[House Rules Manual -- House Document No. 104-272]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office Online Database]
[Pages 139-140]
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                      sec. vii.--call of the house.

  On <<NOTE: Sec. 311. Parliamentary rules for call of the House.>> the 
call of the House, each person rises up as he is called, and answereth; 
the absentees are then only noted, but no excuse to be made till the 
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be fully called over. Then the absentees are called a second time, 
and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. House of Commons, 92.
  They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a 
crowd, being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so 
small a body as the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising 
cannot be necessary.
  Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2 
Hats., 72.

  Rule XV of the House of Representatives provides for a procedure on 
call of the House. Members of the House do not rise on answering.
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