to be deprived of equal suffrage in Senate 
                without its consent...............................   191
            People of the several, to choose Representatives......     5
            Qualifications of electors of Representatives of, in..     7
            Ratification of constitutional amendments by..........   192
            Representation to be apportioned among................   226
State laws related to House's power to judge elections............ 48-50
            Two Senators from each................................    32

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        Relations of, to President.
            Appoint electors of President.........................   151
            Electors of, limited as to votes for President and 
                Vice President....................................   219
            Meeting of presidential electors in...................   219
            President Commander in Chief of militia of, in certain 
                cases.............................................   160
        Relations of, to courts, crimes.
            Judges in, bound by Constitution of the United States.   195
            Judicial power extends to cases affecting.............   178
            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting......   179
            Limitations as to certain suits against...............   218
            Relations of, as to extradition.......................   185
            To give full faith and credit to public acts, records, 
                and judicial proceedings of one another...........   183
            Trials for crimes in..................................   180
        Citizenship and suffrage in, and authority of.
            Citizenship of........................................   225
            No State by law to abridge the privileges and 
                immunities of citizens............................   225
            Not to abridge suffrage for race, color...............   235
            Not to deprive any person of life, liberty, or 
                property unlawfully, or deny equal protection of 
                the laws..........................................   225
            Privileges and immunities of the citizens of..........   184
            Admission, consolidation, or division of..............   187
            Authority as to militia...............................   133
            Certain claims of, not to be prejudiced by the 
                Constitution......................................   188
            Duties not to be levied by, on commerce by water......   142
            Eighteen-year-old persons and older granted suffrage..   257
            Jurisdiction of bills as to compacts between, in 
                general...........................................   729
            Jurisdiction of compacts between, of waters for 
                irrigation purposes...............................   731
            Jurisdiction of compacts over interstate energy.......   721
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries........   729
            Necessity of militia for security of..................   209
            No tax or duty on articles exported from..............   141
            Not to pay any debt incurred in aiding insurrection or 
                rebellion.........................................   234
            Officers of, bound by oath to support the Constitution   196
            One not to enter into agreement or compact with 
                another except on condition.......................   148
            Ports of, not to be given preferences.................   142
            Power of Congress to regulate commerce among..........   119
            Power of Congress over places purchased with consent 
                of................................................   134

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            Powers of, as to migration or importation of persons..   137
Powers of, as to treaties, alliances, confederations, and other 
functions, limited.............................................. 146-148
            Powers reserved to, by the Constitution...............   217
            Qualifications of officers as to loyalty..............   232
            Relations of, as to fugitives from service or labor...   186
            United States to guarantee republican form of 
                government and protect from invasion and domestic 
                violence..........................................   189
Statutory limit on public debt.
        Former rule providing for adjustment of...................  1104
Stenographers.
        Admission of unofficial...................................   693
        Of Committees, appointment of.............................   685
        Official reporters of debates.............................   685
Strike enacting words.
        Rule governing motions to.................................   988
        Practice as to use of motions to..........................   989
Strike, motion to.
        Application of............................................   472
        Conditions of striking an amendment already agreed to.....   474
        Effect of affirmative vote on motion to, and insert.......   473
        Motion to strike and insert not divisible.................   920
        Negative decision of, not bar to further amendment........   920
        Perfecting before voting on...............................   469
        Practice of Parliament and the House as to................   468
        Priority of perfecting amendments over....................   456
        Repetition of the motion to, and insert...................   471
Subcommittees.  See also Committees.
        Limited number may be established.........................   762
        May authorize and issue subpoenas.........................   805
        Oversight function of.....................................   743
        Staff for.................................................   767
        Subject to full committee control.........................   787
Subjects.
        Of foreign states, limitations on suits of, against States   218
        Judicial power extends to cases affecting those of foreign 
            states................................................   178
Subpoenas.
        Clerk seals and attests all...............................   648
        From courts for papers of House........................ 291, 697
        Issue of, during recess of Congress.......................   342
        Procedure for response to subpoenas.......................   697
        Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626
        Standing committees and their subcommittees may issue.....   805

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        Authorizing and signing committee subpoenas...............   805
Substantive propositions.
        As related to division of the question................. 919, 921
Substitute amendment.
        Amendment of..............................................   923
        As to division of.........................................   920
        Rule as to offering of....................................   922
        Time of offering in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''   427
Suffrage.
        Abridgment of a cause of reduction of representation......   226
        Of States in the Senate...................................   190
        Right to, not to be abridged for race, color, or sex... 234, 236
        Right to, not to be abridged by poll tax..................   251
Suits.
        As to jury trial for those at common law..................   214
        Limitation of judicial power in cases of law or equity....   219
Summons.
        Writ of, in an impeachment............................. 608, 611
Sunday.
        Not taken into account in adjournment for three days or 
            less..................................................    83
        Excepted from the ten-day limit as to bills presented to 
            President.............................................   111
        When inauguration day falls on............................   150
Sundry civil expenses.
        Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................   716
Supplemental budget.
        Transmittal of............................................   169
Supreme Court.
        Admission to Floor,  see Floor.
        Gallery for,  see Galleries.
        Judges of.................................................   682
        Jurisdiction of...........................................   179
        Repository of judicial power..............................   177
        Tenure and compensation of judges of......................   177
Suspension.
        Of writ of habeas corpus..................................   138
Suspension of rules.
        Consideration of..........................................  886a
        Consideration on certain suspension days of former Consent 
            Calendar..............................................   899
        If quorum not present when former vote on ordering second 
            taken by tellers, vote then had under call of the 
            House by yeas and nays................................   889
        Motion for, as unfinished business........................   879
        Motion for, entertained after yeas and nays are demanded..    80

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        Nature of the motion......................................   886
        One motion to adjourn in order pending....................   890
        Postponement of votes until designated time...............  1030
        Precedence of the motion..................................   887
        Recognition by Speaker for motion on......................   956
        Rule governing the motion for.............................   885
        Rule relating to admission to the floor not to be 
            suspended.............................................   678
        Formerly, second required.................................   889
        Speaker not to entertain motion to suspend rule relating 
            to use of the Hall of the House.......................   678
        When in order.............................................   885
        Withdrawal of......................................... 889a, 905
        Forty minutes of debate on motions on.....................   891
Table.
        Speaker's.
Rule for disposition of business on............................ 873, 874
            Business on, place in daily order.....................   869
        Clerk's.
            No Member to remain near, during voting...............   962
            Members not to take papers from, or write there during 
                debate............................................   364
            Papers on, not to go from Clerk's custody.............   352
            Laying of adverse reports on..........................   832
        Motion to lay on the.  See Lay on the table.
Taking down words.
        Parliamentary law as to...................... 368, 369, 960, 961
Taxation, Joint Committee on......................................  1109
Taxes and Tariffs.
        Capitation or direct, to be proportioned to census........   140
        Committees not having jurisdiction of, may not report a 
            tax or tariff.........................................  1066
        Amendments to bills reported, may not carry...............  1066
        Former dynamic estimate of changes in revenues............  849a
        Exempt foundations and trusts, jurisdiction over..........   741
        Export taxes prohibited...................................   141
        Income taxes..............................................   235
        Limitation on rights of States to impose duties... 142, 147, 148
        Old apportionment of......................................    14
        On persons migrating or imported..........................   137
        Point of order against certain bills and amendments 
            carrying........................................ 1066, 1076a
        Power of Congress to lay and collect......................   117
        To be uniform.............................................   117
        Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole....   973

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        Formerly, report on ``major'' tax legislation may include 
            ``dynamic estimate''..................................  849a
        Retroactive income tax rates prohibited...................  1068
        Tax complexity analysis............................... 849, 1092
        Vote on measures raising income tax rates............ 1033, 1067
Televising.
        Committee meetings and hearings......................... 807-812
        House proceeding..........................................   684
Tellers.
        Clerk tellers.
Clerks to serve as, on quorum calls and recorded votes....... 1012, 1019
            Rule and practice.....................................  1012
            Appointment of........................................  1012
            Chair may be counted on a vote by.....................   631
            Demand for, may be held dilatory......................   903
            May be demanded after refusal of yeas and nays........    80
            May not be ordered to verify count of quorum..........    54
            Ordered by a fifth of a quorum........................  1012
            Rule and practice as to voting by.....................  1012
        Generally.
            Appointment of, for electoral count...................   220
            Clerk appoints, for election of Speaker...............   312
            Former demand for and vote by.........................  1012
            Former duty of Member to serve as teller..............  1013
            Formerly motion to suspend the rules seconded on vote 
                by................................................   889
            Messages not received during vote by..................   562
            Rectification of error after report of................   503
            Relation of, to point as to quorum....................    54
            Sometimes used in ordering yeas and nays..............   504
            Yeas and nays may be demanded during vote by..........    77
Ten days.
        Limit as to bills presented to President..................   111
Tender, legal.
        States restricted as to making............................   146
Term.
        Beginning of President's term.......................... 150, 241
        Of Congress...............................................     6
        Of Member elected to fill vacancy.........................    25
        Of President of the United States...................... 149, 281
        Of Representatives........................................  5, 6
        Of Senators...............................................    32
        Of Speaker (former term limit) and other officers...... 26, 635a
        Of Speaker expires with the Congress......................   643
        Of two years for appropriations for armies................   171

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Territories.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries of.........   729
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to courts of.............   729
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to generally.............   731
        Power of Congress to make rules and regulations concerning   188
        Privilege of Delegates from,  see Delegates.
Testimony.
        Methods of taking, by the House and committees......... 341-348,
                                                      798, 800, 802, 803
        Power of the House to compel..............................   295
        Procedure when it implicates a Member of the other House,  
            see Witnesses.
        Quorum to receive,  see Witnesses.
        Required to secure conviction for treason.................   181
        Witnesses before committees,  see Witnesses.
Tests.
        Of strength usually taken first on the engrossment of a 
            bill..................................................   429
        Of strength may be taken before bill is amended...........   430
        Religious, not required for office under United States....   196
Text of a bill.
        House and not Speaker passes on questions relating to that 
            to which both Houses have agreed......................   466
        Perfection of, before striking or agreeing................   456
        That to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed by 
            either House alone or by the conference...............   527
Thanks.
        Of Congress, persons receiving, admitted to the floor.....   678
Third reading of a bill.
        Amendments before.........................................   497
        Committal of a bill on....................................   494
        Debate in relation to.....................................   498
        Obsolete parliamentary law as to, of bills................   493
        Obsolete requirements as to reading and passage of bills 
                                                                492, 943
        Question on, and procedure............................. 941, 943
Three days.  See Adjournment; Committees; Conferences.
Tie vote.
        Decision on...............................................   508
        Question lost on..........................................   631
        Speaker's vote in case of............................. 631, 1015
        Vote of Vice President in case of.........................    36
Time.
        Of adjournment, power of President as to..................   171
        Amendments, filling blanks as to..........................   475
Times of elections.
        Regulation of............................................ 42, 43

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Titles.
        Of bills.
            Amendment of..........................................   922
            Amendment of in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''   427
            Endorsement of, on an engrossed bill..................   431
            Of reported bills entered in Journal and Record.......   831
            Parliamentary law as to amendment of title to a bill..   512
            Power of a committee as to............................   411
        Of Journals.
            Of Journal............................................    69
        Of nobility.
Conditions on acceptance of, from foreign sources.............. 144, 145
            No State to grant.....................................   146
None to be accepted by officers of United States............... 144, 145
None to be granted............................................. 144, 145
Tonnage.
        States not to levy duties on..............................   148
Tort claims.
        Bills for certain, banned.................................   822
Transfers of unexpended balances.
        Jurisdiction of subjects related to.......................   716
        Separate headings for in certain bills and reports........   716
Transportation.
        Aviation programs, funding for............................ 1064a
        Former rule on obligation limitations.....................  1064
        Higway Trust Fund, spending authority from and balances in  1064
Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on.
        History, jurisdiction, and duties of......................   739
Travel.
        Of Members and employees.
            By retiring or defeated Members.......................  1098
            Use of committee funds or foreign currency for travel.   769
            Reports by committees on use of foreign currencies....   770
            Speaker may designate Members, officers, and employees 
                to travel on official business of the House, on 
                vouchers..........................................   636
        Generally.
            Travel and tourism, jurisdiction over subjects related 
                to................................................   721
Treason.
        An impeachable offense....................................   173
        Aid to enemies of the United States..................... 81, 230
        Definition of.............................................   181
        Extradition for...........................................   185
        Power of Congress to declare the punishment of............   181
        Relations of privilege to case of.........................   305
        Senators and Representatives not privileged from arrest 
            for...................................................    90
        Testimony for conviction of...............................   181

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Treasurer of the United States.
        Disburses pay of Members in certain cases.................    86
Treasury.
        Compensation of Representatives and Senators paid out of..    85
        Duties and imposts on imports or exports levied by States 
            to go to..............................................   147
        Money not to be drawn from, except on appropriation.......   143
Treaties.
        Abrogated by law..........................................   599
        Authority of the House as to revenue......................   596
        Authority of the House as to, in general..................   596
        Authority of the House as to, does not give rise to 
            question of privilege.................................   702
        General action of the House as to.........................   595
        General nature of.........................................   593
        House approves Indian.....................................   598
        Jefferson's discussion of, under the Constitution.........   594
        Judicial power extends to cases arising under.............   178
        Jurisdiction of those relating to revenue.................   741
        President makes, with concurrence of Senate...............   165
        Procedure of the Senate as to.............................   600
        States not to make........................................   146
        Supreme law of the land...................................   195
Trial.
        At bar of House for contempts.............................   344
        By jury in suits at common law............................   214
        For capital or infamous crimes............................   212
        For crimes to be in State where committed or where 
            Congress may direct...................................   180
        Of crimes to be by jury, except in cases of impeachment...   180
        Persons not to be put twice in jeopardy...................   212
        Rights as to, in criminal prosecutions....................   213
Tribunals.
        Congress to constitute inferior...........................   125
Troops.
        States not to keep, in time of peace......................   148
Trust.
        No one holding office of, to accept certain gifts...... 144, 145
        Public, no religious test required for under United States   196
Trusts.
        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   729
Tuesdays.
        Interruption of regular order on the first and third 
            Tuesdays for consideration of the Private Calendar....   895
        Every Tuesday for suspension of rules.....................   885

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Twenty-minutes' debate.
        On certain motions to discharge committees................   892
        On question of consideration with regard to congressional 
            earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
            benefits.............................................. 1068d
        On question of consideration with regard to unfunded 
            mandates..............................................  1127
Two-thirds vote.  See Voting.
Two weeks.
        Last, of session, rule for Calendar Wednesday not to apply 
            to....................................................   900
Unanimous consent.
        Amendments between Houses considered by...................  528a
        Former calendar for bills to be considered by.............   899
        Consideration in House as in Committee of the Whole by....   424
        Correction of reference of public bills may be made by....   825
        Interruption of the order of business for.................   872
        Ordinary function of Speaker as to recognition of requests 
            for................................................ 872, 956
        Practice of Speaker as to recognition of requests for.....   956
        Private claims to be referred to certain committees only 
            by....................................................   817
        Request as to admission to the floor not to be entertained   678
        Required for withdrawal of amendment in Committee of the 
            Whole.................................................   978
        Reservation of objection to...............................   872
        Right of Member to demand execution of subsisting order.... 381, 
                                                                     872
Unfinished business.
        Rule for considering of...................................   876
        Construction of the rule as to............................   877
        Business in periods set apart for classes of business.....   879
        Private, on Tuesdays......................................   895
        Place of, in daily order of business......................   869
        Postponed votes...........................................  1030
        Priority of, in Committee of the Whole....................   977
        Question of consideration does not recur as...............   907
        Resumption of business of a preceding session of Congress.   814
Unfunded Mandates.  See Federal mandates.
Union.
        Execution of laws of......................................   132
        States of, guaranteed republican form of government and 
            protection from invasion and domestic violence........   189
Union Calendar.
        Rule and practice for considering bills on, after call of 
            committees......................................... 882, 883
        Bills placed on...........................................   828
        Bills on, considered by unanimous consent in House as in 
            Committee of the Whole................................   424

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        Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday................   900
        Referral of State of the Union message to.................   168
        Removal of bill from by Speaker...........................   973
United States Capitol Preservation Commission.  See Capitol.
Unofficial office accounts.
        Prohibited................................................  1096
Unusual punishments.
        Not to be inflicted.......................................   215
Usage.
        Governing the Speaker in recognitions.....................   953
Vacancies.
        In membership of House.
Accounting for.................................................... 1024b
            Clerk administers office..............................   653
            Continuation of pay of clerical assistants............    88
            Declared for holding incompatible offices.............   101
Special elections in extraordinary circumstances........ 17, 43, 53, 310
From action of House............................................ 22, 205
            From death............................................    18
            From declination......................................    20
            From incapacity.......................................   205
            From resignation......................................    19
            From withdrawal.......................................    21
            Functions of State executive as to....................    24
            Governor issues writs to fill.........................    17
In general........................................................ 17-25
            Questions as to existence of..........................    23
            Term of Member elected to.............................    25
``Provisional quorum'' in catastrophic circumstances....... 17, 53, 310, 
                                                                   1024a
        In general.
            In managers of a conference...........................   538
            In Office of Clerk....................................    30
            Of House officers, Speaker may fill temporarily.......   640
In Office of Speaker............................................ 28, 632
            In Office of Vice President...........................   353
In Office of President........................... 155, 244-246, 252, 256
            In offices, President to fill, during recess of Senate   167
            In Senate.............................................    34
On Committees, filling of...................................... 757, 793
Vacating.
        Of Speaker's signature to enrolled bill...................   625

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Validity.
        Of the public debt not to be questioned...................   234
Vessels.  See also Ships.
        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....  1051
        Bound from State to State.................................   142
Veterans' Affairs, Committee on.
        History, jurisdiction, and duties of......................   740
        Other committees consolidated with........................   740
Veto.
        Of a bill by the President................................   104
        Consideration and action on vetoed bill in House... 104, 107-109
        Line item veto authority of the President.............. 1130(6b)
        Members answering present not considered in determining 
            two-thirds............................................   109
        Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient 
            to pass bill..........................................   109
        Pocket veto...............................................   112
        Effect of adjournment to day certain as to pocket veto....   113
Vice President.
        Admitted to the floor of the House........................   678
        Confirmation of President's nominee to fill vacancy.... 253, 256
        Election of............................. 151, 153, 246, 253, 256
        Election of, by the Senate in certain cases............. 221-223
        Limitation on right of electors to vote for............ 219, 220
        May be impeached..........................................   173
        Meeting of electors of, and transmission and count of 
            votes for.......................................... 219, 220
        Official duties of President devolve on, in certain cases 
                                                      155, 252, 254, 255
        President of Senate with a vote in case of tie............    36
        Presides in certain impeachments..........................  615a
        Qualifications of.........................................   221
        Qualifications of electors, as to loyalty.............. 230, 231
        Removal, death, resignation, or inability of..............   155
        Term of................................................ 150, 241
        To act as President if the House of Representatives fails 
            to choose.............................................   221
Views of minority.
        Signing of................................................   833
        Reference of, to calendars................................   831
        Right to file.............................................   804
Violence.
        Domestic, States may ask protection from..................   189
Visitors to institutions.
        Do not hold incompatible offices..........................    98

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Viva voce vote.
        Rules require officers of House, except Speaker, to be 
            elected by............................................   640
        Usage to elect Speaker by............................... 27, 640
Votes.
        As to presentation of, to President for approval..........   115
        By which a bill is passed not communicated to the other 
            House.................................................   567
        Delegates not to vote in House............................   675
        Delegates and Resident Commissioner, voting in committees 
            and formerly in the Committee of the Whole......... 675, 985
        Each Senator to have one..................................    32
        Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes 
            decisive in Committee of the Whole....................   985
        Methods of recording in Journal.......................... 72, 75
        Not to be noticed in the other House......................   308
        Of Chief Justice in impeachments..........................  615a
        Of electors of President, giving of.......................   153
        Of Speaker not taken away by rule.........................    59
        Of Speaker ordinarily and in case of tie..................   631
        Of Vice President in case of tie..........................    36
        Of States in the Senate...................................   190
        Recorded vote considered vote by yeas and nays............  1012
        Speaker's authority to postpone...........................  1030
        Transmittal and count of electoral..................... 219, 220
        Transmittal of, of electors of President..................   153
        Yeas and nays entered on Journal by order of one-fifth.... 75-78
        Yeas and nays on vetoed bill entered on Journal...........   104
Voting.
        Duties and rights of Members, Delegates, and Resident 
            Commissioner in.
            Absent Members' votes not announced...................  1031
            Member may demand count of Members to make quorum on 
                record vote.......................................  1020
Change of a vote........................................ 511, 1014, 1017
Disqualifying personal interest........................... 376, 671, 673
            Control of vote by Member.............................   672
Duties and rights of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in 
committees and in Committee of the Whole....................... 675, 985
            Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes 
                decisive in Committee of the Whole................   985
            May not authorize any other individual to cast a vote.   674
            Members convicted of certain crimes...................  1095
            Members required to vote..............................   671
            Parliamentary law as to giving of votes...............   505

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            Proxy voting in committees prohibited.................   797
Relation of reading of papers to under former rule XXX......... 964, 965
Right of Member to have read once a paper on which a vote is about 
to occur....................................................... 432, 964
            Withdrawal of a vote or correction of error in........  1017
            Right of, to demand a division of House after vote by 
                voice.............................................   501
            Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as 
                dilatory..........................................    77
When Member involved in the cause of an inquiry................. 321-323
        Decisions by majority--tie.
            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508
        Three-fifths vote.
            On measures raising income tax rates..................  1067
        Two-thirds vote.
            In general............................................   509
Constitution, on proposed amendments to........................ 190, 192
            Constitution, on amendment of other House to proposed 
                amendment to......................................   192
Constitution, to agree to conference report on a proposed 
amendment to................................................... 192, 549
            Expulsion, for........................................    62
            Impeachment, for conviction on........................    38
Political disabilities, to remove.............................. 230, 231
            Private Calendar, to dispense with on first Tuesday 
                each month........................................   895
            Report from Committee on Rules, to consider 
                immediately.......................................   857
Not required for immediate consideration of certain reports from 
Committee on Rules...................................... 850, 1082, 1083
            Suspension of the rules, on...........................   885
            Treaties, Senate concurs in, by.......................   165
Veto, to pass bill over a...................................... 104, 109
        By electronic system.
            Use in House..........................................  1014
            Use in Committee of the Whole.........................   982
            Bell and light indications............................  1016
Procedure when voting system inoperable........................... 1014a
        Five-minute votes.
            On postponed questions................................  1030
            On questions in sequence in House.....................  1032
On questions after rising from, or resolving into, the Committee 
of the Whole................................................. 1030, 1032

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        Two-minute votes.
On questions in sequence in Committee of the Whole............. 982, 984
        By sound and by division.
            Division of the House after determination by sound....   501
            Messages not received during vote by division.........   562
            Method of viva voce, and by division..................  1012
            Parliamentary provisions as to division not applicable 
                in the House......................................   502
            Repetition of demand for division.....................  1012
        By recorded vote.  See Recorded vote.
        By tellers.  See Tellers.
            Former rule for voting by.............................  1012
        By yeas and nays.  See Yeas and nays.
        By ballot.
            Rule for..............................................  1034
        On bills, amendments.
            As related to debate on amendment.....................   482
            Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes 
                decisive in Committee of the Whole................   985
            On amendments, order and principle of.................   922
            On articles in an impeachment.........................   618
            On several stages and passage of a bill...............   944
            Postponing record votes...............................  1030
            Requirements as to, on a motion to reconsider.........  1008
            Right to debate not precluded until negative is put...   482
            Test of strength may be taken on a bill before 
                amendment.........................................   430
            Test of strength usually made on engrossment of a bill   429
        Division.  See Division.
        In election of officers.
Electors, Presidential, chosen by ballot....................... 219, 220
            Officers of House, except Speaker.....................   640
            President, House elects, by ballot....................   221
            President, majority required in Electoral College or 
                in House to elect.................................   221
Speaker......................................................... 27, 312
Speaker elected by majority..................................... 27, 312
            Vice President, in Senate in choice of................   221
        In general.
            Bell and light system to indicate type of vote........  1016
            Business suspended by failure of a quorum.............   510
            Decisions of points of order during...................   507
            In joint committees...................................   325
            Limitations on presentation of conference report 
                during............................................  1077
            Managers of two Houses vote separately at a conference   548

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            Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during..........   962
            Movement of Members during voting.....................   506
            Postponed votes, Speaker's authority..................  1030
            Recording of votes by electronic equipment............  1014
Right of suffrage not to be abridged for race, color, sex, poll 
tax....................................................... 234, 240, 251
            ``Straw votes'' prohibited............................  1012
Waiver.  See also Rules.
        Of privilege, not permitted to Members....................   814
War.
        Declaration of, Congress to make..........................   127
        Quartering of soldiers in houses during...................   210
        States not to engage in, except on conditions.............   148
        Treason to consist of levying of, against United States...   181
        Trial for crimes in forces during.........................   212
        Jurisdiction of bills declaring...........................   723
        Jurisdiction as to pensions arising from..................   740
        Relative powers of Congress and the President...... 128, 1130(2)
War Claims.
        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   729
Warrants.
        Clerk seals and attests all...............................   648
        Certain, to issue only on certain conditions..............   246
        For arrest of absent Members......................... 1023, 1026
        Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626
Warships.
        Not to be kept by States in time of peace.................   148
Water.
        Jurisdiction over water transportation generally..........   739
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to water power...........   739
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to supply of, for 
            reclamation projects..................................   731
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts 
            relating to apportionment of, for irrigation purposes.   731
        Jurisdiction of water conservation related to agriculture.   715
Waterways, inland.
        Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   739
Ways and Means, Committee on.
        History and jurisdiction of...............................   741
        Report from on ``major'' tax legislation formerly included 
            ``dynamic estimate''..................................  849a
        Report on tax proposal must include ``tax complexity'' 
            analysis..............................................   849

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Wednesdays.
        In general.
        Every Wednesday for suspension of rules...................   885
        Wednesday Calendar.
            Rule for order of business on.........................   900
            Business of, formerly protected by two-thirds vote....   857
            In order to consider a veto message of the President..   901
            One committee can only occupy one day except to 
                dispose of unfinished business....................   901
            Previous question ordered, bill undisposed of on 
                Tuesday, goes over until Thursday.................   901
Privilege of general appropriation bills limited on............ 856, 900
Weights.
        Congress to fix standard of...............................   121
Welfare, general.
        Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
Withdrawal.
        Of motions, votes.
Of motions generally...................................... 392, 904, 905
            Parliamentary law of as to motions....................   460
            Amendment reported from Committee of the Whole not 
                subject to........................................   335
Of motion to amend............................................. 922, 925
Of motion to amend in Committee of the Whole........................ 978
            Of motion to amend in ``House as in Committee of the 
                Whole''...........................................   427
            Of motion to reconsider...............................  1003
            Of motion to suspend the rules........................   889
            Of point of no quorum.................................    55
            Of vote...............................................  1017
        Of Members, resignations, papers.
            By President of paper accompanying a message..........   571
            Of a Member...........................................    22
Of Member when a matter concerning that Member arises.......... 375, 376
            Of papers from files..................................   696
            Of resignation not permitted..........................    19
            Of witnesses, counsel, and parties during examination 
                at bar of the House...............................   343
Witnesses.
        Members as.
            Members as witnesses..................................   346
            Method of obtaining testimony of a Member of the other 
                House.............................................   347

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            Power of one House to summon Members or officers of 
                the other.........................................   292
Privilege of Members of Congress as to summons as.............. 290, 292
            Privilege of Members of Parliament not to be summoned 
                as................................................   287
        In examinations by the House.
Administration of oaths to................................ 343, 346, 805
Admission of counsel in........................................ 348, 803
            Arraignment of contumacious...........................   344
            Earlier and later practice as to inquiries at the bar 
                of the House......................................   344
            Examination of, in the House and in committee.........   343
            Immunity of...........................................   343
            Pay of................................................   813
            Power of the House to compel testimony................   295
            Procuring attendance of, when in custody of the other 
                House.............................................   345
            The production of, at an inquiry......................   342
        Before committees.
            Committee rules to be furnished to....................   803
            Minority..............................................   802
Interrogation of.......................................... 343, 802, 803
            ``Truth in testimony,'' curriculum vitae and 
                disclosure statements.............................   798
Testimony, advance statements of............................... 798, 803
Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to 
support charge of perjury...................................... 343, 409
        In criminal cases.
            Compulsory process for obtaining......................   213
            Examination of, in an impeachment.....................   614
            Necessary to convict for treason......................   181
            No person to be against self in criminal case.........   212
            Right to confront, in criminal prosecutions...........   213
Words taken down.
        Procedure in case of................................... 960, 961
        Parliamentary procedure in taking down disorderly...... 368, 369
Writing.
        By Members at the Clerk's table during debate forbidden...   364
        Motion reduced to, on demand of a Member..................   902
        Reports of committees to be in............................   833
Writings.
        Congress may provide exclusive rights to..................   124
Writs.
        Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626

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        Clerk seals and attests all...............................   648
        Of election to fill vacancies.............................    17
        Of habeas corpus, suspension of...........................   138
        Of summonses in an impeachment......................... 608, 611
Yeas and nays.
        Automatically ordered.
            On measures making general appropriations and 
                increasing income tax rates.......................  1033
            On motion to permit managers to close meetings of a 
                conference committee..............................  1093
            Measures vetoed by the President......................   104
        Demanding and ordering.
Conditions of ordering.......................................... 76, 504
            Demanding of..........................................    77
            Demand for, not to be held dilatory...................   903
            Effect of the order of................................    80
            In order in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''....   427
            Less than quorum may order............................    76
One-fifth may order entry of, on Journal......................... 75, 78
            Ordered during call of the House......................  1019
            Reconsideration of the ordering of....................    79
        Voting by.
By the Speaker................................................ 631, 1015
            Changes and corrections of votes......................  1017
            Combining the yea-and-nay vote with a call of the 
                House.............................................  1025
            Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record 
                on a record vote..................................  1020
            Failure of quorum on, to be noticed...................    76
            General provisions as to voting by....................   504
            In committees on amendments and motions to report a 
                bill, vote totals and names included in report....   839
            Interruptions of the record vote......................  1018
            Messages received during vote by......................   562
            Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote...  1015
            Names of Members not entered on roll for, until sworn.   300
            Not to be interrupted by arrival of time for a recess.   586
            Not to be interrupted by conference report............  1077
            Qualifying in order to vote...........................  1015
            Recorded vote considered vote by......................  1012
            Use of electronic device to record....................  1014
Yielding.
        Of Member having floor for motions or questions...........   946
        Of time not permitted under five-minute debate............   980