The rules of the One Hundred Fourteenth (114th) Congress were adopted on January 6, 2015, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House Resolution 5 included separate free-standing orders constituting procedures to be followed in the One Hundred Fourteenth (114th) Congress. This revised edition contains the explanations of the changes to the standing rules that appear in the annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual.
The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the Constitution of the United Sates: applicable provisions of Jefferson's Manual: Rules of the House (as of the date of this volume); provisions of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting rules and other procedural authority used in the House of Representatives.
Members of the United States House of Representatives, constitutional law attorneys, political scientists, rules and policy advocates, and members of the public with interest in parliamentary processes and updates to rules during this One hundred fourteenth (114th) Congress may be interested in this volume.
High school students through graduate students and political science, constitutional law professors interested in parliamentary rules and processes may be interested in this updated volume.
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