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Absentees:

Attendance of; in absence of a quorum may not compel, but may

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Attendance, may compel, etc..

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Earlier rules adopted to secure attendance of..

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Forms of responses of Sergeant-at-Arms to directions that he shall
secure attendance of..

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Methods for securing the attendance of...

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Motion to direct Sergeant-at-Arms to request attendance of, not
debatable...

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Motion to direct Sergeant-at-Arms to request attendance of, may
be laid on table...

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Names of, during a call of yeas and nays, ordered printed in sepa-
rate list in published proceedings..

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Pending execution of order to compel attendance of, no debate
is in order.

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Practice concerning, varies..

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Practice of “requesting" attendance of, began August 6, 1850..
Proposition made to deduct from a Senator's compensation the
per diem allowance for days absent without leave........
Quorum necessary to reconsider vote directing Sergeant-at-Arms
to compel attendance of.......

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Quorum being present, on compelling attendance of.

Quorum wanting, may not compel attendance of, in absence of a
rule.....

Quorum wanting, pending execution of order to compel attend-
ance of, may not raise point of order...

Relative to, at commencement of first session of the First Congress.
Resolution authorizing payment of compensation to Senators
absent or detained at beginning of a session on account of a

storm.

Senate decides motion to "request" the attendance of, must
precede motion to "compel" attendance of...

Urgent letters requesting attendance of..

When practice of requesting attendance of Senators began.
Acts of reconstruction. (See Limitation of subjects to be con-
sidered.)

Adams, John Quincy:

Observations of, upon action of Senate in calling the attention of
the House to fact it had not acted upon a conference report....
Adherence:

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House asks conference after, although Senate has right to refuse,
but agreed to it......

House asks conference after, by Senate, and Senate refuses to
grant the request.

Jackson, Major-General, House asked conference on resolutions
expressive of thanks of Congress to, after, by the Senate...
Question of, to amendments by each House had consideration in
First Congress, when a committee was appointed to consider it.
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Adjournment:

Business undisposed of is carried over to next succeeding session
of a Congress on..

Concurrent resolution for, over the holidays, need not lie over one
day.

Constitutional provision covering..
Customary to adjourn immediately upon announcement of death

of a Senator, out of respect to the memory of the deceased......
Discussion having intervened, a subsequent motion for, in order.
Disposition of papers on, of a first session of a Congress..
Final, of a Congress, should come at 12 o'clock noon, on the 4th
day of March..

Final, of a Congress, simply declared by Presiding Officer...
Form of motion and procedure in adjourning to a day certain.
For more than three days must be by concurrent resolution.

In case of disagreement between the Houses as to time of, the
President may adjourn them to such time as he shall think
proper....

In early practice motion for, was always in order.
Method of securing an...

Minority may adjourn a session sine die.

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Motion for, may not be entertained if it immediately follows a
similar motion determined in the negative....

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Motion for, may not be made by one Senator while another is
speaking...

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Motion for, may not be made while the yeas and nays are being
called, or a vote is being taken......

Motion for, over Sunday, may not be made in morning hour..
Motion for, pending execution of an order....
Motions for, to a day certain, may be amended..

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Motion for, to a time specified and while a matter was pending,
decided in order...............

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Motion for, when another matter is pending, is not in order...
Motion for, when question is pending, takes precedence of all

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other motions..

Motion for, was once used as a means for delay in British House
of Commons.

Motion simply for, can not be amended..

Motion to adjourn, sine die, in absence of a quorum, decided not
in order....

Motion to determine matter before, not in order, when not speci-
fying rule that is suspended by such action.......

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Motion to fix time to which Senate shall adjourn may be amended.
Must be an, before legislative day terminates..

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Neither House may adjourn for more than three days without the
consent of the other....

No business having intervened, a second motion for, not in order 16, 17
No formal, for last legislative day of a Congress.

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No joint rules in force, business of a subsequent session can be
resumed as if no, had taken place.

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Of both Houses, to day certain, with a proviso........

Once made necessary to insure safety of Senators, repairs to Sen-
ate chamber being urgent...

One House having adjourned, the President declines to receive
certain bills...

On motion for, no quorum voting.

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Roll call ordered prior to, must proceed immediately upon the
next consideration of the question..

Question of, without day, a quorum lacking, the decisions differ..
Resolution for final, is privileged..

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Adjournment—Continued.

Senator on request to assign reasons for not voting, no quorum
being present, a motion for, may not be made.......
Sometimes had to serve the personal convenience of Senators.
Successive adjournments provided for in one motion.....

Sunday is not taken into account in, for "more than one and less
than three days".

Time of, each day, noted on legislative and executive journals..
Amendments:

A bill, moved as an amendment, is germane..

A bill, which as a separate measure may be passed by a majority
vote as an, to a disability bill requiring a two-thirds vote for
its passage, is in order.

Adherence to, by each House, had consideration in First Congress.
A declaration of principles merely is not in order as an amend-

ment......

During consideration of credentials an, which is simply a declara-
tion of principles, not in order....

An amendment agreed to in Committee of the Whole not suscep-
tible of division when bill is in the Senate...

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An amendment being proposed an amendment to it was offered,
when a motion was made to lay both on the table, and the
motion was decided in order.

Are divisible.......

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Are not in order from mere fact of reference...

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As to numbering of sections in a bill or resolution may be left to
the clerks....

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Between the Houses..

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Bills have been reported adversely with, and placed on the
calendar...

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Blanks left in a bill by one House may be filled by the other by
way of amendment...

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Coming from committee, may not be proposed by a Senator not a
member of the committee, and as having its authority.
Containing appropriations not moved by direction of a com-
mittee, or in pursuance of an estimate, declared in order..
Copies of, to a House bill, furnished the House on request and
when bill itself was lost in the House.

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Covering same subject-matter already agreed to, not in order..
Debate has been limited upon, for a time specified..
Debate proceeding on merits, they are in order..

Form for passing Senate bills reported from committees with.......

priation bill were omitted in the engrossment..

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In conflict with the Constitution.
Inconsistent, determined to be in order..

House notified that certain, to the civil and diplomatic appro-

If printed, in same style and type as bills are printed.
Important, generally printed when not to be immediately con-
sidered.

Inconsistent, offered to a revenue bill, decided in order by vote
of Senate....

In nature of a substitute may be engrafted on a bill immediately
following the enacting clause....

Increasing amounts, may not be made to amendments reported....
In reporting, in the Senate, during consideration of bill, Secre-
tary states by page and line the exact form of.....
Instance where Senate disagreed to an amendment of the House
to its amendment to a House bill, and then receded from its
amendment..

Made in Committee of the Whole, may be laid on table in the
Senate...

Manner of proposing for reference to a committee.

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Amendments-Continued.

May be laid on the table..

May not be made to a bill upon third reading unless by unanimous

consent..

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Mere recital of legal proposition, not an..

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Method of disposal of, when question contains more than one
proposition....

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Motion to lay an amendment to an amendment on the table does
not carry with it the original amendment...
Motion to take up a subject not open to..

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Motion to amend an amendment from the other House takes pre-
cedence of motion to agree or disagree..

Motion to adjourn, in its simple form, may not be amended..
Motion to fix time to which Senate shall adjourn may be amended.
Not in order to refer amendments to a bill pending to a com-
mittee..

Observations of Wm. J. McDonald on propositions to strike out
and insert....

Offered, may not be withdrawn by a committee.

On motions to strike out, and to strike out and insert..

On proposition to strike out and insert not in order to call for a
division of part proposed to be inserted...............

Part to be inserted and part to be striken out are each regarded
as a question..

Pending a motion to strike out and insert, motions to amend
part proposed to be stricken out shall have precedence..
Preamble may be withdrawn before it is amended..

Previous question not in order upon an, by Vice-President
(Mr. Jefferson)..............

Proposed by committee reporting measure are generally first
disposed of...

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Question may not be raised as to whether or not they are in
order, after debate has begun on merits....
Receding from, to a resolution, does not pass same..

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Reported from a committee, after the bill itself has been re-
ported, are in order..............

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Resolution to admit Senators-elect can only be divided by way
of an..

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Ruled that, made in Committee of the Whole, are not susceptible
of division in the Senate...

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Rules, not in order to amend the, except on one day's notice
Rules, when amended by resolution, one day's notice not neces-

sary

Ruling of Vice-President Colfax on question of amending one
bill by substituting another that is not germane.
Secretary given permission to correct error in engrossment of, to
a House bill.....

Senate amending a House bill, the House agreeing with an
amendment, question on amendment of House must precede
question to recede..

Senate may recede from its disagreement to an amendment to
a bill of the House, and agree to the same with an amendment.
Senate resolves upon its rights as to the adoption of, to House
bills, that are in the nature of revenue bills....

Senate rules regarding..

Senate substitute to a House revenue bill is tabled in House,
and Senate is notified..

Treatment of, when proposed by Senators to a bill under con-
sideration...

Two-thirds vote not necessary to adopt an, to a joint resolution
to amend the Constitution...

Unanimous-consent agreement, not a violation of, to lay an, on

the table..

When not divisible.

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