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House Rules and Manual: About
The House Rules and Manual is published by the the House Parliamentarian's Office. This document is formally entitled Constitution, Jefferson's Manual,
and Rules of the House of Representatives and contains the fundamental
source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House
of Representatives, including:
- the Constitution of the United States;
- applicable provisions of Jefferson's Manual;
- rules of the House;
- provisions of law and resolutions having the force of rules of the
House; and
- pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers
of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other
procedural authority used in the House of Representatives.
It is published during the first session of each Congress. GPO Access
contains the House Rules and Manual for the 103rd (House Document 103-342),
105th (House Document 104-272), 106th (House Document 105-358), 107th (House Document No. 106-320), and 108th (House Document No. 107-284) Congresses.
Files are available in ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
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