[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]
[Page 982]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               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. 7). The importance of Jefferson's Manual as an 
authority in congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029, 
1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).