    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
    [105th Congress]
    [House Document 104-272]
    [General Index]
    [Pages 1157-1336]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    [Pages 1157-1336]

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                                    I N D E X

                                                                     Section
    Absence.  See also Attendance, Quorum

            Attendance required.
    Arrest of Members for absence................................... 768-770

                Arrest of Members attending committee meetings during

                    call of the House notwithstanding leave for

                    committee to sit..................................   324
    Call of House in new form..................................... 773, 774a
    Call of House in old form....................................... 768-771

                Deductions from pay of Members on account of absence..   86,

                                                                         657

                House may excuse, during call of the House............   769

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  679a

                Members to be present unless excused..................   656

                Names of Members reported when quorum fails in

                    Committee of the Whole............................   863

                Of Chairman in Committee..............................   705

                Rule of Parliament as to..............................   311

            Leave of.

                Presentation of requests for..........................   657

                Revoked but not granted during call of the House......   769
    Accounts.

            In the House, jurisdiction as to..........................  677a

            Of receipt and expenditures of public money to be

                published.............................................   143
    Accusation.

            Common fame as ground for.................................   341

            Right of accused to be informed of in criminal cases......   213
    Accused.

            Right of, to be heard before investigating committee......   712

            Rights of, in criminal prosecutions.......................   213
    Acts.

            Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626

            States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to

                public................................................   183
    Addresses.

            Signed by Speaker.........................................   624

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    Adhere, motion to.
            Of and to the early Presidents............................   316

            Precedence of................................... 486, 528b, 528d

            Insisting and adhering in the practice of the House.......   522

            Not equivalent of receding or insisting when decided in

                the negative..........................................   488

            One House may not by amendment depart from the form it has

                fixed by adherence....................................   526

            Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting, and

                adhering..............................................   521

            Previous question being ordered on, the motion to recede

                not admitted..........................................   525

            Relations of adherence to conference................... 553, 554
    Adjourn, motion to.  See also Adjournment.

            Nature and conditions of.
    As to amendment of............................................. 585, 783

                As to repetition of...................................   789
    General conditions of.......................................... 782, 783

                May be held dilatory..................................   803

                Not debatable.........................................   782

            Precedence of.
    High privilege and precedence of.......................... 439, 782, 783

                In order after ordering of yeas and nays..............    80

                In order before reading of the Journal................   621
    In order during new form of call of the House................. 773, 774a

                In order in House as in Committee of the Whole........   427

                Not in order after House has voted to go into

                    Committee of the Whole............................   783
    Not in order in Committee of the Whole.................... 333, 334, 783

                Not in order where previous question ordered to final

                    passage without intervening motion................   783
    Not to interrupt Member having the floor in debate............. 393, 750

                One in order pending motion for suspension of rules...   801

                One in order pending report from Committee on Rules...  729a

                Privileged over motion to reconsider..................   812

                Privileged over questions of privilege................   661

                Yields to presentation but not consideration of

                    conference reports................................   909

            Relation of, to quorum.
    In order in absence of quorum................................... 52, 769
    In order during new form of call of the House................. 773, 774a

                Not in order when Committee of the Whole rises to

                    report proceedings incident to securing quorum....   783

            To fix the day.

                General conditions of motion to fix the day to which

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    Privilege of motion to adjourn to day and time certain......... 782, 784
    Adjourn to day and time certain, motion to........................   782
    Adjournment.  See also Adjourn, motion to.
                    the House shall adjourn...........................   784

            Of the House alone.

                At the end of the term of a Congress..................     6

                For 3 days or less....................................82, 83

                Hours of, entered on the Journal......................   790

                House has adjourned for more than 1 day before

                    election of Speaker...............................    83
    May be taken by less than a quorum......................... 52, 769, 773

                Pronounced by the Speaker.............................   587

                Speaker takes Chair at hour to which House has

                    adjourned.........................................   621

            Of Congress--Requirements as to.

                Adjournment during pleasure effected by a recess......   586

                Case in which President may cause.....................   171

                Neither House to adjourn for more than 3 days without

                    consent of other..................................82, 83

                Of a session as related to constitutional day of

                    meeting...........................................    45

                Parliamentary law as to the adjournment of the Lords

                    and Commons.......................................   584
    Prohibited before completion of congressional budget process....... 1007

                                                                 (sec. 310f)

                Session not terminated by an adjournment of Congress

                    for a fixed time over 3 days......................   590

                Time of...............................................     6

                To be in July with certain exceptions.................   947

            Of Congress--Manner of.

                For more than 3 days by concurrent resolution.........    84

                Jurisdiction of resolutions for final, of Congress....  682a

                Manner of closing a session by action of the two

                    Houses............................................   591

                Resolution to provide for, over 3 days privileged.....    84

                Resolutions relating to, not presented to President

                    for approval......................................   115

            Of Congress--Effect of.

                As affecting signing of enrolled bills................   577

                As affecting the functions of committees..............   589

                As related to action on a veto message................   107

                Conferences not interrupted by........................   533

                Duties of clerks as to committee papers at............   932

                Effect of, as to bills in hands of President..........   111

                Effect of adjournment to day certain, as to bills in

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                    hands of President................................   113

                Impeachment not interrupted by........................   620
    Journal of last day not approved................................ 74, 621

                Obsolete law as to business at time of................   385

                Parliamentary law as to business at the termination of

                    a session.........................................   592

            Of a debate.

                Of a debate, obsolete practice as to..................   444
    Administrative Oversight.

            Former subcommittee on....................................   693
    Administrator of General Services.

            Bills that become law deposited with................... 105, 109
    Admiralty.

            Judicial power extends to cases of........................   178
    Admission.  See Floor and Galleries.
    Adverse Reports.

            Placing of, on the Calendars..............................   744

            From Committee on Rules...................................   730

            On privileged questions...................................   726
    Affirmation.  See also Oath.

            In lieu of oath...........................................   196

            In support of certain warrants............................   211

            Senators on, for trial of impeachments....................    38
    Affirmative.

            Of one question amounting to the negative of another.... 485-488
    Affrays.

            Proceedings in cases of, on the floor.....................   367
    Age.

            As qualification of a Representative......................     9

            As qualification of a Senator.............................    35

            As qualification of the President of the United States....   154

            Reference to, as a qualification of suffrage..............   226

            Right to vote extended to persons 18 years or older.......   257
    Aging.

            Former select committee on................................   702
    Agree, motion to.

            Amendments in order on motion to..........................   487

            Negative of, equivalent to affirmative of disagree........   487

            Order of precedence of............... 486, 528, 528a, 528b, 528d

            Precedence of motion to amend over motion to agree or

                disagree.................................... 528, 528b, 528d

            Priority of amendments over..................... 456, 528b, 528d
    Agreements.

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    Agriculture.
            States not to enter into, without consent of Congress.....   148

            Committee on.

                History and jurisdiction of...........................   670
    Aid.  See also Treason.

            To enemies of United States, treason................... 181, 230
    Alcoholic Liquors.

            Jurisdiction as to bills relating to, generally...........  679b

            Jurisdiction as to sale of, in District of Columbia.......   676
    Aliens.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..............  679a
    Alliance.

            States not to enter into..................................   146
    Alteration.

            Improper, of a bill.......................................   352
    Ambassadors.

            Admitted to the floor of the House........................   919

            Duty of President to receive..............................   172

            Gallery for use of........................................   922

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178

            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179

            President appoints........................................   166
    Amend, motion to.

            General conditions of.
    Conditions, form, and precedence of the motion.................. 822-826

                In order to amend motion to commit with instructions

                    unless previous question ordered..................   788
    Must be germane................................................. 794-800

                Not to be applied to a conference report..............   550
    Not in order in third degree................................... 454, 823
    Precedence of.................................................. 782, 825
    Precedence of motion to, over motion to agree or disagree.... 528, 528a,

                                                                  528b, 528d

                Precedence of motion to, over one to strike out or

                    agree.............................................   456

                Rule as to offering, degree of........................   822

                Substitute............................................   822
    To title of a bill........................................ 427, 512, 822

                Withdrawal of.........................................   824

                Yields precedence to motion to refer..................   449

            Relations of.
    Application of previous question to............................ 450, 804
    Not applicable to the previous question........................ 452, 826
    Relations of, to motion to postpone.................. 449, 451, 453, 826

                Relations of, to other motions........................   826

                Relations of, to points of order......................  823a

            Striking out and inserting.

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                Matter to be inserted not divisible...................   793

                Negative of motion to strike out not a bar to further

                    amendment.........................................   793

                Relations to motion to strike out enacting words......   875

                To strike out and insert not divisible................   793
    Amendments.

            General conditions of.

                Amending portions of bill already amended.............   469
    Form, conditions, precedence of................................. 822-826

                Commemoratives prohibited.............................   852

                Conferees restricted as to action on Senate amendments

                    proposing appropriations..........................   829

                Copies of, furnished by Clerk.........................   870

                Closing debate on.....................................   762
    Divisibility of amendments.................................... 792, 834f

                Do not have several readings as in case of bills......   496

                En bloc...............................................  834f

                Modification of.......................................   822
    Not in order in the third degree............................... 454, 823

                Of a conference report not in order...................   542
    Of motion to adjourn........................................... 585, 826
    On general appropriation bills, limited....................... 834c-834g

                On general appropriation bills, en bloc...............  834f

                Priority of, over motions to strike out or agree......   456

                Proposing a commemorative prohibited..................   852

                Proposing an appropriation prohibited.................  846a

                Proposing settlement of certain claims prohibited.....   852
    Proposing taxes or tariffs.................................... 846b-846d

                Reading, motion to dispense with, in Committee of

                    Whole.............................................  873b
    Relation of, to division of the question for voting............ 482, 792

                Relation of point of order to motion to amend.........  823a
    Right of Member who has spoken to the main question to speak to an
    amendment...................................................... 465, 762

                Senate may concur with, on revenue bills..............   102

                Separate vote on Senate, if not germane...............  913c
    Speaker not to decide as to legislative or legal effect or
    consistency of................................................. 466, 627

            Germane.

                Required to be germane................................   794

                Amendment being considered, which would have been

                    subject to a point of order, may be perfected by

                    amendments germane to it..........................  842a

                Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications and

                    limitations.......................................   800

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                Amendments to bills amending existing law.............   799

                Amendments to special orders reported from Rules

                    Committee.........................................   794

                Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.........  798c

                Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness............  798b

                General provision not germane to a specific subject...  798f

                Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must

                    be germane........................................   796

                One individual proposition not germane to another.....  798e

                Parliamentary law as to germaneness...................   467

                Proposition to which amendment must be germane........   795
    Senate amendments and matter contained in conference reports,
    procedure for consideration if not germane.............. 797, 913b, 913c

                Specific subjects germane to general propositions of

                    the class.........................................  798g

                Subject matter as test of germaneness.................  798a

                Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive........  798d

            Striking out and inserting.

                Application of the motion to strike out...............   472

                Conditions of repetition of motions to strike out and

                    insert............................................   471

                Conditions of striking out an amendment already agreed

                    to................................................   474

                Effect of affirmative vote on motion to strike out and

                    insert............................................   473

                Motions to strike out and insert not divisible........   793

                Negative decision on motion to strike out not bar to

                    further amendment.................................   793

                Principles as to perfecting, before inserting or

                    striking out......................................   469

                Priority of perfecting amendments over................   456

                Reading the motion and putting the question on motion

                    to strike out and insert..........................   470

                To strike out certain words of a bill.................   468

            Of bills.

                Action of House on those, reported from a committee...   423

                Clerk makes corrections of section numbers of.........   479

                For joining and dividing bills........................   476

                For transposing the sections..........................   477

                In ``House as in Committee of the Whole''.............   427

                Method of noting amendments to a bill.................   417

                Numerical designations of amendments printed in Record   874

                Of bills in standing and select committees............   412
    Offered after second reading and before engrossment and third
    reading........................................................ 428, 497

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                Order of amending bills in the House..................   413

                To the preamble.......................................   414
    To title of a bill, parliamentary law as to............... 427, 512, 822

            In Committee of the Whole.

                Dispensing with reading of certain amendments in

                    Committee of the Whole............................  873b
    Amendments preempted by motion to rise after appropriation bill
    read................................................... 834c, 834d, 834g

                Numerical designations of amendments printed in Record   874

                On general appropriation bills, en bloc...............  834f

                Pro forma, in Committee of the Whole..................  873a

                Printing in Record of proposed, 10 minutes debate

                    required on, in Committee of Whole................   874

                Reading concurrent resolution on budget for amendment.  876b
    Rule as to consideration of, in Committee of the Whole... 870, 872, 873a
    Withdrawal of, in Committee of the Whole....................... 824, 870

            By Committee of the Whole.

                Consideration and report of, by Committee of the Whole   336

                Consideration of, by the House after report from

                    Committee of the Whole............................   337

                For filling blanks, and amending numbers..............   455

                For filling blanks as to time.........................   475

                For filling blanks left by the other House............   478

                Former automatic de novo votes in House where

                    Delegates' votes decisive in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................  864b

                Not to be withdrawn when reported from Committee of

                    the Whole.........................................   335

            Of Journal.
    Cut off when previous question is ordered on motion to approve
    Journal......................................................... 74, 621

                Nature of.............................................    74
    Precedence of................................................... 74, 621

                Scope of..............................................    71

            To the Constitution.

                Differences as to, committed to conference............   530

                Form and action on....................................   233

                Jurisdiction over.....................................  679a
    Methods of making............................................... 190-193

                Not approved by the President.........................   115
    The twenty-seven................................................ 208-258
    Two-thirds vote on conference report as to..................... 192, 549

                Two-thirds vote not necessary on amendments to a

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                    resolution proposing a constitutional amendment...   192

                Two-thirds vote required on amendment of other House

                    to joint resolution proposing a constitutional

                    amendment.........................................   192

                Yeas and nays not necessarily taken on................    76
    Amendments between the Houses.

            General principles as to

                Amendments to Senate amendment may not contain

                    appropriation on legislative bill.................  846a

                Degree of amendments between the Houses...............   529
    Discussion of in Jefferson's Manual............................. 521-529
    Germaneness, separate vote on Senate amendments included in
    conference reports or reported in disagreement if not germane...... 797,

                                                                  913b, 913c
    Germaneness, amendments to Senate amendment should be germane...... 797,

                                                                        913c

                Germaneness, reference of non-germane Senate

                    amendments to committee...........................   883
    Senate amendments to legislative bills containing appropriations

                                                                   829, 846a
    Senate amendments to appropriation bills containing legislation.... 829,

                                                                        912c

                Senate amendments containing taxes or tariffs.........  846b
    Stage of disagreement on............................... 528a, 528c, 828b
    Status of, after rejection of a conference report............. 551, 913b
    Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed....... 527, 913a

                Two-thirds vote required on agreeing to amendment of

                    the other House to a constitutional amendment.....   224

            Parliamentary principles relative to motions as to.
    Adherence and conference, relations of......................... 553, 554
    Disagreeing, insisting, and adhering................ 521, 522, 526, 528b
    Division of question on....................................... 525, 528d
    Receding, discussion in Jefferson's Manual...................... 523-526
    Receding, one House not to recede from its own amendment with an
    amendment; or depart from form fixed by adherence.............. 524, 526

                Receding, practice of the House as to receding from

                    its own amendment to a bill of the other House....   524

                Receding, practice of the House as to receding from

                    disagreement to amendment of the other House......   525

                Previous question, motion to amend not in order when

                    demanded on motion to concur......................   486

                Previous question, motion to recede not in order when

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    Previous question, effect of demanding or ordering on the motion
    to refer....................................................... 486, 808
    To lay on the table................................ 519, 528b, 528d, 785
    To refer............................................ 486, 528d, 787, 808
    To reject nongermane matter in............................... 913b, 913c
                    ordered on motion to adhere.......................   525

                To send to conference, see Conferences.

            Precedence of motions as to.
    Precedence of motions for disposition of...... 486, 519, 525, 528, 528a,

                                      528b, 528d, 787, 808, 912c, 913b, 913c
    Precedence of motions before stage of disagreement...... 486, 528, 528a,

                                                                       528b,
    Precedence of motions after stage of disagreement........ 486, 525, 528,

                                                                 528a, 528d,

                Precedence of motions to dispose of nongermane matter

                    in conference reports.............................  913b

                Precedence of motions to dispose of nongermane matter

                    reported in disagreement..........................  913c

                Precedence of motion to insist as to legislative

                    amendment to appropriation bill...................  912c

            Equivalent questions as to.
    Discussion of equivalent questions on motions relating to....... 485-488

                Equivalent questions on motions to agree and disagree

                    as related to amendments..........................   487

                No equivalent questions on motions to recede, insist,

                    and adhere........................................   488

            Consideration of.
    Consideration, generally...................................... 528, 528a

                Legislative amendments to appropriation bills.........  912c
    Non-germane Senate amendments in conference reports or reported in
    disagreement................................................. 913b, 913c
    Senate amendments in Committee of the Whole........... 528a, 827, 828a-1
    Senate amendments in House.................. 528a, 827, 828a-1, 882, 883

                Reference of Senate amendments from Speaker's table... 528a,

                                                                     882-883
    When consideration of Senate amendments should be in Committee of
    the Whole.................................................. 528a, 828a-1

            Conferences on. See Conferences.
    Animal industry.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   670
    Announcement of vote.

            Absent Members' votes not announced by colleague..........  660a

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    Answer.
            Yeas and nays may be demanded after.......................    77

            In an impeachment...................................... 612, 613

            Right of accused to be heard before an investigating

                committee.............................................   712
    Apology.

            Of Members to the House for disorder................... 331, 332
    Appeal.

            From decisions of Speaker......................... 379, 624, 628

            Debate on.................................................   628

            Guaranty against arbitrary control of Speaker.............   628

            House controls decisions of the Speaker by................   379

            From decisions of the Clerk at organization...............   637

            None on a question of recognition and on counts by Chair

                                                                    628, 753

            None on decision as to dilatory motions................ 628, 803

            None on refusal to entertain prohibited point of order of

                no quorum.............................................   628

            None from responses to parliamentary inquiries............   628

            On questions as to priority of business decided without

                debate................................................   900
    Appearance.

            Of respondent in an impeachment................... 608, 610, 611

            Right of accused to be heard before investigating

                committee.............................................   712
    Appellate jurisdiction.

            Of Supreme Court..........................................   179
    Application of laws to legislative branch.  See Congressional

        Accountability.
    Appointments.

            President makes...........................................   166

            Power of Congress as to...................................   166

            In recess of the Senate by the President..................   167

            Of select and conference committees, rules and practice as

                to....................................................  317,

                                                                  701e, 701f

            Of committee staff, see Committee staffs.
    Apportionment.

            Adjustment by districts................................ 226, 227

            First and last............................................    15

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts on

                apportionment of water for irrigation purposes........   681

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to generally............  677a

            Of Representatives among the several States...............   226

            Old provision for.........................................    14

            Questions as to elections in relation to congressional

                districts.............................................   228

            Reduction of basis of, for abridgment of the suffrage.....   226

            Requirement that congressional districts be equally

                populated.............................................   229
    Appropriation bills, general.

            Privilege of

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                Considered in Committee of Whole......................   865

                Designated emergencies................................  834e

                Exempt from Unfunded Mandates Reform Act..............  1007

                Hearings and reports to be available 3 days (excluding

                    Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays) in advance

                    of consideration of bills.........................   848

                Not privileged against Calendar Wednesday.............   898

                Offsetting amendments to..............................  834f

                Precedence of, in Committee of the Whole..............   869

                Precedence of, in order of business...................   802
    Privileged for report and consideration........................ 726, 728

                Public, placed on Union Calendar......................   742

                Reported by Committee on Appropriations only..........  671b

                Report on must describe changes in existing law.......  844b

                Restrictions on conferees.............................   829

                Vote on, by yeas and nays.............................  774e

            Authorizations, legislation, and limitations.
    Authorization of law for appropriations................. 834a, 834b, 836

                Authorization for claims and salaries.................   837

                Authorization for committee expenses..................   732

                Authorization for public works........................   838

                Burden of proof on those proposing appropriation on...   835

                Continuation of a public work by appropriations.......   839

                Continuation of a public work, examples illustrating..   840

                Continuation of a public work, new buildings at

                    existing institutions as a........................  841a

                Continuation of a public work, new vessels for naval

                    and other services as in..........................  841b

                Legislation on appropriation bills:

                    Contingencies and congressional action............  842b

                    Construing or amending existing law...............  842c

                    Generally.........................................  842a

                    Imposing duties or requiring determinations.......  842d

                    Mandating expenditures............................  842e

                    Retrenching expenditures in order (Holman rule)... 834b,

                                                                  834d, 844a

                    Rule prohibiting.............................. 834b-834d

                    Senate amendments....................... 829, 842g, 912c

                    Waivers; amending legislation permitted to remain.  842f

                    Limitations on appropriation bills generally......  842h
    Limitations on, in order..................................... 834d, 843a

                    Effect of, on executive discretion................  843b

                    Consistent with existing law................. 834d, 843c

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                    Amendments at end of reading in Committee of Whole  834d

                Points of order on general appropriation bills........   835
    Unauthorized appropriations and legislation on general
    appropriation bills............................................. 834-847

                Unexpended balances not to be included unless in

                    continuation of public work already commenced.....   847
    Appropriations.

            Conditions of.

                Annual, committee endeavor to insure..................  699a

                Estimates of, transmission and reference..............   936

                Jurisdiction of.......................................  671a

                Necessary for drawing money from Treasury.............   143

                None for armies for a longer term than 2 years........   129
    Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865, 866, 868

                Senate amendments proposing, may not be agreed to by

                    House conferees under certain conditions..........   829

                To be made by law.....................................   143

            Committee on.

                Budget Act procedures for, including referral to, of

                    bills providing new spending authority............  694c
    Must show, in report on general appropriation bill, effect of any
    provisions changing existing law................................... 844b
    Staff for, appointment of..................................... 734b, 736

                Subcommittee markup of all appropriation bills before

                    report of first regular appropriation bill........  713b

                Rescissions of appropriations, jurisdiction over......  671a

                Separate headings for rescissions and transfers of

                    unexpended balances required in certain bills and

                    reports...........................................  671a
    Sequential referral to, of bills containing new spending authority
    exceeding budget resolution allocation.................. 1008 (sec. 401)

                Exempted from the former rule proscribing committee

                    sittings during five-minute rule..................   710
    Budget hearings, within 30 days after transmittal of budget.... 694 (a),

                                                                         (b)

                Hearings and reports of, to be available 3 days

                    (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays)

                    before consideration of appropriation bills.......   848
    Powers and duties concerning appointments, qualifications of staff

                                                       732a, 733c, 734b, 736

                To study existing permanent appropriations with view

                    to reducing.......................................  694c

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                To study organization and operation of agencies.......  692b

            Committees not having jurisdiction of.

                May not report an appropriation.......................  846a

                Point of order may be made at any time................  846a

                Point of order may be made against amendment to Senate

                    amendment.........................................  846a
    Approval.

            Of bills by President. See also Enrolled bills.

                As to approval of concurrent resolutions by...........   396

                Errors as to..........................................   106

                Notice of.............................................   106

                Of bills, effect of intervening recess on.............   901

                Of joint resolutions..................................   397

                Of orders, resolutions, and votes, as to presentation

                    for...............................................   115

                Parliamentary law as to presenting a bill for the

                    King's assent.....................................   572

                President's approval given by signature...............   104

                Presentation of enrolled bills to.....................   577

                Signing of enrolled bills for presentation to the

                    President.........................................   575
    Time and conditions of signature.......................... 104, 105, 111
    In general...................................................... 73, 621

                Amendment precedes....................................    74

                Place of, in order of business........................   878
    Arid lands.

            Jurisdiction as to irrigation of..........................   681
    Armed Services, Committee on.  See National Security, Committee on.
    Armies.

            Congress to raise and support.............................   129

            Congress to make rules for................................   131

            No appropriation for a longer term than two years.........   129

            States not to keep troops in time of peace................   148
    Arming.

            Of the militia............................................   133
    Armories.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Arms.

            Right of people to keep and bear..........................   209
    Arms control, expedited procedures.

            Arms Control and Disarmament Act....................... 1013(12)

            Arms Export Control Act................................ 1013(17)
    Army.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   680

            Officers in, disqualified as Members......................    98

            President, commander in chief of..........................   160

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    Arrest.  See also Absence.
            Trial for crimes in.......................................   212

            House releases a Member under.............................   305

            Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Member of Congress

                as to.............................................. 288, 289

            Members liable to, for absence although attending a

                committee with leave to sit...........................   324

            Of Members for absence.................................. 768-770

            Privileges of Members of Parliament as to......... 287, 305, 307

            Privilege of Senators and Representatives from............90, 91

            Speaker's power to order, doubtful........................   622
    Arsenals.

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Art.

            Works of, duty of Committee on House Oversight as to...... 677a,

                                                                        677d
    Articles.

            In an impeachment.........................................   609
    Arts.

            Congress may promote, by patent and copyright laws........   124
    Assaults.

            Arrest and imprisonment in case of, on Member returning...    91

            Members censured for......................................    63

            On clerk of a committee in the Capitol a question of

                privilege.............................................  733c

            On Members for words spoken in debate.....................    92

            On Members, power of House to punish for..................   294

            Proceedings in cases of, on the floor.....................   367

            Speaker takes Chair to quell disorder from, in Committee

                of the Whole.................................. 331, 332, 622
    Assay offices.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Assembly.

            Of Congress at least once every year.................... 45, 242

            Rights of people as to....................................   208
    Assent.  See Approval.
    Attainder.

            No bill of, to be passed..................................   139

            States not to pass bill of................................   146

            Limitations of, for treason...............................   182
    Attendance.  See also Absence, Quorum

            Count of Members present to secure a quorum of record on a

                roll call.............................................   772

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   679

            Leave for committee to sit does not release its members

                from, during call of the House........................   324

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            Members may be compelled to attend........................ 52-55

            Members privileged from arrest during.....................90, 91

            Members to be present unless excused......................   656

            Of Commons and House of Representatives at an impeachment

                trial.............................................. 616, 617
    Attest.

            Of Clerk on bills, writs..................................   642
    Attire......................................................... 622, 763
    Attorneys.

            Admission of, in investigations...........................   348
    Auditing.

            Of accounts against contingent fund (applicable accounts

                of the House).........................................   677
    Authorization of Law.  See Appropriation bills.
    Authors.

            Congress may provide for copyrights for...................   124
    Bail.

            Excessive not to be required..............................   215

            Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.  1012
    Ballot.

            Rule for voting by........................................   934

            House of Representatives elects President by..............   263

            Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during count of.....   763

            Presidential electors vote, by in several States..........   262

            Record of, in Journal.....................................    72

            Speaker required to vote on...............................   632
    Banking and Financial Services, Committee on......................   672
    Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Committee on.  See Banking and

        Financial Services, Committee on.
    Bankruptcy.

            Power of Congress to make laws on.........................   120

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................  679a
    Bar, of House.

            Method of examining witnesses at..........................   343

            Trials at, and arraignment of contumacious witnesses at...   344
    Battlefields.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    Behavior.

            Governs tenure of office by judges........................   177

            Of counsel before investigative committees................   712

            Power of House to punish for disorderly................... 62-66
    Bells (legislative call system)...................................   765
    Bicentennial Office of House......................................  634d
    Bill of Attainder.

            None to be passed.........................................   139

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    Bills.
            States not to pass........................................   146

            Forms, printing

                Distinction between a bill and a joint resolution.....   397

                Indorsement of the title on an engrossed bill.........   431

            Introduction of.

                By request............................................   860

                Certain private bills prohibited......................   852

                Commemoratives prohibited.............................   852

                Co-sponsorship of public..............................   854

                Co-sponsorship of public ---- more than one Member

                    designated as first sponsor.......................   854

                Fraudulent introduction of............................   851

                Introduction private..................................  849a
    Obsolete provisions as to introduction and readings of.......... 398-400

                Signing of, by chief sponsor..........................   854

            Reference of.

                By Speaker to Committees..............................   700
    Committal of on third reading............................. 494, 787, 804
    Correction of error of reference.......................... 853, 854, 878

                Custody of, in committees.............................   932

                Delivery of bills to committees.......................   403
    House may send to any committee................................ 700, 850
    House bills returned with Senate amendments on a different subject

                                                                    882, 883

                Not to be brought back from committees on motion to

                    reconsider........................................   820

                Parliamentary law (largely obsolete) as to reference

                    of................................................   401

                Private...............................................  849a
    Public......................................................... 700, 854
    Recommittal of, to select or standing committees or Committee of
    the Whole...................................................... 420, 804
    Referral procedures, multiple referral or referral to ad hoc
    committee.......................................................700, 850
    Restriction on reference of claims bills....................... 845, 852
    With amendments between the Houses.... 486, 528-528d, 787, 808, 882, 883

            Consideration by committees and report. See Committees.

            In Committee of the Whole. See also Amendments, Calendar

                Wednesday, Committee of the Whole.

                Concurrent resolution on the budget considered read

                    for amendment.....................................  876b
    Consideration of nonprivileged bills, after call of committees..... 891,

                                                                         892

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                Construction of the rule requiring consideration in...   866
    Debate in Committee of the Whole................ 752, 758, 870, 871, 874

                Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills   835

                Forms of going into Committee of the Whole............   328

                General practice as to consideration..................   868

                Old parliamentary usage as to consideration of matters

                    as modified by House rules and practice...........   326

                Order of House to consider certain bills in Committee

                    of the Whole precludes report of others...........   335

                Precedence of revenue and appropriation bills in

                    Committee of the Whole............................   869

                Precedence of motion to go into Committee of the Whole

                    to consider general appropriation bills...........   802

                Question of order on appropriation bills..............   835

                Reading and amendment under five-minute rule..........   872
    Recommittal of bills to Committee of the Whole................. 420, 875
    Revenue and appropriation bills considered in Committee of the
    Whole.......................................................... 865, 866
    Subjects not requiring consideration in Committee of the Whole.... 528a,

                                                                         867

                Subjects requiring consideration in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   865

                Unfinished business in Committee of the Whole.........   888

                Withdrawal of amendments in Committee of the Whole....   824

            Consideration and amendment in House.

                Action on, in the House after being reported from

                    committee.........................................   423

                Amended after second reading..........................   428

                Amendments of, before third reading...................   497

                Amendments for joining and dividing...................   476

                Amendment to the title of.............................   822

                Amendment to the title of, in ``House as in Committee

                    of the Whole''....................................   427

                As to possession of, by the House.....................   437

                Consideration of a preamble...........................   414

                Consideration of, when reported from Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   337

                Filling blanks left in by the other House.............   478

                House in perfecting does not agree to paragraph or

                    sections of, individually.........................   456

                Order of considering and amending in the House........   413

                Obsolete requirement as to reading of amendments to...   496

                Parliamentary law as to amendment to the title........   512

                Presumed to have gone through the stages when reported

                    from Committee of the Whole.......................   335

                Prohibition against retroactive income tax rate

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                    increase..........................................  846d

                Transposition of sections of, by amendments...........   477

            Reading, engrossment, and passage.

                Reading, engrossment, and passage of..................   830

                First and second readings.............................   831

                Manner of reading a bill the second time..............   428
    Third reading by title after engrossment....................... 830, 832

                Debate in relation to third reading...................   498

                Test of strength on engrossment after amendment.......   429

                Test of strength on a bill before amending............   430
    Obsolete requirements as to third reading and passage.......... 492, 493

                Putting the question on the passage of................   499

                Clerk certifies to passage of all.....................   642

                Question on rejection of, comes indirectly............   484

                Division of, not in order, on vote on engrossment or

                    passage...........................................   792

                Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates........  846c

                Voting on.............................................   833

                Yeas and nays automatically ordered on appropriation

                    and tax measures and on concurrent resolution on

                    the budget........................................  774e

                Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

                    proceedings on the question of passage............   631

            Effect of rejection or passage of.

                Action on similar bill after rejection................   833

                Once rejected not to be brought up again at the same

                    session...........................................   515

                Exceptions to the rule against bringing up a matter

                    once rejected.....................................   517

                Expedients for changing the effect of bills once

                    passed............................................   516

                Bills not altered after their passage.................   500

                Use of joint resolution to correct error in bill sent

                    to the President..................................   518

                Passage of supplementary bills........................   518

                Obsolete parliamentary practice as to riders..........   495

                Procedure on loss of..................................   352

                Improper alternation of...............................   352

            Action of the two Houses on.
    Both Houses pass identical..................................... 833, 882

                Fail when both Houses continue to insist or adhere....   522

                For raising revenue to originate in House.............   102

                From the other House laid on the table................   519

                Information from the other House as to................   520

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                Lost when conference report is not acted on...........   549

                Not to be noticed in other House until communicated...   308

                Rejection of, communicated to the other House.........   568

                Votes by which they are passed not communicated.......   567

                When neglected by the other House.....................   570

            Enrollment and presentation to President for approval.
    Enrollment, signing, and presentation to the President for
    approval........................................................ 572-577
    Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to enrollment...... 577, 677a,

                                                                        677c

                Report as to accuracy of enrolled.....................   625

                Reports as to accuracy of enrolled, privileged........   726

                Rule of Parliament as to enrollment...................   573
    Speaker signs enrolled......................................... 624, 625

                Speaker declines to sign enrolled, when motion to

                    reconsider is pending.............................   816

                Speaker pro tempore signs under conditions............   634

                Speaker's signature vacated...........................   625
    Presented to the President for approval................... 104, 105, 110

                Errors in when sent to the President..................   110
    Become laws without President's approval under conditions....... 111-113

                Effect of recess of Congress before approval..........   901
    Method of approval........................................ 104, 105, 110
    Method of disapproval........................................... 104-109

                Notice of approval....................................   106

                Notice and action as to disapproval...................   104

                When signed by President deposited with Administrator

                    of General Services...............................   105

                When vetoed and passed deposited with Administrator of

                    General Services..................................   109
    Bills of credit.

            States not to emit........................................   146
    Biomedical research and development.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   674
    Blanks.

            Rule as to filling by amendment...........................   455

            Amendments, filling as to time............................   475

            Filling those left by the other House.....................   478

            Not counted in vote by ballot.............................   934
    Blood, corruption of.

            For treason...............................................   182
    Bonded debt.

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    Books.
            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   688

            Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate......   364

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to purchase of...........  677a
    Borrow.

            Power of Congress to borrow money.........................   118
    Botanic garden.

            Under control of Committees on House Oversight and

                Transportation and Infrastructure................. 677a, 686
    Boundary lines.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to..................... 678, 679a
    Bounties.

            Debt incurred for, certain not to be questioned...........   232
    Breach of the peace.

            Members not privileged from arrest for....................90, 91

            Relation of privilege to cases of...................... 305, 306
    Bribery.

            An impeachable offense....................................   173

            Power of House to punish attempts at, on Members....... 293, 294
    Bridges.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   686

            Bills for construction of certain banned..................   852
    Broadcasting and press coverage of committee hearings........... 720-725
    Broadcasting of house proceedings, rule for.......................  634c
    Budget.

            Committee on.

                History, composition, jurisdiction and duties.........   673

                Special oversight functions of........................   695

                Studies and reports required of.......................   695

                Staff for, former rule on appointment of..............   736

                Submissions to, from standing committees..............  699b

                Quorum requirements in................................   709

                Exempted from former rule proscribing committee

                    sittings during five-minute rule..................   710

                Privileged reports by.................................   726

            Concurrent resolution on.

                Amendments to must be mathematically consistent and

                    contain certain matter............................  876b
    Consideration of........................................ 1007 (sec. 305)

                Considered read after general debate..................  876b
    Definition of............................................. 1007 (sec. 3)
    Maximum deficit amount not to be exceeded.......... 1007 (sec. 301, 304)
    Procedures contained in................................. 1007 (sec. 301)
    Timetable for budget process............................ 1007 (sec. 300)

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                Yeas and nays automatically ordered...................  774e

            Congressional budget process.
    Definitions............................................... 1007 (sec. 3)
    Timetable............................................... 1007 (sec. 300)
    Advance spending and revenue authority ineligible for
    consideration before adoption of concurrent resolution....... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        303)

                Budget Committee must handle budget legislation.......  1007

                                                                  (sec. 306)
    Appropriation bills reported before June 10............. 1007 (sec. 307)
    July adjournment not in order--

                    Until House passes appropriation bills....... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        309)

                    Until reconciliation legislation completed... 1007 (sec.

                                                                        310)
    Reports, summarized projections......................... 1007 (sec. 308)
    Reconciliation process.................................. 1007 (sec. 310)
    Budget authority, spending authority and revenue legislation to be
    within appropriate limits............................... 1007 (sec. 311)

                Establishment of public debt limit as part of, rule

                    for...............................................   945

            Provisions to improve fiscal procedures.
    Bills providing certain spending authority may not be considered

                                                             1008 (sec. 401)
    Certain bills providing spending authority to be referred to
    Committee on Appropriations....................... 694c, 1008 (sec. 401)
    Definitions of spending authority...................... 1008 (sec. 401c)
    Authorizing  legislation  to  be  reported  by  May  15...... 1008 (sec.

                                                                        402)
    Cost estimate by Congressional Budget Office............ 1008 (sec. 407)

                Year-ahead requests for authorizations................  1009

            Generally.

                Hearings on by Appropriations Committee...............  694b

                Budget Act procedures by Appropriations Committee.....  694c

                Emergency designations in appropriation bills.........  834e

                Year-ahead requests for new budget authority..........  1009

                Program review and evaluation.........................  1010

                Transmittal of budget by President....................   169
    Congressional Budget Office, functions of... 695, 748c, 911a, 993, 1007,

                                                                        1008
    Power of Rules Committee to waive provisions of Budget Act........ 682a,

                                      729a, 1008 (sec. 402), 1010 (sec. 904)

            Impoundment Control Act and line item veto authority.
    Line item veto authority....................................... 1013(6b)
    Procedures on rescission bills and impoundment resolutions..... 1013(6a)
    Buildings, office.

    [[Page 1179]]

    Buildings, public.
            Assignment of rooms in....................................   989

            Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work.... 841a,

                                                                         847

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134

            Jurisdiction as to, generally.............................   686

            Jurisdiction as to buildings abroad.......................   678

            Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals.......................   674

            Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries..................  679a
    Burden of proof.

            On proponent of amendment, as to germaneness..............   794

            On those proposing items in a general appropriation bill..   835
    Business.  See also Order of business.

            In general.

                As related to election of Clerk.......................    30
    May be transacted only by quorum............................ 52, 55, 510

                Not transacted before approval of Journal.............   621

                Parliamentary law as to that pending at the end of a

                    session...........................................   592

                Obsolete law as to, at end of a session...............   385

                Resumption of business of a preceding session of

                    Congress..........................................   901

            Order of.

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  682a

            Unfinished. See Unfinished business.
    Cabinet.

            Majority of and Vice President to determine Presidential

                inability.............................................   255

            President may require opinions from members of............   161

            Of President, gallery for use of..........................   922
    Calendar Wednesday.

            Rule for order of business on.............................   897

            Business of, protected by two-thirds vote.................  729a

            In order to consider President's veto.....................   898

            One committee can occupy but one day, except for

                unfinished business, until other committees called....   898

            Previous question ordered on bill undisposed of on Tuesday

                comes up as unfinished business Thursday..............   898

            Privilege of general appropriation bills limited on.... 802, 898
    Calendars.

            The three for reports of committees.......................   742

            Adverse reports...........................................   744

            For ``Corrections''.......................................  745c

            For motions to discharge committees.................... 747, 908

            Former, for unanimous consent and decisions...............   746

            Nonprivileged reports filed with the Clerk for reference

                to....................................................   743

            Of Committee of the Whole, order of taking up bills on....   869
    Call of committees.

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            In order on Calendar Wednesday............................   897

            Business on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-thirds

                vote..................................................  729a

            Interruption of, for consideration of nonprivileged bills

                in Committee of the Whole.......................... 891, 892

            Place of, in order of business............................   878

            Rule and practice for consideration of bills during.... 889, 890

            Unfinished business in.................................. 885-888
    Call of the House.  See also Absence.

            Motion for, in order in absence of quorum.................    55

            After previous question is ordered........................   810

            Arrest of Members...................................... 768, 770

            Call of the House in the new form............... 771b, 773, 774a

            Call of the House in the old form....................... 768-771

            Clerks to tell Members present............................  771b

            Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record on a

                roll call.............................................   772

            Dispensing with, after quorum appears................. 773, 774d

            Electronic equipment for..................................  774b

            Motions during a call of the House........................   771

            Ordering  and  conducting  the  call  of  the  House  in

                the  old form.........................................   769

            Power to compel attendance................................52, 55

            Rule of Parliament as to..................................   311

            Speaker may recognize for motion for at any time..........  774d
    Call to order.

            For disorder in debate................................. 760, 761

            May interrupt Member having floor.........................   393
    Campaign contributions.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  677a

            Prohibition on distribution of in Hall of House...........  921c
    Canal Zone.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to Panama Canal and the

                maintenance of........................................   680
    Canals.

            Jurisdiction of committees as to..........................   686
    Canals, interoceanic.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Capital.

            Power of President to convene Congress at a place other

                than seat of government...............................   171
    Capitation tax.

            To be in proportion to census.............................   140
    Capitol.

            Speaker's control of House wing of........................   623

            Architect of, admitted to floor of the House..............   919

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    Capitol police.
            Jurisdiction as to matters relating to building...........   686

            Duties of Sergeant-at-Arms as to..........................   648
    Captures.

            Congress to make rules concerning.........................   127
    Caucus.

            Held in Hall of House.....................................   918

            Party caucuses nominate Members for election to standing

                committees............................................  701a

            Majority caucus nominates chairmen of standing committees.  701c

            Membership is required for committee membership...........  701b

            Early organizational......................................   997
    Celebrations.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   676
    Cemeteries, national.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to...................... 681, 687
    Censure.

            Course of a Member, when subject of debate as to..........   375

            For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..........    94

            Instances of..............................................    63

            Of a Delegate.............................................   740

            Of a counsel before investigating committees..............   712

            Of Member when called to order in debate............... 760, 761

            Procedure of punishment by................................    63

            Punishment for personalities in debate....................   363

            Reprimand.................................................    63

            Speaker not to administer, of own authority...............   622
    Census.

            Object of.

                Taken as basis of apportionment.......................    15

                Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to......   140

                Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..................   676
    Ceremonies.

            As to participation of the House in.................... 387, 388

            Use of Hall of the House for..............................   918
    Certificates.

            Of the electoral vote, transmittal and opening......... 151, 219

            Currency, jurisdiction of subjects relating to............   672
    Chair.

            Speaker takes it at hour of meeting, not waiting for

                ascertainment of a quorum.......................... 310, 621

            Speaker takes, to restore order in Committee of Whole.....   622

            To  be  addressed  when  a  Member  desires  to  interrupt

                 in debate............................................   364
    Chairmen.

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    Administers oaths to witnesses............................ 343, 346, 718
    Duties relating to appointment, qualification, compensation of
    staff.................................................... 732d, 733a-738
            Of standing or select committee.
    Of standing committees elected by the House................... 317, 701c

                May be delegated power to issue subpoenas.............   718

                Presides over committee...............................   317

                Prior claim of, to recognition........................   754

                Procedure of, in investigations.......................   712

                Procedure of, in submitting reports from standing or

                    select committees.................................   418

                Reports to the House by, must be made promptly........  713a

                Resignation of, presents question of privilege........   661

                Signs subpoenas issued by committee (or subcommittee).   718

                Speaker appoints, of select and conference committees.  701e

                Term limits for committee and subcommittee............  701c
    Usually reports from a standing or select committee............ 317, 415

                Vacancy in the position of............................  701c

                Vice chairman presides in absence of..................   705

            Of subcommittees.

                Former authority to appoint staff.....................  732d

            Of Committee of the Whole.
    Selection of.................................................. 327, 861a

                Seating of............................................   328
    Administers oaths to witnesses................................. 343, 346

                Always reports from Committee of the Whole............   415

                Causes roll to be called on failure of a quorum and

                    reports unless proceedings are vacated............   863

                Functions of..........................................  861b

                Power to preserve order...............................  861a

                Report of, alone recognized...........................   335

            Of joint committee.

                Of a joint committee..................................   325
    Challenge.

            Of the right of a Member to take the oath.............. 202, 203
    Chaplain.

            Election and oath of......................................   635

            Offers prayer.......................................... 621, 655

            Place in order of business of prayer by...................   878
    Charges.

            Against a Member or Senator in course of an inquiry..... 321-323

            Course of Member when charges against himself are debated.   375
    Chief Administrative Officer.

            Election, oath, and removal of............................   635

            Duties of.................................................  651a

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            Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and audits  651c

            Financial and operational reports to Committee on House

                Oversight.............................................  651b
    Chief Justice.

            Presides over Senate when President of the United States

                is tried..............................................    38
    Citizens.

            Limitations on suits of, against States...................   218

            Of the United States and the several States...............   225

            Of States, judicial power extends to cases affecting

                certain...............................................   178

            Privileges and immunities not to be abridged..............   225

            Privileges and immunities of, in States other than their

                own...................................................   184

            Right to vote of those eighteen years of age or older.....   257

            Those of the United States as to voting...................   234
    Citizenship.

            As qualification of Representative........................ 9, 10

            As qualification of a Senator.............................    35

            As a qualification of the President of the United States..   154

            Reference to, as a qualification for suffrage.............   226
    Civil aviation.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to generally...........   686

            Jurisdiction over research and development................   683
    Civil law.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Civil officers.

            May be removed by impeachment.............................   173
    Civil offices.

            Members not to be appointed to certain....................    93
    Civil Service.

            Jurisdiction over all Federal Civil Service, including

                intergovernmental personnel...........................   676
    Claims.

            In general.

                Amendments proposing settlement of certain, banned....   852

                Bills for settlement of certain, banned...............   852

                Authorization of payment of, on general appropriation

                    bills.............................................   837
    Bills referring to Court of Claims considered in Committee of the
    Whole.......................................................... 865, 866

                Consideration of, on Tuesdays.........................   893

                Constitution not to prejudice certain.................   188

                Ex-Members interested in, not admitted to the floor...   919

                Jurisdiction of, generally............................  679a

                Jurisdiction of war claims............................  679a

                Jurisdiction of, paid from Indian funds...............   681

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                Jurisdiction of private land claims...................   681

                Jurisdiction as to certain foreign....................   678

                Jurisdiction of, against the United States............  679a

                Jurisdiction relating to international and other......   678

                Reference of bills for private, restricted to certain

                    committees........................................   845

                Relation of officers and employees of House to........   937

                Those for slaves not to be paid.......................   232

                Withdrawal of papers relating to......................   933
    Claims, Court of.

            Status of reports of, on the calendars....................   742
    Classes.

            Of Senators...............................................    33
    Classified information.  See Information.
    Clerical staff of committees.  See Committee staffs.
    Clerk.

            Election and oath of.

                Election, oath, and removal of........................   635

                Election of, as related to business and adoption of

                    rules.............................................30, 59

                Oath administered to, by Speaker......................   198

                In absence of, designated official acts...............   647

            Duties at organization of House.

                Continues in office until successor is elected........   637

                Duties of, at organization of the House...............   637

                Makes up the roll for organization....................   638
    Officiates at election of Speaker.............................. 312, 637

                Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order under direction of,

                    pending election of Speaker.......................   648

            Legislative duties of.

                    As to:

                    Allowing no papers to be taken from the table or

                        out of his custody............................   352

                    Amending section numbers of a bill................   479

                    Announcing pairs..................................  660a

                    Attesting and sealing writs, warrants, subpoenas..   642

                    Authority to receive messages from the President

                        and the Senate at any time House is not in

                        session.......................................  647b

                    Call of the House.............................. 768, 773

                    Calling the roll..................................   765

                    Certifying to passage of bills....................   642

                    Collecting and transferring noncurrent records....   932

                    Committees formerly to make accounting of funds to   739

                    Copies of amendments offered in Committee of the

                        Whole.........................................   870

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                    Custody of committee papers.......................   932

                    Custody of oath not to disclose classified

                        information...................................   939

                    Delivering resolutions of inquiry.................   856

                    Distribution of Journal and documents.............   641

                    Former insertions in the Congressional Record

                        relating to committee staff...................   739

                    Introduction of bills.............................  849a

                    Making no changes in enrolling a bill.............   573

                     Motions to discharge committees..................   908

                    Noting Members to make a quorum on a vote of

                        record........................................   772

                    Noting questions of order with the decisions in

                        the Journal...................................   641

                    Papers on file....................................   933

                    Placing bills on Corrections Calendar.............  745a

                    Reading motions...................................   776

                    Referring nonprivileged reports to calendars......   743

                    Stands while he reads.............................   428

                    Taking a vote by clerk tellers....................  630a

                    Taking a vote by the yeas and nays................   504

            Executive duties of.

                Administration of vacant Member's office..............  647c

                As member of Federal Elections Commission.............  647a

                Deposits noncurrent records with General Services

                    Administration....................................   932

                Discretionary authority as to printing................  647a

                Duty to furnish to Members list of certain reports....   640

                Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and

                    audits............................................  647e

                Duty under the gift rule..............................  946a

                Financial and operational reports to Committee on

                    House Oversight...................................  647d

                Formerly kept contingent and stationery accounts and

                    furnished stationery..............................   642

                Formerly made certain contracts.......................   642

                Role in payment of officers and employees.............   642

                Receives testimony taken in election cases............  647a
    Clerks.

            Of Members.

                Allowance to Members for..............................    88

            Of committees. See Committee staffs.

            Of Speaker, Leaders, and Whips............................    88
    Clerk's desk (or table).

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            Disorderly words taken down at.......................... 760-761

            Members may address the House from........................   749

            Members not to write at, or take books or papers from,

                during debate.........................................   364

            No Member to remain near, during roll call................   763
    Cloakrooms.

            Exclusion of persons from.................................   921
    Closing.

            In debate, right to, in various cases.....................   762

            Of debate, as related to opening..........................   759
    Coast defenses.

            Jurisdiction of subjects on...............................   680
    Coast Guard.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   686

            Bills to correct certain discharge records banned.........   852
    Coast Guard Academy.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   686
    Coastal zone management.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.................. 681, 686
    Code of Official Conduct.  See Official conduct.
    Codification.

            Of laws, jurisdiction of, bills for.......................  679a
    Coexisting questions.  See Questions.
    Coin.

            Congress to regulate value of.............................   121

            Congress may provide punishment for counterfeiting the....   122

            States to make gold and silver only a tender for payment

                of debts..............................................   146
    Coinage.

            Power of Congress relating to.............................   121

            States not to make........................................   146

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Colleges, agricultural.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   670
    Color.

            Suffrage not to be abridged for...........................   234
    Comfort.

            To enemies of the United States........................ 181, 232
    Commander in Chief.

            President as the..........................................   160
    Commemoratives prohibited.........................................   852
    Commerce.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to financial aid to.....   672

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, with foreign nations   678

            Power of Congress to regulate.............................   119

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    Commerce, Committee on............................................   674
    Commissions.
            No regulation shall give preferences to any ports.........   142

            Congressional Mailing Standards, House Commission on......   987

            House Office Building Commission..........................   988

            President to issue, to officers...........................   172

            For recess appointments of the President..................   167

            Created by law, to sit in a recess after expiration of a

                Congress..............................................   589

            Places on, not incompatible offices.......................    98

            Primary and supplemental expense resolutions for..........   732
    Commit, motion to.  See also Recommit.

            Precedence and use of.
    Precedence and general conditions of........................... 782, 787

                Debate on motion to, with instructions................   782
    Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous

      question..................................................... 448, 449

                Has precedence of motion to amend.....................   449

                Instructions with.....................................   788

                May not be postponed..................................   451

                Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.....   450

                Not used in Committee of the Whole....................   787

                Repetition of.........................................   782

                Use of................................................   446

            Application of, to bills.
    After previous question is ordered, Committee on Rules limited as
    to........................................................... 729a, 729b
    After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect

      of........................................................... 804, 808

                In order as to bill on third reading..................   494

                Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions.......   476
    Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending previous
    question..................................................... 729a, 729b

                Opposition have preference in recognition for, after

                    previous question is ordered......................   782

                Ten minutes debate permitted on motion to recommit

                    with instructions on bill or joint resolution.....   782
    On bills with amendments between Houses....... 486, 528b, 528d, 787, 808
    Committee of the Whole.

            In general.

                House may attend impeachment trial in.................   617

                No control over admission to floor....................   919
    Powers and privileges of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in.... 740,

                                                                        861a
    Procedure of the House as in.................................... 424-427

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                Rare case of investigation conducted by...............   343

                Relations of, to the Congressional Record.............   925

                Two continuing committees of..........................   332

            Chairman of.

                Chairman preserves order..............................  861a

                Functions of..........................................  861b

                Discretionary authority as to quorum calls............   863
    Discretionary authority as to five-minute votes on questions in
    sequence.................................................... 864a, 774bb

                Parliamentary method of selecting.....................   327

                Selection of chairman.................................  861a

            Quorum of.
    Quorum of...................................................... 329, 863
    Call of the committee by means of electronic device or by

      clerks...................................................... 863, 771b

                When failure of may be raised.........................   863

                Rising and reports as related to quorum...............   864

                Short or notice quorum call at discretion of chairman.   863

            Sitting, rising

                Former automatic de novo votes in House where

                    Delegates' votes decisive in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................  864b
    Informal rising to receive a message........................... 330, 563

                Informal rising for signing of enrolled bill..........   625

                May take a recess only with consent of the House......   586
    Motion to rise privileged...................................... 334, 864

                Motion to rise not in order during time yielded for

                    general debate....................................   871

                Motion to rise prior amendments offered after reading

                    of general appropriation bills....................  834d

                Report from Committee on Rules not in order after

                    House votes to go into............................  729a

                Rising after disorder in..............................   331
    Rising when a quorum fails............................... 774c, 863, 864
    Rising with unfinished business................................ 333, 334

            Motions to go into.

                Form of going into Committee of the Whole.............   328

                Privileged motion to go into, to consider and general

                    appropriation bills...............................   802
    Consideration of nonprivileged bills in, after call of, committees

                                                                    891, 892

                Nonprivileged public bills in, considered on Calendar

                    Wednesday.........................................   897

                Place in order of business for motions to consider

                    non-privileged bills in...........................   878

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                Speaker's declaration into............................   862

            Subjects considered in.

                Subjects requiring consideration in...................   865

                As to origination of business in......................   412

                Bill must show on face falls within the rule..........   866

                Conference report not referred to.....................   550

                Construction of the rule requiring consideration in...   866

                Elimination of portions of general appropriation bills

                    by................................................   835

                General practice as to consideration in...............   868

                Old parliamentary usage as to consideration of matters

                    in, as modified by House rules and practice.......   326

                Questions of order on appropriation bill in...........   835

                Recommittal of bills to...............................   420
    Reference of Senate bills from Speaker's table to.............. 882, 883
    Senate amendments considered in............................. 827, 828a-1
    Subjects not requiring consideration in....................... 528a, 867

            Procedure in, as to motions

                Amendments not to be withdrawn in.....................   824
    Application of House rules to.................................. 340, 877

                Five-minute recorded vote in, immediately following

                    quorum call.......................................   863
    Five-minute recorded votes in, on questions in sequence..... 864a, 774bb

                Unanimous consent to modify special orders entertained

                    in................................................  877a
    Motions for previous question and to adjourn not used in...... 333, 783,

                                                                         805

                Motion to reconsider not in order in..................   812

                Pairs in..............................................   660
    Recorded vote in.................................. 630, 631, 846a, 774bb
    Relations of motion to strike out enacting words to........... 875, 876a

                Yeas and nays not taken in............................    76

            Debate in.

                Closing the five-minute debate........................   874

                General debate in.....................................   870

                Hour rule of debate applicable to.....................   758

                Motion to close general debate........................   871

                Relevance of debate in................................   752

                Ten minutes debate on amendments submitted in advance

                    and printed in Record.............................   874

            Reading in. See also Amendments.

                Reading of bill in....................................   831

                Reading of concurrent resolution on the budget in.....  876b

            Order of business in.

                Order of business in..................................   869

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                Calendars for the business of.........................   742

                Unfinished business in................................   888

            Reports of, and consideration in House.

                Action of the House on amendment reported from........   423

                Amendments of, considered in the House................   337

                Bills from, considered in the House...................   338

                Discharge of..........................................   339

                Duties of Speaker and House as to reception of reports

                    of................................................   335

                Former automatic de novo votes in House where

                    Delegates' votes decisive in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................  864b
    Parliamentary law as to reports from........................... 334, 864

            Disorder in.
    Action in case of disorderly words in........................... 760-761
    Disorderly words taken down in, reported to the House...... 369, 760-761
    Effect of breaking up of, by disorder.......................... 332, 622

                Quarrels in, and duty of the Speaker as to............   331

                Questions of privilege in.............................   667

                Sergeant-at-Arms enforces order in....................   648

                Speaker restores order in.............................   622
    Committee staffs.

            Admitted to floor under certain conditions................   919

            Consultants and training..................................  733d

            Subcommittee staff appointments formerly by chairman and

                ranking minority member...............................  732d

            Expense resolution for committee staffs.................. 732a-d

            Former clerical/professional staff distinction......... 733a-738

            Former professional/investigative staff distinction.......   735

            Interrogation of witnesses................................   711

            Staff of committees, number and appointment..... 732d, 733a-733c

            Reduction in staff for 104th Congress................. 733c, 737

            Minority staff.................................. 732d, 733c, 737

            Staff duties..............................................  734a

            Associate or shared staff............................. 734b, 737

            Duties of House Oversight as to........... 677a, 733c, 734b, 737

            Duties as to papers.......................................   932

            Former reports on staff...................................   739

            Printed amendments submitted to...........................  873b

            Rate of pay for...........................................   735

            Staff for Committees on Appropriations and formerly Budget

                                                                   734b, 736

            Permission of Committee on House Oversight required for

                appointment of staff from governmental agencies.......   737

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    Committee stenographers.
            Non-partisan staff........................................   738

            Appointment of............................................   923
    Committees.

            Constitution and election of.
    Appointment of Members under indictment or conviction to....... 305, 306

                Clerks of, see Committee staffs.

                Delegates and Resident Commissioner may vote in.......   740

                Election of, by ballot................................   934

                Establishment of subcommittees limited................  701d

                Former rule regarding election of ranking minority

                    Member to Budget Committee........................  673b
    General power of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in....... 701g, 740

                House elects the standing committees on nominations by

                    caucuses..........................................  701a

                Member-elect may be appointed on, before taking the

                    oath..............................................   300

                Members' committee assignments limited................  701b

                Membership on contingent upon membership in party

                    caucus............................................  701b
    Names and number of the standing................................ 669-688

                Old and modern requirements as to constitution of.....   402

                Reports, dissolution, and revival of select committees   419
    Rules and practice as to the appointment of................... 317, 701a
    Selection of chairmen of select and of standing committees...... 701c, e

                Serve through a Congress..............................   317
    Service of Resident Commissioner and Delegates on............. 701g, 740

                Speaker appoints select and conference committees.....  701e

                Term limits for chairmen of committees and

                    subcommittees.....................................  701c

                Vacancies in, filled by election by House.............  701d

                Vice chairman of......................................  705d

            Jurisdiction of, and reference to.
    For jurisdiction and history of, individually, see Jurisdiction.

                Act only on matters referred to them..................   412

                Bills not to be brought back from, on motion to

                    reconsider........................................   820

                Commemoratives prohibited.............................   852

                Delivery of bills to..................................   403

                Duty of, in case of recommittal with instructions.....   420
    Functions of, in correcting errors of reference of bills....... 853, 854

                Jurisdiction as to creation, and duties of............  682a

                Jurisdiction of, as affected by errors in reference of

                    bills.............................................  853,

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                                                                         854

                Nearly all business of the House considered in........   446

                Papers not read in House on ordinary reference to.....   436

                Parliamentary law (largely obsolete) as to reference

                    of bills to.......................................   401

                Private claims to be referred to certain..............   845

                Private claims bills banned in certain cases..........   852

                Receive petitions only through the House..............   320

                Recommittal to select or standing, or of the Whole....   420

                Referral of bills and other matters, procedures for...   700

            Sittings and procedure of.

                Additional and special meetings.......................   705
    Broadcasting and press coverage of meetings and hearings........ 720-725

                Clerks of, see Committee staffs.

                Debate in.............................................   318

                Executive hearings open to non-committee Members......   708
    Executive sessions of.................................... 706c, 708, 712

                Five-minute rule applicable during interrogation of

                    witnesses.........................................   711
    Hearings open to public.................................. 694b, 708, 712

                Hearings to be preserved in Library of Congress.......   949

                Intelligence, Select Committee on, special procedures

                    for...............................................  944a

                May be empowered to sit during recesses of a Congress.   589
    May only act when together............................... 407, 705, 713c
    Former rule proscribing sitting during five-minute rule........ 324, 710
    Meetings and action of..................................... 408, 705-713

                Meeting when chairman fails to call...................   705
    Meetings open to public....................................... 694b, 708

                Method of voting amendments to a bill in..............   417

                Notice requirement for hearings.......................   708

                Noting amendments to bill in committee................   417

                Parliamentary law governing consideration of bills in.   412

                Power of, over body and title of a bill...............   411

                Power to sit and act..................................   718

                Presence of Member of the House in a select...........   410
    Procedure in generally........................................ 427, 704b

                Proxy voting prohibited...............................   707
    Quorum of a select or standing................. 343, 409, 709, 713c, 718
    Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to
    support charge of perjury................................. 343, 409, 709

                Quorum to release testimony received in executive

                    session...........................................   712

                Quorum for taking testimony...........................   709

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    Quorum to close hearing to discuss or receive certain testimony or
    evidence....................................................... 708, 712
    Quorum for issuing a subpoena.................................. 343, 718
    Vice chairman or ranking member presides in absence of chairman... 701c,
                Quorum for reporting a measure........................  713c

                                                                         705

                Reading of investigative or oversight reports waived..  703b

                Recess of a committee.................................  703a

                Reconsideration of a vote in..........................   416

                Record of actions by, to be kept......................  706a

                Regular meetings......................................   705

                Rise when the House sits unless leave be given to

                    remain sitting (obsolete).........................   324

                Rules of committee same as House......................  703a

                Rules of committees must be written and published in

                    Record............................................  704a
    Secrecy of procedure...................................... 319, 708, 712

                Subcommittees subject to direction of full committee..  703a

                Subpoena power........................................   718

                Time of hearings and subject matter to be placed in

                    daily Congressional Record and entered into

                    committee scheduling service of House Information

                    Resources.........................................   708

                Transcripts of meetings and hearings paid from

                    contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House)  703c

                Vice chairman.........................................  705a

                Votes in, available for inspection....................  706a

                Witnesses before committees, see Witnesses.

            Reports of.

                Former reporting requirement relating to committee

                    staff.............................................   739

                Action of the House on amendments reported from.......   423

                Action of the House on reports from...................   422
    Adverse.............................................. 726, 730, 743, 744

                Adverse reports from Committee on Rules...............   730

                Amendments reported by, should be germane.............   794

                Annual activities report..............................  703d
    Authorization, signing, and validity of.......... 407, 408, 415, 713-715

                Availability in electronic form.......................  706c
    Availability of, prior to floor consideration.................. 715, 716
    By whom made........................................ 317, 713a, 714, 715
    Calendars on which reports of, await action of the House........ 742-746

                Calling up reports made in order by adoption of a

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                    resolution by the House...........................   717

                    Contents required in reports:

                    Appropriations Committee reports on general

                        appropriation bills must state effect of any

                        provision changing existing law...............  844b

                    Congressional Accountability Act, requirements

                        under.........................................  713g

                    Constitutional authority statement................  713f

                    Cover must reflect inclusion of certain matters...   714

                    ``Dynamic estimate'' of changes in revenues

                        expected to result from enactment of ``major''

                        tax legislation (discretionary)...............  748b

                    Estimate of cost..................................  748b

                    Estimate and comparison of Congressional Budget

                        Office........................................  713e

                    Estimate and comparison of funding levels.... 713e, 748b

                    Filing after hours if views.......................  703b

                    Investigative and Oversight reports considered as

                        read..........................................  703b

                    Joint reports.....................................  703b

                    Minority, supplemental, and additional views......   714

                    New budget authority and tax expenditures,

                        statement as to...............................  713e

                    Obsolete provision for directing a committee to

                        withdraw and report...........................   404

                    Oversight findings and recommendations....... 692a, 713e

                    Oversight findings and recommendations of

                        Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

                                                                   696, 713e

                    Report on bills amending or repealing statutes

                        must show by typographical device parts of

                        statute affected..............................   745

                    Rules Committee reports on resolutions repealing

                        or amending Rules of the House must show by

                        typographical device parts of Rules affected..   731

                    Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, requirements under

                                                      703d, 713h, 748c, 1007

                    Vote totals and names on amendments and motion to

                        report........................................  713d
    Direction of, for making its report...................... 317, 415, 713b
    Filing of, by chairman or majority............................713a, 713b

                From Committee on Rules, not divisible................   791

                Hearings and reports of Appropriations Committee to be

                    available 3 days in advance of consideration of

                    bills.............................................   848

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                Joint Economic Committee, report of...................   983
    Limitations on reports from Committee on Rules.... 729a, 729c, 729d, 730

                Origin and effect of the rule giving privilege to

                    certain reports...................................   727

                Practice as to reading reports of, in the House.......   435

                Prior claim of Member in charge of bill to recognition   754

                Prior right of Members of, to recognition for debate..   756
    Privileged reports of........................................... 726-729

                Privilege of individual committees to report..........   728
    Privilege of reports from Committee on Rules................... 729a-730
    Recommital of............................................. 405, 420, 788

                Reports to the House must be made promptly............  713a
    Resolutions of inquiry, requirements for reports of............. 855-858

                Restriction on reporting bill containing an

                    appropriation.....................................   846
    Rights of, as to placing adverse reports on the Calen-

      dars.................................................... 726, 730, 744

                Select committee, report of...........................   419

                Speaker does not decide on sufficiency of.............   627
    Submitting reports of.......................................... 317, 418

                Supplemental, filing of...............................   714

                To be in writing and to be printed....................   821
    Views of the minority..................................... 714, 743, 821

            Oversight functions.

                Ad hoc oversight committees...........................  692b
    General oversight by committees as to laws within their
    jurisdiction.................................................. 692a-692b

                General oversight findings and recommendations to be

                    included in reports...............................  713e

                Establishment of oversight subcommittees required.....  692b

                Expense resolution not in order if a committee fails

                    to submit oversight plan..........................  692b

                Oversight of Committee on Government Reform and

                    Oversight.........................................  692b
    Oversight findings of Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
    to be included in each committee's reports.................... 696, 713e

                Oversight plans submitted to Committees on Government

                    Reform and Oversight and House Oversight..........  692b

                General oversight of Committee on Appropriations......  692b

                Special oversight functions of Committees on National

                    Security, Budget, Education and the Workforce,

                    Commerce, International Relations, Resources,

                    Science, and Small Business.......................   693

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                Additional functions of committees....................   694

                Budget hearings.......................................  694b
    Budget Act procedures........................................ 694c, 1007

                Budget Committee, additional functions of.............   695

                Government Reform and Oversight Committee, additional

                    functions of......................................   696

                Requirement for oversight subcommittee................  692b

            Discharge, instructions
    Motion to discharge and instruct............................... 406, 908

                Motion to discharge from consideration of vetoed bill.   108
    Motion to discharge under certain public laws...................... 1013

                Obsolete provision for direction to withdraw and bring

                    back a bill.......................................   404

                Recommittal with directions to report forthwith.......   405

                Speaker usually does not judge of fidelity of, to

                    instructions......................................   627

            Call of.

                Place of, in order of business........................   878

                Business on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-thirds

                    vote..............................................  729a

                Calendar Wednesday....................................   897

                Morning hour..........................................   889

            In general.

                Availability of publications in electronic form.......  706c

                Conferences held by means of select joint.............   532

                Correction of error in Journal by.....................   583

                Custody of papers of..................................   932
    Duties of, as to resolutions of inquiry........................ 855, 858

                Establishment of subcommittees limited................  701d

                Expense resolution not in order if committee failed to

                    submit oversight plan.............................  692b

                Expenses of, primary, additional, and interim funding.   732
    Exception to initial funding..................................... 732c-2

                Points of order in House against committee procedure..   708

                Records of, to be accessible to all Members...........  706a

                Reference in debate to proceedings of.................   360
    Rights as to motions to suspend the rules........................... 902

                Verbatim meeting and hearing transcripts..............  706a

            Staff of. See Committee staffs.
    Committees, joint.

            Quorum, chairman, and voting in....................... 325, 701e

            Authorized by concurrent resolutions......................   396

            Number and functions of................................. 983-987
    Commodities exchanges.

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    Common defense.
            Jurisdiction of subjects related to.......................   670

            Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
    Common fame.

            As a ground for impeachment...............................   605

            As foundation for investigation...........................   341
    Common law.

            Jury trial for suits at...................................   214

            Rules of, in courts.......................................   214
    Communications.

            Rule for reference of............................. 700, 882, 883

            Executive, transmission of, to House......................   936
    Compact.

            States not to make, without consent of Congress...........   148
    Compacts, interstate.

            Jurisdiction of, generally................................  679a

            Jurisdiction of, relating to apportionment of waters for

                irrigation purposes...................................   681

            Jurisdiction of, over interstate energy...................   674
    Compensation.  See also Pay.

            For private property taken for public use.................   212
    Compliance, Office of.  See Congressional accountability.
    Compulsory process.

            For obtaining witnesses...................................   213
    Concur, motion to.

            Relative to striking out enacting words...................   875

            See also Agree, motion to.
    Concurrent resolutions.

            Nature and use of.........................................   396

            As to approval of, by the President.......................   396

            Adjournment for more than three days by...................    84

            On the budget........................................ 673b, 1007

            Congressional disapproval provisions utilizing............  1013
    Confederation.

            Validity of debts of......................................   194

            States not to make........................................   146
    Conferees.  See Conferences.
    Conferences.

            Objects and nature of.

                By means of select committees.........................   532

                Effect of recess of Congress on.......................   901

                Free and simple in modern practice....................   540

                Free or instructed....................................   557

                Over matters other than differences as to amendments..   531

                Obsolete provision as to conference on first reading..   559

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                Parliamentary law as to free and simple...............   539

                Parliamentary law as to purposes for which conferences

                    may be held.......................................   558

                Questions asked of other House by, rather than by

                    message...........................................   569
    Relations of adherence and conference under the parliamentary law
    and in Congress.................................... 528b, 528d, 553, 554

                Usually asked over differences as to amendments.......   530

            As to requests for.

                Adherence does not prevent granting requests for......   522
    Generally............................... 528a, 530, 533, 535, 827-828a-2
    Motions to request, precedence of.... 528a, 528b, 528d, 535, 827, 828a-2
    Requests declined or neglected.............................. 534, 828a-2
    Separate vote on certain amendments between the Houses when
    request is made............................................. 827, 828a-2

            Managers and their powers.
    As affected by free and simple conference...................... 539, 540
    Managers of, appointment, removal, and function............... 536, 701e
    Managers of, motion to instruct or discharge................... 541, 910
    Managers restricted to the disagreements of the two Houses.... 546, 913a

                Managers may not agree to Senate amendments making

                    appropriations....................................   829

                Managers may not agree to Senate amendments to

                    appropriation bills containing legislation........   829

                May report a germane modification within the scope of

                    disagreement where one House strikes out all after

                    enacting clause of bill of other House and inserts

                    new language......................................   913
    Meeting and action of managers................................ 548, 913d

                Open conference meetings..............................  913d

                Quorum, evidence of...................................   543

                Reappointment of managers at second or subsequent.....   537

                Remedy where managers exceed their authority..........   547

                Speaker appoints......................................  701e
    Text to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed by
    managers unless by authority of both Houses................... 527, 913a

                Vacancies in managers.................................   538

            Reports of managers.

                Accompanying statement................................   911

                Accompanying statement, Speaker decides as to

                    sufficiency of....................................   627

                Action on a report in the two Houses..................   549

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                As to consideration in Committee of the Whole.........   867

                Consideration in House not in order until report

                    available for three days and copies available at

                    least two hours...................................  912a

                Considered as read if available.......................  912d

                Considered rejected if conferees have improperly

                    closed meeting....................................  913d

                Debate on, equally divided between parties............  912a
    Effect of disagreement to a conference report............ 551, 755, 913c
    Form of conference reports................................ 542, 543, 911

                Have precedence of motion to reconsider...............   812

                High privilege of.....................................   909

                Legislation contained in amendments in disagreement,

                    procedure for consideration.......................  912c

                Limited to scope of matter committed to conference....  527,

                                                                   546, 913a
    Motions in order during action on a report.................... 550, 913b

                May report germane modification of amendment in nature

                    of substitute.....................................  913a

                Nongermane matter contained in conference agreements,

                    procedure for consideration.......................  913b

                Nongermane matter in amendments in disagreement,

                    procedure for consideration.......................  913c

                Not to interrupt reading of Journal...................   621

                Parliamentary law as to reports of managers...........   542

                Partial reports.......................................   544

                Postponing rollcall votes on agreeing to..............   631

                Precedence of, over report from Committee on Rules....  729a

                Printing in Record of amendment in total disagreement.  912b

                Printing of reports and statements in the Record......  912a
    Rejection of, status of amendments after...................... 551, 913b
    Reports of inability to agree................................. 545, 912b

                Retroactive income tax rate increase prohibited in....  846d

                Quorum, evidence of...................................   543

                Signing of............................................   543

                Speaker decides as to validity of reports.............   627
    Statements relating to Federal unfunded mandates............. 911a, 1007

                Three-day layover and two-hour availability before

                    consideration.....................................  912a

                Three-fifths vote to increase income tax rates........  846c

                To be in writing......................................   542

                To be entered in the Journals.........................   542

                Unamendable...........................................   542

                When on constitutional amendments agreed to by two-

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                    thirds vote.......................................   192

                Yeas and nays automatically ordered on adoption of

                    certain...........................................  774e

            Custody of papers in.

                After an effective conference.........................   555

                When managers fail to agree...........................   556

                When asked before disagreement........................   552
    Confession.

            In cases of treason.......................................   181
    Confirmation.

            Instances where House and Senate have confirmed

                President's nominee as Vice President.................   256
    Congress.

            Meeting, term
    Meets once a year............................................... 45, 242

                Term and adjournment of...............................     6

                Adjourns in July with certain exceptions..............   947

                Neither House to adjourn for more than three days or

                    to another place without consent of the other.....    82

                Power of President to convene or adjourn Houses of....   171

                President to give information of the state of the

                    Union to..........................................   168
    Prohibited from adjourning sine die before completion of
    congressional budget process........................... 1007 (sec. 310f)

            Powers of--legislative and general.

                Legislative...........................................     3

                As to migration of importation of persons.............   137

                Consent of, to acceptance of certain gifts............   144

                To establish patents and copyrights...................   124

                To establish post offices and post roads..............   123

                To make laws to carry its powers into effect..........   136

                To provide for legislative veto of executive actions..  1013

                To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121

                To regulate commerce..................................   119

                To regulate naturalization and bankruptcy.............   120

            Powers of--as to taxes, money, property, and territory.

                To lay and collect taxes..............................   117

                To borrow money.......................................   118

                Money to be drawn only on appropriations by...........   143
    Over the seat of Government and ceded places................... 134, 135

                Over the territory and other property of the United

                    States............................................   188

            Powers of--as to war.

                To declare war, grant letters of marque...............   127

                To support armies.....................................   129

                To provide a navy.....................................   130

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                To make rules of government for land and naval forces.   131

                To provide for calling out the militia................   132

                To provide for organization of militia................   133

                Relative powers of Congress and the President.........   128

            Powers of--as to elections, sufferage
    As to apportionment and establishment of districts............. 226, 227

                Determines time of choosing electors..................   153

                May by law provide for cases where President-elect nor

                    Vice President-elect shall qualify................   244
    May choose President and Vice President in certain cases........ 221-223
    May confirm nomination to fill vacancy in Vice Presi-

      dency........................................................ 253, 256

                Instances where House and Senate have confirmed

                    nominee as Vice President.........................   256

                May decide termination of Presidential disability.....   255

                May provide for case wherein death occurs among those

                    from whom House and Senate may choose President

                    and Vice President................................   246
    May provide for succession to Presidency or new election....... 155, 244

                Power to make or alter regulations as to elections of

                    Representatives...................................    42
    To legislate to enforce the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth,
    twenty-third, and twenty-fourth amendments to the Constitution..... 224,

                                                          233, 234, 250, 251

                To remove political disabilities......................   230

            Powers of--as to courts.

                Regulates jurisdiction of Supreme Court...............   179
    To establish inferior courts................................... 125, 177

                To fix places for trial of crimes.....................   180

                To regulate the proving of acts, records, and judicial

                    proceedings of the States.........................   183

            Powers of--as to the States.

                As to admission, consolidation, or division of States.   187

                May revise and control certain State laws.............   147

                No State to lay imposts or duties on exports or

                    imports without consent of........................   147

                Consent of, for certain acts of States as to duties,

                    troops, war, and compacts.........................   148

            Powers of--to provide certain punishments.

                Each House may punish its Members for disorderly

                    behavior..........................................    62

                To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122

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                To provide punishment for piracies....................   126

                To declare punishment of treason......................   182

            Powers of--as to amending Constitution.

                As to amendments to the Constitution..................   190

                To propose amendments to the Constitution or call a

                    convention........................................   190

                Jurisdiction of proposed amendments to................  679a

            Powers of--Limitations on.

                As related to writ of habeas corpus...................   138

                As to religion, free speech, the press, or right of

                    assembly and petition.............................   208

                Laws of, not binding on House in judging elections....    51

                Limitation on capitation or other direct tax..........   140

                No bill of attainder or ex post facto law to be passed   139

                No export duties to be laid...........................   141

                No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142

                No titles of nobility to be granted...................   144
    Congressional accountability.

            Approval of regulations with respect to................ 1013(30)

            Committee reports accompanying measures must contain

                statement relating to.................................  713g

            Former rule on application of laws to Congress............  946b

            Office of Compliance......................................   990

            Point of order for insufficient committee report..........  713g

            Settlements under approval by House Oversight.............  697e
    Congressional Budget Office.  See Budget.
    Congressional disapproval, laws providing mechanisms for..........  1013
    Congressional Record.

            Reports of debates.
    Correction of........................................... 764a, 764b, 926

                Duties of Joint Committee on Printing in relation to..   986

                General control of Committee on House Oversight over..  677e

                Jurisdiction relating to improvement of...............   986

                ``Leave to print'' in.................................   929

                Not the official record of proceedings................    69

                Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole over......   862

                Privilege of Member to revise his remarks.............   928
    Privilege of propositions to correct........................... 923, 927

                Relation of Committee of the Whole to.................   925

                Reporters of debates..................................   923
    Substantially verbatim account of remarks......... 764a, 764b, 924a, 928

            Matters recorded in.

                Amendments to be offered during five-minute rule may

                    be printed in advance, and given a numerical

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                    designation.......................................   874

                Certain messages printed in...........................   935

                Clerk supervises daily insertions in..................   986

                Committee meetings and hearings inserted in...........   986

                Former ``bullet'' symbols in..........................   929

                House activities of previous day inserted in..........   986

                Index daily of proceedings of previous day............   986

                Introduction of bills, petitions, resolutions entered

                    in................................................   849

                Legislative program for the day to be inserted........   986

                Messages from President entered in....................   884

                Names of Members signing discharge petitions..........   908

                Pairs printed in......................................   660

                Printing of conference reports in.....................  912a
    Reference of public bills, memorials entered in................ 854, 860
    Substantially verbatim account of remarks............... 764a, 764b, 928

                Titles of reported bills entered in...................   743
    Congressional Research Service....................................   991
    Consent.

            Unanimous.  See Unanimous consent.

            Of Congress.

                For acceptance of certain gifts.......................   144

                For certain acts of States as to duties, troops, war,

                    and compacts......................................   148

                No State to tax imports or exports without............   147

            Of a State.

                Required before its equal suffrage in the Senate may

                    be disturbed......................................   190
    Conservation.

            Energy resources, jurisdiction of matters relating to.....   674

            Petroleum (naval), jurisdiction of matters relating to....   680

            Radium, jurisdiction of matters relating to...............   681

            Soil, jurisdiction of matters relating to.................   670

            Wildlife, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............   681
    Consideration, question of.

            Form and history of.......................................   778

            Conditions of raising.................................. 717, 779

            Not to be raised against a report from Committee on Rules

                                                                  729a, 729b

            On Calendar Wednesday.....................................   898

            Questions subject to......................................   780

            Question of consideration to disposed of points of order

                raised under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

                                                                   781, 1007

            Relation of, to other motions.............................   779

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            Relation of, to points of order........................ 781, 909

            Where quorum fails on yea-and-nay vote and adjournment

                intervenes............................................    76
    Consistency.

            Speaker not to decide questions of..................... 466, 627
    Constituency.

            Apportionment and establishment of districts........... 226, 227

            Status of, as related to right to take the oath...........   204
    Constitution of the United States.

            Establishment.

                Enumerated rights of, and those reserved to people....   216

                Established by the people.............................     1

                Formation of..........................................     2

                Disabilities arising from violation of the oath to

                    support...........................................   230
    Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Members of Congress under
    the............................................................ 288, 289

                Judicial power extends to cases of law and equity

                    arising under.....................................   178

                Nothing in it to prejudice certain claims.............   188

                Oath to support.......................................   196

                Officers of House sworn to support....................   635

                Powers delegated to the United States by..............   217

                President sworn to preserve...........................   158

                Supreme law of the land...............................   195

            Ratification and amendment of.

                Amendments to, jurisdiction over......................  679a

                Differences as to amendment to, committed to

                    conference........................................   530

                Extension of time period for ratification of proposed

                    amendment.........................................   192

                Joint resolution for amendment of, not approved by

                    President.........................................   115

                Limitation on amendment of............................   190
    Methods of amending............................................. 190-192

                Ratification of.......................................   207
    The twenty-seven amendments of.................................. 208-258

                Two-thirds vote on conference report as to............   549

                Yeas and nays not necessarily taken on amendments to..    76
    Constitutional conventions.

            Relation of, to State legislatures, in fixing times of

                elections.............................................    43

            May be called for purpose of proposing amendments to

                Constitution..........................................   190
    Constitutional prerogatives.

            Of House as to revenue legislation........................   102

            Questions of, committed to conference.....................   531

            Questions relating to, treated as of privilege............   661

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    Constitutional privilege.
            Precedence of questions of................................   661

            Questions relating to................................... 661-668
    Constitutions.

            Those of States subordinate to that of United States......   195
    Consular service.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   678
    Consuls.

            President appoints........................................   166

            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178
    Consumers.

            Affairs and protection of, jurisdiction over..............   674
    Contempts.

            Committee reports on, privileged for immediate

                consideration without 3-day layover................ 299, 661

            Power of the House to punish for........................ 293-299
    Contestants.

            In election cases, admitted to the floor..................   919

            Relations of, to incompatible offices.....................   100
    Contested elections.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  677a

            Contests affected by death................................    18

            Clerk receives testimony taken in contests................   647
    Contingency fund (applicable accounts of the House).

            Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to.......... 677a, 732

            Clerk formerly kept account of disbursements out of.......   642

            Commission and other entity expenses, payment from........   732

            Committee expenses, payment from..........................   732

            Committee transcripts, cost of printing paid from.........  703c

            Early organization caucuses funded from...................   997

            Privileged reports on.....................................   726
    Continuation of a public work.

            Appropriations for................................ 834a, 839-841

            Examples illustrating.....................................   840

            New buildings at existing institutions as a...............  841a

            Unexpended balances may be appropriated for...............   847
    Contract labor.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   675
    Contractors.

            Not ineligible as Members.................................    98
    Contracts.

            Obligations of, no State to impair........................   146

            Clerk formerly made or approved certain...................   644
    Controversies.

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    Convening of Congress.
            To which the judicial power extends.......................   178

            At least once in every year............................. 45, 242

            Laws appointing a different day for.......................   243
    Convention.

            To amend the Constitution, method of calling of...........   190
    Convict labor.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   675
    Conviction.

            Two-thirds vote for, in impeachments......................    38

            Evidence for, for treason.................................   181

            For crime as basis for involuntary servitude..............   224

            In impeachments shall not extend further than removal from

                office................................................    41

            Members should refrain from voting and committee

                participation following...............................    41
    Copyrights.

            Copyright royalties, limitation on........................   943

            Jurisdiction as to bills relating to......................  679a
    Corporations.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Correction.

            Bills for, of military and naval records are banned.......   852

            Of Congressional Record.......... 693, 764a, 764b, 923, 926, 927

            Of reference of public bills, place of, in order of

                business..............................................   878

            Of reference of bills from Speaker's table............. 882, 883

            Of reference of bills, correction in errors...............   853
    Corrections Calendar.

            Corrections Calendar Office...............................  996b

            Rule providing for........................................  745a

            Postponed proceedings on questions for consideration of

                bills called from.....................................   631
    Corridors.

            Speaker's control of......................................   623
    Corruption.

            Of blood, for treason.....................................   182

            Co-sponsorship, of bills..................................   854
    Cost, limit of.

            On public works...........................................   838
    Coughing.

            Not in order during debate................................   364
    Counsel.

            General, Office of........................................  634e

            For accused in criminal prosecutions......................   213

            In cases of expulsion.....................................    65

            Admission of, in investigations........................ 348, 712

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    Count.
            May be censured and excluded from investigative hearings..   712

            Electoral.

                Constitutional provision for..........................   219

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  677e

                In the Hall of the House..............................   220

            On a division or other vote.
    Appeal from Chair's count prohibited........................... 628, 629

                Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508

                Decision of points of order during....................   507
    Division of the House after determination by sound............. 501, 630

                Duty of Speaker to make an honest count...............   630

                Interruption of, by demand for yeas and nays..........    77

                Messages not received during rising vote or by tellers   562

                Not to be interrupted by conference report............   909

                Parliamentary provisions as to division, not

                    applicable in the House...........................   502

                Questions of order arising during, decided

                    peremptorily......................................   627

                Rule as to voting by division.........................   630

                Two-thirds votes......................................   509

            Of a quorum.
    Certain business suspended by failure of a quorum.............. 510, 744

                By Speaker, to ascertain as to quorum after previous

                    question is ordered...............................   810
    Not to be verified by tellers or on appeal...................... 54, 628

                Of House when absence of quorum is observed...........   310
    On roll call and otherwise by Speaker........................... 54, 772
    Counterfeiting.

            Congress may provide punishment for.......................   122
    Courthouses.

            Jurisdiction as to bills for construction of..............   686
    Courts.

            Of the United States.

                Appointment of officers of............................   166

                Congress to constitute inferior.......................   125

                Determination of relevancy of materials subpoenaed

                    from House........................................  291a

                Inferior, their judges................................   177

                Judges bound by Constitution and laws.................   195

                Judicial power vested in supreme and inferior.........   177

                Jurisdiction of, in general...........................   178

                Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.........................   179

                Limitations of judicial power in suits of law or

                    equity............................................   218

                Tenure, compensation of judges........................   177

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                Trials of suits at common law in......................   214

            As related to proceedings of Congress.

                Privilege of Members of Congress as to demands of.....  290,

                                                                   291a, 946

                Relations of Members of Parliament to.................   287

                Relations of State courts to election cases...........    50

                Status of reports of Court of Claims on calendars.....   742
    Reference of claims to Court of Claims considered in Committee of
    the Whole...................................................... 865, 866

                Judicial appearances on behalf of House...............  291b

                Jurisdiction as to certain, in District of Columbia...   676

                Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..................  679a

                Jurisdiction as to, in foreign lands..................   678

                In insular possessions and territories................   681
    Credentials.  See also Members.

            As related to the right of a Member to take the oath......   204

            Prima facie effect of, dependent on vacancy...............    23

            House Oversight Committee may consider questions as to.... 677a,

                                                                        677e
    Credit.

            For public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of a

                State in other States.................................   183

            Power of Congress to borrow money on......................   118

            States not to emit bills of...............................   146

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to public...............   672
    Crimes.

            Abridgment of suffrage for................................   226

            As to what are high.......................................   175

            Extradition for...........................................   185

            High impeachable offenses.................................   173

            Involuntary servitude as punishment for...................   224

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a

            Members refrain from voting and committee action when

                convicted of..........................................   939

            Persons to be held to answer for, only on conditions......   212

            Trial of all, except in impeachments, to be by jury.......   180
    Criminal law.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Criminal prosecutions.

            Rights of accused in all..................................   213

            Security as to accusations, and trial.....................   212
    Criticism.  See also Debate.

            Of the House and its proceedings, in debate...............   361

            Of the Speaker............................................   362

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    Cruel punishments.
            Of the motives of Members.................................   363

            Not to be inflicted.......................................   215
    Currency.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Custody.

            Procuring attendance of witness in, from other House......   345
    Customhouses.

            Customs, jurisdiction as to...............................   688

            Jurisdiction as to buildings for..........................   686

            Special oversight jurisdiction............................   693
    Dairy products.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   670
    Damages to property.

            Bills of payments for, banned with exceptions.............   852
    Dams.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to................... 681, 686
    Day.

            Journal dated as of legislative...........................    69

            Speaker takes Chair on each legislative...................   621
    Dean of the House.

            Administers oath to Speaker...............................   198
    Death.

            Bills for payment of certain claims against the United

                States for, banned....................................   852

            Ceremonies for deceased Members...........................  677a

            Of officers of House, vacancies caused by may be filled

                temporarily by Speaker................................   635

            Of Member, vacancy caused by..............................    18

            Of President or Vice President of United States... 155, 244, 252

            Of Speaker................................................    28
    Debate.  See also General debate.

            Exhibits.

                Use of in debate.............................. 622, 915, 916

            Freedom of.

                Members not to be questioned for, in another place....    92

                Members of Parliament exempted from question as to....  287,

                                                                    302, 309

                Not to be interfered with by other House by notice of.   308

                Privilege of Members of Parliament as to..............   287

            Obtaining the floor for.

                Conditions under which a Member's right to the floor

                    is subjected to the will of the House.............   355

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                Member to speak but once, except one Member in reply..   762
    Member who has spoken to the main question may speak to an
    amendment...................................................... 465, 762

                Member's right to close debate on amendment considered

                    under five-minute rule............................   762

                Morning-hour debates..................................  753b

                Motion to be stated before............................   776

                Obtaining the floor in debate.........................   749

                One-minute speeches...................................  753a

                Oxford-style debates..................................  753c

                Parliamentary law as to recognition by the Speaker....   356

                Procedure of the Member in seeking recognition........   354
    Recognition of Members by the Speaker for debate, generally..... 753-757

                Right of a Member to be heard a second time...........   357

                Special order speeches................................  753a

                Rights of Member as to opening and closing in debate..   759

                The hour rule for debate..............................   758

            Interruptions of.

                Interruptions in......................................   364

                Interruption of a Member in debate....................   750

                Certain motions only in order when a question is under   782

                Member having the floor in, not to be interrupted by

                    motions...........................................   393

                Member in, may be interrupted by conference report....   909

                Messages received during..............................   561
    The call to order in debate..................................... 760-761
    Words taken down in debate...................................... 760-761

            Disorder in.
    Calls to order............................................ 364, 760, 761

                Disorder and interruptions during.....................   364

                Disorderly words taken down and reported from

                    Committee of the Whole............................   369

                Impertinent, superfluous, or tedious speaking.........   359

                Members censured for disorder in......................    63

                Parliamentary law as to taking down disorderly words..   368

                Parliamentary method of silencing a tedious Member....   365

                Rules of debate restraint on captiousness of Members..   285

                Warm words and assaults...............................   367

            Personalities, references to other House, committees.

                Criticism of the Speaker..............................   362
    Debate, proceedings, and Members of the other House....... 371, 372, 749
    Decorum and abstention from personalities in debate............ 361, 749

                Duty of the Speaker to prevent expressions offensive

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                    to the other House................................   374

                Language reflecting on the House......................   360
    Motives of Members not to be arraigned......................... 363, 749

                Reference to proceedings of committees................   360
    Reference to the Executive..................................... 370, 749

                Reference to occupants of galleries...................   764
    Relevancy of................................................... 749, 752

            Closing of, in the House.

                Effect of order of yeas and nays in closing...........    80
    Effect of previous question on................................. 804, 805
    Not precluded until the negative has been put.................. 842, 490

            Limitations on.

                    Forty minutes of:

                    After previous question is ordered................   805

                    On motion to suspend the rules....................   907

                    On certain non-germane amendments between the

                        Houses................................... 827-828a-2

                    On non-germane Senate amendments included in

                        conference report.............................  913b
    Limit of, on appeals........................................... 624, 628

                Morning-hour debate...................................  753b
    On conference reports, and on certain motions relating to
    amendments between the Houses.............. 912a, 912b, 912c, 913b, 913c

                On certain secondary motions..........................   782

                On question of order, within Speaker's discretion.....   627

                On questions of privilege.............................   661

                On motion to instruct conferees.......................  909a

                On motion to reconsider...............................   819

                On motion to strike out enacting words................   876
    On rescission bills and deferral resolutions................... 1013(6a)

                One-minute speeches...................................  753a

                Oxford-style debates..................................  753c

                Special order speeches................................  753a

                Strictly enforced.....................................   758

                    Ten minutes of:

                    On amendments submitted in advance and printed in

                        Record........................................   874

                    On motion to recommit with instructions...........   782

                    Twenty minutes of:

                    On motions to discharge...........................   908

                Under various laws permitting congressional approval..  1013

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            General debate in Committee of the Whole.
    Closing of, in Committee of the Whole.......................... 870, 871

                In Committee of the Whole under the old parliamentary

                    usage.............................................   326

            Five-minute debate.

                Closing five-minute...................................   874

                Closing five-minute, in Committee of the Whole........   874

                Five-minute, on motion to dispense with Calendar

                    Wednesday.........................................   897

                Member's right to close debate on amendment considered

                    under the five-minute rule........................   762

                Reading and amendment under the five-minute rule......   872

                Recognition for, under the five-minute rule...........   872

                Rule as to five-minute, in Committee of the Whole.....   870

                Ten minutes on amendments previously printed in Record

                    even though debate under is limited...............   874

                Time not yielded under five-minute....................   872

            Questions not debatable.

                Amendment to title decided without....................   822

                Appeals as to priority of business decided without....   900

                Correction of reference of public bills to be made

                    without...........................................   854

                Motions to adjourn, lay on the table, and for the

                    previous question not debatable...................   782

                Motion that Journal be read...........................   621
    Motion to discharge a committee not debatable (except under clause
    3, rule XXVII)................................................. 406, 858

                Under former rule XXX, questions as to reading of

                    papers were determined without....................   917

            Record of. See Congressional Record.

            In general.

                Course of the Member when business concerning himself

                    is debated........................................   375

                In standing and select committees.....................   318

                Morning-hour debates..................................  753b

                Obsolete practice as to adjournment of debate.........   444

                Obsolete practice as to Member's advice during points

                    of order..........................................   507

                On bills, usually occurs before engrossment and third

                    reading...........................................   498

                One-minute speeches...................................  753a

                Oxford-style debates..................................  753c
    Participation of the Speaker in debate......................... 358, 751
    Quorum necessary during......................................... 54, 510

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    Debt.
                Special order speeches................................  753a
    Under reservation of right to object to a unanimous-consent
    request........................................................ 381, 881

            Claims for slaves not to be paid..........................   232

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to bonded...............   688

            None incurred in aid of insurrection to be paid...........   232

            Power of Congress to pay public...........................   117

            States restricted as to tender in payment of..............   146

            Validity of those contracted prior to the Constitution....   194

            Validity of debt of the United States not to be questioned   232

            Debt limit, rule for establishment of statutory...........   945
    December.

            Early organization caucuses held in.......................   997

            First Monday in, for meeting of Congress (obsolete).......    45
    Decisions.  See also Appeal.

            Of the Speaker controlled by appeal............... 379, 624, 628
    Declarations of war.

            Congress to make..........................................   127

            Jurisdiction as to........................................   678

            War Powers Resolution................................... 1013(2)
    Declination.

            Of seat by Member.........................................    20
    Decorum.  See also Debate.

            As to sitting in place....................................   353

            Assaults and affrays......................................   367

            Attire................................................. 622, 763

            Call to order for transgressions in............... 364, 760, 761

            Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House...........   637

            Conduct of counsel in investigation.......................   712

            Conduct of Members in the hall............................   763

            Decorum of Members in debate, see Debate.

            Disorder in Committee of the Whole........................   331

            Member may speak from any place on floor..................   749

            Members' presence when business concerning Member debated.   375

            Movements of Member during voting.........................   506

            Power of House to punish and expel for breaches of........ 62-66

            Exhibits, use of.................................. 622, 915, 916

            Speaker preserves, on floor............................ 331, 622

            Smoking forbidden.........................................   763

            Use of personal, electronic office equipment forbidden....   763

            Wearing of hats forbidden.............................. 377, 763
    Deductions.

            From the compensation of Members........................ 86, 657

            From the compensation of Members for state income taxes...   648
    Defense.

            Power of Congress to provide for public...................   117

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to public...............   680

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    Defense production.
            Counsel for, in criminal cases............................   213

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   672
    Deficiencies.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a
    Degree.

            Of amendments.......................................... 822, 823

            Of amendments between the Houses..........................   529
    Delegated powers.

            Of the Constitution.......................................   217
    Delegates.

            Admitted to Floor.........................................   919

            Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of................   642

            Clerk to distribute certain documents to..................   641

            Compensation of...........................................    86

            Former de novo votes in House where vote of decisive in

                Committee of Whole....................................  864b

            Elected to committees.....................................   740

            Establishment and nature of office........................   740

            From District of Columbia, formerly required to be elected

                to the former Committee on District of Columbia.......   740

            From territory of American Samoa..........................   740

            Impeachment began at instance of a........................   603

            May have been appointed a teller..........................  630b

            Formerly could be appointed Chairman, Committee of the

                Whole.................................................  861a

            May be appointed a conferee...............................  701g

            May be appointed to select committee......................  701g

            May call a Member to order.............................. 760-761

            Powers and privileges of, on floor and in committee.......  603,

                                                   631, 701g, 740, 760, 861a

            Powers and privileges of, in Committee of the Whole.......   740

            Rooms of, in office buildings.............................   989

            Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed pay of................   648

            Sworn.....................................................   740
    Department of Agriculture.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for, and bills relating to

                                                                   670, 671a
    Department of Defense.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Department of Energy.

            Jurisdiction over general management of...................   674
    Department of Justice.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Departments.  See Executive departments.
    Desertion.

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    Desk, Clerk's.  See Clerk's desk.
    Dilatory motions.
            Certain private bills to correct records are banned.......   852

            Amendments printed in Record may not be...................   874

            Forbidden pending report from Committee on Rules..... 729a, 729b

            Not to be entertained by the Speaker......................   803

            One motion to adjourn only in order pending motion to

                suspend rules.........................................   801

            Right to demand yeas and nays not to overruled as.........    77
    Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services

            Former position and functions of..........................  651e
    Direct tax.  See also Taxes.

            To be apportioned to census...............................   140

            Old apportionment of......................................    14
    Disabilities.

            Of President or Vice President of United States... 155, 244, 252

            Political, arising from disloyalty........................   232

            Consideration of bills removing...........................  679b

            Of President-elect or Vice President-elect of United

                States................................................   244
    Disagree, motion to.

            Amendments in order on motion to..........................   487

            Negative of, equivalent to affirmative of motion to agree.   487

            Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting and

                adhering..................................... 521, 528a-528d

            Precedence of............................... 486, 528-528d, 913c

            Precedence of motion to amend over motion to agree or

                disagree..............................................   528
    Disagreement.

            President may adjourn Congress in a certain case of.......   171

            Stage of................................... 528-528d, 828b, 913c
    Discharge.

            Motions to, of a committee............................. 406, 908

            Motions to, under certain public laws...................... 1013

            Motions as to Committee of the Whole not privileged.......   339

            Motion to discharge a committee from consideration of

                vetoed bill...........................................   108

            Of a committee, from a resolution of inquiry..............   858
    Discipline.

            Of the militia............................................   133

            Of Members.............................................. 62, 698
    Discoveries.

            Congress may provide exclusive rights to..................   124
    Disease.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...........   674

            Of animals................................................   670
    Disorder.

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            Disorderly words taken down........................ 369, 760-761

            Galleries or lobby, cleared by Speaker for................   622

            In Committee of the Whole......................... 331, 332, 622

            May interrupt reading of Journal..........................   621

            Parliamentary law as to taking down disorderly words......   368

            Parliamentary law as to taking down words in Committee of

                the Whole.............................................   369

            Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to, in

                galleries and lobby...................................  861a

            Power of each House to punish for......................... 62-66

            Proceedings in case of, on the floor......................   367
    Disqualification.

            As judgment in impeachment................................    41

            Members not to hold incompatible offices................. 97-101

            Service of Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.....   698
    Disqualifying interest.

            Of a Member as to voting.......................... 376, 657, 658
    Distribution.

            Of President's annual message (obsolete)............... 725, 884
    District of Columbia.

            In general.

                Bills relating to, as unfinished business.............   888
    Home Rule Act, disapproval procedures under..................... 1013(5)

                Jurisdiction as to government buildings within........   686

                Jurisdiction as to parks in...........................   681
    Power of Congress as to legislation over....................... 134, 135

                Representation in Electoral College of................   250

                Second and fourth Mondays for business of.............   899

            Former Committee on.

                Jurisdiction transferred..............................   676

            Delegate from, powers of. See Delegates.
    Districts.

            Adjustment of, to apportionment...........................   227

            Questions as to elections in relation to..................   228

            Requirement that districts be equally populated...........   229
    Disturbance.

            Galleries or lobby cleared by Speaker for.................   622

            Of another in debate not in order.........................   364
    Division.

            Of papers for reference.
    Of matter for reference to committees..................... 421, 700, 849

                Of bills for reference................................   700

            Voting by.

                Rule as to voting by..................................   630

                Business suspended by failure of quorum...............   510

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                Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508

                Decisions of points of order during...................   507
    Division of the House after determination by sound............. 501, 630

                Interruption of, by demand for yeas and nays..........    77

                Messages not received during rising vote or vote by

                    tellers...........................................   562

                Not to be interrupted by conference report............   909

                Parliamentary provisions as to division, not

                    applicable in the House...........................   502

                Questions of order arising during, decided

                    peremptorily......................................   627

                Repetition of demand for division.....................   630

                Two-third votes.......................................   509

            Of the question for a vote.

                As related to debate on amendment.....................   482
    Into substantive propositions.................................. 791, 792

                Jefferson's discussion of.............................   481
    Motion to recede and concur divisible......................... 525, 528d

                Motion to strike out and insert not divisible.........   793

                Offsetting amendments to appropriation bills

                    indivisible.......................................  834f

                Parliamentary law as to...............................   480

                Principles governing..................................   792
    Resolutions or orders reported by Committee on Rules not divisible

                                                                    791, 792

                Resolutions electing standing committees not divisible   791
    Dockyards.

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
    Documents.

            Reading of those, accompanying President's message........   170

            Clerk to distribute certain, to Members...................   641
    Domestic violence.

            States may ask protection from............................   189
    Doorkeeping.

            Doorkeeping duties of Sergeant-at-Arms................ 380, 650a

            History of former Office of the Doorkeeper..................651d
    Doors.

            Of the House kept by Sergeant-at-Arms................. 380, 650a

            Closed on call of the House when ordered by Speaker.......  771b
    Drug testing.

            Rule providing for drug testing of Members, officers, and

                employees.............................................  634g
    Due process of law.

            No person to be deprived of life, liberty, or property

                without...............................................   212

            No State to deprive a person of life, liberty, or property

                without...............................................   225
    Duties.  See also Taxes.

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            Export taxes or duties prohibited.........................   141

            Limitations on rights of States to lay....................   147

            Net produce of, to go to National Treasury................   147

            Not to be levied on commerce by water between States......   142

            On persons migrated or imported...........................   137

            Power of Congress to lay and collect......................   117

            States not to levy on tonnage.............................   148

            To be uniform.............................................   117
    ``Dynamic estimate'' in report on tax legislation.................  748b
    Economic and Educational Opportunities, Committee on.  See Education and

        the Workforce, Committee on.
    Economic Committee, Joint.........................................   983
    Economic report.

            Time for filing of, by President..........................   169
    Economic stabilization.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   672
    Education.

            Jurisdiction of subjects on............................ 675, 678
    Education and Labor, Committee on.  See Education and the Workforce,

        Committee on.
    Effects.

            Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211
    Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress.

            Jurisdiction of subjects on.......................... 677a, 677e
    Elections.

            Of officers of the two Houses.
    Of officers of the House except Speaker......................... 29, 635

                Of officers of House, except that Speaker may fill

                    vacancies temporarily by appointment..............   635

                Of officers of the Senate.............................    37

                Of President pro tempore of the Senate................   313
    Of Speaker...................................................... 26, 312

                Of Speaker and other officers of House................26, 30

                Of Speaker pro tempore................................   314

                Motion to proceed to election of Speaker of higher

                    privilege than motion to correct the roll.........   638

                Rule for, by ballot...................................   934

            Of Representatives. See also Contested elections.

                Apportioned among the States according to numbers.....   226

                Apportionment of, jurisdiction as to..................  679a

                Apportionment of (obsolete provision).................    14

                Apportionments, first and last and minimum basis of...    15

                By the people.........................................     5

                Campaign contributions, jurisdiction of matters

                    relating to.......................................  677a

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                Clerk receives testimony taken in contests............  647a

                Contests affected by death............................    18

                Each House judge of................................... 46-51
    Election by districts.......................................... 228, 229

                Functions of State executive..........................    24
    Jurisdiction as to laws relating............................. 677a, 677e
    Of Members, questions relating to, considered by House Oversight
    Committee.................................................... 677a, 677e

                Power of each House to judge as related to State laws. 47-50

                Power to judge as related to law of Congress..........    51

                Prima facie title, enrollment by Clerk not conclusive

                    as to.............................................   638

                Qualifications of electors............................     7

                Question of final right as related to oath............   204

                Questions as to elections in relation to congressional

                    districts.........................................   228

                Regulation of times, places, and manner of............42, 43
    Regulations of Federal Elections Commission disapproval........ 1013(18)

                Suffrage not to be abridged for race, color...........   234

                To fill vacancies.....................................    17

            Of Senators.
    Of Senators................................................. 32, 34, 236

                Congress not to interfere as to place of choosing

                    Senators..........................................    42

                Vice President votes in case of tie in cases of

                    contest in Senate.................................    36
    Of President of the United States and Vice President........... 149-153,

                                                                219-223, 249

                Of electors of President and Vice President...........   151

                No person to be elected President more than twice.....   249

                Power of Congress to provide for special, for

                    President.........................................   155

                Majority of electors required to choose a President of

                    the United States.................................   221

                Qualifications of electors of President as to loyalty.   230

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  677a
    Election of President by House in certain cases................. 221-223
    Election of Vice President by Senate in certain cases........... 221-223

                Congress to provide for case wherein death occurs

                    among those from whom House and Senate choose

                    President and Vice President respectively.........   246
    Electoral count.

            Constitutional provision for........................... 219, 220

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.................. 677a, 677e
    Electoral votes.

    [[Page 1220]]

    Electors.
            Transmittal and count of..................................   220

            Of President, appointment and numbers of............... 151, 250

            Of President, qualifications of loyalty...................   226

            Of President, voting of, and count of the votes...........   219

            Of Senators, qualifications of......................... 236, 238

            Qualifications of Electors............................. 151, 152
    Electronic equipment and form of publication.

            Committee publications available in electronic form.......  706c

            Personal, electronic office equipment forbidden in Chamber   763

            Voting and quorum calls by........................... 771b, 774b
    Emancipation.

            Of slaves, no compensation for............................   232
    Emoluments.

            Conditions on acceptance of, by officers..................   144

            Of civil office under United States, increase of during

                term bars Senators and Representatives................    96
    Employees.

            Admission of, to the floor............................. 919-921b

            Appointed by officers of the House........................   635

            Application of employment laws to legislative branch see,

                Congressional accountability.

            Clerk formerly disbursed pay of...........................   642

            Code of conduct for.......................................   939

            Compensation, retirement, and benefits, jurisdiction over.  677a

            Sergeant-at-Arms responsible for conduct of his...........  650a

            Drug testing of, see Drug testing.

            Duties of Committee on House Oversight as to..............  677a

            Former rule on fair employment practices..................  946b

            Former, admission of to floor.......................... 919, 921

            Non-discrimination in relation to........................... 939

            Of committees, see Committee staffs.

            Of House, relations to claims.............................   937

            Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions by..  921c

            To be assigned only to duties for which they are appointed   635
    Enacting words, striking out.

            Rule relating to motion...................................   875

            Practice as to use of motion..............................  876a
    Enemies.

            Treason to consist in adhering to or aiding...............   181

            Aid or comfort to those of the United States..............   232
    Energy and Commerce, Committee on.  See Commerce, Committee on.
    Energy matters.  See also Nuclear energy.

            Jurisdiction over.
    Coastal zone management........................................ 681, 686

    [[Page 1221]]

                Commercial application of energy technology...........   674

                Conservation of energy resources......................   674

                Energy information generally..........................   674

                Energy research and development.......................   683

                Interstate energy compacts............................   674

                Interstate transmission of power......................   674

                Mineral resources of public lands and mining..........   681

                National energy policy generally......................   674

                Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves................   680

                Water power...........................................   686

            Expedited procedures.
    Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act.......................... 1013(19)
    Crude oil transportation systems............................... 1013(20)
    Energy Policy and Conservation Act............................. 1013(14)
    Extensions of emergency energy authorities..................... 1013(15)
    Nuclear Waste Policy Act....................................... 1013(25)
    Engagements.

            Validity of those entered into before adoption of

                Constitution..........................................   194
    Engrossment.

            Of a bill, question on, and procedure.................. 830, 832

            Properly done after a bill is amended.....................   428

            Reading in full not required........................... 830, 832

            Test of strength on.......................................   429

            Endorsement of the title on an engrossed bill.............   431
    Enrolled bills.

            As to raising a question of privilege over delay of, in

                reaching the President................................   572

            As to signing of, by Speaker pro tempore..................  634a

            Authority of pro tempore presiding officers to sign

                enrolled bills........................................   576

            Committee on House Oversight, duties in connection with... 677c,

                                                                        697b

            Conditions of signing by the Speaker................... 624, 625

            Parliamentary law as to enrollment........................   573

            Practice of the two Houses of Congress as to enrollment...   574

            Presentation of, to the President.........................   577

            Privileged reports relative to............................   726

            Report as to accuracy.....................................   625

            Signing of, for presentation to the President.............   575

            Signature vacated.........................................   625
    Enrolling clerk.

            To make no changes in text of a bill......................   573
    Entry.

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    Enumeration.
            Of yeas and nays on Journal...............................    75

            Of people for apportionment...............................    15

            Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to..........   140
    Environmental research and development.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   683
    Equal protection.

            Of law, guaranteed........................................   225
    Equity.

            Judicial power extends to all cases of....................   178

            Limitation of judicial power in suits of..................   218
    Equivalent questions.  See Question.
    Errors.

            Cancellation of signatures of an enrolled bill for..... 575, 625

            Correction of, in enrollment of a bill....................   573

            Correction of, in messages................................   565

            Correction of, in reference of a bill to a calender.......   742

            Correction of, in reference of bills, petitions........ 853, 854

            Correction of, in reference of bills from Speaker's table

                                                                    882, 883

            Correction of, in the Journal by a committee..............   583

            In a yea-and-nay vote.....................................   766

            In bills sent to the President............................   110

            In former vote by tellers.................................  630b

            Questions of privilege affect integrity of proceedings....   661

            Rectifying of, after report by tellers....................   503

            Use of joint resolutions to correct bills sent to the

                President.............................................   518
    Establishment.

            Of religion, Congress to make no law respecting...........   208
    Estimates.

            Of appropriations, transmission of, to Congress...........   936
    Ethics.

            Code of Official Conduct..................................   939

            Committee on Standards of Official Conduct see, Standards

                of Official Conduct, Committee on.

            Financial disclosure......................................   940

            Former Select Committee on................................  685b

            Unofficial office accounts prohibited.....................   941

            Limitations on use of frank...............................   942

            Limitations on outside earned income......................   943

            Sanctions for ethical violations...........................62-66
    Evidence.

            Methods of taking, by the House and committees.... 341-348, 711,

                                                                         712

            Duties of committee clerks as to..........................   932
    Ex-Members.  See Former Members.
    Ex post facto law.

    [[Page 1223]]

            None to be passed.........................................   139

            States not to pass........................................   146
    Examination.

            Of Members at bar of the House and before committees......   346

            Of witnesses before committees and at the bar of the House  343,

                                                               344, 711, 712

            Of witnesses in an impeachment............................   614

            Admission of counsel in................................ 348, 712
    Exceptions.

            Power of Congress to make, as to jurisdiction of Supreme

                Court.................................................   179
    Excessive bail.

            Not to be required........................................   215
    Excessive fines.

            Not to be imposed.........................................   215
    Excises.

            Power of Congress to lay and collect......................   117

            To be uniform.............................................   117
    Exclusion.

            Of certain private bills..................................   852

            Of commemoratives.........................................   852

            Of Member for holding incompatible offices................   101

            Of Member-elect for disqualification.................... 12, 205

            Of petitions, bills for cause......................... 849a, 853
    Excuses.  See also Absence.

            For absence at call of the House..........................   769

            Members to be present unless excused......................   656

            Requests for leave of absence.............................   657
    Executive.  See President or Executive departments.
    Executive communications.

            Transmission to House.....................................   936

            Reference of...................................... 700, 882, 883
    Executive departments and agencies.

            Appropriations Committee to study organization and

                operation of..........................................  692a

            Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers

                in heads of...........................................   166

            Congressional review of agency rulemaking.............. 1013(34)

            Gallery for use of heads of...............................   922

            Heads of, admitted to the floor of the House..............   919

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to reorganization of.....   676

            No employees of, detailed to committee may be employed on

                professional staff except under certain conditions....   737

            Of Government, power of Congress to legislate as to.......   136

            Title 5, U.S.C. 3101; authority to authorize appropriation

    [[Page 1224]]

                for salary of clerks..................................   837

            Reference of papers from............................... 882, 883

            Resolutions of inquiry of............................... 855-859

            President may require opinions from officers of...........   161

            Privilege of, as to papers from files.....................   933

            Expenditures in, jurisdiction as to.......................   676
    Executive expenses.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a
    Executive of State.

            May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189

            Power to demand fugitives from justice....................   185
    Executive officers.

            Bound by oath to support the Constitution.................   196
    Executive power.

            Vested in the President...................................   149
    Exhibits.

            Use of in debate.................................. 622, 915, 916
    Expenditures.

            Of public money, account to be published..................   143
    Experiment stations.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   670
    Explanation.

            Of Member called to order in debate..................... 760-761

            Personal, made by unanimous consent.......................   749
    Export controls.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   678
    Export duties.

            Forbidden.................................................   141

            Limitation of right of State to lay duties on exports.....   147
    Expulsion.

            Power of the two Houses to punish by................. 62, 64, 65

            Course of Member when subject to debate as to.............   375

            Of a Delegate, question as to.............................   740

            Of Member-elect before taking the oath....................   300
    Expunging.

            Of entries of Journal.....................................    71
    Extradition.

            Of fugitives from justice in any State....................   185
    Extraordinary occasions.

            Power of President to convene Congress on.................   171
    Fact.

            Privilege of the Speaker to speak as to...................   358

            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court as to.......................   179
    Former rule on fair employment practices and application of certain

        laws.

    [[Page 1225]]

    Faith.
            History of former rules...................................  946b

            For public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of a

                State in other States.................................   183
    Falsehood.

            Not to be charged on Members in debate....................   363
    Fame, common.

            As foundation for investigation...........................   341

            As a ground for impeachment...............................   605
    Farm Credit Administration.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   670
    Farm security.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   670
    Federal mandates

            Statements for conference reports relating to........ 911a, 1007

            Committee reports must contain effect of accompanying

                measures on.......................... 703d, 713h, 748c, 1007

            Effective date of Unfunded Mandates Reform Act............  1007

            Motion to strike..........................................  873c

            Question of consideration to dispose of points of order

                raised under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

                                                                  781a, 1007

            Rules Committee activity report to include waivers

                relating to...................................... 703d, 1007

            Rules Committee may not waive certain points of order

                under Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995............  1007
    Felony.

            Conviction of Member for, non-participation in committee

                and House business....................................   939

            Senators and Representatives not privileged from arrests

                for...................................................90, 91

            Relation of privilege to cases of...................... 305, 306

            Congress to punish, on the high seas......................   126

            Extradition for...........................................   185
    Files.

            Custody of committee papers........................... 706c, 932

            Withdrawal of papers from.................................   933
    Financial audits.

            By Inspector General......................................   654

            House Officers to cooperate in performance of....... 647e, 650c,

                                                                        651c

            Of House and joint entities...............................   654
    Financial disclosure.

            By Members, officers, principal assistants and committee

                professional staff....................................   940

            Ethics in Government Act..................................   940

            Financial audits of House and joint entities..............   654
    Fines.

            Excessive, not to be imposed..............................   215

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    First reading.
            As condition of discharging Member arrested for absence...    55

            Of bills, by title..................................... 830, 831

            Of a bill, obsolete requirement as to.....................   399
    Fisheries.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   681

            Marine Fisheries Conservation Act, expedited procedures

                under.............................................. 1013(23)
    Five-minute rule.

            Applicability to committee hearings.......................   711

            Closing of debate under...................................   874

            Former rule proscribing committee sittings during...... 324, 710

            Debate must be on the subject.............................   752

            Debate on motion to dispense with Calendar Wednesday......   897

            Debate on amendments submitted in advance and printed in

                Record................................................   874

            Debate on appeal in Committee of the Whole................   628

            Reading and amendment of bills under......................   872

            Pro forma amendments......................................  873a
    Fix the day and hour, motion to.

            To which the House shall adjourn, conditions of........ 782, 784
    Flag.

            Jurisdiction of, subject of...............................  679b

            Pledge of Allegiance......................................   878
    Flood control.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686
    Floor, Hall of House.

            Abuse of privilege of.....................................   920

            Admission of representative of press and radio to.... 930a, 930b

            Admission when the House is not sitting...................  921a

            Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions on..  650a

            Decorum of Members on, see Decorum.

            Duty of Sergeant-at-Arms to clear of nonprivileged persons  650a

            Electoral count held in...................................   220

            Exhibits, use of, see Exhibits.

            Persons and officials admitted during sessions of the

                House....................................... 919, 921a, 921b

            Sergeant-at-Arms enforces rules relating to privilege of..  650a

            Speaker preserves order on............................. 331, 622

            Use of....................................................   918

            Yielding of, in debate, see Debate.
    Food programs for children in schools.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   675
    Forces.

            Conditions to make rules for land and naval...............   131

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    Foreign affairs.
            Land or naval, trial for crimes in........................   212

            Arms control and disarmament Act, expedited procedures

                under.............................................. 1013(12)

            Arms Export Control Act, expedited procedures under.... 1013(17)

            Assistance to drug-transit countries................... 1013(26)

            Authorization for population planning.................. 1013(31)

            International commodity agreements, jurisdiction over.....   678

            International economic policy, jurisdiction over..........   678

            International education, jurisdiction over................   678

            International financial and monetary organizations,

                jurisdiction over.................................. 672, 693

            International fishing agreements, jurisdiction over.... 681, 693

            International fishing agreements, expedited procedures

                with respect to.................................... 1013(23)

            International waters, jurisdiction over...................   678

            Limitation on loans to foreign entities................ 1013(32)

            Non-proliferation and nuclear export agreements... 678, 1013(10)

            President's relations to..................................   165

            Termination of Cuban Economic Embargo.................. 1013(33)
    Foreign Affairs, Committee on.  See International Relations, Committee

        on.
    Foreign coin.

            Congress to regulate value of.............................   121
    Foreign gifts and decorations.

            Constitutional prohibition................................   144

            House rules regarding................................ 679d, 946a

            Law regulating acceptance.................................   145
    Foreign ministers.

            Admitted to the floor of the House........................   919

            Gallery for use of........................................   922
    Foreign nations.

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting certain.........   178

            Limitations on suits of subjects of, against..............   218

            Power of Congress to regulate commerce with...............   119

            States not to make engagements with, except on conditions.   148

            Titles, gifts from.............................. 144, 679d, 946a
    Forest reserves.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to...................... 670, 681
    Forestry.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   670
    Forfeiture.

            In cases of, treason......................................   182
    Form of government.

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    Former Members, admission to floor.  See Floor.
    Forms.
            Republican, guaranteed to the State.......................   189

            Of putting question:

                For viva voce vote....................................   629

                On question of consideration..........................   778

                On engrossment and third reading of a bill............   830

                On the passage of a bill..............................   499

            Of resolutions:

                Of inquiry............................................   856

            Of reports:
    From Committee of the Whole.................................... 333, 334

            Of salutation of reception of messages....................   564

            Of going into Committee of the Whole......................   328

            Of oath of Members........................................   197
    ``Forthwith.''

            Reference with instructions to report.....................   788
    Forts.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
    Forty minutes' debate.

            After previous question is ordered without debate...... 805, 907

            On motion to reject non-germane Senate amendment..........  913c

            On motion to suspend the rules............................   907

            On non-germane provisions in conference report............  913b

            Recognition in............................................   756
    Fourteen days.

            Discharge of resolutions of inquiry..................... 855-858
    Franking privilege.

            House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards.......   987

            Limitation on use of......................................   942
    Fraud.

            In introduction of a bill.................................   851
    Free conference.

            Parliamentary law as to...................................   539

            In modern practice........................................   540

            Usage as to...............................................   557
    Freedom.

            Of religion, speech, the press, and right of assembly and

                petition..............................................   208
    Freedmen's Hospital.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   675
    Fugitives.

            From justice, extradition of..............................   185

            From service or labor, return of..........................   186
    Gallaudet College.

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    Galleries.
            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   675

            As to right to demand clearing of.........................   382

            Distribution, admission and control of....................   922

            Members may not introduce occupants in, to House..........   764

            Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to Order in  861a

            Speaker may order, to be cleared..........................   622

            The Press Gallery.........................................  930a

            The Radio/TV Gallery......................................  930b
    General Accounting Office, assistance to committees...............   989
    General appropriation bills.  See Appropriations.
    General Counsel.

            Office of.................................................  634e
    General debate.  See Debate.
    General revenue sharing.

            Jurisdiction over.........................................   676
    General Services Administrator.

            Bills that become law deposited with................... 105, 109

            Noncurrent records deposited with by clerk................   932
    General welfare.

            Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
    Geological survey.

            Jurisdiction of legislation relating to...................   681
    Germane.

            Amendments required to be germane.........................   794

            Amendment being considered, which would have been subject

                to a point of order, may be perfected by amendments

                germane to it.........................................   842

            Amendments imposing conditions, qualifications, and

                limitations...........................................   800

            Amendments to bills amending existing law.................   799

            Burden of proof as to germaneness.........................   794

            Committee jurisdiction as test of germaneness.............  798c

            Fundamental purpose as test of germaneness................  798b

            A general provision not germane to a specific subject.....  798f

            Instructions to committees and amendments thereto must be

                germane...............................................   796

            One individual proposition not germane to another.........  798e

            Parliamentary law as to germaneness.......................   467

            Proposition to which amendment must be germane............   795

            Senate amendments and matter contained in conference

                reports, separate vote if not germane....... 797, 913b, 913c

            Specific subjects germane to general propositions of the

                class.................................................  798g

            Subject matter as test of germaneness.....................  798a

            Various tests of germaneness are not exclusive............  798d
    Gifts

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            Acceptance of by House Oversight Committee................  697d

            Foreign...................................................   144

            Gift rule.................................................  946a
    Government.

            Economy and efficiency in, jurisdiction over..............   676

            Intergovernmental relationships, jurisdiction over........   676

            Republican form of, guaranteed to the States..............   189

            Right of people to petition...............................   208
    Government Operations, Committee on.  See Government Reform and

        Oversight, Committee on.
    Government Reform and Oversight, Committee on.

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   676

            General oversight functions of........................ 692b, 696

            Oversight findings of to be included in reports of other

                committees............................................  713e

            Responsibility as to commemoratives.......................   852
    Government, seat of.

            Power of President to convene Congress at another place...   171

            Power of Congress to legislate for........................   134
    Governors of States.

            Admitted to the floor of the House........................   919

            Fill certain vacancies in Senate..........................    34

            Issue writs to fill vacancies in representation...........17, 24

            May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189

            Power to demand fugitives from justice....................   185
    Grand Jury.

            Indictment by, as related to trial for crime..............   212
    Grants.

            Of land, judicial power extends to cases affecting certain   178
    Grievances.

            Right of people to petition for redress of................   208
    Grounds.

            Jurisdiction as to occupied or improved...................   686
    Guam.

            Delegate from, powers and privileges of, see Delegates.
    Habeas corpus.

            Suspension of writ of.....................................   138
    Hall of the House.  See Floor, Hall of House.

            The various galleries and admission thereto, see

                Galleries.
    Harbors.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to the improvement of...   686
    Hatch Act.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   676
    Hats.

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    Heads of departments.  See also Departments.
            Not to be worn by Members in the House................. 377, 763

            Admitted to the floor of the House........................   919

            Congress may vest appointment of certain inferior officers

                in....................................................   166

            Gallery for use of Cabinet................................   922

            Rule for reference of papers from...................... 882, 883
    Health.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to generally...........   674

            Care and facilities supported by general revenues,

                jurisdiction over.....................................   674

            Care supported by payroll deductions, jurisdiction over...   688

            Biomedical research and development, jurisdiction over....   674

            Public health and quarantine, jurisdiction over...........   674

            Veterans' health care, jurisdiction over..................   687

            Human nutrition, jurisdiction over........................   670
    Hearings.

            Exclusion of Members and public from......................   708

            Five-minute rule when examining witnesses in..............   711

            On appropriation bills hearings and reports to be

                available 3 days in advance of consideration..........   848

            Rules to be adhered to in........................ 694b, 708, 712
    High crimes and misdemeanors.

            Impeachable offenses......................................   173

            As to what are......................................... 175, 176
    High seas.

            Punishment of piracies and felonies on....................   126
    Hissing.

            Not in order during debate................................   364
    Historian

            Office of House...........................................  634d
    Holidays and celebrations.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   676
    Holman rule.

            Decisions under Holman rule (in brief)....................  844a
    Homes, soldiers'.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Honorarium.

            Limitations on.................................... 939, 940, 943
    Hour of meeting.

            Speaker takes Chair at....................................   621

            Fixed at 12 m until 95th Congress.........................   621

            Standing order as to, expires with the session............   386

            Jurisdiction of orders as to daily........................  682a

            Motion to fix.......................................... 782, 784
    Hour rule.

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    House Oversight, Committee on.
            Of debate.................................................   758

            Allowances of Members and committees, authority to adjust

                                                                      86, 88

            Approval of reserve fund for committee expenses...........  732a

            Availability for one day of reports on committee expense

                resolutions............................... 716, 732b, 732c-1

            Chairman and four members serve on Joint Committee on the

                Library...............................................   985

            Chairman and four members serve on Joint Committee on

                Printing..............................................   986

            Details to committees from government agencies permitted

                by....................................................   737

            Duty as to acceptance of gifts............................  679d

            Duty as to approval of certain employment settlements.....  679e

            Duty as to relations of officers and employees to claims..   937

            Duty as to direction of officers..........................  697c

            Duty as to enrolled bills.................................  697b

            Duty as to termination of LSOs........................ 88a, 697c

            Former Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight...........   693

            History, jurisdiction, and duties of.................. 677a, 697

            Oversight responsibilities................................  692b

            Privileged reports from...................................   726

            Reports on committee expense resolutions............. 732a, 732b

            Reports on election cases.................................   726

            Responsibilities relating to committee staff.......... 734b, 737
    House as in Committee of the Whole.

            Procedure in............................................ 424-427

            Procedure in generally applicable to House committees...... 407,

                                                                        704b
    House Calendar.

            Certain bills placed on, to await action of House.........   742

            Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday................   897

            Bills on, considered during ``Morning Hour''..............   889

            Bills from, on Corrections Calendar.......................  745a
    House Recording Studio.  See Recording Studio.
    House of Representatives.

            Part of Congress..........................................     3

            Accounts, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............  677a

            Assignment of rooms in office buildings...................   988

            Attendance of, at an impeachment trial....................   617

            Authority as to treaties................................ 594-599

            Bicentennial, Office of...................................  634d

            Bills for raising revenue to originate in................... 102

            Choice of President by................................. 221, 222

            Chooses Speaker and other officers................... 26-30, 635

            Composed of Members chosen by people......................   5-7

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            Confirms nomination of Vice President.....................   253

            Contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House), leave

                to report on expenditures at any time.................   726

            Contingent fund (applicable accounts of the House),

                jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  677a

            Door of, kept by Sergeant-at-Arms..................... 380, 650a

            Early organization of.....................................   997

            Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..............   219

            Employment of persons, jurisdiction of matters relating to  677a

            Has power of impeachment..................................    31

            Historian for.............................................  634d

            Indecent language against, not permitted in debate........   360

            Its power to make rules................................... 58-60

            Leadership, compensation and emoluments of................86, 89

            Library, jurisdiction of matters relating to..............  677a

            May it prescribe qualifications of Members?...............    12

            Meets at 12 m.............................................6, 621

            Members, see Members.

            Officers, see Officers.

            Power of President to convene or adjourn..................   171

            Power to punish and expel its Members..................... 62-66

            Questions of privilege affecting........................ 661-668

            Required to keep a Journal................................    68

            Rules, see Rules.

            Services, jurisdiction of matters relating to.............  677a

            Use of Hall of............................................   918

            Vacancies in.............................................. 17-25
    House office buildings.

            Administration of, jurisdiction of matters relating to....  677a

            Assignment of rooms in....................................   988

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   686
    House restaurant.  See Restaurant.
    Houses.

            Of Congress.

            Provisions of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946

                applicable to both.................................. 947-949

                Bill from one laid on the table in the other..........   520

                Communicate fact of rejection of a bill...............   568

                Complaint by one House of conduct of a Member of the

                    other.............................................   373

                Debate and proceedings in the other House not to be

                    noticed in debate.................................   371

                Duty of the Speaker to prevent expressions offensive

                    to the other House................................   374

                Do not communicate votes by which bills are passed....   567

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                Each judge of elections...............................    46

                Information transmitted as to bills...................   520

                Messages between to be sent only when both are sitting   570

                Messages from the President usually sent to both at

                    once..............................................   571

                Neither should encroach on the other..................   308

                Procedure when an inquiry in one, implicates a Member

                    of the other......................................   323

                Procuring attendance of witness in custody of other

                    House.............................................   345

                Questions asked by committee, not by message..........   569

                Questions as to perogatives committed to conference...   531

                Relations of, as to summoning Members or officers as

                    witnesses.........................................   292

                Right of each, to inspect Journal of the other........   582

                The other House and its Members not to be criticized

                    in debate.........................................   372

            Private.

                Security of, as to searches and seizures..............   211

                As to quartering of soldiers in.......................   210
    Housing.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to public and private....   672
    Howard University.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   675
    Immigration.

            Power of Congress over....................................   137
    Immigration and naturalization.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relative to......................  679a
    Immunities.

            Of citizens not to be abridged............................   225

            Of citizens in States other than their own................   184

            Of witnesses before committees............................   343
    Impeachment.

            Civil officers removable by...............................   173

            As to who is a civil officer..............................   174

            Nature of impeachable offenses............................   175

            Later impeachment inquiries...............................   176

            Cases of, not to be tried by jury.........................   180

            House has sole power of...................................    31

            Senate alone tries........................................    38

            Conviction by two-thirds only.............................    38

            Judgment in cases of......................................    41

            President not to pardon in cases of.......................   162

            Jurisdiction of Lords and Commons as to...................   601

            Parliamentary law as to accusation in.....................   602

            Inception of proceedings in the House of Representatives..   603

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            A proposition to impeach a question of privilege..........   604

            Investigation of charges..................................   605

            Procedure of committee in investigating...................   606

            Common fame as ground for investigation with view to......   341

            Carried to the Senate.....................................   607

            The writ of summons for appearance of respondent..........   608

            Exhibition and form of articles...........................   609

            Parliamentary law as to appearance of respondent..........   610

            Requirements of the Senate as to appearance of respondent.   611

            Answer of respondent......................................   612

            Other pleadings...........................................   613

            Examination of witnesses..................................   614

            Attendance of the Commons.................................   616

            Attendance of the House of Representatives................   617

            Voting on the articles in the trial.......................   618

            Judgment in...............................................   619

            Not interrupted by adjournments...........................   620

            Continued before the Senate from session to session.......   592
    Importation.

            Of persons, power of Congress over........................   137

            Of intoxicating liquors...................................   248
    Imports.

            Limitation of right of States to lay duties on............   147
    Imposts.

            Power of Congress to lay and collect......................   117

            To be uniform.............................................   117

            Limitations on rights of States to lay....................   147

            Net results of, to go to Treasury of United States........   147
    Impoundment.

            Control Act of 1974.................................... 1013(6a)

            Impoundment resolutions, definitions and procedures for

                consideration of................................... 1013(6a)

            Deferral of appropriations, jurisdiction over........ 671a, 671b
    Imprisonment.

            Of person who assaulted a Member..........................    91

            As to termination of an order of..........................   386
    Inability.

            Of President or Vice President of United States... 155, 254, 255

            Of  President-elect  or  Vice President-elect  of  the

                United States.........................................   244
    Inauguration.

            Ceremonies of.............................................   159

            Joint Committee on........................................  986a

            Of President when day falls on Sunday.....................   150
    Income.

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    Incompatible offices.
            Limitation on outside earned..............................   943

            Relation of Members to................................... 97-101

            As to what are............................................    98

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  679a
    Indefinite postponement.

            Use of the motion for.....................................   443
    Index.

            Of the Journal, Clerk to make.............................   641
    Indians.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to................... 675, 681

            Authority of House as to Indian treaties..................   598

            Power of Congress to regulate commerce with...............   119

            Excluded from basis of representation where not taxed.....   226
    Indictment.

            Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...............   212

            As related to impeachment.................................    41
    Informal rising.

            Of Committee of the Whole to receive a message............   330
    Information.

            Classified, oath not to disclose..........................   939

            To be given to Congress by the President............... 169, 170
    Inhabitancy.

            As qualification of a Member..............................    11

            As qualification of a Senator.............................    35

            As qualification of the President of the United States....   154

            As modifying the vote of presidential electors............   219

            As a condition of citizenship in the United States and the

                States................................................   225
    Inland waterways.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   686
    Inquiry.

            Resolution of.

                As related to the Executive...........................   859

                Discharge of committee from...........................   858

                Form and delivery of..................................   856

                Privileged status of..................................   857

                Rule relating to......................................   855

            For an investigation. See Investigations.
    Procedure when it involves a Member or a Senator................ 321-323

            Parliamentary.

                No appeal from responses to...........................   628
    Insert, motion to.

            Effect of affirmative vote on motion to strike out and....   473

            Matter to be inserted divisible...........................   792

            Perfecting before voting on...............................   469

    [[Page 1237]]

            Putting question to strike out and........................   470

            Repetition of the motion to strike out and................   471

            To strike out and insert not divisible....................   792
    Insist, motion to.

            Effect of, on stage of disagreement.......................  828b

            Insisting and adhering in the practice of the House........ 522,

                                                                    528-528d

            Not equivalent of receding or adhering when decided in the

                negative..............................................   488

            On nongermane matter in conference reports and amendments

                in disagreement.................................. 913b, 913c

            On amendments in disagreement on appropriation bills

                containing legislation................................  912c

            Parliamentary principles as to disagreeing, insisting, and

                adhering..............................................   521

            Precedence of................... 486, 528-528d, 912c, 913b, 913c
    Inspection laws.

            Rights of States to levy duties or imposts, to execute....   147
    Inspector General.

            Office of.................................................   654
    Instructions.

            As related to motion to refer.............................   788

            Debate on motion to recommit with.........................   782

            Formal motion instructing committee to report a bill......   908

            Duty of a committee when a report is recommitted with.....   420

            In order with motion to commit after previous question is

                moved.................................................   804

            Method of dividing a bill by motion to recommit with......   476

            Minority has prior right to recognition...................   541

            Motions for instructions, offering of.....................   541

            Practice as to, in conferences......................... 541, 557

            Speaker does not usually decide as to whether or not

                committees have followed..............................   627

            To limit freedom of a conference..........................   540
    Insular affairs.

            Jurisdiction of revenue matters...........................   688

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...........   681
    Insult.

            Member censured for, to the House.........................    63

            Bills or petitions excluded for being insulting........ 849, 853
    Insurrection.

            Suppression of............................................   132

            Debts incurred in suppressing, not to be questioned.......   232

            Debts incurred in aid of, not to be paid..................   232

    [[Page 1238]]

    Intelligence, Permanent Select Committee on.
            Participation in, as a disqualification for office........   230

            History and jurisdiction of...............................  944a

            Procedures for disclosure of classified information... 939, 944a
    Interest.

            Disqualifying personal, as to voting.............. 376, 657, 658
    Intergovernmental cooperation, jurisdiction over..................   676
    Internal Revenue Taxation, Joint Committee on.....................   984
    Internal security.

            Jurisdiction over.........................................  679b
    International Relations, Committee on.

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   678

            Special oversight functions of............................   693

            Reports private bills.....................................   845
    Interoceanic canals.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Interruptions.

            Procedure as to, during debate............................   364

            Member having the floor not to be interrupted by motions..   750

            Of Member having the floor in debate......................   749

            Of Member having the floor, by a call to order............   393

            Of business or debate, by conference report...............   909

            Of a roll call............................................   767

            Of roll call by recess not permitted......................   586

            Of the call of committees.................................   890
    Interstate commerce.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   674
    Interstate Commerce Commission, jurisdiction over.................   686
    Interstate compacts.

            Jurisdiction of, generally................................  679a

            Jurisdiction of interstate, relating to apportionment of

                waters for irrigation purposes........................   681

            Jurisdiction of, over interstate energy...................   674
    Intervening questions.

            Certain privileged, to interrupt the order of business..... 879,

                                                                         881

            Of order..................................................   457

            Precedence of questions of privilege......... 458, 661, 664a-666

            Private business in the order of business on Tuesday......   893

            Privilege of conference reports...........................   909

            Questions as to reading of papers.........................   459
    Intoxicating liquors.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to interstate commerce in..  679a

            Jurisdiction as to sale of, in District of Columbia.......   676

            Transportation and importation under the 21st amendment...   248
    Introducer.

    [[Page 1239]]

            Right of, to speak twice..................................   762

            Right of, to close debate on amendment considered under

                five-minute rule......................................   762
    Introduction of bills.  See Bills.
    Invasions.

            Repelling of..............................................   132

            States to be protected against............................   189

            Suspension of writ of habeas corpus for...................   138
    Inventors.

            Congress may provide for patents for......................   124
    Investigation.

            House's power of..........................................   295

            Admission of counsel................................... 348, 712

            Appropriations Committee studies organization and

                operation of Government agencies......................  692a

            By the House with a view to impeachment...................   606

            Common fame as a ground for...............................   341

            Earlier and later practice as to, inquiries at the bar of

                the House.............................................   344

            Examination of witnesses in House and committee... 343, 711, 712

            Examination of witnesses in an impeachment................   614

            Jurisdiction of resolutions ordering......................  682a

            Members as witnesses......................................   346

            Method of obtaining testimony of a Member of the other

                House.................................................   347

            Oversight investigations................................ 692-696

            Power of committees and subcommittees to make.............   718

            Production of witnesses at................................   342

            Procedure for executive session in committees.......... 708, 712

            Procedure when a Member or Senator is involved.......... 321-323

            Procuring attendance of a witness in custody of the other

                House.................................................   345

            Subpoenas may be issued by committees and subcommittees...   718

            Witnesses before committees making must file written

                statements of proposed testimony......................   712
    Involuntary servitude.

            Not to exist except for punishment for crime..............   224
    Irrigation and reclamation.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   681
    Island possessions.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   681
    Jefferson's Manual.

            As source of general parliamentary law....................    60

            Part of rules of House....................................   938

            Purposes and methods of preparation of (footnote).........   283

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    Jeopardy.
            Text of................................................. 283-620

            Of life and limb, not to occur twice......................   212
    Joint committees.

            Authorized by concurrent resolutions......................   396

            Conferences held by means of..............................   532

            Expiration of select......................................   419

            Economic..................................................   983

            Taxation..................................................   984

            Taxation, renders ``dynamic estimate'' on ``major'' tax

                legislation...........................................  748b

            Library...................................................   985

            Printing..................................................   986

            Quorum, chairman, and voting in...........................   325
    Joint resolutions.

            Nature and use of.........................................   397

            Clerk certifies to passage of.............................   642

            For amendments to Constitution, not approved by President.   115

            Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment or

                passage...............................................   792

            Signed by Speaker.........................................   624

            Use of, to correct an error in a bill sent to the

                President.............................................   518

            Used for abrogating treaties..............................   599

            Used for amendment to the Constitution....................   191
    Joint rules.

            Jurisdiction as to........................................  682a

            Abrogated............................................... 61, 316

            Reference to..............................................   938
    Joint sponsorship.

            Of public bills, resolutions, and memorials...............   854
    Journal.

            The official record.

                Clerk to print and distribute.........................   641

                House required to keep and publish....................    68

                Not to go out of Clerk's custody......................   352

                Secrecy of portions of................................    68
    The official record............................................. 69, 582

            Entries in.

                Record of proceedings only............................    70
    Clerk to note questions of order in............................ 627, 641

                Conditions under which reports are printed in.........   422

                Control of House over.................................    71

                Of amendments.........................................   580

                Of certain messages...................................   935

                Of conference reports.................................   542

                Of hour of adjournment................................   790

                Of introduction of bills, petitions, resolutions in...   849

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                Of Members noted to make a quorum.....................   772

                Of messages from President............................   884

                Of motions............................................   775

                Of motions (obsolete provisions as to)................   578

                Of motions to discharge committees....................   908

                Of names of absentees when quorum fails in Committee

                    of the Whole......................................   863

                Of names of Members appearing during call of the House   768

                Of President's objection to a vetoed bill.............   104
    Of questions and answers in, at examinations at the bar of the
    House.......................................................... 343, 344

                Of questions postponed or laid on the table...........   579

                Of record of votes....................................    72

                Of former recorded teller votes in Committee of the

                    Whole or in House.................................   630
    Of reference of public bills, memorials........................ 854, 860

                Of report of enrolled bills presented to the President   577

                Of titles of reported bills...........................   743

                Of votes in, in the House of Commons..................   581

                Of yeas and nays generally............................ 75-80

                Of yeas and nays on vetoed bill.......................   104
    Relations of, to presence of a quorum.......................... 55, 774c

                Words of censure......................................    63

            Reading of.

                For approval..........................................   621
    As related to quorum........................................... 55, 774c

                Business not transacted before........................   621

                Disorder during.......................................   621

                Interruption of.......................................   621
    Member sworn in before......................................... 201, 621

                Motion to adjourn before..............................   621

                Motion that, be read in full only upon rejection of

                    Speaker's approval................................   621

                Place in order of business............................   878

                Reading of, not interrupted by conference report......   909

                Reading of, may be interrupted by a question of

                    privilege.........................................   665

            Amendment and approval.
    Amendment of.................................................... 74, 621
    Approval of, by House........................................... 73, 621

                Correction of, through a committee....................   583

                Postponement of record vote on, approval of...........   631

                Preliminary approval by Speaker.......................   621
    Judge.

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    Judges.
            Each House judge of elections.............................    46

            Bound by Constitution and laws............................   195

            Of Supreme Court, President appoints......................   166

            Of Supreme Court, admitted to the floor...................   919

            Of Supreme Court, gallery for use of......................   922

            Tenure and compensation of................................   177

            As to impeachable offenses by........................... 174-176
    Judgment.

            In impeachments......................................... 41, 619
    Judicial expenses.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a
    Judicial officers.

            Bound by oath to support the Constitution.................   196
    Judicial power.

            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.............................   179

            Limitations of, in suits in law and equity................   218

            Scope of..................................................   178

            Vested in supreme and inferior courts.....................   177
    Judicial proceedings.

            States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to......   183

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Judiciary, Committee on the.

            History and jurisdiction of.......................... 679a, 679b

            Reports private claims bills.......................... 679a, 845

            Records transferred to from former Committee on Internal

                Security..............................................  679b
    Jurisdiction.

            Of committees of the House.

                Conferred by uncorrected error in reference of public

                    bill..............................................   854

                Not conferred by erroneous reference of private bill..   853

                Of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.....  944a

                Referrals to assure each committee opportunity to

                    report on subjects within.........................   700

            Of the standing committees, severally.

                Agriculture...........................................   670

                Appropriations........................................   671

                Banking and Financial Services........................   672

                Budget................................................   673

                Commerce..............................................   674

                District of Columbia, former Committee on.............   676

                Education and the Workforce...........................   675

                Government Reform and Oversight.......................   676

                House Oversight.......................................   677

                International Relations...............................   678

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    Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on... 680, 681, 683, 686
                Judiciary..... .................................. 679a, 679b

                National Security.....................................   680

                Post Office and Civil Service, former Committee on....   676

                Resources.............................................   681

                Rules.................................................   682

                Science...............................................   683

                Small Business........................................   684

                Standards of Official Conduct.........................   685

                Transportation and Infrastructure.....................   686

                Veterans' Affairs.....................................   687

                Ways and Means........................................   688

            Of the United States.

                As related to citizenship.............................   225

                Slavery and involuntary servitude forbidden in places

                    under.............................................   224

            Of the Supreme Court.

                Original and appellate, of Supreme Court..............   179
    Jurors.

            All cases of crimes to be tried by, except in impeachments   180

            Grand, indictment by, as related to trial for crime.......   212

            Privilege of Members of Congress as to summons as...... 290, 291

            Privilege of members of Parliament as to summons as.......   287

            Relation of trial by, to impeachment......................   615

            Right to trial by, in criminal prosecutions...............   213

            Suits at common law tried by..............................   214
    Justice.

            An object of the Constitution.............................     1

            Extradition of fugitives from.............................   185
    Kings.

            Gifts, titles, to be accepted on conditions...............   144
    Labor.

            Return of fugitives from..................................   186

            Jurisdiction of regulation or prevention of importation of

                contract labor........................................   675

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to transportation labor..   686

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to, generally...........   675
    Land forces.

            Congress to make rules for................................   131
    Lands.

            Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, expedited

                procedures under................................... 1013(21)

            Federal Land Policy and Management Act, expedited

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                procedures under................................... 1013(22)

            Indian, jurisdiction as to................................   681

            Irrigation of, jurisdiction as to.........................   681

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting certain grants..   178

            Jurisdiction as to occupied or improved grounds...........   686

            Jurisdiction of private claims to...................... 679, 845

            Mineral, jurisdiction of matters relating to..............   681

            Public, jurisdiction of matters relating to...............   681
    Law.

            As related to legislative functions.

                As agency for prescribing qualifications..............    12

                As related to power of House to elect officers........29, 30
    Application of laws to legislative branch, see Congressional
    Accountability.

                Appropriations to be made by..........................   143

                Authority to administer oaths conferred by............    59

                Bill to be approved before becoming...................   104

                Civil and criminal, jurisdiction of subjects related

                    to................................................  679a

                Fixes compensation of Representatives and Senators....    86
    Meeting of Congress by.......................................... 45, 279

                Of Congress as related to power to judge elections....    51

                Of State as related to House's power of judging

                    elections......................................... 48-50

                Passed over veto by two-thirds........................   104

                Procedures contained in, for Congressional vetoes of

                    executive action..................................  1013
    Relation of, to power to determine rules.................. 59, 388, 1013

                Revision of, jurisdiction of subjects relating to.....  679a

                That of 1789 relating to administration of oath at

                    organization......................................   198

            Parliamentary.

                General, before adoption of rules.....................    60

                Jefferson's Manual as a statement of the parliamentary   284

                Relations of the parliamentary law to the early

                    practice of Congress..............................   285

            Making and execution of.

                Congress to provide for calling forth militia to

                    execute...........................................   132

                Power of Congress to make.............................   136

                President to see that laws are faithfully executed....   172

                When made in pursuance of the Constitution the supreme

                    law of the land...................................   195

            Relations of judicial power to.

                Congress may fix places for trial of certain crimes by   180

                Judicial power extends to all cases of................   178

                Jurisdiction of Supreme Court as to...................   179

                Jury trial for suits at common........................   214

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                Limitation of judicial power in suits of..............   218

                Of United States, judicial power extends to cases

                    arising under.....................................   178

                Rules of, in courts...................................   214

            Guarantees of liberty and property.

                Due process of, no person to be deprived of life,

                    liberty, or property without......................   212

                Due process of, no person to be deprived of life,

                    liberty, or property by a State without...........   225

                Equal protection of, guaranteed.......................   225

                Impairing obligations of contract, no State to pass...   146

                No ex post facto, to be passed........................   139

                States not to pass ex post facto......................   146

            In General.
    Application of laws to legislative branch, see Congressional
    Accountability.

                Certain, of States subject to revision and control of

                    Congress..........................................   147

                Of nations, offenses against..........................   126

                Punishment of, additional to impeachment..............    41

                Treaties abrogated by.................................   599
    Law Librarian, admitted to floor of the House.....................   919
    Law Revision Counsel.

            Office of, establishment and duties of....................   996
    Lay on the table, motion to.

            Conditions, precedence, and effect of.
    Precedence and general effect and conditions of................ 782, 785

                Conditions of, repetition of..........................   789

                Effect of, as to main question and secondary questions   785

                May intervene before Member in charge begins debate...   756

                Not debatable.........................................   782

                Not in order in Committee of the Whole................   785

                Older and modern use of...............................   445

            Relations to other motions.

                May be applied to other secondary motions.............   785

                Not in order after previous question is ordered.......   785

                Relations of, to motion to reconsider.................   818

                Relations of, to the previous question................   809

            Application of.

                Applicable to bills from the other House..............   519

                Applicable to preamble of a resolution................   414

                Applicable to vetoed bill.............................   108

                Applicable to Senate amendments.......................  528d

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    Leave to print.
                Not applied to a conference report....................   550

            In Congressional Record...................................   929
    Leave to report at any time.

            By certain committees on specific matters.................   726
    Leaves of absence.  See also Absence.

            Presentation of requests for..............................   657

            Revoked, but not granted during call of the House.........   769
    Legal tender.

            States restricted as to making............................   146
    Legislation.  See also Appropriation Bills.

            On general appropriation bills prohibited, See

                Appropriation Bills.

            Power of Congress as to District of Columbia and ceded

                places................................................   134

            Power of Congress to legislate to enforce the 13th, 14th,

                and 15th amendments of the Constitution...............  224,

                                                                    233, 234

            Territorial, revision of, jurisdiction as to..............   681
    Legislative call system...........................................   765
    Legislative Counsel.

            Office of.................................................   992
    Legislative day.

            Speaker takes Chair on each...............................   621

            Journal dated as of.......................................    69
    Legislative expenses.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a
    Legislative oversight.

            By standing committees.................................. 692-696
    Legislative powers.  See also Congress, powers of.

            Of Congress............................................ 117, 136

            Vested in Congress........................................     3
    Legislative service organizations.................................  88a.
    Legislative veto.

            Laws providing mechanisms for Congressional disapproval...  1013
    Legislatures of States.

            Function of, in prescribing times of elections of

                Representatives.......................................42, 43

            As related to qualifications of Electors..................     7

            Choose Senators (obsolete)................................    32

            Constitutional convention to be called on application of..   190

            In recess of, governor appoints Senator (obsolete)........    34

            May apply for protection against domestic violence........   189

            May empower state executive to make temporary appointment

                of Senator............................................   236

            Power as to joining or dividing of their States...........   187

            Direct manner of appointment of electors of President.....   151

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            Power of Congress over places purchased with consent of...   134

            Members of, bound by oath to support the Constitution.....   196

            Ratification of constitutional amendments by..............   190
    Letters of marque.

            And reprisal, Congress to grant...........................   127

            States not to grant.......................................   146
    Liberty.

            An object of the Constitution.............................     1

            No person to be deprived of it without due process of law.   212

            No State to deprive a person of, without due process of

                law...................................................   225
    Librarian.

            Preserves committee hearings..............................   949

            Of Congress, admitted to floor............................   919

            Assistant in Law Library admitted to floor of House.......   919
    Library.

            In general, see also Congressional Research Service.

                Of Congress, jurisdiction of Committee on House

                    Oversight as to...................................  677d

                Of Congress, jurisdiction of matters relating to

                    buildings and grounds.............................   686

                Of Clerk's office, certain books and documents to be

                    retained in.......................................   641

                Congressional Research Service established in.........   991

                Preserves committee hearings..........................   949

            Joint Committee on.

                Membership on.........................................   985
    Lie.

            Not to be charged against Member in debate................   363
    Life.

            No person to be deprived of it without due process of law.   212

            No State to deprive a person of, without due process of

                law...................................................   225

            Persons not to be put twice in jeopardy of................   212
    Lighthouses.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686
    Limit of cost.

            On public works...........................................   838
    Limitations.  See also Appropriation bills.

            On general appropriation bills............. 834b-834d, 843a-843c

            On outside earned income..................................   943

            On use of frank...........................................   942
    Line item veto authority.

            Presidential authority................................. 1013(6b)
    Lists.

            Presidential electors to make certain.....................   219
    Loans (foreign).

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    Lobby.
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to............. 678, 679a, 679b

            Speaker may order, to be cleared..........................   622

            Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole as to order in  861a
    Lobbying.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................  679b
    Lobbyists.

            Gifts from....................................... 939, 940, 946a
    Loss.

            Of slaves not to be compensated...........................   232

            Of a bill.................................................   352
    Loyalty.

            As related to the oath and qualifications.............. 205, 230

            Removal of disabilities as to.............................   231
    Mace.

            Symbol of Sergeant-at-Arms................................   650
    Magazines.

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
    Mail.

            Delivery of........................................... 654, 654a

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   676

            House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards.......   987
    Main question.

            Member who has spoken to, may speak to an amendment also..   762
    Majority.

            Required in elections.

                Necessary for election on ballot vote.................   934

                Of Senators for choice of a Vice President............   263

                President chosen by...................................   263
    Speaker elected by.............................................. 27, 312

            In procedure of the House.
    Constitutes quorum of a standing or select committee for certain
    actions............................................. 409, 708, 713c, 718

                Constitutes quorum of House...........................52, 53

                Decisions of the House reached by.....................   508

                May reconsider a vote ordering yeas and nays..........    79

                Questions as to priority of business decided by.......   900
    Required to send bill to conference on motion........ 827, 828a-1-828a-2

                Rules to be a restraint on............................   283

                Special requirements as to two-thirds vote............   509
    Managers of a conference.  See Conference.
    Manner of elections.

            Regulation of.............................................42, 43
    Manual, Jefferson's.  See Jefferson's Manual.
    Marine affairs.

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    Marine hospitals.
            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   681

            Jurisdiction as to........................................   674
    Maritime jurisdiction.

            Judicial power extends to cases of........................   178
    Marque, letters of.

            Congress to grant.........................................   127

            States not to grant.......................................   146
    Mass mailing.

            Franking of...............................................   942
    Measures.

            Congress to fix standard of...............................   121

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   683
    Meeting.

            Of Congress.
    Once every year................................................. 45, 242

                Laws appointing different day for.....................   243

                Power of President to convene.........................   171

                Other power to convene................................   171

                Time of...............................................     6

                Jurisdiction of bills to change date of...............  679a
    Duties of Clerk at organization of the House.................... 637-639
    Administration of the oath at organization...................... 198-204

            Of the House.

                Speaker takes Chair at hour of........................   621

                Standing order as to daily hour of, expires with the

                    session...........................................   386

                Jurisdiction of orders as to..........................  682a

            Of committees.
    Of committees............................................. 407, 705, 718
    Former rule proscribing committee sittings during five-minute rule

                                                                    324, 710

                Of managers of a conference...........................   548

                Of presidential electors in the several States........   262

                Power to sit and act inside United States.............   718

                When chairman refuses to call.........................   705
    Members.

            Election of. See Elections and Contested elections.

            Vacancies by death, resignation. See Vacancies.

            Qualifications of. See Qualifications.

            Relations of, to oaths. See Oath.

            Compensation, seats, rooms, clerks.
    Admission to floor of House. See Floor.

                Clerk to distribute certain documents to..............   641

                Clerk formerly kept stationery accounts of............   642

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                Clerk to furnish to, a list of certain reports........   640

                Committee on House Oversight may adjust certain

                    allowances........................................86, 88
    Compensation of.............................................. 85-88, 258

                Compensation may not vary until intervening Congress..   258

                Family and card galleries for use of..................   922
    Franking privilege............................................. 942, 987

                Jurisdiction over subjects related to.................  677a

                Jurisdiction over travel matters of...................  677a
    Mileage of, determined by a committee.......................... 85, 677a

                Non-discrimination in employment by...................   939

                Members' Representational Allowance...................    88

                Outside earned income of..............................   943

                Rooms of, in office building..........................   988

                Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed pay and mileage of   648

                Travel on official business, designation by Speaker...  634b

                Unofficial office allowances prohibited...............   941

            Privilege of.

                Questions of privilege affecting, defined by rule.....   661

                Arrest, privilege of Members from.....................90, 91

                Arrest, parliamentary law as to arrest of a Member....   307
    Attitude of the House as to demands of the courts.............. 291, 946

                Privilege of Members..................................   661

                Jefferson's discussion as to going and returning......   289

                Jefferson's discussion as to rights of courts to

                    summon as witnesses and jurors....................   290

                Jefferson's review of privilege of members of

                    Parliament........................................   287

                Members of Congress under the Constitution............   288

                Neither House to exercise authority over those of the

                    other.............................................   373

                Not to be questioned in another place for speech or

                    debate............................................92, 93

                Scope of privilege of speech and debate...............    93

                Parliamentary law as to questioning for speech or

                    debate............................................   302

                Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason,

                    felony............................................   305
    Power of the House to punish for attempts against.............. 293, 299

                Precedence of questions of personal privilege.........   661

                Privilege of, of Parliament...........................   287

                Raising questions of privilege........................   661

                Relations of, to privilege............................   301

                Relations of the courts to parliamentary privilege....   303

                Rule for responding to subpoenas......................   946

                Relations of sovereign to members of Parliament.......   309

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                Status of Member-elect as to..........................   300

            Attendance of.
    At committee meetings when House is in session...................... 710

                Count of, to secure a quorum of record................   772

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  679a

                Leaves of absence.....................................   657

                May be compelled to attend............................    52

                Names of absent, reported when quorum fails in

                    Committee of the Whole............................   863

                Required by rule to be present........................   656
    Secured by call of the House............................. 768, 773, 774b

            Decorum of. See Decorum.

            Drug testing of. See Drug testing.

            Introduction of bills and petitions by.

                Certain private bills banned..........................   852

                Commemoratives banned.................................   852

                Co-sponsorship........................................   854

                Duties of, in presenting petitions....................  849a
    Excluded bills, petitions, returned to........................ 849a, 853

                Introduction and reference of private bills, petitions

                    by................................................  849a

                Introduction of public bills, memorials by............   854

                Original signature of prime sponsor required..........   851

            In debate. See Debate.

            Right to seat.

                Leave to report matters relating to at any time.......   726

            Rights of, as to motion.
    Conditions of motion to reconsider by.......................... 812, 813

                In charge of bill, relations of, to previous question.   807

                Motions reduced to writing on demand of...............   775

                Rights of, as to motions to discharge committees......   908
    Rights of, as to motions to suspend the rules.................. 902, 905

                Rights to demand question of consideration............   778

            Rights to have papers read.

                Do not necessarily have a right to have papers read on

                    plea of privilege.................................   433
    Former rights of, as to reading of papers in their places..... 434, 916,

                                                                         917
    Right of, to have read once paper on which vote is to be taken..... 432,

                                                                         916

                But no right where question is not put................   433

            General rights as to procedure.

                As to right to attend a select committee..............   410

                As to right to attend committee hearing...............   708

                Impeachment may be instituted on responsibility of....   603
    May appeal from decisions of Speaker........................... 624, 628

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                May not enter protests on the Journal.................    70

                Right of, to cause a secret session...................   914

                Right of, as to calling up bills taken from committees

                    on motions to discharge...........................   908

                Rights of, as to placing adverse reports on the

                    calendar..........................................   744
    Rights of, to demand the execution of a subsisting order....... 381, 881

                Rights of, to inspect the Journal.....................   582

                Rights of, access to committee files..................  706c

            Voting of.

                Absent Members' votes not announced...................   658
    Change of vote by............................................. 766, 774b

                Control of vote by....................................   658
    Disqualifying personal interest........................... 376, 657, 659

                Former duty of, to serve as teller....................  630b

                Duty of, to verify vote cast by electronic device.....  774b

                Examination of, at hearing at the bar of the House and

                    before committees.................................   346

                May demand division of the question...................   791

                May demand count of Members to make quorum on record

                    vote..............................................   772

                May not authorize any other individual to cast his

                    vote or record his presence.......................  660b

                Method of calling on yea-and-nay vote.................   765

                Pairs of..............................................  660a

                Parliamentary law as to duty of, to vote..............   505

                Parliamentary law as to change of vote by.............   511

                Procuring attendance of, from the other House for

                    testimony.........................................   347

                Required to vote......................................   656

                Right of, to demand a division of House after vote by

                    voice.............................................   501

                Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as

                    dilatory..........................................    77

                When convicted of crime...............................   939
    When involved in the cause of an inquiry........................ 321-323
    When involved in the course of an inquiry....................... 321-323

                Yeas and nays of, taken on demand of one-fifth........    75

            In general.

                Memorial Day for deceased, jurisdiction of matters

                    relating to.......................................  677a

                Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions

                    in Hall of House..................................  921c
    Members-elect.

            Admitted to floor of the House............................   919

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            Election of, to an incompatible office....................    99

            Expulsion of..............................................    64

            Franking privilege........................................   987

            Oath of, as related to quorum.............................    56

            Questions as to seating under disabilities of fourteenth

                amendment.............................................   231

            Relations of, to incompatible offices.................... 98-101

            Status of, as to privilege, oath, committee service.......   300
    Memorials.

            Introduction and reference of.................... 700, 849a, 854

            Correction of reference of............................. 853, 854

            Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...............  849a

            Exclusion of..............................................   853

            Introduction by request...................................   860

            Nature of.................................................   389
    Merchant marine.

            Jurisdiction of, subjects relating to.................. 680, 686
    Merchant Marine and Fisheries, former Committee on.

            Former jurisdiction transferred.............. 680, 681, 683, 686
    Messages.

            Usages as to.

                As to neglected bills.................................   570

                At organization of two Houses.........................    56

                Between the Houses as to vetoed bills.................   106

                Certain, entered in Journal and Record................   935

                Certain required by law...............................   169

                Confidential, from the President or Senate............   914

                Correction and return of messages.....................   565

                Disposal of messages after reception..................   566
    From the Senate, reference of.................................. 882, 883

                From the Senate, Clerk may receive in adjournment.....   647

                Information by message as to bills passed.............   567

                Information by message as to rejection of bills.......   568
    Informal rising of Committee of the Whole, to receive.......... 330, 563

                Questions asked by conference, not by message.........   569

                Quorum not required during receipt of.................  774c

                Received during a roll call...........................   767

                Received, but not read in absence of quorum...........    55

                Received during debate................................   561

                Reception during voting, absence of a quorum..........   562

                Salutation of messengers by the Speaker...............   564

                Sent only when both Houses are sitting................   560

            Of the President.

                Clerk may receive in period of adjournment............  647a

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                To Congress................................... 168, 169, 571

                Notice of approval of bills by President sent by......   106

                Reception and action on...............................   170

                Reading and action on, when bill is vetoed............   107

                Entered on Journal and Record.........................   884
    Rule of reference of............................................ 882-884

                Reference and distribution of annual..................   884

                Ways and Means considers distribution of President's

                    annual (obsolete).................................   725
    Metric system.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   683
    Metropolitan Washington Airports Act.

            Expedited procedures under............................. 1013(28)
    Migration.

            Of persons, power of Congress as to.......................   137
    Mileage.

            Allowance of.

                Of Representatives....................................    86

                Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed...................   648

                Committee on House Oversight ascertains...............  677a
    Military academy.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Military affairs.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Military bases.

            Disapproval procedures relating to closures and

                realignments of.................................... 1013(27)
    Military and naval records.

            Bills to correct, banned..................................   852
    Military parks.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   681
    Military reservations.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Militia.

            Status of.

                Congress to provide for calling forth.................   132

                Congress to provide for organizing, arming, and

                    disciplining......................................   133

                Right to bear arms....................................   290

                President Commander in Chief of, in certain cases.....   160

                Trials for crimes in..................................   212
    Minerals.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   681
    Miners, welfare of.

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    Mines and mining.
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.................... 675, 681

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   681
    Ministers, public.

            Duty of President to receive..............................   172

            Foreign, admitted to the floor of the House...............   919

            Gallery for use of foreign................................   922

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting.................   178

            Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting..........   179

            President appoints........................................   166
    Minority.

            Committee staff for. See Committee staffs.

            Debate equally divided for, on conference reports and

                amendments in disagreement....................... 912a, 912b

            Of managers of a conference may not submit a report.......   543

            Reference of views of, on committee reports to Calendar...   743

            Rules for the protection of...............................   283

            Signing and filing of views of......................... 821, 714
    Mints.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Misdemeanors.

            As to what are............................................   175

            Impeachable offenses.............................. 173, 175, 176
    Mondays.

            First, in December of meeting of Congress (obsolete)......    45

            Every Monday for suspension of rules......................   902

            Second and fourth, for District of Columbia bills and

                motions to discharge committees.................... 899, 908
    Money.

            Account of public, to be published........................   143

            Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865,

                                                                         868

            Congress to coin and regulate the value of................   121

            Jurisdiction over deposit of public.......................   688

            No appropriation of, for armies for longer term than two

                years.................................................   129

            Not to be drawn from Treasury except on appropriation.....   143

            Power of Congress to borrow...............................   118

            Proper application of, and enforcement of payment of,

                jurisdiction as to....................................   676

            Public bills appropriating, placed on Union Calendar......   742

            States not to coin or issue...............................   146
    Monuments.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    Morning hour.

            Rule and practice for consideration of bills in........ 889, 890

            For call of committees, place of, in order of business....   878

            Unfinished business in....................................   888

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            Interruption of........................................ 891, 892

            Debates...................................................  753b
    Motions.

            In general.

                Calls for orders of the day, obsolete.................   393
    Certain, only in order of absence of quorum..................... 55, 769

                Conditions of withdrawal..............................   776

                Considered to be pending as to recommendations of

                    Committee of the Whole............................   338

                For practice as to, in rejection and second reading of

                    bills.............................................   484

                In some cases considered as pending...................   749
    In order during call of the House............................. 771, 774a

                Incidental questions intervening during consideration

                    of main question..................................   457

                Intervening questions relating to reading of papers,

                    obsolete..........................................   459
    Matters of privilege as intervening questions....................... 457

                None to be made except by rising and addressing the

                    Chair.............................................   394

                Not to interrupt Member having the floor..............   393

                Obsolete parliamentary law as to entry of, in the

                    Journal...........................................   578

                Parliamentary law as to making and reading............   392
    Parliamentary law as to withdrawal of.......................... 392, 460
    Reading or statement of........................................ 392, 776

                Reduced to writing and entered on the Journal.........   775

                Repetition of motions.................................   789

                Second not required for ordinary......................   392

                Usually required before debate may proceed............   749

            Coexisting and equivalent.

                Jefferson's discussion of coexisting..................   483

                Equivalent, in general................................   485
    Where negative of one amounts to affirmative of another......... 485-488

            Dilatory.

                Debate for 10 minutes not allowed when offering of

                    amendments printed in Record is...................   874

                Dilatory motions not admitted pending motion to

                    suspend the rules.................................   801
    Forbidden pending report from Committee on Rules............. 729a, 729b

                Right to demand yeas and nays not to be overruled as..    77

                To be ruled out generally.............................   803

            In Committee of the Whole.
    To adjourn and for the previous question not in order in Committee
    of the Whole................................................... 333, 334

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                To close general debate...............................   871

                To reconsider, not used in Committee of the Whole.....   416
    To strike out enacting words................................... 875-876a
    Those in order in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''........ 425-427

                To rise and report at conclusion of reading general

                    appropriation bill................................  834d

            Putting the question on. See Putting the question.

            Privileged motions, generally. See also Privileged questions.

                General principles of priority of motions.............   449

                Jefferson's discussion of certain privileged motions..   441

                Laws attaching privilege to congressional disapproval

                    procedures........................................  1013
    Matters of privilege as intervening business............... 458, 661-666

                Obsolete intervening questions relating to reading of

                    papers............................................   459

                Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440

                Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged

                    motions...........................................   448

                One privileged or secondary motion not to be

                    suppressed by another.............................   450
    Precedence and conditions of.................................... 782-788
    Privileged interruptions of daily order of business............ 879, 880

                Privileged motions in the Senate and in Parliament....   447

                Theory as to privileged motions.......................   438

            For motions in order when question is under debate, see:

                Adjourn, motion to.

                Previous question, motion for.

                Postpone, motion to.

                Refer, motion to; and Reference.

                Amend, motion to; and Amendments.

            Question of consideration. See Consideration, question of.

            Motion to recommit. See Recommit, motion to, and Commit.

            Motion to reconsider. See Reconsider, motion to.

            Motion to suspend the rules. See Suspension of rules.

            Motions used in adjusting amendments between the Houses. See

                Amendments between Houses and Conferences.

            Motions relating to reading of papers and amendments. See

                Reading.

            Motion to discharge a committee. See Discharge.

            Miscellaneous motions, See also Privileged questions.

                By Majority Leader under former rule proscribing

                    committee sittings during five-minute rule........   710

                For a recess.................................. 586, 782, 784

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                For a recess in committee.............................  703a

                Motion to strike Federal unfunded mandate.............  873c

                To read the Journal...................................   621

                To rescind a special order not privileged under the

                    rules.............................................  682b
    Motives.

            Of members not to be arraigned............................   363
    Mover.

            Right of, to speak twice..................................   762

            Right to close debate on amendment considered under five-

                minute rule...........................................   762
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and National Space

        Council.

            Jurisdiction of...........................................   683
    National Archives.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   676
    National cemeteries.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    National parks.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    National Science Foundation.

            Jurisdiction of...........................................   683
    National Security, Committee on.

                History, jurisdiction and duties of...................   680

                Special oversight functions of........................   693
    National Weather Service.

            Jurisdiction of...........................................   683
    Nations.
    Natural Resources, Committee on.  See Resources, Committee on.
    Naturalization.

            Power of Congress to establish rule of....................   120

            Relations to citizenship..................................   225

            Jurisdiction as to........................................  679a
    Naval affairs.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Naval and military records.

            Private bills to correct, banned..........................   852
    Naval vessels.

            Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....  841a
    Navigation.

            Between States not to be hampered by duties...............   147

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to pollution of navigable

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                waters................................................   686

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to public works for the

                benefit of............................................   686

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to generally............   686
    Navy.

            Bills to correct certain records banned...................   852

            Congress to provide and maintain..........................   130

            Congress to make rules for................................   131

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680

            President Commander in Chief of...........................   160

            States not to maintain....................................   148

            Trial for crimes in.......................................   212
    Navy yards.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680

            Power of Congress over places purchased for...............   134
    Negative.

            Of one question amounting to the affirmative of another

                                                                     485-488
    Neutrality.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   678
    Newspapers, admission to the floor.  See Floor.
    Nobility.

            Titles of, not to be granted..............................   144

            No State to grant title of................................   146

            Foreign gifts and decorations accepted with consent of

                Congress..............................................   145
    Notes.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Nuclear energy.

            Jurisdiction over.

                Jurisdiction of Committee on Commerce.................   674

                Military applications.................................   680

                Non-proliferation and export agreements...............   678

                Regulation of domestic industry.......................   674

                Research and development..............................   683
    Oversight jurisdiction......................................... 674, 693

            Expedited procedures.
    Nuclear non-proliferation provisions of the Atomic Energy Act

                                                                    1013(10)
    Nuclear waste fund fees........................................ 1013(16)
    Nuclear Waste Policy Act....................................... 1013(25)
    Oath.  See also Affirmation.

            Of Senators, Representatives, officers, and employees of the

                House.

                Administration of, at organization of the House.......   198
    Administration, as related to quorum........................ 53, 56, 200

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                Administered to Member before reading of Journal......   621

                As related to qualifications..........................     9
    Challenge of right to take...................................... 202-204

                Consideration of objections to taking of..............   203

                Dean administers to Speaker...........................   198

                Disabilities arising from violation of................   230

                Form of...............................................   197

                Function of Speaker in administering..................   231
    Member-elect named on committee, expelled, or permitted to resign
    before taking................................................... 64, 300

                Names of Members not entered on roll for yeas and nays

                    until sworn.......................................   300

                Not to disclose classified information................   939

                Of Chief Justice in impeachments......................    39

                Of Senators, for trial of impeachment.................38, 40

                Officers of House sworn...............................   635

                Precedence of.........................................   198

                Privilege of administration of........................   201

                Quorum not required during administration of..........  774c

                Relation of credentials to right to take..............   204

                Sanity and loyalty as related to......................   205

                Senators, Representatives, and other officers bound by   196

            In general.

                Of President of the United States.....................   158

                Right to administer, given by law rather than by rule.    59
    Speaker, Members, and chairmen may administer to witnesses.... 343, 346,

                                                                         718

                In support of certain warrants........................   211
    Objections.  See also Unanimous consent.

            Challenge of right of a Member to take the oath........ 202, 205

            Ten Members required under former rule proscribing

                committee sittings during five-minute rule............   710

            Of President to a bill....................................   104

            To administration of oath to Members by the Speaker.......   199
    Obligation.

            Of contracts, State not to pass bills impairing...........   146
    Obscenity.

            Bills for petitions rejected for....................... 849, 853
    Occasions, extraordinary.

            Power of President to convene Congress on.................   171

            Other power of convening..................................   171
    Oceanography.

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    Offenses.
            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   683

            Power of President to grant pardons for...................   162

            Against law of nations....................................   126
    Office.

            In general.

                As to meaning of word.................................97, 98

                Acceptance of, conditions of, from certain sources....   144

                Acceptance of gifts by holders of, conditions of......   144

                Electors, no person holding office of trust or profit

                    under United States to be an elector..............   151

                Impeachment, civil officers may be removed from office

                    by................................................   173

                Impeachment, removal from office as judgment in.......    41

                Impeachment, regulation of office not a bar to........   174

                Jurisdiction as to abolition..........................   676

                Of judges, held during good behavior..................   177

                Religious test for, none required under United States.   196
    Term of President's....................................... 149, 150, 249

            Incompatible.

                As to what are incompatible...........................    98

                Appointment of Members-elect to.......................    99
    Holding of, under the United States disqualifies Mem- ber........ 97-101

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to...................  679a

                Members not to be appointed to certain................    96

                Procedure in case of acceptance of, by Member.........   101

                Relations of contestants to...........................   100
    Office accounts.

            Prohibition of unofficial.................................   941
    Office buildings.

            Assignment of rooms in....................................   988
    Office of Technology Assessment...................................   995
    Officers.

            Of the United States.

                Accountability of, jurisdiction as to.................   676

                Bound by oath to support the Constitution.............   228
    Civil, may be removed by impeachment........................... 173, 174

                Congress may determine agency for appointing of

                    inferior..........................................   166

                Of departments, President may require opinions from...   161

                Of the militia........................................   133

                Of United States, as related to legislative power.....   136

                Of United States, and the States, qualifications of as

                    to loyalty........................................   230

                President appoints....................................   166

                President to commission...............................   172

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                Senators not civil officers who may be impeached......   174

            Of the House of Representatives.

                Audits of.............................................   654

                Clerk formerly disbursed pay of.......................   642

                Compensation, retirement and benefits, jurisdiction

                    over..............................................  677a

                Continue in office until successors are chosen........   635
    Drug testing of, See Drug testing.
    Election of, and terms....................................... 26-30, 635
    Election of, except Speaker..................................... 29, 635

                Neither House to exercise authority over those of the

                    other.............................................   373

                Non-discrimination in employment by...................   939
    Oath, administered to, by Speaker.............................. 198, 199

                Oversight of..........................................   693

                Privilege of floor extended to present and former.....   919

                Prohibition on distribution of campaign contributions

                    by................................................  921c

                Relations to claims...................................   937
    Removal of..................................................... 315, 635

                Vacancies, Speaker may fill by temporary appointment

                    of................................................   635

            Of the Senate.

                The Vice President and his vote.......................    36

                Choice of President pro tempore and other officers....    37
    Official conduct.

            Code of, for Members, officers, and employees.............   939

            Committee on Standards of.................................   685

            Financial disclosure......................................   940

            Outside earned income.....................................   943

            Revisions of remarks in debate, standard of.......... 764a, 764b

            Use of Frank..............................................   942

            Unofficial office accounts................................   941
    Official record.

            The Journal as............................................   582
    Official reporters.

            Of debates, appointment and removal of................ 677a, 923
    One-fifth.

            Of those present order yeas and nays......................75, 78

            Of quorum order recorded vote (or formerly teller vote)...  630a
    One-minute speeches...............................................  753a
    Opening.

            Of debate, rights of Member as related to closing.........   759
    Opinions.

            President may require from heads of departments...........   161

            Not entered on Journal....................................    70
    Opposition.

            Preference in recognition given to, for motion to recommit

    [[Page 1263]]

                after previous question is ordered....................   782

            Right to prior recognition passes to, when essential

                motion is lost........................................   755
    Order.

            Of the House and preservation of.

                Breach of, for Speaker to refuse to put a question in

                    order.............................................   304
    Call to, for disorder in debate................................ 760, 761

                Call to, may interrupt Member.........................   393
    Clerk to preserve, at organization of the House................ 637, 638

                Necessity of rules for preservation of................   285
    Parliamentarylawastotakingdowndisorderlywords.................. 368, 369
    Power of Chairman of Committee of the Whole to preserve, in
    galleries and lobby.......................................... 861a, 861b

                Proceedings in case of disorder on the floor..........   367

                Sergeant-at-Arms maintains, under direction of the

                    Speaker...........................................   648

                Sergeant-at-Arms bears mace while enforcing...........   650

                Speaker calls House to................................   621

                Speaker preserves, on floor, in lobby, and galleries..   622
    Speaker may restore in Committee of the Whole............. 331, 332, 622

            Questions of.

                As to delay in decision of questions of...............   378
    Clerk to decide at organization of the House................... 637, 639

                Clerk to note in Journal..............................   641
    Decided by Speaker............................................. 624, 627

                Decision of, during a division........................   507

                Decisions of questions of, by Chairman of Committee of

                    the Whole.........................................   862

                House controls decisions of, by appeal................   379

                Intervening questions of..............................   457

                Practice governing Speaker in deciding................   627

                Raising of, on appropriation bills in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   835

                Raising of, at any time against appropriation in

                    legislative bill or amendments....................  846a

                Raising of, at any time against tax or tariff in

                    certain bills or amendments.......................  846b

                Relation of question of consideration to..............   781
    Reserving, as to general appropriation bills.................. 835, 848a

                Speaker to be heard first in matters of...............   358

                Time of raising, as to consideration of bills in

                    Committee of the Whole............................   865
    Order of business.  See also Business.

            Rule and conditions of.

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                The rule prescribing..................................   878

                Advantage of an order of..............................   349

                Conditions of the old and modern orders of business...   350

                Early discretion of Speaker as to.....................   349

                Jurisdiction as to....................................  682a

                Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440
    Recognition by the Speaker in accordance with requirements of... 753-757
    Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting order.... 381,

                                                                         881
    The calendars on which reports of committees await action of the
    House........................................................... 742-746

            Interruptions of.

                Business of District of Columbia on second and fourth

                    Mondays...........................................   899

                Business on Tuesdays for consideration of the Private

                    Calendar..........................................   893

                Call of Committees on Calendar Wednesday..............   897
    Call of Committees on Calendar Wednesday protected by two-thirds
    vote.......................................................... 729a, 897
    Consideration of amendments between Houses, when privileged.... 528-528d

                Consideration of a motion to reconsider...............   814

                Effect of privileged reports on.......................   727

                Effect of special orders on Tuesday business..........   893

                High privilege of general appropriation bills.........   802

                Interruption by request for unanimous consent.........   881
    Intervening questions as to privilege on reading of papers..... 458, 459

                Intervening questions of order........................   457

                Intervention of private business on Tuesday...........   893

                Making and use of special orders......................  682b

                Motion for leave for a committee to sit during

                    sessions not privileged...........................   324
    Precedence of questions of privilege............................ 661-666

                Privilege of conference reports.......................   909

                Privileged interruptions of order of business.........   879

                Privileged interruptions specified....................   880
    Privileged legislative veto provisions............................. 1013
    Privileged reports from certain committees...................... 726-729

            Speaker's table.
    Business on, disposal of...................................... 528a, 882

                Matters on, for action by the House or by Speaker

                    alone.............................................   883

                Messages on, parliamentary law as to disposal of......   566

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                Messages from the President on, consideration of......   170

                Messages from the President on, reference of..........   884

            Unfinished business.

                Rule for unfinished business..........................   885

                Business unfinished in periods set apart for classes

                    of business.......................................   888

                Construction of rule as to unfinished business........   886
    Consideration of unfinished business............................ 885-888

                Priority of unfinished business in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   869

                Precedence of a question on which previous question is

                    ordered...........................................   886

                Procedure in the morning hour.........................   890
    Rules and practice for call of committees...................... 889, 890

                The morning hour for the call of committees...........   889

            Call of Committees--Interruption to go into Committee of the

                Whole.

                Conditions of the motion to go into Committee of the

                    Whole at the end of one hour......................   892

                Interruption of the call of committees by motion to go

                    into Committee of the Whole House on the State of

                    the Union.........................................   891
    Rule for consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole after
    call of committees............................................. 891, 892

            Orders of the day.

                Orders of the day now obsolete........................   384

                Parliamentary law as to proceeding with orders of the

                    day...............................................   383

            In Committee of the Whole.

                On calendars of Committee of the Whole................   869
    Orders.

            As to presentation of, to President for approval..........   115

            Nature and use of, as compared with resolutions...........   395

            Standing, reference to....................................   938
    Orders of the day.

            As to termination of, with reference to the end of the

                session...............................................   386

            Execution of a subsisting order not to be demanded while a

                Member has the floor in debate........................   393

            Now obsolete..............................................   384

            Obsolete reference to, in order of business...............   878

            Parliamentary law as to proceeding with...................   383

            Right of a Member to demand the execution of a subsisting

                order.............................................. 381, 881
    Orders, special.

            Application of motion to postpone to.................. 682b, 786

            Effect of, on Tuesday business............................   893

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            Privilege of reports of................................ 726, 729

            Use and method of making..................................  682b
    Organization.

            Of the two Houses of Congress.

                Administration of the oath at.........................   198

                Clerk's duties at.....................................   637

                Clerk makes up the roll of Members-elect for..........   638
    Challenge of the right to take the oath......................... 202-204

                Early organization....................................   997

                Election of Speaker and other officers................ 26-30

                Election of Speaker and Clerk as related to adoption

                    of rules..........................................    59

                House has adjourned for more than one day before

                    election of the Speaker...........................    83

                Messages received before..............................   562

                President's power to convene Congress.................   171

                Other power to convene................................   171

                Procedure before adoption of rules....................    60

                Quorum in two Houses as related to....................    56

                Relation of credentials to the right to take the oath.   204

                Right of the House to determine its order of

                    proceeding in effecting...........................   388

                Sanity and loyalty as related to the oath.............   205

                Speaker's function in administering oath at...........   199
    Taking oath as related to presence of quorum.................... 56, 200

                Vice President votes in case of tie as to.............    36

                Yeas and nays may be ordered before...................    76
    Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

            Expedited procedures under............................. 1013(24)
    Outside earned income.

            Limitations on............................................   943
    Oxford-style debates.

            Structure of..............................................  753c
    Pairs.

            Forms and announcement of.................................  660a

            Not to be announced out of order..........................   765

            In order in Committee of the Whole........................  660a
    Panama Canal.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Papers.

            Security of private.

                Security of, as to searches and seizures..............   211

            In possession of the House.

                Attitude of one House as to the demands of the other

                    for...............................................   292

                Certain, not to go out of Clerk's custody.............   352

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                Certain, in Clerk's custody, not open to public.......   642

                Court demands for.....................................   291

                Not to be taken from the Clerk's table during debate..   364
    Of committees, custody of..................................... 706c, 932

                President allowed to withdraw certain, accompanying a

                    message...........................................   571

                Withdrawal of, from files.............................   933

            Relations of, to conference.

                Custody of, when a conference is asked before

                    disagreement......................................   552

                Custody of, after an effective conference.............   555

                Custody of, when managers fail to agree...............   556

                House must possess, before acting on a conference

                    report............................................   549

                Request for a conference always by House possessed of.   530

            Reading of.

                By consent of the House under former rule XXX.........   917

                Committee reports not read except on order or in

                    debate............................................   435

                Criticizing the Senate or Senators not to be read.....   372

                Intervening questions as to...........................   459
    Member not always privileged to read, in his place........ 434, 916, 917

                Not necessarily to be read on plea of privilege.......   433
    Objections to under former rule XXX............................ 916, 917

                On demand of a Member.................................   916

                On reference..........................................   436

                Parliamentary law as to...............................   432

                President's messages..................................   188
    Paragraphs.

            Amendment of bills by.................................. 413, 872

            Amendments should be germane to...........................   795

            House does not agree to, severally in perfecting a bill...   456

            Reading of bills by.................................... 413, 872

            Transposition of, in a bill by motion to amend............   477
    Pardons.

            Power of President to grant............................ 162, 164
    Parks, District of Columbia.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   681
    Parks, military.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    Parks, national.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   681
    Parliamentarian.

            Office of.................................................   996

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    Parliamentary inquiries.
            Precedents compiled by....................................   996

            No appeal from responses to...............................   628

            Recognition to propound...................................   627
    Parliamentary law.

            As used before adoption of rules..........................    60

            Jefferson's Manual as a statement of......................   284

            Relations of, to the early practice of Congress...........   286
    Passage of bills.

            Bills not altered after...................................   500

            Both Houses pass identical................................   833

            Clerk certifies to........................................   642

            Obsolete requirements as to...............................   492

            Putting the question on reading, engrossment, See Putting

                the question.
    Passages.

            Speaker's control of, in House wing.......................   623
    Patents.

            Power of Congress to provide for..........................   124

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Pay.

            Clerk formerly disbursed that of employees and certifies

                that of Members in recess.............................   642

            Cost of living adjustments................................... 86

            Of committee staff, see Committee staffs.

            Of department officers, jurisdiction as to................   678

            Of judges.................................................   177

            Of Members during recess, Clerk certifies to (obsolete)...   647

            Of officers and employees, Clerk formerly disbursed.......   642

            Of President of the United States.........................   157

            Of Representatives and Senators........... 85, 86, 258, 1013(13)

            Of Speaker and leadership.................................86, 89

            Of witnesses..............................................   931

            Pay orders............................................. 1013(13)

            Quadrennial commission................................. 1013(13)

            Sergeant-at-Arms formerly disbursed that of Members.......   648
    Penalties.

            For absent Members........................................    52
    Penitentiaries.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a
    Pension Reform Act, disapproval procedures in................... 1013(8)
    Pensions.

            In general.

                Certain bills for, banned.............................   852

                Debt incurred for certain, not to be questioned.......   232

                Jurisdiction of appropriations for....................  671a

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    People.
                Of all wars, jurisdiction of bills for................   687

            Establish the Constitution................................     1

            Powers reserved to, by the Constitution...................   216

            Quartering soldiers among.................................   424

            Representatives chosen by.................................     5

            Right of, to keep and bear arms...........................   209

            Rights reserved to........................................   217

            Security of, as to accusations, trials, and property......   212

            Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211

            Their right of assembly and petition......................   208
    Perjury.

            To sustain a conviction of, a quorum of a committee must

                be in attendance when perjurious testimony is given.... 343,

                                                                    409, 712
    Person.

            Security of, as to searches and seizures..................   211
    Personal explanations.

            Made by unanimous consent.................................   749
    Personal interest.

            Disqualifying as to voting........................ 376, 657, 658
    Personal privilege.

            Method of presentation of questions of personal, as

                distinguished from general............................   661

            Precedence of questions of................................  661-

                                                                         668

            Privilege of the Member...................................   661

            Procedure of Member in presenting question of.............   749
    Personalities.

            Arraignment of motives of Members not in order............   363

            Member must refrain from, in debate.......................   749

            Members censured for......................................    63

            Not permitted in debate...................................   361
    Persons.

            No State to deprive, of life, liberty, or property

                unlawfully, or deny equal protection of the laws to...   225
    Petition.

            Introduction and reference of......................... 700, 849a

            Division of, for reference............................. 421, 700

            Duties of Speaker and Members in presenting...............  849b

            Correction of reference of................................   853

            Exclusion of..............................................   853

            Nature of.................................................   389

            Parliamentary law as to reception of......................   391

            Received by committees only through the House.............   320

            Right of petition guaranteed..............................   208

            Signing and presentation of...............................   390
    Pictures.

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            Jurisdiction as to........................................  677a

            Taking of, in committee hearings..........................   724
    Piracies.

            Congress to punish........................................   126
    Place.

            Neither House to adjourn to another, without consent of

                other House...........................................    82

            Power of President to convene Congress away from seat of

                government............................................   171
    Places of elections.

            Regulation of.............................................42, 43
    Pleadings.

            In an impeachment...................................... 612, 613
    Pledge of Allegiance..............................................   878
    Pocket veto.

            Bills retained by President after Congress adjourns.......   112

            Effect of adjournment to day certain......................   113
    Points of order.

            Decisions on.

                Chairman of Committee of the Whole decides............  861b
    Clerk to decide, at organization of the House.................. 637, 639

                Decisions of, during a division.......................   507

                House by appeal controls decisions on.................   379

                Obsolete practice as to Members' advice on............   507

                Power of Speaker to delay decisions...................   378

                Practice governing Speaker in deciding................   627

            In general.

                Clerk to note certain, in Journal.....................   641
    In House on procedure in committee.................................. 708

                On appropriation bills................................   835
    On conference reports............................. 547, 913b, 913c, 913d
    On nongermane portions of conference reports and amendments in
    disagreement................................................. 913b, 913c

                On resolutions, raised before reading completed.......   627

            Relation of.

                To conference reports.................................   547

                To general appropriation bills........................   835

                To retroactive increases in income tax rates..........  846d

                To motions to amend...................................  823a
    To committee procedure............................ 708, 713d, 713g, 713h
    To question of consideration............................ 781, 781a, 1007

            Reserving of.
    Against general appropriation bills........................... 835, 848a

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                Against conference reports............................   547

            Time of raising.

                At any time against an appropriation in legislative

                    bills or amendments...............................  846a

                At any time against tax or tariff provisions in

                    certain bills or amendments.......................  846b

                Former rule with respect to reporting a measure from

                    committee.........................................  713d

                On appropriation bills in Committee of the Whole......   835

                On consideration of bills in Committee of the Whole...   865

                On conference reports where conferees met in closed

                    session...........................................  913d

                On motions to amend...................................  823a

                On resolutions........................................   627

                With respect to committee procedure...................   708

            Waivers. See Rules.
    Police, Capitol.

            Duty of Sergeant-at-Arms as to............................   648
    Political disabilities.

            Arising from disloyalty...................................   230

            Consideration of bills removing...........................   893

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................  679a
    Poll tax.

            Right to vote not denied for failure to pay...............   251
    Population.

            The basis of representation...............................   226

            Jurisdiction over population and demography generally.....   676
    Ports.

            Of one State not to be favored............................   142
    Possession.

            Of a bill by the House....................................   437
    Post Office and Civil Service, former Committee on.

                Jurisdiction transferred..............................   676
    Post offices.

            Congress may establish....................................   123

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   676

            Jurisdiction as to buildings for..........................   686
    Post roads.

            Congress may establish....................................   123

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to construction.........   686
    Postal savings banks.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   676
    Postmaster.

            Former election and oath of...............................   636

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    Postpone, motion to.
            Former superintendent of House post office................  654a

            Precedence and general conditions of................... 782, 786

            Application of previous question to.......................   450

            Applied to motion to resolve into Committee of Whole......   786

            As to application to a special order......................   718

            Debate on.................................................   782

            Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous

                question........................................... 448, 449

            May be amended............................................   453

            Nature of the motion to postpone to a day certain.........   444

            Not to be applied to other secondary motions..............   451

            Not to be entertained after previous question is ordered..   786

            Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.........   450

            Relation of, to motion to amend...........................   449

            Relations of, to the previous question....................   809

            Repetition of.............................................   782

            Use of, to put off indefinitely................... 443, 1013(11)
    Powers.

            Of Congress--General legislative.

                Legislative...........................................     3

                As to migration or importation of persons.............   137
    Consent of, to acceptance of certain gifts..................... 144, 145

                No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142

                To establish patents and copyrights...................   124

                To establish post offices and post roads..............   123

                To make laws to carry its powers into effect..........   136

                To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122

                To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121

                To regulate commerce..................................   119

                To regulate naturalization and bankruptcy.............   120

                To provide for disapproval of executive action........  1013

            Of Congress--As to elections and political disabilities.
    As to apportionment and establishment of districts............. 226, 227

                Determines time of choosing electors..................   153

                May by law provide for case where neither President-

                    elect nor Vice President-elect shall qualify......   244
    May provide for succession to Presidency or new election....... 155, 244

                Power to make or alter regulations as to election of

                    Representatives...................................    42

                To remove political disabilities......................   230

            Of Congress--Over revenue and expenditures.

                To lay and collect taxes..............................   117

                To borrow money.......................................   118

                Money to be drawn from Treasury only on appropriations   143

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                Limitation on capitation or other direct tax..........   140

                No export duties to be laid...........................   141

            Of Congress--As to commerce, currency, mails, patents.

                To regulate commerce..................................   119

                To regulate bankruptcy................................   120

                To regulate coinage, weights, and measures............   121

                To provide punishment for counterfeiting..............   122

                To establish post offices and post roads..............   123

                To establish patents and copyrights...................   124

                No preferences to be given as to commerce by water....   142

            Of Congress--As to courts, crimes.

                To regulate jurisdiction of Supreme Court.............   179
    To establish inferior courts................................... 125, 177

                To regulate the proving of acts, records, and judicial

                    proceedings of the States.........................   183

                To fix places for trial of certain crimes.............   180

                To provide punishment for piracies....................   126

                To declare punishment of treason......................   182

                As related to writ of habeas corpus...................   138

                No bill of attainder or ex post facto law to be passed   139

            Of Congress--As to wars.
    To declare war, grant letters of marque........................ 127, 163

                To support armies.....................................   128

                To provide a navy.....................................   130

                To make rules of government for land and naval forces.   131

                To provide for calling out the militia................   132

                To provide for organization of militia................   133
    War Powers Resolution........................................... 1013(2)

            Of Congress--Jurisdiction over territory and property.

                To exercise jurisdiction over seat of government and

                    ceded places......................................   134

                Over the territory and other property of the United

                    States............................................   188

            Of Congress--As to immigration and naturalization.

                As to migration or importation of persons.............   137

                To regulate naturalization............................   120

            Of Congress--As related to States and people.

                To revise and control certain State laws..............   147

                As to admission, consolidation, or division of States.   187

                Not to interfere with religion, free speech, the

                    press, or right of assembly and petition..........   208

                No titles of nobility to be granted...................   144

                Those delegated and those reserved to States and

                    people............................................   217

            Of the House of Representatives.

                To confirm Vice President.............................   253

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                To elect its Speaker and other officers.......... 26-30, 635

                To judge elections of its Members..................... 46-51

                To punish and expel its Members....................... 62-66

                To make rules......................................... 58-60

                To punish for contempt.............................. 293-299

                As to treaties..................................... 594, 599

                Of impeachment........................................    31

                Senate tries impeachments.............................    38

            Of President, courts, and States.

                Executive, vested in President of the United States...   149
    Judicial, vested in the courts.................................. 177-179

                Judicial, limitation on, in suits in law or equity....   218
    Of the States, limitations on, as to certain subjects........... 146-148

                Reserved to States and people.........................   217
    Prayer.

            Offered by Chaplain.......................................   621

            Chaplain opens each day's sitting with....................   655

            By the Chaplain, place of, in order of business...........   878

            Quorum in relation to.....................................  774c
    Preamble.

            Amended after the body of the resolution has been

                considered, and after engrossment of joint resolution.   414

            As to application of previous question to.................   806

            As to separate vote on....................................   414

            Of a resolution may be laid on table......................   414
    Precedence.

            Of intervening business.
    Certain privileged questions which interrupt the order of business

                                                                    879, 880

                Intervening questions as to reading papers............   458

                Intervening questions of order........................   457

                Of conference reports.................................   909

                Of conference report over report from Committee on

                    Rules.............................................  729a

                Of a proposition to administer the oath to Members....   233

                Of a question on which the previous question is

                    ordered...........................................   887
    Of questions of privilege.................................. 458, 661-668
    Of questions of privilege as related to pending business........ 661-668

                Of revenue and appropriation bills in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   869

                Questions as to, decided by a majority without debate.   900

            Of motions.
    For disposition of amendments between the Houses. See Amendments
    between Houses.

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                General provisions of the priority of.................   449

                Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged......   448
    Secondary or privileged......................................... 782-788

                To adjourn............................................   782

                To adjourn to day or time certain.....................   782

                To amend..............................................   825

                To amend Journal precedes approval....................    74

                To amend over motions to agree or disagree............  528-

                                                                        528d

                To amend over motions to strike out or agree..........   456

                To discharge committees...............................   908
    To dispense with further proceedings under a call of the House..... 769,

                                                                        771b

                To go into Committee of the Whole to consider

                    appropriation bills...............................   802

                To read the Journal...................................   621

                To reconsider.........................................   814
    To strike out enacting words of a bill......................... 875, 876

                To suspend the rules..................................   904
    Precedents.

            Compilation of............................................   996

            Place of, in the law of the House.........................   351

            Delay in decision of a question of order in order to

                examine...............................................   378
    Preferences.

            Not to be given to ports of one State over another........   142
    Prerogatives.

            Of House as to revenue legislation........................   102

            Questions related to, treated as of privilege.............   661

            Questions of, committed to conference.....................   531
    Presentment.

            Of grand jury as related to trial for crime...............   212
    Presents.

            Conditions as to acceptance of, by officers...............   144
    President of the Senate.

            The Vice President........................................    36

            President pro tempore.....................................    37

            Electoral votes transmitted to............................   153
    President of the United States.  See also Executive.

            Relations of, to Congress--In general.

                Admitted to the floor of the House....................   919

                Gallery for use of....................................   922

                Houses may request him to transmit constitutional

                    amendments to the States..........................   191

                May convene or adjourn Congress under certain

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                    conditions........................................   171

                May notify Congress of ratification of a

                    constitutional amendment..........................   191

                President pro tempore chosen when Vice President

                    becomes...........................................    37

                Reference to, in debate...............................   370
    War powers of Congress and the President................... 128, 1013(2)

            Relations of, to Congress--Messages and information from.

                Address by and to.....................................   316

                Clerk may receive messages from, when House adjourned.  647a

                Confidential messages from............................   914

                Declaration of inability to discharge duties of office   254

                Gives Congress information and makes recommendations..   168

                Messages from, usually sent to both Houses at once....   571

                Messages required by law..............................   169

                Reception of messages from............................   170
    Resolutions of inquiry as related to........................... 856, 859
    Rule for reference of messages from............................ 882, 885

                Transmits Budget during first fifteen days of session.   169
    Transmitting proposed rescissions and deferrals of budget
    authority...................................................... 1013(6a)

            Relations of, to Congress--Approval of bills by.

                Approval or disapproval of bills by...................   104
    Approval, act of, as to time and manner........................ 105, 110

                Approval, notice of, sent by message..................   106

                Approval of concurrent resolutions by.................   396

                Approval of joint resolution by.......................   397

                As to presentation of orders, resolutions, and votes

                    for approval......................................   115

                Bills that become laws without approval...............   111

                Constitutional amendments, President does not sign

                    joint resolution submitting.......................   191

                Effect of recess on...................................   901

                Enrolled bills, signing of, for presentation to the

                    President.........................................   575

                Enrolled bills, authority of pro tempore presiding

                    officers to sign..................................   576

                Enrolled bills, presentation of, to the President.....   577

                Enrollment of bills, parliamentary law as to..........   573

                Enrollment of bills, practice of the two Houses of

                    Congress as to....................................   574

                Errors in bills sent to the President.................   110
    Line item veto authority....................................... 1013(6b)

                Parliamentary law as to presenting a bill for the

                    King's assent.....................................   572

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                Pocket veto...........................................   112

                Pocket veto, effect of adjournment to a day certain on   113
    Veto, action on................................................ 108, 109

                Veto, two-thirds of Members present and voting and not

                    two-thirds of entire membership sufficient to pass

                    a bill over.......................................   109

            Office and general powers and duties.

                Appoints public officers..............................   166

                Commander in Chief of Army and Navy...................   160

                Commissions officers..................................   172

                Executive power vested in.............................   149

                Executes the laws.....................................   172

                Fills vacancies in offices during recesses of Senate..   167

                Grants reprieves and pardons..........................   162

                Holds office 4 years..................................   149

                Jurisdiction of bills relating to office of...........  679a

                Makes treaties........................................   165

                Opinions of his advisers..............................   161

                Receives ambassadors..................................   172
    Term of................................................... 149, 150, 241

            Election, oath, impeachment, inability.

                Chief Justice presides when tried on impeachment......    38

                Compensation of.......................................   157

                Congress to provide for case wherein death occurs

                    among those from whom the House chooses a

                    President.........................................   246
    Election of, by the House in certain cases...................... 221-223

                Electors for choice of................................   151
    Grounds for impeachment of..................................... 175, 176
    Inability of.............................................. 252, 254, 255

                Inauguration of.......................................   159

                Limitation on right of electors to vote for...........   219
    May be impeached............................................... 173, 176

                Meeting of electors of, and transmission and count of

                    votes for.........................................   219

                No person to be elected President more than twice.....   249

                Oath of...............................................   158

                Qualification of......................................   154

                Qualifications of electors of, as to loyalty..........   230

                Qualifications of electors, questions as to...........   152

                Time of choosing electors and action of...............   153
    Removal, death, resignation, or disability of.............. 155, 252-256
    Vice President as acting President in certain cases....... 252, 254, 255
    President-elect of the United States.

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    President pro tempore.
            Death or failure to qualify...............................   244

            Chosen by Senate in certain cases.........................    37

            Election and tenure of....................................   313

            Presides in certain impeachments..........................    39
    Press.

            Coverage of committee hearings and meetings............. 720-725

            Freedom of, guaranteed....................................   208

            Members of, admission to the floor, see Floor.

            Admission to press gallery................................  930a
    Previous question, motion for.

            Uses of.

                The rule of the.......................................   804

                History, uses of the parliamentary....................   463

                Obsolete use of.......................................   442
    Not in order in Committee of the Whole......................... 333, 334

                Use of, in House as in Committee of the Whole.........   427

            Precedence of.

                Among other secondary motions.........................   782

                Of Parliament.........................................   461

                Questions on which it is ordered, as unfinished

                    business..........................................   886

                Questions of order pending the motion for.............   811

                Relations of, to failure of a quorum..................   810

            Application of.
    General application of......................................... 804, 806

                To debatable secondary and privileged motions.........   450

            Moving and putting of.

                Considered as ordered on certain preferential motions

                    to insist.........................................  912c

                Effect of, on debate..................................   805

                Forty minutes of debate after ordering of.............   907
    Forty minutes debate not allowed when ordered on motion not
    debatable...................................................... 871, 907

                Manner of putting.....................................   462
    Moving on non-germane Senate amendments contained in conference
    reports or reported in disagreement.......................... 913b, 913c

                Not debatable.........................................   782

                Recognition passes to Member leading opposition when

                    voted down........................................   755

                Right to move.........................................   807

                Right to close debate not to be exercised after

                    ordering of.......................................   762

                Speaker's discretionary authority to postpone further

                    proceedings on....................................   631

            Effect of, on amendment.

                Effect of, on amendments in general...................   804

                Order of, on motion to agree to Senate amendments

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                    prevents motion to amend but not to refer.........   486

                Prevents amendment when ordered on motion to approve

                    Journal...........................................    74

            Relations of, to other motions.
    General relation of, to other motions.......................... 808, 809

                Having been moved on a motion to adhere, the motion to

                    recede not admitted...............................   525

                Having been moved on a motion to insist, a motion to

                    recede and concur admitted........................   525

                May not be postponed..................................   451

                Motion to amend not applicable to the.................   452

                Motion to commit after it is ordered..................   808
    Motion to commit pending, not applied to reports of Committee on
    Rules pending previous question.............................. 729a, 729b
    Motion to recommit after ordering of, limitation on Committee on
    Rules........................................................ 729a, 729b

                Motion to recommit in connection with and right of

                    opposition as to..................................   782

                Motion to lay on table not in order after ordering of.   785
    Relation of motion to reconsider to............................ 814, 815
    Prima facie title.

            Credentials as related to a Member's right to take the

                oath..................................................   204

            Effect of credentials as related to vacancy...............    23
    Princes.

            Titles, gifts from, to be accepted on conditions only.....   144
    Printing.

            General provisions as to.

                ``Bullet'' symbols in Congressional Record............   929

                Discretion of Clerk as to.............................  647a

                Leave to print in Congressional Record................   929

                Numerical designation of amendments printed in Record.   874

                Of amendments in Record to be offered during five-

                    minute debate.....................................   874

                Of committee transcripts, paid for by contingent fund

                    (applicable accounts of the House)................  703c

                Of conference reports in Congressional Record.........  912a

                Of reports when referred to calendars.................   743

                Privileged reports from Committee on House Oversight

                    on................................................   726

                Reports of committees to be printed...................   821

            Joint Committee on.
    Duties of, as to improvement of Congressional Record........... 924, 986

                History, jurisdiction, and duties of..................   986

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    Priority.  See Precedence.
                Membership on.........................................   986

            All questions relating to priority of business to be

                decided without date..................................   900
    Private bills.

            As unfinished business....................................   888

            Certain, banned...........................................   852

            Correction of error in reference..........................   853

            Dispensing with call of calendar....................... 893, 895

            Introduction and reference of.................... 700, 845, 849a

            Interruption of regular order on Tuesdays for

                consideration of the Private Calendar.................   893

            Placed on Private Calendar when reported..................   742
    Private claims.

            Certain, banned...........................................   852

            Reference of bills for, restricted to certain committees..   845
    Private pension bills.

            Certain, banned...........................................   852

            Consideration of, on Tuesday..............................   893
    Private property.

            Not to be taken without compensation......................   248
    Privilege of floor.  See Floor.
    Privilege, questions of.

            Definition and precedence of.

                Constitutional privilege..............................   661

                Distinction between questions of privilege and

                    privileged questions..............................   661

                Definition and precedence of questions of.............   661

                General principles as to precedence of................   661

                Intervention of questions of..........................   458

                Precedence of, as related to pending business.........   661

                Precedence of questions of personal...................   661

                Questions of, lose precedence by association with

                    matter not of.....................................   661

                Relation of, to the order of business.................   880

            Raising of.

                Breach of privilege reported from Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   335

                Debate on.............................................   661

                Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read

                    on plea of........................................   433
    Method of presentation of questions of general and personal..... 661-668

                Preliminary decision of Speaker as to questions of....   627

                Procedure when raised by Floor Leaders................   661
    Procedure when raised by Member................................ 661, 749

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                Questions of, in Committee of the Whole...............   661

                Questions of, in the absence of a quorum..............   661

                Question of, taken from the table.....................   785

                Raising questions of..................................   661

                Time and place of consideration designated by Speaker.   661

            Affecting the House--In general.

                Generally.............................................   661

                Abuse of privilege of the floor.......................   920

                Administration of the oath to Members.................   201

                Assault on clerk of a committee a question of.........  733a

                Attitude of one House as to demands of the other for

                    attendance or papers..............................   292

                Attitude of the House as to demands of the courts.....   291

                Breach of, for one House to encroach or interfere as

                    to the other......................................   308
    Demand of courts for papers................................... 291a, 946

                Jefferson's discussion of privilege as related to

                    rights of courts to summon witnesses and jurors...   290

                Judicial appearances on behalf of House...............  291b

                Procedure for response to subpoenas...................   946

                Proposition to impeach a high question of.............   604

                Relations of the Sovereign to the Parliament and its

                    members...........................................   309

                Relations of the courts to parliamentary privilege....   303

                Resolution for removal of an officer of the House a

                    question of.......................................   315

            Affecting the House--Relating to procedure.

                Breach of privilege for the Speaker to decline to put

                    a question which is in order......................   304

                Censure or expel as questions of......................    67

                Censure for personalities in debate a question of.....   363
    Correction of Congressional Record a question of............... 923, 927

                Correction of an error in a message a question of.....   565

                Discharge of committees from questions of.............   406

                Error in reference of a bill to a calendar a question

                    of................................................   742

                Hour rule of debate applies to........................   758

                May not be invoked to effect change in rules of the

                    House.............................................   661

                Messages received, while question of, is before House.   562

                Previous question applies to questions of.............   806

                Proposal to enter protest on the Journal not a matter

                    of................................................    70

                Question of, raised by fraudulent introduction of a

                    bill..............................................   851

                Raising a question of, over delay of an enrolled bill

                    in reaching the President.........................   572

                Reception of President's message while question of, is

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                    pending...........................................   170

                Resolutions providing for adjournment for more than

                    three days........................................    84

            Affecting the House--Contempts.
    Committee reports immediately privileged, 3-day availability rule
    inapplicable................................................... 299, 661

                Decision of the court in Anderson's case and attitude

                    of the House as to assaults.......................   294

                Jefferson's discussion of power of the House to punish

                    for contempts.....................................   293

                Kilbourn's case and views of the court as to inherent

                    power to punish...................................   295

                Jefferson's views as to inherent power to punish......   297

                Jefferson's statement of arguments against the

                    inherent power to punish..........................   298

                Jefferson's suggestions as to a law to define

                    procedure in cases of contempt....................   299

            Affecting the Member.

                Of the Member.........................................   661

                Assault on Member returning to House a breach of......    91

                Jefferson's discussion of privilege of Members of

                    Congress..........................................   288

                Jefferson's review of that of members of Parliament...   287

                Jefferson's discussion as to privilege of going and

                    returning.........................................   289

                Members not to be questioned in another place for

                    speech or debate..................................    92

                Scope of the privilege of speech and debate...........    93

                Parliamentary law as to the arrest of a Member........   306

                Parliamentary law of privilege as related to treason,

                    felony............................................   305

                Parliamentary law as to questioning for speech........   302

                Practice of the House as to Members indicted or

                    convicted.........................................   306

                Relations of Members and others to privilege and the

                    waiving thereof...................................   301

                Senators and Representatives privileged from arrest...90, 91

                Status of the Member-elect as to privilege............   300

            Of citizens.

                Not to be abridged by the States......................   225

                In States other than their own........................   184
    Privileged questions.

            Theory and examples of.

                The theory as to......................................   438

                Distinction between questions of privilege and

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                    privileged questions..............................   661

                Incident questions, like points of order, which

                    intervene during consideration of the main

                    question..........................................   457

                Intervening questions relating to reading of papers...   459
    Laws providing congressional disapproval by privileged resolution

                                                                        1013
    Matters privileged to interrupt the daily order of business.... 879, 880

                Matters of privilege as intervening questions.........   458

                May not interrupt a call of committees................   890
    Not to be called up on Calendar Wednesday...................... 897, 898

                Obsolete parliamentary law governing orders of the day   440

                Presence of nonprivileged matter destroys privileges..   728
    Resolutions of inquiry......................................... 857, 858

            Reports as.
    Of certain committees........................................... 726-729

                Conference reports....................................   909
    Method of submitting to the House.............................. 418, 727

                Nonprivileged, reference of, to calendars.............   743

                Precedence of conference report over report from

                    Committee on Rules................................  729a

                Reference of, to calendars............................   742
    Right to report at any time gives right to consider at any time
    (subject to requirement of availability for 3 days)............ 726, 727

            Motions as--General principles.
    Precedence and conditions of.................................... 782-788

                General principles of priority of motions.............   449

                In general, one privileged motion not to be suppressed

                    by another........................................   450

                Jefferson's discussion of certain privileged motions..   441

                Obsolete provisions as to priority of privileged

                    motions...........................................   448

                Privileged motions in the Senate and in Parliament....   447

            For motions as--When question is under debate, see:

                Adjourn, motion to.

                Previous question, motion for.

                Postpone, motion to.

                Refer, motion to; and Reference.

                Amend, motion to; and Amendments.

            Motions as--Various. See also Motions.

                By Majority Leader under former rule proscribing

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                    committee sittings during five-minute rule........   710
    Motions to dispose of amendments between Houses, see Amendments
    between Houses.

                Motions to proceed to election of Speaker of higher

                    privilege than motion to correct the roll.........   638
    Motions requesting conferences................................ 528a, 535

                Motions to consider bills made in order by a

                    resolution adopted by the House...................   715

                Motion to consider omnibus private bills in order on

                    third Tuesday.....................................   893
    Relation of motion to consider to other motions................ 812, 814

                To close general debate in Committee of the Whole.....   871

                To discharge a committee from consideration of vetoed

                    bill..............................................   108

                To go into Committee of the Whole to consider general

                    appropriation bills...............................   802

                To read the Journal...................................   621

                To recess in committee................................  703a
    To recess in House........................................ 586, 782, 784
    To strike out the enacting words of a bill.................... 875, 876a
    To suspend the rules............................................ 902-905

            Motions as--Certain not. See also Motions.

                Motion to recess formerly not a.......................   586

                Motion to rescind not a...............................  682b
    Proceedings.

            Certain of the House not to be criticized in debate.......   360

            Each House determines rules of............................    58

            House governs Journal entries.............................    71

            House required to publish a journal of....................    67

            Journal a record of, only.................................    70

            States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to

                judicial..............................................   183

            Committee, see Committees.
    Process.

            Of law required to deprive a person of life, liberty, or

                property..............................................   225

            Writ of summons for appearance of respondent in an

                impeachment........................................ 608, 611

            For obtaining witnesses...................................   213
    Professional staffs of committees.  See Committee staffs.
    Profit.

            No one holding office of, to accept certain gifts, titles.   144
    Pro forma amendment.

            In Committee of the Whole.................................  873a
    Proof, burden of.

            On those proposing an amendment, as to germaneness........   794

            On those proposing items on general appropriation bills...   838
    Property.

            Appropriations of, considered in Committee of the Whole.... 865,

                                                                         868

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            Disclosure of.............................................   940

            No person to be deprived of, without due process of law...   212

            No State to deprive a person of, without due process of

                law...................................................   225

            Power of Congress to make rules and regulations as to

                public................................................   188

            Private, not to be taken without compensation.............   212

            Public bills appropriating, placed on Union Calendar......   742
    Proposer.

            Right of, to speak twice..................................   762

            Right to close debate on amendment considered under five-

                minute rule...........................................   762
    Prosecutions.

            Rights of accused in all criminal.........................   213

            Security as to accusations and trial......................   212
    Protection.

            Equal, of the laws guaranteed.............................   225
    Protests.

            Not entered on Journal as a matter of right...............    70
    Proxy voting in committees prohibited.............................   707
    Public bills.

            Certain, placed on Union Calendar, and others on House

                Calendar..............................................   742

            Correction of reference of, place in order of business....   878

            Joint sponsorship of......................................   854
    Public buildings.

            Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....   841

            Jurisdiction as to, generally.............................   686

            Jurisdiction as to, abroad................................   678

            Jurisdiction as to marine hospitals.......................   674

            Jurisdiction of bills for penitentiaries..................  679a

            Jurisdiction as to immigrant stations.....................  679a

            Jurisdiction as to Patent Office........................... 679a
    Public buildings and grounds.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686
    Public credit.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   672
    Public debt.

            Claims for loss or emancipation of slaves not to be paid..   234

            Limit, establishment of as part of congressional budget

                process...............................................   945

            None incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion to be

                paid..................................................   234

            Validity of that of the United States not to be questioned   234
    Public defense.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   680
    Public health.

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    Public lands.
            Jurisdiction of matters related to........................   674

            Jurisdiction of matters related to........................   681
    Public money.

            Account of, to be published...............................   143

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to the deposit of........   688
    Public safety.

            As related to suspension of writ of habeas corpus.........   178
    Public works.

            Authorization of appropriations for.......................   838

            Appropriations in continuation of............ 834a, 839-841, 847
    Public Works and Transportation, Committee on.  See Transportation and

        Infrastructure, Committee on.
    Publication.

            Of accounts of receipts and expenditures of public money..   143

            Of Journals of each House.................................    68
    Puerto Rico.

            Resident Commissioner from, powers and privileges of, see

                Resident Commissioner.
    Punishments.

            Censure or reprimand, of a Member.........................    63

            Congress may provide, for counterfeiting..................   122

            Cruel and unusual, not to be inflicted....................   254

            Each House may provide, of its Members for disorderly

                behavior..............................................    62

            Expulsion, see Expulsion.

            For assault on Member for words spoken in debate..........    92

            For disclosure of intelligence information................  944a

            Involuntary servitude as..................................   224

            Member liable to, when called to order in debate....... 760, 761

            Of a delegate.............................................   740

            Of piracies and felonies on the high seas.................   164

            Of the law additional to impeachment......................    41

            Power of the House to punish for contempt............... 293-299

            Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, see Standards

                of Offical Conduct, Committee on.

            Speaker may not inflict...................................   622
    Putting the question.

            By the chairman in committees.............................   317

            By the Speaker............................................   629

            Decorum during............................................   763

            Duty of Speaker as to.....................................   304

            Effect of, in ending debate...............................   490

            First in the affirmative and then the negative............   489

            Informal..................................................   491

            Messages not received during..............................   562

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            Point of no quorum may be raised during............... 774c, 863

            Speaker rises while.......................................   428

            Forms of:

                For vote by clerk tellers or by electronic device.....  630a

                For previous question.................................   462

                For question of consideration.........................   778
    In examinations at the bar of the House........................ 343, 344

                Of final, in an impeachment trial in Senate...........   618

                On engrossment and third reading of a bill............   830

                On a motion to strike out.............................   468

                On motion to strike out and insert....................   470

                On the passage of a bill..............................   499
    Qualifications.

            Of Representatives.

                As electors of President..............................   151

                As related to a Member's right to take the oath.......   204

                As to sanity and loyalty as...........................   205

                Conviction of crime as related to voting and

                    participation in committee business...............   939

                House Oversight Committee may consider questions

                    relating to.......................................  677a

                In case of disqualification minority candidate not

                    seated............................................    13
    Incompatible offices, Members not to hold........................ 97-101

                Incompatible offices, jurisdiction over...............  679a

                No religious test required for office under United

                    States............................................   196

                Of Representatives....................................  9-11

                Of Senators, Representatives, electors of President,

                    officers of the United States, and State officers

                    as to loyalty.....................................   230

                Other than those of Constitution......................    12

                Power of each House, to judge as to................... 46-51

                Removal of disabilities under fourteenth amendment....   231

            Of Senators, President, Vice President.

                As to inhabitancy modifying votes of presidential

                    electors..........................................   219
    Of electors of President....................................... 151, 152

                Of officers and employees.............................   937

                Of President of the United States.....................   154

                Of Senators as to age, citizenship, and inhabitancy...    35

                Of Vice President.....................................   221

            For suffrage.

                Of electors of Representatives........................     7

                Reference to..........................................   226
    Quarantine.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   674
    Quarrels.

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            In Committee of the Whole.................................   331

            Intervening questions relating to.........................   458

            Members may be pledged not to prosecute...................   367
    Quasi committee.

            Procedure in............................................ 424-427
    Question.

            Coexisting and equivalent questions.

                Equivalent in general.................................   485

                Equivalent on amendments between the Houses...........   486

                Jefferson's discussion of coexisting..................   483

                No equivalent questions on motions to recede, insist,

                    and adhere........................................   488

                On agreeing to a conference report the negative of

                    agreeing equals the affirmative of disagreeing....   550

                The motions to agree and disagree as related to

                    motions to amend..................................   487
    Where affirmative of one amounts to negative of another......... 485-488

            Putting of. See Putting the question.

            Division of. See Division.

            Relation of, to debate.

                Member to confine himself to the......................   749

                Member who has spoken to, may speak also to amendment.   762

            Of order. See Points of order.

            Of consideration. See Points of order.

            Of privilege. See Privilege.

            In general.

                As to reading of papers...............................   459

                Asked of other House by conference rather than by

                    message...........................................   569

                Former practice as to, in rejection and second reading

                    of bills..........................................   484

                Members of Parliament exempted from, as to debate.....  287,

                                                                    302, 309
    Quorum.

            How constituted.

                Committee may fix one-third or more as quorum for

                    certain actions...................................   709

                Committees may fix two or more as quorum to take

                    testimony and to close certain hearings...........   709

                Constituted by a majority.............................    52
    Consists of a majority of standing or select committee or
    subcommittee to report, to issue subpoenas, or to close meetings
    or hearings......................................... 409, 708, 713c, 718

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    Must be present when perjurious testimony is given to support
    charge of perjury......................................... 343, 409, 709
    Of the Committee of the Whole.................................. 329, 863
                Interpretation of meaning of majority.................    53

                Of House of Representatives and Senate in voting for

                    President and Vice President of the United States.   221

                Of a joint committee..................................   325

                Of Senators in an impeachment trial...................    40

                Quorum in committees to report........................  713c

            Count of.
    Theory of quorum present and Speaker's count.................... 54, 628

            When necessary.

                After failure of, must be of record before transaction

                    of business.......................................    55

                Effect of failure of, as to motions in order pending a

                    motion to suspend the rules.......................   801

                Enrolled bills not signed in absence of...............   625

                Failure of, on second of motion to suspend the rules..   905

                Necessary during debate and other business (obsolete).   310

                Of House, necessary for business......................    52

                Quorum not required in certain situations.............  774c

                Quorum not required in the House unless pending motion

                    or proposition put to vote........................  774c

                Quorum not required in Committee of Whole, after once

                    ascertained on that day, unless pending motion or

                    proposition put to vote...........................   863

                Relations of, to acts of House........................    55

                Relations of, to reception of messages................55, 56

                Relations of motion to reconsider to..................   812

                Reporting a measure in committee......................  713c

                Voting, debate, and other business suspended by

                    failure of (obsolete).............................   510

            Call of the House.

                Arrest of Members.....................................   770
    Call of the House in the new form............................. 773, 774a

                Call of the House in the old form.....................   768

                Call of the House after previous question is ordered..   810

                Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record

                    on a roll call....................................   772

                Dispensing with call after quorum responds............   770

                Motions during a call of the House....................   771

                Ordering and conducting the call of the House in the

                    old form..........................................   769

                Power to compel attendance............................52, 55

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                Use of clerks to record...............................  771b

                Use of electronic equipment to record.................  774b

            Point of order as to.

                Before adoption of rules..............................    60

                Before approval of Journal............................   621

                Failure of, on yea-and-nay vote to be noted...........    76

                Former rule with respect to reporting a measure from

                    committee.........................................  713d

                Making point as to....................................    54
    Not in order before Chaplain offers prayer........... 56, 621, 878, 774c

                Point as to, may be dilatory..........................   803
    Prohibition against making in certain situations.............. 774c, 863

                Right of a Member to have the House told when a quorum

                    is not present....................................   382

                Time of making point of...............................    55

                Withdrawal of point as to.............................    55

            Motions in absence of.

                Excuses, but not leaves of absence, granted by less

                    than..............................................   657

                Less than may order yeas and nays.....................    76

                Motions in order in absence of........................    55

                Questions of privilege in the absence of..............   661

                Right to demand yeas and nays not waived by demand

                    for...............................................    77

            In Committee of the Whole.

                Discretionary during general debate in................   863

                Not required, after once ascertained on that day,

                    unless pending motion or proposition put to vote..   863

                Of Committee of the Whole consists of 100 members.....   863

                Procedure in case of failure of.......................   863

                Rising and reports of, as related to..................   864

                Short or Notice Quorum................................   863

            Relation of, to organization.
    As related to right of Member to take oath...................... 56, 232

                At organization of the two Houses.....................    56

                Relations of, to business of two Houses at

                    organization......................................    56

            In general.

                At calling of House to order..........................   621

                Clerk to furnish members a list of certain............   640

                Relations of, to calling of the House to order when

                    Speaker takes the Chair...........................   310

                Relations of Journal to absence of....................    55

                Relations of, to reading of Journal...................    55

                One-fifth of, orders recorded vote (or former vote by

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    Race.
                    tellers)..........................................  630a

            Suffrage not to be abridged for...........................   235
    Radio service.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..............   674
    Radio gallery.  See Galleries.
    Railroads, jurisdiction over......................................   686
    Railway-mail service.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   676
    Raising revenue.  See Revenue.
    Ramseyer rule.

            Reports of committees under...............................   745
    Ratification.

            Of the Constitution.......................................   207

            Of amendments to the Constitution.........................   190

            Procedure of Senate in ratifying treaties.................   600
    Reading.

            Of papers.
    Member not always privileged to read a paper in his place..... 434, 916,

                                                                         917

                Intervening questions as to...........................   459
    Objections to reading of papers under former rule XXX.......... 916, 917
    Of papers on which the House is to vote........................ 392, 916

                Of such as criticize the Senate or Senators not in

                    order.............................................   372

                On reference..........................................   436
    Papers not necessarily to be read on plea of privilege......... 433, 916

                Papers read on demand of a Member.....................   916

                Papers read by consent of the House under former rule

                    XXX...............................................   917
    Parliamentary law as to........................................ 432, 916

                Reports of committees not read except in order or in

                    debate............................................   435

            Of bills, resolutions, conference reports.

                Rule for..............................................   830

                A bill read in Committee of the Whole not read in full

                    when taken up in House............................   338

                Amendments before third...............................   497

                Committal of, on third................................   494

                Debate in relation to third...........................   498
    Engrossed copy, reading in full not required................... 830, 832

                First and second......................................   831

                Manner of reading a bill the second time..............   428
    Obsolete requirements as to.................................... 399, 400
    Obsolete requirements as to third.............................. 492, 493

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                Of a bill in Committee of the Whole...................   831

                Of bills for amendment under the five-minute rule.....   872

                Of concurrent resolution on the budget................  876b
    Of conference reports and amendments in disagreement, dispensed
    with......................................................... 912a, 912b

                Of Journal, not interrupted by conference report......   909

                Of Journal, place of, in order of business............   878

                Of President's messages and accompanying documents....   188

                Of a veto message.....................................   107

                Raising points of order before completing reading of

                    resolution........................................   627

                Raising points of order before completing reading of

                    amendment.........................................  823a

                The Speaker sits while reading, but the Clerk stands..   428

                Third reading after engrossment.......................   832

            Of amendments.

                Motions to dispense with reading......................  873b
    Reappropriations.

            Citations relating to.....................................   847

            Not in order on general appropriation bill unless in

                continuation of public works already commenced........   847
    Reasons.

            Not entered on Journal....................................    70
    Rebellion.

            Debts incurred in suppressing, not to be questioned.......   234

            Debts incurred in aid of, not to be paid..................   234

            Participation in, as a disqualification for office........   230

            Suffrage may be abridged for..............................   226

            Suspension of writ of habeas corpus for...................   138
    Recapitulation.

            Of a vote, Speaker's discretion as to.....................   765
    Recede, motion to.

            Precedence of............................... 486, 528-528d, 913c

            Motion to recede and concur takes precedence of motion to

                recede and concur with amendment or insist........ 525, 528d

            Motion to recede and concur divisible................. 525, 528d

            Not equivalent of either insisting or adhering when

                decided in negative...................................   488

            One House not to recede from its own amendment with an

                amendment............................................... 526

            Parliamentary law as to receding.................. 523, 528-528d

            Practice of the House as to receding from its own

                amendment to a bill of the other House................   524

            Practice of the House as to receding from disagreement to

    [[Page 1293]]

    Receipts.
                amendment of the other House..........................   525

            Of public money, account of, to be published..............   143
    Reception.

            Duty of President to receive ambassadors..................   172
    Recess.

            In general.

                Of Congress...........................................   590

                Of a Congress, effect on pending business.............   901

                Of Congress, issue of subpoenas during................   342

                Of Congress, jurisdiction of resolutions relating to..  682a

                Of Senate, power of President to fill offices during..   167

                Of House, during day's sitting, conditions of.........   586

                Of House, Speaker's authority to declare..............  634f

                Of a committee........................................  703a

            Motion for.
    Status of................................................. 586, 782, 784

                Limitation of, on Calendar Wednesdays.................   897
    Reclamation.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   681
    Recognition.

            To call up a bill made in order by a resolution adopted by

                the House.............................................   715

            For debate and amendment under the five-minute rule.......   872

            For motions to discharge committees on second and fourth

                Mondays...............................................   908

            For motion to go to conference...................... 827, 828a-2

            For the motion to reconsider..............................   813

            For the previous question.................................   807

            For question of privilege............................... 661-668

            Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge..........   755

            Parliamentary law as to Speaker's duty in.................   356

            Preliminary action of Member in seeking...................   749

            Preference in, to be given to opposition for motion to

                recommit after previous question is ordered....... 782, 788,

                                                                        808a

            Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition for

                debate................................................   756

            Procedure of the Member in seeking........................   354

            Under former rule requiring a second on the motion to

                suspend the rules.....................................   906

            Speaker's power of...................................... 753-757

            Speaker's power of with respect to Senate amendments....... 827,

                                                                      828a-1

            Speaker governed by usage in...................... 356, 754, 757

            Speaker not to recognize Members to introduce occupants of

                galleries to House....................................   764

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            No appeal from Speaker's decision in......................   356

            Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as to

                recognitions..........................................   757

            Right to speak a second time..............................   357
    Recommendations.

            President to make, to Congress............................   168
    Recommit, motion to.  See also Commit, motion to.

            Precedence and general conditions of................... 782, 787

            After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect

                of................................................. 804, 808

            Debate on, with instructions..............................   782

            Germaneness test with respect to..........................   795

            In order as to bill on third reading......................   494

            Instructions with.........................................   788

            Instructions to strike out amendment adopted by the House

                not in order..........................................   788

            Instructions may be amended by substituting different

                instructions....................................... 788, 808

            Instructions must be germane to bill before the House...... 796,

                                                                         808

            Limiting by Committee on Rules....................... 729a, 729c

            May be applied to a conference report under certain

                circumstances.........................................   550

            Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions...........   476

            Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   787

            Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending

                previous question................................ 729a, 729b

            One motion to, in order after previous question is ordered   782

            Repetition of motions.....................................   782

            Recognition to offer............................. 782, 788, 808a
    Recommittal.

            Of bills to select or standing committees.................   420

            Duty of committee in case of..............................   788

            Of bills amending or repealing statutes when committee

                reports fail to comply with rule......................   745

            Of bills to Committee of the Whole........................   420

            Of report from Committee of the Whole when ruled out in

                the House.............................................   335

            When House nonconcurs in recommendation of Committee of

                the Whole to strike out enacting words................   875
    Reconsider, motion to.

            Rule for the motion and its precedence....................   812

            Discussion of procedure of................................   814

            Application of............................................   815

            Application of, to bills in committee.....................   820

            As to use in a standing or select committee............ 416, 814

            Debate on.................................................   819

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            Delegates and Resident Commissioner not to make...........   741

            Effect of.................................................   816

            Enrolled bills not signed pending.........................   625

            Maker of..................................................   813

            May be held dilatory......................................   803

            May be applied to vote refusing yeas and nays or ordering

                yeas and nays (if not executed)..................... 79, 816

            Not used in Committee of the Whole........................   416

            Relations of, to motion to lay on the table...............   818

            Relations of, to the previous question................. 814, 815

            Repetition of.......................................... 815, 816

            Vote on...................................................   817

            Vote on ordering yeas and nays may be reconsidered by less

                than a quorum.........................................    76
    Reconsideration.

            Bill once rejected not to be brought up again the same

                session...............................................   515

            Early Senate practice as to...............................   513

            Exceptions to the rule against bringing up a matter once

                rejected..............................................   516

            Expedients for changing the effect of bills once passed...   516

            Of a vetoed bill by the two Houses........................   104

            Member voting ``present'' not counted in determining the

                two-thirds............................................   109

            Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient

                to pass bill..........................................   109

            Passage of supplementary bills............................   518

            Parliamentary law as to...................................   514
    Record.  See also Congressional Record.

            The Journal as............................................   582
    Recorded vote.

            Ordered by one-fifth of quorum in House...................  630a

            By electronic device or by tellers........................  630a

            Ordered by twenty-five in Committee of the Whole..... 630a, 864a

            Repetition of demand for..................................  630b

            Vote by considered vote by yeas and nays..................  630a
    Recording Studio.

            Establishment and composition of House Recording Studio...  996c
    Records.

            Not to go out of Clerk's custody..........................   352

            Noncurrent to be deposited by Clerk with Archivist........   932

            Oath not to disclose classified information as records of

                the House.............................................   939

            States reciprocally to give full faith and credit to

                public................................................   183
    Red Cross.

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    Redress.
            Jurisdiction as to affairs of.............................   678

            Of grievances, right of people to petition for............   208
    Refer, motion to.  See also Recomit, motion to.

            Precedence and status of.
    Precedence and general conditions of........................... 782, 787

                Has precedence of motion to amend.....................   449

                May not be postponed..................................   451

                Not to be suppressed by another privileged motion.....   450

                Repetition of.........................................   782

            Use of.
    General use of................................................. 401, 446

                Not used in Committee of the Whole....................   787
    Admitted in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''............. 425, 427

                In relation to motion to strike out enacting words....   875
    In relation to amendments between Houses....................... 528-528d

                In order as to bill on third reading..................   494

                Motion applicable to a vetoed bill....................   108

                Instructions with.....................................   788
    Instructions may be amended............................... 788, 795, 808

                Instructions must be germane to bill before the House

                    and not to general law sought to be amended.......   808

                Method of dividing a bill by, with instructions.......   476

            Relations of, to previous question.

                Application of previous question to...................   450
    Relations of, to the previous question......................... 486, 809
    After previous question is ordered, privilege and effect of.... 804, 808

                Minority have preference in recognition for, after

                    previous question is ordered......................   782
    After previous question is ordered, Committee on Rules limited as
    to........................................................... 729a, 729b
    Not applied to reports from Committee on Rules pending previous
    question..................................................... 729a, 729b
    Discussion of relations of, to early use of the previous question

                                                                    448, 449
    Reference.

            Of bills. See Bills.

            Of memorials, petitions.
    By Speaker................................................ 700, 854, 882
    By Members..................................................... 700, 849

                Private claims referred to certain committees.........   845
    Of communications, rule for............................... 700, 882, 883
    Of messages of the President, rule for..................... 700, 882-884

                Of executive documents................................   936

                Papers not read in House on ordinary reference to

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                    committee.........................................   436

            Correction of errors in reference of.

                Errors in.............................................   853

                Correction of, for public bills.......................   854

                Of public bills, place of correction of, in order of

                    business..........................................   878

                Change of, for errors in..............................   853
    Correction of, in case of bills referred from Speaker's table...... 882,

                                                                         883

                Of bill to a calendar, error in, a question of

                    privilege.........................................   742
    Regents.

            Do not hold incompatible offices..........................    98
    ``Regular order.''

            Improper use of demand for................................   381

            Right of the Member to demand..................... 381, 382, 881

            Not to be demanded while a Member has the floor in debate.   393
    Regulations.

            Power of Congress to make, concerning territory and other

                property..............................................   188

            Power of Congress to make, as to jurisdiction of Supreme

                Court.................................................   179
    Rejection.

            Effect of.............................................. 515, 517

            Bill is lost when a conference report is not agreed to....   549

            Bills fail when both Houses continue to insist or adhere..   522

            Of a bill, action on similar bill.........................   833

            Of a bill, communicated to the other House................   568

            Of bills, question on, comes indirectly...................   484

            Status of amendments after rejection of conference report.   551

            Striking out enacting words of a bill equivalent to.......   875
    Relatives.

            May not be employed by Members............................    88
    Relevancy.

            In debate.................................................   749

            Of debate in House and Committee of the Whole.............   752
    Religion.

            Congress to make no law respecting establishment of, or

                free exercise of......................................   208
    Religious tests.

            None required for officers under United States............   196
    Remonstrance.

            Nature of.................................................   389
    Removal.

            Of President from office..................................   155

            Of Speaker................................................   315
    Renegotiation.

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    Repetition.
            Jurisdiction over subject related to......................   672

            Of motions, general rules as to........................ 782, 789

            Of motion to reconsider................................ 815, 816

            Of motion to strike out and insert..................... 471, 472

            Of motion to request a conference.........................   535

            Of demand for yeas and nays...............................    77

            Of motion to reconsider vote ordering yeas and nays.......    79

            Of a question once determined.............................   514

            Of amendments.............................................   468
    Reporters.

            Of debates................................................   923

            Of debates, duties of Committee on House Oversight as to..  677a

            Press, admission to the floor, See Floor.
    Reports.

            Of committees. See Committees.

            From Committees of the Whole.

                As related to amendments adopted......................   336

                As to breach of privilege.............................   335

                Bill presumed to have passed necessary stages.........   335

                Bills from, considered in the House...................   338

                Chairman alone makes reports..........................   335

                Consideration of amendments from, in the House........   337

                Discharge of Committee of the Whole...................   339

                Minutes of clerk in lieu of, when Committee is

                    discharged........................................   339

                Not to be amended by the House........................   335
    Of disorderly words taken down............................. 369, 760-761

                Of motion to strike out the enacting words............   875

                Recommitted when ruled out in House...................   335
    Of Chairman when Committee rises before a matter is concluded...... 333,

                                                                    334, 864

                Quorum not required after Committee of Whole has risen

                    and before report made to House...................  774c

                When a quorum fails...................................   863

            Of managers of conferences. See Conferences.

            In general. See also Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms and Chief

                Administrative Officer.

                Of Members, officers and employees on financial

                    disclosure........................................   940
    From heads of departments, rule for reference of............... 882, 883
    From heads of departments to be studied by committees........... 692-696

                Rectification of errors after report of tellers.......   503
    Representation.

            Office of General Counsel.................................  634e

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    Representatives.
            Reduction of, for abridgement of the right of suffrage....   226

            Election, privilege, duties, See Members.

            House of.

                Part of Congress......................................     3

                Attendance at an impeachment trial....................   617
    Authority as to treaties........................................ 594-599

                Bills for raising revenue to originate in.............   102
    Choice of President by......................................... 221, 222

                Choose Speaker and other officers..................... 26-30

                Composed of Members chosen by people..................  5, 7

                Confirms Vice President...............................   253

                Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..........   219

                Has power of impeachment..............................    31

                Indecent language against, not permitted in debate....   360

                Meets at 12 m.........................................     6

                Power of President to convene or adjourn..............   171
    Questions of privilege affecting............................... 661, 662

                Required to keep a Journal............................    68

                Rules as to use of Hall...............................   918

                The office building...................................   989

                Vacancies in.......................................... 17-25
    Reprieves.

            Power of President to grant...............................   162
    Reprimand.

            Of a Member...............................................    63
    Reprisal.

            Letters of, Congress to grant.............................   127

            States not to grant.......................................   146
    Republican form of government.

            Guaranteed to the States..................................   189
    Request.

            For a conference.

                Declined or neglected.................................   534

                Made by the House possessed of the papers.............   530
    Motions to........................................ 528a, 535, 827-828a-2

                Practice as to making.................................   533

                Usual but not essential that names of managers be

                    transmitted with..................................   536

            Bills introduced by.

                Introduction of bills, resolutions by.................   860
    Rescind, motion to.

            Not privileged under rules governing the order of business  682b

            As to entries on Journal..................................    71
    Rescission.

            Of appropriations, jurisdiction of Appropriations

                Committee.............................................  671a

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            Separate headings required on in certain bills and reports  671a

            Rescission bills, definition and procedure for

                consideration of under Impoundment Control Act..... 1013(6a)
    Reservation.

            Of rights of people.......................................   216

            Of points of order on general appropriation bills..... 835, 848a

            Of objection to unanimous-consent request.................   881
    Reserved powers.

            Of the State and people...................................   217
    Residence.

            As a condition of Citizenship in the United States and the

                States................................................   225
    Resident Commissioner.

            Admitted to floor.........................................   919

            Clerk to distribute certain documents to..................   641

            Compensation of...........................................    86

            Elected to committees.....................................   740

            Former de novo vote in House where vote of decisive in

                Committee of Whole....................................  864b

            From Puerto Rico, power and privileges of....... 701g, 740, 861a

            May be appointed to select and conference committees......  701g

            Formerly could be appointed Chairman, Committee of Whole..  861a

            Of Puerto Rico, admitted to the floor.....................   919

            Powers and privileges in Committee of Whole........... 740, 861a

            Rooms of, in Office Building..............................   988
    Resignations.

            As related to procedure for censure.......................    63

            As related to procedure for expulsion.....................    64

            From committees, privilege of and debate on....... 662, 668, 752

            Of chairman of a committee, selection of a successor......  701c

            Of Member-elect before taking oath........................   300

            Of President of the United States or Vice President.... 155, 156

            Of Speaker................................................    28

            Procedure for considering.................................   662

            Vacancy from..............................................    19

            Vacancies caused by, in Senate............................    34
    Resolutions.

            Commemoratives.

                Prohibited............................................   852

            Simple, of the House--Nature and forms of.

                As to presentation of, to President for approval......   115

                Consideration of a preamble...........................   414

                Introduction by request...............................   860

                Introduction and reference of private.................   849

                Introduction of public................................   854

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                Nature and use of, as compared with others............   395

                Raising a question of privileges of the House.........   661

                Reference of..........................................   700

                Of inquiry............................................   855

                Use, to disapprove Executive actions..................  1013

            Simple, of the House--Of inquiry.

                Discharge of a committee from a resolution of inquiry.   858

                Forms of resolutions of inquiry and delivery thereof..   856

                Privileged status of resolutions of inquiry...........   857

                Resolutions of inquiry as related to the Executive....   859

            Simple, of the Senate.

                Not referred in House.................................   883

            Concurrent.

                Adjournment for more than three days by concurrent

                    resolution........................................    84

                Reference of..........................................   700
    Their use..................................................... 396, 1013

            Joint.
    Their use..................................................... 397, 1013

                Clerk certifies to passage of.........................   642

                Division of, not in order on vote on engrossment of

                    passage...........................................   792

                Reference of..........................................   700

                Signed by Speaker.....................................   624

                Used for abrogating treaties..........................   599

                Used for amendments to the Constitution...............   291

                Use of, correct an error in a bill sent to the

                    President.........................................   518
    Resources, Committee on.

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   681

            Special oversight functions of............................   693
    Restaurant.

            Of House, jurisdiction of matters relating to......... 677c, 686

            Of House, management of...................................  677b

            Retrenching expenditures, amendment providing new

                legislation in order on appropriation bill.......... 834-843
    Return.

            Of a message sometimes asked..............................   565
    Returns.

            Power of House to judge as to............................. 46-51
    Revenue.

            Power to raise.

                Account of receipts of public money to be published...   143

                Capitation or direct taxes to be proportioned to

                    census............................................   140

                Export duties forbidden...............................   141

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                General power of Congress to raise....................   117

                Not to be raised on commerce by water between States..   142
    Power of States as to raising of............................... 147, 148

                Regulations of, not to favor ports....................   142

                Retroactive income tax rate increases prohibited......  846d

            Consideration of bills for raising.

                Amendments must relate to particular item.............   800

                Bills for raising, to originate in House..............   102

                Bills raising, placed on Union Calendar...............   742
    Bills raising, considered in Committee of the Whole............ 865, 868

                Consideration in order on third Tuesday...............   893

                Jurisdiction of subjects relating to..................   688

                Jurisdiction as to oleomargarine......................   670

                Point of order against certain bills or amendments

                    carrying taxes or tariffs.........................  846b

                Precedence of bills raising, in Committee of the Whole   869

                Precedence of, in order of business...................   802
    Vote on measures raising income tax rates.................... 774e, 846c
    Revenue sharing, general.

            Jurisdiction over.........................................   676
    Revenue treaties.

            Authority of House as to..................................   597
    Revision of the laws.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a

            Law Revision Counsel, office of...........................   994
    Riders.

            Nongermane Senate amendments............................ 913b, c

            Rule forbidding, on general appropriation bills, see

                Appropriations.

            On bills, obsolete parliamentary practice as to...........   495
    Rights.

            Of the people under the Constitution.

                Those enumerated in Constitution and others retained

                    by the people.....................................   216

                As to quartering of soldiers..........................   210

                As to searches and seizures...........................   211

                Excessive bail or fines and cruel punishments

                    prohibited........................................   215

                Of citizens of the United States as to privileges and

                    immunities........................................   225

                Of citizens of the United States to vote..............   235

                Of persons to life, liberty, property, and equal

                    protection of the laws............................   225

                Of religion, speech, free press, assembly, and

                    petition..........................................   208

                Security as to accusations, trials, and property......   212

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                To a fair trial by jury...............................   213

                To jury trial in suits at common law..................   214

                To bear arms..........................................   209

                To vote, of citizens eighteen years of age or older...   257

            Certain, of Members of the House.
    Members not always entitled to read papers in their places.... 434, 916,

                                                                         917

                Members not necessarily entitled to have papers read

                    on plea of privilege..............................   433

                Of Member to have read once paper on which he is to

                    vote..............................................   432
    Of Members, to call to order in debate.......................... 760-761

                Of Members to demand division of the House after vote

                    by sound..........................................   501
    Of Members to demand the execution of a subsisting order....... 381, 881

                Of Members to inspect the Journal.....................   582
    Rising.  See also Committee of the Whole.

            Of a Committee when the House sits........................   324
    Rivers and harbors.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686

            Precedence of bills to improve, in Committee of the Whole.   869
    Roads.

            Post, jurisdiction of subjects relating to................   686

            Jurisdiction as to highways and their safety in general...   686
    Roll call.

            Changes and corrections of votes..........................   766

            Count of those voting to make a quorum of record on a roll

                call..................................................   772

            Electronic device used in lieu of.................... 771b, 774b

            In committee, formerly used as proof quorum present when

                reporting.............................................  713d

            In Committee of the Whole on the failure of quorum........   863

            Interruptions of the roll call............................   767

            Manner of, during call of the House.......................   769

            Members not to remain near Clerk's desk during............   763

            Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote.......   765

            Not to be interrupted for conference report...............   909

            Not to be interrupted by arrival of time for recess.... 586, 767

            Oath administered to a Member during......................   201

            Postponement of, by Speaker...............................   631

            Speaker may recognize for motion for call of House at any

                time..................................................  774d

            The rule combining the yea-and-nay vote with a call of the

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    Rolls.
                House.................................................   773

            Of Members-elect, Clerk makes up..........................   638

            Duty of Clerk as related to qualifications................     9

            Names of Members not entered on yea and nay, until sworn..   300

            Speaker's name not on that from which yeas and nays are

                called................................................   632
    Rooms.

            Assignment of, in office buildings........................   988

            Control of, in House wing.................................   623

            Duty of Committee on House Oversight as to................  677a

            Exclusion of persons from those leading to the Hall... 919, 921a
    Rules.

            House makes its own.
    Abrogation of joint rules....................................... 61, 316

                As related to privileges of minorities................   283

                Congressional Budget Act rules may be changed by the

                    House.............................................  1007

                Each House makes its own.............................. 58-60

                Early parliamentary law as related to.................   286

                House's construction of its power to adopt............   388

                Jefferson's Manual, part of...........................   938

                Jefferson's views as to power to make.................   387
    Jurisdiction as to........................................... 682a, 682b

                Necessity of..........................................   285

                Not to be changed by report from Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   335

                Power to administer oaths not conferred by............    59
    Power to make, not impaired by rule or law...................... 59, 388

                Procedure before adoption of..........................    60
    Those of the House in effect in Committee of the Whole so far as
    applicable..................................................... 340, 877

            Committee on.

                Constitution of.......................................   701

                History, jurisdiction, and powers of..................   682
    Limitations on reports from....................... 729a, 729c, 729d, 730

                Activity reports of...................................  703d

                Exempted from former rule proscribing committee

                    sittings during five-minute rule..................   710

                Must specify reported waivers.........................  731a
    Privileged reports of.......................................... 729, 730

                Report from, providing special order of business not

                    divisible.........................................  729a

                Report may be considered immediately by two-thirds

                    vote..............................................  729a
    Certain reports may be considered immediately without two-thirds
    vote.................................................... 715, 912a, 912b

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                Reports, adverse, from................................   730

                Reports from, on resolutions repealing or amending

                    rules of House must show by typographical device

                    parts of rules affected...........................   731
    Right to report at any time confined to privileged matters.... 726, 729a

            Suspension of.

                In order on Mondays and Tuesdays......................   902

                Individual and committee motions to...................   905

                Motion for, entertained after yeas and nays are

                    demanded..........................................    80

                Motion for, as unfinished business....................   888

                Nature of the motion..................................   903

                One motion to adjourn in order pending................   801

                Postponement of votes on..............................   907

                Precedence of the motion..............................   904

                Recognition by Speaker for motion to..................   757

                Relating to admission to the floor not to be suspended   919

                Rule governing the motion for.........................   902

                Second of the motion to formerly required.............   906

                Speaker not to entertain motion to suspend rule

                    relating to use of Hall of the House..............   918

                The forty minutes of debate on motions to.............   907

            Power of Congress to make certain.

                Congress to make, for land and naval forces...........   131

                Congress to make, concerning captures on land and

                    water.............................................   127

                Power of Congress to make, concerning territory and

                    other property....................................   188
    Rumor.

            As a ground for impeachment...............................   605

            As foundation for investigation...........................   341
    Rural development and electrification.

            Jurisdiction of subjects related to.......................   670
    Safety, public.

            As related to suspension of writ of habeas corpus.........   138
    Salaries.

            Of Representatives and Senators............ 85-88, 258, 1013(13)

            Of Speaker................................................    86

            Jurisdiction as to, of legislative employees..............  677a

            Authorization of appropriations for, in general

                appropriation bills...................................   837
    Sanity.

            As related to the oath and qualifications.................   205
    Savings banks, postal.

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    Science.
            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   676

            Congress may promote, by patent and copyright laws........   124
    Science, Committee on.

            History, jurisdiction and duties of.......................   683

            Special oversight functions of............................   693
    Science, Space, and Technology, Commitee on.  See Science, Committee on.
    Seal.

            Of the House, Clerk affixes...............................   642
    Searches.

            As related to security of persons, papers.................   211
    Seat of government.

            Power of Congress to legislate for..................... 134, 135

            Power of President to convene Congress at another place...   171

            District of Columbia denominated as.......................   135
    Seats.

            Obsolete requirement that a Member sit in his place.......   353
    Second.

            Not required for ordinary motions...................... 392, 776

            Formerly required on motions to suspend the rules.........   906

            Of motion to adjourn on new call of House.................   773

            Yeas and nays not taken on vote to........................    77
    Second reading.

            Of a bill, obsolete requirement as to.....................   400

            Of bills to be in full................................. 830, 831

            Manner of reading a bill a second time....................   428
    Secondary motions.  See also Motions.

            Application of motion to amend to other...................   826

            Discussion of use and relations of...................... 437-464

            In general, one not to be suppressed by another...........   450

            Precedence and conditions of............................ 782-788
    Secrecy.

            Of portions of the Journal................................    68

            Of committee procedure....................................   319
    Secret sessions.

            Rule for and procedure in............................. 914, 944a

            Of committees, banned with certain exceptions.............   708
    Secretary of State.

            Bills that become laws deposited with (obsolete)....... 105, 109
    Secrets.

            Of the House, oath of officers to keep (obsolete).........   635
    Sections.

            Amendment of bills by.....................................   413

            Amendments should be germane to...........................   794

            Clerk amends numbers of, in a bill........................   479

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            House does not agree to severally, in perfecting a bill...   456

            Reading of bills by.......................................   872

            Transportation of, in a bill by amendment.................   477
    Securities.

            Congress may provide punishment for counterfeiting the....   122

            Jurisdiction over depository institution securities.......   672

            Jurisdiction over exchange................................   674
    Security.

            Of the people as to searches and seizures.................   211
    Seizures.

            As related to security of persons, papers.................   211
    Select Committees.

            Ad hoc to consider legislation............................   700

            Former Aging..............................................   702

            Ethics....................................................  685b

            Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence................  944a

            Speaker appoints..........................................  701e

            Reports, dissolution and revival of.......................   419

            Conferences held by means of..............................   532
    Senate.

            Part of Congress..........................................     3

            Concurs in treaties by two-thirds vote....................   165

            Congress not to interfere as to place of choosing Senators    42

            Composition of............................................    32

            Division into classes.....................................    33

            Election of Senators................................ 32, 42, 236

            Electoral votes transmitted to President of...............   219

            Electoral votes to be counted in presence of..............   219

            Filling vacancies in.................................... 34, 236

            May amend revenue bills...................................   102

            No State to be deprived of equal suffrage in, without

                consent...............................................   191

            Power of President to appoint officers during recess of...   167

            Permissible references to Senate action...................   749

            President pro tempore.....................................    37

            Procedure in ratifying treaties...........................   600

            Qualifications of Senators.............................. 35, 230

            References to debate and proceedings therein, criticisms

                of not generally in order in the House......... 371-374, 749

            The Vice President........................................    36

            Tries impeachments........................................ 38-41
    Senate amendments.  See Amendments Between the Houses and Conferences.
    Senate bills.

            Rule for reference of............................. 700, 882, 883

            Consideration of, from Speaker's table with reference to

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    Senate resolutions.
                Committee of the Whole............................. 882, 883

            Simple resolutions of Senate not referred in House........   883
    Sergeant-at-Arms.

            Doorkeeping duties.................................... 380, 650a

                Duty to cooperate in the performance of reviews and

                    audits............................................  650c

            Duties of, on call of the House.............. 768, 770, 773, 774

            Election, oath, and removal of............................   635

            Enforces authority of House in House and in Committee of

                the Whole.............................................   648

            Enforces rules as to decorum on floor.....................   763

                Financial and operational reports to Committee on

                    House Oversight...................................  650b

            Formerly disbursed pay and mileage of Members........... 86, 648

            Makes up roll of Members-elect in certain cases...........   648

            Of the Senate, admitted to the floor of the House.........   919

            The Mace the symbol of his office.........................   650
    Service.

            Fugitives from, return of.................................   186
    Servitude.

            Involuntary, not to exist except as punishment for crime..   224

            Suffrage not to be abridged for previous condition of.....   234
    Sessions.

            Sessions and recesses of Congress.........................   590

            Adjournment of Congress during August in certain

                situations............................................   947

            Adjournment prohibited before completion of congressional

                budget process......................................... 1007

            Close of, as related for constitutional day of meeting of

                Congress............................................ 45, 242

            Conference asked at one and concluded at next.............   533

            Congress adjourns not later than last day of July in

                certain situations....................................   947

            Congress may extend session beyond July...................   947

            Effect of adjournment on action on a veto.................   107

            Executive, of committees, banned with certain exceptions..   708

            Impeachments continue from one to another.................   620

            Manner of closing session by action of the two Houses...... 242,

                                                                         591

            Neither House to adjourn for more than 3 days during,

                without consent of the other..........................    82

            Obsolete law as to business at end of.....................   385

            Of Congress, resumption of business of a preceding........   901

            Of Parliament.............................................   588

            Parliamentary law as to business at the termination of a

                session...............................................   592

            Relations of, to adjournments for more than 3 days........    84

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            Rule for secret, of the House.............................   914

            Sitting committees in recesses, and creation of

                commissions to sit after Congress adjourns............   589

            Termination of, as affecting approval of bills............   577
    Seven days.

            Any member of standing committee may call up bill after

                resolution making bill in order has been adopted for

                more than.............................................   717

            Any member of Rules Committee may call up special rule

                after it has been on calendar for.....................   730

            Filing of committee report within, after written request..  713a

            See clause 3, rule XXVII, relating to motion to discharge.   908

            Special committee meetings to be called within, upon

                request of committee majority.........................   705
    Sex.

            Discrimination in employment on account of, prohibited....   939

            Right of suffrage not to be abridged on account of........   240
    Ships.  See Vessels.

            Of war not to be kept by States in time of peace..........   148
    Signature.

            Approval of bill by President valid only with.............   105

            As to signing of enrolled bills by Speaker pro tempore....   634

            Of enrolled bills for presentation to the President.... 575, 576

            Of enrolled bill canceled.............................. 575, 625

            Of bills, effect of recess of Congress on.................   901

            Of conference reports.....................................   543

            Of prime sponsor of bill at introduction..................   851

            Of reports of committees and minority views............ 408, 821

            Of writs, warrants, acts, subpoenas.......................   624

            Speaker declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider

                is pending............................................   816

            Speaker does not sign bills in absence of a quorum

                (obsolete)............................................   625
    Simple conferences.

            In modern practice........................................   540

            Parliamentary law as to...................................   539

            Usage as to...............................................   557
    Six days.

            Last, of session, status of motion to reconsider during...   812

            Last, of session, suspension of rules during..............   902

            Conference report not required to be printed in Record on

                last............................................. 912a, 912b
    Slavery.

            Not to exist in the United States.........................   224

            Suffrage not to be abridged for previous condition of.....   234
    Slaves.

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    Small business.
            No claims for, to be paid.................................   232

            Generally.

                Assistance and protection, jurisdiction over..........   684

                Participation in federal contracts, jurisdiction over.   684

            Committee on.

                History and jurisdiction of...........................   684

                Special oversight functions of........................   693
    Smithsonian Institution.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to................... 677a, 686
    Smoking.

            Forbidden on floor of House...............................   763
    Social Security.

            Jurisdiction over health care and facilities supported by

                payroll deductions....................................   688

            Jurisdiction over health care supported by general

                revenues..............................................   674

            Jurisdiction of, generally................................   688
    Soldiers.

            As to quartering of.......................................   210

            Of the World War, jurisdiction of matters relating to.....   687
    Soldiers' homes.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   680
    Speaker.

            Election of.
    Chosen by the House............................................. 26, 312
    Chosen by majority on rollcall vote by surname.................. 27, 635

                Election of, as related to adoption of rules..........    59

                Election of, in case of death or resignation..........    28

                Election of Speaker pro tempore.......................   314

                Four-term limit.......................................  633a

                Has the power to name a Speaker pro tempore under

                    conditions........................................   633

                House has adjourned for more than one day before

                    election of Speaker...............................    83

                Motion to proceed to election of, of higher privilege

                    than motion to correct the roll...................   638
    Nominations for, precedence of................................... 27, 60

                Removal of............................................   315

                Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order pending election of..   648

            Relations of, to oath.

                Administers oath to Members and officers..............   198

                As to power to direct a Member whose right to be sworn

                    is challenged, to step aside......................   203

                Functions of, in administering the oath to Members....   199

                May administer oaths to witnesses.....................   343

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                Oath, administered to, by Dean of House...............   198

            Preserves order and decorum.

                Preserves order and decorum...........................   622

                Censure inflicted by, on order of House...............    63

                Duty of, as to accommodating differences among Members   367

                May cause lobby or gallery to be cleared for disorder.   622
    May not censure or punish a Member..........................622, 760-761

                May not recognize Members to introduce occupants in

                    galleries.........................................   764

                May not entertain requests to extend floor privileges.   920

                Parliamentary law as to naming a Member by, for

                    disorder..........................................   366

                Power of, as to abuse of privilege of the floor.......   920

                Power to order arrest.................................   622

                Sergeant-at-Arms maintains order and executes commands

                    of House under direction of.......................   648

            Decides questions of order.
    Decides questions of order..................................... 624, 627

                Advice from Members while deciding a question of order

                    during a division.................................   507

                Authority of, to delay decision or a question of order   378
    House by appeal controls decisions on..................... 379, 624, 628

                May not decide questions of consistency as to

                    amendments........................................   466

                Not to pass on sufficiency of a committee's report....   821

                Practice governing, in deciding questions of order....   627

                Questions not for his decision........................   627

            Duties of, as to quorum.

                Actual count of, to ascertain quorum after previous

                    question is ordered...............................   810

                Count of quorum by....................................    54

                Duties of, when Committee of the Whole rises without a

                    quorum............................................   863

                May order the noting of Members to make quorum on vote

                    of record.........................................   772

                May recognize for call of the House...................  774d

                Required to notice failure of quorum on yea-and-nay

                    vote..............................................    76

                Takes Chair at hour of meeting, not waiting for

                    ascertainment of quorum...........................   310

            Duties of, as to sittings and adjournment.

                Takes the Chair.......................................   621

                Calls House to order..................................   621

                May declare recesses..................................  634f

                Declares adjournment at end of Congress...............     6

                Pronounces adjournment................................   587

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                Right of, to cause secret session.....................   914

            Conduct of.

                As a witness before a committee.......................   346

                Four-term limit.......................................  633a
    Functions of, at examinations at the bar of the House.......... 343, 344

                Reprimand of..........................................    63

                Rules a restraint on caprice of.......................   285

            Duties, generally.
    Authority, duties, and privileges as to use of galleries....... 922, 930

                Authority to implement broadcasting of House

                    proceedings.......................................  634c

                Certifies to compensation of Members..................    86

                Directed to notify governor of State in case of

                    certain vacancies.................................    22

                Drug testing of Members, officers, and employees......  634g

                Duties of, general control of hall, corridors, and

                    rooms.............................................   623

                Ex officio member of Permanent Select Committee on

                    Intelligence......................................  944a

                May designate Members, officers, and employees to

                    travel on official business of the House, on

                    vouchers approved by him..........................  634b

                Office for Legislative Floor Activities...............  996a

            Appointment of committees by.

                Appoints select and conference committees.............  701e

                Removes conference committees.........................  701e

            Appointment of officers of House temporarily by.

                Appoints temporarily to fill vacancies................   635

            Relations to petitions, bills, and order of business.

                Declines to sign a bill when motion to reconsider is

                    pending...........................................   816

                Directs Clerk as to reference of nonprivileged report

                    to calendars......................................   743
    Duties as to referring matters from Speaker's table............ 882, 883
    Duties of, as to placing bills on the Corrections Calendar....745a, 996b

                Duties of, in presenting petitions....................   849
    Duty as to reception and reference of executive communications..... 700,

                                                                         936
    Duty to exclude certain bills, memorials....................... 849, 852

                Duty of, when validity of a report is questioned......   408

                Early discretion of, as to the order of business......   349

                Exercises discretion about interrupting pending

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                    business to receive a message.....................   562

                Functions of, in relation to request for unanimous

                    consent...........................................   881
    Makes reference of public bills, memorials......................700, 854

                Messenger saluted by..................................   564

                Objects to action on a bill without reading...........   831
    Sign acts, writs, subpoenas.................................... 624, 626
    Signing of enrolled bills by................................... 575, 624

            Powers and duties as to recognition.
    Speaker's power of recognition.................................. 753-757

                Designates time and place for consideration of

                    questions of privilege............................   661

                Discretion to recognize for motion for call of House..  774d
    Discretion to recognize for motion to send bill to conference..... 528a,

                                                                 827, 828a-2

                Discretion to recognize authorized committee member to

                    call up bill made in order by resolution..........   715
    Duty of, as to entertaining questions of privilege.............. 661-668

                Duty as to recognition for motion to reconsider.......   813

                Exceptions to the usages constraining the Speaker as

                    to recognitions...................................   757

                Former duty as to recognizing for second of motion to

                    suspend the rules.................................   906

                Function of, in recognizing for debate................   354

                Limitation on power to entertain motion for recess on

                    Wednesdays........................................   897
    Limitation on power of, to entertain motions pending report of
    Committee on Rules........................................... 729a, 729b

                Loss of right to recognition by Member in charge......   755
    No appeal from his recognition................................. 356, 627

                Not to entertain dilatory motions.....................   803

                Not to entertain motion to suspend the rules as to use

                    of Hall of House..................................   918

                Not to entertain motions or requests to suspend rule

                    relating to admission to the floor................   919

                May entertain one motion to adjourn pending motion to

                    suspend rules.....................................   801

                Power to entertain motions to suspend rules limited...   902

                Preliminary action of Member in seeking recognition...   749

                Principles as to recognition for motion for the

                    previous question.................................   807

                Prior right of Members of the committee to recognition

                    for debate........................................   756

                Required to give preference to opposition for motion

                    to recommit after previous question is ordered....   782

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                Speaker governed by usage in recognition..............   754

                With respect to former consent calendar...............   746

            Relations of, to debate.
    Criticism of in debate..................................... 362, 760-761
    Duty as to calling to order in debate........................... 760-761

                Duty of, to supress reflections on motives............   363

                Duty of, to prevent expressions in debate offensive to

                    the other House...................................   374

                Participation of, in debate...........................   358

                To be addressed when a Member desires to interrupt in

                    debate............................................   364

            Puts the question.

                Decorum while he is putting the question..............   763

                Duty of, to state motions.............................   776
    Formal and informal putting of the question by.................. 489-491

                Must put a question which is in order.................   304

                Putting of the question by, and taking the vote.......   629

                Reads sitting but rises to put a question.............   428

            Duty and rights as to voting.
    Formerly appointed tellers...................................... 630a, b

                Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on

                    ordering the previous question....................   631

                Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on

                    motions to suspend rules..........................   631

                Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings on

                    passing bills, adopting resolutions, and agreeing

                    to conference reports.............................   631

                Discretionary authority to postpone proceedings under

                    Corrections Calendar..............................   631

                Discretionary authority to reduce electronic vote to

                    five minutes...................................... 774bb
    Discretionary authority to use electronic device in taking vote... 630a,

                                                                       774bb

                Duty of, when an order of yeas and nays is demanded...    78

                Duty to divide the House on demand of a Member after

                    vote by sound.....................................   501

                Forbidden to entertain a request to record a vote

                    after the roll call...............................   765

                Has not usually decided as to vote of a Member

                    personally interested.............................   658

                His vote on a roll call...............................   765
    His vote ordinarily and in case of tie......................... 632, 765

                Not deprived of vote by rule..........................    59

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                Procedure of, in taking a vote of yeas and nays.......   504

            Relations to Committee of the Whole.

                Appoints Chairman of Committee of the Whole and leaves

                    Chair.............................................  861a

                Declaration of resolve into Committee of Whole

                    pursuant to special order.........................   862

                Duty of, as to recognition of a report from a

                    Committee of the Whole............................   335

                Function of, when the House goes into Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   328
    May take the Chair to restore order in Committee of the Whole...... 331,

                                                                    332, 622

                Remains in the Chair in House as in Committee of the

                    Whole.............................................   424
    Takes the Chair at informal rising of Committee of the Whole to
    receive a message.............................................. 330, 563

            Powers and duties of, as to conferences.
    Functions and duty of, in appointing and removing managers of a
    conference.............................................. 536, 701e, 701f

                May rule out a conference report where managers exceed

                    their authority...................................   547

            Duties as to Journal and Record.

                Approves Journal......................................   621

                May cause Journal to be read..........................   621

                Duties as to reporters of debates and committee

                    stenographers.....................................   923

                May not prevent House from amending Journal...........    71
    Relations of, to Congressional Record.......................... 923, 928
    Speaker's Office for Legislative Floor Activities.

            Establishment of..........................................  996a
    Speaker pro tempore.

            Appointed by the Speaker or elected by the House..........   633

            Choice of.................................................   314

            Chosen on removal of Speaker..............................   315

            Competency of, to administer oath to Members..............   199

            Election, oath, and designation of........................  634a
    Speaker's table.

            Business on, place in order of business...................   878

            Must be authorized by committee in formal meeting to make

                motion................................................   883

            Rule for disposition of business on.................... 882, 883

            Senate bill must be substantially same as House bill as

                reported from House committee.........................   883

            Senate bill to be called up, House bill must correctly be

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    Special orders.  See also Rules.
                on House Calendar.....................................   883

            Effect of, on Tuesday business............................   893

            Oxford-style debates......................................  753c

            Privilege of reports of........................... 726, 728, 729

            Quorum calls not in order during speeches.................  774c

            Relation of motion to postpone to..................... 682b, 786

            Rules Committee must specify waivers contained in.........  731a

            Speeches..................................................  753a

            Use of, and method of making..............................  682b
    Speech.

            Freedom of, guaranteed....................................   208

            Members not to be questioned in another place for.........    92

            Members of Parliament exempted from question as to.... 287, 302,

                                                                         309

            Not to be noticed by the other House......................   308
    Spending authority.

            New authority defined in Budget Act.......................  1008

            Jurisdiction over new spending authority..................  671a

            New spending authority prohibited in bills or resolutions

                and amendments unless limited to appropriations to be

                made..................................................  1008
    Spitting.

            Not in order during debate................................   364
    St. Elizabeth's Hospital, jurisdiction of.........................   676
    Staffs of committees.  See Committee staffs.
    Standard.

            Congress to fix, for weights and measures.................   121
    Standards of Official Conduct, Committee on.

            Approval of copyright royalty contracts...................   943

            Composition of, one-half from each party..................  701a

            Duties and procedures of as to standards of conduct and

                investigations........................................   698

            Duties under the gift rule................................  946a

            Employing agency under Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act..   685

            Exempted from former rule proscribing committee sittings

                during five-minute rule...............................   710

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   685

            Inspector General makes certain reports to................   654

            Privileged reports from...................................   726

            Sanction Committee may recommend..........................    63
    Standing committees.  See Committees.
    Standing orders.

            Duration of...............................................   386
    State executive.

            Fills certain vacancies in Senate (obsolete)..............    34

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            Issues writs to fill vacancies in representation..........17, 24

            May be empowered by legislature to make temporary

                appointment of Senator................................   236
    State laws.

            As related to House's power to judge elections............ 48-50
    State of the Union.

            President to inform Congress of...........................   168
    Statement.

            Accompanying conference report, rule as to................   911

            Of receipts and expenditures of public money to be

                published.............................................   143
    States.

            Relations to the two Houses.

                Admission of, jurisdiction of bills for...............   681

                Authority of, as to establishment of congressional

                    districts.........................................   227

                Clerk to distribute Journal to legislative bodies of..   641

                Constitutional convention to be called on application

                    of legislatures of................................   192

                Governors of, admitted to the floor of the House......   919

                House of Representatives votes by, in choosing

                    President.........................................   221

                Legislatures prescribe time of elections..............42, 43

                May not prescribe qualifications of Members...........    12

                None to be deprived of equal suffrage in Senate

                    without its consent...............................   191

                People of the several, to choose Representatives......     5

                Qualifications of electors of Representatives of, in..     7

                Ratification of constitutional amendments by..........   192

                Representation to be apportioned among................   226

                Two Senators from each................................    32

            Relations of, to President.

                Appoint electors of President.........................   151

                Electors of, limited as to votes for President and

                    Vice President....................................   219

                Meeting of presidential electors in...................   219

                President Commander in Chief of militia of, in certain

                    cases.............................................   160

            Relations of, to courts, crimes.

                Judges in, bound by Constitution of the United States.   195

                Judicial power extends to cases affecting.............   178

                Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in cases affecting......   179

                Limitations as to certain suits against...............   218

                Relations of, as to extradition.......................   185

                To give full faith and credit to public acts, records,

                    and judicial proceedings of one another...........   183

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                Trials for crimes in..................................   180

            Citizenship and suffrage in, and authority of.

                Citizenship of........................................   225

                No State by law to abridge the privileges and

                    immunities of citizens............................   225

                Not to abridge suffrage for race, color...............   235

                Not to deprive any person of life, liberty, or

                    property unlawfully, or deny equal protection of

                    the laws..........................................   225

                Privileges and immunities of the citizens of..........   184

                Admission, consolidation, or division of..............   187

                Authority as to militia...............................   133

                Certain claims of, not to be prejudiced by the

                    Constitution......................................   188

                Duties not to be levied by, on commerce by water......   142

                Eighteen-year-old persons and older granted suffrage..   257

                Jurisdiction of bills as to compacts between, in

                    general...........................................  679a

                Jurisdiction of compacts between, of waters for

                    irrigation purposes...............................   681

                Jurisdiction of compacts over interstate energy.......   674

                Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries........  679a

                Necessity of militia for security of..................   209

                No tax or duty on articles exported from..............   141

                Not to pay any debt incurred in aiding insurrection or

                    rebellion.........................................   234

                Officers of, bound by oath to support the Constitution   196

                One not to enter into agreement or compact with

                    another except on condition.......................   148

                Ports of, not to be given preferences.................   142

                Power of Congress to regulate commerce among..........   119

                Power of Congress over places purchased with consent

                    of................................................   134

                Powers of, as to migration or importation of persons..   137
    Powers of, as to treaties, alliances, confederations, and other
    functions, limited.............................................. 146-148

                Powers reserved to, by the Constitution...............   217

                Qualifications of officers as to loyalty..............   232

                Relations of, as to fugitives from service or labor...   186

                United States to guarantee republican form of

                    government and protect from invasion and domestic

                    violence..........................................   189
    Stationery.

            Clerk formerly furnished..................................   642

            Clerk formerly kept accounts of Members and Delegates as

                to....................................................   642

            For Members...............................................    88
    Statistics.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to, generally..............   676

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    Statuary.
            Jurisdiction of matters relating to labor.................   675

            Jurisdiction as to........................................  677a
    Statutes.

            Revision of, jurisdiction as to...........................  679a
    Stenographers.

            Admission of unofficial...................................  930a

            Of Committees, appointment of.............................   923

            Official reporters of debates.............................   923
    Strike out enacting words.

            Rule governing motions to.................................   875

            Practice as to use of motions to..........................   876
    Strike out, motion to.

            Application of............................................   472

            Conditions of striking out an amendment already agreed to.   474

            Effect of affirmative vote on motion to, and insert.......   473

            Federal unfunded mandate..................................  873c

            Motion to strike out and insert not divisible.............   793

            Negative decision of, not bar to further amendment........   793

            Perfecting before voting on...............................   469

            Practice of Parliament and the House as to................   468

            Priority of perfecting amendments over....................   456

            Repetition of the motion to, and insert...................   471
    Subcommittees.  See also Committees.

            Limited number may be established.........................  701d

            May authorize and issue subpoenas.........................   718

            Oversight function of.....................................  692b

            Staff for.................................................  732d

            Subject to full committee control.........................  703a
    Subjects.

            Of foreign states, limitations on suits of, against States   218

            Judicial power extends to cases affecting those of foreign

                states................................................   178
    Subpoenas.

            Clerk seals and attests all...............................   642

            From courts for papers of House........................ 291, 946

            Issue of, during recess of Congress.......................   342

            Procedure for response to judicial subpoenas..............   946

            Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626

            Standing committees and their subcommittees may issue.....   718

            Authorizing and signing committee subpoenas...............   718
    Substantive propositions.

            As related to division of the question................. 791, 792
    Substitute amendment.

            Amendment of..............................................   823

            As to division of.........................................   793

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            Rule as to offering of....................................   822

            Time of offering in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''   427
    Suffrage.

            Abridgment of a cause of reduction of representation......   226

            Of States in the Senate...................................   190

            Right to, not to be abridged for race, color..............   234

            Right to, not to be abridged--

                On account of sex.....................................   236

                By poll tax...........................................   251
    Suits.

            As to jury trial for those at common law..................   214

            Limitation of judicial power in cases of law or equity....   219
    Summons.

            Writ of, in an impeachment............................. 608, 611
    Sunday.

            Not taken into account in adjournment for three days or

                less..................................................    83

            Excepted from the ten-day limit as to bills presented to

                President.............................................   111

            When inauguration day falls on............................   150
    Sundry civil expenses.

            Jurisdiction of appropriations for........................  671a
    Supplemental budget.

            Transmittal of............................................   169
    Supreme Court.

            Admission to Floor, see Floor.

            Gallery for, see Galleries.

            Judges of.................................................   922

            Jurisdiction of...........................................   179

            Repository of judicial power..............................   177

            Tenure and compensation of judges of......................   177
    Suspension.

            Of writ of habeas corpus..................................   138
    Suspension of rules.

            Consideration on certain suspension days of former Consent

                Calendar..............................................   746

            If quorum not present when former vote on ordering second

                taken by tellers, vote then had under call of the

                House by yeas and nays................................   906

            Motion for, as unfinished business........................   888

            Motion for, entertained after yeas and nays are demanded..    80

            Nature of the motion......................................   903

            One motion to adjourn in order pending....................   801

            Postponement of votes until designated time...............   631

            Precedence of the motion..................................   904

            Recognition by Speaker for motion on......................   757

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            Rule governing the motion for.............................   902

            Rule relating to admission to the floor not to be

                suspended.............................................   919

            Formerly, second required.................................   906

            Speaker not to entertain motion to suspend rule relating

                to use of the Hall of the House.......................   918

            The 40 minutes of debate on motions on....................   907
    Table.

            Speaker's.
    Rule for disposition of business on.............................882, 883

                Business on, place in daily order.....................   878

            Clerk's.

                No Member to remain near, during voting...............   763

                Members not to take papers from, or write there during

                    debate............................................   364

                Papers on, not to go from Clerk's custody.............   352

                Laying of adverse reports on..........................   744

            Motion to lay on the. See Lay on the table.
    Taking down words.

            Parliamentary law as to....................... 368, 369, 760-761
    Taxes and Tariffs.  See also Duties.

            Capitation or direct, to be proportioned to census........   140

            Committees not having jurisdiction of, may not report a

                tax or tariff.........................................  846b

            Amendments to bills reported from, may not carry..........  846b

            Exempt foundations and trusts, jurisdiction over..........   688

            Export taxes prohibited...................................   141

            Income taxes..............................................   235

            Old apportionment of......................................    14

            On persons migrating or imported..........................   137

            Point of order against certain bills and amendments

                carrying..............................................  846b

            Power of Congress to lay and collect......................   117

            Propositions for, considered in Committee of the Whole..... 865,

                                                                         868

            Report on ``major'' tax legislation may include ``dynamic

                estimate''............................................  748b

            Retroactive income tax rates prohibited...................  846d

            Vote on measures raising income tax rates............ 774e, 846c
    Technology Assessment.

            Office of.................................................   995
    Televising.

            Committee meetings and hearings......................... 720-725

            House proceeding..........................................  634c
    Tellers.

            Clerk tellers.
    Clerks to serve as, on quorum calls and recorded votes....... 630a, 771b

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                Rule and practice.....................................  630a

                Appointment of........................................  630a

                Chair may be counted on a vote by.....................   632

                Demand for, may be held dilatory......................   803

                May be demanded after refusal of yeas and nays........    80

                May not be ordered to verify count of quorum..........    54

                Ordered by a fifth of a quorum........................  630a
    Rule and practice as to voting by............................... 630a, b

            Generally.

                Appointment of, for electoral count...................   220

                Clerk appoints, for election of Speaker...............   312

                Former demand for and vote by.........................  630a

                Formerly motion to suspend the rules seconded on vote

                    by................................................   906

                Messages not received during vote by..................   562

                Rectification of error after report of................   503

                Relation of, to point as to quorum....................    54

                Sometimes used in ordering yeas and nays..............   504

                Yeas and nays may be demanded during vote by..........    77
    Ten days.

            Limit as to bills presented to President..................   111
    Tender, legal.

            States restricted as to making............................   146
    Term.

            Beginning of President's term.......................... 150, 241

            Of Congress...............................................     6

            Of Member elected to fill vacancy.........................    25

            Of President of the United States...................... 149, 281

            Of Representatives........................................  5, 6

            Of Senators...............................................    32

            Of Speaker and other officers.......................... 26, 633a

            Of Speaker expires with the Congress......................   637

            Of 2 years for appropriations for armies..................   171
    Territories.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to boundaries of.........  679a

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to courts of.............  679a

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to generally.............   681

            Power of Congress to make rules and regulations concerning   188

            Privilege of Delegates from, see Delegates.
    Testimony.

            Methods of taking, by the House and committees......... 341-348,

                                                          708, 709, 711, 712

            Power of the House to compel..............................   295

            Procedure when it implicates a Member of the other House,

                see Witnesses.

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            Quorum to receive, see Witnesses.

            Required to secure conviction for treason.................   181

            Witnesses before committees, see Witnesses.
    Tests.

            Of strength usually taken first on the engrossment of a

                bill..................................................   429

            Of strength may be taken before bill is amended...........   430

            Religious, not required for office under United States....   196
    Text of a bill.

            House and not Speaker passes on questions relating to that

                to which both Houses have agreed......................   466

            Perfection of, before striking out or agreeing............   456

            That to which both Houses have agreed not to be changed by

                either House alone or by the conference...............   527
    Thanks.

            Of Congress, persons receiving, admitted to the floor.....   919
    Third reading of a bill.

            Amendments before.........................................   497

            Committal of a bill on....................................   494

            Debate in relation to.....................................   498

            Obsolete parliamentary law as to, of bills................   493

            Obsolete requirements as to reading and passage of bills

                                                                    492, 832

            Question on, and procedure............................. 830, 832
    Three days.  See Adjournment. Committees. and Conferences.
    Tie vote.

            Decision on...............................................   508

            In Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight...............   632

            Question lost on..........................................   632

            Speaker's vote in case of.............................. 632, 765

            Vote of Vice President in case of.........................    36
    Time.

            Of adjournment, power of President as to..................   171

            Amendments, filling blanks as to..........................   475
    Times of elections.

            Regulation of.............................................42, 43
    Titles.

            Of bills.

                Amendment of..........................................   822

                Amendment of in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''   427

                Endorsement of, on an engrossed bill..................   431

                Of reported bills entered in Journal and Record.......   743

                Parliamentary law as to amendment of title to a bill..   512

                Power of a committee as to............................   411

            Of Journals.

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                Of Journal............................................    69

            Of nobility.
    Conditions on acceptance of, from foreign sources.............. 144, 145

                No State to grant.....................................   146
    None to be accepted by officers of United States............... 144, 145
    None to be granted............................................. 144, 145
    Tonnage.

            States not to levy duties on..............................   148
    Tort claims.

            Bills for certain, banned.................................   852
    Trade, expedited procedures with respect to.

            Termination of Cuban Economic Embargo.................. 1013(33)

            U.S. participation in the WTO.......................... 1013(29)

            Under the Trade Act of 1974............................ 1013(11)
    Trademarks.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................  679a
    Trading with the enemy.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   678
    Transfers of unexpended balances.

            Jurisdiction of subjects related to.......................  671a

            Separate headings for in certain bills and reports........  671a
    Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on.

            History, jurisdiction, and duties of......................   686
    Transposition.

            Of portions of a bill by motion to amend..................   477
    Travel.

            Of Members and employees.

                By retiring or defeated Members following sine die

                    adjournment.......................................  732e

                Use of committee funds for travel.....................  719a

                Use by committees of foreign currencies owned by the

                    United States.....................................  719a

                Reports by committees on use of foreign currencies....  719b

                Expense resolutions for committee travel..............  732e

                Speaker may designate Members, officers, and employees

                    to travel on official business of the House, on

                    vouchers approved by him..........................  634b

            Generally.

                Travel and tourism, jurisdiction over subjects related

                    to................................................   674
    Treason.  See also Aid.

            An impeachable offense....................................   173

            Definition of.............................................   181

            Extradition for...........................................   185

            Power of Congress to declare the punishment of............   181

            Relations of privilege to case of.........................   305

            Senators and Representatives not privileged from arrest

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                for...................................................    90

            Testimony for conviction of...............................   181
    Treasurer of the United States.

            Disburses pay of Members in certain cases.................    86
    Treasury.

            Compensation of Representatives and Senators paid out of..    85

            Duties and imposts on imports or exports levied by States

                to go to..............................................   147

            Money not to be drawn from, except on appropriation.......   143

            Jurisdiction as to subjects relating to...................   688
    Treaties.

            Abrogated by law..........................................   599

            Authority of the House as to revenue......................   596

            Authority of the House as to, in general..................   596

            General action of the House as to.........................   595

            General nature of.........................................   593

            House approves Indian.....................................   598

            Jefferson's discussion of, under the Constitution.........   594

            Judicial power extends to cases arising under.............   178

            Jurisdiction of those relating to revenue.................   688

            President makes, with concurrence of Senate...............   165

            Procedure of the Senate as to.............................   600

            States not to make........................................   146

            Supreme law of the land...................................   195
    Treaty rights.

            Jurisdiction as to bills relating to......................   678
    Trial.

            At bar of House for contempts.............................   344

            By jury in suits at common law............................   214

            For capital or infamous crimes............................   212

            For crimes to be in State where committed or where

                Congress may direct...................................   180

            Of crimes to be by jury, except in cases of impeachment...   180

            Persons not to be put twice in jeopardy...................   212

            Rights as to, in criminal prosecutions....................   213
    Tribunals.

            Congress to constitute inferior...........................   125
    Troops.

            States not to keep, in time of peace......................   148
    Trust.

            No one holding office of, to accept certain gifts...... 144, 145

            Public, no religious test required for under United States   196
    Trust funds.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   688
    Trusts.

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    Tuesday.
            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................  679a

            Interruption of regular order on the first and third

                Tuesdays for consideration of the Private Calendar....   893

            Motions to suspend rules on...............................   902

            Corrections Calendar called on second and fourth..........  745a
    Twenty-minutes' debate.

            On certain motions to discharge committees................   908
    Two-thirds vote.  See Voting.
    Two weeks.

            Last, of session, rule for Calendar Wednesday not to apply

                to....................................................   897
    Unanimous consent.

            Amendments between Houses considered by...................  528a

            Former calendar for bills to be considered by.............   746

            Consideration in House as in Committee of the Whole by....   424

            Correction of reference of public bills may be made by....   854

            Interruption of the order of business for.................   881

            Ordinary function of Speaker as to recognition of requests

                for................................................ 757, 881

            Practice of Speaker as to recognition of requests for.....   757

            Private claims to be referred to certain committees only

                by....................................................   845

            Request as to admission to the floor not to be entertained   919

            Required for withdrawal of amendment in Committee of the

                Whole.................................................   870

            Reservation of objection to...............................   881

            Right of Member to demand execution of subsisting order.... 381,

                                                                         881
    Unfinished business.

            Rule for considering of...................................   885

            Construction of the rule as to............................   886

            Business in periods set apart for classes of business.....   888

            Private, on Tuesdays......................................   893

            Place of, in daily order of business......................   878

            Postponed votes...........................................   631

            Priority of, in Committee of the Whole....................   869

            Question of consideration does not recur as...............   779

            Resumption of business of a preceding session of Congress.   901
    Unfunded Mandates.  See Federal mandates.
    Union.

            An object of the Constitution.............................     1

            Execution of laws of......................................   132

            States of, guaranteed republican form of government and

                protection from invasion and domestic violence........   189
    Union calendar.

            Rule and practice for considering bills on, after call of

                committees......................................... 891, 892

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            Bills placed on...........................................   742

            Bills on, considered by unanimous consent in House as in

                Committee of the Whole................................   424

            Bills on, considered on Calendar Wednesday................   897

            Bills from, on Corrections Calendar.......................   745

            Referral of State of the Union message to.................   168

            Removal of bill from by Speaker...........................   865
    Unofficial office accounts.

            Prohibited................................................   941
    Unusual punishments.

            Not to be inflicted.......................................   215
    Urban development.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   672
    Usage.

            Governing the Speaker in recognitions.....................   754
    Useless papers.

            Disposition of, jurisdiction..............................  677a
    Vacancies.

            In membership of House.

                Clerk administers office..............................  647c

                Continuation of pay of clerical assistants............    88

                Declared for holding incompatible offices.............   101

                From action of House..................................    22

                From death............................................    18

                From declination......................................    20

                From resignation......................................    19

                From withdrawal.......................................    21

                Functions of State executive as to....................    24

                Governor issues writs to fill.........................    17

                In general............................................ 17-25

                Questions as to existence of..........................    23

                Term of Member elected to.............................    25

            In general.

                In managers of a conference...........................   538

                In office of Clerk....................................    30

                Of House officers, Speaker may fill temporarily.......   635

                In office of Speaker..................................    28

                In office of Vice President...........................   353
    In office of President................................ 155, 244-246, 252

                In offices, President to fill, during recess of Senate   167

                In Senate.............................................    34
    On Committees, filling of..................................... 701c, 705
    Vacating.

            Of Speaker's signature to enrolled bill...................   625
    Validity.

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    Vessels.  See also Ships.
            Of the public debt not to be questioned...................   234

            Appropriations for, as in continuance of a public work....   841

            Bound from State to State.................................   142

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to mutiny and destruction

                of....................................................  679a
    Veterans' Affairs, Committee on.

            History, jurisdiction and duties of.......................   687

            Other committees consolidated with........................   687
    Veto.

            Of a bill by the President................................   104

            Consideration and action on vetoed bill in House... 104, 107-109

            Line item veto authority of the President.............. 1013(6b)

            Members answering present not considered in determining

                two-thirds............................................   109

            Two-thirds of those voting, a quorum present, sufficient

                to pass bill..........................................   109

            In order to consider on Calendar Wednesday................   898

            Pocket veto...............................................   112

            Effect of adjournment to day certain as to pocket veto....   113
    Vice President.

            Admitted to the floor of the House........................   919

            Confirmation of President's nominee to fill vacancy.... 253, 256

            Election of............................. 151, 153, 246, 253, 256

            Election of, by the Senate in certain cases............. 221-223

            Limitation on right of electors to vote for............ 219, 220

            May be impeached..........................................   173

            Meeting of electors of, and transmission and count of

                votes for.......................................... 219, 220

            Official duties of President devolve on, in certain cases

                                                          155, 252, 254, 255

            President of Senate with a vote in case of tie............    36

            Presides in certain impeachments..........................    39

            Qualifications of.........................................   221

            Qualifications of electors, as to loyalty.............. 230, 231

            Removal, death, resignation, or inability of..............   155

            Term of................................................ 150, 241

            To act as President if the House of Representatives fails

                to choose.............................................   221
    Views of minority.

            Signing of................................................   821

            Reference of, to calendars................................   743

            Right to file.............................................   714
    Violence.

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    Virgin Islands.
            Domestic, States may ask protection from..................   189
    Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund................................  1008

            Delegate from, powers and privileges, see Delegates.
    Visitors to institutions.

            Do not hold incompatible offices..........................    98
    Viva voce vote.

            Rules require officers of House, except Speaker, to be

                elected by............................................   635

            Usage to elect Speaker by............................... 27, 635
    Vocational education.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   675
    Votes.

            As to presentation of, to President for approval..........   115

            By which a bill is passed not communicated to the other

                House.................................................   567

            Delegates not to vote in House............................   740

            Delegates and Resident Commissioner, voting in committees

                and formerly in the Committee of the Whole........ 740, 864b

            Each Senator to have one..................................    32

            Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes

                decisive in Committee of Whole........................  864b

            Methods of recording in Journal...........................72, 75

            Not to be noticed in the other House......................   308

            Of Chief Justice in impeachments..........................    39

            Of electors of President, giving of.......................   153

            Of Speaker not taken away by rule.........................    59

            Of Speaker ordinarily and in case of tie..................   632

            Of Vice President in case of tie..........................    36

            Of States in the Senate...................................   190

            Recorded vote considered vote by yeas and nays............  630a

            Speaker's authority to postpone...........................   631

            Transmittal and count of electoral..................... 219, 220

            Transmittal of, of electors of President..................   153

            Yeas and nays entered on Journal by order of one-fifth.... 75-78

            Yeas and nays on vetoed bill entered on Journal...........   104
    Voting.

            Duties and rights of Members, Delegates, and Resident

                Commissioner in.

                Absent Members' votes not announced...................  660a
    Change of a vote......................................... 511, 766, 774b
    Disqualifying personal interest................................ 657, 659
    Duties and rights of Delegates and Resident Commissioner in
    committees and formerly in Committee of the Whole............. 740, 864b

                Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes

                    decisive in Committee of Whole....................  864b

                May not authorize any other individual to cast his

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                    vote..............................................  660b

                Members convicted of certain crimes...................   939
    Members required to vote....................................... 656, 658

                Parliamentary law as to giving of votes...............   505

                Pairs and their announcement..........................   660

                Proxy voting in committees prohibited.................   707
    Relation of reading of papers to under former rule XXX......... 916, 917
    Right of Member to have read once a paper on which he is to vote

                                                                    432, 916

                Withdrawal of a vote or correction of error in........   766

            Decisions by majority--tie.

                Decision by voice of majority--tie votes..............   508

            Three-fifths vote.

                On measures raising income tax rates..................  846c

                On bills considered on Corrections Calendar...........  745a

            Two-thirds vote.

                In general............................................   509
    Calendar Wednesday, to dispense with business on.............. 729a, 897
    Constitution, on proposed amendments to........................ 190, 192

                Constitution, on amendment of other House to proposed

                    amendment to......................................   192
    Constitution, to agree to conference report on a proposed
    amendment to................................................... 192, 549

                Expulsion, for........................................    62

                Impeachment, for conviction on........................    38
    Political disabilities, to remove.............................. 230, 231

                Private Calendar, to dispense with on first Tuesday

                    each month........................................   893

                Report from Committee on Rules, to consider

                    immediately.......................................  729a
    Not required for immediate consideration of certain reports from
    Committee on Rules...................................... 715, 912a, 912b

                Suspension of the rules, on...........................   902

                Treaties, Senate concurs in, by.......................   165
    Veto, to pass bill over a...................................... 104, 109

            By electronic system.

                Use in House..........................................  774b

                Use in Committee of the Whole.........................   863

                Bell and light indications............................   765

            Five-minute votes.

                On postponed questions................................   631

                On questions in sequence in House..................... 774bb

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                On questions in sequence in Committee of Whole........  864a

            By sound and by division.

                Division of the House after determination by sound....   501

                Messages not received during vote by division.........   562
    Method of viva voce, and by division..........................630a, 630b

                Parliamentary provisions as to division not applicable

                    in the House......................................   502

                Repetition of demand for division.....................  630a

            By recorded vote. See Recorded vote.

            By tellers. See Tellers.
    Former rule for voting by.................................... 630a, 630b

            By yeas and nays. See Yeas and nays.

            By ballot.

                Rule for..............................................   934

            On bills, amendments.

                As related to debate on amendment.....................   482

                Former de novo votes in House where Delegates' votes

                    decisive in Committee of Whole....................  864b

                On amendments, order and principle of.................   822

                On articles in an impeachment.........................   618

                On several stages and passage of a bill...............   833

                Postponing rollcall votes.............................   631

                Requirements as to, on a motion to reconsider.........   817

                Right to debate not precluded until negative is put...   482

                Test of strength may be taken on a bill before

                    amendment.........................................   430

                Test of strength usually made on engrossment of a bill   429

            Division of question for. See Division.

            In election of officers.
    Electors, Presidential, chosen by ballot....................... 219, 220

                Officers of House, except Speaker.....................   635

                President, House elects, by ballot....................   221

                President, majority required in Electoral College or

                    in House to elect.................................   221
    Speaker......................................................... 27, 312
    Speaker elected by majority..................................... 27, 312

                Vice President, in Senate in choice of................   221

            In general.

                Bell and light system to indicate type of vote........   765

                Business suspended by failure of a quorum.............   510

                Decisions of points of order during...................   507

                In joint committees...................................   325

                Limitations on presentation of conference report

                    during............................................   909

                Managers of two Houses vote separately at a conference   548

                Members not to remain by Clerk's desk during..........   763

                Movement of Members during voting.....................   506

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                Postponed votes, Speaker's authority..................   631

                Recording of votes by electronic equipment............  774b
    Right of suffrage not to be abridged for race, color, sex, poll
    tax....................................................... 234, 240, 251

                ``Straw votes'' prohibited............................  630a
    Waiver.  See also Rules.

            Of privilege, not permitted to Members....................   901
    War.

            Declaration of, Congress to make..........................   127

            Quartering of soldiers in houses during...................   210

            States not to engage in, except on conditions.............   148

            Treason to consist of levying of, against United States...   181

            Trial for crimes in forces during.........................   212

            Jurisdiction of bills declaring...........................   678

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to soldiers of the World

                Wars..................................................   687

            Jurisdiction as to pensions arising from..................   687

            Relative powers of Congress and the President...... 128, 1013(2)
    War Claims.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................  679a
    Warships.

            Not to be kept by States in time of peace.................   148
    Warrants.

            Clerk seals and attests all...............................   642

            Certain, to issue only on certain conditions..............   246

            For arrest of absent Members.......................... 770, 774a

            Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626
    Water.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to common carriers by....   686

            Jurisdiction over water transportation generally..........   686

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to water power...........   686

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to supply of, for

                reclamation projects..................................   681

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to interstate compacts

                relating to apportionment of, for irrigation purposes.   681

            Jurisdiction of water conservation related to agriculture.   670
    Waterways, inland.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   686
    Ways and Means, Committee on.

            Exempted from former rule proscribing committee sittings

                during five-minute rule...............................   710

            History and jurisdiction of...............................   688

            Report from on ``major'' tax legislation may include

                ``dynamic estimate''..................................  748b
    Weather Service, national.

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    Wednesday, Calendar.
            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   683

            Rule for order of business on.............................   897

            Business of, protected by two-thirds vote.................  729a

            In order to consider a veto message of the President......   898

            One committee can only occupy one day except to dispose of

                unfinished business...................................   898

            Previous question ordered, bill undisposed of on Tuesday,

                goes over until Thursday..............................   898

            Privilege of general appropriation bills limited on.... 802, 897
    Weights.

            Congress to fix standard of...............................   121

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   683
    Welfare, general.

            An object of the Constitution.............................     1

            Power of Congress to provide for..........................   117
    Welfare of miners.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to.......................   675
    Wildlife.

            Jurisdiction of matters relating to conservation of.......   681
    Withdrawal.

            Of motions, votes.
    Of motions generally....................................... 392, 775-777

                Parliamentary law of as to motions....................   460

                Amendment reported from Committee of the Whole not

                    subject to........................................   335
    Of motion to amend............................................. 822, 824
    Of motion to amend in Committee of the Whole........................ 870

                Of motion to amend in ``House as in Committee of the

                    Whole''...........................................   427

                Of motion to reconsider...............................   812

                Of motion to suspend the rules........................   906

                Of point of no quorum.................................    55

                Of vote...............................................   766

            Of Members, resignations, papers.

                By President of paper accompanying a message..........   571

                Of a Member...........................................    22
    Of Member when a matter concerning himself arises.............. 375, 376

                Of papers from files..................................   933

                Of resignation not permitted..........................    19

                Of witnesses, counsel, and parties during examination

                    at bar of the House...............................   343
    Witnesses.

            Members as.

                Members as witnesses..................................   346

                Method of obtaining testimony of a Member of the other

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                    House.............................................   347

                Power of one House to summon Members or officers of

                    the other.........................................   292
    Privilege of Members of Congress as to summons as.............. 290, 292

                Privilege of Members of Parliament not to be summoned

                    as................................................   287

            In examinations by the House.
    Administration of oaths to................................ 343, 346, 718

                Arraignment of contumacious...........................   344

                Earlier and later practice as to inquiries at the bar

                    of the House......................................   344

                Examination of, in the House and in committee.........   343

                Immunity of...........................................   343

                Pay of................................................   931

                Power of the House to compel testimony................   295

                Procuring attendance of, when in custody of the other

                    House.............................................   345

                The production of, at an inquiry......................   342

            Before committees.

                Committee rules to be furnished to....................   712

                Minority..............................................   711
    Interrogation of.......................................... 343, 711, 712

                ``Truth in testimony,'' curriculum vitae and

                    disclosure statements.............................   708
    Testimony, advance statements of............................... 708, 712
    Quorum must be present when perjurious testimony is given to
    support charge of perjury............................ 343, 409, 709, 712

            In criminal cases.

                Compulsory process for obtaining......................   213

                Examination of, in an impeachment.....................   614

                Necessary to convict for treason......................   181

                No person to be against self in criminal case.........   212

                Right to confront, in criminal prosecutions...........   213
    Words taken down.

            Procedure in case of.................................... 760-761

            Parliamentary procedure in taking down disorderly...... 368, 369
    Work incentive programs.

            Jurisdiction over subjects related to.....................   675
    Works, public.  See Public works.
    Writing.

            By Members at the Clerk's table during debate forbidden...   364

            Motion reduced to, on demand of a Member..................   775

            Reports of committees to be in............................   821
    Writings.

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    Writs.
            Congress may provide exclusive rights to..................   124

            Signed by Speaker...................................... 624, 626

            Clerk seals and attests all...............................   642

            Of election to fill vacancies.............................    17

            Of habeas corpus, suspension of...........................   138

            Of summonses in an impeachment......................... 608, 611
    Yachts.

            Jurisdiction of bills relating to.........................   686
    Yeas and nays.

            Automatically ordered.

                On measures making general appropriations and

                    increasing income tax rates.......................  774e

                On measures making general appropriations and

                    increasing income tax rates.......................  913d

                Measures vetoed by the President......................   104

            Demanding and ordering.
    Conditions of ordering.......................................... 76, 504

                Demanding of..........................................    77

                Demand for, not to be held dilatory...................   803

                Effect of the order of................................    80

                In order in ``House as in Committee of the Whole''....   427

                Less than quorum may order............................    76

                One-fifth may order entry of, on Journal..............75, 78

                Ordered during call of the House......................   771

                Reconsideration of the ordering of....................    79

                Vacating order for....................................    76

            Voting by.
    By the Speaker................................................. 632, 765

                Changes and corrections of votes......................   766

                Combining the yea-and-nay vote with a call of the

                    House.............................................   773

                Count of those not voting to make a quorum of record

                    on a roll call....................................   772

                Failure of quorum on, to be noticed...................    76

                General provisions as to voting by....................   504

                In Committees on amendments and motions to report a

                    bill, vote totals and names included in report....  713d

                Interruptions of the roll call........................   767

                Messages received during vote by......................   562

                Method of call of the roll for the yea-and-nay vote...   765

                Names of Members not entered on roll for, until sworn.   300

                Not to be interrupted by arrival of time for a recess.   586

                Not to be interrupted by conference report............   909

                Qualifying in order to vote...........................   765

                Recorded vote considered vote by......................  630a

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    Yielding.
                Use of electronic device to record....................  774b

            Of Member having floor for motions or questions...........   750

            Of time not permitted under five-minute debate............   872
    Zoological Park.

            Jurisdiction of subjects relating to......................   686