[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).