Privileged business consists of various kinds of bills, resolutions, and other matters.
Clause 1 of House Rule XXIV defines the daily order of business on the House floor. However, other House rules and precedents allow certain kinds of matters to interrupt this daily order of business. A matter that can interrupt the daily order of business is said to be privileged. In practice, the House never follows the daily order of business that Rule XXIV defines. Instead, virtually all the legislative business that the House transacts on the floor each day, after the opening prayer, the approval of the Journal, and the Pledge of Allegiance, is conducted either by unanimous consent or as a privileged interruption of the daily order of business .