    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 258-259]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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

                   SEC. XLIV.--BILLS SENT TO THE OTHER HOUSE.

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    does not carry the amendment and bill to the table, and other motions
    are in order to dispose of the Senate amendment (Feb. 22, 1978, p.
    4072).

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

    Sec. 520. Requests for information from the other
    House.

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

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