    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 111th Congress]
    [111st Congress]
    [House Document 110-162]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 202-203]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                         sec. xxv--bills, second reading

    Sec. 400. Obsolete parliamentary law as to second
    reading.

      The  second reading must regularly be on another day. Hakew., 143.
    It is done by the Clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker.
    The Speaker, rising, states to the House the title of the bill; that
    this is the second time of reading it; and that the question will be,
    whether it shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But
    if the bill came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he
    states that the question will be, whether it shall be read a third time?
    and before he has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak
    to it. Hakew., 143, 146.

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    third time? or that it may be referred to a special committee?

      In the Senate of the United States, the President reports the title of
    the bill; that this is the second time of reading it; that it is now to
    be considered as in a Committee of the Whole; and the question will be,
    whether it shall be read a

      The provisions of this paragraph are to a large extent obsolete, the
    practice under clause 8 of rule XVI now governing.