    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [General Index]
    [Pages 1117-1299]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                                      INDEX

                                    I N D E X

                                                                     Section
    Absence.  See also Attendance, Quorum, etc.

        Attendance required.

            Arrest of Members for absence........................... 768-770

            Arrest of Members attending committee meetings during call

                of the House notwithstanding leave for committee to

                sit...................................................   324

            Call of House in new form............................. 773, 774a

            Call of House in old form............................... 768-771

            Deductions from pay of Members on account of absence......   86,

                                                                         657

            House may excuse, during call of the House................   769

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  679a

            Members to be present unless excused......................   656

            Names of Members reported when quorum fails in Committee

                of the Whole..........................................   863

            Of Chairman in Committee..................................   705

            Rule of Parliament as to..................................   311

        Leave of.

            Presentation of requests for..............................   657

            Revoked but not granted during call of the House..........   769
    Accounts.

        In the House, jurisdiction as to..............................  677a

        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
    Accused.

        Right of, to be heard before investigating committee..........   712

        Rights of, in criminal prosecutions...........................   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

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    Adhere, motion to.

        Precedence of....................................... 486, 528b, 528d

        Insisting and adhering in the practice of the House...........   522

        Not equivalent of receding or insisting when decided in the

            negative..................................................   488

        One House may not by amendment depart from the form it has

            fixed by adherence........................................   526

        Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting, and

            adhering..................................................   521

        Previous question being ordered on, the motion to recede not

            admitted..................................................   525

        Relations of adherence to conference....................... 553, 554
    Adjourn, motion to.  See also Adjournment.

        Nature and conditions of.

            As to amendment of..................................... 585, 783

            As to repetition of.......................................   789

            General conditions of.................................. 782, 783

            May be held dilatory......................................   803

            Not debatable.............................................   782

        Precedence of.

            High privilege and precedence of.................. 439, 782, 783

            In order after ordering of yeas and nays..................    80

            In order before reading of the Journal....................   621

            In order during new form of call of the House......... 773, 774a

            In order in House as in Committee of the Whole............   427

            Not in order after House has voted to go into Committee of

                the Whole.............................................   783

            Not in order in Committee of the Whole............ 333, 334, 783

            Not in order where previous question ordered to final

                passage without intervening motion....................   783

            Not to interrupt Member having the floor in debate..... 393, 750

            One in order pending motion for suspension of rules.......   801

            One in order pending report from Committee on Rules.......  729a

            Privileged over motion to reconsider......................   812

            Privileged over questions of privilege....................   661

            Yields to presentation but not consideration of conference

                reports...............................................   909

        Relation of, to quorum.

            In order in absence of quorum........................... 52, 769

            In order during new form of call of the House......... 773, 774a

            Not in order when Committee of the Whole rises to report

                proceedings incident to securing quorum...............   783

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        To fix the day.

            General conditions of motion to fix the day to which the

                House shall adjourn...................................   784

            Privilege of motion to adjourn to day and time certain..... 782,

                                                                         784
    Adjourn to day and time certain, motion to........................   782
    Adjournment.  See also Adjourn, motion to.

        Of the House alone.

            At the end of the term of a Congress......................     6

            For 3 days or less........................................82, 83

            Hours of, entered on the Journal..........................   790

            House has adjourned for more than 1 day before election of

                Speaker...............................................    83

            May be taken by less than a quorum................. 52, 769, 773

            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 3 days without

                consent of other......................................82, 83

            Of a session as related to constitutional day of meeting..    45

            Parliamentary law as to the adjournment of the Lords and

                Commons...............................................   584

            Prohibited before completion of congressional budget

                process.................................... 1007 (sec. 310f)

            Session not terminated by an adjournment of Congress for a

                fixed time over 3 days................................   590

            Time of...................................................     6

            To be in July with certain exceptions.....................   947

        Of Congress--Manner of.

            For more than 3 days by concurrent resolution.............    84

            Jurisdiction of resolutions for final, of Congress........  682a

            Manner of closing a session by action of the two Houses...   591

            Resolution to provide for, over 3 days privileged.........    84

            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................   932

            Effect of, as to bills in hands of President..............   111

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            Effect of adjournment to day certain, as to bills in hands

                of President..........................................   113

            Impeachment not interrupted by............................   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........................................   693
    Administrator of General Services.

        Bills that become law deposited with....................... 105, 109
    Admiralty.

        Judicial power extends to cases of............................   178
    Admission.  See Floor and Galleries.
    Adverse Reports.

        Placing of, on the Calendars..................................   744

        From Committee on Rules.......................................   730

        On privileged questions.......................................   726
    Affirmation.  See also Oath.

        In lieu of oath...............................................   196

        In support of certain warrants................................   211

        Senators on, for trial of impeachments........................    38
    Affirmative.

        Of one question amounting to the negative of another........ 485-488
    Affrays.

        Proceedings in cases of, on the floor.........................   367
    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....................................   702
    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

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    Agreements.

        States not to enter into, without consent of Congress.........   148
    Agriculture.

        Committee on.

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   670
    Aid.  See also Treason.

        To enemies of United States, treason....................... 181, 230
    Alcoholic Liquors.

        Jurisdiction as to bills relating to, generally...............  679b

        Jurisdiction as to sale of, in District of Columbia...........   676
    Aliens.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..................  679a
    Alliance.

        States not to enter into......................................   146
    Alteration.

        Improper, of a bill...........................................   352
    Ambassadors.

        Admitted to the floor of the House............................   919

        Duty of President to receive..................................   172

        Gallery for use of............................................   922

        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.......... 822-826

            In order to amend motion to commit with instructions

                unless previous question ordered......................   788

            Must be germane......................................... 794-800

            Not to be applied to a conference report..................   550

            Not in order in third degree........................... 454, 823

            Precedence of.......................................... 782, 825

            Precedence of motion to, over motion to agree or disagree

                                                       528, 528a, 528b, 528d

            Precedence of motion to, over one to strike out or agree..   456

            Rule as to offering, degree of, etc.......................   822

            Substitute................................................   822

            To title of a bill................................ 427, 512, 822

            Withdrawal of.............................................   824

            Yields precedence to motion to refer......................   449

        Relations of.

            Application of previous question to.................... 450, 804

            Not applicable to the previous question................ 452, 826

            Relations of, to motion to postpone.......... 449, 451, 453, 826

            Relations of, to other motions............................   826

            Relations of, to points of order..........................  823a

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        Striking out and inserting.

            Matter to be inserted not divisible.......................   793

            Negative of motion to strike out not a bar to further

                amendment.............................................   793

            Relations to motion to strike out enacting words..........   875

            To strike out and insert not divisible....................   793
    Amendments.

        General conditions of.

            Amending portions of bill already amended.................   469

            Form, conditions, precedence, etc., of.................. 822-826

            Commemoratives prohibited.................................   852

            Conferees restricted as to action on Senate amendments

                proposing appropriations..............................   829

            Copies of, furnished by Clerk.............................   870

            Closing debate on.........................................   762

            Divisibility of amendments............................ 792, 834f

            Do not have several readings as in case of bills..........   496

            En bloc...................................................  834f

            Modification of...........................................   822

            Not in order in the third degree....................... 454, 823

            Of a conference report not in order.......................   542

            Of motion to adjourn................................... 585, 826

            On general appropriation bills, limited........ 834c, 834d, 834e

            On general appropriation bills, en bloc...................  834f

            Priority of, over motions to strike out or agree..........   456

            Proposing a commemorative prohibited......................   852

            Proposing an appropriation prohibited.....................  846a

            Proposing settlement of certain claims prohibited.........   852

            Proposing taxes or tariffs............................ 846b-846d

            Reading, motion to dispense with, in Committee of Whole...  873b

            Relation of, to division of the question for voting.... 482, 792

            Relation of point of order to motion to amend.............  823a

            Right of Member who has spoken to the main question to

                speak to an amendment.............................. 465, 762

            Senate may concur with, on revenue bills..................   102

            Separate vote on Senate, if not germane...................  913c

            Speaker not to decide as to legislative or legal effect or

                consistency of..................................... 466, 627

        Germane.

            Required to be germane....................................   794

            Amendment being considered, which would have been subject

                to a point of order, may be perfected by amendments

                germane to it.........................................  842a

            Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications and

                limitations...........................................   800

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            Amendments to bills amending existing law.................   799

            Amendments to special orders reported from Rules Committee   794

            Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.............  798c

            Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness................  798b

            General provision not germane to a specific subject.......  798f

            Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must be

                germane...............................................   796

            One individual proposition not germane to another.........  798e

            Parliamentary law as to germaneness.......................   467

            Proposition to which amendment must be germane............   795

            Senate amendments and matter contained in conference

                reports, procedure for consideration if not germane.... 797,

                                                                  913b, 913c

            Specific subjects germane to general propositions of the

                class.................................................  798g

            Subject matter as test of germaneness.....................  798a

            Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive............  798d

        Striking out and inserting.

            Application of the motion to strike out...................   472

            Conditions of repetition of motions to strike out and

                insert................................................   471

            Conditions of striking out an amendment already agreed to.   474

            Effect of affirmative vote on motion to strike out and

                insert................................................   473

            Motions to strike out and insert not divisible............   793

            Negative decision on motion to strike out not bar to

                further amendment.....................................   793

            Principles as to perfecting, before inserting or striking

                out...................................................   469

            Priority of perfecting amendments over....................   456

            Reading the motion and putting the question on motion to

                strike out and insert.................................   470

            To strike out 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

            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....   874

            Of bills in standing and select committees................   412

            Offered after second reading and before engrossment and

                third reading...................................... 428, 497

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            Order of amending bills in the House......................   413

            To the preamble...........................................   414

            To title of a bill, parliamentary law as to....... 427, 512, 822

        In Committee of the Whole.

            Dispensing with reading of certain amendments in Committee

                of the Whole..........................................  873b

            Limitation and retrenchment amendments preempted by motion

                to rise......................................... 834c, 834dd

            Numerical designations of amendments printed in Record....   874

            On general appropriation bills, en bloc...................  834f

            Pro forma, in Committee of the Whole......................  873a

            Printing in Record of proposed, 10 minutes debate required

                on, in Committee of Whole.............................   874

            Reading concurrent resolution on budget for amendment.....  876b

            Rule as to consideration of, in Committee of the Whole..... 870,

                                                                   872, 873a

            Withdrawal of, in Committee of the Whole............... 824, 870

        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..............  864b

            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

            Form and action on........................................   233

            Jurisdiction over.........................................  679a

            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

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            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.....................  846a

            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................................. 797, 913b, 913c

            Germaneness, amendments to Senate amendment should be

                germane........................................... 797, 913c

            Germaneness, reference of non-germane Senate amendments to

                committee.............................................   883

            Senate amendments to legislative bills containing

                appropriations.................................... 829, 846a

            Senate amendments to appropriation bills containing

                legislation....................................... 829, 912c

            Senate amendments containing taxes or tariffs.............  846b

            Stage of disagreement on....................... 528a, 528c, 828b

            Status of, after rejection of a conference report..... 551, 913b

            Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed.... 527,

                                                                        913a

            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

            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

            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

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            Previous question, effect of demanding or ordering on the

                motion to refer.................................... 486, 808

            To lay on the table........................ 519, 528b, 528d, 785

            To refer.................................... 486, 528d, 787, 808

            To reject nongermane matter in....................... 913b, 913c

            To send to conference,  see Conferences.

        Precedence of motions as to.

            Precedence of motions for disposition of.... 486, 519, 525, 528,

                                528a, 528b, 528d, 787, 808, 912c, 913b, 913c

            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....................................  913b

            Precedence of motions to dispose of nongermane matter

                reported in disagreement..............................  913c

            Precedence of motion to insist as to legislative amendment

                to appropriation bill.................................  912c

        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

            Legislative amendments to appropriation bills.............  912c

            Non-germane Senate amendments in conference reports or

                reported in disagreement......................... 913b, 913c

            Senate amendments in Committee of the Whole..... 528a, 827, 828a

            Senate amendments in House.................. 528a, 827, 882, 883

            Reference of Senate amendments from Speaker's table....... 528a,

                                                                     882-883

            When consideration of Senate amendments should be in

                Committee of the Whole........................... 528a, 828a

        Conferences on.  See Conferences.
    Animal industry.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   670
    Announcement of vote.

        Absent Members' votes not announced by colleague..............  660a

        Yeas and nays may be demanded after...........................    77

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    Answer.

        In an impeachment.......................................... 612, 613

        Right of accused to be heard before an investigating committee   712
    Apology.

        Of Members to the House for disorder....................... 331, 332
    Appeal.

        From decisions of Speaker............................. 379, 624, 628

        Debate on.....................................................   628

        Guaranty against arbitrary control of Speaker.................   628

        House controls decisions of the Speaker by....................   379

        From decisions of the Clerk at organization...................   637

        None on a question of recognition and on counts by Chair... 628, 753

        None on decision as to dilatory motions.................... 628, 803

        None on refusal to entertain prohibited point of order of no

            quorum....................................................   628

        None from responses to parliamentary inquiries................   628

        On questions as to priority of business decided without debate   900
    Appearance.

        Of respondent in an impeachment....................... 608, 610, 611

        Right of accused to be heard before investigating committee...   712
    Appellate jurisdiction.

        Of Supreme Court..............................................   179
    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,

                                                                  701e, 701f

        Of committee staff,  see Committee staffs.
    Apportionment.

        Adjustment by districts.................................... 226, 227

        First and last................................................    15

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts on

            apportionment of water for irrigation purposes............   681

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to generally................  677a

        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 of, etc.

            Considered in Committee of Whole..........................   865

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            Designated emergencies....................................  834e

            Exempt from Unfunded Mandates Reform Act..................  1007

            Hearings and reports to be available 3 days (excluding

                Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays) in advance of

                consideration of bills................................   848

            Not privileged against Calendar Wednesday.................   898

            Offsetting amendments to..................................  834f

            Precedence of, in Committee of the Whole..................   869

            Precedence of, in order of business.......................   802

            Privileged for report and consideration................ 726, 728

            Public, placed on Union Calendar..........................   742

            Reported by Committee on Appropriations only..............  671b

            Report on must describe changes in existing law...........  844b

            Restrictions on conferees.................................   829

            Vote on, by yeas and nays.................................  774e

        Authorizations, legislation, and limitations.

            Authorization of law for appropriations......... 834a, 834b, 836

            Authorization for claims and salaries.....................   837

            Authorization for committee expenses......................   732

            Authorization for public works............................   838

            Burden of proof on those proposing appropriation on.......   835

            Continuation of a public work by appropriations...........   839

            Continuation of a public work, examples illustrating......   840

            Continuation of a public work, new buildings at existing

                institutions as a.....................................  841a

            Continuation of a public work, new vessels for naval and

                other services as in..................................  841b

            Legislation on appropriation bills:

                Contingencies and congressional action................  842b

                Construing or amending existing law...................  842c

                Generally.............................................  842a

                Imposing duties or requiring determinations...........  842d

                Mandating expenditures................................  842e

                    Retrenching expenditures in order (Holman rule)... 834b,

                                                                  834d, 844a

                    Rule prohibiting.............................. 834b-834d

                    Senate amendments....................... 829, 842g, 912c

                Waivers; amending legislation permitted to remain.....  842f

                Limitations on appropriation bills generally..........  842h

            Limitations on, in order............................. 834d, 843a

                Effect of, on executive discretion....................  843b

                    Consistent with existing law................. 834d, 843c

                Amendments at end of reading in Committee of Whole....  834d

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            Points of order on general appropriation bills............   835

            Unauthorized appropriations and legislation on general

                appropriation bills................................. 834-847

            Unexpended balances not to be included unless in

                continuation of public work already commenced.........   847
    Appropriations.

        Conditions of.

            Annual, committee endeavor to insure......................  699a

            Estimates of, transmission and reference..................   936

            Jurisdiction of...........................................  671a

            Necessary for drawing money from Treasury.................   143

            None for armies for a longer term than 2 years............   129

            Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole..... 865,

                                                                    866, 868

            Senate amendments proposing, may not be agreed to by House

                conferees under certain conditions....................   829

            To be made by law.........................................   143

        Committee on.

            Budget Act procedures for, including referral to, of bills

                providing new spending authority......................  694c

            Must show, in report on general appropriation bill, effect

                of any provisions changing existing law................ 844b

            Staff for, appointment of............................. 734b, 736

            Subcommittee markup of all appropriation bills before

                report of first regular appropriation bill............  713b

            Rescissions of appropriations, jurisdiction over..........  671a

            Separate headings for rescissions and transfers of

                unexpended balances required in certain bills and

                reports...............................................  671a

            Sequential referral to, of bills containing new spending

                authority exceeding budget resolution allocation....... 1008

                                                                  (sec. 401)

            Exempted from the rule proscribing committee sittings

                during five-minute rule...............................   710

            Budget hearings, within 30 days after transmittal of

                budget......................................... 694 (a), (b)

            Hearings and reports of, to be available 3 days (excluding

                Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) before

                consideration of appropriation bills..................   848

            Powers and duties concerning appointments, qualifications,

                etc., of staff........................ 732a, 733c, 734b, 736

            To study existing permanent appropriations with view to

                reducing..............................................  694c

            To study organization and operation of agencies...........  692b

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        Committees not having jurisdiction of.

            May not report an appropriation...........................  846a

            Point of order may be made at any time....................  846a

            Point of order may be made against amendment to Senate

                amendment.............................................  846a
    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.................   901

            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............................   878
    Arid Lands.

        Jurisdiction as to irrigation of..............................   681
    Armed Services, Committee on.  See National Security, Committee on.
    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
    Armories.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680
    Arms.

        Right of people to keep and bear..............................   209
    Army.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   680

        Officers in, disqualified as Members..........................    98

        President, commander in chief of..............................   160

        Trial for crimes in...........................................   212

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    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...................................... 768-770

        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..........................   680
    Art.

        Works of, duty of Committee on House Oversight as to.......... 677a,

                                                                        677d
    Articles.

        In an impeachment.............................................   609
    Arts.

        Congress may promote, by patent and copyright laws............   124
    Assaults.

        Arrest and imprisonment in case of, on Member returning.......    91

        Members censured for..........................................    63

        On clerk of a committee in the Capitol a question of privilege  733c

        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
    Assay offices.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    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, etc.

        Count of Members present to secure a quorum of record on a

            roll call.................................................   772

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   679

        Leave for committee to sit does not release its members from,

            during call of the House..................................   324

        Members may be compelled to attend............................ 52-55

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        Members privileged from arrest during.........................90, 91

        Members to be present unless excused..........................   656

        Of Commons and House of Representatives at an impeachment

            trial.................................................. 616, 617
    Attest.

        Of Clerk on bills, writs, etc.................................   642
    Attire......................................................... 622, 763
    Attorneys.

        Admission of, in investigations...............................   348
    Auditing.

        Of accounts against contingent fund...........................   677
    Authorization of Law.  See Appropriation bills.
    Authors.

        Congress may provide for copyrights for.......................   124
    Bail.

        Excessive not to be required..................................   215

        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.....  1012
    Ballot.

        Rule for voting by............................................   934

        House of Representatives elects President by..................   263

        Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during count of.........   763

        Presidential electors vote, by in several States..............   262

        Record of, in Journal.........................................    72

        Speaker required to vote on...................................   632
    Banking and Financial Services, Committee on......................   672
    Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Committee on.  See Banking and

        Financial Services, Committee on.
    Bankruptcy.

        Power of Congress to make laws on.............................   120

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................  679a
    Bar, of House.

        Method of examining witnesses at..............................   343

        Trials at, and arraignment of contumacious witnesses at.......   344
    Battlefields.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    Behavior.

        Governs tenure of office by judges............................   177

        Of counsel before investigative committees....................   712

        Power of House to punish for disorderly....................... 62-66
    Bells (legislative call system)...................................   765
    Bicentennial Office of House......................................  996a
    Bill of Attainder.

        None to be passed.............................................   139

        States not to pass............................................   146

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    Bills.

        Forms, printing, etc.

            Distinction between a bill and a joint resolution.........   397

            Indorsement of the title on an engrossed bill.............   431

        Introduction of.

            By request................................................   860

            Certain private bills prohibited..........................   852

            Commemoratives prohibited.................................   852

            Co-sponsorship of public..................................   854

            Co-sponsorship of public ---- more than one Member

                designated as first sponsor...........................   854

            Fraudulent introduction of................................   851

            Introduction private......................................  849a

            Obsolete provisions as to introduction and readings of.. 398-400

            Signing of, by chief sponsor..............................   854

        Reference of.

            By Speaker to Committees..................................   700

            Committal of on third reading..................... 494, 787, 804

            Correction of error of reference.................. 853, 854, 878

            Custody of, in committees.................................   932

            House may send to any committee........................ 700, 850

            House bills returned with Senate amendments on a different

                subject............................................ 882, 883

            Not to be brought back from committees on motion to

                reconsider............................................   820

            Parliamentary law (largely obsolete) as to reference of...   401

            Private...................................................  849a

            Public................................................. 700, 854

            Recommittal of, to select or standing committees or

                Committee of the Whole............................. 420, 804

            Referral procedures, multiple referral or referral to ad

                hoc committee.......................................700, 850

            Restriction on reference of claims bills............... 845, 852

            With amendments between the Houses..... 486, 528-528d, 787, 808,

                                                                    882, 883

        Consideration by committees and report.  See also Committees.

            Adverse reports................................... 726, 730, 744

            Amendments reported should be germane.....................   794

            Authorization, signing, and validity of reports........ 408, 714

            Calendar for consideration of reports by unanimous

                consent, former.......................................   746

            Committal with directions to report forthwith.......... 405, 788

            Consideration of, in committees...........................   412

            ``Corrections'' Calendar..................................  745a

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            Delivery of, to committees................................   403

            Directions as to making reports.................... 415, 713-715

            Distribution of, to Calendars when reported by committees

                and when committees are discharged............ 742, 746, 908

            Instruction to report.....................................   908

            Method of noting amendments on, in a committee............   417

            Method of submitting to the House...................... 317, 418

            Method of action on, in the House.........................   422

            Obsolete provision for directing a committee to withdraw

                and report............................................   404

            Power of committees over..................................   411

            Practice as to reading of reports in the House............   435

            Privileged reports from certain committees............. 726, 728

            Reports and other actions are valid only when authorized

                by the committee acting together................... 407, 408

            Reports on bills to be available three days (excluding

                Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays)............. 715, 848

            Reports of select committees..............................   419

            Reports to be in writing and printed......................   821

            Restriction on reporting bill containing an appropriation.  846a

            Right to report at any time gives right to immediate

                consideration (subject to three day layover rule).....   727

            Speaker does not decide as to sufficiency of reports......   627

        In Committee of the Whole.  See also Amendments, Calendar Wednesday,

            Committee of the Whole.

            Concurrent resolution on the budget considered read for

                amendment.............................................  876b

            Consideration of nonprivileged bills, after call of

                committees......................................... 891, 892

            Construction of the rule requiring consideration in.......   866

            Debate in Committee of the Whole........ 752, 758, 870, 871, 874

            Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills....   835

            Forms of going into Committee of the Whole................   328

            General practice as to consideration......................   868

            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..........................................   869

            Precedence of motion to go into Committee of the Whole to

                consider revenue and general appropriation bills......   802

            Question of order on appropriation bills..................   835

            Reading and amendment under five-minute rule..............   872

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            Recommittal of bills to Committee of the Whole......... 420, 875

            Revenue and appropriation bills considered in Committee of

                the Whole.......................................... 865, 866

            Subjects not requiring consideration in Committee of the

                Whole............................................. 528a, 867

            Subjects requiring consideration in Committee of the Whole   865

            Unfinished business in Committee of the Whole.............   888

            Withdrawal of amendments in Committee of the Whole........   824

        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.................................   822

            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 in 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

            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..  846d

            Transposition of sections of, by amendments...............   477

        Reading, engrossment, and passage.

            Reading, engrossment, and passage of......................   830

            First and second readings.................................   831

            Manner of reading a bill the second time..................   428

            Third reading by title after engrossment............... 830, 832

            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.........................   642

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            Question on rejection of, comes indirectly................   484

            Division of, not in order, on vote on engrossment or

                passage...............................................   792

            Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates............  846c

            Voting on.................................................   833

            Yeas and nays automatically ordered on appropriation and

                tax measures and on concurrent resolution on the

                budget................................................  774e

            Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

                proceedings on the question of passage................   631

        Effect of rejection or passage of.

            Action on similar bill after rejection....................   833

            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 alternation of...................................   352

        Action of the two Houses on.

            Both Houses pass identical............................. 833, 882

            Fail when both Houses continue to insist or adhere........   522

            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

            Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to enrollment.... 577,

                                                                  677a, 677c

            Report as to accuracy of enrolled.........................   625

            Reports as to accuracy of enrolled, privileged............   726

            Rule of Parliament as to enrollment.......................   573

            Speaker signs enrolled................................  624, 625

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            Speaker declines to sign enrolled, when motion to

                reconsider is pending.................................   816

            Speaker pro tempore signs under conditions................   634

            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..............   901

            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 Administrator of

                General Services......................................   105

            When vetoed and passed deposited with Administrator of

                General Services......................................   109
    Bills of credit.

        States not to emit............................................   146
    Biomedical research and development.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   674
    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.................................   934
    Blood, corruption of.

        For treason...................................................   182
    Bonded debt.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   688
    Books.

        Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate..........   364

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to purchase of...............  677a
    Borrow.

        Power of Congress to borrow money.............................   118
    Botanic garden.

        Under control of Committees on House Oversight and

            Transportation and Infrastructure..................... 677a, 686
    Boundary lines.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to......................... 678, 679a
    Bounties.

        Debt incurred for, certain not to be questioned...............   232

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    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.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   686

        Bills for construction of certain banned......................   852
    Broadcasting and press coverage of committee hearings........... 720-725
    Broadcasting of house proceedings, rule for.......................  634c
    Budget.

        Committee on.

            History, composition, jurisdiction and duties.............   673

            Special oversight functions of............................   695

            Studies and reports required of...........................   695

            Staff for, former rule on appointment of..................   736

            Submissions to, from standing committees..................  699b

            Quorum requirements in....................................   709

            Exempted from rule proscribing committee sittings during

                five-minute rule......................................   710

            Privileged reports by.....................................   726

        Concurrent resolution on.

            Amendments to must be mathematically consistent and

                contain certain matter................................  876b

            Consideration of................................ 1007 (sec. 305)

            Considered read after general debate......................  876b

            Definition of..................................... 1007 (sec. 3)

            Maximum deficit amount not to be exceeded....... 1007 (sec. 301,

                                                                        304)

            Procedures contained in......................... 1007 (sec. 301)

            Timetable for budget process.................... 1007 (sec. 300)

            Yeas and nays automatically ordered.......................  774e

        Congressional budget process.

            Definitions....................................... 1007 (sec. 3)

            Timetable....................................... 1007 (sec. 300)

            Advance spending and revenue authority ineligible for

                consideration before adoption of concurrent resolution

                                                             1007 (sec. 303)

            Budget Committee must handle budget legislation...........  1007

                                                                  (sec. 306)

            Appropriation bills reported before June 10..... 1007 (sec. 307)

            July adjournment not in order--

                    Until House passes appropriation bills....... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        309)

                    Until reconciliation legislation completed... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        310)

            Reports, summarized projections................. 1007 (sec. 308)

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            Reconciliation process.......................... 1007 (sec. 310)

            Budget authority, spending authority and revenue

                legislation to be within appropriate limits...... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        311)

            Establishment of public debt limit as part of, rule for...   945

        Provisions to improve fiscal procedures.

            Bills providing certain spending authority may not be

                considered.................................. 1008 (sec. 401)

            Certain bills providing spending authority to be referred

                to Committee on Appropriations........ 694c, 1008 (sec. 401)

            Definitions of spending authority.............. 1008 (sec. 401c)

            Authorizing  legislation  to  be  reported  by  May  15.... 1008

                                                                  (sec. 402)

            Cost estimate by Congressional Budget Office.... 1008 (sec. 407)

            Year-ahead requests for authorizations....................  1009

        Generally.

            Hearings on by Appropriations Committee...................  694b

            Budget Act procedures by Appropriations Committee.........  694c

            Emergency designations in appropriation bills.............  834e

            Year-ahead requests for new budget authority..............  1009

            Program review and evaluation.............................  1010

            Transmittal of budget by President........................   169

            Congressional Budget Office, functions of...... 695, 748c, 911a,

                                                                  1007, 1008

            Power of Rules Committee to waive provisions of Budget Act

                                682a, 729a, 1008 (sec. 402), 1010 (sec. 904)

        Impoundment Control Act.

            Procedures on rescission bills and impoundment resolutions

                                                                     1013(6)
    Buildings, office.

        Assignment of rooms in........................................   989
    Buildings, public.

        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work.... 841a, 847

        Power of Congress over places purchased for...................   134

        Jurisdiction as to, generally.................................   686

        Jurisdiction as to buildings abroad...........................   678

        Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals...........................   674

        Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries......................  679a
    Burden of proof.

        On proponent of amendment, as to germaneness..................   794

        On those proposing items in a general appropriation bill......   835
    Business.  See also Order of business.

        In general.

            As related to election of Clerk...........................    30

            May be transacted only by quorum.................... 52, 55, 510

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            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.   901

        Order of.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  682a

        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..............................   922
    Calendar Wednesday.

        Rule for order of business on.................................   897

        Business of, protected by two-thirds vote.....................  729a

        In order to consider President's veto.........................   898

        One committee can occupy but one day, except for unfinished

            business, until other committees called...................   898

        Previous question ordered on bill undisposed of on Tuesday

            comes up as unfinished business Thursday..................   898

        Privilege of revenue and general appropriation bills limited

            on..................................................... 802, 898
    Calendars.

        The three for reports of committees...........................   742

        Adverse reports...............................................   744

        For ``Corrections''...........................................  745c

        For motions to discharge committees........................ 747, 908

        Former, for unanimous consent and decisions...................   746

        Nonprivileged reports filed with the Clerk for reference to...   743

        Of Committee of the Whole, order of taking up bills on........   869
    Call of committees.

        In order on Calendar Wednesday................................   897

        Business on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-thirds vote...  729a

        Interruption of, for consideration of nonprivileged bills in

            Committee of the Whole................................. 891, 892

        Place of, in order of business................................   878

        Rule and practice for consideration of bills during........ 889, 890

        Unfinished business in...................................... 885-888
    Call of the House.  See also Absence.

        Motion for, in order in absence of quorum.....................    55

        After previous question is ordered............................   810

        Arrest of Members.......................................... 768, 770

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        Call of the House in the new form................... 771b, 773, 774a

        Call of the House in the old form........................... 768-771

        Clerks to tell Members present................................  771b

        Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record on a roll

            call......................................................   772

        Dispensing with, after quorum appears..................... 773, 774d

        Electronic equipment for......................................  774b

        Motions during a call of the House............................   771

        Ordering  and  conducting  the  call  of  the  House  in  the

            old form..................................................   769

        Power to compel attendance....................................52, 55

        Rule of Parliament as to......................................   311

        Speaker may recognize for motion for at any time..............  774d
    Call to order.

        For disorder in debate..................................... 760, 761

        May interrupt Member having floor.............................   393
    Campaign contributions.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................  677a
    Canal Zone.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to Panama Canal and the

            maintenance of, etc.......................................   680
    Canals.

        Jurisdiction of committees as to..............................   686
    Canals, interoceanic.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Capital.

        Power of President to convene Congress at a place other than

            seat of government........................................   171
    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..................   919

        Jurisdiction as to matters relating to building...............   686
    Capitol police.

        Duties of Sergeant-at-Arms as to..............................   648
    Captures.

        Congress to make rules concerning.............................   127
    Caucus.

        Held in Hall of House.........................................   918

        Party caucuses nominate Members for election to standing

            committees................................................  701a

        Majority caucus nominates chairmen of standing committees.....  701c

        Membership is required for committee membership...............  701b

        Early organizational..........................................   997

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    Celebrations.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   676
    Cemeteries, national.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.......................... 681, 687
    Censure.

        Course of a Member, when subject of debate as to..............   375

        For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..............    94

        Instances of..................................................    63

        Of a Delegate.................................................   740

        Of a counsel before investigating committees..................   712

        Of Member when called to order in debate................... 760, 761

        Procedure of punishment by....................................    63

        Punishment for personalities in debate........................   363

        Reprimand.....................................................    63

        Speaker not to administer, of own authority...................   622
    Census.

        Object of.

            Taken as basis of apportionment...........................    15

            Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to..........   140

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   676
    Ceremonies.

        As to participation of the House in........................ 387, 388

        Use of Hall of the House for..................................   918
    Certificates.

        Of the electoral vote, transmittal and opening............. 151, 219

        Currency, jurisdiction of subjects relating to................   672
    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 Whole.........   622

        To  be  addressed  when  a  Member  desires  to  interrupt  in

            debate....................................................   364
    Chairmen.

        Of standing or select committee.

            Of standing committees elected by the House........... 317, 701c

            Administers oaths to witnesses.................... 343, 346, 718

            Duties relating to appointment, qualification,

                compensation, etc., of staff................. 732d, 733a-738

            May be delegated power to issue subpoenas.................   718

            Presides over committee...................................   317

            Prior claim of, to recognition............................   754

            Procedure of, in investigations...........................   712

            Procedure of, in submitting reports from standing or

                select committees.....................................   418

            Reports to the House by, must be made promptly............  713a

            Resignation of, presents question of privilege............   662

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            Signs subpoenas issued by committee (or subcommittee).....   718

            Speaker appoints, of select and conference committees.....  701e

            Term limits for committee and subcommittee................  701c

            Usually reports from a standing or select committee.... 317, 415

            Vacancy in the position of................................  701c

            Vice chairman presides in absence of......................   705

        Of subcommittees.

            Former authority to appoint staff.........................  732d

        Of Committee of the Whole.

            Selection of.......................................... 327, 861a

            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................   863

            Functions of..............................................  861b

            Power to preserve order...................................  861a

            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..........................................   635

        Offers prayer.............................................. 621, 655

        Place in order of business of prayer by.......................   878
    Charges.

        Against a Member or Senator in course of an inquiry......... 321-323

        Course of Member when charges against himself are debated.....   375
    Chief Administrative Officer.

        Election, oath, and removal of................................   635

        Duties of.....................................................  651a

        Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits....  651c

        Financial and operational reports to Committee on House

            Oversight.................................................  651b
    Chief Justice.

        Presides over Senate when President of the United States is

            tried.....................................................    38
    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

        Privileges and immunities not to be abridged..................   225

        Privileges and immunities of, in States other than their own..   184

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        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 a qualification of the President of the United States......   154

        Reference to, as a qualification for suffrage.................   226
    Civil aviation.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to generally...............   686

        Jurisdiction over research and development....................   683
    Civil law.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Civil officers.

        May be removed by impeachment.................................   173
    Civil offices.

        Members not to be appointed to certain........................    93
    Civil Service.

        Jurisdiction over all Federal Civil Service, including

            intergovernmental personnel...............................   676
    Claims.

        In general.

            Amendments proposing settlement of certain, banned........   852

            Bills for settlement of certain, banned...................   852

            Authorization of payment of, on general appropriation

                bills.................................................   837

            Bills referring to Court of Claims considered in Committee

                of the Whole....................................... 865, 866

            Consideration of, on Tuesdays.............................   893

            Constitution not to prejudice certain.....................   188

            Ex-Members interested in, not admitted to the floor.......   919

            Jurisdiction of, generally................................  679a

            Jurisdiction of war claims................................  679a

            Jurisdiction of, paid from Indian funds...................   681

            Jurisdiction of private land claims.......................   681

            Jurisdiction as to certain foreign........................   678

            Jurisdiction of, against the United States................  679a

            Jurisdiction relating to international and other..........   678

            Reference of bills for private, restricted to certain

                committees............................................   845

            Relation of officers and employees of House to............   937

            Those for slaves not to be paid...........................   232

            Withdrawal of papers relating to..........................   933
    Claims, Court of.

        Status of reports of, on the calendars........................   742

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    Classes.

        Of Senators...................................................    33
    Classified information.  See Information.
    Clerical staff of committees.  See Committee staffs.
    Clerk.

        Election and oath of.

            Election, oath, and removal of............................   635

            Election of, as related to business and adoption of rules.30, 59

            Oath administered to, by Speaker..........................   198

            In absence of, designated official acts...................   647

        Duties at organization of House.

            Continues in office until successor is elected............   637

            Duties of, at organization of the House...................   637

            Makes up the roll for organization........................   638

            Officiates at election of Speaker...................... 312, 637

            Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order under direction of,

                pending election of Speaker...........................   648

        Legislative duties of.

                    As to:

                Allowing no papers to be taken from the table or out

                    of his custody....................................   352

                Amending section numbers of a bill....................   479

                Announcing pairs......................................  660a

                Attesting and sealing writs, warrants, subpoenas, etc.   642

                Authority to receive messages from the President and

                    the Senate at any time House is not in session....  647b

                    Call of the House.............................. 768, 773

                Calling the roll......................................   765

                Certifying to passage of bills........................   642

                Collecting and transferring noncurrent records........   932

                Committees formerly to make accounting of funds to....   739

                Copies of amendments offered in Committee of the Whole   870

                Custody of committee papers...........................   932

                Custody of oath not to disclose classified information   939

                Delivering resolutions of inquiry.....................   856

                Distribution of Journal and documents.................   641

                Former insertions in the Congressional Record relating

                    to committee staff................................   739

                Introduction of bills, etc............................  849a

                Making no changes in enrolling a bill.................   573

                 Motions to discharge committees......................   908

                Noting Members to make a quorum on a vote of record...   772

                Noting questions of order with the decisions in the

                    Journal...........................................   641

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                Papers on file........................................   933

                Placing bills on Corrections Calendar.................  745a

                Reading motions.......................................   776

                Referring nonprivileged reports to calendars..........   743

                Stands while he reads.................................   428

                Taking a vote by clerk tellers........................  630a

                Taking a vote by the yeas and nays....................   504

        Executive duties of.

            Administration of vacant Member's office..................  647c

            As member of Federal Elections Commission.................  647a

            Deposits noncurrent records with General Services

                Administration........................................   932

            Discretionary authority as to printing....................  647a

            Duty to furnish to Members list of certain reports........   640

            Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits  647e

            Financial and operational reports to Committee on House

                Oversight.............................................  647d

            Formerly kept contingent and stationery accounts and

                furnished stationery..................................   642

            Formerly made certain contracts...........................   642

            Role in payment of officers and employees.................   642

            Receives testimony taken in election cases................  647a
    Clerks.

        Of Members.

            Allowance to Members for..................................    88

        Of committees.  See Committee staffs.

        Of Speaker, Leaders, and Whips................................    88
    Clerk's desk (or table).

        Disorderly words taken down at................................   761

        Members may address the House from............................   749

        Members not to write at, or take books or papers from, during

            debate....................................................   364

        No Member to remain near, during roll call....................   763
    Cloakrooms.

        Exclusion of persons from.....................................   921
    Closing.

        In debate, right to, in various cases.........................   762

        Of debate, as related to opening..............................   759
    Coast defenses.

        Jurisdiction of subjects on...................................   680
    Coast Guard.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   686

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        Bills to correct certain discharge records banned.............   852
    Coast Guard Academy.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   686
    Coastal zone management.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to...................... 681, 686
    Code of Official Conduct.  See Official conduct.
    Codification.

        Of laws, jurisdiction of, bills for...........................  679a
    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
    Coinage.

        Power of Congress relating to.................................   121

        States not to make............................................   146

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    Colleges, agricultural.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   670
    Color.

        Suffrage not to be abridged for...............................   234
    Comfort.

        To enemies of the United States............................ 181, 232
    Commander in Chief.

        President as the..............................................   160
    Commemoratives prohibited.........................................   852
    Commerce.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to financial aid to.........   672

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, with foreign nations....   678

        Power of Congress to regulate.................................   119

        No regulation shall give preferences to any ports.............   142
    Commerce, Committee on............................................   674
    Commissions.

        President to issue, to officers...............................   172

        For recess appointments of the President......................   167

        Created by law, to sit in a recess after expiration of a

            Congress..................................................   589

        Places on, not incompatible offices...........................    98

        Primary and supplemental expense resolutions for..............   732
    Commit, motion to.  See also Recommit.

        Precedence and use of.

            Precedence and general conditions of................... 782, 787

            Debate on motion to, with instructions....................   782

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            Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous

              question............................................. 448, 449

            Has precedence of motion to amend.........................   449

            Instructions with.........................................   788

            May not be postponed......................................   451

            Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.........   450

            Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   787

            Repetition of.............................................   782

            Use of....................................................   446

        Application of, to bills.

            After previous question is ordered, Committee on Rules

                limited as to.................................... 729a, 729b

            After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect

              of................................................... 804, 808

            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................................ 729a, 729b

            Opposition have preference in recognition for, after

                previous question is ordered..........................   782

            Ten minutes debate permitted on motion to recommit with

                instructions on bill or joint resolution..............   782

            On bills with amendments between Houses... 486, 528b, 528d, 787,

                                                                         808
    Committee of the Whole.

        In general.

            House may attend impeachment trial in.....................   617

            No control over admission to floor........................   919

            Powers and privileges of Delegates and Resident

                Commissioner in................................... 740, 861a

            Procedure of the House as in............................ 424-427

            Rare case of investigation conducted by...................   343

            Relations of, to the Congressional Record.................   925

            Two continuing committees of..............................   332

        Chairman of.

            Chairman preserves order..................................  861a

            Functions of..............................................  861b

            Discretionary authority as to quorum calls................   863

            Discretionary authority as to five-minute votes on

                questions in sequence........................... 864a, 774bb

            Parliamentary method of selecting.........................   327

            Selection of chairman.....................................  861a

        Quorum of.

            Quorum of.............................................. 329, 863

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            Call of the committee by means of electronic device or by

              clerks.............................................. 863, 771b

            When failure of may be raised.............................   863

            Rising and reports as related to quorum...................   864

            Short or notice quorum call at discretion of chairman.....   863

        Sitting, rising, etc.

            Former automatic de novo votes in House where Delegates'

                votes decisive in Committee of the Whole..............  864b

            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, 864

            Motion to rise not in order during time yielded for

                general debate........................................   871

            Motion to rise prior to limitation and retrenchment

                amendments to general appropriation bills.............  834d

            Report from Committee on Rules not in order after House

                votes to go into......................................  729a

            Rising after disorder in..................................   331

            Rising when a quorum fails....................... 774c, 863, 864

            Rising with unfinished business........................ 333, 334

        Motions to go into.

            Form of going into Committee of the Whole.................   328

            Privileged motion to go into, to consider and general

                appropriation bills...................................   802

            Consideration of nonprivileged bills in, after call of,

                committees......................................... 891, 892

            Nonprivileged public bills in, considered on Calendar

                Wednesday.............................................   897

            Place in order of business for motions to consider non-

                privileged bills in...................................   878

            Speaker's declaration into................................   862

        Subjects considered in.

            Subjects requiring consideration in.......................   865

            As to origination of business in..........................   412

            Bill must show on face falls within the rule..............   866

            Conference report not referred to.........................   550

            Construction of the rule requiring consideration in.......   866

            Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills by.   835

            General practice as to consideration in...................   868

            Old parliamentary usage as to consideration of matters in,

                as modified by House rules and practice...............   326

            Questions of order on appropriation bill in...............   835

            Recommittal of bills to...................................   420

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            Reference of Senate bills from Speaker's table to...... 882, 883

            Senate amendments considered in........................ 827, 828

            Subjects not requiring consideration in............... 528a, 867

        Procedure in, as to motions, etc.

            Amendments not to be withdrawn in.........................   824

            Application of House rules to.......................... 340, 877

            Five-minute recorded vote in, immediately following quorum

                call..................................................   863

            Five-minute recorded votes in, on questions in sequence... 864a,

                                                                       774bb

            Unanimous consent to modify special orders entertained in.  877a

            Motions for previous question and to adjourn not used in

                                                               333, 783, 805

            Motion to reconsider not in order in......................   812

            Pairs in..................................................   660

            Recorded vote in.......................... 630, 631, 846a, 774bb

            Relations of motion to strike out enacting words to... 875, 876a

            Yeas and nays not taken in................................    76

        Debate in.

            Closing the five-minute debate............................   874

            General debate in.........................................   870

            Hour rule of debate applicable to.........................   758

            Motion to close general debate............................   871

            Relevance of debate in....................................   752

            Ten minutes debate on amendments submitted in advance and

                printed in Record.....................................   874

        Reading in.  See also Amendments.

            Reading of bill in........................................   831

            Reading of concurrent resolution on the budget in.........  876b

        Order of business in.

            Order of business in......................................   869

            Calendars for the business of.............................   742

            Unfinished business in....................................   888

        Reports of, and consideration in House.

            Action of the House on amendment reported from............   423

            Amendments of, considered in the House....................   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..............  864b

            Parliamentary law as to reports from.. ................ 334, 864

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        Disorder in.

            Action in case of disorderly words in.....................   761

            Disorderly words taken down in, reported to the House...... 369,

                                                                         761

            Effect of breaking up of, by disorder.................. 332, 622

            Quarrels in, and duty of the Speaker as to................   331

            Questions of privilege in.................................   667

            Sergeant-at-Arms enforces order in........................   648

            Speaker restores order in.................................   622
    Committee staffs.

        Admitted to floor under certain conditions....................   919

        Subcommittee staff appointments formerly by chairman and

            ranking minority member...................................  732d

        Expense resolution for committee staffs...................... 732a-d

        Former clerical/professional staff distinction............. 733a-738

        Staff of committees, number and appointment......... 732d, 733a-733c

        Reduction in staff for 104th Congress..................... 733c, 737

        Minority staff...................................... 732d, 733c, 737

        Staff duties..................................................  734a

        Associate or shared staff................................. 734b, 737

        Duties of House Oversight as to............... 677a, 733c, 734b, 737

        Duties as to papers...........................................   932

        Former reports on staff.......................................   739

        Printed amendments submitted to...............................  873b

        Rate of pay for...............................................   735

        Staff for Committees on Appropriations and formerly Budget.... 734b,

                                                                         736

        Permission of Committee on House Oversight required for

            appointment of staff from governmental agencies...........   737

        Non-partisan staff............................................   738
    Committee stenographers.

        Appointment, etc., of.........................................   923
    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...........   740

            Election of, by ballot....................................   934

            Establishment of subcommittees limited....................  701d

            Former rule regarding election of ranking minority Member

                to Budget Committee...................................  673b

            General power of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in... 701g,

                                                                         740

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            House elects the standing committees on nominations by

                caucuses..............................................  701a

            Member-elect may be appointed on, before taking the oath..   300

            Members' committee assignments limited....................  701b

            Membership on contingent upon membership in party caucus..  701b

            Names and number of the standing........................ 669-688

            Old and modern requirements as to constitution of.........   402

            Reports, dissolution, and revival of select committees....   419

            Rules and practice as to the appointment of........... 317, 701a

            Selection of chairmen of select and of standing committees

                                                                     701c, e

            Serve through a Congress..................................   317

            Service of Resident Commissioner and Delegates on..... 701g, 740

            Speaker appoints select and conference committees.........  701e

            Term limits for chairmen of committees and subcommittees..  701c

            Vacancies in, filled by election by House.................  701d

            Vice chairman of..........................................  705d

        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   820

            Commemoratives prohibited.................................   852

            Delivery of bills to......................................   403

            Duty of, in case of recommittal with instructions.........   420

            Functions of, in correcting errors of reference of bills

                                                                    853, 854

            Jurisdiction as to creation, and duties of................  682a

            Jurisdiction of, as affected by errors in reference of

                bills.................................................  853,

                                                                         854

            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..................   845

            Private claims bills banned in certain cases..............   852

            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.......   700

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        Sittings and procedure of.

            Additional and special meetings...........................   705

            Broadcasting and press coverage of meetings and hearings

                                                                     720-725

            Clerks of, see Committee staffs.

            Debate in.................................................   318

            Executive hearings open to non-committee Members..........   708

            Executive sessions of............................ 706c, 708, 712

            Five-minute rule applicable during interrogation of

                witnesses.............................................   711

            Hearings open to public.......................... 694b, 708, 712

            Hearings to be preserved in Library of Congress...........   949

            Intelligence, Select Committee on, special procedures for.  944a

            May be empowered to sit during recesses of a Congress.....   589

            May only act when together....................... 407, 705, 713c

            May not sit during five-minute rule.................... 324, 710

            Meetings and action of............................. 408, 705-713

            Meeting when chairman fails to call.......................   705

            Meetings open to public............................... 694b, 708

            Method of voting amendments to a bill in..................   417

            Notice requirement for hearings...........................   708

            Parliamentary law governing consideration of bills in.....   412

            Power of, over body and title of a bill...................   411

            Power to sit and act......................................   718

            Presence of Member of the House in a select...............   410

            Procedure in generally................................ 427, 704b

            Proxy voting prohibited...................................   707

            Quorum of a select or standing......... 343, 409, 709, 713c, 718

            Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given

                to support charge of perjury.................. 343, 409, 709

            Quorum to release testimony received in executive session.   712

            Quorum for taking testimony...............................   709

            Quorum for reporting a measure............................  713c

            Quorum to close hearing to discuss or receive certain

                testimony or evidence.............................. 708, 712

            Quorum for issuing a subpoena.......................... 343, 718

            Vice chairman or ranking member presides in absence of

                chairman.......................................... 701c, 705

            Recess of a committee.....................................  703a

            Reconsideration of a vote in..............................   416

            Record of actions by, to be kept..........................  706a

            Regular meetings..........................................   705

            Rise when the House sits unless leave be given to remain

                sitting (obsolete)....................................   324

            Rules of committee same as House..........................  703a

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            Rules of committees must be written and published in

                Record................................................  704a

            Secrecy of procedure.............................. 319, 708, 712

            Subcommittees subject to direction of full committee......  703a

            Subpoena power............................................   718

            Time of hearings and subject matter to be placed in daily

                Congressional Record and entered into committee

                scheduling service of House Information Systems.......   708

            Transcripts of meetings and hearings paid from contingent

                fund..................................................  703c

            Vice chairman.............................................  705a

            Votes in, available for inspection........................  706a

            Witnesses, administration of oath to......................   718

            Witnesses, called by minority.............................   711

            Witnesses, testimony of...................... 708, 709, 711, 712

            Witnesses, method of examination.................. 343, 711, 712

        Reports of.

            Former reporting requirement relating to committee staff..   739

            Action of the House on amendments reported from...........   423

            Action of the House on reports from.......................   422

            Adverse................................................ 726, 744

            Adverse reports from Committee on Rules...................   730

            Amendments reported by, should be germane.................   794

            Annual activities report..................................  703d

            Authorization of reports of........................... 408, 713b

            Availability of, prior to floor consideration.......... 715, 716

            By whom made................................ 317, 713a, 714, 715

            Calendars on which reports of, await action of the House

                                                                     742-746

            Calling up reports made in order by adoption of a

                resolution by the House...............................   717

                    Certain contents required in reports:

                Requirements under the Congressional Accountability

                    Act of 1995.......................................  713g

                    Requirements under the Unfunded Mandates Reform

                        Act of 1995........................ 713h, 748c, 1007

                Appropriations Committee reports on general

                    appropriation bills must state effect of any

                    provision changing existing law...................  844b

                Cover must reflect inclusion of certain matters.......   714

                Estimate of cost......................................  748b

                Estimate and comparison of Congressional Budget Office  713e

                    Estimate and comparison of funding levels.... 713e, 748b

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                Inflationary impact statement.........................  713f

                Minority, supplemental, and additional views..........   714

                New budget authority and tax expenditures, statement

                    as to.............................................  713e

                    Oversight findings and recommendations....... 692a, 713e

                    Oversight findings and recommendations of

                        Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

                                                                   696, 713e

                Report on bills amending or repealing statutes must

                    show by typographical device parts of statute

                    affected..........................................   745

                Rules Committee reports on resolutions repealing or

                    amending Rules of the House must show by

                    typographical device parts of Rules affected......   731

                Vote totals and names on amendments and motion to

                    report............................................  713d

            Direction of, for making its report................... 415, 713b

            Filing of, by chairman or majority....................713a, 713b

            From Committee on Rules, not divisible....................   791

            Hearings and reports of Appropriations Committee to be

                available 3 days in advance of consideration of bills.   848

            Limitations on reports from Committee on Rules...... 729a, 729c,

                                                                   729d, 730

            Origin and effect of the rule giving privilege to certain

                reports...............................................   727

            Parliamentary and present method of submitting reports of,

                to the House..........................................   418

            Practice as to reading reports of, in the House...........   435

            Prior claim of Member in charge of bill to recognition....   754

            Prior right of Members of, to recognition for debate......   756

            Privileged reports of................................... 726-729

            Privilege of individual committees to report..............   728

            Privilege of reports from Committee on Rules........... 729a-730

            Reports to the House must be made promptly................  713a

            Restriction on reporting bill containing an appropriation.   846

            Rights of, as to placing adverse reports on the Calen-

              dars............................................ 726, 730, 744

            Speaker does not decide on sufficiency of.................   627

            Supplemental, filing of...................................   714

            To be in writing and to be printed........................   821

            Views of the minority............................. 714, 743, 821

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        Oversight functions.

            Ad hoc oversight committees...............................  692b

            General oversight by committees as to laws within their

                jurisdiction...................................... 692a-692b

            General oversight findings and recommendations to be

                included in reports...................................  713e

            Establishment of oversight subcommittees required.........  692b

            Expense resolution not in order if a committee fails to

                submit oversight plan.................................  692b

            Oversight of Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.  692b

            Oversight findings of Committee on Government Reform and

                Oversight to be included in each committee's reports

                                                                   696, 713e

            Oversight plans submitted to Committees on Government

                Reform and Oversight and House Oversight..............  692b

            General oversight of Committee on Appropriations..........  692b

            Special oversight functions of Committees on National

                Security, Budget, Economic and Educational

                Opportunities, Commerce, International Relations,

                Resources, Science, and Small Business................   693

            Additional functions of committees........................   694

            Budget hearings...........................................  694b

            Budget Act procedures................................ 694c, 1007

            Budget Committee, additional functions of.................   695

            Government Reform and Oversight Committee, additional

                functions of..........................................   696

            Requirement for oversight subcommittee....................  692b

        Discharge, instructions, etc.

            Motion to discharge and instruct....................... 406, 908

            Motion to discharge from consideration of vetoed bill.....   108

            Motion to discharge under certain public laws.............. 1013

            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..........................................   627

        Call of.

            Place of, in order of business............................   878

            Business on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-thirds

                vote..................................................  729a

            Calendar Wednesday........................................   897

            Morning hour..............................................   889

        In general.

            Conferences held by means of select joint.................   532

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            Correction of error in Journal by.........................   583

            Custody of papers of......................................   932

            Debates...................................................  753b

            Discretion as to printing hearings, etc...................   712

            Duties of, as to resolutions of inquiry................ 855, 858

            Establishment of subcommittees limited....................  701d

            Expense resolution not in order if committee failed to

                submit oversight plan.................................  692b

            Expenses of, primary, additional, and interim funding.....   732

            Legislative oversight by................................ 692-697

            Points of order in House against committee procedure......   708

            Records of, to be accessible to all Members...............  706a

            Reference in debate to proceedings of.....................   360

            Report on oversight function............................ 692-697

            Rights as to motions to suspend the rules................... 902

            Utilization of reports and employees of General Accounting

                Office................................................   990

            Verbatim meeting and hearing transcripts..................  706a

        Staff of.   See Committee staffs.
    Committees, joint.

        Quorum, chairman, and voting in........................... 325, 701e

        Authorized by concurrent resolutions..........................   396

        Number and functions of..................................... 983-987
    Commodities exchanges.

        Jurisdiction of subjects related to...........................   670
    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................................. 700, 882, 883

        Executive, transmission of, to House..........................   936
    Compact.

        States not to make, without consent of Congress...............   148
    Compacts, interstate.

        Jurisdiction of, generally....................................  679a

        Jurisdiction of, relating to apportionment of waters for

            irrigation purposes.......................................   681

        Jurisdiction of, over interstate energy.......................   674

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    Compensation.  See also Pay.

        For private property taken for public use.....................   212
    Compulsory process.

        For obtaining witnesses.......................................   213
    Concur, motion to.

        Relative to striking out enacting words.......................   875

        See also Agree, motion to.
    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............................................ 673b, 1007

        Congressional disapproval provisions utilizing................  1013
    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...........................   901

            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, 827, 828a,

            Motions to request, precedence of.... 528a, 528b, 528d, 535, 827

            Requests declined or neglected........................ 534, 828a

            Separate vote on certain amendments between the Houses

                when request is made..................................   827

        Managers and their powers.

            As affected by free and simple conference.............. 539, 540

            Managers of, appointment, removal, and function....... 536, 701e

            Managers of, motion to instruct or discharge........... 541, 910

            Managers restricted to the disagreements of the two Houses

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                                                                   546, 913a

            Managers may not agree to Senate amendments making

                appropriations........................................   829

            Managers may not agree to Senate amendments to

                appropriation bills containing legislation............   829

            May report a germane modification within the scope of

                disagreement where one House strikes out all after

                enacting clause of bill of other House and inserts new

                language..............................................   913

            Meeting and action of managers........................ 548, 913d

            Open conference meetings..................................  913d

            Quorum, evidence of.......................................   543

            Reappointment of managers at second or subsequent.........   537

            Remedy where managers exceed their authority..............   547

            Speaker appoints..........................................  701e

            Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed by

                managers unless by authority of both Houses....... 527, 913a

            Vacancies in managers.....................................   538

        Reports of managers.

            Accompanying statement....................................   911

            Accompanying statement, Speaker decides as to sufficiency

                of....................................................   627

            Action on a report in the two Houses......................   549

            As to consideration in Committee of the Whole.............   867

            Consideration in House not in order until report available

                for three days and copies available at least two hours  912a

            Considered as read if available...........................  912d

            Considered rejected if conferees have improperly closed

                meeting...............................................  913d

            Debate on, equally divided between parties................  912a

            Effect of disagreement to a conference report.... 551, 755, 913c

            Form of conference reports........................ 542, 543, 911

            Have precedence of motion to reconsider...................   812

            High privilege of.........................................   909

            Legislation contained in amendments in disagreement,

                procedure for consideration...........................  912c

            Limited to scope of matter committed to conference........  527,

                                                                   546, 913a

            Motions in order during action on a report............ 550, 913b

            May report germane modification of amendment in nature of

                substitute............................................  913a

            Nongermane matter contained in conference agreements,

                procedure for consideration...........................  913b

            Nongermane matter in amendments in disagreement, procedure

                for consideration.....................................  913c

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            Not to interrupt reading of Journal.......................   621

            Parliamentary law as to reports of managers...............   542

            Partial reports...........................................   544

            Postponing rollcall votes on agreeing to..................  631a

            Precedence of, over report from Committee on Rules........  729a

            Printing in Record of amendment in total disagreement.....  912b

            Printing of reports and statements in the Record..........  912a

            Rejection of, status of amendments after.............. 551, 913b

            Reports of inability to agree......................... 545, 912b

            Retroactive income tax rate increase prohibited in........  846d

            Quorum, evidence of.......................................   543

            Signing of................................................   543

            Speaker decides as to validity of reports.................   627

            Statements relating to Federal unfunded mandates..... 911a, 1007

            Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

                proceedings on agreeing to conference reports.........   631

            Three-day layover and two-hour availability before

                consideration.........................................  912a

            Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates............  846c

            To be in writing..........................................   542

            To be entered in the Journals.............................   542

            Unamendable...............................................   542

            When on constitutional amendments agreed to by two-thirds

                vote..................................................   192

            Yeas and nays automatically ordered on adoption of certain  774e

        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.

        Instances where House and Senate have confirmed President's

            nominee as Vice President.................................   256
    Congress.

        Meeting, term, etc.

            Meets once a year....................................... 45, 242

            Term and adjournment of...................................     6

            Adjourns in July with certain exceptions..................   947

            Neither House to adjourn for more than three days or to

                another place without consent of the other............    82

            Power of President to convene or adjourn Houses of........   171

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            President to give information of the state of the Union to   168

            Prohibited from adjourning sine die before completion of

                congressional budget process............... 1007 (sec. 310f)

        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......  1013

            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, etc.............................   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, etc..............   127

            To support armies.........................................   129

            To provide a navy.........................................   130

            To make rules of government for land and naval forces.....   131

            To provide for calling out the militia....................   132

            To provide for organization, etc., of militia.............   133

            Relative powers of Congress and the President.............   128

        Powers of--as to elections, sufferage, etc.

            As to apportionment and establishment of districts..... 226, 227

            Determines time of choosing electors......................   153

            May by law provide for cases where 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 where House and Senate have confirmed nominee as

                Vice President........................................   256

            May decide termination of Presidential disability.........   255

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            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

            To legislate to enforce the thirteenth, fourteenth,

                fifteenth, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth amendments

                to the Constitution................. 224, 233, 234, 250, 251

            To remove political disabilities..........................   230

        Powers of--as to courts, etc.

            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, etc...................   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....................  679a

        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

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            No titles of nobility to be granted.......................   144
    Congressional accountability.

        Application of laws to Congress...............................  946b

        Committee reports accompanying measures must contain statement

            relating to...............................................  713g

        Effective date................................................  946b

        Expedited procedures contained in.............................1013(32

                                                                           )

        Office of Compliance..........................................  946b

        Point of order for insufficient committee report..............  713g

        Procedure for consideration of alleged violations.............  946b
    Congressional Budget Office.  See Budget.
    Congressional disapproval, laws providing mechanisms for..........  1013
    Congressional Record.

        Reports of debates.

            Correction of................................... 764a, 764b, 926

            Duties of Joint Committee on Printing in relation to....924, 987

            General control of Committee on House Oversight over......  677e

            Jurisdiction relating to improvement of...................   986

            ``Leave to print'' in.....................................   929

            Not the official record of proceedings....................    69

            Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole over..........   862

            Privilege of Member to revise his remarks.................   928

            Privilege of propositions to correct................... 923, 927

            Relation of Committee of the Whole to.....................   925

            Reporters of debates......................................   923

            Substantially verbatim account of remarks..... 764a, 764b, 924a,

                                                                         928

        Matters recorded in.

            Amendments to be offered during five-minute rule may be

                printed in advance, and given a numerical designation.   874

            Certain messages printed in...............................   935

            Clerk supervises daily insertions in......................   986

            Committee meetings and hearings inserted in...............   986

            Former ``bullet'' symbols in..............................   929

            House activities of previous day inserted in..............   986

            Index daily of proceedings of previous day................   986

            Introduction of bills, petitions, resolutions, etc.,

                entered in............................................   849

            Legislative program for the day to be inserted............   986

            Messages from President entered in........................   884

            Names of Members signing discharge petitions..............   908

            Pairs printed in..........................................   660

            Printing of conference reports in.........................  912a

            Reference of public bills, memorials, etc., entered in..... 854,

                                                                         860

            Substantially verbatim account of remarks....... 764a, 764b, 928

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            Titles of reported bills entered in.......................   743
    Congressional Research Service....................................   991
    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

            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.........   674

        Petroleum (naval), jurisdiction of matters relating to........   680

        Radium, jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   681

        Soil, jurisdiction of matters relating to.....................   670

        Wildlife, jurisdiction of matters relating to.................   681
    Consideration, question of.

        Form and history of...........................................   778

        Conditions of raising...................................... 717, 779

        Not to be raised against a report from Committee on Rules..... 729a,

                                                                        729b

        On Calendar Wednesday.........................................   898

        Questions subject to..........................................   780

        Question of consideration to disposed of points of order

            raised under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995...... 781,

                                                                        1007

        Relation of, to other motions.................................   779

        Relation of, to points of order............................ 781, 909

        Where quorum fails on yea-and-nay vote and adjournment

            intervenes................................................    76
    Consistency.

        Speaker not to decide questions of......................... 466, 627
    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, etc.

            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

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            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........................   635

            Powers delegated to the United States by..................   217

            President sworn to preserve, etc..........................   158

            Supreme law of the land...................................   195

        Ratification and amendment of.

            Amendments to, jurisdiction over..........................  679a

            Differences as to amendment to, committed to conference...   530

            Extension of time period 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 twenty-seven amendments of.......................... 208-258

            Two-thirds vote on conference report as to................   549

            Yeas and nays not necessarily taken on amendments to......    76
    Constitutional conventions.

        Relation of, to State legislatures, in fixing times, etc., 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................   662

        Precedence of questions of....................................   664
    Constitutional privilege.

        Questions relating to...................................... 662, 664
    Constitutions.

        Those of States subordinate to that of United States..........   195
    Consular service.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   678
    Consuls.

        President appoints............................................   166

        Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..............   179

        Judicial power extends to cases affecting.....................   178
    Consumers.

        Affairs and protection of, jurisdiction over..................   674

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    Contempts.

        Committee reports on, privileged for immediate consideration

            without 3-day layover.................................. 299, 668

        Power of the House to punish for............................ 293-299
    Contestants.

        In election cases, admitted to the floor......................   919

        Relations of, to incompatible offices.........................   100
    Contested elections.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................  677a

        Contests affected by death....................................    18

        Clerk receives testimony taken in contests....................   647
    Contingency fund.

        Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to.............. 677a, 732

        Clerk formerly kept account of disbursements out of...........   642

        Commission and other entity expenses, payment from............   732

        Committee expenses, payment from..............................   732

        Committee transcripts, cost of printing paid from.............  703c

        Early organization caucuses funded from.......................   997
    Continuation of a public work.

        Appropriations for.................................... 834a, 839-841

        Examples illustrating.........................................   840

        New buildings at existing institutions as a...................  841a

        Unexpended balances may be appropriated for...................   847
    Contract labor.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   675
    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

        Laws appointing a different day for...........................   243
    Convention.

        To amend the Constitution, method of calling of...............   190
    Convict labor.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   675
    Conviction.

        Two-thirds vote for, in impeachments..........................    38

        Evidence for, for treason.....................................   181

        For crime as basis for involuntary servitude..................   224

        In impeachments shall not extend further than removal from

            office, etc...............................................    41

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        Members should refrain from voting and committee participation

            following.................................................    41
    Copyrights.

        Power of Congress to provide for..............................   124

        Jurisdiction as to bills relating to..........................  679a
    Corporations.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Correction.

        Bills for, of military and naval records are banned...........   852

        ``Corrections'' Calendar......................................  745a

        Of Congressional Record.............. 693, 764a, 764b, 923, 926, 927

        Of reference of public bills, place of, in order of business..   878

        Of reference of bills, etc., from Speaker's table.......... 882, 883

        Of reference of bills, correction in errors...................   853
    Corridors.

        Speaker's control of..........................................   623
    Corruption.

        Of blood, for treason.........................................   182

        Co-sponsorship, of bills......................................   854
    Cost, limit of.

        On public works...............................................   838
    Coughing.

        Not in order during debate....................................   364
    Counsel.

        General, Office of............................................  634e

        For accused in criminal prosecutions..........................   213

        In cases of expulsion.........................................    65

        Admission of, in investigations............................ 348, 712

        May be censured and excluded from investigative hearings......   712
    Count.

        Electoral.

            Constitutional provision for..............................   219

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  677e

            In the Hall of the House..................................   220

        On a division or other vote.

            Appeal from Chair's count prohibited................... 628, 629

            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..................   508

            Decision of points of order during........................   507

            Division of the House after determination by sound..... 501, 630

            Duty of Speaker to make an honest count...................   630

            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................   909

            Parliamentary provisions as to division, not applicable in

                the House.............................................   502

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            Questions of order arising during, decided peremptorily...   627

            Rule as to voting by division.............................   630

            Two-thirds votes..........................................   509

        Of a quorum.

            Certain business suspended by failure of a quorum...... 510, 744

            By Speaker, to ascertain as to quorum after previous

                question is ordered...................................   810

            Not to be verified by tellers or on appeal.............. 54, 628

            Of House when absence of quorum is observed...............   310

            On roll call and otherwise by Speaker................... 54, 772
    Counterfeiting.

        Congress may provide punishment for...........................   122
    Courthouses.

        Jurisdiction as to bills for construction of..................   686
    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, etc., 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, 946

            Relations of Members of Parliament to.....................   287

            Relations of State courts to election cases...............    50

            Status of reports of Court of Claims on calendars.........   742

            Reference of claims to Court of Claims considered in

                Committee of the Whole............................. 865, 866

            Judicial appearances on behalf of House...................  291b

            Jurisdiction as to certain, in District of Columbia.......   676

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a

            Jurisdiction as to, in foreign lands......................   678

            In insular possessions and territories....................   681
    Credentials.  See also Members.

        As related to the right of a Member to take the oath..........   204

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        Prima facie effect of, dependent on vacancy...................    23

        House Oversight Committee may consider questions as to... 677a, 677e
    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...................   672
    Crimes.

        Abridgment of suffrage for....................................   226

        As to what are high...........................................   175

        Extradition for...............................................   185

        High impeachable offenses.....................................   173

        Involuntary servitude as punishment for.......................   224

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a

        Members refrain from voting and committee action when

            convicted of..............................................   939

        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..........................  679a
    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
    Currency.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    Custody.

        Procuring attendance of witness in, from other House..........   345
    Customhouses.

        Customs, jurisdiction as to...................................   688

        Jurisdiction as to buildings for..............................   686

        Special oversight jurisdiction................................   693
    Dairy products.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   670
    Damages to property.

        Bills of payments for, banned with exceptions.................   852
    Dams.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to....................... 681, 686

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    Day.

        Journal dated as of legislative...............................    69

        Speaker takes Chair on each legislative.......................   621
    Dean of the House.

        Administers oath to Speaker...................................   198
    Death.

        Bills for payment of certain claims against the United States

            for, banned...............................................   852

        Ceremonies for deceased Members...............................  677a

        Of officers of House, vacancies caused by may be filled

            temporarily by Speaker....................................   635

        Of Member, vacancy caused by..................................    18

        Of President or Vice President of United States....... 155, 244, 252

        Of Speaker....................................................    28
    Debate.  See also General debate.

        Exhibits.

            Use of in debate.................................. 622, 915, 916

        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......   762

            Member who has spoken to the main question may speak to an

                amendment.......................................... 465, 762

            Member's right to close debate on amendment considered

                under five-minute rule................................   762

            Morning-hour debates......................................  753b

            Motion to be stated before................................   776

            Obtaining the floor in debate.............................   749

            One-minute speeches.......................................  753a

            Oxford-style debates......................................  753c

            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........................................... 753-757

            Right of a Member to be heard a second time...............   357

            Special order speeches....................................  753a

            Rights of Member as to opening and closing in debate......   759

            The hour rule for debate..................................   758

        Interruptions of.

            Interruptions in..........................................   364

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            Interruption of a Member in debate........................   750

            Certain motions only in order when a question is under....   782

            Member having the floor in, not to be interrupted by

                motions, etc..........................................   393

            Member in, may be interrupted by conference report........   909

            Messages received during..................................   561

            The call to order in debate...............................   760

            Words taken down in debate................................   761

        Disorder in.

            Calls to order......................................... 364, 760

            Disorder and interruptions during.........................   364

            Disorderly words taken down and reported from Committee of

                the Whole.............................................   369

            Impertinent, superfluous, or tedious speaking.............   359

            Members censured for disorder in..........................    63

            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, etc.

            Criticism of the Speaker..................................   362

            Debate, proceedings, and Members of the other House... 371, 372,

                                                                         749

            Decorum and abstention from personalities in debate.... 361, 749

            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, 749

            Reference to proceedings of committees, etc...............   360

            Reference to the Executive............................. 370, 749

            Reference to occupants of galleries.......................   764

            Relevancy of........................................... 749, 752

        Closing of, in the House.

            Effect of order of yeas and nays in closing...............    80

            Effect of previous question on......................... 804, 805

            Not precluded until the negative has been put.......... 842, 490

        Limitations on.

                    Forty minutes of:

                After previous question is ordered....................   805

                On motion to suspend the rules........................   907

                On certain non-germane amendments between the Houses..   827

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                On non-germane Senate amendments included in

                    conference report.................................  913b

            Limit of, on appeals................................... 624, 628

            Morning-hour debate.......................................  753b

            On conference reports, and on certain motions relating to

                amendments between the Houses....... 912a, 912b, 912c, 913b,

                                                                        913c

            On certain secondary motions..............................   782

            On question of order, within Speaker's discretion.........   627

            On questions of privilege.................................   661

            On motion to instruct conferees...........................  909a

            On motion to reconsider...................................   819

            On motion to strike out enacting words....................   876

            On rescission bills and deferral resolutions............ 1013(6)

            One-minute speeches.......................................  753a

            Oxford-style debates......................................  753c

            Special order speeches....................................  753a

            Strictly enforced.........................................   758

                    Ten minutes of:

                On amendments submitted in advance and printed in

                    Record............................................   874

                On motion to recommit with instructions...............   782

                    Twenty minutes of:

                On motions to discharge...............................   908

            Under various laws permitting congressional approval......  1013

        General debate in Committee of the Whole.

            Closing of, in Committee of the Whole.................. 870, 871

            In Committee of the Whole under the old parliamentary

                usage.................................................   326

        Five-minute debate.

            Closing five-minute.......................................   874

            Closing five-minute, in Committee of the Whole............   874

            Five-minute, on motion to dispense with Calendar Wednesday   897

            Member's right to close debate on amendment considered

                under the five-minute rule............................   762

            Reading and amendment under the five-minute rule..........   872

            Recognition for, under the five-minute rule...............   872

            Rule as to five-minute, in Committee of the Whole.........   870

            Ten minutes on amendments previously printed in Record

                even though debate under is limited...................   874

            Time not yielded under five-minute........................   872

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        Questions not debatable.

            Amendment to title decided without........................   822

            Appeals as to priority of business decided without........   900

            Correction of reference of public bills to be made without   854

            Motions to adjourn, lay on the table, and for the previous

                question not debatable................................   782

            Motion that Journal be read...............................   621

            Motion to discharge a committee not debatable (except

                under clause 3, rule XXVII)........................ 406, 858

            Under former rule XXX, questions as to reading of papers

                were determined without...............................   917

        Record of.  See Congressional Record.

        In general.

            Course of the Member when business concerning himself is

                debated...............................................   375

            In standing and select committees.........................   318

            Morning-hour debates......................................  753b

            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.......................................  753a

            Oxford-style debates......................................  753c

            Participation of the Speaker in debate................. 358, 751

            Quorum necessary during................................. 54, 510

            Special order speeches....................................  753a

            Under reservation of right to object to a unanimous-

                consent request.................................... 381, 881
    Debt.

        Claims for slaves not to be paid..............................   232

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to bonded...................   688

        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 prior to the Constitution........   194

        Validity of debt of the United States not to be questioned....   232

        Debt limit, rule for establishment of statutory...............   945
    December.

        Early organization caucuses held in...........................   997

        First Monday in, for meeting of Congress (obsolete)...........    45
    Decisions.  See also Appeal.

        Of the Speaker controlled by appeal................... 379, 624, 628
    Declarations of war.

        Congress to make..............................................   127

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        Jurisdiction as to............................................   678

    Declination.
        War Powers Act................................................1013(2)

        Of seat by Member.............................................    20
    Decorum.  See also Debate.

        As to sitting in place........................................   353

        Assaults and affrays..........................................   367

        Attire..................................................... 622, 763

        Call to order for transgressions in........................ 364, 760

        Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House...............   637

        Conduct of counsel in investigation...........................   712

        Conduct of Members in the hall................................   763

        Decorum of Members in debate,  see Debate.

        Disorder in Committee of the Whole............................   331

        Member may speak from any place on floor......................   749

        Members' presence when business concerning Member debated.....   375

        Movements of Member during voting.............................   506

        Power of House to punish and expel for breaches of............ 62-66

        Exhibits, use of...................................... 622, 915, 916

        Speaker preserves, on floor................................ 331, 622

        Smoking forbidden.............................................   763

        Use of personal, electronic office equipment forbidden........   763

        Wearing of hats forbidden.................................. 377, 763
    Deductions.

        From the compensation of Members............................ 86, 657

        From the compensation of Members for state income taxes.......   648
    Defense.

        Power of Congress to provide for public.......................   117

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to public...................   680

        Counsel for, in criminal cases................................   213
    Defense production.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   672
    Deficiencies.

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for............................  671a
    Degree.

        Of amendments.............................................. 822, 823

        Of amendments between the Houses..............................   529
    Delegated powers.

        Of the Constitution...........................................   217
    Delegates.

        Admitted to Floor.............................................   919

        Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of....................   642

        Clerk to distribute certain documents to......................   641

        Compensation of...............................................    86

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        Former de novo votes in House where vote of decisive in

            Committee of Whole........................................  864b

        Elected to committees.........................................   740

        Establishment and nature of office............................   740

        Franking privilege............................................   987

        From District of Columbia, formerly required to be elected to

            the former Committee on District of Columbia..............   740

        From territory of American Samoa..............................   740

        Impeachment began at instance of a............................   603

        May have been appointed a teller..............................  630b

        Formerly could be appointed Chairman, Committee of the Whole..  861a

        May be appointed a conferee...................................  701g

        May be appointed to select committee..........................  701g

        May call a Member to order....................................   760

        Powers and privileges of, on floor and in committee...........  603,

                                                   631, 701g, 740, 760, 861a

        Powers and privileges of, in Committee of the Whole...........   740

        Rooms of, in office buildings.................................   989

        Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed pay of....................   648

        Stationery and clerk hire.....................................    88

        Sworn.........................................................   740
    Department of Agriculture.

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for, and bills relating to. 670, 671a
    Department of Defense.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Department of Energy.

        Jurisdiction over general management of.......................   674
    Department of Justice.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Departments.  See also Executive departments.

        Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers in

            heads of..................................................   166

        Expenditures in, jurisdiction as to...........................   678

        Executive, privilege of, as to papers from the files..........   933

        Gallery for use of heads of...................................   922

        Heads of, admitted to the floor of the House..................   919

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for, and bills relating to.....  671a

        Of Government, power of Congress to legislate as to...........   136

        President may require opinions from heads of..................   161

        Reference of papers from................................... 882, 883

        Resolutions of inquiry to................................... 855-859
    Desertion.

        Certain private bills to correct records are banned...........   852

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    Desk, Clerk's.  See Clerk's desk.
    Dilatory motions.

        Amendments printed in Record may not be.......................   874

        Forbidden pending report from Committee on Rules......... 729a, 729b

        Not to be entertained by the Speaker..........................   803

        One motion to adjourn only in order pending motion to suspend

            rules.....................................................   801

        Right to demand yeas and nays not to overruled as.............    77
    Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services

        Former position and functions of..............................  651e
    Direct tax.  See also Taxes.

        To be apportioned to census...................................   140

        Old apportionment of..........................................    14
    Disabilities.

        Of President or Vice President of United States....... 155, 244, 252

        Political, arising from disloyalty............................   232

        Consideration of bills removing...............................  679b

        Of President-elect or Vice President-elect of United States...   244
    Disagree, motion to.

        Amendments in order on motion to..............................   487

        Negative of, equivalent to affirmative of motion to agree.....   487

        Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting and

            adhering......................................... 521, 528a-528d

        Precedence of................................... 486, 528-528d, 913c

        Precedence of motion to amend over motion to agree or disagree   528
    Disagreement.

        President may adjourn Congress in a certain case of...........   171

        Stage of....................................... 528-528d, 828b, 913c
    Discharge.

        Motions to, of a committee................................. 406, 908

        Motions to, under certain public laws.......................... 1013

        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..................   858
    Discipline.

        Of the militia................................................   133

        Of Members.................................................. 62, 698
    Discoveries.

        Congress may provide exclusive rights to......................   124
    Disease.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...............   674

        Of animals....................................................   670
    Disorder.

        Disorderly words taken down................................ 369, 761

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        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 Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to, in

            galleries and lobby.......................................  861a

        Power of each House to punish for............................. 62-66

        Proceedings in case of, on the floor..........................   367
    Disqualification.

        As judgment in impeachment....................................    41

        Members not to hold incompatible offices..................... 97-101

        Service of Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.........   698
    Disqualifying interest.

        Of a Member as to voting.............................. 376, 657, 658
    Distribution.

        Of President's annual message (obsolete)................... 725, 884
    District of Columbia.

        In general.

            Bills relating to, as unfinished business.................   888

            Home Rule Act, disapproval procedures under............. 1013(5)

            Jurisdiction as to government buildings within............   686

            Jurisdiction as to parks in...............................   681

            Power of Congress as to legislation over............... 134, 135

            Representation in Electoral College of....................   250

            Second and fourth Mondays for business of.................   899

        Former Committee on.

            Jurisdiction transferred..................................   676

        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, 700, 849

            Of bills for reference....................................   700

        Voting by.

            Rule as to voting by......................................   630

            Business suspended by failure of quorum...................   510

            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..................   508

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            Decisions of points of order during.......................   507

            Division of the House after determination by sound..... 501, 630

            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................   909

            Parliamentary provisions as to division, not applicable in

                the House.............................................   502

            Questions of order arising during, decided peremptorily...   627

            Repetition of demand for division.........................   630

            Two-third votes...........................................   509

        Of the question for a vote.

            As related to debate on amendment.........................   482

            Into substantive propositions.......................... 791, 792

            Jefferson's discussion of.................................   481

            Motion to recede and concur divisible................. 525, 528d

            Motion to strike out and insert not divisible.............   793

            Offsetting amendments to appropriation bills indivisible..  834f

            Parliamentary law as to...................................   480

            Principles governing......................................   792

            Resolutions or orders reported by Committee on Rules not

                divisible.......................................... 791, 792

            Resolutions electing standing committees not divisible....   791
    Dockyards.

        Power of Congress over places purchased for...................   134
    Documents.

        Reading of those, accompanying President's message............   170

        Clerk to distribute certain, to Members.......................   641
    Domestic violence.

        States may ask protection from................................   189
    Doorkeeping.

        Doorkeeping duties of Sergeant-at-Arms.................... 380, 650a

        History of former Office of the Doorkeeper......................651d
    Doors.

        Of the House kept by Sergeant-at-Arms..................... 380, 650a

        Closed on call of the House when ordered by Speaker...........  771b
    Due process of law.

        No person to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without   212

        No State to deprive a person of life, liberty, or property

            without...................................................   225
    Duties.  See also Taxes.

        Export taxes or duties prohibited.............................   141

        Limitations on rights of States to lay........................   147

        Net produce of, to go to National Treasury....................   147

        Not to be levied on commerce by water between States..........   142

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        On persons migrated or imported...............................   137

        Power of Congress to lay and collect..........................   117

        States not to levy on tonnage.................................   148

        To be uniform.................................................   117
    Economic and Educational Opportunities, Committee on.

        History, jurisdiction and duties of...........................   675

        Special oversight functions of................................   693
    Economic Committee, Joint.........................................   983
    Economic report.

        Time for filing of, by President..............................   169
    Economic stabilization.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   672
    Education.

        Jurisdiction of subjects on................................ 675, 678
    Education and Labor, Committee on.  See Economic and Educational

        Opportunities, Committee on.
    Effects.

        Security of, as to searches and seizures......................   211
    Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress.

        Jurisdiction of subjects on.............................. 677a, 677e
    Elections.

        Of officers of the two Houses.

            Of officers of the House except Speaker................. 29, 635

            Of officers of House, except that Speaker may fill

                vacancies temporarily by appointment..................   635

            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.............   638

            Rule for, by ballot.......................................   934

        Of Representatives.  See also Contested elections.

            Apportioned among the States according to numbers.........   226

            Apportionment of, jurisdiction as to......................  679a

            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....................................................  677a

            Clerk receives testimony taken in contests................  647a

            Contests affected by death................................    18

            Each House judge of....................................... 46-51

            Election by districts.................................. 228, 229

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            Functions of State executive..............................    24

            Jurisdiction as to laws relating..................... 677a, 677e

            Of Members, questions relating to, considered by House

                Oversight Committee.............................. 677a, 677e

            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....................................................   638

            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

            Regulations of Federal Elections Commission disapproval...

                                                                    1013(19)

            Suffrage not to be abridged for race, color, etc..........   234

            To fill vacancies.........................................    17

        Of Senators.

            Of Senators......................................... 32, 34, 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.......................  677a

            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...................... 677a, 677e
    Electoral votes.

        Transmittal and count of......................................   220
    Electors.

        Of President, appointment and numbers of................... 151, 250

        Of President, qualifications of loyalty.......................   226

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        Of President, voting of, and count of the votes...............   219

        Of Senators, qualifications of............................. 236, 238

        Qualifications of Electors................................. 151, 152
    Electronic device.

        Personal, electronic office equipment forbidden in Chamber....   763

        Voting and quorum calls by............................... 771b, 774b
    Emancipation.

        Of slaves, no compensation for................................   232
    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................................. 919-921b

        Appointed by officers of the House............................   635

        Application of employment laws to legislative branch  See

            Congressional accountability.

        Clerk formerly disbursed pay of...............................   642

        Code of conduct for...........................................   939

        Compensation, retirement, and benefits, jurisdiction over.....  677a

        Sergeant-at-Arms responsible for conduct of his...............  650a

        Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to..................  677a

        Fair employment practices................................ 946a, 946b

        Former, admission of to floor.............................. 919, 921

        Of committees,  see Committee staffs.

        Of House, relations to claims.................................   937

        Non-discrimination in relation to................... 939, 946a, 946b

        To be assigned only to duties for which they are appointed....   635
    Enacting words, striking out.

        Rule relating to motion.......................................   875

        Practice as to use of motion..................................  876a
    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.  See Commerce, Committee on.
    Energy matters.  See also Nuclear energy.

        Jurisdiction over.

            Coastal zone management................................ 681, 686

            Commercial application of energy technology...............   674

            Conservation of energy resources..........................   674

            Energy information generally..............................   674

            Energy research and development...........................   683

            Interstate energy compacts................................   674

            Interstate transmission of power..........................   674

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            Mineral resources of public lands and mining..............   681

            National energy policy generally..........................   674

            Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves....................   680

            Water power...............................................   686
    Engagements.

        Validity of those entered into before adoption of Constitution   194
    Engrossment.

        Of a bill, question on, and procedure...................... 830, 832

        Properly done after a bill is amended.........................   428

        Reading in full not required............................... 830, 832

        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......................  634a

        Authority of pro tempore presiding officers to sign enrolled

            bills.....................................................   576

        Committee on House Oversight, duties in connection with....... 677c,

                                                                        697b

        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................................   726

        Report as to accuracy.........................................   625

        Signing of, for presentation to the President.................   575

        Signature vacated.............................................   625
    Enrolling clerk.

        To make no changes in text of a bill..........................   573
    Entry.

        Of yeas and nays on Journal...................................    75
    Enumeration.

        Of people for apportionment...................................    15

        Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to..............   140
    Environmental research and development.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   683
    Equal protection.

        Of law, guaranteed............................................   225
    Equity.

        Judicial power extends to all cases of........................   178

        Limitation of judicial power in suits of......................   218

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    Equivalent questions.  See Question.
    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 calender...........   742

        Correction of, in reference of bills, petitions, etc....... 853, 854

        Correction of, in reference of bills from Speaker's table...... 882,

                                                                         883

        Correction of, in the Journal by a committee..................   583

        In a yea-and-nay vote.........................................   766

        In bills sent to the President................................   110

        In vote by tellers............................................  630b

        Questions of privilege affect integrity of proceedings........   661

        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...............   936
    Ethics.

        Code of Official Conduct......................................   939

        Committee on Standards of Official Conduct................. 685, 726

        Financial disclosure..........................................   940

        Former Select Committee on....................................  943b

        Unofficial office accounts prohibited.........................   941

        Limitations on use of frank...................................   942

        Limitations on outside earned income..........................  943a
    Evidence.

        Methods of taking, by the House and committees.... 341-348, 711, 712

        Duties of committee clerks as to..............................   932
    Ex-Members.  See Former Members.
    Ex post facto law.

        None to be passed.............................................   139

        States not to pass............................................   146
    Examination.

        Of Members at bar of the House and before committees..........   346

        Of witnesses before committees and at the bar of the House....  343,

                                                               344, 711, 712

        Of witnesses in an impeachment................................   614

        Admission of counsel in.................................... 348, 712
    Exceptions.

        Power of Congress to make, as to jurisdiction of Supreme Court   179
    Excessive bail.

        Not to be required............................................   215

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    Excessive fines.

        Not to be imposed.............................................   215
    Excises.

        Power of Congress to lay and collect..........................   117

        To be uniform.................................................   117
    Exclusion.

        Of certain private bills......................................   852

        Of commemoratives.............................................   852

        Of Member for holding incompatible offices....................   101

        Of Member-elect for disqualification........................ 12, 205

        Of petitions, bills, etc., for cause...................... 849a, 853
    Excuses.  See also Absence.

        For absence at call of the House..............................   769

        Members to be present unless excused..........................   656

        Requests for leave of absence.................................   657
    Executive.  See also President.

        References to the President in debate.........................   370
    Executive communications.

        Transmission to House.........................................   936

        Reference of.......................................... 700, 882, 883
    Executive departments.  See also Departments.

        Appropriations Committee to study organization and operation

            of........................................................  692a

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to reorganization of.........   676

        No employees of, detailed to committee may be employed on

            professional staff except under certain conditions........   737

        Title 5, U.S.C. 3101; authority to authorize appropriation for

            salary of clerks, etc.....................................   837

        Resolutions of inquiry of................................... 855-859

        President may require opinions from officers of...............   161

        Privilege of, as to papers from files.........................   933

        Expenditures in, jurisdiction as to...........................   676
    Executive expenses.

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for............................  671a
    Executive of State.

        May apply for protection against domestic violence............   189

        Power to demand fugitives from justice........................   185
    Executive officers.

        Bound by oath to support the Constitution.....................   196
    Executive power.

        Vested in the President.......................................   149
    Exhibits.

        Use of in debate...................................... 622, 915, 916
    Expenditures.

        Of public money, account to be published......................   143

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    Experiment stations.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   670
    Explanation.

        Of Member called to order in debate...........................   760

        Personal, made by unanimous consent...........................   749
    Export controls.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   678
    Export duties.

        Forbidden.....................................................   141

        Limitation of right of State to lay duties on exports.........   147
    Expulsion.

        Power of the two Houses to punish by..................... 62, 64, 65

        Course of Member when subject to debate as to.................   375

        Of a Delegate, question as to.................................   740

        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

        Office of.....................................................  946a

        Required in House........................................ 946a, 946b
    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
    Farm Credit Administration.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   670
    Farm security.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   670
    Federal mandates

        Statements for conference reports relating to............ 911a, 1007

        Committee reports must contain effect of accompanying measures

            on................................. 703d, 713g, 713h, 748c, 1007

        Effective date of Unfunded Mandates Reform Act................  1007

        Motion to strike..............................................  873c

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        Question of consideration to dispose of points of order raised

            under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995........ 781, 1007

        Rules Committee activity report to include waivers relating to

                                                                  703d, 1007

        Rules Committee may not waive certain points of order under

            Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995......................  1007
    Felony.

        Conviction of Member for, non-participation in committee and

            House business............................................   939

        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.

        Custody of committee papers............................... 706c, 932

        Withdrawal of papers from.....................................   933
    Financial audits.

        By Inspector General..........................................   654

        House Officers to cooperate in performance of...... 647e, 650c, 651c

        Of House and joint entities...................................   654
    Financial disclosure.

        By Members, officers, principal assistants and committee

            professional staff........................................   940

        Ethics in Government Act......................................   940

        Financial audits of House and joint entities..................   654
    Fines.

        Excessive, not to be imposed..................................   215

        As condition of discharging Member arrested for absence.......    55
    First reading.

        Of bills, by title......................................... 830, 831

        Of a bill, obsolete requirement as to.........................   399
    Fisheries.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   681
    Five-minute rule.

        Applicability to committee hearings...........................   711

        Closing of debate under.......................................   874

        Committees may not sit during reading of bill under........ 324, 710

        Debate must be on the subject.................................   752

        Debate on motion to dispense with Calendar Wednesday..........   897

        Debate on amendments submitted in advance and printed in

            Record....................................................   874

        Debate on appeal in Committee of the Whole....................   628

        Reading and amendment of bills under..........................   872

        Pro forma amendments..........................................  873a

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    Fix the day and hour, motion to.

        To which the House shall adjourn, conditions of............ 782, 784
    Flag.

        Jurisdiction of, subject of...................................  679b

        Pledge of Allegiance..........................................   878
    Flood control.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   686
    Floor.

        Abuse of privilege of.........................................   920

        Admission of representative of press and radio to........ 930a, 930b

        Admission when the House is not sitting.......................  921a

        Decorum of Members on,  see Decorum.

        Duty of Sergeant-at-Arms to clear, of nonprivileged persons...  650a

        Exhibits, use of,  see Exhibits.

        Persons and officials admitted during sessions of the House.... 919,

                                                                  921a, 921b

        Sergeant-at-Arms enforces rules relating to privilege of......  650a

        Speaker preserves order on................................. 331, 622

        Yielding of, in debate,  see Debate.
    Food programs for children in schools.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   675
    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.........   678

        International economic policy, jurisdiction over..............   678

        International education, jurisdiction over....................   678

        International financial and monetary organizations,

            jurisdiction over...................................... 672, 693

        International fishing agreements, jurisdiction over........ 681, 693

        International waters, jurisdiction over.......................   678

        Non-proliferation and nuclear export agreements...............   678

        President's relations to......................................   165
    Foreign Affairs, Committee on.  See International Relations, Committee

        on.
    Foreign coin.

        Congress to regulate value of.................................   121
    Foreign gifts and decorations.

        Law regulating acceptance of by persons holding office of

            trust or profit under the United States...................   145
    Foreign ministers.

        Admitted to the floor of the House............................   919

        Gallery for use of............................................   922

        Foreign national, gifts from..................................   939

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    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, et cetera, from, to be accepted on conditions..   144
    Forest reserves.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.......................... 670, 681
    Forestry.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   670
    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........................................   629

            On question of consideration..............................   778

            On engrossment and third reading of a bill................   830

            On the passage of a bill..................................   499

        Of resolutions:

            Of inquiry................................................   856

        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.........................   788
    Forts.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680

        Power of Congress over places purchased for...................   134
    Forty minutes' debate.

        After previous question is ordered without debate.......... 805, 907

        On motion to reject non-germane Senate amendment..............  913c

        On motion to suspend the rules................................   907

        On non-germane provisions in conference report................  913b

        Recognition in................................................   756
    Fourteen days.

        Discharge of resolutions of inquiry......................... 855-858
    Franking privilege.

        Law as to.....................................................   987

        Limitation on use of..........................................   942
    Fraud.

        In introduction of a bill.....................................   851

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    Free conference.

        Parliamentary law as to.......................................   539

        In modern practice............................................   540

        Usage as to...................................................   557
    Freedom.

        Of religion, speech, the press, and right of assembly and

            petition..................................................   208
    Freedmen's Hospital.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   675
    Fugitives.

        From justice, extradition of..................................   185

        From service or labor, return of..............................   186
    Gallaudet College.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   675
    Galleries.

        As to right to demand clearing of.............................   382

        Distribution, admission and control of........................   922

        Members may not introduce occupants in, to House..............   764

        Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to Order in....  861a

        Speaker may order, to be cleared..............................   622

        The Press Gallery.............................................  930a

        The Radio/TV Gallery..........................................  930b
    General Accounting Office, assistance to committees...............   989
    General appropriation bills.  See Appropriations.
    General Counsel.

        Office of.....................................................  634e
    General debate.  See Debate.
    General revenue sharing.

        Jurisdiction over.............................................   676
    General Services Administrator.

        Bills that become law deposited with....................... 105, 109

        Noncurrent records deposited with by clerk....................   932
    General welfare.

        Power of Congress to provide for..............................   117
    Geological survey.

        Jurisdiction of legislation relating to.......................   681
    Germane.

        Amendments required to be germane.............................   794

        Amendment being considered, which would have been subject to a

            point of order, may be perfected by amendments germane to

            it........................................................   842

        Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications, and

            limitations...............................................   800

        Amendments to bills amending existing law.....................   799

        Burden of proof as to germaneness.............................   794

        Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.................  798c

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        Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness....................  798b

        A general provision not germane to a specific subject.........  798f

        Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must be

            germane...................................................   796

        One individual proposition not germane to another.............  798e

        Parliamentary law as to germaneness...........................   467

        Proposition to which amendment must be germane................   795

        Senate amendments and matter contained in conference reports,

            separate vote if not germane.................... 797, 913b, 913c

        Specific subjects germane to general propositions of the class  798g

        Subject matter as test of germaneness.........................  798a

        Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive................  798d

        Gifts...................................................... 939, 940
    Government.

        Economy and efficiency in, jurisdiction over..................   676

        Intergovernmental relationships, jurisdiction over............   676

        Republican form of, guaranteed to the States..................   189

        Right of people to petition...................................   208
    Government Operations, Committee on.  See Government Reform and

        Oversight, Committee on.
    Government Reform and Oversight, Committee on.

        History and jurisdiction of...................................   676

        General oversight functions of............................ 692b, 696

        Oversight findings of to be included in reports of other

            committees................................................  713e

        Responsibility as to commemoratives...........................   852
    Government, seat of.

        Power of President to convene Congress at another place.......   171

        Power of Congress to legislate for............................   134
    Governors of States.

        Admitted to the floor of the House............................   919

        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.......................   686
    Guam.

        Delegate from, powers and privileges of,  see Delegates.

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    Habeas corpus.

        Suspension of writ of.........................................   138
    Hall of the House.

        Abuse of privilege of the floor...............................   920

        Admission to,  see Floor.

        Sergeant-at-Arms enforces rules relating to privileges of.....  650a

        Sergeant-at-Arms' duty to keep room over, clear of persons....  650a

        Electoral count held in.......................................   220

        Rules as to use of............................................   918

        Speaker's control of..........................................   623

        The various galleries and admission thereto,  see Galleries.
    Harbors.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to the improvement of.......   686
    Hatch Act.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   676
    Hats.

        Not to be worn by Members in the House..................... 377, 763
    Heads of departments.  See also Departments.

        Admitted to the floor of the House............................   919

        Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers in.   166

        Gallery for use of Cabinet....................................   922

        Rule for reference of papers from.......................... 882, 883
    Health.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to generally...............   674

        Care and facilities supported by general revenues,

            jurisdiction over.........................................   674

        Care supported by payroll deductions, jurisdiction over.......   688

        Biomedical research and development, jurisdiction over........   674

        Public health and quarantine, jurisdiction over...............   674

        Veterans' health care, jurisdiction over......................   687

        Human nutrition, jurisdiction over............................   670
    Hearings.

        Exclusion of Members and public from..........................   708

        Five-minute rule when examining witnesses in..................   711

        On appropriation bills hearings and reports to be available 3

            days in advance of consideration..........................   848

        Rules to be adhered to in............................ 694b, 708, 712
    High crimes and misdemeanors.

        Impeachable offenses..........................................   173

        As to what are............................................. 175, 176
    High seas.

        Punishment of piracies and felonies on........................   126
    Hissing.

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    .......................................................................
    Holidays and celebrations.
        Not in order during debate....................................   364
    Historian.................................................... 634d, 996a

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   676
    Holman rule.

        Decisions under Holman rule (in brief)........................  844a
    Homes, soldiers'.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680

        Honorarium........................................... 939, 940, 943a
    Hour of meeting.

        Speaker takes Chair at........................................   621

        Fixed at 12 m until 95th Congress.............................   621

        Standing order as to, expires with the session................   386

        Jurisdiction of orders as to daily............................  682a

        Motion to fix.............................................. 782, 784
    Hour rule.

        Of debate.....................................................   758
    House Oversight, Committee on.

        History, jurisdiction, and duties of...................... 677a, 697

        Authority to adjust allowances of members and committees......86, 88

        Authority to implement Fair Labor Standards Act in House......  946a

        Availability for one day of reports on committee expense

            resolutions..................................... 716, 732b, 732c

        Chairman and four members serve on Joint Committee on the

            Library...................................................   985

        Chairman and four members serve on Joint Committee on Printing   986

        Details to committees from government agencies permitted by...   737

        Duty as to relations of officers and employees to claims......   937

        Duty as to direction of officers..............................  697c

        Duty as to enrolled bills.....................................  697b

        Duty as to termination of LSOs........................... D88a, 697c

        Former Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight...............   693

        Oversight responsibilities....................................  692b

        Privileged reports from.......................................   726

        Reports on committee expense resolutions................. 732a, 732b

        Reports on election cases.....................................   726

        Responsibilities relating to committee staff.............. 734b, 737
    House as in Committee of the Whole.

        Procedure in................................................ 424-427

        Procedure in generally applicable to House committees..... 407, 704b
    House Calendar.

        Certain bills placed on, to await action of House.............   742

        Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday....................   897

        Bills on, considered during ``Morning Hour''..................   889

        Bills from, on Corrections Calendar...........................   746
    House of Representatives.

        Part of Congress..............................................     3

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        Accounts, jurisdiction of matters relating to.................  677a

        Assignment of rooms in office buildings.......................   984

        Attendance of, at an impeachment trial........................   617

        Authority as to treaties.................................... 594-599

        Bicentennial, Office of.......................................  634d

        Bills for raising revenue to originate in....................... 102

        Choice of President by..................................... 221, 222

        Chooses Speaker and other officers....................... 26-30, 635

        Composed of Members chosen by people..........................   5-7

        Confirms nomination of Vice President.........................   253

        Contingent fund, leave to report on expenditures at any time..   726

        Contingent fund, jurisdiction of matters relating to..........  677a

        Door of, kept by Sergeant-at-Arms......................... 380, 650a

        Early organization of.........................................   997

        Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..................   219

        Employment of persons, jurisdiction of matters relating to....  677a

        Has power of impeachment......................................    31

        Historian for.................................................  634d

        Indecent language against, not permitted in debate............   360

        Its power to make rules....................................... 58-60

        Leadership, compensation and emoluments of....................86, 89

        Library, jurisdiction of matters relating to..................  677a

        May it prescribe qualifications of Members?...................    12

        Meets at 12 m.................................................6, 621

        Members,  see Members.

        Officers,  see Officers.

        Power of President to convene or adjourn......................   171

        Power to punish and expel its Members......................... 62-66

        Questions of privilege affecting........................... 661, 662

        Required to keep a Journal....................................    68

        Rules,  see Rules.

        Services, jurisdiction of matters relating to.................  677a

        Use of Hall of................................................   918

        Vacancies in.................................................. 17-25
    House office buildings.

        Administration of, jurisdiction of matters relating to........  677a

        Assignment of rooms in........................................   988

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   686
    House restaurant.  See Restaurant.
    Houses.

        Of Congress.

        Provisions of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946

            applicable to both...................................... 947-949

            Bill from one laid on the table in the other..............   520

            Communicate fact of rejection of a bill...................   568

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            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

            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, etc..............................    46

            Information transmitted as to bills.......................   520

            Messages between to be sent only when both are sitting....   570

            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 perogatives 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
    Housing.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to public and private........   672
    Howard University.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   675
    Immigration.

        Power of Congress over........................................   137
    Immigration and naturalization.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relative to..........................  679a
    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

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        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

        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.

        Limitation of right of States to lay duties on................   147
    Imposts.

        Power of Congress to lay and collect..........................   117

        To be uniform.................................................   117

        Limitations on rights of States to lay........................   147

        Net results of, to go to Treasury of United States............   147
    Impoundment.

        Control Act of 1974......................................... 1013(6)

        Impoundment resolutions, definitions and procedures for

            consideration of........................................ 1013(6)

        Deferral of appropriations, jurisdiction over............ 671a, 671b
    Imprisonment.

        Of person who assaulted a Member..............................    91

        As to termination of an order of..............................   386
    Inability.

        Of President or Vice President of United States....... 155, 254, 255

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        Of  President-elect  or  Vice President-elect  of  the  United

            States....................................................   244
    Inauguration.

        Ceremonies of.................................................   159

        Of President when day falls on Sunday.........................   150
    Income.

        Limitation on outside earned..................................   943
    Incompatible offices.

        Relation of Members to....................................... 97-101

        As to what are................................................    98

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................  679a
    Indefinite postponement.

        Use of the motion for.........................................   443
    Index.

        Of the Journal, Clerk to make.................................   641
    Indians.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to....................... 675, 681

        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.

        Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...................   212

        As related to impeachment.....................................    41
    Informal rising.

        Of Committee of the Whole to receive a message................   330
    Information.

        Classified, oath not to disclose..............................   939

        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
    Inland waterways.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   686
    Inquiry.

        Resolution of.

            As related to the Executive...............................   859

            Discharge of committee from...............................   858

            Form and delivery of......................................   856

            Privileged status of......................................   857

            Rule relating to..........................................   855

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        For an investigation.  See Investigations.

            Procedure when it involves a Member or a Senator........ 321-323

        Parliamentary.

            No appeal from responses to...............................   628
    Insert, motion to.

        Effect of affirmative vote on motion to strike out and........   473

        Matter to be inserted divisible...............................   792

        Perfecting before voting on...................................   469

        Putting question to strike out and............................   470

        Repetition of the motion to strike out and....................   471

        To strike out and insert not divisible........................   792
    Insist, motion to.

        Effect of, on stage of disagreement...........................  828b

        Insisting and adhering in the practice of the House... 522, 528-528d

        Not equivalent of receding or adhering when decided in the

            negative..................................................   488

        On nongermane matter in conference reports and amendments in

            disagreement......................................... 913b, 913c

        On amendments in disagreement on appropriation bills

            containing legislation....................................  912c

        Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting, and

            adhering..................................................   521

        Precedence of....................... 486, 528-528d, 912c, 913b, 913c
    Inspection laws.

        Rights of States to levy duties or imposts, to execute........   147
    Inspector General.

        Office of.....................................................   654
    Instructions.

        As related to motion to refer.................................   788

        Debate on motion to recommit with.............................   782

        Formal motion instructing committee to report a bill..........   908

        Duty of a committee when a report is recommitted with.........   420

        In order with motion to commit after previous question is

            moved.....................................................   804

        Method of dividing a bill by motion to recommit with..........   476

        Minority has prior right to recognition.......................   541

        Motions for instructions, offering of.........................   541

        Practice as to, in conferences............................. 541, 557

        Speaker does not usually decide as to whether or not

            committees have followed..................................   627

        To limit freedom of a conference..............................   540
    Insular affairs.

        Jurisdiction of revenue matters...............................   688

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...............   681

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    Insult.

        Member censured for, to the House.............................    63

        Bills or petitions excluded for being insulting............ 849, 853
    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...................................  944a

        Procedures for disclosure of classified information....... 939, 944a
    Interest.

        Disqualifying personal, as to voting.................. 376, 657, 658
    Intergovernmental cooperation, jurisdiction over..................   676
    Internal Revenue Taxation, Joint Committee on.....................   984
    Internal security.

        Jurisdiction over.............................................  679b
    International Relations, Committee on.

        History and jurisdiction of...................................   678

        Special oversight functions of................................   693

        Reports private bills.........................................   845
    Interoceanic canals.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Interruptions.

        Procedure as to, during debate................................   364

        Member having the floor not to be interrupted by motions, etc.   750

        Of Member having the floor in debate..........................   749

        Of Member having the floor, by a call to order................   393

        Of business or debate, by conference report...................   909

        Of a roll call................................................   767

        Of roll call by recess not permitted..........................   586

        Of the call of committees.....................................   890
    Interstate commerce.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   674
    Interstate Commerce Commission, jurisdiction over.................   686
    Interstate compacts.

        Jurisdiction of, generally....................................  679a

        Jurisdiction of interstate, relating to apportionment of

            waters for irrigation purposes............................   681

        Jurisdiction of, over interstate energy.......................   674
    Intervening questions.

        Certain privileged, to interrupt the order of business..... 879, 881

        Of order......................................................   457

        Precedence of questions of privilege.............. 458, 661, 664-666

        Private business in the order of business on Tuesday..........   893

        Privilege of conference reports...............................   909

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        Questions as to reading of papers.............................   459
    Intoxicating liquors.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to interstate commerce in......  679a

        Jurisdiction as to sale of, in District of Columbia...........   676

        Transportation and importation under the 21st amendment.......   248
    Introducer.

        Right of, to speak twice......................................   762

        Right of, to close debate on amendment considered under five-

            minute rule...............................................   762
    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.

        House's power of..............................................   295

        Admission of counsel....................................... 348, 712

        Appropriations Committee studies organization and operation of

            Government agencies.......................................  692a

        By the House with a view to impeachment.......................   606

        Common fame as a ground for...................................   341

        Earlier and later practice as to, inquiries at the bar of the

            House.....................................................   344

        Examination of witnesses in House and committee....... 343, 711, 712

        Examination of witnesses in an impeachment....................   614

        Jurisdiction of resolutions ordering..........................  682a

        Members as witnesses..........................................   346

        Method of obtaining testimony of a Member of the other House..   347

        Oversight investigations.................................... 692-696

        Power of committees and subcommittees to make.................   718

        Production of witnesses at....................................   342

        Procedure for executive session in committees.............. 708, 712

        Procedure when a Member or Senator is involved.............. 321-323

        Procuring attendance of a witness in custody of the other

            House.....................................................   345

        Subpoenas may be issued by committees and subcommittees.......   718

        Witnesses before committees making must file written

            statements of proposed testimony..........................   712
    Involuntary servitude.

        Not to exist except for punishment for crime..................   224
    Irrigation and reclamation.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   681

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    Island possessions.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   681
    Jefferson's Manual.

        As source of general parliamentary law........................    60

        Part of rules of House........................................   938

        Purposes and methods of preparation of (footnote).............   283

        Text of..................................................... 283-620
    Jeopardy.

        Of life and limb, not to occur twice..........................   212
    Joint committees.

        Authorized by concurrent resolutions..........................   396

        Conferences held by means of..................................   532

        Expiration of select..........................................   419

        Economic......................................................   983

        Internal Revenue Taxation.....................................   984

        Library.......................................................   985

        Printing......................................................   986

        Quorum, chairman, and voting in...............................   325
    Joint resolutions.

        Nature and use of.............................................   397

        Clerk certifies to passage of.................................   642

        For amendments to Constitution, not approved by President.....   115

        Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment or passage...   792

        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............................................  682a

        Abrogated................................................... 61, 316

        Reference to..................................................   938
    Joint sponsorship.

        Of public bills, resolutions, and memorials...................   854
    Journal.

        The official record.

            Clerk to print and distribute.............................   641

            House required to keep and publish........................    68

            Not to go out of Clerk's custody..........................   352

            Secrecy of portions of....................................    68

            The official record..................................... 69, 582

        Entries in.

            Record of proceedings only................................    70

            Clerk to note questions of order in.................... 627, 641

            Conditions under which reports are printed in.............   422

            Control of House over.....................................    71

            Of amendments.............................................   580

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            Of certain messages.......................................   935

            Of conference reports.....................................   542

            Of hour of adjournment....................................   790

            Of introduction of bills, petitions, resolutions, etc., in   849

            Of Members noted to make a quorum.........................   772

            Of messages from President................................   884

            Of motions................................................   775

            Of motions (obsolete provisions as to)....................   578

            Of motions to discharge committees........................   908

            Of names of absentees when quorum fails in Committee of

                the Whole.............................................   863

            Of names of Members appearing during call of the House....   768

            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 recorded teller votes in Committee of the Whole or in

                House.................................................   630

            Of reference of public bills, memorials, etc........... 854, 860

            Of report of enrolled bills presented to the President....   577

            Of titles of reported bills...............................   743

            Of votes in, 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, 774c

            Words of censure..........................................    63

        Reading of.

            For approval..............................................   621

            As related to quorum................................... 55, 774c

            Business not transacted before............................   621

            Disorder during...........................................   621

            Interruption of...........................................   621

            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

            Place in order of business................................   878

            Reading of, not interrupted by conference report..........   909

            Reading of, may be interrupted by a question of privilege.   665

        Amendment and approval.

            Amendment of............................................ 74, 621

            Approval of, by House................................... 73, 621

            Correction of, through a committee........................   583

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            Postponement of record vote on, approval of...............   631

            Preliminary approval by Speaker...........................   621
    Judge.

        Each House judge of elections, etc............................    46
    Judges.

        Bound by Constitution and laws................................   195

        Of Supreme Court, President appoints..........................   166

        Of Supreme Court, admitted to the floor.......................   919

        Of Supreme Court, gallery for use of..........................   922

        Tenure and compensation of....................................   177

        As to impeachable offenses by............................... 174-176
    Judgment.

        In impeachments............................................. 41, 619
    Judicial expenses.

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for............................  671a
    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

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Judiciary, Committee on the.

        History and jurisdiction of.............................. 679a, 679b

        Reports private claims bills.............................. 679a, 845

        Records transferred to from former Committee on Internal

            Security..................................................  679b
    Jurisdiction.

        Of committees of the House.

            Conferred by uncorrected error in reference of public bill   854

            Not conferred by erroneous reference of private bill......   853

            Of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.........  944a

            Referrals to assure each committee opportunity to report

                on subjects within....................................   700

        Of the standing committees, severally.

            Agriculture...............................................   670

            Appropriations............................................   671

            Banking and Financial Services............................   672

            Budget....................................................   673

            Commerce..................................................   674

            District of Columbia, former Committee on.................   676

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            Economic and Educational Opportunities....................   675

            Government Reform and Oversight...........................   676

            House Oversight...........................................   677

            International Relations...................................   678

            Judiciary............................................ 679a, 679b

            Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on.... 680, 681,

                                                                    683, 686

            National Security.........................................   680

            Post Office and Civil Service, former Committee on........   676

            Resources.................................................   681

            Rules.....................................................   682

            Science...................................................   683

            Small Business............................................   684

            Standards of Official Conduct.............................   685

            Transportation and Infrastructure.........................   686

            Veterans' Affairs.........................................   687

            Ways and Means............................................   688

        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.

        An object of the Constitution.................................     1

        Extradition of fugitives from.................................   185
    Kings.

        Gifts, titles, etc., from, to be accepted on conditions.......   144
    Labor.

        Return of fugitives from......................................   186

        Jurisdiction of regulation or prevention of importation of

            contract labor............................................   675

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to transportation labor......   686

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...............   675
    Land forces.

        Congress to make rules for....................................   131

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    Lands.

        Indian, jurisdiction as to....................................   681

        Irrigation of, jurisdiction as to.............................   681

        Judicial power extends to cases affecting certain grants......   178

        Jurisdiction as to occupied or improved grounds...............   686

        Jurisdiction of private claims to.......................... 679, 845

        Mineral, jurisdiction of matters relating to..................   681

        Public, jurisdiction of matters relating to...................   681
    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...  679a

            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......................................  1013

            Relation of, to power to determine rules.......... 59, 388, 1013

            Revision of, jurisdiction of subjects relating to.........  679a

            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 the parliamentary....   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

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            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

            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.....................   919
    Law Revision Counsel.

        Office of, establishment and duties of........................   996
    Lay on the table, motion to.

        Conditions, precedence, and effect of.

            Precedence and general effect and conditions of........ 782, 785

            Conditions of, repetition of..............................   789

            Effect of, as to main question and secondary questions....   785

            May intervene before Member in charge begins debate.......   756

            Not debatable.............................................   782

            Not in order in Committee of the Whole....................   785

            Older and modern use of...................................   445

        Relations to other motions.

            May be applied to other secondary motions.................   785

            Not in order after previous question is ordered...........   785

            Relations of, to motion to reconsider.....................   818

            Relations of, to the previous question....................   809

        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

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    Leave to print.

        In Congressional Record.......................................   929
    Leave to report at any time.

        By certain committees on specific matters.....................   726
    Leaves of absence.  See also Absence.

        Presentation of requests for..................................   657

        Revoked, but not granted during call of the House.............   769
    Legal tender.

        States restricted as to making................................   146
    Legislation.  See also Appropriation Bills.

        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 of the Constitution.......................  224,

                                                                    233, 234

        Territorial, revision of, jurisdiction as to..................   681
    Legislative call system...........................................   765
    Legislative Counsel.

        Office of.....................................................   992
    Legislative day.

        Speaker takes Chair on each...................................   621

        Journal dated as of...........................................    69
    Legislative expenses.

        Jurisdiction of appropriations for............................  671a
    Legislative oversight.

        By standing committees...................................... 692-696
    Legislative powers.  See also Congress, powers of.

        Of Congress................................................ 117, 136

        Vested in Congress............................................     3
    Legislative service organizations.................................  88a.
    Legislative veto.

        Laws providing mechanisms for Congressional disapproval.......  1013
    Legislatures of States.

        Function of, in prescribing times, etc., 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.

        An object of the Constitution.................................     1

        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..................................   949

        Of Congress, admitted to floor................................   919

        Assistant in Law Library admitted to floor of House...........   919
    Library.

        In general.

            See also Congressional Research Service...................

            Of Congress, jurisdiction of Committee on House Oversight

                as to.................................................  677d

            Of Congress, jurisdiction of matters relating to buildings

                and grounds...........................................   686

            Of Clerk's office, certain books and documents to be

                retained in...........................................   641

            Congressional Research Service established in.............   991

            Preserves committee hearings..............................   949

        Joint Committee on.

            Membership on.............................................   985
    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
    Lighthouses.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   686
    Limit of cost.

        On public works...............................................   838
    Limitations.  See also Appropriation bills.

        On general appropriation bills................. 834b-834d, 843a-843c

        On outside earned income......................................  943a

        On use of frank...............................................   942
    Lists.

        Presidential electors to make certain.........................   219
    Loans (foreign).

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to................. 678, 679a, 679b

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    Lobby.

        Speaker may order, to be cleared..............................   622

        Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to order in....  861a
    Lobbying.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................  679b
    Lobbyists.

        Gifts from................................................. 939, 940
    Loss.

        Of slaves not to be compensated...............................   232

        Of a bill.....................................................   352
    Loyalty.

        As related to the oath and qualifications.................. 205, 230

        Removal of disabilities as to.................................   231
    Mace.

        Symbol of Sergeant-at-Arms....................................   650
    Magazines.

        Power of Congress over places purchased for...................   134
    Mail.

        Delivery of............................................... 654, 654a
    Mail service.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   676
    Main question.

        Member who has spoken to, may speak to an amendment also......   762
    Majority.

        Required in elections.

            Necessary for election on ballot vote.....................   934

            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, 708, 713c, 718

            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...........   900

            Required to send bill to conference on motion.......... 827, 828

            Rules to be a restraint on................................   283

            Special requirements as to two-thirds vote................   509
    Managers of a conference.  See Conference.
    Manner of elections.

        Regulation of.................................................42, 43
    Manual, Jefferson's.  See Jefferson's Manual.
    Marine affairs.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   681

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    Marine hospitals.

        Jurisdiction as to............................................   674
    Maritime jurisdiction.

        Judicial power extends to cases of............................   178
    Marque, letters of.

        Congress to grant.............................................   127

        States not to grant...........................................   146
    Mass mailing.

        Franking of...................................................   942
    Measures.

        Congress to fix standard of...................................   121

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   683
    Meeting.

        Of Congress.

            Once every year......................................... 45, 242

            Laws appointing different day for.........................   243

            Power of President to convene.............................   171

            Other power to convene....................................   171

            Time of...................................................     6

            Jurisdiction of bills to change date of...................  679a

            Duties of Clerk at organization of the House............ 637-639

            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..............................  682a

        Of committees, etc.

            Of committees..................................... 407, 705, 718

            Committees may not sit during five-minute rule......... 324, 710

            Of managers of a conference...............................   548

            Of presidential electors in the several States............   262

            Power to sit and act inside United States.................   718

            When chairman refuses to call.............................   705
    Members.

        Election of.  See Elections  and Contested elections.

        Vacancies by death, resignation, etc.  See Vacancies.

        Qualifications of.  See Qualifications.

        Relations of, to oaths.  See Oath.

        Compensation, seats, rooms, clerks, etc.

            Admission to floor of House.  See Floor...................

            Clerk to distribute certain documents to..................   641

            Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of................   642

            Clerk to furnish to, a list of certain reports............   640

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            Committee on House Oversight may adjust certain allowances86, 88

            Compensation of...................................... 85-88, 258

            Compensation may not vary until intervening Congress......   258

            Family and card galleries for use of......................   922

            Franking privilege..................................... 942, 987

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................  677a

            Jurisdiction over travel matters of.......................  677a

            Mileage of, determined by a committee.................. 85, 677a

            Non-discrimination in employment by.......................   939

            Official expenses allowances..............................    88

            Outside earned income of..................................  943a

            Rooms of, in office building..............................   988

            Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed pay and mileage of....   648

            Stationery and clerk hire.................................    88

            Travel on official business, designation by Speaker.......  634b

            Unofficial office allowances prohibited...................   941

        Privilege of.

            Questions of privilege affecting, defined by rule.........   661

            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, 946

            Discussion of privilege of Members........................   663

            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 debate92, 93

            Scope of privilege of speech and debate...................    93

            Parliamentary law as to questioning for speech or debate..   302

            Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason,

                felony, etc...........................................   305

            Power of the House to punish for attempts against...... 293, 299

            Precedence of questions of personal privilege.............   666

            Privilege of, of Parliament...............................   287

            Raising questions of privilege............................   668

            Relations of, to privilege................................   301

            Relations of the courts to parliamentary privilege........   303

            Rule for responding to subpoenas..........................   946

            Relations of sovereign to members of Parliament...........   309

            Status of Member-elect as to..............................   300

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        Attendance of.

            At committee meetings when House is in session.............. 710

            Count of, to secure a quorum of record....................   772

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  679a

            Leaves of absence.........................................   657

            May be compelled to attend................................    52

            Names of absent, reported when quorum fails in Committee

                of the Whole..........................................   863

            Required by rule to be present............................   656

            Secured by call of the House..................... 768, 773, 774b

        Decorum of.  See Decorum.

        Introduction of bills and petitions by.

            Certain private bills banned..............................   852

            Commemoratives banned.....................................   852

            Co-sponsorship............................................   854

            Duties of, in presenting petitions........................  849a

            Excluded bills, petitions, etc., returned to.......... 849a, 853

            Introduction and reference of private bills, petitions,

                etc., by..............................................  849a

            Introduction of public bills, memorials, etc., by.........   854

            Original signature of prime sponsor required..............   851

        In debate.  See Debate.

        Right to seat.

            Leave to report matters relating to at any time...........   726

        Rights of, as to motion.

            Conditions of motion to reconsider by.................. 812, 813

            In charge of bill, relations of, to previous question.....   807

            Motions reduced to writing on demand of...................   775

            Rights of, as to motions to discharge committees..........   908

            Rights of, as to motions to suspend the rules.......... 902, 905

            Rights to demand question of consideration................   778

        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, 916, 917

            Right of, to have read once paper on which vote is to be

                taken.............................................. 432, 916

            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...................   708

            Impeachment may be instituted on responsibility of........   603

            May appeal from decisions of Speaker................... 624, 628

            May not enter protests on the Journal.....................    70

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            Right of, to cause a secret session.......................   914

            Right of, as to calling up bills taken from committees on

                motions to discharge..................................   908

            Rights of, as to placing adverse reports on the calendar..   744

            Rights of, to demand the execution of a subsisting order

                                                                    381, 881

            Rights of, to inspect the Journal.........................   582

            Rights of, access to committee files......................  706c

        Voting of.

            Absent Members' votes not announced.......................   658

            Change of vote by..................................... 766, 774b

            Control of vote by........................................   658

            Disqualifying personal interest................... 376, 657, 659

            Former duty of, to serve as teller........................  630b

            Duty of, to verify vote cast by electronic device.........  774b

            Examination of, at hearing at the bar of the House and

                before committees.....................................   346

            May demand division of the question.......................   791

            May demand count of Members to make quorum on record vote.   772

            May not authorize any other individual to cast his vote or

                record his presence...................................  660b

            Method of calling on yea-and-nay vote.....................   765

            Pairs of..................................................  660a

            Parliamentary law as to duty of, to vote..................   505

            Parliamentary law as to change of vote by.................   511

            Procuring attendance of, from the other House for

                testimony.............................................   347

            Required to vote..........................................   656

            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 convicted of crime...................................   939

            When involved in the cause of an inquiry................ 321-323

            When involved in the course of an inquiry............... 321-323

            Yeas and nays of, taken on demand of one-fifth............    75

        In general.

            Memorial Day for deceased, jurisdiction of matters

                relating to...........................................  677a
    Members-elect.

        Admitted to floor of the House................................   919

        Election of, to an incompatible office........................    99

        Expulsion of..................................................    64

        Franking privilege............................................   987

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        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, etc......   300
    Memorials.

        Introduction and reference of........................ 700, 849a, 854

        Correction of reference of................................. 853, 854

        Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...................  849a

        Exclusion of..................................................   853

        Introduction by request.......................................   860

        Nature of.....................................................   389
    Merchant marine.

        Jurisdiction of, subjects relating to...................... 680, 686
    Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on.

        Former jurisdiction transferred.................. 680, 681, 683, 686
    Messages.

        Usages as to.

            As to neglected bills.....................................   570

            At organization of two Houses.............................    56

            Between the Houses as to vetoed bills.....................   106

            Certain, entered in Journal and Record....................   935

            Certain required by law...................................   169

            Confidential, from the President or Senate................   914

            Correction and return of messages.........................   565

            Disposal of messages after reception......................   566

            From the Senate, reference of.......................... 882, 883

            From the Senate, Clerk may receive in adjournment.........   647

            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

            Questions asked by conference, not by message.............   569

            Quorum not required during receipt of.....................  774c

            Received during a roll call...............................   767

            Received, but not read in absence of quorum...............    55

            Received during debate....................................   561

            Reception during voting, absence of a quorum, etc.........   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................  647a

            To Congress....................................... 168, 169, 571

            Notice of approval of bills by President sent by..........   106

            Reception and action on...................................   170

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            Reading and action on, when bill is vetoed................   107

            Entered on Journal and Record.............................   884

            Rule of reference of.................................... 882-884

            Reference and distribution of annual......................   884

            Ways and Means considers distribution of President's

                annual (obsolete).....................................   725
    Metric system.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   683
    Migration.

        Of persons, power of Congress as to...........................   137
    Mileage.

        Allowance of.

            Of Representatives........................................    86

            Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed.......................   648

            Committee on House Oversight ascertains...................  677a
    Military academy.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Military affairs.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680
    Military bases.

        Disapproval procedures relating to closures and realignments

            of..................................................... 1013(29)
    Military and naval records.

        Bills to correct, banned......................................   852
    Military parks.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   681
    Military reservations.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Militia.

        Status of.

            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
    Minerals.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   681
    Miners, welfare of.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to........................ 675, 681
    Mines and mining.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   681
    Ministers, public.

        Duty of President to receive..................................   172

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        Foreign, admitted to the floor of the House...................   919

        Gallery for use of foreign....................................   922

        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........................... 912a, 912b

        Of managers of a conference may not submit a report...........   543

        Reference of views of, on committee reports to Calendar.......   743

        Rules for the protection of...................................   283

        Signing and filing of views of............................. 821, 714
    Mints.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    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..........................   902

        Second and fourth, for District of Columbia bills and motions

            to discharge committees................................ 899, 908
    Money.

        Account of public, to be published............................   143

        Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865, 868

        Congress to coin and regulate the value of....................   121

        Jurisdiction over deposit of public...........................   688

        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........................................   676

        Public bills appropriating, placed on Union Calendar..........   742

        States not to coin or issue...................................   146
    Monuments.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    Morning hour.

        Rule and practice for consideration of bills in............ 889, 890

        For call of committees, place of, in order of business........   878

        Unfinished business in........................................   888

        Interruption of............................................ 891, 892

        Debates.......................................................  753b

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    Motions.

        In general.

            Calls for orders of the day, etc., obsolete...............   393

            Certain, only in order of absence of quorum............. 55, 769

            Conditions of withdrawal..................................   776

            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.......................   749

            In order during call of the House..................... 771, 774a

            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, 776

            Reduced to writing and entered on the Journal.............   775

            Repetition of motions.....................................   789

            Second not required for ordinary..........................   392

            Usually required before debate may proceed................   749

        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.......................   874

            Dilatory motions not admitted pending motion to suspend

                the rules.............................................   801

            Forbidden pending report from Committee on Rules..... 729a, 729b

            Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as......    77

            To be ruled out generally.................................   803

        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...................................   871

            To reconsider, not used in Committee of the Whole.........   416

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            To strike out enacting words........................... 875-876a

            Those in order in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''

                                                                     425-427

            To rise and report at conclusion of reading general

                appropriation bill....................................  834d

        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............................................  1013

            Matters of privilege as intervening business....... 458, 664-666

            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............................ 782-788

            Privileged interruptions of daily order of business.... 879, 880

            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; and Reference.

            Amend, motion to; and Amendments.

        Question of consideration.  See Consideration, question of.

        Motion to recommit.  See Recommit, motion to, and 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 and Conferences.

        Motions relating to reading of papers and amendments.  See Reading.

        Motion to discharge a committee.  See Discharge.

        Miscellaneous motions, etc.  See also Privileged questions.

            By Majority Leader to permit committee sittings during

                five-minute rule......................................   710

            For a recess........................................... 586, 782

            For a recess in committee.................................  703a

            Motion to strike Federal unfunded mandate.................  873c

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            To read the Journal.......................................   621

            To rescind a special order not privileged under the rules.  682b
    Motives.

        Of members not to be arraigned................................   363
    Mover.

        Right of, to speak twice......................................   762

        Right to close debate on amendment considered under five-

            minute rule...............................................   762
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and National Space

        Council.

        Jurisdiction of...............................................   683
    National Archives.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   676
    National cemeteries.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    National parks.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    National Science Foundation.

        Jurisdiction of...............................................   683
    National Security, Committee on.

            History, jurisdiction and duties of.......................   680

            Special oversight functions of............................   693
    National Weather Service.

        Jurisdiction of...............................................   683
    Nations.
    Natural Resources, Committee on.  See Resources, Committee on.
    Naturalization.

        Power of Congress to establish rule of........................   120

        Relations to citizenship......................................   225

        Jurisdiction as to............................................  679a
    Naval affairs.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680
    Naval and military records.

        Private bills to correct, banned..............................   852
    Naval vessels.

        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work........  841a
    Navigation.

        Between States not to be hampered by duties, etc..............   147

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to pollution of navigable

            waters....................................................   686

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to public works for the

            benefit of................................................   686

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to generally................   686

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    Navy.

        Bills to correct certain records banned.......................   852

        Congress to provide and maintain..............................   130

        Congress to make rules for....................................   131

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680

        President Commander in Chief of...............................   160

        States not to maintain........................................   148

        Trial for crimes in...........................................   212
    Navy yards.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680

        Power of Congress over places purchased for...................   134
    Negative.

        Of one question amounting to the affirmative of another..... 485-488
    Neutrality.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   678
    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
    Notes.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    Nuclear energy.

        Jurisdiction over.

            Jurisdiction of Committee on Commerce.....................   674

            Military applications.....................................   680

            Non-proliferation and export agreements...................   678

            Regulation of domestic industry...........................   674

            Research and development..................................   683

            Oversight jurisdiction................................. 674, 693
    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................................ 64, 300

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            Names of Members not entered on roll for yeas and nays

                until sworn...........................................   300

            Not to disclose classified information....................   939

            Of Chief Justice in impeachments..........................    39

            Of Senators, for trial of impeachment.....................38, 40

            Officers of House sworn...................................   635

            Privilege of administration of............................   201

            Quorum not required during administration of..............  774c

            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

            Right to administer, given by law rather than by rule.....    59

            Speaker, Members, and chairmen may administer to witnesses

                                                               343, 346, 718

            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 to prevent committee from meeting during

            five-minute rule..........................................   710

        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........................... 849, 853
    Occasions, extraordinary.

        Power of President to convene Congress on.....................   171

        Other power of convening......................................   171
    Oceanography.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   683
    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

            Electors, no person holding office of trust or profit

                under United States to be an elector..................   151

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            Impeachment, civil officers may be removed from office

                by....................................................   173

            Impeachment, removal from office as judgment in...........    41

            Impeachment, regulation of office not a bar to............   174

            Jurisdiction as to abolition, etc.........................   676

            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.......................  679a

            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.....................................   941
    Office buildings.

        Assignment of rooms in........................................   988
    Office of Technology Assessment...................................   995
    Officers.

        Of the United States.

            Accountability of, jurisdiction as to.....................   676

            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.................................................   654

            Clerk formerly disbursed pay of...........................   642

            Compensation, retirement and benefits, jurisdiction over..  677a

            Continue in office until successors are chosen............   635

            Election of, and terms............................... 26-30, 635

            Election of, except Speaker............................. 29, 635

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            Neither House to exercise authority over those of the

                other.................................................   373

            Non-discrimination in employment by.......................   939

            Oath, administered to, by Speaker...................... 198, 199

            Oversight of..............................................   693

            Privilege of floor extended to present and former.........   919

            Relations to claims.......................................   937

            Removal of............................................. 315, 635

            Vacancies, Speaker may fill by temporary appointment of...   635

        Of the Senate.

            The Vice President and his vote...........................    36

            Choice of President pro tempore and other officers........    37
    Official conduct.

        Code of, for Members, officers, and employees.................   939

        Committee on Standards of.....................................   685

        Financial disclosure..........................................   940

        Outside earned income.........................................  943a

        Revisions of remarks in debate, standard of.............. 764a, 764b

        Use of Frank..................................................   942

        Unofficial office accounts....................................   941
    Official record.

        The Journal as................................................   582
    Official reporters.

        Of debates, appointment and removal of.................... 677a, 923
    One-fifth.

        Of those present order yeas and nays..........................75, 78

        Of quorum order recorded vote (or formerly teller vote).......  630a
    One-minute speeches...............................................  753a
    Opening.

        Of debate, rights of Member as related to closing.............   759
    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........................   782

        Right to prior recognition passes to, when essential motion is

            lost......................................................   755
    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........................ 760, 761

            Call to, may interrupt Member.............................   393

            Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House........ 637, 638

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            Necessity of rules for preservation of....................   285

            Parliamentarylawastotakingdowndisorderlywords.......... 368, 369

            Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole to preserve,

                in galleries and lobby........................... 861a, 861b

            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...............   650

            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........... 637, 639

            Clerk to note in Journal..................................   641

            Decided by Speaker..................................... 624, 627

            Decision of, during a division............................   507

            Decisions of questions of, by Chairman of Committee of the

                Whole.................................................   862

            House controls decisions of, by appeal....................   379

            Intervening questions of..................................   457

            Practice governing Speaker in deciding....................   627

            Raising of, on appropriation bills in Committee of the

                Whole.................................................   835

            Raising of, at any time against appropriation in

                legislative bill or amendments........................  846a

            Raising of, at any time against tax or tariff in certain

                bills or amendments...................................  846b

            Relation of question of consideration to..................   781

            Reserving, as to general appropriation bills.......... 835, 848a

            Speaker to be heard first in matters of...................   358

            Time of raising, as to consideration of bills in Committee

                of the Whole..........................................   865
    Order of business.  See also Business.

        Rule and conditions of.

            The rule prescribing......................................   878

            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........................................  682a

            Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day....   440

            Recognition by the Speaker in accordance with requirements

                of.................................................. 753-757

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            Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting

                order.............................................. 381, 881

            The calendars on which reports of committees await action

                of the House........................................ 742-746

        Interruptions of.

            Business of District of Columbia on second and fourth

                Mondays...............................................   899

            Business on Tuesdays for consideration of the Private

                Calendar..............................................   893

            Call of Committees on Calendar Wednesday..................   897

            Call of Committees on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-

                thirds vote....................................... 729a, 897

            Consideration of amendments between Houses, when

                privileged......................................... 528-528d

            Consideration of a motion to reconsider...................   814

            Effect of privileged reports on...........................   727

            Effect of special orders on Tuesday business..............   893

            High privilege of revenue and general appropriation bills.   802

            Interruption by request for unanimous consent.............   881

            Intervening questions as to privilege on reading of papers

                                                                    458, 459

            Intervening questions of order............................   457

            Intervention of private business on Tuesday...............   893

            Making and use of special orders..........................  682b

            Motion for leave for a committee to sit during sessions

                not privileged........................................   324

            Precedence of questions of privilege............... 661, 664-666

            Privilege of conference reports...........................   909

            Privileged interruptions of order of business.............   879

            Privileged interruptions specified........................   880

            Privileged legislative veto provisions..................... 1013

            Privileged reports from certain committees.............. 726-729

        Speaker's table.

            Business on, disposal of.............................. 528a, 882

            Matters on, for action by the House or by Speaker alone...   883

            Messages on, parliamentary law as to disposal of..........   566

            Messages from the President on, consideration of..........   170

            Messages from the President on, reference of..............   884

        Unfinished business.

            Rule for unfinished business..............................   885

            Business unfinished in periods set apart for classes of

                business..............................................   888

            Construction of rule as to unfinished business............   886

            Consideration of unfinished business.................... 885-888

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            Priority of unfinished business in Committee of the Whole.   869

            Precedence of a question on which previous question is

                ordered...............................................   886

            Procedure in the morning hour.............................   890

            Rules and practice for call of committees.............. 889, 890

            The morning hour for the call of committees...............   889

        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................................   892

            Interruption of the call of committees by motion to go

                into Committee of the Whole House on the State of the

                Union.................................................   891

            Rule for consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole

                after call of committees........................... 891, 892

        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....................   869
    Orders.

        As to presentation of, to President for approval..............   115

        Nature and use of, as compared with resolutions...............   395

        Standing, reference to........................................   938
    Orders of the day.

        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

        Now obsolete..................................................   384

        Obsolete reference to, in order of business...................   878

        Parliamentary law as to proceeding with.......................   383

        Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting

            order.................................................. 381, 881
    Orders, special.

        Application of motion to postpone to...................... 682b, 786

        Effect of, on Tuesday business................................   893

        Privilege of reports of.................................... 726, 729

        Use and method of making......................................  682b
    Organization.

        Of the two Houses of Congress.

            Administration of the oath at.............................   198

            Clerk's duties at.........................................   637

            Clerk makes up the roll of Members-elect for..............   638

            Challenge of the right to take the oath................. 202-204

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            Early organization........................................   997

            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.............................  943a
    Oxford-style debates..............................................  753c
    Pairs.

        Forms and announcement of.....................................  660a

        Not to be announced out of order..............................   765

        In order in Committee of the Whole............................  660a
    Panama Canal.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680
    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...........   642

            Court demands for.........................................   291

            Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate......   364

            Of committees, custody of............................. 706c, 932

            President allowed to withdraw certain, accompanying a

                message...............................................   571

            Withdrawal of, from files.................................   933

        Relations of, to conference.

            Custody of, when a conference is asked before disagreement   552

            Custody of, after an effective conference.................   555

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            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.............   917

            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, in his place.... 434, 916,

                                                                         917

            Not necessarily to be read on plea of privilege...........   433

            Objections to under former rule XXX.................... 916, 917

            On demand of a Member.....................................   916

            On reference..............................................   436

            Parliamentary law as to...................................   432

            President's messages, etc.................................   188
    Paragraphs.

        Amendment of bills by...................................... 413, 872

        Amendments should be germane to...............................   795

        House does not agree to, severally in perfecting a bill.......   456

        Reading of bills by........................................ 413, 872

        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.........................   681
    Parks, military.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    Parks, national.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   681
    Parliamentarian.

        Office of.....................................................   996

        Precedents compiled by........................................   996
    Parliamentary inquiries.

        No appeal from responses to...................................   628

        Recognition to propound.......................................   627
    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.

        Bills not altered after.......................................   500

        Both Houses pass identical....................................   833

        Clerk certifies to............................................   642

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        Obsolete requirements as to...................................   492

        Putting the question on reading, engrossment  See Putting the

            question.
    Passages.

        Speaker's control of, in House wing...........................   623
    Patents.

        Power of Congress to provide for..............................   124

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Pay.

        Clerk formerly disbursed that of employees and certifies that

            of Members in recess......................................   642

        Cost of living adjustments....................................... 86

        Of committee staff,  see Committee staffs.

        Of department officers, jurisdiction as to....................   678

        Of judges.....................................................   177

        Of Members during recess, Clerk certifies to (obsolete).......   647

        Of officers and employees, Clerk formerly disbursed...........   642

        Of President of the United States.............................   157

        Of Representatives and Senators............... 85, 86, 528, 1013(14)

        Of Speaker and leadership.....................................86, 89

        Of witnesses..................................................   931

        Pay orders................................................. 1013(14)

        Quadrennial commission..................................... 1013(14)

        Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed that of Members...........   648
    Penalties.

        For absent Members............................................    52
    Penitentiaries.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Pension Reform Act, disapproval procedures in .................. 1013(8)
    Pensions.

        In general.

            Certain bills for, banned.................................   852

            Debt incurred for certain, not to be questioned...........   232

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a

            Of all wars, jurisdiction of bills for....................   687
    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

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    Perjury.

        To sustain a conviction of, a quorum of a committee must be in

            attendance when perjurious testimony is given..... 343, 409, 712
    Person.

        Security of, as to searches and seizures......................   211
    Personal explanations.

        Made by unanimous consent.....................................   749
    Personal interest.

        Disqualifying as to voting............................ 376, 657, 658
    Personal privilege.

        Method of presentation of questions of personal, as

            distinguished from general................................   668

        Precedence of questions of.................................... 661,

                                                                         666

        Privilege of the Member.......................................   663

        Procedure of Member in presenting question of.................   749
    Personalities.

        Arraignment of motives of Members not in order................   363

        Member must refrain from, in debate...........................   749

        Members censured for..........................................    63

        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............................. 700, 849a

        Division of, for reference................................. 421, 700

        Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...................  849b

        Correction of reference of....................................   853

        Exclusion of..................................................   853

        Nature of.....................................................   389

        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.

        Jurisdiction as to............................................  677a

        Taking of, in committee hearings..............................   724
    Piracies.

        Congress to punish............................................   126
    Place.

        Neither House to adjourn to another, without consent of other

            House.....................................................    82

        Power of President to convene Congress away from seat of

            government................................................   171
    Places of elections.

        Regulation of.................................................42, 43

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    Pleadings.

        In an impeachment.......................................... 612, 613
    Pledge of Allegiance..............................................   878
    Pocket veto.

        Bills retained by President after Congress adjourns...........   112

        Effect of adjournment to day certain..........................   113
    Points of order.

        Decisions on.

            Chairman of Committee of the Whole decides................  861b

            Clerk to decide, at organization of the House.......... 637, 639

            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....................   627

        In general.

            Clerk to note certain, in Journal.........................   641

            In House on procedure in committee.......................... 708

            On appropriation bills....................................   835

            On conference reports..................... 547, 913b, 913c, 913d

            On nongermane portions of conference reports and

                amendments in disagreement....................... 913b, 913c

            On resolutions, raised before reading completed...........   627

        Relation of.

            To conference reports.....................................   547

            To general appropriation bills............................   835

            To retroactive increases in income tax rates..............  846d

            To motions to amend.......................................  823a

            To committee procedure.................... 708, 713d, 713g, 713h

            To question of consideration.................... 781, 781a, 1007

        Reserving of.

            Against general appropriation bills................... 835, 848a

            Against conference reports................................   547

        Time of raising.

            At any time against an appropriation in legislative bills

                or amendments.........................................  846a

            At any time against tax or tariff provisions in certain

                bills or amendments...................................  846b

            Former rule with respect to reporting a measure from

                committee.............................................  713d

            On appropriation bills in Committee of the Whole..........   835

            On consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole.......   865

            On conference reports where conferees met in closed

                session...............................................  913d

            On motions to amend.......................................  823a

            On resolutions............................................   627

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            With respect to committee procedure.......................   708

        Waivers.  See Rules.
    Police, Capitol.

        Duty of Sergeant-at-Arms as to................................   648
    Political disabilities.

        Arising from disloyalty.......................................   230

        Consideration of bills removing...............................   893

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................  679a
    Poll tax.

        Right to vote not denied for failure to pay...................   251
    Population.

        The basis of representation...................................   226

        Jurisdiction over population and demography generally.........   676
    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..................................   676
    Post offices.

        Congress may establish........................................   123

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   676

        Jurisdiction as to buildings for..............................   686
    Post roads.

        Congress may establish........................................   123

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to construction, etc........   686
    Postal savings banks.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   676
    Postmaster.

        Former election and oath of...................................   636

        Former superintendent of House post office....................  654a
    Postpone, motion to.

        Precedence and general conditions of....................... 782, 786

        Application of previous question to...........................   450

        Applied to motion to resolve into Committee of Whole..........   786

        As to application to a special order..........................   718

        Debate on.....................................................   782

        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......   786

        Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.............   450

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        Relation of, to motion to amend...............................   449

        Relations of, to the previous question........................   809

        Repetition of.................................................   782

        Use of, to put off indefinitely....................... 443, 1013(11)
    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............  1013

        Of Congress--As to elections and political disabilities.

            As to apportionment and establishment of districts..... 226, 227

            Determines time of choosing electors......................   153

            May by law provide for case where 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, etc.

            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, etc.

            To regulate jurisdiction of Supreme Court.................   179

            To establish inferior courts........................... 125, 177

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            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, etc...................   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, etc........... 127, 163

            To support armies.........................................   128

            To provide a navy.........................................   130

            To make rules of government for land and naval forces.....   131

            To provide for calling out the militia....................   132

            To provide for organization, etc., of militia.............   133

            War Powers Act.......................................... 1013(2)

        Of Congress--Jurisdiction over territory and property.

            To exercise jurisdiction over seat of government and ceded

                places................................................   134

            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, 635

            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

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            Reserved to States and people.............................   217
    Prayer.

        Offered by Chaplain...........................................   621

        Chaplain opens each day's sitting with........................   655

        By the Chaplain, place of, in order of business...............   878

        Quorum in relation to.........................................  774c
    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.....................   806

        As to separate vote on........................................   414

        Of a resolution may be laid on table..........................   414
    Precedence.

        Of intervening business.

            Certain privileged questions which interrupt the order of

                business........................................... 879, 880

            Intervening questions as to reading papers................   458

            Intervening questions of order............................   457

            Of conference reports.....................................   909

            Of conference report over report from Committee on Rules..  729a

            Of a proposition to administer the oath to Members........   233

            Of a question on which the previous question is ordered...   887

            Of questions of privilege..................... 458, 661, 664-666

            Of questions of privilege as related to pending business

                                                                    665, 666

            Of revenue and appropriation bills in Committee of the

                Whole.................................................   869

            Questions as to, decided by a majority without debate.....   900

        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................................. 782-788

            To adjourn................................................   782

            To adjourn to day or time certain.........................   782

            To amend..................................................   825

            To amend Journal precedes approval........................    74

            To amend over motions to agree or disagree................  528-

                                                                        528d

            To amend over motions to strike out or agree..............   456

            To discharge committees...................................   908

            To dispense with further proceedings under a call of the

                House............................................. 769, 771b

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            To go into Committee of the Whole to consider revenue and

                appropriation bills...................................   802

            To read the Journal.......................................   621

            To reconsider.............................................   814

            To strike out enacting words of a bill................. 875, 876

            To suspend the rules......................................   904
    Precedents.

        Compilation of................................................   996

        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.................   662

        Questions of, committed to conference.........................   531
    Presentment.

        Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...................   212
    Presents.

        Conditions as to acceptance of, by officers...................   144
    President of the Senate.

        The 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........................   919

            Gallery for use of........................................   922

            Houses may request him to transmit 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, 1013(2)

        Relations of, to Congress--Messages and information from.

            Address by and to.........................................   316

            Clerk may receive messages from, when House adjourned.....  647a

            Confidential messages from................................   914

            Declaration of inability to discharge duties of office....   254

            Gives Congress information and makes recommendations......   168

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            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................... 856, 859

            Rule for reference of messages from.................... 882, 885

            Transmits Budget during first fifteen days of session.....   169

            Transmitting proposed rescissions and deferrals of budget

                authority........................................... 1013(6)

        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 laws without approval...................   111

            Constitutional amendments, President does not sign joint

                resolution submitting.................................   191

            Effect of recess on.......................................   901

            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 of

                Congress as to........................................   574

            Errors in bills sent to the President.....................   110

            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

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            Grants reprieves and pardons..............................   162

            Holds office 4 years......................................   149

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to office of...............  679a

            Makes treaties............................................   165

            Opinions of his advisers..................................   161

            Receives ambassadors, etc.................................   172

            Term of........................................... 149, 150, 241

        Election, oath, impeachment, inability, etc.

            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

            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 in certain cases... 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..............................    39
    Press.

        Coverage of committee hearings and meetings................. 720-725

        Freedom of, guaranteed........................................   208

        Members of, admission to the floor,  see Floor.

        Admission to press gallery....................................  930a
    Previous question, motion for.

        Uses of.

            The rule of the...........................................   804

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            History, uses, etc., 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.............................   782

            Of Parliament.............................................   461

            Questions on which it is ordered, as unfinished business..   886

            Questions of order pending the motion for.................   811

            Relations of, to failure of a quorum......................   810

        Application of.

            General application of................................. 804, 806

            To debatable secondary and privileged motions.............   450

        Moving and putting of.

            Considered as ordered on certain preferential motions to

                insist................................................  912c

            Effect of, on debate......................................   805

            Forty minutes of debate after ordering of.................   907

            Forty minutes debate not allowed when ordered on motion

                not debatable...................................... 871, 907

            Manner of putting.........................................   462

            Moving on non-germane Senate amendments contained in

                conference reports or reported in disagreement... 913b, 913c

            Not debatable.............................................   782

            Recognition passes to Member leading opposition when voted

                down..................................................   755

            Right to move.............................................   807

            Right to close debate not to be exercised after ordering

                of....................................................   762

            Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

                proceedings on........................................   631

        Effect of, on amendment.

            Effect of, on amendments in general.......................   804

            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.................. 808, 809

            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

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            Motion to commit after it is ordered......................   808

            Motion to commit pending, not applied to reports of

                Committee on Rules pending previous question..... 729a, 729b

            Motion to recommit after ordering of, limitation on

                Committee on Rules............................... 729a, 729b

            Motion to recommit in connection with and right of

                opposition as to......................................   782

            Motion to lay on table not in order after ordering of.....   785

            Relation of motion to reconsider to.................... 814, 815
    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, etc., from, to be accepted on conditions only..   144
    Printing.

        General provisions as to.

            ``Bullet'' symbols in Congressional Record................   929

            Discretion of Clerk as to.................................  647a

            Leave to print in Congressional Record....................   929

            Numerical designation of amendments printed in Record.....   874

            Of amendments in Record to be offered during five-minute

                debate................................................   874

            Of committee transcripts, paid for by contingent fund.....  703c

            Of conference reports in Congressional Record.............  912a

            Of reports when referred to calendars.....................   743

            Privileged reports from Committee on House Oversight on...   726

            Reports of committees to be printed.......................   821

        Joint Committee on.

            Duties of, as to improvement of Congressional Record... 924, 986

            History, jurisdiction, and duties of......................   986

            Membership on.............................................   986
    Priority.  See Precedence.

        All questions relating to priority of business to be decided

            without date..............................................   900
    Private bills.

        As unfinished business........................................   888

        Certain, banned...............................................   852

        Correction of error in reference..............................   853

        Dispensing with call of calendar........................... 893, 895

        Introduction and reference of........................ 700, 845, 849a

        Interruption of regular order on Tuesdays for consideration of

            the Private Calendar......................................   893

        Placed on Private Calendar when reported......................   742

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    Private claims.

        Certain, banned...............................................   852

        Reference of bills for, restricted to certain committees......   845
    Private pension bills.

        Certain, banned...............................................   852

        Consideration of, on Tuesday..................................   893
    Private property.

        Not to be taken without compensation..........................   248
    Privilege of floor.  See Floor.
    Privilege, questions of.

        Definition and precedence of.

            Constitutional privilege..................................   664

            Distinction between questions of privilege and privileged

                questions.............................................   664

            Definition and precedence of questions of.................   661

            General principles as to precedence of....................   664

            Intervention of questions of..............................   458

            Precedence of, as related to pending business.............   665

            Precedence of questions of personal....................... 661,

                                                                         666

            Questions of, lose precedence by association with matter

                not of................................................   667

            Relation of, to the order of business.....................   880

        Raising of.

            Breach of privilege reported from Committee of the Whole..   335

            Debate on.................................................   661

            Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read on

                plea of...............................................   433

            Method of presentation of questions of general and

                personal........................................... 661, 668

            Preliminary decision of Speaker as to questions of........   627

            Procedure when raised by Floor Leaders....................   661

            Procedure when raised by Member........................ 661, 749

            Questions of, in Committee of the Whole...................   667

            Questions of, in the absence of a quorum..................   667

            Question of, taken from the table.........................   785

            Raising questions of......................................   668

            Time and place of consideration designated by Speaker.....   661

        Affecting the House--In general.

            Generally.................................................   662

            Abuse of privilege of the floor...........................   920

            Administration of the oath to Members.....................   201

            Assault on clerk of a committee a question of.............  733a

            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

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            Breach of, for one House to encroach or interfere as to

                the other.............................................   308

            Demand of courts for papers........................... 291a, 946

            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.......................   946

            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 which 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....... 923, 927

            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..   742

            Hour rule of debate applies to............................   758

            May not be invoked to effect change in rules of the House.   664

            Messages received, while question of, is before House.....   562

            Previous question applies to questions of.................   806

            Proposal to enter protest on the Journal not a matter of..    70

            Question of, raised by fraudulent introduction of a bill..   851

            Raising a question of, over delay of an enrolled bill in

                reaching the President................................   572

            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.

            Committee reports immediately privileged, 3-day

                availability rule inapplicable..................... 299, 668

            Decision of the court in Anderson's case and attitude of

                the House as to assaults..............................   294

            Jefferson's discussion of power of the House to punish for

                contempts.............................................   293

            Kilbourn's case and views of the court as to inherent

                power to punish.......................................   295

            Jefferson's views as to inherent power to punish..........   297

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            Jefferson's statement of arguments against the inherent

                power to punish.......................................   298

            Jefferson's suggestions as to a law to define procedure in

                cases of contempt.....................................   299

        Affecting the Member.

            Of the Member.............................................   663

            Assault on Member returning to House a breach of..........    91

            Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Members of Congress   288

            Jefferson's review of that of members of Parliament.......   287

            Jefferson's discussion as to privilege of going and

                returning.............................................   289

            Members not to be questioned in another place for speech

                or debate.............................................    92

            Scope of the privilege of speech and debate...............    93

            Parliamentary law as to the arrest of a Member............   306

            Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason,

                felony, etc...........................................   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
    Privileged questions.

        Theory and examples of.

            The theory as to..........................................   438

            Distinction between questions of privilege and privileged

                questions.............................................   664

            Incident questions, like points of order, which intervene

                during consideration of the main question.............   457

            Intervening questions relating to reading of papers.......   459

            Laws providing congressional disapproval by privileged

                resolution............................................. 1013

            Matters privileged to interrupt the daily order of

                business........................................... 879, 880

            Matters of privilege as intervening questions.............   458

            May not interrupt a call of committees....................   890

            Not to be called up on Calendar Wednesday.............. 897, 898

            Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day....   440

            Presence of nonprivileged matter destroys privileges......   728

            Resolutions of inquiry................................. 857, 858

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        Reports as.

            Of certain committees................................... 726-729

            Conference reports........................................   909

            Method of submitting to the House...................... 418, 727

            Nonprivileged, reference of, to calendars.................   743

            Precedence of conference report over report from Committee

                on Rules..............................................  729a

            Reference of, to calendars................................   742

            Right to report at any time gives right to consider at any

                time (subject to requirement of availability for 3

                days).............................................. 726, 727

        Motions as--General principles.

            Precedence and conditions of............................ 782-788

            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; and Reference.

            Amend, motion to; and Amendments.

        Motions as--Various.  See also Motions.

            By Majority Leader to permit committee sittings during

                five-minute rule......................................   710

            Motions to dispose of amendments between Houses,  see

                Amendments between Houses.

            Motions to proceed to election of Speaker of higher

                privilege than motion to correct the roll.............   638

            Motions requesting conferences........................ 528a, 535

            Motions to consider bills made in order by a resolution

                adopted by the House..................................   715

            Motion to consider omnibus private bills in order on third

                Tuesday...............................................   893

            Relation of motion to consider to other motions........ 812, 814

            To close general debate in Committee of the Whole.........   871

            To discharge a committee from consideration of vetoed bill   108

            To go into Committee of the Whole to consider revenue and

                general appropriation bills...........................   802

            To read the Journal.......................................   621

            To recess in committee....................................  703a

            To recess in House..................................... 586, 782

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            To strike out the enacting words of a bill............ 875, 876a

            To suspend the rules.................................... 902-905

        Motions as--Certain not.  See also Motions.

            Motion to recess formerly not a...........................   586

            Motion to rescind not a...................................  682b
    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, etc   144
    Pro forma amendment.

        In Committee of the Whole.....................................  873a
    Proof, burden of.

        On those proposing an amendment, as to germaneness............   794

        On those proposing items on general appropriation bills.......   838
    Property.

        Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865, 868

        Disclosure of.................................................   940

        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..........   742
    Proposer.

        Right of, to speak twice......................................   762

        Right to close debate on amendment considered under five-

            minute rule...............................................   762
    Prosecutions.

        Rights of accused in all criminal.............................   213

        Security as to accusations and trial..........................   212
    Protection.

        Equal, of the laws guaranteed.................................   225

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    Protests.

        Not entered on Journal as a matter of right...................    70
    Proxy voting in committees prohibited.............................   707
    Public bills.

        Certain, placed on Union Calendar, and others on House

            Calendar..................................................   742

        Correction of reference of, place in order of business........   878

        Joint sponsorship of..........................................   854
    Public buildings.

        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work........   841

        Jurisdiction as to, generally.................................   686

        Jurisdiction as to, abroad....................................   678

        Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals...........................   674

        Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries......................  679a

        Jurisdiction as to immigrant stations.........................  679a

        Jurisdiction as to Patent Office............................... 679a
    Public buildings and grounds.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   686
    Public credit.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   672
    Public debt.

        Claims for loss or emancipation of slaves not to be paid......   234

        Limit, establishment of as part of congressional budget

            process...................................................   945

        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.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   680
    Public health.

        Jurisdiction of matters related to............................   674
    Public lands.

        Jurisdiction of matters related to............................   681
    Public money.

        Account of, to be published...................................   143

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to the deposit of............   688
    Public safety.

        As related to suspension of writ of habeas corpus.............   178
    Public works.

        Authorization of appropriations for...........................   838

        Appropriations in continuation of................ 834a, 839-841, 847
    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

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    Puerto Rico.

        Resident Commissioner from, powers and privileges of,  see

            Resident Commissioner.
    Punishments.

        Censure or reprimand, of a Member.............................    63

        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

        For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..............    92

        For disclosure of intelligence information....................  944a

        Involuntary servitude as......................................   224

        Member liable to, when called to order in debate........... 760, 761

        Of a delegate.................................................   740

        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

        Standards of Official Conduct Committee, duties of............   698

        Speaker may not inflict.......................................   622
    Putting the question.

        By the chairman in committees.................................   317

        By the Speaker................................................   629

        Decorum during................................................   763

        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................... 774c, 863

        Speaker rises while...........................................   428

        Forms of:

            For vote by clerk tellers or by electronic device.........  630a

            For previous question.....................................   462

            For question of consideration.............................   778

            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................   830

            On a motion to strike out.................................   468

            On motion to strike out 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

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            Conviction of crime as related to voting and participation

                in committee business.................................   939

            House Oversight Committee may consider questions relating

                to....................................................  677a

            In case of disqualification minority candidate not seated.    13

            Incompatible offices, Members not to hold................ 97-101

            Incompatible offices, jurisdiction over...................  679a

            No religious test required for office under United States.   196

            Of Representatives........................................  9-11

            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, etc.

            As to inhabitancy modifying votes of presidential electors   219

            Of electors of President............................... 151, 152

            Of officers and employees.................................   937

            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
    Quarantine.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   674
    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

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            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 himself to the..........................   749

            Member who has spoken to, may speak also to amendment.....   762

        Of order.  See Points of order.

        Of consideration.  See Points of order.

        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.

            Committee may fix one-third or more as quorum for certain

                actions...............................................   709

            Committees may fix two or more as quorum to take testimony

                and to close certain hearings.........................   709

            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, 708, 713c, 718

            Interpretation of meaning of majority.....................    53

            Must be present when perjurious testimony is given to

                support charge of perjury..................... 343, 409, 709

            Of the Committee of the Whole.......................... 329, 863

            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.......................    40

            Quorum in committees to report............................  713c

        Count of.

            Theory of quorum present and Speaker's count............ 54, 628

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        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...........................   801

            Enrolled bills not signed in absence of...................   625

            Failure of, on second of motion to suspend the rules......   905

            Necessary during debate and other business (obsolete).....   310

            Of House, necessary for business..........................    52

            Quorum not required in certain situations.................  774c

            Quorum not required in the House unless pending motion or

                proposition put to vote...............................  774c

            Quorum not required in Committee of Whole, after once

                ascertained on that day, unless pending motion or

                proposition put to vote...............................   863

            Relations of, to acts of House............................    55

            Relations of, to reception of messages....................55, 56

            Relations of motion to reconsider to......................   812

            Reporting a measure in committee..........................  713c

            Voting, debate, and other business suspended by failure of

                (obsolete)............................................   510

        Call of the House.

            Arrest of Members.........................................   770

            Call of the House in the new form..................... 773, 774a

            Call of the House in the old form.........................   768

            Call of the House after previous question is ordered......   810

            Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record on a

                roll call.............................................   772

            Dispensing with call after quorum responds................   770

            Motions during a call of the House........................   771

            Ordering and conducting the call of the House in the old

                form..................................................   769

            Power to compel attendance................................52, 55

            Use of clerks to record...................................  771b

            Use of electronic equipment to record.....................  774b

        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.............................................  713d

            Making point as to........................................    54

            Not in order before Chaplain offers prayer... 56, 621, 878, 774c

            Point as to, may be dilatory..............................   803

            Prohibition against making in certain situations...... 774c, 863

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            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..   657

            Less than may order yeas and nays.........................    76

            Motions in order in absence of............................    55

            Questions of privilege in the absence of..................   667

            Right to demand yeas and nays not waived by demand for....    77

        In Committee of the Whole.

            Discretionary during general debate in....................   863

            Not required, after once ascertained on that day, unless

                pending motion or proposition put to vote.............   863

            Of Committee of the Whole consists of 100 members.........   863

            Procedure in case of failure of...........................   863

            Rising and reports of, as related to......................   864

            Short or Notice Quorum....................................   863

        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................   640

            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)..............................................  630a
    Race.

        Suffrage not to be abridged for...............................   235
    Radio service.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..................   674
    Radio gallery.  See Galleries.
    Railroads, jurisdiction over......................................   686
    Railway-mail service.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   676
    Raising revenue.  See Revenue.
    Ramseyer rule.

        Reports of committees under...................................   745

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    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 in his place

                                                               434, 916, 917

            Intervening questions as to...............................   459

            Objections to reading of papers under former rule XXX...... 916,

                                                                         917

            Of papers on which the House is to vote................ 392, 916

            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,

                                                                         916

            Papers read on demand of a Member.........................   916

            Papers read by consent of the House under former rule XXX.   917

            Parliamentary law as to................................ 432, 916

            Reports of committees not read except in order or in

                debate................................................   435

        Of bills, resolutions, conference reports, etc.

            Rule for..................................................   830

            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........... 830, 832

            First and second..........................................   831

            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.......................   831

            Of bills for amendment under the five-minute rule.........   872

            Of concurrent resolution on the budget....................  876b

            Of conference reports and amendments in disagreement,

                dispensed with................................... 912a, 912b

            Of Journal, not interrupted by conference report..........   909

            Of Journal, place of, in order of business................   878

            Of President's messages and accompanying documents........   188

            Of a veto message.........................................   107

            Raising points of order before completing reading of

                resolution............................................   627

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            Raising points of order before completing reading of

                amendment.............................................  823a

            The Speaker sits while reading, but the Clerk stands......   428

            Third reading after engrossment...........................   832

        Of amendments.

            Motions to dispense with reading..........................  873b
    Reappropriations.

        Citations relating to.........................................   847

        Not in order on general appropriation bill unless in

            continuation of public works already commenced............   847
    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
    Recapitulation.

        Of a vote, Speaker's discretion as to.........................   765
    Recede, motion to.

        Precedence of................................... 486, 528-528d, 913c

        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, etc.................   172
    Recess.

        In general.

            Of Congress...............................................   590

            Of a Congress, effect on pending business.................   901

            Of Congress, issue of subpoenas during....................   342

            Of Congress, jurisdiction of resolutions relating to......  682a

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            Of Senate, power of President to fill offices during......   167

            Of House, during day's sitting, conditions of.............   586

            Of House, Speaker's authority to declare..................  634f

            Of a committee............................................  703a

        Motion for.

            Status of.............................................. 586, 782

            Limitation of, on Calendar Wednesdays.....................   897
    Reclamation.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   681
    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...........   872

        For motions to discharge committees on second and fourth

            Mondays...................................................   908

        For motion to go to conference................................   827

        For the motion to reconsider..................................   813

        For the previous question.....................................   807

        For question of privilege.................................. 661, 668

        Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge..............   755

        Parliamentary law as to Speaker's duty in.....................   356

        Preliminary action of Member in seeking.......................   749

        Preference in, to be given to opposition for motion to

            recommit after previous question is ordered...... 782, 788, 808a

        Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition for

            debate....................................................   756

        Procedure of the Member in seeking............................   354

        Under former rule requiring a second on the motion to suspend

            the rules.................................................   906

        Speaker's power of.......................................... 753-757

        Speaker's power of with respect to Senate amendments..........   827

        Speaker governed by usage in.......................... 356, 754, 757

        Speaker not to recognize Members to introduce occupants of

            galleries to House........................................   764

        No appeal from Speaker's decision in..........................   356

        Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as to

            recognitions..............................................   757

        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....................... 782, 787

        After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect of.... 804,

                                                                         808

        Debate on, with instructions..................................   782

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        In order as to bill on third reading..........................   494

        Instructions with.............................................   788

        Instructions to strike out amendment adopted by the House not

            in order..................................................   788

        Instructions may be amended by substituting different

            instructions........................................... 788, 808

        Instructions must be germane to bill before the House...... 796, 808

        Limiting by Committee on Rules........................... 729a, 729c

        May be applied to a conference report under certain

            circumstances.............................................   550

        Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions...............   476

        Not used in Committee of the Whole............................   787

        Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending

            previous question.................................... 729a, 729b

        One motion to, in order after previous question is ordered....   782

        Repetition of motions.........................................   782

        Recognition to offer................................. 782, 788, 808a
    Recommittal.

        Of bills to select or standing committees.....................   420

        Duty of committee in case of..................................   788

        Of bills amending or repealing statutes when committee reports

            fail to comply with rule..................................   745

        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 out enacting words........................   875
    Reconsider, motion to.

        Rule for the motion and its precedence........................   812

        Discussion of procedure of....................................   814

        Application of................................................   815

        Application of, to bills in committee.........................   820

        As to use in a standing or select committee................ 416, 814

        Debate on.....................................................   819

        Delegates and Resident Commissioner not to make...............   741

        Effect of.....................................................   816

        Enrolled bills not signed pending.............................   625

        Maker of......................................................   813

        May be held dilatory..........................................   803

        May be applied to vote refusing yeas and nays or ordering yeas

            and nays (if not executed).............................. 79, 816

        Not used in Committee of the Whole............................   416

        Relations of, to motion to lay on the table...................   818

        Relations of, to the previous question..................... 814, 815

        Repetition of.............................................. 815, 816

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        Vote on.......................................................   817

        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

        Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient to

            pass bill.................................................   109

        Passage of supplementary bills................................   518

        Parliamentary law as to.......................................   514
    Record.  See also Congressional Record.

        The Journal as................................................   582
    Recorded vote.

        Ordered by one-fifth of quorum in House.......................  630a

        By electronic device or by Tellers............................  630a

        Ordered by twenty-five in Committee of the Whole......... 630a, 864a

        Repetition of demand for......................................  630b
    Records.

        Not to go out of Clerk's custody..............................   352

        Noncurrent to be deposited by Clerk with Archivist............   932

        Oath not to disclose classified information as records of the

            House.....................................................   939

        States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to public...   183
    Red Cross.

        Jurisdiction as to affairs of.................................   678
    Redress.

        Of grievances, right of people to petition for................   208
    Refer, motion to.  See also Recomit, motion to.

        Precedence and status of.

            Precedence and general conditions of................... 782, 787

            Has precedence of motion to amend.........................   449

            May not be postponed......................................   451

            Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.........   450

            Repetition of.............................................   782

        Use of.

            General use of......................................... 401, 446

            Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   787

            Admitted in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''..... 425, 427

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            In relation to motion to strike out enacting words........   875

            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.........................................   788

            Instructions may be amended....................... 788, 795, 808

            Instructions must be germane to bill before the House and

                not to general law sought to be amended...............   808

            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, 809

            After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect

                of................................................. 804, 808

            Minority have preference in recognition for, after

                previous question is ordered..........................   782

            After previous question is ordered, Committee on Rules

                limited as to.................................... 729a, 729b

            Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending

                previous question................................ 729a, 729b

            Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous

                question........................................... 448, 449
    Reference.

        Of bills.  See Bills.

        Of memorials, petitions, etc.

            By Speaker........................................ 700, 854, 882

            By Members............................................. 700, 849

            Private claims referred to certain committees.............   845

            Of communications, rule for....................... 700, 882, 883

            Of messages of the President, rule for............. 700, 882-884

            Of executive documents....................................   936

            Papers not read in House on ordinary reference to

                committee.............................................   436

        Correction of errors in reference of.

            Errors in.................................................   853

            Correction of, for public bills, etc......................   854

            Of public bills, place of correction of, in order of

                business..............................................   878

            Change of, for errors in, etc.............................   853

            Correction of, in case of bills, etc., referred from

                Speaker's table.................................... 882, 883

            Of bill to a calendar, error in, a question of privilege..   742
    Regents.

        Do not hold incompatible offices..............................    98

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    ``Regular order.''

        Right of the Member to demand......................... 381, 382, 881

        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.............................   833

        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 out enacting words of a bill equivalent to...........   875
    Relatives.

        May not be employed by Members................................    88

        Defined.................................................... 939, 940
    Relevancy.

        In debate.....................................................   749

        Of debate in House and Committee of the Whole.................   752
    Religion.

        Congress to make no law respecting establishment of, or free

            exercise of...............................................   208
    Religious tests.

        None required for officers under United States................   196
    Remonstrance.

        Nature of.....................................................   389
    Removal.

        Of President from office......................................   155

        Of Speaker....................................................   315
    Renegotiation.

        Jurisdiction over subject related to..........................   672
    Repetition.

        Of motions, general rules as to............................ 782, 789

        Of motion to reconsider.................................... 815, 816

        Of motion to strike out 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
    Reporters.

        Of debates....................................................   923

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        Of debates, duties of Committee on House Oversight as to......  677a

        Press, admission to the floor.  See Floor.
    Reports.

        Of committees--forms, signing, authorization, etc.

            Activity reports..........................................  703d

            Adverse reports of committees..................... 726, 730, 744

            Authorization, signing, and validity of............ 408, 713-715

            Contents required in report:

                Appropriations Committee reports on general

                    appropriation bills must state effect of any

                    provision changing existing law...................  844b

                Cover must reflect inclusion of certain matters.......   714

                Estimate of cost......................................  748b

                Estimate and comparision of Congressional Budget

                    Office............................................  713e

                    Estimate and comparision of funding levels... 713e, 748b

                Inflationary impact statement.........................  713f

                Minority, supplemental and additional views...........   714

                New budget authority and tax expenditures, statement

                    as to.............................................  713e

                    Oversight findings and recommendations....... 692a, 713e

                    Oversight findings and recommendations of

                        Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

                                                                   696, 713e

                Required under Congressional Accountability Act of

                    1995..............................................  713g

                Reports on bills amending or repealing statutes must

                    show by typographical device parts of statute

                    affected..........................................   745

                Rules Committee reports on resolutions repealing or

                    amending rules of the House must show by

                    typographical device parts of rules affected......   731

                Vote totals and names on amendments and motions to

                    report............................................  713d

            Instruction to report.....................................   908

            Joint Economic Committee to file, by March 1 of each year.   983

            Method of action on, in the House.........................   422

            Method of submitting to the House.........................   418

            Must contain vote totals and names on amendments and

                motions to report.....................................  713d

            Of a committee, directions as to making............ 415, 713-715

            Of committees, presentation to the House..................   317

            Of committees, to be in writing and printed...............   821

            Of select committees......................................   419

            Required under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995... 703d,

                                                                  713h, 1007

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            Former rule on rolling quorum that allowed committees to

                report without ``acting together''....................  713d

            Views of minority................................. 714, 743, 821

            On bills to be available three days in advance of

                consideration of bill.............................. 715, 848

            Practice as to reading of, in the House...................   435

            Speaker does not decide as to sufficiency of..............   627

            Supplemental reports, to correct technical errors.........   714

            Valid only when authorized by the committee acting

                together..................................... 407, 408, 713c

        Of committees--Privileged.

            Adverse, generally..................................... 726, 744

            Adverse, from Committee on Rules..........................   730

            Privileged from certain committees...................... 726-729

            Privileged under certain public laws....................... 1013

            Method of making privileged...............................   727

            Method of submitting privileged, to the House.............   418

            Requirements as to, on resolutions of inquiry.......... 855, 858

        Of committees--Recommittal of.

            Recommittal of, to select or standing committees, or

                Committee on the Whole................................   420

            Committal with directions to report forthwith.......... 405, 788

        Of committees--Calendars for.

            The calendars on which reports of committees await action

                of the House........................................ 742-746

            Adverse, when placed on the calendars.....................   743

            Reference of privileged and nonprivileged, to calendars...  742,

                                                                         744

        From Committees 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

            Chairman 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, 761

            Of motion to strike out the enacting words................   875

            Recommitted when ruled out in House.......................   335

            Of Chairman when Committee rises before a matter is

                concluded..................................... 333, 334, 864

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            Quorum not required after Committee of Whole has risen and

                before report made to House...........................  774c

            When a quorum fails.......................................   863

        Of managers of conferences.  See Conferences.

        In general.  See also Clerk  and Sergeant-at-Arms  and Chief

            Administrative Officer.

            Of Members, officers and employees on financial disclosure   940

            From heads of departments, rule for reference of....... 882, 883

            From heads of departments to be studied by committees... 692-696

            Rectification of errors after report of tellers...........   503
    Representation.

        Office of General Counsel.....................................  634e

        Reduction of, for abridgement of the right of suffrage........   226
    Representatives.

        Election, privilege, duties, etc., of.  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

            Choice of President by................................. 221, 222

            Choose 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

            Meets at 12 m.............................................     6

            Power of President to convene or adjourn..................   171

            Questions of privilege affecting....................... 661, 662

            Required to keep a Journal................................    68

            Rules as to use of Hall...................................   918

            The office building.......................................   989

            Vacancies in.............................................. 17-25
    Reprieves.

        Power of President to grant...................................   162
    Reprimand.

        Of a Member...................................................    63
    Reprisal.

        Letters of, Congress to grant.................................   127

        States not to grant...........................................   146

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    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, 827

            Practice as to making.....................................   533

            Usual but not essential that names of managers be

                transmitted with......................................   536

        Bills introduced by.

            Introduction of bills, resolutions, etc., by..............   860
    Rescind, motion to.

        Not privileged under rules governing the order of business....  682b

        As to entries on Journal......................................    71
    Rescission.

        Of appropriations, jurisdiction of Appropriations Committee...  671a

        Separate headings required on in certain bills and reports....  671a

        Rescission bills, definition and procedure for consideration

            of under Impoundment Control Act........................ 1013(6)
    Reservation.

        Of rights of people...........................................   216

        Of points of order on general appropriation bills......... 835, 848a

        Of objection to unanimous-consent request.....................   881
    Reserved powers.

        Of the State and people.......................................   217
    Residence.

        As a condition of Citizenship in the United States and the

            States....................................................   225
    Resident Commissioner.

        Admitted to floor.............................................   919

        Clerk to distribute certain documents to......................   641

        Compensation of...............................................    86

        Elected to committees.........................................   740

        Former de novo vote in House where vote of decisive in

            Committee of Whole........................................  864b

        From Puerto Rico, power and privileges of........... 701g, 740, 861a

        May be appointed to select and conference committees..........  701g

        Formerly could be appointed Chairman, Committee of Whole......  861a

        Of Puerto Rico, admitted to the floor.........................   919

        Powers and privileges in Committee of Whole............... 740, 861a

        Rooms of, in Office Building..................................   988
    Resignations.

        As related to procedure for censure...........................    63

        As related to procedure for expulsion.........................    64

        From committees, privilege of and debate on........... 662, 668, 752

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        Of chairman of a committee, selection of a successor..........  701c

        Of Member-elect before taking oath............................   300

        Of President of the United States or Vice President........ 155, 156

        Of Speaker....................................................    28

        Procedure for considering.....................................   662

        Vacancy from..................................................    19

        Vacancies caused by, in Senate................................    34
    Resolutions.

        Commemoratives.

            Prohibited................................................   852

        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...................................   860

            Introduction and reference of private.....................   849

            Introduction of public....................................   854

            Nature and use of, as compared with others................   395

            Raising a question of privileges of the House.............   661

            Reference of..............................................   700

            Of inquiry................................................   855

            Use, to disapprove Executive actions......................  1013

        Simple, of the House--Of inquiry.

            Discharge of a committee from a resolution of inquiry.....   858

            Forms of resolutions of inquiry and delivery thereof......   856

            Privileged status of resolutions of inquiry...............   857

            Resolutions of inquiry as related to the Executive........   859

        Simple, of the Senate.

            Not referred in House.....................................   883

        Concurrent.

            Adjournment for more than three days by concurrent

                resolution............................................    84

            Reference of..............................................   700

            Their use............................................. 396, 1013

        Joint.

            Their use............................................. 397, 1013

            Clerk certifies to passage of.............................   642

            Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment of

                passage...............................................   792

            Reference of..............................................   700

            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.

        History and jurisdiction of...................................   681

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        Special oversight functions of................................   693
    Restaurant.

        Of House, jurisdiction of matters relating to............. 677c, 686

        Of House, management of.......................................  677b

        Retrenching expenditures, amendment providing new legislation

            in order on appropriation bill.......................... 834-843
    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..........  846d

        Consideration of bills for raising.

            Amendments must relate to particular item.................   800

            Bills for raising, to originate in House..................   102

            Bills raising, placed on Union Calendar...................   742

            Bills raising, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865, 868

            Consideration in order on third Tuesday...................   893

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   688

            Jurisdiction as to oleomargarine..........................   670

            Point of order against certain bills or amendments

                carrying taxes or tariffs.............................  846b

            Precedence of bills raising, in Committee of the Whole....   869

            Precedence of, in order of business.......................   802

            Vote on measures raising income tax rates............ 774e, 846c
    Revenue sharing, general.

        Jurisdiction over.............................................   676
    Revenue treaties.

        Authority of House as to......................................   597
    Revision of the laws.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a

        Law Revision Counsel, office of...............................   994
    Riders.

        Nongermane Senate amendments................................ 913b, c

        Rule forbidding, on general appropriation bills,  see

            Appropriations.

        On bills, obsolete parliamentary practice as to...............   495

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    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, 916, 917

            Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read on

                plea of privilege.....................................   433

            Of Member to have read once paper on which he is to vote..   432

            Of Members, to call to order in debate....................   760

            Of Members to demand division of the House after vote by

                sound.................................................   501

            Of Members to demand the execution of a subsisting order

                                                                    381, 881

            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..........................   686

        Precedence of bills to improve, in Committee of the Whole.....   869
    Roads.

        Post, jurisdiction of subjects relating to....................   686

        Jurisdiction as to highways and their safety in general.......   686
    Roll call.

        Changes and corrections of votes..............................   766

        Count of those voting to make a quorum of record on a roll

            call......................................................   772

        Electronic device used in lieu of........................ 771b, 774b

        In committee, formerly used as proof quorum present when

            reporting.................................................  713d

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        In Committee of the Whole on the failure of quorum............   863

        Interruptions of the roll call................................   767

        Manner of, during call of the House...........................   769

        Members not to remain near Clerk's desk during................   763

        Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote...........   765

        Not to be interrupted for conference report...................   909

        Not to be interrupted by arrival of time for recess........ 586, 767

        Oath administered to a Member during..........................   201

        Postponement of, by Speaker...................................   631

        Speaker may recognize for motion for call of House at any time  774d

        The rule combining the yea-and-nay vote with a call of the

            House.....................................................   773
    Rolls.

        Of Members-elect, Clerk makes up..............................   638

        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   632
    Rooms.

        Assignment of, in office buildings............................   988

        Control of, in House wing.....................................   623

        Duty of Committee on House Oversight as to....................  677a

        Exclusion of persons from those leading to the Hall....... 919, 921a
    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  1007

            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...............................   938

            Jefferson's views as to power to make.....................   387

            Jurisdiction as to................................... 682a, 682b

            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

            Procedure before adoption of..............................    60

            Those of the House in effect in Committee of the Whole so

                far as applicable.................................. 340, 877

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        Committee on.

            Constitution of...........................................   701

            History, jurisdiction, and powers of......................   682

            Limitations on reports from............... 729a, 729c, 729d, 730

            Activity reports of.......................................  703d

            Exempted from rule proscribing committee sittings during

                five-minute rule......................................   710

            Must specify reported waivers.............................  731a

            Privileged reports of.................................. 729, 730

            Report from, providing special order of business not

                divisible.............................................  729a

            Report may be considered immediately by two-thirds vote...  729a

            Certain reports may be considered immediately without two-

                thirds vote................................. 715, 912a, 912b

            Reports, adverse, from....................................   730

            Reports from, on resolutions repealing or amending rules

                of House must show by typographical device parts of

                rules affected........................................   731

            Right to report at any time confined to privileged matters

                                                                   726, 729a

        Suspension of.

            In order on Mondays and Tuesdays..........................   902

            Individual and committee motions to.......................   905

            Motion for, entertained after yeas and nays are demanded..    80

            Motion for, as unfinished business........................   888

            Nature of the motion......................................   903

            One motion to adjourn in order pending....................   801

            Postponement of votes on..................................   907

            Precedence of the motion..................................   904

            Recognition by Speaker for motion to......................   757

            Relating to admission to the floor not to be suspended....   919

            Rule governing the motion for.............................   902

            Second of the motion to formerly required.................   906

            Speaker not to entertain motion to suspend rule relating

                to use of Hall of the House...........................   918

            The forty minutes of debate on motions to.................   907

        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

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    Rural development and electrification.

        Jurisdiction of subjects related to...........................   670
    Safety, public.

        As related to suspension of writ of habeas corpus.............   138
    Salaries.

        Of Representatives and Senators................ 85-88, 258, 1013(14)

        Of Speaker....................................................    86

        Jurisdiction as to, of legislative employees..................  677a

        Authorization of appropriations for, in general appropriation

            bills.....................................................   837
    Sanity.

        As related to the oath and qualifications.....................   205
    Savings banks, postal.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   676
    Science.

        Congress may promote, by patent and copyright laws............   124
    Science, Committee on.

        History, jurisdiction and duties of...........................   683

        Special oversight functions of................................   693
    Science, Space, and Technology, Commitee on.  See Science, Committee on.
    Seal.

        Of the House, Clerk affixes...................................   642
    Searches.

        As related to security of persons, papers, etc................   211
    Seat of government.

        Power of Congress to legislate for......................... 134, 135

        Power of President to convene Congress at another place.......   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, 776

        Formerly required on motions to suspend the rules.............   906

        Of motion to adjourn on new call of House.....................   773

        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..................................... 830, 831

        Manner of reading a bill a second time........................   428
    Secondary motions.  See also Motions.

        Application of motion to amend to other.......................   826

        Discussion of use and relations of.......................... 437-464

        In general, one not to be suppressed by another...............   450

        Precedence and conditions of................................ 782-788

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    Secrecy.

        Of portions of the Journal....................................    68

        Of committee procedure........................................   319
    Secret sessions.

        Rule for and procedure in................................. 914, 944a

        Of committees, banned with certain exceptions.................   708
    Secretary of State.

        Bills that become laws deposited with (obsolete)........... 105, 109
    Secrets.

        Of the House, oath of officers to keep (obsolete).............   635
    Sections.

        Amendment of bills by.........................................   413

        Amendments should be germane to...............................   794

        Clerk amends numbers of, in a bill............................   479

        House does not agree to severally, in perfecting a bill.......   456

        Reading of bills by...........................................   872

        Transportation of, in a bill by amendment.....................   477
    Securities.

        Congress may provide punishment for counterfeiting the........   122

        Jurisdiction over depository institution securities...........   672

        Jurisdiction over exchange....................................   674
    Security.

        Of the people as to searches and seizures.....................   211
    Seizures.

        As related to security of persons, papers, etc................   211
    Select Committees.

        Ad hoc to consider legislation................................   700

        Former Aging..................................................   702

        Ethics........................................................  943b

        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence....................  944a

        Speaker appoints..............................................  701e

        Reports, dissolution and revival of...........................   419

        Conferences held by means of..................................   532
    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

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        Permissible references to Senate action.......................   749

        President pro tempore.........................................    37

        Procedure in ratifying treaties...............................   600

        Qualifications of Senators.................................. 35, 230

        References to debate and proceedings therein, criticisms of,

            etc., not generally in order in the House.......... 371-374, 749

        The Vice President............................................    36

        Tries impeachments............................................ 38-41
    Senate amendments.  See Amendments Between the Houses and Conferences.
    Senate bills.

        Rule for reference of................................. 700, 882, 883

        Consideration of, from Speaker's table with reference to

            Committee of the Whole................................. 882, 883
    Senate resolutions.

        Simple resolutions of Senate not referred in House............   883
    Sergeant-at-Arms.

        Doorkeeping duties........................................ 380, 650a

            Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits  650c

        Duties of, on call of the House.................. 768, 770, 773, 774

        Election, oath, and removal of................................   635

        Enforces authority of House in House and in Committee of the

            Whole.....................................................   648

        Enforces rules as to decorum on floor.........................   763

            Financial and operational reports to Committee on House

                Oversight.............................................  650b

        Formerly disbursed pay and mileage of Members............... 86, 648

        Makes up roll of Members-elect in certain cases...............   648

        Of the Senate, admitted to the floor of the House.............   919

        The Mace the symbol of his office.............................   650
    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.

        Sessions and recesses of Congress.............................   590

        Adjournment of Congress during August in certain situations...   947

        Adjournment prohibited before completion of congressional

            budget process............................................. 1007

        Close of, as related for constitutional day of meeting of

            Congress................................................ 45, 242

        Conference asked at one and concluded at next.................   533

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        Congress adjourns not later than last day of July in certain

            situations................................................   947

        Congress may extend session beyond July.......................   947

        Effect of adjournment on action on a veto.....................   107

        Executive, of committees, banned with certain exceptions......   708

        Impeachments continue from one to another.....................   620

        Manner of closing session by action of the two Houses...... 242, 591

        Neither House to adjourn for more than 3 days during, without

            consent of the other......................................    82

        Obsolete law as to business at end of.........................   385

        Of Congress, resumption of business of a preceding............   901

        Of Parliament.................................................   588

        Parliamentary law as to business at the termination of a

            session...................................................   592

        Relations of, to adjournments for more than 3 days............    84

        Rule for secret, of the House.................................   914

        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......................................................   717

        Any member of Rules Committee may call up special rule after

            it has been on calendar for...............................   730

        Filing of committee report within, after written request......  713a

        See clause 3, rule XXVII, relating to motion to discharge.....   908

        Special committee meetings to be called within, upon request

            of committee majority.....................................   705
    Sex.

        Discrimination in employment on account of, prohibited........   939

        Right of suffrage not to be abridged on account of............   240
    Ships.  See Vessels.

        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........   634

        Of enrolled bills for presentation to the President........ 575, 576

        Of enrolled bill canceled.................................. 575, 625

        Of bills, effect of recess of Congress on.....................   901

        Of conference reports.........................................   543

        Of prime sponsor of bill at introduction......................   851

        Of reports of committees and minority views................ 408, 821

        Of writs, warrants, acts, subpoenas, etc......................   624

        Speaker declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider is

            pending...................................................   816

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        Speaker does not sign bills in absence of a quorum (obsolete).   625
    Simple conferences.

        In modern practice............................................   540

        Parliamentary law as to.......................................   539

        Usage as to...................................................   557
    Sittings.

        Committee may not sit during five-minute rule.............. 324, 710

        Of committees, generally......................................   705
    Six days.

        Last, of session, status of motion to reconsider during.......   812

        Last, of session, suspension of rules during..................   902

        Conference report not required to be printed in Record on last

                                                                  912a, 912b
    Slavery.

        Not to exist in the United States.............................   224

        Suffrage not to be abridged for previous condition of.........   234
    Slaves.

        No claims for, to be paid.....................................   232
    Small business.

        Generally.

            Assistance and protection, jurisdiction over..............   684

            Participation in federal contracts, jurisdiction over.....   684

        Committee on.

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   684

            Special oversight functions of............................   693
    Smithsonian Institution.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to....................... 677a, 686
    Smoking.

        Forbidden on floor of House...................................   763
    Social Security.

        Jurisdiction over health care and facilities supported by

            payroll deductions........................................   688

        Jurisdiction over health care supported by general revenues...   674

        Jurisdiction of, generally....................................   688
    Soldiers.

        As to quartering of...........................................   210

        Of the World War, jurisdiction of matters relating to.........   687
    Soldiers' homes.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   680
    Speaker.

        Election of.

            Chosen by the House..................................... 26, 312

            Chosen by majority on rollcall vote by surname.......... 27, 635

            Election of, as related to adoption of rules..............    59

            Election of, in case of death or resignation..............    28

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            Election of Speaker pro tempore...........................   314

            Four-term limit...........................................  633a

            Has the power to name a Speaker pro tempore under

                conditions............................................   633

            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............................   638

            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

            Censure inflicted by, on order of House...................    63

            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, 760

            May not recognize Members to introduce occupants in

                galleries.............................................   764

            May not entertain requests to extend floor privileges.....   920

            Parliamentary law as to naming a Member by, for disorder..   366

            Power of, as to abuse of privilege of the floor...........   920

            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............................. 624, 627

            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, 624, 628

            May not decide questions of consistency as to amendments,

                etc...................................................   466

            Not to pass on sufficiency of a committee's report........   821

            Practice governing, in deciding questions of order........   627

            Questions not for his decision............................   627

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        Duties of, as to quorum.

            Actual count of, to ascertain quorum after previous

                question is ordered...................................   810

            Count of quorum by........................................    54

            Duties of, when Committee of the Whole rises without a

                quorum................................................   863

            May order the noting of Members to make quorum on vote of

                record................................................   772

            May recognize for call of the House.......................  774d

            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.

            Takes the Chair...........................................   621

            Calls House to order......................................   621

            May declare recesses......................................  634f

            Declares adjournment at end of Congress...................     6

            Pronounces adjournment....................................   587

            Right of, to cause secret session.........................   914

        Conduct of.

            As a witness before a committee...........................   346

            Four-term limit...........................................  633a

            Functions of, at examinations at the bar of the House...... 343,

                                                                         344

            Rules a restraint on caprice of...........................   285

        Duties, generally.

            Authority, duties, and privileges as to use of galleries

                                                                    922, 930

            Authority to implement broadcasting of House proceedings..  631b

            Certifies to compensation of Members......................    86

            Directed to notify governor of State in case of certain

                vacancies.............................................    22

            Duties of, general control of hall, corridors, and rooms..   623

            Ex officio member of Permanent Select Committee on

                Intelligence..........................................  944a

            May designate Members, officers, and employees to travel

                on official business of the House, on vouchers

                approved by him.......................................  634b

            Office for Legislative Floor Activities...................  996b

        Appointment of committees by.

            Appoints select and conference committees.................  701e

            Removes conference committees.............................  701e

        Appointment of officers of House temporarily by.

            Appoints temporarily to fill vacancies....................   635

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        Relations to petitions, bills, and order of business.

            Declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider is

                pending...............................................   816

            Directs Clerk as to reference of nonprivileged report to

                calendars.............................................   743

            Duties as to referring matters from Speaker's table.... 882, 883

            Duties of, as to placing bills on the Corrections Calendar  745a

            Duties of, in presenting petitions........................   849

            Duty as to reception and reference of executive

                communications..................................... 700, 936

            Duty to exclude certain bills, memorials, etc.......... 849, 852

            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   881

            Makes reference of public bills, memorials, etc.........700, 854

            Messenger saluted by......................................   564

            Objects to action on a bill without reading...............   831

            Sign acts, writs, subpoenas, etc....................... 624, 626

            Signing of enrolled bills by........................... 575, 624

        Powers and duties as to recognition.

            Speaker's power of recognition.......................... 753-757

            Designates time and place for consideration of questions

                of privilege..........................................   661

            Discretion to recognize for motion for call of House......  774d

            Discretion to recognize for motion to send bill to

                conference........................................ 528a, 827

            Discretion to recognize authorized committee member to

                call up bill made in order by resolution..............   715

            Duty of, as to entertaining questions of privilege..... 661, 668

            Duty as to recognition for motion to reconsider...........   813

            Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as to

                recognitions..........................................   757

            Former duty as to recognizing for second of motion to

                suspend the rules.....................................   906

            Function of, in recognizing for debate, etc...............   354

            Limitation on power to entertain motion for recess on

                Wednesdays............................................   897

            Limitation on power of, to entertain motions pending

                report of Committee on Rules..................... 729a, 729b

            Limitation on request for unanimous consent...............   746

            Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge..........   755

            No appeal from his recognition......................... 356, 627

            Not to entertain dilatory motions.........................   803

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            Not to entertain motion to suspend the rules as to use of

                Hall of House.........................................   918

            Not to entertain motions or requests to suspend rule

                relating to admission to the floor....................   919

                    Permitted to entertain one motion to adjourn:

                Pending motion to suspend rules.......................   801

            Power to entertain motions to suspend rules limited.......   902

            Preliminary action of Member in seeking recognition.......   749

            Principles as to recognition for motion for the previous

                question..............................................   807

            Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition for

                debate................................................   756

            Required to give preference to opposition for motion to

                recommit after previous question is ordered...........   782

            Speaker governed by usage in recognition..................   754

        Relations of, to debate.

            Criticism of in debate................................. 362, 761

            Duty as to calling to order in debate.....................   760

            Duty of, to supress 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 he is putting the question..................   763

            Duty of, to state motions.................................   776

            Formal and informal putting of the question by.......... 489-491

            Must put a question which is in order.....................   304

            Putting of the question by, and taking the vote...........   629

            Reads sitting but rises to put a question.................   428

        Duty and rights as to voting.

            Formerly appointed tellers.............................. 630a, b

            Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on

                ordering the previous question........................   631

            Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on motions

                to suspend rules......................................   631

            Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on passing

                bills, adopting resolutions, and agreeing to

                conference reports....................................   631

            Discretionary authority to reduce electronic vote to five

                minutes............................................... 774bb

            Discretionary authority to use electronic device in taking

                vote............................................ 630a, 774bb

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            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 roll call.........................................   765

            Has not usually decided as to vote of a Member personally

                interested............................................   658

            His vote on a roll call...................................   765

            His vote ordinarily and in case of tie................. 632, 765

            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 Chairman of Committee of the Whole and leaves

                Chair.................................................  861a

            Declaration of resolve into Committee of Whole pursuant to

                special order.........................................   862

            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

            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, 701e, 701f

            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.........................................   923

            May not prevent House from amending Journal...............    71

            Relations of, to Congressional Record.................. 923, 928
    Speaker's Office for Legislative Floor Activities.

        Establishment of..............................................  996b
    Speaker pro tempore.

        Appointed by the Speaker or elected by the House..............   633

        Choice of.....................................................   314

        Chosen on removal of Speaker..................................   315

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        Competency of, to administer oath to Members..................   199

        Election, oath, and designation of............................  634a
    Speaker's table.

        Business on, place in order of business.......................   878

        Must be authorized by committee in formal meeting to make

            motion....................................................   883

        Rule for disposition of business on........................ 882, 883

        Senate bill must be substantially same as House bill as

            reported from House committee.............................   883

        Senate bill to be called up, House bill must correctly be on

            House Calendar............................................   883
    Special orders.  See also Rules.

        Effect of, on Tuesday business................................   893

        Oxford-style debates..........................................  753c

        Privilege of reports of............................... 726, 728, 729

        Quorum calls not in order during speeches.....................  774c

        Relation of motion to postpone to......................... 682b, 786

        Rules Committee must specify waivers contained in.............  731a

        Speeches......................................................  753a

        Use of, and method of making..................................  682b
    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
    Spending authority.

        New authority defined in Budget Act...........................  1008

        Jurisdiction over new spending authority......................  671a

        New spending authority prohibited in bills or resolutions and

            amendments unless limited to appropriations to be made....  1008
    Spitting.

        Not in order during debate....................................   364
    St. Elizabeth's Hospital, jurisdiction of.........................   676
    Staffs of committees.  See Committee staffs.
    Standard.

        Congress to fix, for weights and measures.....................   121
    Standards of Official Conduct, Committee on.

        Composition of, one-half from each party......................  701a

        Duties and procedures of as to standards of conduct and

            investigations............................................   698

        Employing agency under Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act......   685

        Exempted from rule proscribing committee sittings during five-

            minute rule...............................................   710

        History and jurisdiction of...................................   685

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        Inspector General makes certain reports to....................   654

        Privileged reports from.......................................   726
    Standing committees.   See Committees.
    Standing orders.

        Duration of, etc..............................................   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 laws.

        As related to House's power to judge elections, etc........... 48-50
    State of the Union.

        President to inform Congress of...............................   168
    Statement.

        Accompanying conference report, rule as to....................   911

        Of receipts and expenditures of public money to be published..   143
    States.

        Relations to the two Houses.

            Admission of, jurisdiction of bills for...................   681

            Authority of, as to establishment of congressional

                districts.............................................   227

            Clerk to distribute Journal to legislative bodies of......   641

            Constitutional convention to be called on application of

                legislatures of.......................................   192

            Governors of, admitted to the floor of the House..........   919

            House of Representatives votes by, in choosing President..   221

            Legislatures prescribe time, etc., 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

            Two Senators from each....................................    32

        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, etc.

            Judges in, bound by Constitution of the United States.....   195

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            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, etc..............   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..  679a

            Jurisdiction of compacts between, of waters for irrigation

                purposes..............................................   681

            Jurisdiction of compacts over interstate energy...........   674

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries............  679a

            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

            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

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    Stationery.

        Clerk formerly furnished......................................   642

        Clerk formerly kept accounts of Members and Delegates as to...   642

        For Members...................................................    88
    Statistics.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..................   676

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to labor.....................   675
    Statuary.

        Jurisdiction as to............................................  677a
    Statutes.

        Revision of, jurisdiction as to...............................  679a
    Stenographers.

        Admission of unofficial.......................................  930a

        Of Committees, appointment, etc., of..........................   923

        Official reporters of debates.................................   923
    Strike out enacting words.

        Rule governing motions to.....................................   875

        Practice as to use of motions to..............................   876
    Strike out, motion to.

        Application of................................................   472

        Conditions of striking out an amendment already agreed to.....   474

        Effect of affirmative vote on motion to, and insert...........   473

        Federal unfunded mandate......................................  873c

        Motion to strike out and insert not divisible.................   793

        Negative decision of, not bar to further amendment............   793

        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.............................  701d

        May authorize and issue subpoenas.............................   718

        Oversight function of.........................................  692b

        Staff for.....................................................  732d

        Subject to full committee control.............................  703a
    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...................................   642

        From courts for papers of House............................ 291, 946

        Issue of, during recess of Congress...........................   342

        Procedure for response to judicial subpoenas..................   946

        Signed by Speaker.......................................... 624, 626

        Standing committees and their subcommittees may issue.........   718

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        Authorizing and signing committee subpoenas...................   718
    Substantive propositions.

        As related to division of the question..................... 791, 792
    Substitute amendment.

        Amendment of..................................................   823

        As to division of.............................................   793

        Rule as to offering of........................................   822

        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, etc.............   234

        Right to, not to be abridged--

            On account of sex.........................................   236

            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............................  671a
    Supplemental budget.

        Transmittal of................................................   169
    Supreme Court.

        Admission to Floor.  See Floor.

        Gallery for.  See Galleries.

        Judges of.....................................................   922

        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 on certain suspension days of Consent Calendar..   746

        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.............................................   906

        Motion for, as unfinished business............................   888

        Motion for, entertained after yeas and nays are demanded......    80

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        Nature of the motion..........................................   903

        One motion to adjourn in order pending........................   801

        Postponement of votes until designated time...................   631

        Precedence of the motion......................................   904

        Recognition by Speaker for motion on..........................   757

        Rule governing the motion for.................................   902

        Rule relating to admission to the floor not to be suspended...   919

        Formerly, second required.....................................   906

        Speaker not to entertain motion to suspend rule relating to

            use of the Hall of the House..............................   918

        Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

            proceedings on............................................   631

        The 40 minutes of debate on motions on........................   907
    Table.

        Speaker's.

            Rule for disposition of business on.....................882, 883

            Business on, place in daily order.........................   878

        Clerk's.

            No Member to remain near, during voting...................   763

            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..............................   744

        Motion to lay on the.  See Lay on the table.
    Taking down words.

        Parliamentary law as to............................... 368, 369, 761
    Taxes and Tariffs.  See also Duties.

        Capitation or direct, to be proportioned to census............   140

        Committees not having jurisdiction of, may not report a tax or

            tariff....................................................  846b

        Amendments to bills reported from, may not carry..............  846b

        Exempt foundations and trusts, jurisdiction over..............   688

        Export taxes prohibited.......................................   141

        Income taxes..................................................   235

        Old apportionment of..........................................    14

        On persons migrating or imported..............................   137

        Point of order against certain bills and amendments carrying..  846b

        Power of Congress to lay and collect..........................   117

        Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole..... 865, 868

        Retroactive income tax rates prohibited.......................  846d

        Vote on measures raising income tax rates................ 774e, 846c
    Technology Assessment.

        Office of.....................................................   995
    Televising.

        Committee meetings and hearings............................. 720-725

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        House proceeding..............................................  634c
    Tellers.

        Clerk tellers.

            Clerks to serve as, on quorum calls and recorded votes.... 630a,

                                                                        771b

            Rule and practice.........................................  630a

            Appointment of............................................  630a

            Chair may be counted on a vote by.........................   632

            Demand for, may be held dilatory..........................   803

            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............................  630a

            Rule and practice as to voting by....................... 630a, b

        Generally.

            Appointment of, for electoral count.......................   220

            Clerk appoints, for election of Speaker...................   312

            Former demand for and vote by.............................  630a

            Formerly motion to suspend the rules seconded on vote by..   906

            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 and other officers.............................. 26, 633a

        Of Speaker expires with the Congress..........................   637

        Of 2 years for appropriations for armies......................   171
    Territories.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries of.............  679a

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to courts of.................  679a

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to generally.................   681

        Power of Congress to make rules and regulations concerning....   188

        Privilege of Delegates from see Delegates.

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    Testimony.

        Methods of taking, by the House and committees............. 341-348,

                                                               709, 711, 712

        Power of the House to compel..................................   295

        Procedure when it implicates a Member of either House....... 321-323

        Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to

            support charge of perjury.................... 343, 409, 709, 712

        Required to secure conviction for treason.....................   181

        Witnesses before committees must file advance written

            statements of proposed....................................   712
    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 out 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.........   919
    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, 832

        Question on, and procedure................................. 830, 832
    Three days.

        Adjournment for more or less than.............................82, 83

        Bills adversely reported may, upon request of Member within 3

            days, be placed on calendar...............................   744

        Bills must be on Consent Calendar 3 legislative days before

            eligible for consideration................................   746

        Committee on Rules must present within, special rules and

            orders from time when ordered to be reported..............   730

        Committee on Rules reports immediately privileged during last

            three days of session.....................................  729a

        Committee chairman has to call special meeting upon request of

            three members.............................................   705

        Conference reports and amendments in complete disagreement, to

            be available, before consideration................... 912a, 912b

        Hearings and reports of Committee on Appropriations to be

            available 3 calendar days before consideration of

            appropriation bills.......................................   848

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        Member have, after notice in which to file Minority,

            supplemental or additional views..........................   714

        Reports of committees to be available, before consideration...   715
    Tie vote.

        Decision on...................................................   508

        In Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight...................   632

        Question lost on..............................................   632

        Speaker's vote in case of.................................. 632, 765

        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
    Titles.

        Of bills.

            Amendment of..............................................   822

            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...........   743

            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.....................................   852
    Trademarks.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................  679a
    Trading with the enemy.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   678
    Transfers of unexpended balances.

        Jurisdiction of subjects related to...........................  671a

        Separate headings for in certain bills and reports............  671a
    Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on.

        History, jurisdiction, and duties of..........................   686
    Transposition.

        Of portions of a bill by motion to amend......................   477

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    Travel.

        Of Members and employees.

            By retiring or defeated Members following sine die

                adjournment...........................................  732e

            Use of committee funds for travel.........................  719a

            Use by committees of foreign currencies owned by the

                United States.........................................  719a

            Reports by committees on use of foreign currencies........  719b

            Expense resolutions for committee travel..................  732e

            Speaker may designate Members, officers, and employees to

                travel on official business of the House, on vouchers

                approved by him.......................................  634b

        Generally.

            Travel and tourism, jurisdiction over subjects related to.   674
    Treason.  See also Aid.

        An impeachable offense........................................   173

        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
    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

        Jurisdiction as to subjects relating to.......................   688
    Treaties.

        Abrogated by law..............................................   599

        Authority of the House as to revenue..........................   596

        Authority of the House as to, in general......................   596

        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.....................   688

        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
    Treaty rights.

        Jurisdiction as to bills relating to..........................   678

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    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
    Trust funds.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   688
    Trusts.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................  679a
    Tuesday.

        Interruption of regular order on the first and third Tuesdays

            for consideration of the Private Calendar.................   893

        Motions to suspend rules on...................................   902

        Corrections Calendar called on second and fourth..............  745a
    Twenty-minutes' debate.

        On certain motions to discharge committees....................   908
    Two-thirds vote.  See Voting.
    Two weeks.

        Last, of session, rule for Calendar Wednesday not to apply to.   897
    Unanimous consent.

        Amendments between Houses considered by.......................  528a

        Calendar for bills to be considered by........................   746

        Consideration in House as in Committee of the Whole by........   424

        Correction of reference of public bills may be made by........   854

        Interruption of the order of business for.....................   881

        Ordinary function of Speaker as to recognition of requests for

                                                                    757, 881

        Practice of Speaker as to recognition of requests for.........   757

        Private claims to be referred to certain committees only by...   845

        Request as to admission to the floor not to be entertained....   919

        Required for withdrawal of amendment in Committee of the Whole   870

        Reservation of objection to...................................   881

        Right of Member to demand execution of subsisting order. .. 381, 881

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    Unfinished business.

        Rule for considering of.......................................   885

        Construction of the rule as to................................   886

        Business in periods set apart for classes of business.........   888

        Private, on Tuesdays..........................................   893

        Place of, in daily order of business..........................   878

        Postponed votes...............................................   631

        Priority of, in Committee of the Whole........................   869

        Question of consideration does not recur as...................   779

        Resumption of business of a preceding session of Congress.....   901
    Unfunded Mandates.  See Federal mandates.
    Union.

        An object of the Constitution.................................     1

        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............................................. 891, 892

        Bills placed on...............................................   742

        Bills on, considered by unanimous consent in House as in

            Committee of the Whole....................................   424

        Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday....................   897

        Bills from, on Calendar for unanimous consent.................   746

        Referral of State of the Union message to.....................   168

        Removal of bill from by Speaker...............................   865
    Unofficial office accounts.

        Prohibited....................................................   941
    Unusual punishments.

        Not to be inflicted...........................................   215
    Urban development.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   672
    Usage.

        Governing the Speaker in recognitions.........................   754
    Useless papers.

        Disposition of, jurisdiction..................................  677a
    Vacancies.

        In membership of House.

            Clerk administers office..................................  647c

            Continuation of pay of clerical assistants................    88

            Declared for holding incompatible offices.................   101

            From action of House......................................    22

            From death................................................    18

            From declination..........................................    20

            From resignation..........................................    19

            From withdrawal...........................................    21

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            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

        In general.

            In managers of a conference...............................   538

            In office of Clerk........................................    30

            Of House officers, Speaker may fill temporarily...........   635

            In office of Speaker......................................    28

            In office of Vice President...............................   353

            In office of President........................ 155, 244-246, 252

            In offices, President to fill, during recess of Senate....   167

            In Senate.................................................    34

            On Committees, filling of............................. 701c, 705
    Vacating.

        Of Speaker's signature to enrolled bill.......................   625
    Validity.

        Of the public debt not to be questioned.......................   234
    Vessels.  See also Ships.

        Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work........   841

        Bound from State to State.....................................   142

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   686

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to mutiny and destruction of...  679a
    Veterans' Affairs, Committee on.

        History, jurisdiction and duties of...........................   687

        Other committees consolidated with............................   687
    Veto.

        Of a bill by the President....................................   104

        Consideration and action on vetoed bill in House....... 104, 107-109

        Members answering present not considered in determining two-

            thirds....................................................   109

        Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient to

            pass bill.................................................   109

        In order to consider on Calendar Wednesday....................   898

        Pocket veto...................................................   112

        Effect of adjournment to day certain as to pocket veto........   113
    Vice President.

        Admitted to the floor of the House............................   919

        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

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        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..............................    39

        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....................................................   821

        Reference of, to calendars....................................   743

        Right to file.................................................   714
    Violence.

        Domestic, States may ask protection from......................   189
    Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund................................  1008
    Virgin Islands.

        Delegate from, powers and privileges,  see Delegates.
    Visitors to institutions.

        Do not hold incompatible offices..............................    98
    Viva voce vote.

        Rules require officers of House, except Speaker, to be elected

            by........................................................   635

        Usage to elect Speaker by................................... 27, 635
    Vocational education.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   675
    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................................   740

        Delegates and Resident Commissioner, voting in committees and

            formerly in the Committee of the Whole................ 740, 864b

        Each Senator to have one......................................    32

        Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes decisive

            in Committee of Whole.....................................  864b

        Methods of recording in Journal...............................72, 75

        Not to be noticed in the other House..........................   308

        Of Chief Justice in impeachments..............................    39

        Of electors of President, giving of...........................   153

        Of Speaker not taken away by rule.............................    59

        Of Speaker ordinarily and in case of tie......................   632

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        Of Vice President in case of tie..............................    36

        Of States in the Senate.......................................   190

        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.......................  660a

            Change of a vote................................. 511, 766, 774b

            Disqualifying personal interest........................ 657, 659

            Duties and rights of Delegates and Resident Commissioner

                in committees and formerly in Committee of the Whole

                                                                   740, 864b

            Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes

                decisive in Committee of Whole........................  864b

            May not authorize any other individual to cast his vote...  660b

            Members convicted of certain crimes.......................   939

            Members required to vote............................... 656, 658

            Parliamentary law as to giving of votes...................   505

            Pairs and their announcement..............................   660

            Proxy voting in committees prohibited.....................   707

            Relation of reading of papers to under former rule XXX..... 916,

                                                                         917

            Right of Member to have read once a paper on which he is

                to vote............................................ 432, 916

            Withdrawal of a vote or correction of error in............   766

        Decisions by majority--tie.

            Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..................   508

        Three-fifths vote.

            On measures raising income tax rates......................  846c

            On bills considered on Corrections Calendar...............  745a

        Two-thirds vote.

            In general................................................   509

            Calendar Wednesday, to dispense with business on...... 729a, 897

            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

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            Private Calendar, to dispense with on first Tuesday each

                month.................................................   893

            Report from Committee on Rules, to consider immediately...  729a

            Not required for immediate consideration of certain

                reports from Committee on Rules............. 715, 912a, 912b

            Suspension of the rules, on...............................   902

            Treaties, Senate concurs in, by...........................   165

            Veto, to pass bill over a.............................. 104, 109

        By electronic system.

            Use in House..............................................  774b

            Use in Committee of the Whole.............................   863

            Bell and light indications................................   765

        Five-minute votes.

            On postponed questions....................................   631

            On questions in sequence in House......................... 774bb

            On questions in sequence in Committee of Whole............  864a

        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..................630a, 630b

            Parliamentary provisions as to division not applicable in

                the House.............................................   502

            Repetition of demand for division.........................  630a

        By recorded vote.  See Recorded vote.

        By tellers.  See Tellers.

            Former rule for voting by............................ 630a, 630b

        By yeas and nays.  See Yeas and nays.

        By ballot.

            Rule for..................................................   934

        On bills, amendments, etc.

            As related to debate on amendment.........................   482

            Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes

                decisive in Committee of Whole........................  864b

            On amendments, order and principle of.....................   822

            On articles in an impeachment.............................   618

            On several stages and passage of a bill...................   833

            Postponing rollcall votes.................................   631

            Requirements as to, on a motion to reconsider.............   817

            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 of question for.  See Division.

        In election of officers.

            Electors, Presidential, chosen by ballot............... 219, 220

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            Officers of House, except Speaker.........................   635

            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............   765

            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...   909

            Managers of two Houses vote separately at a conference....   548

            Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during..............   763

            Movement of Members during voting.........................   506

            Recording of votes by electronic equipment................  774b

            Right of suffrage not to be abridged for race, color,

                etc., sex, poll tax........................... 234, 240, 251

            ``Straw votes'' prohibited................................  630a
    Waiver.  See also Rules.

        Of privilege, not permitted to Members........................   901
    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...............................   678

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to soldiers of the World Wars   687

        Jurisdiction as to pensions arising from......................   687

        Relative powers of Congress and the President.......... 128, 1013(2)
    War Claims.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................  679a
    Warships.

        Not to be kept by States in time of peace.....................   148
    Warrants.

        Clerk seals and attests all...................................   642

        Certain, to issue only on certain conditions..................   246

        For arrest of absent Members.............................. 770, 774a

        Signed by Speaker.......................................... 624, 626
    Water.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to common carriers by........   686

        Jurisdiction over water transportation generally..............   686

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        Jurisdiction of matters relating to water power...............   686

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to supply of, for reclamation

            projects..................................................   681

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts

            relating to apportionment of, for irrigation purposes.....   681

        Jurisdiction of water conservation related to agriculture.....   670
    Waterways, inland.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   686
    Ways and Means, Committee on.

        Exempted from rule proscribing committee sittings during five-

            minute rule...............................................   710

        History and jurisdiction of...................................   688
    Weather Service, national.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   683
    Wednesday, Calendar.

        Rule for order of business on.................................   897

        Business of, protected by two-thirds vote.....................  729a

        In order to consider a veto message of the President..........   898

        One committee can only occupy one day except to dispose of

            unfinished business.......................................   898

        Previous question ordered, bill undisposed of on Tuesday, goes

            over until Thursday.......................................   898

        Privilege of revenue and general appropriation bills limited

            on..................................................... 802, 897
    Weights.

        Congress to fix standard of...................................   121

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   683
    Welfare, general.

        An object of the Constitution.................................     1

        Power of Congress to provide for..............................   117
    Welfare of miners.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to...........................   675
    Wildlife.

        Jurisdiction of matters relating to conservation of...........   681
    Withdrawal.

        Of motions, votes, etc.

            Of motions generally............................... 392, 775-777

            Parliamentary law of as to motions........................   460

            Amendment reported from Committee of the Whole not subject

                to....................................................   335

            Of motion to amend..................................... 822, 824

            Of motion to amend in Committee of the Whole................ 870

            Of motion to amend in ``House as in Committee of the

                Whole''...............................................   427

            Of motion to reconsider...................................   812

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            Of motion to suspend the rules............................   906

            Of point of no quorum.....................................    55

            Of vote...................................................   766

        Of Members, resignations, papers, etc.

            By President of paper accompanying a message..............   571

            Of a Member...............................................    22

            Of Member when a matter concerning himself arises...... 375, 376

            Of papers from files......................................   933

            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

            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, 718

            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....................................................   931

            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........................   712

            May be called by minority.................................   711

            May be interrogated for five minutes by each member of

                committee.............................................   711

            Must file advance written statements of proposed testimony   712

            Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given

                to support charge of perjury............. 343, 409, 709, 712

        In criminal cases.

            Compulsory process for obtaining..........................   213

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            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..........................................   761

        Parliamentary procedure in taking down disorderly.......... 368, 369
    Work incentive programs.

        Jurisdiction over subjects related to.........................   675
    Works, public.

        Authorizations of appropriations for..........................   838

        Appropriations in continuation of.................... 834a, 840, 841

        See also Public works.
    Writing.

        By Members at the Clerk's table during debate forbidden.......   364

        Motion reduced to, on demand of a Member......................   775

        Reports of committees to be in................................   821
    Writings.

        Congress may provide exclusive rights to......................   124
    Writs.

        Signed by Speaker.......................................... 624, 626

        Clerk seals and attests all...................................   642

        Of election to fill vacancies.................................    17

        Of habeas corpus, suspension of...............................   138

        Of summonses in an impeachment............................. 608, 611
    Yachts.

        Jurisdiction of bills relating to.............................   686
    Yeas and nays.

        Automatically ordered.

            On measures making general appropriations and increasing

                income tax rates......................................  774e

            On measures making general appropriations and increasing

                income tax rates......................................  913d

            Measures vetoed by the President..........................   104

        Demanding and ordering.

            Conditions of ordering.................................. 76, 504

            Demanding of..............................................    77

            Demand for, not to be held dilatory.......................   803

            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..........................   771

            Reconsideration of the ordering of........................    79

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            Vacating order for........................................    76

        Voting by.

            By the Speaker......................................... 632, 765

            Changes and corrections of votes..........................   766

            Combining the yea-and-nay vote with a call of the House...   773

            Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record on a

                roll call.............................................   772

            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..............  713d

            Interruptions of the roll call............................   767

            Messages received during vote by..........................   562

            Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote.......   765

            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................   909

            Qualifying in order to vote...............................   765

            Use of electronic device to record........................  774b
    Yielding.

        Of Member having floor for motions or questions...............   750

        Of time not permitted under five-minute debate................   872
    Zoological Park.

        Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..........................   686