[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 Printing 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