[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 190-191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 

                    SEC. XXV.--BILLS, SECOND READING.


[[Page 191]]
question will be, whether it shall be read a third time? and before he 
has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak to it. Hakew., 
143, 146.


Sec. 400. Obsolete parliamentary law as to second 
reading.

  The  second reading must regularly be on another day. Hakew., 143. 
It is done by the Clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker. 
The Speaker, rising, states to the House the title of the bill; that 
this is the second time of reading it; and that the question will be, 
whether it shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But 
if the bill came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he 
states that the 



  In the Senate of the United States, the President reports the title of 
the bill; that this is the second time of reading it; that it is now to 
be considered as in a Committee of the Whole; and the question will be, 
whether it shall be read a third time? or that it may be referred to a 
special committee?




  The provisions of this paragraph are to a large extent obsolete so far 
as the House of Representatives is concerned, the practice under clause 
1 of rule XXI now governing.