    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress]
    [112nd Congress]
    [House Document 111-157]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 389-400]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    Rule VI

    Official reporters
                official reporters and news media galleries

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

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      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).

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

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    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.
      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

      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.

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

      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.

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    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.
      The official reporters of each House shall designate and distinctly
    mark the lead item among their extensions. When both Houses are in
    session

      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

      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 Congress 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.

      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.

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    the request. This, of course, will include tables and charts
    pertinent to the same, but not newspaper clippings and editorials.
      3. Under the general leave request by the floor manager of specific
    legislation only matter pertaining to such legislation will be included
    as per

      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.

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

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    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).

    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

      Words spoken by a Member not under recognition are not included in the
    Congressional Record (V, 6975-6978; VIII, 3466, 3471) and a Member
    should not expect the official reporters to transcribe such remarks
    (Jan. 24, 2011, p. _). 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. 12965; Oct. 2, 2003, p. 23950); (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, pp. 7588, 7600). 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).

      Under long practice and applicable precedents and guidelines, the
    Chair has refined rulings on points of order in the Record in order to
    clarify them without changing their substance, including those 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 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). In the 104th Congress the
    Speaker ruled that the requirement of clause 8 of rule XVII (formerly
    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).

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    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 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-

      The traditional practice to allow Members, with the approval of the
    House and under conditions set forth by the Joint Committee on Printing,
    to revise 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 the Member's own speech in such a way as to affect the
    remarks of another without bringing the correction to the attention of
    that Member (V, 6972; VIII, 3461) because such alterations 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 that Member, delivered by another Member and withheld for revision
    (V, 6964).

    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 a call to order (V, 6987). In a case wherein a
    letter read in Committee involved a breach of privilege, the Committee
    reported the matter to the House for action, and the House struck the
    letter from the Record (V, 6986). The chair 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).
    The Committee of the Whole may neither 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 permit the inclusion of extraneous material (Jan. 23, 1936, p. 950;
    Feb. 1, 1937, p. 656; Sept. 19, 1967, p. 26032).

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    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), because 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).

    Sec. 689. Correction of the Congressional
    Record.

      Although 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, because this would be
    determining what a Member should utter on the floor (V, 6974; VI, 583;
    VIII, 3469, 3498). Neither should one House strike 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 was 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
    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

      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 votes (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).

      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 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). A resolution directing the placement
    of an asterisk in the Record to note alleged inaccuracies in a State of
    the Union address (but not alleging improper transcription of that
    address) was held not to constitute a question of privilege (Oct. 20,
    2003, pp. 25255, 25256). Propositions to make corrections are sometimes
    considered by the Committee on House Administration.

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    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 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).

    Sec. 690. Unparliamentary remarks and the Congressional
    Record.

      Where  a Member had uttered disorderly words on the floor without
    challenge, the House decided that it was not precluded from action when
    the words, after being withheld for revision, appeared in the Record,
    and struck them (V, 6979, 6981; VI, 582; VIII, 2538, 3463, 3472). The
    House also has ordered stricken 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

    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 fully debate public questions on the floor (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 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 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. 2791) given the form of clause 1 of rule XVII as adopted in
    the 109th Congress.

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    Member, by unanimous consent, may be given leave to extend
    remarks (V, 7009, 7010; VIII, 3488-3490), though such leave should be
    granted only 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).
      The House, and not the Speaker, determines what liberty shall be
    allowed to a Member who has leave to extend 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

      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 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 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).

      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 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.

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    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; Sec. 686, supra).
      The Joint Committee on Printing amended the rules for publication of
    the Record, effective March 1, 1978, to require the identification 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

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      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 (e.g., Jan. 6,
    1999, p. 247) or a Congress (e.g., Jan. 4, 2007, p. 42).

    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 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
    admit to the floor, under such regulations as the Speaker may prescribe,
    not more than one representative of each press association.

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    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; Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). A
    gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l),
    H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). See also Consumers Union v. Periodical
    Correspondents' Association, 515 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).

      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,

    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 regulations as the Speaker
    may prescribe, not more than one representative of each media outlet.

      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). This provision was first adopted on April 20, 1939 (p.
    4561) and has been amended from time to time (May 30, 1940, p. 7208;
    Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). A gender-based reference was
    eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p.
    _).