[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress] [S. Doc. 107-1] [Standing Rules of the Senate] [Pages 53-54] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov] 30 RULE XXX EXECUTIVE SESSION--PROCEEDINGS ON TREATIES 30.1a 1. (a) When a treaty shall be laid before the Senate for ratification, it shall be read a first time; and no motion in respect to it shall be in order, except to refer it to a committee, to print it in confidence for the use of the Senate, or to remove the injunction of secrecy. 30.1b (b)\25\ When a treaty is reported from a committee with or without amendment, it shall, unless the Senate unanimously otherwise directs, lie over one day for consideration; after which it may be read a second time, after which amendments may be proposed. At any stage of such proceedings the Senate may remove the injunction of secrecy from the treaty. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \25\ As amended by S. Res. 28, 99-2, Feb. 27, 1986. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30.1c (c) The decisions thus made shall be reduced to the form of a resolution of ratification, with or without amendments, as the case may be, which shall be proposed on a subsequent day, unless, by unanimous consent, the Senate determine otherwise, at which stage no amendment to the treaty shall be received unless by unanimous consent; but the resolution of ratification when pending shall be open to amendment in the form of reservations, declarations, statements, or understandings. 30.1d (d) On the final question to advise and consent to the ratification in the form agreed to, the concurrence of two- thirds of the Senators present shall be necessary to determine it in the affirmative; but all other motions and questions upon a treaty shall be decided by a majority vote, except a motion to postpone indefinitely, which shall be decided by a vote of two-thirds. 30.2 2. Treaties transmitted by the President to the Senate for ratification shall be resumed at the second or any subsequent session of the same Congress at the stage in which they were left at the final adjournment of the session at [[Page 54]] which they were transmitted; but all proceedings on treaties shall terminate with the Congress, and they shall be resumed at the commencement of the next Congress as if no proceedings had previously been had thereon.