    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Page 157]
    [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.

      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
    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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