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Holmes Brown Charles W. Johnson John V. Sullivan  \n112th Congress, 1st Session  \nHOUSE PRACTICE  \nA Guide to the Rules, Precedents, and Procedures of the House  \nWm. Holmes Brown Parliamentarian of the House 1974–1994  \nCharles W. Johnson Parliamentarian of the House 1994–2004  \nJohn V. Sullivan Parliamentarian of the House 2004–  \n[www.gpo.gov/housepractice](www.gpo.gov/housepractice)[ ](www.gpo.gov/housepractice)U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE  \nWASHINGTON : 2011  \nFor sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office [Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov](Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov) Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC area (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402-0001  \nISBN 978-0-16-090133-1  \nPreface  \nThe Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives is appointed by the Speaker without regard to political affiliation. The Office of the Parliamentarian and its subsidiary Office of Compilation of Precedents comprise lawyers and clerks who render nonpartisan assistance to the Speaker, to the other presiding officers, and to the House on legislative and parliamentary procedure and, in addition, compile the parliamentary precedents of the House.  \nThe parliamentary law of the House of Representatives emanates from the Constitution and from rules adopted pursuant to section 5 in article Iof the Constitution. These rules include not only the standing rules adopted from Congress to Congress but also Jefferson’s Manual, as customarily incorporated by reference in the standing rules. They also include rules enacted as law and special rules adopted from time to time. On this foundation rests a body of precedent established by decisions of presiding officers on actual parliamentary questions or by long custom and tradition.  \nThe overarching role of the Office of the Parliamentarian is to strive for consistency in parliamentary analysis by attempting to apply pertinent precedent to each procedural question. In resolving questions of order, the Speaker and other presiding officers of the House adhere to the jurisprudential principle of stare decisis – a commitment to stand by earlier decisions. This fidelity to precedent promotes analytic consistency and procedural predictability and thereby fosters legitimacy in parliamentary practice. The commitment of the House to stand by its procedural decisions requires rigor concerning what constitutes precedent. In the parliamentary context, the term does not refer to a mere instance in which something occurred or was suffered; rather, it refers to a decision or order actually disposing of a question of order.  \nThe compilation of the parliamentary precedents of the House is as important as any other function of the Office of the Parliamentarian. For each procedural decision made on the floor of the House, the Parliamentarian extracts the proceedings from the daily Congressional Record and writes a parliamentary syllabus. These ‘‘headnotes’’ must be precise, stating the real substance of the decision and its legal rationale in suitably narrow terms. To ensure a current digest of these matters, the Parliamentarian biennially publishes a House Rules and Manual. For the longer term, the Parliamentarian compiles the most salient precedents for formal, scholarly publication. These precedents presently fill 28 volumes comprising thousands of deci-  \nHOUSE PRACTICE  \nsions over the 224 years of parliamentary practice in the House. They are published as Hinds’ Precedents (1907); Cannon’s Precedents (1936); and Deschler’s, Deschler-Brown, and Deschler-Brown-Johnson Precedents (ongoing) .  \nTo bridge the span between a digest of decisions and formally published precedents, the Parliamentarian also publishes this work as a condensed compilation of procedures of current application as of the f","cbCaibIthZkQEKV7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibIthZkQEKV7","pdf",258029,"English","# Preface\n# Chapter Outline","[{\"question\":\"How does the Parliamentarian’s office support the House?\",\"answer\":\"The Parliamentarian is appointed by the Speaker and works with the Office of Compilation of Precedents to provide nonpartisan assistance on legislative and parliamentary procedure, and to compile precedents of the House.\"},{\"question\":\"What sources form the parliamentary law of the House?\",\"answer\":\"It comes from the Constitution and rules adopted under Article I, Section 5, including standing rules, Jefferson’s Manual as incorporated by reference, rules enacted as law, and special rules adopted over time.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the book mean by “precedent” in a parliamentary context?\",\"answer\":\"Precedent refers to a decision or order that actually disposes of a question of order, not just an isolated instance of something that occurred or was permitted.\"}]","HOUSE PRACTICE - A Guide to the Rules, Precedents, and Procedures of the House | PDF",25]