House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 108th Congress.

Discusses changes in House rules affecting floor proceedings in 108th Congress, in part as response to 9/11 terrorist attacks. Reviews changes regarding speaker succession, emergency recess, accounting of vacancies, motions to instruct conferees, electronic devices on floor, repeal of speaker term l...

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Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2003.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	United States. > Congress > Rules and practice. United States. > Congress. > House. Terrorism. Electronic books.
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Summary:	Discusses changes in House rules affecting floor proceedings in 108th Congress, in part as response to 9/11 terrorist attacks. Reviews changes regarding speaker succession, emergency recess, accounting of vacancies, motions to instruct conferees, electronic devices on floor, repeal of speaker term limit, staff access to floor, five-minute voting in a series, proceedings during call of House, and suspension of rules of Wednesdays.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.