[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 106th Congress]
[106th Congress]
[House Document 105-358]
[Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
[Page 142]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                       sec. vii--call of the house



Sec. 311. Parliamentary rules for call of the House.

  On  the 
call of the House, each person rises up as he is called, and answereth; 
the absentees are then only noted, but no excuse to be made till the 
House be fully called over. Then the absentees are called a second time, 
and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. House of Commons, 92.


  They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a 
crowd, being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so 
small a body as the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising 
cannot be necessary.


  Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2 
Hats., 72.




  Rule XX of the House provides for a procedure on call of the House. 
Members of the House do not rise on answering, and quorum calls are 
normally conducted by electronic device (clause 2(a) of rule XX).
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