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Named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, this Senate
document contains the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate.
An appendix contains suggested forms for various procedures, e.g., offering
motions or filing conference reports. It is updated periodically by the
Senate Parliamentarian.
Dr. Riddick served as Parliamentarian of the Senate from 1964 to 1974,
having been Assistant Parliamentarian since 1951. Riddick spent seven
years compiling the first edition of a Senate Procedure, a compilation
of all Senate precedents since 1884, which was first published in 1958.
It was last revised and updated in 1992 and published as Senate Document
101-28. It is considered the bible of U.S. Senate practice and procedure.
More than one thousand precedents have been researched, analyzed, and
incorporated into the 1958 edition. The 1992 edition contains all current
precedents, and related Standing Rules and statutory provisions, through
the end of the 101st Congress (1989-1990). Files are available in Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF) only.
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