expeditious conduct of calls of the house

expeditious conduct of calls of the house Sec. 122. (a) Clause 2 of Rule XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended— (1) by inserting “(a)” immediately after “2.”; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(b) When a call of the House in the absence of a quorum is ordered, the Speaker of the House or the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House, as the case may be, in his discretion may order the Clerk of the House to lay out tally sheets on which the presence of the Members shall lie recorded by the Clerk or the respective Members. When a quorum has been recorded, which in the Committee of the Whole House shall be one hundred Members, the Clerk shall advise the Speaker or Chairman of this fact, after which it shall be in order to entertain a motion, which is privileged and shall be decided without debate, to dispense with further proceedings under the call, and the business of the House or the Committee of the Whole shall then resume. However, for a period of thirty minutes following the commencement of such quorum call, Members who are present before the expiration of such thirty-minute period may have their presence recorded on such tally sheets. Absent Members shall be recorded in the Journal of the House.”. (b) Clause. 2 of Rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: “2. Unless the Chairman invokes the procedure for the call of the roll under paragraph (b) of clause 2 of Rule XV, whenever a Committee of the Whole House or of the Whole House on the State of the Union finds itself without a quorum, which shall consist of one hundred Members, the Chairman shall cause the roll to be called, and thereupon the committee shall rise, and the Chairman shall report the names of the absentees to the House, which shall be entered on the Journal; but if on such call a quorum shall appear, the committee shall thereupon resume its sitting without further order of the House.”.