    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 111th Congress]
    [111st Congress]
    [House Document 110-162]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 991-992]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    Rule XXIX

                               general provisions

    [[Page 992]]

    cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not
    inconsistent with the Rules and orders of the House.

    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

      2. In these rules words importing one gender include the other 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), redesignated
    as rule XXVIII in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7,
    2003, p. 7), and redesignated as rule XXIX in the 110th Congress (sec.
    301, P.L. 110-81). Clause 2 was amended in the 111th Congress when
    gender-based references throughout the rules were eliminated (sec. 2(l),
    H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). The importance of Jefferson's Manual as
    an authority in congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029,
    1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).