    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Page 750]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    [[Page 750]]

                                  Rule XXXIII.

                         OF ADMISSION TO THE GALLERIES.

    Sec. 922. The various galleries and admission
    thereto.

      The Speaker  shall set aside a portion of the west gallery for the use of
    the President of the United States, the members of his Cabinet, justices
    of the Supreme Court, foreign ministers and suites, and the members of
    their respective families, and shall also set aside another portion of
    the same gallery for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on the
    card of Members. The southerly half of the east gallery shall be
    assigned exclusively for the use of the families of Members of Congress,
    in which the Speaker shall control one bench, and on request of a Member
    the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to his family, which shall
    include their visitors, and no other person shall be admitted to this
    section.

      This rule was adopted in 1880 (V, 7302). It was renumbered January 3,
    1953, p. 24.

      On special occasions the House sometimes makes a special rule for
    admission to the galleries (V, 7303), as on the occasion of the
    electoral count (III, 1961), of an address by the President, and of
    public funerals.