[106th Congress House Rules Manual -- House Document No. 106-320]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office Online Database]
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                       sec. vii--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 of the House provides for a procedure on call of the House.
Members of the House do not rise on answering, and quorum calls are
normally conducted by electronic device (clause 2(a) of rule XX).
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