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RULE XIV: ORDER AND PRIORITY OF BUSINESS
1. The daily order of business (unless
varied by the application of other rules
and except for the disposition of matters
of higher precedence) shall be as
follows:
First. Prayer by the Chaplain.
Second. Reading and approval of
the Journal, unless postponed under
clause 8 of rule XX.
Third. The Pledge of Allegiance to
the Flag.
Fourth. Correction of reference of
public bills.
Fifth. Disposal of business on the
Speaker’s table as provided in clause
2.
Sixth. Unfinished business as provided
in clause 3.
Seventh. The morning hour for the
consideration of bills called up by
committees as provided in clause 4.
Eighth. Motions that the House resolve
into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the
Union subject to clause 5.
Ninth. Orders of the day.
2. Business on the Speaker’s table
shall be disposed of as follows:
(a) Messages from the President
shall be referred to the appropriate
committees without debate.
(b) Communications addressed to
the House, including reports and
communications from heads of departments
and bills, resolutions, and
messages from the Senate, may be referred
to the appropriate committees
in the same manner and with the
same right of correction as public
bills and public resolutions presented
by Members, Delegates, or the Resident
Commissioner.
(c) Motions to dispose of Senate
amendments on the Speaker’s table
may be entertained as provided in
clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XXII.
(d) Senate bills and resolutions substantially
the same as House mea
sures already favorably reported and
not required to be considered in the
Committee of the Whole House on
the state of the Union may be disposed
of by motion. Such a motion
shall be privileged if offered by direction
of all reporting committees having
initial jurisdiction of the House
measure.
3. Consideration of unfinished business
in which the House may have been
engaged at an adjournment, except
business in the morning hour and proceedings
postponed under clause 8 of
rule XX, shall be resumed as soon as
the business on the Speaker’s table is
finished, and at the same time each
day thereafter until disposed of. The
consideration of all other unfinished
business shall be resumed whenever the
class of business to which it belongs
shall be in order under the rules.
4. After the unfinished business has
been disposed of, the Speaker shall call
each standing committee in regular
order and then select committees. Each
committee when named may call up for
consideration a bill or resolution reported
by it on a previous day and on
the House Calendar. If the Speaker
does not complete the call of the committees
before the House passes to
other business, the next call shall resume
at the point it left off, giving
preference to the last bill or resolution
under consideration. A committee that
has occupied the call for two days may
not call up another bill or resolution
until the other committees have been
called in their turn.
5. After consideration of bills or resolutions
under clause 4 for one hour, it
shall be in order, pending consideration
thereof, to entertain a motion that the
House resolve into the Committee of
the Whole House on the state of the
Union or, when authorized by a committee,
that the House resolve into the
Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union to consider a particular
bill. Such a motion shall be
subject to only one amendment designating
another bill. If such a motion is
decided in the negative, another such
motion may not be considered until the
matter that was pending when such
motion was offered is disposed of.
6. All questions relating to the priority
of business shall be decided by a
majority without debate.
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