    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress]
    [115th Congress]
    [House Document 114-192]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 151-152]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                           sec. vii--call of the house

    Sec. 311. Parliamentary rules for call of the House.

      On  the
    call of the House, each person rises up as he is called, and answereth;
    the absentees are then only noted, but no excuse to be made till the
    House be fully called over. Then the absentees are called a second time,
    and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. House of Commons, 92.

      They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a
    crowd, being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so
    small a body as the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising
    cannot be necessary.

      Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2
    Hats., 72.

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    electronic device (clause 2(a) of rule XX). Clause 5(c) of rule XX
    permits the House to operate with a ``provisional quorum'' where the
    House is without a quorum due to catastrophic circumstances.
    * * * * *

      Rule XX, which provides for a call of the House, does not require
    Members to rise on answering, and quorum calls are normally conducted by