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115Th Congress to the Date of Publication of This Edition 114th Congress, 2d Session -------- House Document No. 114–192 CONSTITUTION JEFFERSON’S MANUAL AND RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS THOMAS J. WICKHAM PARLIAMENTARIAN U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 24–824 WASHINGTON : 2017 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Washington, DC 20402 VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0850 Sfmt 0850 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A congress.#13 VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A HOUSE RESOLUTION 945 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S., December 6, 2016. Resolved, That a revised edition of the Rules and Man- ual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress be printed as a House document, and that three thousand additional copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the House of Representatives, of which nine hundred eighty copies shall be bound in leath- er with thumb index and delivered as may be directed by the Parliamentarian of the House. Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, Clerk. (III) VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A PREFACE The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the Constitution of the United States; applicable provisions of Jefferson’s Manual; Rules of the House (as of the date of this preface); provisions of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other procedural author- ity used in the House of Representatives. The rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress were adopted on January 3, 2017, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House Resolution 5 included sepa- rate free-standing orders constituting procedures to be fol- lowed in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Expla- nations of the changes to the standing rules appear in the annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual. The substantive changes in the standing rules made by House Resolution 5 of the One Hundred Fifteenth Con- gress included: (1) authority for the Sergeant-at-Arms to impose a fine for unauthorized photography or audio or visual recording or broadcasting in the Chamber by a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner, subject to appeal to the Committee on Ethics, and authority for the Chief Admin- istrative Officer to deduct a fine from salary otherwise due (clause 3(g) of rule II; clause 4(d) of rule II); (2) authority for the House, the Speaker, a committee, or a committee chair to continue litigation matters author- ized in a prior Congress (clause 8 of rule II); (3) clarification on ownership and control of the records of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner (clause 6(b) of rule VII); (4) restatement of the procedure for responding to sub- poenas to conform to practice (rule VIII); (5) expansion of committee oversight plans to also in- clude plans to review and reauthorize programs and agen- cies with lapsed authorization (clause 2(d) of rule X); [V] VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A PREFACE (6) authority for several committees to exceed the limit on the number of subcommittees allowed, codifying pre- vious separate orders to that effect (clause 5(d) of rule X); (7) requirement that committee reports include state- ment on duplicative Federal programs (clause 3(c) of rule XIII); (8) clarification of the Ramseyer rule to remove an unin- tended consequence of a change effected in the 114th Con- gress (clause 3(e) of rule XIII); (9) authority for the Committee on Homeland Security to close additional days of hearings (clause 2(g) of rule XI); (10) restriction on disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Chamber during legislative proceedings (clause 9 of rule XVII); (11) authority for the Delegates and the Resident Com- missioner to preside over the Committee of the Whole (clause 1 of rule XVIII); (12) expansion of the Speaker’s authority to postpone votes to include the question of adopting a motion to re- commit and the question of adopting a motion to concur in a Senate amendment (clause 8(a) of rule XX); (13) clarification on the Speaker’s authority to reduce voting time on a question arising after a report from the Committee of the Whole or on the question of adoption a motion to recommit (clause 9(b) of rule XX); (14) restriction on an amendment to a general appro- priation bill proposing a net increase in the level of budget authority in the bill (clause 2(g) of rule XXI); (15) requirement for a comparative print for any bill, joint resolution, or amendment in the nature of a sub- stitute proposing to amend or repeal current law showing such changes, and for a comparative print for a reported bill or joint resolution showing changes between the form of the measure as reported and as considered on the floor (effective December 31, 2017) (clause 12 of rule XXI); and (16) designation of the document repository operated by the Clerk as the location at which documents may be made electronically available for purposes of satisfying layover requirements (clause 3 of rule XXIX). In addition to the amendments cited above, mobility- based references throughout the standing rules were eliminated or replaced with mobility-neutral language (sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2017, p. l). Citations in this edition refer to: (1) Hinds’ Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (volumes I through V) and Cannon’s [VI] VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A PREFACE Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (volumes VI through VIII), by volume and section (e.g., V, 5763; VIII, 2852); (2) Deschler’s Precedents of the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives (volumes 1 through 9), Deschler-Brown Prece- dents of the U.S. House of Representatives (volumes 10 through 16), Deschler-Brown-Johnson Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives (volume 17), and Deschler- Brown-Johnson-Sullivan Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives (volume 18), by chapter and section (e.g., Deschler, ch. 26, § 79.7; Deschler-Brown, ch. 28, § 4.26); (3) the Congressional Record, by date and page (e.g., Jan. 29, 1986, p. 684); (4) House Practice (2017), by chapter and section (e.g., House Practice, ch. 1, § 2); (5) Deschler-Brown Procedure in the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives (4th edition and 1987 supplement), by chap- ter and section (e.g., Procedure, ch. 5, § 8.1); (6) the United States Code, by title and section (e.g., 2 U.S.C. 287); and (7) the United States Reports, by volume and page (e.g., 395 U.S. 486). Readers are invited to refer to the prefaces of Hinds’, Cannon’s, and Deschler’s Precedents (Volumes I, VI, and 1, respectively) for comprehensive overviews by those edi- tors of the procedural history of the House of Representa- tives from 1789 to 1976. Volume 18 of Deschler-Brown- Johnson-Sullivan Precedents also features a commentary by former Parliamentarian Charles W. Johnson, III, not- ing procedural highlights during his affiliation with the House. All of the members of the Office of the Parliamentarian - Ethan Lauer, Jay Smith, Anne Gooch, Kyle Jones, Julia Cook, Brian Cooper, Lloyd Jenkins, and Kristen Donahue, as well as Charles Johnson, Max Spitzer, Andrew Neal, Catherine Moran, and Bryan Feldblum - worked diligently to annotate the decisions of the Chair and other par- liamentary precedents of the 114th Congress and of the 115th Congress to the date of publication of this edition. Their contributions, and their devotion to the pursuit of excellence in the procedural practices of the House, are gratefully acknowledged. Particular appreciation goes to Ethan Lauer for his initiative and steady hand in man- aging the project. THOMAS J. WICKHAM, JR. MAY 26, 2017 [VII] VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:27 Jun 02, 2017 Jkt 024824 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0843 Sfmt 0843 H:\BIN-H\PUBLICATIONS\MANUAL\115\20170601.115 209-5A CONTENTS THE CONSTITUTION Page PREAMBLE ............................................................................................ 3 ARTICLE I.— The legislative power .......................................... 4 II.—The executive power ........................................... 66 III.—The judicial power .............................................. 78 IV.—Obligations, duties, etc., of the States .............. 80 V.— Amendments to ................................................... 82 VI.—Law of the land, etc. ........................................... 84 VII.—Ratification of ...................................................... 89 Amendments ratified .......................................... 91 JEFFERSON’S MANUAL SECTION I.— Importance of adhering to rules ........................ 127 III.—Privilege ............................................................... 130 VI.—Quorum ................................................................ 150 VII.—Call of the House ................................................ 151 IX.—Speaker ................................................................ 152 X.—Address ................................................................ 154 XI.—Committees ......................................................... 155 XII.—Committee of the Whole ....................................
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