[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 110th Congress]
[110th Congress]
[House Document 109-157]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Pages 390-402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 

                                 Rule VI


Official reporters
               official reporters and news media galleries


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ing stenographers of committees, and shall supervise the execution of 
their duties.



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, includ


  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. 47). 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 played an important role in the 
evolution of the system by which the House compiles 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).




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).


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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.
  4. Return of manuscript.--When manuscript is submitted to Members for 
revision it should be returned to the Government Printing Office not

  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.

  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 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.

  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.


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provides that conference reports be printed in the daily edition of the 
Congressional Record, they shall not be printed therein a second time.
  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)

  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.

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


  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


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gress 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.
  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 Con

  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.

  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 the makeup would be in a sense made easier so as to 
comply with daily proceedings, which might run extremely heavy at times.

  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.


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remarks in a distinctive type style to follow the remarks actually 
uttered. In no event would the actually uttered remarks be removable.

  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



Sec. 687. Substantially verbatim account.

  The requirement  of 
rule 7 of the supplemental rules that the Congressional Record be a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks actually rendered was included 
in clause 8(a) of rule XVII (formerly clause 9 of rule XIV) in the 104th 
Congress, with the prescription that that rule constitute a standard of 
conduct under former clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI (formerly clause 
4(e)(1)(B) of rule X) (sec. 213, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Under 
clause 8 of rule XVII, remarks actually delivered may not be deleted and 
remarks inserted must appear in distinctive type (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541). 
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).


  Words spoken by a Member not under recognition are not included in the 
Congressional Record (V, 6975-6978; VIII, 3466, 3471). For example the 
Record does not include remarks uttered: (1) after a Member has been 
called to order (July 29, 1994, p. 18609); (2) when a Member fails to 
heed the gavel at the expiration of time for debate (May 22, 2003, p. --
--; Oct. 2, 2003, p. ----); (3) when a Member interrupts another during 
debate without being yielded or otherwise recognized (as on a point of 
order) (Speaker O'Neill, Feb. 7, 1985, p. 2229). Remarks held irrelevant 
by the Chair may be removed from the Record by unanimous consent only 
(Mar. 20, 2002, p. 3663).

  In response to a parliamentary inquiry, the Chair advised that when 
the Pledge of Allegiance is delivered as the third element of the daily 
order of business, the Record reflects the pledge in its statutory form 
(Apr. 27, 2004, p. ----). 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. 
2535; see also Feb. 25, 2003, p. 4402).


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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).
  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 (formerly

  The Congressional 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). 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). As a general principle the Speaker has no control over the 
Record (V, 6984, 7017).

  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 
of that Member (V, 6972; VIII, 3461), and alterations that 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 that do not contain reflections on himself, 
delivered by another Member and withheld for revision (V, 6964).


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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).




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 what he actually said (V, 6972). Similarly, 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 
that he had offered on a previous day and that had been substantially 
misprinted in the daily Record for the day on which it was offered 
(Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 18.6). In addition, privileged motions have been 
permitted to correct the Record as follows: (1) striking unparliamentary 
words inserted in the Record (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 17); (2) correcting 
the Record where the remarks of one Member have been attributed to 
another (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. Sec. 18.1, 18.2); (3) correcting the 
Record where a Member has improperly altered his remarks during an 
exchange of colloquy with another Member (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec.  18.9). 
Mere typographical errors in the 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) (subject to clause 8 
of rule XVII). The House does not change the Record merely to show what 
a Member should have said during debate (Deschler, ch. 5, Sec. 18).


  Furthermore, 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 also 
has been held that a Member may not, in a controversy over a proposed 
correction of the Record as to a matter of business, demand as a matter 
of right the reading of the reporter's notes (V, 6967; VIII, 3460).


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  The accuracy and propriety of reports in the Congressional Record 
constitute questions of the privileges of the House (see, Sec. 704, 
infra). Subject to the requirements of rule IX, a motion or resolution 
for the correction of the Congressional Record that involves a question 
of privilege may be made properly after the reading and approval of the 
Journal (V, 7013; VIII, 3496), is not in order pending the approval of 
the Journal (V, 6989), and may not be raised until the Record has 
appeared (V, 7020). A correction of the Record that 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.



Sec. 690. Unparliamentary remarks and the Congressional 
Record.

  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). The House also has 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 to direct 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). 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). A 
resolution to omit from the Congressional Record certain remarks merely 
declared by the Member offering the resolution to be out of order is not 
privileged (V, 7021). A motion to strike unparliamentary words from the 
Record is privileged (see Sec. 961, infra), although a question of 
privilege may not subsequently arise therefrom (V, 7023; VI, 596).



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the House nor the Committee of the Whole may 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). This prohibition does not apply to the insertion of remarks 
spoken in debate in the Senate in the form of a colloquy (Mar. 7, 2006, 
p. ----) given the form of clause 1 of rule XVII as adopted in the 109th 
Congress.


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, stipulates that it 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 individual; (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); (4) a Member may not insert 
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). 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, 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). 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).

  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 (formerly clause 9 of rule XIV) requires 
substantive remarks inserted under leave to revise and extend to be 
printed in distinctive type and precludes deletion under such permission 
of words actually uttered (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 541).

  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).


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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.
  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

  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). 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.


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 
(e.g., Jan. 6, 1999, p. 247; Jan. 3, 2001, p. 38).


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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.



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


  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. 47). 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).


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ulations as he may prescribe, one representative of the National 
Broadcasting Company, one of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and one 
of the American Broadcasting Company.



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 reg





  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. 47). 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).