    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 139-140]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                          SEC. VII.--CALL OF THE HOUSE.

    Sec. 311. Parliamentary rules for 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.

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    small a body as the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising
    cannot be necessary.
      They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a
    crowd, being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so

      Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2
    Hats., 72.

      Rule XV of the House of Representatives provides for a procedure on
    call of the House. Members of the House do not rise on answering.

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