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 Behaviour, 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.
So both the Senate and the House get to essentially make their own rules and judge each other when they are broken, but it takes a 2/3rds vote to expel someone. With no third party specifically granted power to over see the actions of Congress that leaves the citizens themselves with that responsibility.
A record of the events in each House is required. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t required to record the individual votes unless one fifth of those present request it. I wonder why they didn’t make entering the individual votes the record required.
Nice move on not allowing Congress to try and hold sessions in other locations. I hadn’t initially thought about, but I could see groups trying to hijack the process by gathering in a different place which Congress was supposed to be in session.
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