[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Page 750]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                              Rule XXXIII.


                     OF ADMISSION TO THE GALLERIES.




Sec. 922. The various galleries and admission 
thereto.

  The Speaker  shall set aside a portion of the west gallery for the use of 
the President of the United States, the members of his Cabinet, justices 
of the Supreme Court, foreign ministers and suites, and the members of 
their respective families, and shall also set aside another portion of 
the same gallery for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on the 
card of Members. The southerly half of the east gallery shall be 
assigned exclusively for the use of the families of Members of Congress, 
in which the Speaker shall control one bench, and on request of a Member 
the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to his family, which shall 
include their visitors, and no other person shall be admitted to this 
section.


  This rule was adopted in 1880 (V, 7302). It was renumbered January 3, 
1953, p. 24.




  On special occasions the House sometimes makes a special rule for 
admission to the galleries (V, 7303), as on the occasion of the 
electoral count (III, 1961), of an address by the President, and of 
public funerals.