[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.
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  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