    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 108th Congress]
    [108th Congress]
    [House Document 107-284]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 271-272]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    bill from the other House is sometimes ordered to lie on the table. 2
    Hats., 97.

                    sec. xliv--bills sent to the other house

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      This principle is recognized in the practice of the House, both as to
    Senate bills (IV, 3418, 3419; V, 5437), and as to House bills returned
    with Senate amendments (V, 5424, 6201-6203). The motion to lay on the
    table Senate amendments to a House bill does not take precedence over
    the motion to recede and concur, since the motion would table the entire
    bill (Speaker Longworth, Jan. 24, 1927, p. 2165), but the motion to lay
    on the table a motion to recede and concur in a Senate amendment does
    not carry the amendment and bill to the table, and other motions are in
    order to dispose of the Senate amendment (Feb. 22, 1978, p. 4072).

    Sec. 520. Requests for information from the other
    House.

      When bills  passed in one House and sent to the other are ground on special
    facts requiring proof, it is usual, either by message or at a
    conference, to ask the grounds and evidence, and this evidence, whether
    arising out of papers or from the examination of witnesses, is
    immediately communicated. 3 Hats., 48.

      The Houses of Congress transmit with bills accompanying papers, which
    are returned when the bills pass or at final adjournment (V, 7259,
    footnote). Sometimes one House has asked, by resolution, for papers from
    the files of the other (V, 7263, 7264). Testimony is also requested
    (III, 1855).