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![handle is hein.crs/crsabbt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code 98-870 GOV
Updated June 16, 2008
Quorum Requirements in the House:
Committee and Chamber
Christopher M. Davis
Analyst on the Congress and Legislative Process
Government and Finance Division
Quorum Requirements in Committee
House Rule XI, clause 2 establishes minimum quorum requirements for eight areas
of committee activity. The following summary table of these requirements is from Wm.
Holmes Brown and Charles W. Johnson's House Practice; A Guide to the Rules,
Precedents, and Procedures of the House (Washington: GPO, 2003).
See [http://www.crs.gov/products/guides/guidehome.shtml] for more information
on legislative process.
Action
To report a measure or
recommendation
To authorize and issue a
subpoena
To meet in executive session
To make public evidence
taken in executive session
To take evidence or testimony
in open session after assertion
that it defames, degrades or
incriminates
To take testimony or receive
evidence at a hearing
To close a hearing where
assertion of defamatory
testimony or evidence is made
To take any action other than
reporting
Minimum Quorum
A majority of committee,
actually present
A majority of the committee
A majority of the committee
A majority of the committee
A majority of the committee
Two members
A majority of the committee
One-third of membership
Rule XI, Clause 2
(h)(1)
(m)(3)
(g)(1)
(k)(7)
(k)(5)
(h)(2)
(k)(5)
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