[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
[105th Congress]
[House Document 104-272]
[Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
[Pages 139-140]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
sec. vii.--call of the house.
[[Page 140]]
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.
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
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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 XV of the House of Representatives provides for a procedure on
call of the House. Members of the House do not rise on answering.
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