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Author Johnson, Charles W., III, author.

Title House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House / Charles W. Johnson, Parliamentarian of the House, 1994-2004, John V. Sullivan, Parliamentarian of the House, 2004-2012, Thomas J. Wickham, Jr., Parliamentarian of the House, 2012-.

Publication Info. Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2017.
Washington, DC : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S., U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Federal Documents Online  Y 1.2:P 88/2/2017    ---  Available
Edition [Fourth edition].
Description vi, 1055 pages ; 23 cm
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Note "115th Congress, 1st session"--Cover.
Includes index.
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 procedure -- Voting -- Withdrawal.
Form Also available via the Internet from the GPO Access web site.
Subject United States. Congress. House -- Rules and practice.
Parliamentary practice -- United States.
United States. Congress. House. (OCoLC)fst00536930
Parliamentary practice. (OCoLC)fst01053793
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Rules. (OCoLC)fst01423857
Added Author Sullivan, John V., author.
Wickham, Thomas J. author
United States. Congress. House, issuing body.
Added Title Guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House
ISBN 9780160937842 (paperback)
0160937841 (paperback)
Gpo Item No. 0998
Sudoc No. Y 1.2:P 88/2/2017

 
    
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