    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 109th Congress]
    [109th Congress]
    [House Document 108-241]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Page 955]
    [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.

      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 in Sec. Sec. 1127-1130, infra); and clause 2 was added (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVII in the
    107th Congress (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24) 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).