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b'Under House Rule 20, clause 3, the practice of \\u201cpairing\\u201d involves\\u2014under certain procedural circumstances\\u2014a Member who is absent during a vote on the House floor arranging with a Member on the opposite side of a specific question who is present during a vote to announce that the present Member is forming a \\u201cpair\\u201d with the absent Member, thus allowing the absent Member to have recorded how he would have voted had he been present.'