[106th Congress House Rules Manual -- House Document No. 106-320]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office Online Database]
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                     sec. xxv--bills, second reading

  The <> second reading must regularly be on another day. Hakew., 143.
It is done by the Clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker.
The Speak

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er, rising, states to the House the title of the bill; that this is the
second time of reading it; and that the question will be, whether it
shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But if the bill
came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he states that
the question will be, whether it shall be read a third time? and before
he has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak to it.
Hakew., 143, 146.
  In the Senate of the United States, the President reports the title of
the bill; that this is the second time of reading it; that it is now to
be considered as in a Committee of the Whole; and the question will be,
whether it shall be read a third time? or that it may be referred to a
special committee?

  The provisions of this paragraph are to a large extent obsolete, the
practice under clause 8 of rule XVI now governing.