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House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House / Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Wm. Holmes (William Holmes), author.
- Johnson, Charles W., III, author.
- Sullivan, John V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress. House--Rules and practice.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. House.
- Parliamentary practice--United States.
- Parliamentary practice.
- Genre:
- legislative records.
- Rules
- Legislative materials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 1036 pages)
- Edition:
- [3rd ed.].
- Other Title:
- Guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "112th Congress, 1st session"--Cover.
- Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 12, 2012).
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brown, Wm. Holmes (William Holmes). House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House
- Online version: Brown, Wm. Holmes (William Holmes) House practice.
- ISBN:
- 9780160901331
- 0160901332
- OCLC:
- 779847867
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