[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
[105th Congress]
[House Document 104-272]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Pages 779-780]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 

                               Rule XXXI.


                           hall of the house.


[[Page 780]]

of its Members, except upon occasions where the 
House by resolution agrees to take part in any ceremonies to be observed 
therein; and the Speaker shall not entertain a motion for the suspension 
of this rule.



Sec. 918. Use of the Hall of the House.

  The Hall  of the 
House shall be used only for the legislative business of the House and 
for the caucus meetings 





  Rules relating to the use of the Hall were adopted as early as 1804. 
The present form of the rule dates from 1880 (V, 7270). It was 
renumbered January 3, 1953, p. 24.