    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 108th Congress]
    [108th Congress]
    [House Document 107-284]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 942-943]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                   Rule XXVIII

                               general provisions

    Sec. 1105. Relations of Jefferson's Manual and
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to the Rules of the House.

      1.  The
    provisions of law that constituted the Rules of the House at the end of
    the previous Congress shall govern the House in all cases to which they
    are applicable, and the rules of parliamentary practice comprised by
    Jefferson's Manual shall govern the House in all cases to which they are
    applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the Rules and
    orders of the House.

      2. In these rules words importing the masculine gender include the
    feminine as well.

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    in Sec. Sec. 1127-1130, infra); and clause 2 was added (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    6, 1999, p. ----). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVII in the 107th
    Congress (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. ----) and
    redesignated as rule XXVIII in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 7, 2003, p. ----). Discussion of the importance of
    Jefferson's Manual as an authority in congressional procedure (VII,
    1029, 1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).

      Clause 1 was adopted in 1837 (V, 6757), and amended January 3, 1953,
    p. 24, when it was also renumbered. When the House recodified its rules
    in the 106th Congress, clause 1 was transferred from former rule XLII
    and was modified to reference all provisions of law comprising House
    rules at the end of the previous Congress (a compilation of which is
    included