[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.