House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brown, Wm. Holmes (William Holmes) (Author), Johnson, Charles W., III (Author), Sullivan, John V. (Author)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011.
Edition:[Third edition.].
Series:U.S. Congressional documents.
U.S. federal agency documents, decisions, and appeals.
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Table of Contents:
  • Adjournment
  • Amendments
  • Appeals
  • Appropriations
  • Assembly of Congress
  • Bills and resolutions
  • Budget process
  • Calendar Wednesday
  • Calendars
  • Chamber, rooms, and galleries
  • Committees
  • Committees of the Whole
  • Conferences between the Houses
  • Congressional procedures enacted in law
  • Congressional Record
  • Consideration and debate
  • Contempt
  • Delegates and Resident Commissioner
  • Discharging measures from Committees
  • District of Columbia business
  • Division of the question for voting
  • Election contests and disputes
  • Election of members
  • Electoral counts ; Selection of President and Vice President
  • Ethics ; Committee on Ethics
  • Germaneness of amendments
  • Impeachment
  • Journal
  • Lay on the table
  • Messages between the Houses
  • Morning hour ; Call of Committees
  • Motions
  • Oaths
  • Office of the Speaker
  • Officers and offices
  • Order of business ; Privileged business
  • Points of order ; Parliamentary inquiries
  • Postponement
  • Previous question
  • Private calendar
  • Question of consideration
  • Questions of privilege
  • Quorums
  • Reading, passage, and enactment
  • Recess
  • Recognition
  • Reconsideration
  • Refer and recommit
  • Resolutions of inquiry
  • Rules and precedents of the House
  • Senate Bills ; Amendments between the Houses
  • Special orders of business
  • Suspension of rules
  • Unanimous-consent agreements
  • Unfinished business
  • Unfunded mandates
  • Veto of bills
  • Voting
  • Withdrawal.