House practice : a guide to the rules, precedents, and procedures of the House / / Wm Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910703386703321
• Autore: Brown Wm. Holmes (William Holmes)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, District of Columbia : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2011
• Edizione: [Third edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 1036 pages)
• Disciplina: 060.42
• Soggetti: Parliamentary practice - United States; Parliamentary practice; Legislative materials.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "112th Congress, 1st session"--Cover.; Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 12, 2012).; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.