House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House /
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington :
U.S. Government Printing Office,
2011.
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| Edition: | [Third edition.]. |
| Series: | U.S. Congressional documents.
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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.