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| | Special Exhibits - Office of the Clerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | To initiate a joint meeting, both houses, by resolution or by unanimous consent, declare themselves in recess for a joint gathering in the House Chamber. |
 | | Earlier in Congressional history the standard manner in which both the House and the Senate received addresses by foreign leaders was to invite dignitaries to a one- chamber reception. |
 | | Resolved, That, for this purpose, General Lafayette be invited, by a committee, to attend the House on Friday next at one o'clock: that he be introduced by the committee, and received by the members, standing, uncovered, and addressed by the Speaker, in behalf of the House, in pursuance of the foregoing resolution." |
| clerk.house.gov /histHigh/Special_Exhibits/foreignJointMeeting.html (2774 words) |
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