[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Standing Rules of the Senate]
[Pages 79-94]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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INDEX TO STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE
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Senate
Manual
Section
A
Absence of:
Senators...............................................6
Vice President.........................................1
Additional views in committee reports.................26.10c
Adjourn, motion to............................6.4, 9.1, 22.1
Aging, Special Committee on, membership of.............25.3b
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Committee
on...................................................25.1a
Amend, motion to........................................22.1
Amendment(s):
Committee, not within jurisdiction..................15.5
Division of a question..............................15.3
Laid on table without prejudice to bill.............15.4
Not in order........................................14.7
Of the rules...........................................5
Of treaties......................................30.1b-c
Post cloture........................................22.2
To appropriations bills...............................16
Announcement of committee hearings.....................26.4a
Appeal from ruling of Chair.............................19.4
Appointment of:
Committees............................................24
Public officials......................................31
Senator to the Chair.................................1.3
Senators, certificates of.......................2.2, 2.3
Appropriations bills. See Bills and resolutions.
Appropriations, Committee on:
Appropriation bills:
Amendments to.....................................16
Restrictions on...............................16
Private claims not to be included...............16.5
Procedure on......................................16
Reappropriating unexpended balances.............16.8
Jurisdiction of....................................25.1b
Reports to identify with particularity items
not required to carry out provisions of an
existing law, etc.................................16.7
Armed Services, Committee on...........................25.1c
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, performance
of duties of Chair by..................................1.2
Authorizations, expenditure, for committees..........26.9a-b
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B
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Committee
on...................................................25.1d
Bills and resolutions:
Amendment(s):
Committee, not within jurisdiction of...........15.5
Division of a question..........................15.3
Laid on table without prejudice to bill
15.4
Not in order....................................14.7
Of the rules.......................................5
Of treaties..................................30.1b-c
Post cloture....................................22.2
To appropriation bills............................16
Appropriations bills:
Amendment(s) to...................................16
Restrictions on...............................16
New spending authority.........................25.1b
Private claims not to be included...............16.5
Procedure on......................................16
Rescission of appropriations...................25.1b
Calendar call...................................7.2, 8.1
Committee reports on, to show:
Cost estimates of proposals in................26.11a
Exception.................................26.11a
Proposed changes in existing law...............26.12
Regulatory impact incurred, evaluation
of..........................................26.11b
Enrollment of.......................................14.5
Signing enrolled bills...........................1.3
Introduction of..................................7, 14.1
Motion to commit..............................14.7, 22.1
Pension bills................................14.9, 14.10
Preambles...........................................14.8
Printing of....................................11.4-11.6
Private bills................................14.9, 14.10
Procedure on..........................................14
Reading of..........................................14.2
Reference of............................14.3, 17.2, 17.3
Joint referral..................................17.3
Reported from committee........14.4, 17.4, 17.5, 26.10b,
26.10c,
26.11,
26.12
To lie over one day.................................14.6
Blind trusts, reporting of..............................34.4
Broadcasting of committee hearings.....................26.5c
Budget, Committee on the...............................25.1e
Business:
Continued from session to session.....................18
Morning................................................7
Conclusion............................7.2, 8.1, 19.1
Order of...............................................8
Special orders...............................8.1, 10
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``Byrd rule.'' See Senate Manual Sec. 596.
C
Calendar, call of...................................7.2, 8.1
Calendar Monday..........................................7.2
Calendar of bills and resolutions:
Consideration of items on.......................7.2, 8.1
Placing of items on.................................14.4
Calendar of Special Orders..............................10.1
Candidates for United States Senate..............40.1, 40.6a
Capitol, Senate wing of, regulation of..................33.2
Certificates of appointment of Senators.............2.2, 2.3
Certificates of election of Senators:
Forms of.............................................2.3
Record of............................................2.2
Chair (see also Presiding Officer):
Appointment of Senator to perform duties of
1.3
Order in Chamber or galleries, enforcement
of................................................19.6
Performance of duties of, by:
Acting President pro tempore.....................1.2
Assistant Secretary of the Senate................1.2
Secretary of the Senate..........................1.2
Ruling of, appeal from..............................19.4
Chairman, committee:
Appointment of........................................24
Enforcement of order...............................26.5d
Limitations on service as..........................25.4e
Ranking majority member to serve in absence
of................................................26.3
Reporting approved measures promptly..............26.10b
Resignation of......................................24.4
Chaplain, daily prayer by..........................4.1a, 4.2
Charitable contributions.........................35.3b, 35.4
Claims...........................................14.10, 16.5
Closed-door sessions of Senate............................21
Closed sessions of:
Committees.........................................26.5b
Conferences.........................................28.6
Cloture procedure.......................................22.2
Thirty hour limit...................................22.2
Code of Official Conduct. See Rules 34-43, Senate Manual
sections 34-43, 267, 671-714, 910-926, 1135.
Commencement of daily sessions.............................4
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Committee
on...................................................25.1f
Commit, motion to.................................14.7, 22.1
Committee(s):
Amendments, not within jurisdiction of..............15.5
Appointment of........................................24
Authorizations, expenditure.........................26.9
Chairman:
Appointment of....................................24
Limitations on service as......................25.4e
Ranking majority member to serve in
absence of....................................26.3
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Reporting approved measures promptly..........26.10b
Resignation of..................................24.4
Conference, reports of................................28
Discharge, motion to...............................17.4a
Expenditure authorizations..........................26.9
Hearings:
Announcement of................................26.4a
Authority for...................................26.1
Availability....................................17.5
Broadcasting of................................26.5c
Closed.........................................26.5b
Executive decisions.............................17.5
Open...........................................26.5b
Order in, enforcement of.......................26.5d
Printing of...................................26.10a
Procedure.......................................26.4
Stenographic assistance for reporting of
26.1
Televising of..................................26.5c
Witnesses.................................26.1, 26.4
Selected by minority.......................26.4d
Investigations, authority for.......................26.1
Joint. See Committees, joint.
Jurisdiction, questions of..........................17.1
Legislation jointly referred........................17.3
Portions under consideration to be
specified....................................17.3d
Report.........................................17.3b
Legislative review by..............................26.8a
Report on......................................26.8b
Meetings..............................................26
Broadcasting or televising.....................26.5c
Closed and open sessions.......................26.5b
Order, maintenance of..........................26.5d
Record (transcript or electronic) of...........26.5e
Membership on..................................25.2-25.4
Limitations and exceptions with respect
to............................................25.4
Temporary increase in (leadership
agreement)...................................25.4c
Minority staff........................27.1d, 27.2a-27.2c
Powers, continuance of..............................25.1
Procedure.............................................26
Proxies, use of.....................................26.7
Quorum.............................................26.7a
Records:
Availability to all Members...................26.10a
Proceedings (open or closed)...................26.5e
Separate from chairman's office records
26.10a
Reference of bills and resolutions to...14.3, 17.2, 17.3
Reports.........................................7.1, 7.2
Additional views in...........................26.10c
Appropriations Committee reports to
identify items not required to carry
out existing law..............................16.7
Availability of (``2-day rule'')................17.5
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Conference committees.............................28
Contents required in each...............26.11, 26.12
Cost estimate.................................26.11a
Exception.................................26.11a
Filing of.............................26.10b, 26.10c
Legislative review.............................26.8b
Minority views in.............................26.10c
Printing of........................11.4-11.6, 26.10c
Exception...................................11.6
Printed in single volume..................26.10c
Regulatory impact, evaluation of..............26.11b
Submission of....................................7.1
Supplemental views in.........................26.10c
To lie over one day............................17.4a
To show proposed changes in existing law
(Cordon rule)................................26.12
``2-day rule''..................................17.5
Rules of............................................26.2
Printing of, in Congressional Record............26.2
Sessions of:
Broadcasting of................................26.5c
Open or closed.................................26.5b
Scheduling of.............................26.4, 26.6
Sitting while the Senate is in session.............26.5a
Permission by leaders..........................26.5a
Staffs................................................27
Minority............................27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Personnel on detail from other
Government
agencies......................................27.4
Standing. See Committees, standing.
Subcommittees, limitation of membership on
25.4b, 25.4e
Subpena, power of...................................26.1
Voting:
Proxies.........................................26.7
Record of.......................................26.7
Witnesses.....................................26.1, 26.4
Authority to summon.............................26.1
Selected by minority...........................26.4d
Committee of the Whole, proceedings on treaties
in...................................................30.1b
Committees, joint:
Joint Economic.....................................25.3b
Taxation...........................................25.3c
Committees, other:
Indian Affairs.....................................25.3c
Committees, select:
Membership on:
Ethics.........................................25.3c
Intelligence...................................25.3b
Committees, special: Aging, membership on..............25.3b
Committees, standing:
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry...............25.1a
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Appropriations:
Appropriation bills:
Amendments to.................................16
Restrictions on..............16.2, 16.4-16.6
Private claims not to be included...........16.5
Procedure on..................................16
Committee procedures, excepted from
certain....................26.3, 26.4, 26.7-26.11.
Jurisdiction of................................25.1b
Legislative review provisions, not
applicable to................................26.8a
Reports to identify with particularity
items not required to carry out
provisions of an existing law, etc............16.6
Armed Services.....................................25.1c
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs................25.1d
Budget.............................................25.1e
Committee procedures, excepted from
certain...........................26.4, 26.5, 26.8
Legislative review provisions not
applicable to................................26.8a
Commerce, Science, and Transportation..............25.1f
Energy and Natural Resources.......................25.1g
Environment and Public Works.......................25.1h
Finance............................................25.1i
Foreign Relations..................................25.1j
Governmental Affairs...............................25.1k
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions............25.1l.
Judiciary..........................................25.1m
Rules and Administration:
Committee personnel on detail from other
Government agencies...........................27.4
Jurisdiction of................................25.1n
Motions to print (documents, reports,
etc.) to be referred to.................11.4, 11.5
Senate wing of the Capitol, regulation
of............................................33.2
Stenographic assistance to committees,
regulation of.................................26.1
Small Business.....................................25.1o
Veterans' Affairs..................................25.1p
Communications from heads of departments.................7.1
Computer facilities, restrictions on use................40.5
Concurrent resolutions. See Bills and resolutions.
Conference committees: Reports of.........................28
Confidential business, disclosure prohibited............29.5
Confidential proceedings to be kept in separate
book..................................................4.1d
Conflict of interest. See Rule 37, Senate Manual
section 37.
Voting..............................................12.3
Congressional Record:
Committee Rules of Procedure........................26.2
Memorials and petitions, summary of, to be
printed in.........................................7.5
Nominations to be printed in.......................31.7b
Consideration of reported measures, availability
of reports and hearings for (2-day rule)..............17.5
Constituent services. See Representation by Members.
Contributions, political, to nominees for United
States Senator. See Senate Manual sections
399.8-399.11.
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``Cordon rule''........................................26.12
Credentials, presentation of...............................2
D
Daily sessions, commencement of............................4
Debate:
Close, motion to....................................22.2
Cloture.............................................22.2
Germaneness of.....................................19.1b
Procedure in..........................................19
Discharge a committee, motion to.......................17.4a
Disclosure of confidential business prohibited
29.5
Disclosure of financial interests by Senators,
officers and employees of the Senate....................34
Discrimination, prohibit in Senate employment
practices...............................................42
Division of a question..................................15.3
E
Economic Committee, Joint. See Joint Economic Committee.
Election of Senators, certificates of...............2.2, 2.3
Employees of the Senate:
Authority of officers of the Senate over
those they supervise.............................37.12
Committees. See Committees: staff.
Conflict of interest..................................37
Disclosure of financial interests.....................34
Discrimination, prohibit..............................42
Foreign travel by...............................35.2, 39
Gifts.................................................35
Outside earned income.................................36
Political-fund activity by............................41
Post-employment lobbying restrictions...............37.9
Employment practices......................................42
Energy and Natural Resources, Committee on.............25.1g
Enrollment of bills and joint resolutions...............14.5
Signing of same......................................1.3
Environment and Public Works, Committee on.............25.1h
Ethics. See Rules 34-43, Senate Manual sections 34-43 and
220.1, 399.60, 439-440, 565.
Ethics, Select Committee on:
Financial disclosure by senatorial candidates and
officers and employees of Senate. See Senate Manual
sections 34, 79.1.
Membership on......................................25.3c
Executive:
Business, motion to proceed to......................22.1
Proceedings to be kept in separate book.............4.1d
Sessions of Senate....................................29
Expenditure authorizations..............................26.9
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F
Filing of committee reports...........................26.10b
Finance, Committee on..................................25.1i
Financial disclosure......................................34
Floor:
Privilege of..........................................23
Recognition.........................................19.1
Foreign Relations, Committee on........................25.1j
Foreign travel, Senators, officers or employees
of Senate.........................................35.2, 39
Franking privilege.................................40.1-40.5
Mass mailing...................................40.1-40.5
Public inspection, available for...............40.3b
Registration with Secretary of Senate..........40.3a
Restrictions....................................40.1
Exceptions..................................40.4
Use of official funds...............................40.2
G
Galleries:
News media, regulation of...........................33.2
Occupants of, no Senator shall call
attention to any..................................19.7
Order in, enforcement of............................19.6
Germaneness of debate..................................19.1b
Gifts to Senators, officers, and employees................35
Governmental Affairs, Committee on.....................25.1k
H
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions,
Committee on........................................25.1l.
Hearings, committee. See Committee(s): Hearings.
Honoraria...........................................35.4, 36
House of Representatives:
Bills from...........................................7.3
Concurrence of, required for printing
additional copies with cost exceeding sum
established by law................................11.5
Messages from...................................7.1, 9.1
Messages to..........................................9.2
Motion to request return of item from...............13.2
I
Impeachment proceedings to be kept in a separate
book..................................................4.1d
Indian Affairs, Committee on, membership of............25.3c
Intelligence, Select Committee on, membership of
25.3b
Investigations, committee authority for.................26.1
J
Joint committees, membership...........................25.4e
Joint Economic Committee, membership of................25.3b
Joint referral to committees of proposed
legislation...........................................17.3
Joint resolutions. See Bills and resolutions.
Journal:
Contents of.........................................4.1c
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Legislative, executive, confidential, and
impeachment proceedings to be recorded in
separate books....................................4.1d
Reading of................................4.1, 9.1, 28.1
Judiciary, Committee on the............................25.1m
Jurisdiction of standing committees..............25.1a-25.1p
L
Lay on table, motion to.................................22.1
Leaders, Majority and Minority:
Authority over certain employees................37.12g-i
Cloture, control of additional time by,
following thirty hour cap.........................22.2
Committees:
Meeting while Senate is in session,
consent for..................................26.5a
Membership, temporary increases in.............25.4c
Joint referrals of bills and resolutions,
function in......................................17.3a
2-day rule waiver...................................17.5
``Leaks.'' See Disclosure of confidential
business.
Legislation jointly referred to committees..............17.3
Legislative proceedings to be kept in separate
book..................................................4.1d
Legislative review by standing committees...............26.8
Lobbying, restrictions on current and former
Members or employees...............................37.8-12
M
Majority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority.
Mass mailing under frank...........................40.1-40.5
Public inspection, available for...................40.3b
Quarterly reports...................................40.3
Registration with Secretary of Senate..............40.3a
Restrictions........................................40.1
Meetings of committees.............................26.1-26.7
Closed and open sessions...........................26.5b
Membership of committees...........................25.2-25.4
Appointment of........................................24
Limitations and exceptions in respect to............25.4
Temporary increases in.............................25.4c
Memorials. See Petitions and memorials.
Messages from:
House of Representatives........................7.1, 9.1
President of the United States..................7.1, 9.1
Messages to:
House of Representatives.............................9.2
President of the United States.......................9.2
Minority:
Staff of committees...................27.1d, 27.2a-27.2c
Witnesses before committee selected by.............26.4d
Minority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority.
Minority views in committee reports...................26.10c
Morning business...........................................7
Morning hour, conclusion of.......................7.2, 8, 19
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Motions:
Precedence of.................................15.3, 22.1
To be in writing....................................15.1
Withdrawal or modification of, by mover.............15.2
Motion to:
Adjourn.....................................6.4, 9, 22.1
Amend...............................................22.1
Amend or correct Journal.............................4.1
Amend the part to be stricken.......................15.3
Change order of special orders......................10.2
Close debate........................................22.2
Commit a bill or resolution...................14.7, 22.1
Compel the presence of absent Senators...............6.4
Continue the consideration of a subject..............7.2
Discharge a committee..............................17.4a
Lay before Senate bills or other matters
from the President or the House....................7.3
Lay on table........................................22.1
Postpone............................................22.1
Print (documents, reports, etc.)..............11.4, 11.5
Proceed to executive business.......................22.1
Proceed to the consideration of:
Any change in Standing Rules.....................8.2
A subject..............................7.2, 8.1, 8.2
Executive business..............................22.1
Other business..................................10.2
Recess..............................................22.1
Reconsider............................................13
Reconsider a nomination........................31.3-31.5
Request return of item from House...................13.2
Strike out..........................................15.3
Strike out and insert...............................15.3
Suspend, modify, or amend any rule...................5.1
N
Nominations:
Injunction of secrecy on............................31.2
Proceedings on........................................31
Noncurrent records......................................11.2
O
Oath, Senatorial...........................................3
Objection to reading a paper............................11.3
Offensive references to another Senator or State
prohibited..........................................19.2-5
Office accounts of Senators, prohibition of
unofficial..............................................38
Office expenses, political contributions used
for...................................................38.2
Officers of the Senate:
Conflict of interest..................................37
Disclosure of financial interests.....................34
Employees supervised by, authority over............37.12
Foreign travel of.....................................39
Gifts.................................................35
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Outside earned income.................................36
Political-fund activity...............................41
Official funds, use for mass mailing....................40.2
Open sessions:
Committees.........................................26.5b
Conference..........................................28.6
Order:
In Chamber or Galleries.............................19.6
In committees......................................26.5d
Of business............................................8
Of special orders................................8.1, 10
Questions of..........................................20
Outside business or professional activity or
employment by officers or employees of the
Senate..................................................37
Outside earned income.....................................36
P
Papers:
Objection to reading................................11.3
Printing of...................................11.4, 11.5
Withdrawal of.......................................11.1
``Pastore rule''.......................................19.1b
Pension bills....................................14.9, 14.10
Petitions and memorials:
Presentation of........................................7
Reference of.........................................7.4
Summary of, to be printed in Congressional
Record.............................................7.5
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United
States...................................................4
Points of order:
Appropriation bill amendment proposing new
or general legislation............................16.2
Conference report, new matter in....................28.2
During cloture proceedings..........................22.2
Measure reported from a committee...................26.7
Restriction on the expenditure of funds
appropriated......................................16.6
Political-fund activity by officers and
employees of Senate.....................................41
Code of Official Conduct............................41.2
Written agreement to comply with................41.3
Compensation, amount of.............................41.3
Identity of source.................................41.6b
90 days in calendar year limitation.................41.4
Exception.......................................41.4
Report, none required for less than 8 hours
service..........................................41.6c
Postpone, motion to.....................................22.1
Powers, committee.................................25.1, 26.1
Prayer, daily, by Chaplain.................................4
Preambles...............................................14.8
Precedence of motions.............................15.3, 22.1
Presentation of credentials................................2
President of the United States:
Bills or other matters from..........................7.3
Communications, confidential, from..................29.3
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Former Presidents entitled to address the
Senate............................................19.8
Meeting with Senate on executive business...........29.1
Messages from........................................7.1
Transcript of executive records of Senate,
to be furnished with................................32
Presiding Officer:
Bills or other matters from the President or
the House, may at any time lay before the
Senate.............................................7.1
Calling a Senator to order..........................19.4
Chair:
Appointment of Senator to perform duties
of...............................................1
Order in Chamber or galleries,
enforcement of................................19.6
Performance of duties of, by:
Acting President pro tempore.................1.2
Assistant Secretary of Senate................1.2
Secretary of Senate..........................1.2
Ruling of, appeal from..........................19.4
Cloture debate, to keep time during.................22.2
Directing a Senator to take his seat................19.4
President pro tempore..................................1
Questions of order may be decided by, or
submitted by him for decision by Senate.............20
Recognition of a Senator who desires to
speak.............................................19.1
Rules for regulation of Senate wing,
enforcement of....................................33.2
Vice President, absence of......................1.1, 1.2
President pro tempore (see also Presiding
Officer).................................................1
Printing of:
Bills, resolutions, and committee reports...........11.6
Conference reports..................................28.4
Hearings, committee...............................26.10a
Papers, etc.........................................11.4
Reports, committee.....................11.4-11.6, 26.10c
Private bills....................................14.9, 14.10
Private claims...................................14.10, 16.5
Privilege of the floor....................................23
Procedure, committee......................................26
Professional staffs of committees.........................27
Proxies, use of, in committee...........................26.7
Public inspection and copying, availability of
mass mailing under frank.............................40.3b
Q
Question:
Division of a.......................................15.3
Of order..............................................20
Quorum:
Absence of, question of..............................6.3
For cloture vote....................................22.2
For unanimous consent to take a final vote
on a specific date................................12.4
Of a committee.....................................26.7a
Of the Senate........................................6.1
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Sergeant at Arms to obtain attendance of
absent Senators....................................6.4
R
Radio and television:
Broadcasting of committee meetings.................26.5c
Restrictions on use of studios.....................40.6a
Ranking majority member of committee to serve in
absence of chairman...................................26.3
Ratification of treaties..................................30
Reading of:
Bills and joint resolutions.........................14.2
Journal.........................................4.1, 9.1
Paper (a), objection to.............................11.3
Recess, motion to.......................................22.1
Reconsideration...........................................13
Records:
Committee:
Action.........................................26.5e
Votes..........................................26.7b
Financial disclosure................................34.2
Noncurrent..........................................11.2
Reference, to committees..........................14.3, 17.1
Registration with Secretary of Senate when using
frank for mass mailing................................40.3
Regulation of the Senate wing of the Capitol............33.2
Reimbursement of expenses, disclosure...................35.2
Reports, committee..................................7.1, 7.2
Additional views in...............................26.10c
Appropriations Committee reports to identify
items not required to carry out provisions
of existing law...................................16.7
Availability (``2-day rule'').......................17.5
Conference committees.................................28
Contents required in each...................26.11, 26.12
Cost estimate.....................................26.11a
Exception.....................................26.11a
Filing of.........................................26.10b
Legislative review.................................26.8b
Minority views in.................................26.10c
Printing of............................11.4-11.6, 26.10c
Exception.......................................11.6
Printed in single volume......................26.10c
Regulatory impact, evaluation of..................26.11b
Submission of........................................7.1
Supplemental views in.............................26.10c
To lie over one day................................17.4a
To show proposed changes in existing law
(Cordon rule)....................................26.12
``2-day rule''......................................17.5
Reports, conference.......................................28
Reports by Senators, officers and employees on:
Financial interests...................................34
Gifts.................................................35
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Representation (of constituents) by Members...............43
Resolutions. See Bills and resolutions.
Restrictions on mass mailing under frank................40.1
Rules, amendment and suspension of.........................5
Rules and Administration, Committee on:
Jurisdiction of....................................25.1n
Motions to print (documents, reports, etc.)
to be referred to...........................11.4, 11.5
Senate wing of the Capitol, regulation of...........33.2
Rules of the Senate, Standing:
Continuance in effect from Congress to
Congress...........................................5.2
Motion to:
Proceed to consideration of any change
in.............................................8.2
Suspend, modify, or amend........................5.1
S
Secretary of the Senate:
Assistant Secretary of the Senate....................1.2
Certificates of election, record of..................2.2
Duties of the Chair, performance of, by..............1.2
Enrollment of bills and joint resolutions
and presentation of same to the President
of United States..................................14.5
Financial disclosure by senatorial
candidates and officers and employees of
Senate. See Senate Manual section 439.
Messages to the President and to the House
to be certified and delivered by...................9.2
Nominations, function in respect to............31.4-31.6
Noncurrent records, function with respect to
11.2
Petitions, memorials, bills or resolutions,
function with respect to...........................7.6
Withdrawal of papers................................11.1
Select and special committees, membership on............25.3
Senate Chamber:
For Senate use only.................................33.1
Galleries...............................19.6, 19.7, 33.2
Order in, enforcement of............................19.6
Smoking not permitted in............................33.1
Senate Code of Official Conduct:
Conflict of interest..................................37
Employment practices..................................42
Financial disclosure, public..........................34
Foreign travel........................................39
Franking privilege.............................40.1-40.5
Gifts.................................................35
Office accounts, prohibition against
unofficial..........................................38
Outside earned income.................................36
Political fund activity...............................41
Post-employment lobbying restrictions.........37.8, 37.9
Radio and television studios........................40.6
Representation by Members.............................43
Senate floor, persons admitted on.........................23
Senate Office Buildings, regulation of..................33.2
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Senate wing of the Capitol, regulation of...............33.2
Senators:
Absence of.............................................6
Appointment of.......................................2.2
Directed to take his seat...........................19.4
Disclosure of financial interests.....................34
Disparaging reference by......................19.2, 19.3
Foreign travel by.....................................37
Franking privilege.............................40.1-40.5
Oath of................................................3
Outside earned income.................................36
Post-employment lobbying restrictions...............37.8
Radio and television studios use....................40.6
Sergeant at Arms:
Quorum, function in obtaining........................6.4
Sessions:
Committee: Scheduling of............................26.6
Executive.............................................29
On nominations....................................31
On treaties.......................................30
President of United States furnished
with records of.................................32
With closed doors.....................................21
Simple resolutions. See Bills and resolutions.
Small Business, Committee on...........................25.1o
Smoking not permitted in Senate Chamber.................33.1
Special orders............................................10
Standards and conduct. See Rules 34-43, Senate Manual
sections 34-43.
Standing Rules of the Senate:
Continuance in effect from Congress to
Congress...........................................5.2
Motion to:
Proceed to consideration of any change
in.............................................8.2
Suspend, modify, or amend........................5.1
State, offensive reference by a Senator to a............19.3
Statements of witnesses before committees, staff
to prepare digests of................................26.4b
Stenographic assistance for reporting of
committee hearings....................................26.1
Subcommittees, limitation of membership on......25.4b, 25.4e
Subpena power of committees.............................26.1
Summary of testimony before committees, staff to
prepare..............................................26.4c
Supplemental expenditure authorizations for
committees............................................26.9
Supplemental views in committee reports...............26.10c
Suspension of the rules....................................5
T
Television broadcasting of committee hearings..........26.5c
Television Studios, and Radio...........................40.6
User restrictions...................................40.6
Exemption to restrictions...........................40.6
Travel expenses, foreign............................35.2, 39
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Treaties:
Amendments..........................................30.1
Injunction of secrecy on......................29.3, 30.1
Proceedings on........................................30
Trust funds.............................................34.4
Two-day rule............................................17.5
U
Unanimous consent:
For a Senator to change or withdraw his vote
12.1
For reconsideration of a question...................13.1
To proceed to the consideration of a subject
7.2, 8.2
To suspend a rule......................................5
To suspend reading of Journal........................4.1
To take a final vote on a specific date.............12.4
Unfinished business..............................10.1, 19.1b
Unofficial office accounts................................38
V
Veterans' Affairs, Committee on........................25.1p
Vice President (see also Presiding Officer):
Absence of......................................1.1, 1.2
Voting....................................................12
By proxy............................................26.7
Committee...........................................26.7
Conflict of interest................................12.3
Reconsideration.......................................13
Senator declining to vote...........................12.2
Unanimous consent to take a final vote on a
specific date.....................................12.4
Yeas and nays.......................................12.1
W
Withdrawal of papers....................................11.2
Witnesses, committee..............................26.1, 26.4
Authority to summon.................................26.1
Selected by minority................................26.4
To file advance statements.........................26.4b
Y
Yeas and nays...........................................12.1
Conflict of interest................................12.3