    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 107th Congress]
    [107th Congress]
    [House Document 106-320]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 198-199]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                         sec. xxv--bills, second reading

    [[Page 199]]

    er, rising, states to the House the title of the bill; that this is the
    second time of reading it; and that the question will be, whether it
    shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But if the bill
    came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he states that
    the question will be, whether it shall be read a third time? and before
    he has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak to it.
    Hakew., 143, 146.

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

      The  second reading must regularly be on another day. Hakew., 143.
    It is done by the Clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker.
    The Speak

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

      The provisions of this paragraph are to a large extent obsolete, the
    practice under clause 8 of rule XVI now governing.