Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress-Rule XXXIV.Official and Other Reporters

[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]
[Pages 750-761]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

Rule XXXIV.

OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTERS.

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subject to the direction and control of the Speaker.

Sec. 923. Reporters of debates and
committee stenographers.

1. The appointment and removal, for cause, of the official
reporters of the House, including stenographers of committees, and the
manner of the execution of their duties shall be vested in the Clerk,

From 1874 until March 1, 1978, the appointment and removal of the
official reporters, and the manner of the execution of their duties, was
vested in the Speaker (V, 6958); effective March 1, 1978 (H. Res. 959,
Jan. 23, 1978, p. 431) those responsibilities were vested in the Clerk,
subject to the direction and control of the Speaker.

The reporters of debates have borne an important part in the evolution
by which the House has built up the system of a daily verbatim report of
its proceedings, made by its own corps of reporters (V, 6959). Since
these reporters have become officers of the House a correction of the
Congressional Record has been held a question of privilege (V, 7014-
7016).

Sec. 924. Rules relating to Congressional
Record.

The arrangement, style, etc., of the Congressional Record is
prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 901,
904 (see also VIII, 3500). The rules of the Joint Committee on Printing
governing publication of the Congressional Record are as follows:

1. Arrangement of the daily Congressional Record.--The Public Printer
shall arrange the contents of the daily Congressional Record as follows:
The Senate proceedings shall alternate with the House proceedings in
order of placement in consecutive issues insofar as such an arrangement
is feasible, and Extensions of Remarks and Daily Digest shall follow:
Provided, That the makeup of the Congressional Record shall proceed
without regard to alternation whenever the Public Printer deems it
necessary in order to meet production and delivery schedules.

2. Type and style.--The Public Printer shall print the report of the
proceedings and debates of the Senate and House of Representatives, as
furnished by the official reporters of the Congressional Record, in 8-
point type; and all matter included in the remarks or speeches of
Members of Congress, other than their own words, and all reports,
documents, and other matter authorized to be inserted in the
Congressional Record shall be printed in 7-point type; and all roll
calls shall be printed in 6-point type. No italic or black type nor
words in capitals or small capitals shall be used for emphasis or
prominence; nor will unusual indentions be permitted. These restrictions
do not apply to the printing of or quotations from historical, official,
or legal documents or papers of which a literal reproduction is
necessary.

3. Only as an aid in distinguishing the manner of delivery in order to
contribute to the historical accuracy of the Record, statements or
insertions in the Record where no part of them was spoken will be
preceded and followed by a ``bullet'' symbol, i.e., (now
applicable only in Senate).

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not furnished at the time specified, the Public Printer is authorized
to withhold it from the Congressional Record for 1 day. In no case will
a speech be printed in the Congressional Record of the day of its
delivery if the manuscript is furnished later than 12 o'clock midnight.
4. Return of manuscript.--When manuscript is submitted to Members for
revision it should be returned to the Government Printing Office not
later than 9 o'clock p.m. in order to insure publication in the
Congressional Record issued on the following morning; and if all of the
manuscript is

5. Tabular matter.--The manuscript of speeches containing tabular
statements to be published in the Congressional Record shall be in the
hands of the Public Printer not later than 7 o'clock p.m. to insure
publication the following morning. When possible, manuscript copy for
tabular matter should be sent to the Government Printing Office 2 or
more days in advance of the date of publication in the Congressional
Record. Proof will be furnished promptly to the Member of Congress to be
submitted by him instead of manuscript copy when he offers it for
publication in the Congressional Record.

6. Proof furnished.--Proofs or ``leave to print'' and advance speeches
will not be furnished the day the manuscript is received but will be
submitted the following day, whenever possible to do so without causing
delay in the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress. Advance
speeches shall be set in the Congressional Record style of type, and not
more than six sets of proofs may be furnished to Members without charge.

7. Notation of withheld remarks.--If manuscript or proofs have not
been returned in time for publication in the proceedings, the Public
Printer will insert the words ``Mr. ---- addressed the Senate (House or
Committee). His remarks will appear hereafter in Extensions of Remarks''
and proceed with the printing of the Congressional Record.

8. Thirty-day limit.--The Public Printer shall not publish in the
Congressional Record any speech or extension of remarks which has been
withheld for a period exceeding 30 calendar days from the date when its
printing was authorized: Provided, That at the expiration of each
session of Congress the time limit herein fixed shall be 10 days, unless
otherwise ordered by the committee.

9. Corrections.--The permanent Congressional Record is made up for
printing and binding 30 days after each daily publication is issued;
therefore all corrections must be sent to the Public Printer within that
time: Provided, That upon the final adjournment of each session of
Congress the time limit shall be 10 days, unless otherwise ordered by
the committee: Provided further, That no Member of Congress shall be
entitled to make more than one revision. Any revision shall consist only
of corrections of the original copy and shall not include deletions of
correct material, substitutions for correct material, or additions of
new subject matter.

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10. The Public Printer shall not publish in the Congressional Record
the full report or print of any committee or subcommittee when the
report or print has been previously printed. This rule shall not be
construed to apply to conference reports. However, inasmuch as [rule
XXVIII; see Sec. 912, supra] provides that conference reports be printed
in the daily edition of the Congressional Record, they shall not be
printed therein a second time.

11. Makeup of the Extensions of Remarks.--Extensions of Remarks in the
Congressional Record shall be made up by successively taking first an
extension from the copy submitted by the official reporters of one House
and then an extension from the copy of the other House, so that Senate
and House extensions appear alternately as far as possible. The sequence
for each House shall follow as closely as possible the order or
arrangement in which the copy comes from the official reporters of the
respective Houses.

The official reporters of each House shall designate and distinctly
mark the lead item among their extensions. When both Houses are in
session and submit extensions, the lead item shall be changed from one
House to the other in alternate issues, with the indicated lead item of
the other House appearing in second place. When only one House is in
session, the lead item shall be an extension submitted by a Member of
the House in session. This rule shall not apply to Congressional Records
printed after the sine die adjournment of the Congress.

12. Official reporters.--The official reporters of each House shall
indicate on the manuscript and prepare headings for all matter to be
printed in Extensions of Remarks and shall make suitable reference
thereto at the proper place in the proceedings.

13. Two-page rule--Cost estimate from Public Printer.--(1) No
extraneous matter in excess of two printed Record pages, whether printed
in its entirety in one daily issue or in two or more parts in one or
more issues, shall be printed in the Congressional Record unless the
Member announces, coincident with the request for leave to print or
extend, the estimate in writing from the Public Printer of the probable
cost of publishing the same. (2) No extraneous matter shall be printed
in the House proceedings or the Senate proceedings, with the following
exceptions: (a) Excerpts from letters, telegrams, or articles presented
in connection with a speech delivered in the course of debate; (b)
communications from State legislatures; (c) addresses or articles by the
President and the Members of his Cabinet, the Vice President, or a
Member of Congress. (3) The official reporters of the House or Senate or
the Public Printer shall return to the Member of the respective House
any matter submitted for the Congressional Record which is in
contravention of these provisions.

house supplement to ``laws and rules for publication of the

congressional record''--effective august 12, 1986

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words. Statements exceeding this will be printed following the business
of the day.
1. Extensions of Remarks in the daily Congressional Record.--When the
House has granted leave to print (1) a newspaper or magazine article, or
(2) any other matter not germane to the proceedings, it shall be
published under Extensions of Remarks. This rule shall not apply to
quotations which form part of a speech of a Member, or to an authorized
extension of his own remarks: Provided, That no address, speech, or
article delivered or released subsequently to the sine die adjournment
of a session of Congress may be printed in the Congressional Record.
One-minute speeches delivered during the morning business of Congress
shall not exceed 300

2. Any extraneous matter included in any statement by a Member, either
under the 1-minute rule or permission granted to extend at this point,
will be printed in the ``Extensions of Remarks'' section, and that such
material will be duly noted in the Member's statement as appearing
therein.

3. Under the general leave request by the floor manager of specific
legislation only matter pertaining to such legislation will be included
as per the request. This, of course, will include tables and charts
pertinent to the same, but not newspaper clippings and editorials.

4. In the makeup of the portion of the Record entitled ``Extensions of
Remarks,'' the Public Printer shall withhold any Extensions of Remarks
which exceed economical press fill or exceed production limitations.
Extensions withheld for such reasons will be printed in succeeding
issues, at the direction of the Public Printer, so that more uniform
daily issues may be the end result and, in this way, when both Houses
have a short session the makeup would be in a sense made easier so as to
comply with daily proceedings, which might run extremely heavy at times.

5. The request for a Member to extend his or her remarks in the body
of the Record must be granted to the individual whose remarks are to be
inserted.

6. All statements for ``Extensions of Remarks,'' as well as copy for
the body of the Congressional Record must be submitted on the Floor of
the House to the Official Reporters of Debates and must carry the actual
signature of the Member. Extensions of Remarks will be accepted up to 15
minutes after adjournment of the House. To insure printing in that day's
proceedings, debate transcripts still out for revision must be returned
to the Office of Official Reporters of Debates, Room HT-60, the Capitol,
(1) by 5 p.m., or 2 hours following adjournment, whichever occurs later;
or (2) within 30 minutes following adjournment when the House adjourns
at 11 p.m., or later.

7. The Congressional Record shall contain a substantially verbatim
account of remarks actually made during proceedings of the House,
subject to technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections
authorized by the Member making the remarks involved. The substantially
verbatim account shall be clearly distinguishable, by different
typeface, from material inserted under permission to extend remarks.

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strictly to the requirement of rule 7 of the supplemental rules (Mar.
2, 1988, p. 2963; Feb. 3, 1993, p. ----). Because the Record is
maintained as a substantially verbatim account of the proceedings of the
House (44 U.S.C. 901), the Speaker will not entertain a unanimous
consent request to give a special-order speech ``off the Record'' (June
24, 1992, p. ----).

Sec. 924a. Substantially verbatim
account.

The requirement of rule 7 of the supplemental rules outlined above that the
Congressional Record be a substantially verbatim account of remarks
actually rendered was included as a new clause 9 of rule XIV in the
104th Congress, with the prescription that that rule constitute a
standard of conduct under clause 4(e)(1)(B) of rule X (sec. 213, H. Res.
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. ----). Under clause 9 of rule XIV, remarks actually
delivered may not be deleted and remarks inserted must appear in
distinctive type (Jan. 4, 1995, p. ----). The Speaker has instructed the
Official Reporters of Debates to adhere

The Record is for the proceedings of the House and Senate only, and
matters not connected therewith are rigidly excluded (V, 6962). It is
not, however, the official record, that function being fulfilled by the
Journal (IV, 2727). As a general principle the Speaker has no control
over the Record (V, 6984, 7017), but words spoken by a Member after he
has been called to order may be excluded by direction of the Speaker (V,
6975-6978; VIII, 3466, 3471; July 29, 1994, p. ----). But the House, and
not the Speaker, determines what liberty shall be allowed to a Member
who has leave to extend his remarks (V, 6997-7000; VIII, 3475), whether
or not a copyrighted article shall be printed therein (V, 6985), as to
an alleged abuse of the leave to print (V, 7012; VIII, 3474), or as to a
proposed amendment (V, 6983).

Sec. 925. Relations of the Committee of the Whole
to the Congressional Record.

As a general rule the Committee of the Whole has no
control over the Congressional Record (V, 6986); but the Chairman in the
preservation of order, may direct the exclusion of disorderly words
spoken by a Member after he has been called to order (V, 6987). In a
case wherein the committee conceived that a letter read in committee
involved a breach of privilege, it reported the matter to the House for
action, and the House struck the letter from the Record (V, 6986). The
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole does not determine the privileges
of a Member under a general leave to print in the record, that being for
the House alone (V, 6988). Neither may the Committee of the Whole grant
a general leave to print, although for convenience it does permit
individual Members to extend their remarks (V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-
3490; Aug. 31, 1965, p. 22385), nor may the Committee of the Whole
permit the inclusion of extraneous material (Jan. 23, 1936, p. 950; Feb.
1, 1937, pp. 656-57; Sept. 19, 1967, p. 26032).

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from action when the words, after being withheld for revision, appeared
in the Record, and struck them out (V, 6979, 6981; VI, 582; VIII, 2538,
3463, 3472).

Sec. 926. Correction of the Congressional
Record.

While the House controls the Congressional Record, the Speaker with the
assent of the House laid down the principle that words spoken by a
Member in order might not be changed by the House, as this would be
determining what a Member should utter on the floor (V, 6974; VI, 583;
VIII, 3469, 3498). Neither should one House strike out matter placed in
the Record by permission of the other House (V, 6966). But the House may
correct the speech of one of its Members so that it may record
faithfully what he actually said (V, 6972). Where a Member interrupts
another during debate without being yielded or otherwise recognized (as
on a point of order) his remarks are not printed in the Record (Speaker
O'Neill, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2229). Where a Member had uttered disorderly
words on the floor without objection, the House yet decided that it was
not precluded

The House has also ordered stricken from the Record printed speeches
condemned as unparliamentary for reflections on Members, committees of
the House, the House itself (V, 7017), and the Senate (V, 5129). In the
101st Congress a resolution presented as a question of privilege was
adopted which directed the Committee on House Administration to report
with respect to certain unauthorized deletions from the Record. A task
force of that Committee recommended that deletion of unparliamentary
remarks be permitted only by consent of the House, and not by the Member
uttering the words under authority to revise and extend (Oct. 27, 1990,
p. ----). Through the 103d Congress, under applicable precedents and
guidelines, the Chair could refine a ruling on a point of order in the
Record in order to clarify the ruling without changing its substance,
including one sustained by the House on appeal (Feb. 19, 1992, p. ----;
see H. Res. 230, 99th Cong., July 31, 1985, p. 21783, and H. Rept. 99-
228). In accordance with existing accepted practices, the Speaker
customarily made such technical or parliamentary corrections or
insertions in the transcript of a ruling or statement by the Chair as
may have been necessary to conform to rule, custom, or precedent (see
also H. Res. 330, 101st Cong., Feb. 7, 1990, p. 1515, and report of
House Administration Task Force on Record inserted by Speaker Foley,
Oct. 27, 1990, p. ----). However, in the 104th Congress the Speaker
ruled that the requirement of a new clause 9 of rule XIV that the Record
be a substantially verbatim account of remarks made during House
proceedings extended to statements and rulings of the Chair (Jan. 20,
1995, p. ----).

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It is improper for a Member to have published in the Record the
individual votes of Members on a question of which the yeas and nays
have not been entered on the Journal (V, 6982). A correction of the
Record which involves a motion and a vote is recorded in the Journal
(IV, 2877). Propositions to make corrections are sometimes considered by
the Committee on House Oversight. In debating a resolution to strike
from the Record disorderly language a Member may not read the language
(V, 7004); but it was held that as part of a personal explanation
relating to matter excluded as out of order a Member might read the
matter, subject to a point of order if the reading should develop
anything in violation of the rules of debate (V, 5079). It has also been
held that a Member may not, in a controversy over a proposed correction
of the Record as to a matter of business, demand as a matter of right
the reading of the reporter's notes (V, 6967; VIII, 3460). The Speaker
declines to entertain unanimous consent requests to correct the Record
on a vote taken by electronic device, based upon the presumed accuracy
of the electronic system and the ability and responsibility of each
Member to verify his vote (Feb. 6, 1973, p. 3558; Apr. 18, 1973, p.
13081; Dec. 3, 1974, p. 37897).

Sec. 927. Privileges of propositions to correct
the Congressional Record.

A motion or resolution for the correction of the
Congressional Record which involves a question of privilege may be made
properly after the reading and approval of the Journal (V, 7013; VIII,
3496), and is not in order pending the approval of the Journal (V,
6989), but is privileged after that (V, 7014-7019; VIII, 3461, 3463).

A question of privilege as to an alleged error in the Record may not
be raised until the Record has appeared (V, 7020), and a resolution to
omit from the manuscript copy certain remarks declared out of order is
not privileged (V, 7021). Offensive words having been stricken from the
Record by the Member, a question of privilege may not arise therefrom
(V, 7023; VI, 596). Privileged motions to correct the Congressional
Record involve cases where the integrity of House proceedings is in
question, such as where unparliamentary words have been spoken in debate
(see Sec. 761, supra) or inserted in the Record (Deschler's Precedents,
vol. 1, ch. 5, sec. 17), where the remarks of one Member have been
attributed to another (sec. 18.1-18.2), or where a Member has improperly
altered his remarks during an exchange of colloquoy with another Member
(sec. 18.9). Mere typographical errors in the Congressional Record or
ordinary revisions of a Member's remarks do not give rise to privileged
motions for the correction of the Record (Apr. 25, 1985, p. 9419), since
such changes for the permanent edition of the Record may be made without
the permission of the House (Deschler's Precedents, vol. 1, ch. 5, sec.
19) and the House does not change the Record merely to show what a
Member should have said during debate (sec. 18).

A motion to correct the Record has been entertained to allow a Member
to print in subsequent edition of the daily Record the correct text of
an amendment which he had offered on a previous day and which had been
substantially misprinted in the daily Record for the day on which it was
offered (Deschler's Precedents, vol. 1, ch. 5, sec. 18.6).

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the House corrected the Record (V, 6973). The Joint Committee on
Printing prescribes the conditions under which Members may revise their
remarks (V, 7024; VIII, 3500).

Sec. 928. Privilege of Member to revise his
remarks in the Congressional Record.

It has been the practice to allow a Member,
with the approval of the House, to revise his remarks before publication
in the Congressional Record (V, 6971); but he should not change the
notes of his own speech in such a way as to affect the remarks of an
opponent in controversy without bringing the correction to the attention
of that Member (V, 6972; VIII, 3461). Where the remarks of another are
not affected, a Member in revising a speech for the Record should abide
by rule 9 of the rules adopted by the Joint Committee on Printing to
govern the publication of the Congressional Record and should not delete
correct material (see Secs. 924, 924a supra), but alterations which
place a different aspect on the remarks of a colleague require
authorization by the House (VIII, 3463, 3497). A Member is not entitled
to inspect the Reporter's notes of remarks which do not contain
reflections on himself, delivered by another Member and withheld for
revision (V, 6964). Where a Member so revised his remarks as to affect
the import of words uttered by another Member,

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leave to revise and extend to be printed in distinctive type and
precludes deletion under such permission of words actually uttered (Jan.
4, 1995, p. ----).

Sec. 929. ``Leave to print'' in the Congressional
Record.

The practice of inserting in the Congressional Record speeches not actually
delivered on the floor has grown up by consent of the House as the
membership has increased and it has become difficult at times for every
Member to express at length on the floor his reasons for his attitude on
public questions (V, 6990-6996, 6998-7000). The House quite generally
stipulates, in granting leave to print, that it shall be exercised
without unreasonable freedom (V, 7002, 7003). General leave to print may
be granted only by the House, although in Committee of the Whole a
Member, by unanimous consent, may be given leave to extend his remarks
(V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-3490). When a Member under leave to print
places in the Record that which would not have been in order if uttered
on the floor, the House may exclude the speech in whole or in part (V,
7005-7008; VIII, 3495; Oct. 2, 1992, p. ----). Thus, where a Member,
under leave to print, made charges against another Member, the House
ordered the speech stricken out (V, 7004). The principle that a Member
shall not be called to order for words spoken in debate if business has
intervened does not apply to a case where leave to print has been
violated (V, 7005). Where a Member gets leave to insert one matter he
may not print another (V, 7001; VIII, 3462, 3479, 3480). Leave to extend
remarks does not permit a Member to insert in the Record statements and
letters of others unless the leave granted specifies such matter (VIII,
3475, 3481) whether the extension be under general leave for all Members
or individually. In Committee of the Whole leave for an extension of
remarks should not be granted except in connection with remarks actually
delivered and, if under the five-minute rule, relevant to the bill; and
the extension under such circumstances should be brief (Speaker
Longworth, Mar. 18, 1926, p. 5854). Neither the House nor the Committee
of the Whole permit the insertion of an entire colloquy between two or
more Members not actually delivered (Aug. 10, 1982, pp. 20266, 20267;
Oct. 3, 1985, p. 26028). The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole has
declined to entertain a request for an extension of remarks actually
delivered under the five-minute rule but not relevant to the bill under
consideration (Chairman Lehlbach, Mar. 18, 1926, p. 5861). Where a
Member abused a leave to print on the last day of the session, the House
at the next session condemned the abuse and declared the matter not a
legitimate part of the official debates (V, 7017). An abuse of the leave
to print gives rise to a question of privilege (V, 7005-7008, 7011;
VIII, 3163, 3491, 3495), and a resolution or motion to expunge from the
Record in such a case is offered as a question of privilege (V, 7012;
VIII, 3475, 3491). An inquiry by the House as to an alleged abuse of the
leave to print does not necessarily entitle the Member implicated to the
floor on a question of privilege (V, 7012). Clause 9 of rule XIV, added
in the 104th Congress, requires substantive remarks inserted under

A motion that a Member be permitted to extend his remarks in the
Record is not privileged (Feb. 8, 1950, p. 1661), and under the rules of
the Joint Committee on Printing, one Member cannot obtain permission for
other individual Members to extend their remarks.

Where extraneous material proposed to be inserted in the body or in
the Extension of Remarks portion of the Record exceeds two Record pages,
the rules of the Joint Committee on Printing require that the Member
state an estimate of printing cost when permission is requested to make
the insertion (Feb. 12, 1962, p. 2207; May 24, 1972, p. 18653), and it
is the Member's responsibility and not that of the Chair to ascertain
the cost of printing extraneous material and obtaining consent of the
House when necessary (Feb. 11, 1994, p. ----). The Joint Committee on
Printing amended the rules for publication of the Record, effective
March 1, 1978, to require the identification in the Record by ``bullet''
symbols of statements or insertions no part of which were actually
delivered in debate (Feb. 20, 1978, p. 3676). Where the House permitted
all members leave to revise and extend their remarks on a certain
subject, those Members who actually spoke during the debate could revise
their remarks to appear as if actually delivered, but Members'
statements no part of which were spoken were preceded and followed by a
``bullet'' symbol (Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32729). Then in the 99th Congress,
the House adopted a resolution requesting the Joint Committee on
Printing to adopt temporary rules to require distinctive type styles
rather than bulleting of remarks not actually spoken in debate (H. Res.
230, July 31, 1985, p. 21783), and also adopted a resolution requesting
that those rules be made permanent (H. Res. 514, Aug. 12, 1986, p.
20980). Under regulations of the Joint Committee on Printing, remarks
delivered or inserted under leave to revise and extend in connection
with a ``one-minute speech'' made before legislative business are
printed after legislative business if exceeding 300 words (Speaker
O'Neill, Apr. 5, 1978, p. 8846). See Sec. 924, supra.

Based upon several unauthorized insertions of extensions of remarks in
the Record, the Speaker announced that henceforth all extensions of
remarks must be signed by the Member submitting them (Aug. 15, 1974, p.
28385).

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admitted thereto under such regulations as the Speaker may from time to
time prescribe; and the supervision of such gallery, including the
designation of its employees, shall be vested in the standing committee
of correspondents, subject to the direction and control of the Speaker;
and the Speaker may assign one seat on the floor to Associated Press
reporters and one to United Press International, and regulate the
occupation of the same. And the Speaker may admit to the floor, under
such regulations as he may prescribe, one additional representative of
each press association.

Sec. 930a. Unofficial reporters in the press gallery
and on the floor.

2. Such portion of the gallery over the Speaker's chair as
may be necessary to accommodate representatives of the press wishing to
report debates and proceedings shall be set aside for their use, and
reputable reporters and correspondents shall be

This clause was first adopted in 1857, and has been amended from time
to time as the occasion demanded (V, 7304; VIII, 3642). It was again
amended January 3, 1953, p. 24 and most recently on January 22, 1971, p.
144. See also Consumers Union v. Periodical Correspondents' Association,
515 F.2d 1341 (D.C. Cir. 1975), cert. den. 423 U.S. 1051 (1976) (action
in enforcing correspondents' association regulations is within
legislative immunity granted by the Speech or Debate Clause).

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trol of the Speaker; and the Speaker may admit to the floor, under such
regulations as he may prescribe, one representative of the National
Broadcasting Company, one of the Columbia Broadcasting System, one of
the Mutual Broadcasting System, and one of the American Broadcasting
Company.

Sec. 930b. Unofficial reporters in the radio gallery
and on the floor.

3. Such portion of the gallery of the House of
Representatives as may be necessary to accommodate reporters of news to
be disseminated by radio, television, and similar means of transmission,
wishing to report debates and proceedings, shall be set aside for their
use, and reputable reporters thus engaged shall be admitted thereto
under such regulations as the Speaker may from time to time prescribe;
and the supervision of such gallery, including the designation of its
employees, shall be vested in the Executive Committee of the Radio and
Television Correspondents' Galleries, subject to the direction and con

This clause was adopted on April 20, 1939, p. 4561, and was amended on
May 30, 1940, p. 7208 and on January 22, 1971, p. 144.