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



 

                      SEC. VII.--CALL OF THE HOUSE.



Sec. 311. Parliamentary rules for call of the House.

  On  the 
call of the House, each person rises up as he is called, and answereth; 
the absentees are then only noted, but no excuse to be made till the 
House be fully called over. Then the absentees are called a second time, 
and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. House of Commons, 92.



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


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


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



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