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

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    106th Congress, 2d Session -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - House Document No. 106-320

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                    CONSTITUTION, JEFFERSON'S MANUAL AND

                   RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              OF THE UNITED STATES

                          ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS

                               CHARLES W. JOHNSON

     [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TONGRESS.#13

                                 PARLIAMENTARIAN

     69-500                     WASHINGTON : 2001

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                              HOUSE RESOLUTION 678

                                In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                        December 15, 2000.

        Resolved, That a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the
    House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventh Congress be printed
    as a House document, and that three thousand additional copies shall be
    printed and bound for the use of the House of Representatives, of which
    nine hundred copies shall be bound in leather with thumb index and
    delivered as may be directed by the Parliamentarian of the House.

        Attest:

                                                        Jeff Trandahl,

                                                                    Clerk.

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                                      (III)

                                  P R E F A C E

        The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material
    for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the
    Constitution of the United States; applicable provisions of Jefferson's
    Manual; Rules of the House (as of the date of this preface); provisions
    of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and
    pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the
    House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other
    procedural authority used in the House of Representatives.

        The rules for the One Hundred Seventh Congress were adopted on
    January 3, 2001, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In
    addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House
    Resolution 5 included separate free-standing orders constituting
    procedures to be followed in the One Hundred Seventh Congress.
    Explanations of the changes to the standing rules appear in the
    annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual.

        In the One Hundred Sixth Congress, the House adopted a
    recodification of the Rules of the House. For an explanation of the
    recodified format, see the Preface and other introductory matter for the
    House Rules and Manual for the One Hundred Sixth Congress (H. Doc. 105-
    358).

        The substantive changes in the standing rules made by House
    Resolution 5 of the 107th Congress included:

        (1) permission for the Clerk to publish certain documents in a form
    other than printed (clause 2 of rule II);

        (2) transfer of the responsibility for the engrossment and
    enrollment process from the Committee on House Administration to the
    Clerk (clause 2 of rule II);

        (3) expansion of the application of rule VIII to administrative
    subpoenas (rule VIII);

        (4) redesignation of the Committee on Commerce as the Committee on
    Energy and Commerce and of the Committee on Banking and Financial
    Services as the Committee on Financial Services (clause 1 of rule X);

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    merly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Commerce) and
    insurance generally (clause 1 of rule X);
        (5) expansion of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Financial
    Services to include securities and exchanges (for

        (6) expansion of the oversight plan each standing committee submits
    to the Committees on Government Reform and on House Administration to
    include review of specific problems with Federal rules, regulations,
    statutes, and court decisions (clause 2 of rule X);

        (7) additional special oversight responsibility of the Permanent
    Select Committee on Intelligence over the intelligence community (clause
    3 of rule X);

        (8) removal of the requirement that the Committee on House
    Administration provide policy direction to the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms,
    and Chief Administrative Officer (clause 4(a) of rule II; clause 4(d) of
    rule X);

        (9) increase in the size of the Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence (clause 11 of rule X);

        (10) preservation of all committee requirements for a majority
    quorum found in House rules (clause 2 of rule XI);

        (11) removal of the word ``investigative'' from the rule governing
    hearing procedures (clause 2(k) of rule XI);

        (12) particularization of the availability of an assertion that
    evidence given in committee has a tendency to defame, degrade, or
    incriminate a person (clause 2(k) of rule XI);

        (13) limitation of the requirement that a committee furnish its
    rules to a witness to instances when the witness so requests (clause
    2(k) of rule XI);

        (14) elimination of the three-day availability requirement for a
    supplemental report that only corrects errors in the depiction of record
    votes (clause 3(a) of rule XIII).

        (15) replacement of the requirement that committees include in their
    reports oversight findings and recommendations by the Committee on
    Government Reform with a requirement that they include a statement of
    performance goals and objectives (clause 3(c) of rule XIII);

        (16) requirement that a report of the Committee on Appropriations
    contain additional detail on the status of unauthorized appropriations
    (clause 3(f) of rule XIII);

        (17) elimination of the three-day availability requirement for a
    report to accompany a bill called from the Corrections Calendar (clause
    4 of rule XIII; clause 6 of rule XV);

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    permitting the Chair, in its discretion, to submit the question of its
    use to the House (clause 6 of rule XVII);
        (18) conversion of the rule governing the use of exhibits on the
    floor from one requiring a vote by the House on the use of an exhibit to
    which a Member objected to merely

        (19) inclusion of standing authority, previously contained in
    separate special orders, for the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole
    to postpone requests for recorded votes on amendments and to reduce the
    minimum duration of those votes, after the first, to five minutes
    (clause 6 of rule XVIII);

        (20) prohibition against the consideration of a measure designating
    a public work in honor of a serving Member of Congress (clause 6 of rule
    XXI);

        (21) restoration of the notice requirement for a privileged 20-day
    motion to instruct conferees from legislative day to calendar day and
    clarification of the elements attending the privilege (clause 7 of rule
    XXII);

        (22) prohibition against the inclusion of argument in a motion to
    instruct conferees or a motion to recommit to conference (clause 7 of
    rule XXII);

        (23) repeal of the rule providing for automatic passage and
    engrossment of a measure adjusting the statutory limit on public debt
    (former rule XXIII);

        (24) prohibition against the paid employment of a spouse (clause 8
    of rule XXIII);

        (25) requirement of the Clerk to make those who have signed the oath
    permitting access to classified information a matter of public record
    (clause 13 of rule XXIII);

        (26) prohibition against certain lobbying by consultants paid by the
    House (clause 14 of rule XXIII); and

        (27) clarification of the definition of an employee under the Gift
    Rule (clauses 4 and 5 of rule XXV);

        Deputy Parliamentarians John Sullivan and Tom Duncan, and Assistant
    Parliamentarians Muftiah McCartin, Tom Wickham, and Ethan Lauer worked
    diligently to prepare the codification and to annotate the decisions of
    the Chair and other parliamentary precedents of the 106th Congress and
    of the 107th Congress to date of publication. Gay Topper, Deborah
    Khalili, and Brian Cooper contributed their clerical skills to the
    preparation of this edition. All of their contributions, especially
    those of Muftiah McCartin in the preparation of this Manual, are
    gratefully acknowledged.

        Citations in this edition refer to:

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    States (volumes VI through VIII), by volume and section (e.g., V, 5763;
    VIII, 2852);
        (1) Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United
    States (volumes I through V) and Cannon's Precedents of the House of
    Representatives of the United

        (2) Deschler's Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives
    (volumes 1 through 9) and the Deschler-Brown Precedents of the U.S.
    House of Representatives (volumes 10 through 15), by volume, chapter,
    and section (e.g., Deschler's Precedents, vol. 8, ch. 26, sec. 79.7;
    Deschler-Brown Precedents, vol. 10, ch. 28, sec. 4.26);

        (3) the Congressional Record, by date and page (e.g., Jan. 29, 1986,
    p. 684);

        (4) House Practice (1996), by page (e.g., House Practice, p. 293);

        (5) Deschler-Brown Procedure in the U.S. House of Representatives
    (4th edition and 1987 supplement), by chapter and section (e.g.,
    Procedure, ch. 5, sec. 8.1);

        (6) the United States Code, by title and section (e.g., 2 U.S.C.
    287); and

        (7) the United States Reports, by volume and page (e.g., 395 U.S.
    486).

        Readers are invited to refer to the prefaces of Hinds', Cannon's,
    and Deschler's Precedents (Volumes I, VI, and 1, respectively) for
    comprehensive overviews by those editors of the procedural history of
    the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1976.

                                                        Charles W. Johnson

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      March 15, 2001

                                 C O N T E N T S

                                   __________

                                THE CONSTITUTION

                                                                        Page
    Preamble..........................................................     3

                Article I.--The legislative power.....................     4

                       II.--The executive power.......................    62

                      III.--The judicial power........................    74

                       IV.--Obligations, duties, etc., of the States..    76

                        V.--Amendments to.............................    78

                       VI.--Law of the land, etc......................    80

                      VII.--Ratification of...........................    84

                            Amendments ratified.......................    87

                               JEFFERSON'S MANUAL

                Section I.--Importance of adhering to rules...........   121

                      III.--Privilege.................................   124

                       VI.--Quorum....................................   143

                      VII.--Call of the House.........................   144

                       IX.--Speaker...................................   144

                        X.--Address...................................   147

                       XI.--Committees................................   147

                      XII.--Committee of the Whole....................   151

                     XIII.--Examination of witnesses..................   160

                      XIV.--Arrangement of business...................   165

                       XV.--Order.....................................   167

                      XVI.--Order respecting papers...................   168

                     XVII.--Order in debate...........................   168

                    XVIII.--Orders of the House.......................   189

                      XIX.--Petition..................................   193

                       XX.--Motions...................................   194

                      XXI.--Resolutions...............................   195

                    XXIII.--Bills, leave to bring in..................   197

                     XXIV.--Bills, first reading......................   198

                      XXV.--Bills, second reading.....................   198

                     XXVI.--Bills, commitment.........................   199

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                    XXVII.--Report of committee.......................   210

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           Section XXVIII.--Bill, recommitment........................   211

                     XXIX.--Bills, reports taken up...................   212

                      XXX.--Quasi-committee...........................   214

                     XXXI.--Bill, second reading in the House.........   218

                    XXXII.--Reading papers............................   220

                   XXXIII.--Privileged questions......................   222

                    XXXIV.--The previous question.....................   235

                     XXXV.--Amendments................................   237

                    XXXVI.--Division of the question..................   246

                   XXXVII.--Coexisting questions......................   249

                  XXXVIII.--Equivalent questions......................   250

                    XXXIX.--The question..............................   253

                       XL.--Bills, third reading......................   253

                      XLI.--Division of the House.....................   257

                     XLII.--Titles....................................   263

                    XLIII.--Reconsideration...........................   263

                     XLIV.--Bills sent to the other House.............   266

                      XLV.--Amendments between the Houses.............   267

                     XLVI.--Conferences...............................   277

                    XLVII.--Messages..................................   289

                   XLVIII.--Assent....................................   293

                     XLIX.--Journals..................................   296

                        L.--Adjournment...............................   298

                       LI.--A session.................................   300

                      LII.--Treaties..................................   303

                     LIII.--Impeachment...............................   307

                               RULES OF THE HOUSE

                   Rule I.--The Speaker...............................   327

                       II.--Other Officers and Officials..............   345

                      III.--The Members, Delegates, and Resident

                            Commissioner of Puerto Rico...............   364

                       IV.--The Hall of the House.....................   368

                        V.--Broadcasting the House....................   375

                       VI.--Official Reporters and News Media

                            Galleries.................................   378

                      VII.--Records of the House......................   389

                     VIII.--Response to Subpoenas.....................   393

                       IX.--Questions of Privilege....................   397

                        X.--Organization of Committees................   413

                       XI.--Procedures of Committees and Unfinished

                            Business..................................   518

                      XII.--Receipt and Referral of Measures and

                            Matters...................................   572

                     XIII.--Calendars and Committee Reports...........   586

                      XIV.--Order and Priority of Business............   620

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                       XV.--Business in Order on Special Days.........   631

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                 Rule XVI.--Motions and Amendments....................   652

                     XVII.--Decorum and Debate........................   702

                    XVIII.--The Committee of the Whole House on the

                            state of the Union........................   728

                      XIX.--Motions Following the Amendment Stage.....   755

                       XX.--Voting and Quorum Calls...................   770

                      XXI.--Restrictions on Certain Bills.............   794

                     XXII.--House and Senate Relations................   836

                    XXIII.--Code of Official Conduct..................   860

                     XXIV.--Limitations on Use of Official Funds......   867

                      XXV.--Limitations on Outside Earned Income and

                            Acceptance of Gifts.......................   871

                     XXVI.--Financial Disclosure......................   893

    Provisions of Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as Amended by the
                    XXVII.--General Provisions........................   917

    Congressional adjournment.........................................   918
    Preservation of committee hearings................................   919

        Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, Applicable to Both Houses

    Economic Committee, Joint.........................................   923
    Internal Revenue Taxation, Joint Committee on.....................   923
    Library, Joint Committee of Congress on the.......................   924
    Printing, Joint Committee on......................................   924
    Inaugural Ceremonies, Joint Congressional Committee on............   924
    Select committees.................................................   924

                           Joint and Select Committees

    House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards...............   927
    House Office Building Commission..................................   927
    General Accounting Office.........................................   927
    Office of Compliance..............................................   927
    Congressional Research Service....................................   928
    Legislative Counsel...............................................   928
    Congressional Budget Office.......................................   928
    Law Revision Counsel..............................................   928
    Technology Assessment.............................................   928
    Office of the Parliamentarian.....................................   928
    Office of Floor Assistants........................................   929
    Corrections Calendar Office.......................................   929
    House Recording Studio............................................   929

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                                  House Offices

                                                                        Page
    United States Capitol Preservation Commission.....................   929
    Office of General Counsel.........................................   929
    Early organization of House.......................................   931

    Congressional Budget Act of 1974..................................   935
    Budget Enforcement Act of 1990....................................  1011

              Miscellaneous Provisions of Congressional Budget Laws

    Resolutions privileged for consideration in House.................  1017

          Congressional Disapproval Provisions Contained in Public Laws

    Index.............................................................  1149

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                                      Index

                           MAJOR RULE CITATION CHANGES
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                                       OLD RULE through        NEW RULE

                                         105th Cong.     -------------------

              DESCRIPTION           ---------------------

                                        Rule     Clause     Rule     Clause
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    Postponed votes................          I      5(b)        XX         8
    Tie vote lost..................          I         6        XX      1(c)
    Lame duck travel authority.....          I         8      XXIV        10
    Broadcasting House proceedings.          I         9         V  ........
    Office of the Historian........          I        10        II         7
    Office of the General Counsel..          I        11        II         8
    Clerk..........................        III  ........        II         2
    Sergeant-at-Arms...............         IV  ........        II         3
    Chief Administrative Officer...          V  ........        II         4
    Office of the Inspector General         VI  ........        II         6
    Chaplain.......................        VII  ........        II         5
    Duties of Members..............       VIII  ........       III       1-2
    Committee on Standards of                X      4(e)        XI         3
     Official Conduct..............
    Referral.......................          X         5       XII         2
    Speaker's appointment of select          X      6(f)         I        11
     and conference committees.....
    Committee membership contingent          X      6(g)         X        10
     on party membership...........
    Committee reporting procedures.         XI  2(l)(1),      XIII         2

                                                     (2)
    Content of reports.............         XI  2(l)(3)-      XIII         3

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    Dilatory motions on suspensions        XVI         8        XV         1
    Dilatory motions...............        XVI        10       XVI         1
    Previous question..............       XVII  ........       XIX         1
    Motion to recommit.............       XVII         1       XIX         2
    Reconsideration................      XVIII  ........       XIX         3
    Amendments.....................        XIX  ........       XVI         6
    Senate amendments..............         XX  ........      XXII       1-6
    Reading of bills...............        XXI         1       XVI         8
    Content of reports on                  XXI         3      XIII      3(f)
     appropriation bills...........
    Private claims.................        XXI         4       XII      2(d)
    Appropriations in legislation..        XXI      5(a)       XXI         4
    Reappropriations...............        XXI         6       XXI   2(a)(2)
    Printing of appropriations             XXI         7      XIII      4(c)
     hearings......................
    Reserving points of order on           XXI         8       XXI         1
     appropriation bills...........
    Transportation obligation              XXI         9       XXI         3
     limitations...................
    Cosponsorship..................       XXII         4       XII         7
    Resolutions of inquiry.........       XXII         5      XIII         7
    Committee of the Whole House...      XXIII  ........     XVIII  ........
    Order of business..............       XXIV  ........       XIV  ........
    Unfinished business............       XXIV         3       XIV         3
    Private Calendar...............       XXIV         6        XV         5
    Calendar Wednesday.............       XXIV         7        XV         7
    District business..............       XXIV         8        XV         4
    Priority of business...........        XXV  ........       XIV  ........
    Unfinished business in                XXVI  ........        XI         6
     committee.....................
    Suspension of the rules........      XXVII       1-2        XV         1
    Discharge motions..............      XXVII         3        XV         2
    Conference reports.............     XXVIII  ........      XXII      7-12
    Secret sessions................       XXIX  ........      XVII         9
    Exhibits.......................        XXX  ........      XVII         6
    Hall of the House..............       XXXI  ........        IV         1
    Admission to the Floor.........      XXXII  ........        IV       2-5
    Admission to the galleries.....     XXXIII  ........        IV         6
    Campaign contributions on Floor      XXXII         5        IV         7
    Official Reporters and the           XXXIV  ........        VI  ........
     media.........................
    Pay of witnesses...............       XXXV  ........        XI         5
    Records of the House...........      XXXVI  ........       VII  ........

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    Withdrawal of papers...........     XXXVII  ........       VII         7
    Ballot votes...................    XXXVIII  ........        XX        11
    Messages.......................      XXXIX  ........       XII         1
    Executive communications.......         XL  ........       XII         8
    Claims against the Government..        XLI  ........       XXV         6
    General provisions.............       XLII  ........     XXVII         1
    Code of Official Conduct.......      XLIII  ........     XXIII  ........
    Financial disclosure...........       XLIV  ........      XXVI  ........
    Unofficial office accounts.....        XLV  ........      XXIV       1-3
    Limitation on use of frank.....       XLVI  ........      XXIV       4-9
    Outside earned income..........      XLVII  ........       XXV       1-3
    Intelligence Committee.........     XLVIII  ........         X        11
    Response to subpoenas..........          L  ........      VIII  ........
    Gift rule......................         LI  ........       XXV         5
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                                                     (5)
    Availability of reports........         XI   2(l)(6)      XIII         4
    Committee travel...............         XI      2(n)         X         8
    Committee broadcast rule.......         XI         3        XI         4
    Privileged reports.............         XI         4      XIII         5
    Reports of Rules Committee.....         XI         4      XIII         6
    Expense resolutions............         XI         5         X       6-7
    Committee staff................         XI         6         X         9
    Resident Commissioner/Delegates        XII  ........       III         3
    Corrections Calendar...........       XIII         4        XV         6
    Decorum and debate.............        XIV  ........      XVII  ........
    Recognition....................        XIV         2      XVII         2
    Voting and quorum calls........         XV  ........        XX  ........

                            GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS

                                    Rule XIV

                  First. Prayer by Chaplain.

                  Second. Approval of Journal.

                  Third. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

                  Fourth. Correction of reference of public bills.

                  Fifth. Disposal of business on Speaker's table.

                  Sixth. Unfinished business.

                  Seventh. The morning hour for the consideration of bills.

                  Eighth. Motions to go into the Committee of the Whole
    House on the state of the Union.

                  Ninth. Orders of the day.

                            SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS

    Second and fourth Mondays:

                                     Mondays

                  Motions to discharge committees. Rule XV, clause 2.

    Every Monday:

                  District of Columbia Business. Rule XV, clause 4.

                  Motions to suspend rules. Rule XV, clause 1.

    First and third Tuesdays:

                                    Tuesdays

      Private Calendar. Rule XV, clause 5. Individual private bills

            considered on first Tuesday of each month, omnibus private bills

    Second and fourth Tuesdays:

            may be considered on third Tuesday of each month.

    Every Tuesday:

                  Corrections Calendar. Rule XV, clause 6.

                  Motions to suspend rules. Rule XV, clause 1.

    Call of Committees under Calendar Wednesday. Rule XV, clause 7.

                                   Wednesdays