[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 387-398]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 
                                 Rule VI


Official reporters
               official reporters and news media galleries




685. Reporters of debates and committee 
stenographers.

  1.  Subject to the direction and control of the Speaker, 
the Clerk shall appoint, and may remove for cause, the official 
reporters of the House, including stenographers of committees, and shall 
supervise the execution of their duties.


  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 1 of rule XXXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. ----). From 1874 until March 1, 1978, the appointment and 
removal of the official reporters, and the manner of the execution of 
their duties, was vested in the Speaker (V, 6958); effective March 1, 
1978 (H. Res. 959, Jan. 23, 1978, p. 431) those responsibilities were 
vested in the Clerk, subject to the direction and control of the 
Speaker.

  The reporters of debates have borne an important part in the evolution 
by which the House has built up the system of a daily verbatim report of 
its proceedings, made by its own corps of reporters (V, 6959). Since 
these reporters have become officers of the House a correction of the 
Congressional Record has been held a question of privilege (V, 7014-
7016).



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Sec. 686. Rules relating to Congressional 
Record.

  The  arrangement, style, etc., of the Congressional Record is 
prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 901, 
904 (see also VIII, 3500). The rules of the Joint Committee on Printing 
governing publication of the Congressional Record are as follows:


  1. Arrangement of the daily Congressional Record.--The Public Printer 
shall arrange the contents of the daily Congressional Record as follows: 
The Senate proceedings shall alternate with the House proceedings in 
order of placement in consecutive issues insofar as such an arrangement 
is feasible, and Extensions of Remarks and Daily Digest shall follow: 
Provided, That the makeup of the Congressional Record shall proceed 
without regard to alternation whenever the Public Printer deems it 
necessary in order to meet production and delivery schedules.

  2. Type and style.--The Public Printer shall print the report of the 
proceedings and debates of the Senate and House of Representatives, as 
furnished by the official reporters of the Congressional Record, in 8-
point type; and all matter included in the remarks or speeches of 
Members of Congress, other than their own words, and all reports, 
documents, and other matter authorized to be inserted in the 
Congressional Record shall be printed in 7-point type; and all roll 
calls shall be printed in 6-point type. No italic or black type nor 
words in capitals or small capitals shall be used for emphasis or 
prominence; nor will unusual indentions be permitted. These restrictions 
do not apply to the printing of or quotations from historical, official, 
or legal documents or papers of which a literal reproduction is 
necessary.

  3. Only as an aid in distinguishing the manner of delivery in order to 
contribute to the historical accuracy of the Record, statements or 
insertions in the Record where no part of them was spoken will be 
preceded and followed by a ``bullet'' symbol, i.e.,  (now 
applicable only in Senate).

  4. Return of manuscript.--When manuscript is submitted to Members for 
revision it should be returned to the Government Printing Office not 
later than 9 o'clock p.m. in order to insure publication in the 
Congressional Record issued on the following morning; and if all of the 
manuscript is not furnished at the time specified, the Public Printer is 
authorized to withhold it from the Congressional Record for 1 day. In no 
case will a speech be printed in the Congressional Record of the day of 
its delivery if the manuscript is furnished later than 12 o'clock 
midnight.

  5. Tabular matter.--The manuscript of speeches containing tabular 
statements to be published in the Congressional Record shall be in the 
hands of the Public Printer not later than 7 o'clock p.m. to insure 
publication the following morning. When possible, manuscript copy for 
tabular matter should be sent to the Government Printing Office 2 or 
more days in advance of the date of publication in the Congressional 
Record. Proof will be furnished promptly to the Member of Congress to be 
submitted by him instead of manuscript copy when he offers it for 
publication in the Congressional Record.


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shall be set in the Congressional Record style of type, and not more 
than six sets of proofs may be furnished to Members without charge.
  6. Proof furnished.--Proofs or ``leave to print'' and advance speeches 
will not be furnished the day the manuscript is received but will be 
submitted the following day, whenever possible to do so without causing 
delay in the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress. Advance 
speeches

  7. Notation of withheld remarks.--If manuscript or proofs have not 
been returned in time for publication in the proceedings, the Public 
Printer will insert the words ``Mr. ---- addressed the Senate (House or 
Committee). His remarks will appear hereafter in Extensions of Remarks'' 
and proceed with the printing of the Congressional Record.

  8. Thirty-day limit.--The Public Printer shall not publish in the 
Congressional Record any speech or extension of remarks which has been 
withheld for a period exceeding 30 calendar days from the date when its 
printing was authorized: Provided, That at the expiration of each 
session of Congress the time limit herein fixed shall be 10 days, unless 
otherwise ordered by the committee.

  9. Corrections.--The permanent Congressional Record is made up for 
printing and binding 30 days after each daily publication is issued; 
therefore all corrections must be sent to the Public Printer within that 
time: Provided, That upon the final adjournment of each session of 
Congress the time limit shall be 10 days, unless otherwise ordered by 
the committee: Provided further, That no Member of Congress shall be 
entitled to make more than one revision. Any revision shall consist only 
of corrections of the original copy and shall not include deletions of 
correct material, substitutions for correct material, or additions of 
new subject matter.

  10. The Public Printer shall not publish in the Congressional Record 
the full report or print of any committee or subcommittee when the 
report or print has been previously printed. This rule shall not be 
construed to apply to conference reports. However, inasmuch as rule XXII 
(Sec. 1082, infra) provides that conference reports be printed in the 
daily edition of the Congressional Record, they shall not be printed 
therein a second time.

  11. Makeup of the Extensions of Remarks.--Extensions of Remarks in the 
Congressional Record shall be made up by successively taking first an 
extension from the copy submitted by the official reporters of one House 
and then an extension from the copy of the other House, so that Senate 
and House extensions appear alternately as far as possible. The sequence 
for each House shall follow as closely as possible the order or 
arrangement in which the copy comes from the official reporters of the 
respective Houses.

  The official reporters of each House shall designate and distinctly 
mark the lead item among their extensions. When both Houses are in 
session and submit extensions, the lead item shall be changed from one 
House to the other in alternate issues, with the indicated lead item of 
the other House appearing in second place. When only one House is in 
session, the lead item shall be an extension submitted by a Member of 
the House in session. This rule shall not apply to Congressional Records 
printed after the sine die adjournment of the Congress.


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Extensions of Remarks and shall make suitable reference thereto at the 
proper place in the proceedings.
  12. Official reporters.--The official reporters of each House shall 
indicate on the manuscript and prepare headings for all matter to be 
printed in


  13. Two-page rule--Cost estimate from Public Printer.--(1) No 
extraneous matter in excess of two printed Record pages, whether printed 
in its entirety in one daily issue or in two or more parts in one or 
more issues, shall be printed in the Congressional Record unless the 
Member announces, coincident with the request for leave to print or 
extend, the estimate in writing from the Public Printer of the probable 
cost of publishing the same. (2) No extraneous matter shall be printed 
in the House proceedings or the Senate proceedings, with the following 
exceptions: (a) Excerpts from letters, telegrams, or articles presented 
in connection with a speech delivered in the course of debate; (b) 
communications from State legislatures; (c) addresses or articles by the 
President and the Members of his Cabinet, the Vice President, or a 
Member of Congress. (3) The official reporters of the House or Senate or 
the Public Printer shall return to the Member of the respective House 
any matter submitted for the Congressional Record which is in 
contravention of these provisions.

      house supplement to ``laws and rules for publication of the 


            congressional record''--effective august 12, 1986

  1. Extensions of Remarks in the daily Congressional Record.--When the 
House has granted leave to print (1) a newspaper or magazine article, or 
(2) any other matter not germane to the proceedings, it shall be 
published under Extensions of Remarks. This rule shall not apply to 
quotations which form part of a speech of a Member, or to an authorized 
extension of his own remarks: Provided, That no address, speech, or 
article delivered or released subsequently to the sine die adjournment 
of a session of Congress may be printed in the Congressional Record. 
One-minute speeches delivered during the morning business of Congress 
shall not exceed 300 words. Statements exceeding this will be printed 
following the business of the day.

  2. Any extraneous matter included in any statement by a Member, either 
under the 1-minute rule or permission granted to extend at this point, 
will be printed in the ``Extensions of Remarks'' section, and that such 
material will be duly noted in the Member's statement as appearing 
therein.

  3. Under the general leave request by the floor manager of specific 
legislation only matter pertaining to such legislation will be included 
as per the request. This, of course, will include tables and charts 
pertinent to the same, but not newspaper clippings and editorials.


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the makeup would be in a sense made easier so as to comply with daily 
proceedings, which might run extremely heavy at times.
  4. In the makeup of the portion of the Record entitled ``Extensions of 
Remarks,'' the Public Printer shall withhold any Extensions of Remarks 
which exceed economical press fill or exceed production limitations. 
Extensions withheld for such reasons will be printed in succeeding 
issues, at the direction of the Public Printer, so that more uniform 
daily issues may be the end result and, in this way, when both Houses 
have a short session

  5. The request for a Member to extend his or her remarks in the body 
of the Record must be granted to the individual whose remarks are to be 
inserted.

  6. All statements for ``Extensions of Remarks,'' as well as copy for 
the body of the Congressional Record must be submitted on the Floor of 
the House to the Official Reporters of Debates and must carry the actual 
signature of the Member. Extensions of Remarks will be accepted up to 15 
minutes after adjournment of the House. To insure printing in that day's 
proceedings, debate transcripts still out for revision must be returned 
to the Office of Official Reporters of Debates, Room HT-60, the Capitol, 
(1) by 5 p.m., or 2 hours following adjournment, whichever occurs later; 
or (2) within 30 minutes following adjournment when the House adjourns 
at 11 p.m., or later.


  7. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XVII of the Rules of the House, the 
Congressional Record shall be a substantially verbatim account of 
remarks made during the proceedings of the House, subject only to 
technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections authorized by the 
Member making the remarks involved. Unparliamentary remarks may be 
deleted only by permission or order of the House. Consistent with rule 9 
of the Joint Committee on Printing Rules, any revision shall consist 
only of technical, grammatical, or typographical corrections of the 
original copy and shall not include deletions of correct material, 
substitutions for correct material, or additions of new subject matter. 
By obtaining unanimous consent to revise and extend, a Member will be 
able to relax the otherwise strict prohibition contained in clause 8 of 
rule XVII only in two respects: (1) to revise by technical, grammatical, 
and typographical corrections; and (2) to extend remarks in a 
distinctive type style to follow the remarks actually uttered. In no 
event would the actually uttered remarks be removable.


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Sec. 687. Substantially verbatim account.

  The requirement  of 
rule 7 of the supplemental rules outlined above that the Congressional 
Record be a substantially verbatim account of remarks actually rendered 
was included as former clause 9 of rule XIV in the 104th Congress 
(current clause 8(a) of rule XVII), with the prescription that that rule 
constitute a standard of conduct under former clause 4(e)(1)(B) of rule 
X (current clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI) (sec. 213, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 
1995, p. 468). Clause 8(a) of rule XVII also applies to statements and 
rulings of the Chair (Jan. 20, 1995, p. 1866). Under that clause remarks 
actually delivered may not be deleted and remarks inserted must appear 
in distinctive type (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541). Remarks held 
irrelevant by the Chair may be removed from the Record by unanimous 
consent only (Mar. 20, 2002 p. ----). The Speaker has instructed 
the Official Reporters of Debates to adhere strictly to the requirement 
of rule 7 of the supplemental rules (Mar. 2, 1988, p. 2963; Feb. 3, 
1993, p. 1980). 


  The Chair announced the Record-printing policy regarding 
remarks in debate uttered in languages other than English, to deny 
transcription in the foreign language (unless a transcript is provided 
in a language that the Government Printing Office can print) and to 
require Members to submit translations for distinctive printing in the 
Record in English as a revision of remarks (Mar. 4, 1998, p. ----
; Feb. 25, 2003, p. ----). Because the Record is 
maintained as a substantially verbatim account of the proceedings of the 
House (44 U.S.C. 901), the Speaker will not entertain a unanimous-
consent request to give a special-order speech ``off the Record'' (June 
24, 1992, p. 16131).

  The Record is for the proceedings of the House and Senate only, and 
matters not connected therewith are rigidly excluded (V, 6962). It is 
not, however, the official record, that function being fulfilled by the 
Journal (IV, 2727). As a general principle the Speaker has no control 
over the Record (V, 6984, 7017), but words spoken by a Member after he 
has been called to order may be excluded by direction of the Speaker (V, 
6975-6978; VIII, 3466, 3471; July 29, 1994, p. 18609). However, the 
House, and not the Speaker, determines what liberty shall be allowed to 
a Member who has leave to extend his remarks (V, 6997-7000; VIII, 3475), 
whether or not a copyrighted article shall be printed therein (V, 6985), 
as to an alleged abuse of the leave to print (V, 7012; VIII, 3474), or 
as to a proposed amendment (V, 6983).



Sec. 688. Relations of the Committee of the Whole 
to the Congressional Record.

  As a general  rule the Committee of the Whole has no 
control over the Congressional Record (V, 6986); but the Chairman in the 
preservation of order, may direct the exclusion of disorderly words 
spoken by a Member after he has been called to order (V, 6987). In a 
case wherein the Committee conceived that a letter read in Committee 
involved a breach of privilege, it reported the matter to the House for 
action, and the House struck the letter from the Record (V, 6986). The 
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole does not determine the privileges 
of a Member under a general leave to print in the Record, that being for 
the House alone (V, 6988). Neither may the Committee of the Whole grant 
a general leave to print, although for convenience it does permit 
individual Members to extend their remarks (V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-
3490; Aug. 31, 1965, p. 22385), nor may the Committee of the Whole 
permit the inclusion of extraneous material (Jan. 23, 1936, p. 950; Feb. 
1, 1937, p. 656; Sept. 19, 1967, p. 26032).



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what he actually said (V, 6972). Where a Member interrupts another 
during debate without being yielded or otherwise recognized (as on a 
point of order) his remarks are not printed in the Record (Speaker 
O'Neill, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2229). Where a Member had uttered disorderly 
words on the floor without objection, the House yet decided that it was 
not precluded from action when the words, after being withheld for 
revision, appeared in the Record, and struck them out (V, 6979, 6981; 
VI, 582; VIII, 2538, 3463, 3472).


Sec. 689. Correction of the Congressional 
Record.

  While the  House controls the Congressional Record, the Speaker with the 
assent of the House laid down the principle that words spoken by a 
Member in order might not be changed by the House, as this would be 
determining what a Member should utter on the floor (V, 6974; VI, 583; 
VIII, 3469, 3498). Neither should one House strike out matter placed in 
the Record by permission of the other House (V, 6966). But the House may 
correct the speech of one of its Members so that it may record 
faithfully


  The House has also ordered stricken from the Record printed speeches 
condemned as unparliamentary for reflections on Members, committees of 
the House, the House itself (V, 7017), and the Senate (V, 5129). In the 
101st Congress a resolution presented as a question of privilege was 
adopted which directed the Committee on House Administration to report 
with respect to certain unauthorized deletions from the Record. A task 
force of that committee recommended that deletion of unparliamentary 
remarks be permitted only by consent of the House and not by the Member 
uttering the words under authority to revise and extend (Oct. 27, 1990, 
p. 37124). That recommendation has been incorporated into the Rules of 
the House (clause 8(b) of rule XVII). Through the 103d Congress, under 
applicable precedents and guidelines, the Chair could refine a ruling on 
a point of order in the Record in order to clarify the ruling without 
changing its substance, including one sustained by the House on appeal 
(Feb. 19, 1992, p. 2461; see H. Res. 230, 99th Cong., July 31, 1985, p. 
21783, and H. Rept. 99-228). In accordance with existing accepted 
practices, the Speaker customarily made such technical or parliamentary 
corrections or insertions in the transcript of a ruling or statement by 
the Chair as may have been necessary to conform to rule, custom, or 
precedent (see also H. Res. 330, 101st Cong., Feb. 7, 1990, p. 1515, and 
report of House Administration task force on Record inserted by Speaker 
Foley, Oct. 27, 1990, p. 37124). However, in the 104th Congress the 
Speaker ruled that the requirement of clause 8 of rule XVII (former 
clause 9 of rule XIV) that the Record be a substantially verbatim 
account of remarks made during House proceedings extended to statements 
and rulings of the Chair (Jan. 20, 1995, p. 1866).


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business, demand as a matter of right the reading of the reporter's 
notes (V, 6967; VIII, 3460). The Speaker declines to entertain 
unanimous-consent requests to correct the Record on a vote taken by 
electronic device, based upon the presumed accuracy of the electronic 
system and the ability and responsibility of each Member to verify his 
vote (Feb. 6, 1973, p. 3558; Apr. 18, 1973, p. 13081; Dec. 3, 1974, p. 
37897).
  It is improper for a Member to have published in the Record the 
individual votes of Members on a question of which the yeas and nays 
have not been entered on the Journal (V, 6982). A correction of the 
Record which involves a motion and a vote is recorded in the Journal 
(IV, 2877). Propositions to make corrections are sometimes considered by 
the Committee on House Administration. In debating a resolution to 
strike from the Record disorderly language a Member may not read the 
language (V, 7004); but it was held that as part of a personal 
explanation relating to matter excluded as out of order a Member might 
read the matter, subject to a point of order if the reading should 
develop anything in violation of the rules of debate (V, 5079). It has 
also been held that a Member may not, in a controversy over a proposed 
correction of the Record as to a matter of



Sec. 690. Privileges of propositions to correct 
the Congressional Record.

  A motion or  resolution for the correction of the 
Congressional Record which involves a question of privilege may be made 
properly after the reading and approval of the Journal (V, 7013; VIII, 
3496), and is not in order pending the approval of the Journal (V, 
6989), but is privileged after that (V, 7014-7019; VIII, 3461, 3463).


  A question of privilege as to an alleged error in the Record may not 
be raised until the Record has appeared (V, 7020), and a resolution to 
omit from the manuscript copy certain remarks declared out of order is 
not privileged (V, 7021). Unparliamentary words having been stricken 
from the Record by order of the House, a question of privilege may not 
arise therefrom (V, 7023; VI, 596). Privileged motions to correct the 
Congressional Record involve cases where the integrity of House 
proceedings is in question, such as where unparliamentary words have 
been spoken in debate (see Sec. 961, infra) or inserted in the Record 
(Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 17), where the remarks of one Member have been 
attributed to another (sec. 18.1, 18.2), or where a Member 
has improperly altered his remarks during an exchange of colloquy with 
another Member (sec. 18.9). Mere typographical errors in the 
Congressional Record or ordinary revisions of a Member's remarks do not 
give rise to privileged motions for the correction of the Record (Apr. 
25, 1985, p. 9419), since such changes for the permanent edition of the 
Record may be made without the permission of the House (Deschler, ch. 5, 
Sec. 19) and the House does not change the Record merely to show what a 
Member should have said during debate (sec. 18).

  A motion to correct the Record has been entertained to allow a Member 
to print in subsequent edition of the daily Record the correct text of 
an amendment which he had offered on a previous day and which had been 
substantially misprinted in the daily Record for the day on which it was 
offered (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 18.6).


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of that Member (V, 6972; VIII, 3461), and alterations which place a 
different aspect on the remarks of a colleague require authorization by 
the House (VIII, 3463, 3497). Where a Member so revised his remarks as 
to affect the import of words uttered by another Member, the House 
corrected the Record (V, 6973). A Member is not entitled to inspect the 
reporter's notes of remarks which do not contain reflections on himself, 
delivered by another Member and withheld for revision (V, 6964).


Sec. 691. Privilege of Member to revise his 
remarks in the Congressional Record.

  The traditional  practice to allow a Member, with 
the approval of the House and under conditions set forth by the Joint 
Committee on Printing, to revise his remarks before publication in the 
Congressional Record (V, 6971, 7024; VIII, 3500) should be interpreted 
in light of clause 8 of rule XVII and rule 7 of the supplemental rules 
of the Joint Committee on Printing, which require the Record to be a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks made during House proceedings 
(see Sec. 686, supra, and Sec. Sec. 967, 968, infra). In any event, a 
Member should not change the notes of his own speech in such a way as to 
affect the remarks of an opponent in controversy without bringing the 
correction to the attention




Sec. 692. ``Leave to print'' in the Congressional 
Record.

  The practice  of inserting in the Congressional Record speeches not actually 
delivered on the floor has developed by consent of the House as the 
membership has increased and it has become difficult at times for every 
Member to express at length on the floor his reasons for his attitude on 
public questions (V, 6990-6996, 6998-7000). The House, in granting such 
leave to print, does not permit it to be exercised without unreasonable 
freedom (V, 7002, 7003). For example: (1) a Member with permission to 
insert one matter may not insert another (V, 7001; VIII, 3462, 3479, 
3480); (2) a Member may not insert statements and letters of others 
unless the leave granted specifies such matter as extraneous (VIII, 
3475, 3481), whether the extension be under general leave for all 
Members or individually; (3) a Member may not insert that which would 
not have been in order if uttered on the floor, and the House may 
exclude such insertion in whole or in part (V, 7004-7008; VIII, 3495; 
Oct. 2, 1992, p. 30709; Sept. 27, 1996, p. 25633). The principle that a 
Member shall not be called to order for words spoken in debate if 
business has intervened does not apply to a case where leave to print 
has been violated (V, 7005). Neither the House nor the Committee of the 
Whole permit the insertion of an entire colloquy between two or more 
Members not actually delivered (Aug. 10, 1982, pp. 20266, 20267; Oct. 3, 
1985, p. 26028; Dec. 15, 1995, p. 37133).


  General leave to print may be granted only by the House, although in 
the Committee of the Whole a Member, by unanimous consent, may be given 
leave to extend his remarks (V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-3490). In the 
Committee of the Whole leave for an extension of remarks should not be 
granted except in connection with remarks actually delivered and 
relevant to the bill; and the extension under such circumstances should 
be brief (Speaker Longworth, Mar. 18, 1926, p. 5854).


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and extend to be printed in distinctive type and precludes deletion 
under such permission of words actually uttered (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541).
  Where a Member abused a leave to print on the last day of the session, 
the House at the next session condemned the abuse and declared the 
matter not a legitimate part of the official debates (V, 7017). An abuse 
of the leave to print gives rise to a question of privilege (V, 7005-
7008, 7011; VIII, 3163, 3491, 3495), and a resolution or motion to 
expunge from the Record in such a case is offered as a question of 
privilege (V, 7012; VIII, 3475, 3491). An inquiry by the House as to an 
alleged abuse of the leave to print does not necessarily entitle the 
Member implicated to the floor on a question of privilege (V, 7012). 
Clause 8 of rule XVII (former clause 9 of rule XIV) requires substantive 
remarks inserted under leave to revise

  A motion that a Member be permitted to extend his remarks in the 
Record is not privileged (Feb. 8, 1950, p. 1661), and under the rules of 
the Joint Committee on Printing, one Member cannot obtain permission for 
other individual Members to extend their remarks (rule 5 of House 
Supplement, Sec. 686, supra).

  Where extraneous material proposed to be inserted in the body or in 
the Extension of Remarks portion of the Record exceeds two Record pages, 
the rules of the Joint Committee on Printing require that the Member 
state an estimate of printing cost when permission is requested to make 
the insertion (Feb. 12, 1962, p. 2207; May 24, 1972, p. 18653). 
It is the Member's responsibility and not that of the Chair to 
ascertain the cost of printing extraneous material and obtaining consent 
of the House when necessary (Feb. 11, 1994, p. 2245). As 
indicated in supplemental rule 3 of the Laws and Rules for Publication 
of the Congressional Record, the general leave request of the floor 
manager permits matter pertaining to specific legislation, including 
tables and charts but not newspaper clippings and editorials. The Clerk 
normally does not require a cost estimate for charts and tables admitted 
under general leave that exceed two Record pages. The Joint 
Committee on Printing amended the rules for publication of the Record, 
effective March 1, 1978, to require the identification in the Record by 
``bullet'' symbols of statements or insertions no part of which were 
actually delivered in debate (Feb. 20, 1978, p. 3676). Where the House 
permitted all Members leave to revise and extend their remarks on a 
certain subject, those Members who actually spoke during the debate 
could revise their remarks to appear as if actually delivered, but 
Members' statements no part of which were spoken were preceded and 
followed by a ``bullet'' symbol (Nov. 15, 1983, p. 32729). Then in the 
99th Congress, the House adopted a resolution requesting the Joint 
Committee on Printing to adopt temporary rules to require distinctive 
type styles rather than bulleting of remarks not actually spoken in 
debate (H. Res. 230, July 31, 1985, p. 21783), and also adopted a 
resolution requesting that those rules be made permanent (H. Res. 514, 
Aug. 12, 1986, p. 20980). Under regulations of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, remarks delivered or inserted under leave to revise and extend 
in connection with a ``one-minute speech'' made before legislative 
business are printed after legislative business if exceeding 300 words 
(Speaker O'Neill, Apr. 5, 1978, p. 8846). See Sec. 686, supra.


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p. ----; Jan. 27, 2000, p. ----; Jan. 3, 2001, p. ----; Jan. 23, 
2002, p. ----; Jan. 7, 2003, p. ----).

News media galleries
  Based upon several unauthorized insertions of extensions of remarks in 
the Record, the Speaker announced that henceforth all extensions of 
remarks must be signed by the Member submitting them (Aug. 15, 1974, p. 
28385). The House by unanimous consent may grant permission for all 
Members to extend their remarks and to include extraneous material 
within the established limits in that section of the Congressional 
Record entitled ``Extensions of Remarks'' for a session of Congress 
(Jan. 6, 1999,




693. Unofficial reporters in the press gallery and on the 
floor.

  2.  A portion of the gallery over the Speaker's chair as may be 
necessary to accommodate representatives of the press wishing to report 
debates and proceedings shall be set aside for their use. Reputable 
reporters and correspondents shall be admitted thereto under such 
regulations as the Speaker may prescribe from time to time. The Standing 
Committee of Correspondents for the Press Gallery, and the Executive 
Committee of Correspondents for the Periodical Press Gallery, shall 
supervise such galleries, including the designation of its employees, 
subject to the direction and control of the Speaker. The Speaker may 
assign one seat on the floor to Associated Press reporters and one to 
United Press International reporters, and may regulate their occupation. 
The Speaker may admit to the floor, under such regulations as he may 
prescribe, one additional representative of each press association.



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  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 2 of rule XXXIV. When it was 
transferred to this clause, it also was amended to reflect the existing 
practice of including the Periodical Press Gallery under the ambit of 
the rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). This provision was first 
adopted in 1857 and has been amended from time to time (V, 7304; VIII, 
3642; Jan. 3, 1953, p. 24; Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). See also Consumers 
Union v. Periodical Correspondents' Association, 1515 F.2d 1341 (D.C. 
Cir. 1975), cert. den. 423 U.S. 1051 (1976) (action in enforcing 
correspondents' association regulations is within legislative immunity 
granted by the Speech or Debate Clause).




Sec. 694. Unofficial reporters in the radio gallery and on 
the floor.

  3.  A portion of the gallery as may be necessary to accommodate 
reporters of news to be disseminated by radio, television, and similar 
means of transmission, wishing to report debates and proceedings, shall 
be set aside for their use. Reputable reporters and correspondents shall 
be admitted thereto under such regulations as the Speaker may prescribe. 
The Executive Committee of the Radio and Television Correspondents' 
Galleries shall supervise such gallery, including the designation of its 
employees, subject to the direction and control of the Speaker. The 
Speaker may admit to the floor, under such regulations as he may 
prescribe, one representative of the National Broadcasting Company, one 
of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and one of the American 
Broadcasting Company.





  Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this 
provision was found in former clause 3 of rule XXXIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. ----). It was adopted initially on April 20, 1939 (p. 4561), 
and was amended on May 30, 1940 (p. 7208) and on January 22, 1971 (p. 
144).