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... respecting . · Page 27 29 10041-0 ... 82 96 96 107 106 81 94 107-108 107 106 107 ffect of , on business depending .. Amendment to Bills . - See also Bills .. proceedings in relation to .. how to be reported .. fall on recommitment .. in ...
... respecting . · Page 27 29 10041-0 ... 82 96 96 107 106 81 94 107-108 107 106 107 ffect of , on business depending .. Amendment to Bills . - See also Bills .. proceedings in relation to .. how to be reported .. fall on recommitment .. in ...
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... respecting . Ayes and noes , how questions are determined by no member to vote if not present Bills , engrossed , must not be looked into to be fairly written , or Speaker may refuse them ... amendments fall , if recommitted a ...
... respecting . Ayes and noes , how questions are determined by no member to vote if not present Bills , engrossed , must not be looked into to be fairly written , or Speaker may refuse them ... amendments fall , if recommitted a ...
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... respecting their being closed ought not to be shut ; to be kept by persons appointed .. .......... • 79-83 45 43 Due , challenge to , breach of privilege . Elections , time , place , and manner of holding ..... Engrossed bills , not to ...
... respecting their being closed ought not to be shut ; to be kept by persons appointed .. .......... • 79-83 45 43 Due , challenge to , breach of privilege . Elections , time , place , and manner of holding ..... Engrossed bills , not to ...
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... respecting papers - See Papers ...... in debate - See Debate ... questions of , may be adjourned .. decision of the ... respecting their preservation ..... 37 37 Papers and Journals , rules respecting their preservation .. reading 176 ...
... respecting papers - See Papers ...... in debate - See Debate ... questions of , may be adjourned .. decision of the ... respecting their preservation ..... 37 37 Papers and Journals , rules respecting their preservation .. reading 176 ...
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... respecting their preservation .. reading of , how far they may be called for ..................... . referred , usually read by title .. to be left with conferees of the House acceding to conference .. Parliament , each House of may ...
... respecting their preservation .. reading of , how far they may be called for ..................... . referred , usually read by title .. to be left with conferees of the House acceding to conference .. Parliament , each House of may ...
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Page 141 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the house, the speaker shall, or any member may, call to order, in which case the member so called to order .shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the house shall, if appealed to, decide the ease.
Page 161 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 141 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Page 124 - RECONSIDERATION. [When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, It shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof...
Page 125 - EVERY bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed ; and the President shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, second, or third ; which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise...
Page 161 - No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor. Nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least twothirds of the members present.
Page 14 - ... the only weapons by which the minority can defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power, are the forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House ; by a strict adherence to which, the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check, and which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities.
Page 81 - House having, on the question, retained the two first divisions, the words "any alien merchant" may be struck out, and their modifying words will then attach themselves to the preceding description of persons, and become a modification of that description. When a question is divided, after the question on the...
Page 64 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged...
Page 63 - The delay and interruption which this might be made to produce evince the impossibility of the existence of such a right. There is, indeed, so manifest a propriety of permitting every member to have as much information as possible on every question on which he is to vote that when he desires the reading, if it be seen that it is really for information and not for delay, the Speaker directs it to be read without putting a question, if no one objects; but if objected to a question must be put.