Section 5 - Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns
and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute
a Quorum
to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn
from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of
absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may
provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings,
punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence
of two-thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and
from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their
Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House
on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered
on the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall,
without the Consent of the other, adjourn
for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two
Houses shall be sitting.
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